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

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) King James I
(c) King Charles I
(d) Queen Mary

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

3. 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) South America
(b) The Mediterranean
(c) The Canary Islands
(d) Tropical Asia

4. 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) 6
(b) 7
(c) 2
(d) 5

5. Winthrop warned his constituents in the New World that “when God gives a special Commission, He looks to have” what in return?
(a) Tolerance and minimalism
(b) It looked after by God’s will
(c) The wealth of nations and prosperity
(d) It strictly observed in every Article

6. The author notes in Chapter 6: “A Special Commission” that by 1635, “a dozen churches were scattered round the bay from Hingham to” where?
(a) Newbury
(b) Plum Cove
(c) Medford
(d) Salem

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

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

9. 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 His Majesty’s Court of Wards and Liveries
(c) Common attorney in the Parliamentary Court of Wards and Liveries
(d) Common attorney in the People’s Court of Wards and Liveries

10. 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) Groton Manor
(c) Tattershall
(d) Guilford Manor

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

12. What was the name of John Winthrop’s second wife?
(a) Mary Tudor
(b) Thomasine Clopton
(c) Lucy Winthrop
(d) Anne Hutchinson

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

14. Who were the other three candidates for governor of the new colony that the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Company voted on, along with John Winthrop, prior to leaving England?
(a) Roger Ludlow, John Wilson, and William Bradford
(b) William Blackstone, Richard Clough, and Nicholas Knopp
(c) John Humfrey, Isaac Johnson, and Sir Richard Saltonstall
(d) William Bradford, John Haynes, and John Cotton

15. 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) 10 pounds
(b) 5 pounds
(c) 20 pounds
(d) 50 pounds

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author, Arminianism was a belief that men could do what by their own will power?

2. What well-known Suffolk antiquary and friend of Winthrop told him of going to the New World, "The church and common welthe heere at home, hath more neede of your best abyllitie in these dangerous tymes, than any remote plantation"?

3. Who wrote to Winthrop in a letter, regarding the ordinances in the colony, that by treating temptation as a sin, it was making “more sins than (as yet is seene) God himself hath made,” according to the author in Chapter 6: “A Special Commission”?

4. On what date did James I die?

5. 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?

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