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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. John Winthrop worked in London as counsel to a Parliamentary committee engaged in drafting legislation, and following this, he was appointed what government job?
(a) Common attorney in Her Majesty’s Court of Wards and Liveries
(b) Common attorney in the Parliamentary Court of Wards and Liveries
(c) Common attorney in the People’s Court of Wards and Liveries
(d) Common attorney in His Majesty’s Court of Wards and Liveries

2. In what year did King Charles I ascend the throne of England?
(a) 1632
(b) 1601
(c) 1616
(d) 1624

3. The Massachuset, Nauset, and Wampanoag people spoke using what subfamily of Native American languages?
(a) The Creole languages
(b) The Tupi languages
(c) The Quechua languages
(d) The Algonquian languages

4. In what year did the English navy defeat the Spanish Armada, ensuring that the Catholic Church could not recapture England?
(a) 1625
(b) 1632
(c) 1598
(d) 1588

5. On what date did Charles I formally dissolve the English Parliament?
(a) July 28, 1629
(b) March 1, 1642
(c) August 23, 1630
(d) March 10, 1629

6. 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) October 19, 1630
(b) July 28, 1629
(c) July 16, 1630
(d) February 2, 1626

7. Since what year had there been a fairly substantial group of colonists at Cape Ann, according to the author in Chapter 3: “A Shelter and a Hiding Place”?
(a) 1598
(b) 1630
(c) 1623
(d) 1616

8. The author says of Winthrop in Chapter 3: “A Shelter and a Hiding Place” that he “did not aim at power for the sake of power, but he longed to” do what?
(a) Found a religious Eden
(b) Use his talents for the creation of wealth
(c) Use his talents in the cause of God
(d) Separate the colony from control of the King

9. What is the approximate distance between London, England, and Boston, Massachusetts?
(a) 4,230 miles
(b) 3,300 miles
(c) 1,550 miles
(d) 2,000 miles

10. On what date did James I die?
(a) June 11, 1630
(b) March 27, 1625
(c) April 7, 1630
(d) April 29, 1618

11. John Winthrop, Jr. considered going to New England with Endecott’s group but instead went on a fourteen-month tour of what region, according to the author in Chapter 3: “A Shelter and a Hiding Place”?
(a) The Mediterranean
(b) Tropical Asia
(c) The Canary Islands
(d) South America

12. In what year did John Winthrop’s eldest son, John Jr., come of age?
(a) 1701
(b) 1635
(c) 1565
(d) 1627

13. What company established the Sagadahoc Colony in 1607 in present-day Maine?
(a) The St. James Charter Company
(b) The Massachusetts Bay Company
(c) The Dorchester Company
(d) The Plymouth Company

14. According to the author, Arminianism was a belief that men could do what by their own will power?
(a) Achieve faith and win salvation
(b) Endorse one another’s salvation
(c) Deny grace
(d) Respond to God’s will

15. When did James I ascend the throne of England?
(a) 1698
(b) 1598
(c) 1567
(d) 1625

Short Answer Questions

1. Of whom does the author say in Chapter 2: “Evil and Declining Times,” “[T]heir defiance was also a desertion. They failed their fellow men. They abandoned a charity to which the Puritans held fast”?

2. In what year did John Winthrop’s second wife die?

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

4. Tattershall is described in Chapter 4: “The Way to a New England” as the home of whom?

5. 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”?

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