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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) A new start; a blank slate for democracy
(b) The promise land of wealth, independence, and liberty
(c) An idealized model of England but lacking of its corruption and authority
(d) The citadel of God’s chosen people, a spearhead of world Protestantism

2. On what date did John Winthrop’s ships pass the Isles of Shoals, where a ship lay at anchor, upon arriving in the New World?
(a) July 28, 1629
(b) June 11, 1630
(c) April 29, 1618
(d) February 2, 1626

3. When did Mary Tudor die?
(a) 1660
(b) 1625
(c) 1558
(d) 1498

4. On what date did John Winthrop marry Margaret Tyndal?
(a) July 28, 1629
(b) April 7, 1630
(c) May 15, 1629
(d) April 29, 1618

5. Arminianism is based on the theological ideas of what Dutch Reformed theologian?
(a) Jacobus Arminius
(b) Isaac Arminus
(c) Elmore Arminian
(d) James Arminus

6. 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) 20 pounds
(b) 10 pounds
(c) 50 pounds
(d) 5 pounds

7. In order to secure the Massachusetts Bay Company’s investors, an agreement was finally worked out whereby the remaining resources of the company would be managed for seven years by "undertakers." How many of these undertakers would be established in Massachusetts?
(a) 3
(b) 6
(c) 7
(d) 5

8. 93. For how many years does the author say the “human flood swept into Massachusetts, pushing up the rivers, swarming over the champion lands, some twenty thousand souls, and every soul was checked off as saved or damned” in Chapter 6: “A Special Commission”?
(a) For six years
(b) For ten years
(c) For five years
(d) For two years

9. Whom did Charles I appoint as Bishop of London in 1628?
(a) John Endecott
(b) Isaac Johnson
(c) Thomas Dudley
(d) William Laud

10. On what date did the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Company select John Winthrop as the governor of the new colony?
(a) October 20, 1629
(b) May 15, 1629
(c) February 2, 1626
(d) July 28, 1629

11. 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”?
(a) The Roundheads
(b) The Congregationalists
(c) The Presbyterians
(d) The Calvinists

12. How old was John Winthrop when he married his first wife?
(a) 20
(b) 16
(c) 19
(d) 17

13. What group amongst the New England Puritans “insisted that the bishops be replaced by another organization, with churches and clergy arranged in a pyramidal structure,” according to the author in Chapter 6: “A Special Commission”?
(a) The Presbyterians
(b) The royalists
(c) The Congregationalists
(d) The Calvinists

14. In what year did Adam Winthrop purchase the confiscated monastery at Bury St. Edmunds in Suffolk?
(a) 1625
(b) 1531
(c) 1544
(d) 1599

15. What son of John Winthrop’s died by drowning just a few days after the arrival in the New World?
(a) John Winthrop, Jr
(b) Peter Winthrop
(c) Henry Winthrop
(d) James Winthrop

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of John Winthrop’s younger sister who married Emmanuel Downing?

2. What company was responsible for establishing a short-lived settlement on Cape Ann in 1624?

3. In what famous sermon by John Winthrop, delivered en route to Massachusetts, did he first apply the phrase “City upon a Hill” to the founding of America?

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

5. Margaret Tyndal’s father held what position when she married John Winthrop?

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