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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 Presbyterians
(c) The Congregationalists
(d) The Calvinists

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

3. The author asserts in Chapter 3: “A Shelter and a Hiding Place” that the founding of colonies was notoriously what kind of activity?
(a) A religious activity
(b) An economically profitable activity
(c) An unprofitable activity
(d) A separatist activity

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

5. How many years before John Winthrop’s arrival in the New World had Samuel Maverick arrived with his bride and built a house?
(a) 6 years before
(b) 1 year before
(c) 10 years before
(d) 3 years before

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

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

8. Whom did James I appoint as Archbishop of Canterbury?
(a) William Laud
(b) George Abbott
(c) Thomas Fones
(d) Isaac Johnson

9. Who is described as “one of the Puritans’ most illustrious preachers” and spoke before the House of Commons in the summer of 1625?
(a) Reverend George Phillips
(b) Reverend Thomas Shepard
(c) Reverend John Endecott
(d) Reverend John Preston

10. 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"?
(a) Thomas Fones
(b) Isaac Johnson
(c) William Laud
(d) Robert Ryece

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

12. When John Winthrop was young, his father became a director at what college?
(a) Oxford College, London
(b) Trinity College, Cambridge
(c) Aylesbury College
(d) Abingdon and Witney College

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

14. Where does the Merrimack River empty into the Atlantic Ocean?
(a) Newburyport
(b) Cape Sable
(c) Jackson Port
(d) Humboldt Bay

15. What did the Puritans believe “was the mother of heresy,” according to the author in Chapter 6: “A Special Commission”?
(a) Government
(b) Ignorance
(c) Knowledge
(d) Lust

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Mary Tudor born?

2. Upon arriving in the New World, John Winthrop’s shops sailed through the channel between Bakers Island and Little Island and cast anchor where, according to the author in Chapter 5: “Survival”?

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

4. 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”?

5. On what date did James I die?

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