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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On what date did John Winthrop and several other prominent Puritans who were interested in emigrating assemble in Lincolnshire to talk it over, according to the author in the beginning of Chapter 4: “The Way to a New England”?
(a) July 16, 1630
(b) February 2, 1626
(c) October 19, 1630
(d) July 28, 1629

2. Where did John Winthrop set up his headquarters when he moved the colony into the bay, according to the narrator in Chapter 5: “Survival”?
(a) Mount Desert
(b) Cape Sable
(c) Newtown
(d) Charlestown

3. How many men, women, and children were aboard the four ships of John Winthrop’s fleet that first arrived in the New World on the Massachusetts Bay Charter?
(a) 250
(b) 300
(c) 200
(d) 400

4. Where had John Winthrop’s second eldest son, Henry, gone to make his fortune but returned in 1629 with expensive habits and no fortune?
(a) France
(b) Japan
(c) Africa
(d) Barbados

5. Regarding the use of alcohol, the Puritans imposed a self-denying ordinance that forbade what?
(a) The partaking of hard liquors
(b) The partaking of wine outside of church
(c) Drinking toasts to one another
(d) The consumption of any type of alcohol

6. How old was John Winthrop when he left for college?
(a) 15
(b) 16
(c) 18
(d) 17

7. What was the name of the estate that Adam Winthrop purchased as a confiscated monastery at Bury St. Edmunds in Suffolk?
(a) Epperson Manor
(b) Guilford Manor
(c) Tattershall
(d) Groton Manor

8. Who is said to have warned Winthrop of the Massachusetts Bay Company in Chapter 3: “A Shelter and a Hiding Place,” saying "The pipe goeth sweete tyll the Byrde be in the nett, many bewtifull hopes are sett before your eyes to allewer you to danger"?
(a) Roger Williams
(b) Nathaniel Ward
(c) William Bradford
(d) Robert Ryece

9. What minister is quoted in the book as having said of his apprehension of leaving England, “The Lord made me feare my affliction came in part for running too far in a way of separation from the mixt Assemblies in England: tho I blesse God I have ever beleeved that there are true churches in many parishes in England where the Lord sets up able men and ministers of his gospell; and I have abhorred to refuse to heare any able minister in England”?
(a) Nicholas Knopp
(b) Thomas Shepard
(c) Roger Williams
(d) Nathaniel Ward

10. How old was John and Margaret Winthrop’s son that stayed with Margaret when John Winthrop first set out for New England?
(a) 4
(b) 2
(c) 5
(d) 3

11. In the agreement worked out with the Massachusetts Bay Company’s investors, it was agreed that the company would be managed by undertakers. How many of these undertakers would be stationed in England?
(a) 7
(b) 6
(c) 2
(d) 5

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

13. What were the three arrangements that John Winthrop had to oversee once he was voted as governor for the new colony and prior to departure from England?
(a) Ships, provisions, and passengers
(b) Trading routes, financial funds, and communication with the natives
(c) Livestock, housing, and furniture
(d) Ships, the establishment of the mint, and trade routes

14. 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

15. How old was John Winthrop when he married for the third time?
(a) 40
(b) 25
(c) 30
(d) 35

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the profession of Adam Winthrop prior to his purchase of the confiscated monastery at Bury St. Edmunds in Suffolk?

2. What group of the New England Puritans wanted to destroy the bishops and then let each individual church be sufficient to itself, according to the author in Chapter 6: “A Special Commission”?

3. What is the approximate distance between London, England, and Boston, Massachusetts?

4. The Massachuset, Nauset, and Wampanoag people spoke using what subfamily of Native American languages?

5. Who is described as “one of the Puritans’ most illustrious preachers” and spoke before the House of Commons in the summer of 1625?

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