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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11: The New England Way.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Charter of the Virginia Company of London was an English joint stock company established by royal charter by whom?
(a) Queen Elizabeth I
(b) Queen Mary
(c) King James I
(d) King Charles I

2. Of the plan developed for governing the proposed colony by the Massachusetts Bay Company, the author says in Chapter 4: “The Way to a New England,” “The colony would not be a mere commercial enterprise, nor would it be simply a hiding place from the wrath of God. It would be instead” what?
(a) An idealized model of England but lacking of its corruption and authority
(b) The promise land of wealth, independence, and liberty
(c) The citadel of God’s chosen people, a spearhead of world Protestantism
(d) A new start; a blank slate for democracy

3. On what date did John Winthrop become officially engaged to Mary Forth?
(a) March 28, 1605
(b) April 7, 1630
(c) August 26, 1629
(d) April 29, 1618

4. The narrator says in Chapter 3: “A Shelter and a Hiding Place that in New England” that a group of separatists had been living at Plymouth since what year?
(a) 1620
(b) 1515
(c) 1640
(d) 1598

5. What was Cambridge, Massachusetts called during the first winter when the colonists decided to build their houses there in 1630?
(a) Medford
(b) Newtown
(c) Boston
(d) Salem

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the flagship of the Winthrop Fleet that sailed to the New World?

2. Who was elected deputy governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1634?

3. What was the name of John Winthrop’s second wife?

4. The first glimpse that the Puritans aboard John Winthrop’s ships got of New England was the hills of what Maine town, according to the author in Chapter 5: “Survival”?

5. Whom did Charles I appoint as Bishop of London in 1628?

(see the answer key)

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