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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Tattershall is described in Chapter 4: “The Way to a New England” as the home of whom?
(a) John Haynes
(b) Roger Williams
(c) Isaac Johnson
(d) Nathaniel Ward

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

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

7. 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 Calvinists
(b) The Congregationalists
(c) The royalists
(d) The Presbyterians

8. How old was John Winthrop when he married for the third time?
(a) 30
(b) 35
(c) 25
(d) 40

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

10. Where did John Winthrop set up his headquarters when he moved the colony into the bay, according to the narrator in Chapter 5: “Survival”?
(a) Mount Desert
(b) Cape Sable
(c) Charlestown
(d) Newtown

11. 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

12. The author states in Chapter 3: “A Shelter and a Hiding Place” that “Winthrop knew that in England he was not tall enough to do anything effective for the cause of God against the towering ungodliness of” whom?
(a) Queen Mary
(b) King James
(c) King Charles
(d) Queen Elizabeth

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

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

15. 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) 1588
(d) 1598

Short Answer Questions

1. Regarding the use of alcohol, the Puritans imposed a self-denying ordinance that forbade what?

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. What was the name of John Winthrop’s second wife?

4. Where was land first sighted aboard the ships of John Winthrop, according to the author in Chapter 5: “Survival”?

5. What was the name of the flagship of the Winthrop Fleet that sailed to the New World?

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