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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13: Foreign Affairs.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On what date did John Winthrop marry his second wife?
(a) May 15, 1629
(b) December 6, 1615
(c) February 2, 1626
(d) April 29, 1618

2. Margaret Tyndal’s father held what position when she married John Winthrop?
(a) Butcher
(b) Chancery judge
(c) Common attorney
(d) Wheat farmer

3. According to the author in Chapter 5: “Survival,” it cost the better part of what amount of money “to come to New England properly equipped, even if one knew exactly what to bring and what not to bring”?
(a) 100 pounds
(b) 10 pounds
(c) 50 pounds
(d) 20 pounds

4. What newcomer to the colony in 1646 attempted to organize the discontented in appealing to Parliament for a Presbyterian Massachusetts, according to the author in Chapter 13: “Foreign Affairs”?
(a) Thomas Dudley
(b) Richard Clough
(c) Thomas Fones
(d) Robert Child

5. How much money does the author assert a tent had cost in England for those few who had been able to bring one to the new world in Chapter 5: “Survival”?
(a) 50 pounds
(b) 5 pounds
(c) 10 pounds
(d) 20 pounds

Short Answer Questions

1. The author asserts in Chapter 3: “A Shelter and a Hiding Place” that the founding of colonies was notoriously what kind of activity?

2. What was the name of Anne Hutchinson’s brother-in-law that was a minister whom she admired?

3. What was the name of John Winthrop’s island in Boston Harbor that he visited when he encountered the French feud over Acadia?

4. On what date did John Winthrop ride to Cambridge, “where he with eleven other leading Puritans signed an agreement to be ready by the following March to embark for New England”?

5. What was the name of the Charlestown widow that John Winthrop married after the death of his wife Margaret?

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