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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Of whom does the author say in Chapter 2: “Evil and Declining Times,” “[T]heir defiance was also a desertion. They failed their fellow men. They abandoned a charity to which the Puritans held fast”?
(a) The separatists
(b) The Congregationalists
(c) The Presbyterians
(d) The Calvinists

3. On what date did James I die?
(a) March 27, 1625
(b) April 7, 1630
(c) April 29, 1618
(d) June 11, 1630

4. Where had John Winthrop’s second eldest son, Henry, gone to make his fortune but returned in 1629 with expensive habits and no fortune?
(a) Japan
(b) Barbados
(c) France
(d) Africa

5. 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) Newtown
(b) Cape Sable
(c) Mount Desert
(d) Charlestown

6. 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) 3
(d) 6

7. 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) Medford
(c) Plum Cove
(d) Salem

8. What was the name of John Winthrop’s younger sister who married Emmanuel Downing?
(a) Elizabeth
(b) Sara
(c) Marie
(d) Lucy

9. 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) Queen Elizabeth
(c) King James
(d) King Charles

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

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

12. What does the author say “was responsible for suppressing heresy as well as drunkenness and theft and murder” in Chapter 6: “A Special Commission”?
(a) The crown
(b) The church
(c) The state
(d) The jury

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

14. 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”?
(a) Richards Cove
(b) Humboldt Bay
(c) Plum Cove
(d) Jamestown Cove

15. Where did John Winthrop enroll to study law in 1613?
(a) Stafford College
(b) Tameside College
(c) Gray’s Inn
(d) Uxbridge College

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Mary Tudor die?

2. 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”?

3. 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?

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

5. What did the Puritans believe “was the mother of heresy,” according to the author in Chapter 6: “A Special Commission”?

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