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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who succeeded Mary Tudor as the ruler of England?
(a) Charles I
(b) Elizabeth I
(c) Henry VIII
(d) James I

2. Why did many members of Parliament oppose the marriage of Charles I?
(a) He married a Calvinist
(b) He married a Jew
(c) He married a Presbyterian
(d) He married a Roman Catholic

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

4. What was the name of the London apothecary that John Winthrop’s older sister Anne married?
(a) Thomas Shepard
(b) John Endecott
(c) Thomas Fones
(d) George Phillips

5. What was the name of the flagship of the Winthrop Fleet that sailed to the New World?
(a) The New World
(b) The Arbella
(c) The Queen Mary
(d) The Lyon

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

7. 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) 10 pounds
(b) 50 pounds
(c) 100 pounds
(d) 20 pounds

8. When was Mary Tudor born?
(a) 1498
(b) 1501
(c) 1516
(d) 1621

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

10. What company was responsible for establishing a short-lived settlement on Cape Ann in 1624?
(a) The Dorchester Company
(b) The Massachusetts Bay Company
(c) The Plymouth Company
(d) The St. James Charter Company

11. 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

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

13. 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) 5
(c) 3
(d) 2

14. 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) 5
(b) 7
(c) 6
(d) 3

15. 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) 1630
(b) 1598
(c) 1616
(d) 1623

Short Answer Questions

1. When did James I ascend the throne of England?

2. When was John Calvin born?

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

4. 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?

5. 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”?

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