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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the governor of the Massachusetts Bay Company when John Winthrop went to Cambridge to sign the agreement to be ready by the following March to Embark for New England?
(a) John Haynes
(b) John Wilson
(c) Matthew Cradock
(d) William Bradford

2. What was the name of John and Margaret Winthrop’s youngest son that stayed with Margaret when John Winthrop first set out for New England?
(a) Paul
(b) William
(c) Samuel
(d) James

3. In what famous sermon by John Winthrop, delivered en route to Massachusetts, did he first apply the phrase “City upon a Hill” to the founding of America?
(a) On the Danger of an Unconverted Ministry
(b) A Model of Christian Charity
(c) Peak of Eloquence
(d) Approbate Consuetudinis

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

5. 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) June 11, 1630
(b) April 29, 1618
(c) July 28, 1629
(d) February 2, 1626

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

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

8. How old was John Winthrop when he married his first wife?
(a) 17
(b) 20
(c) 19
(d) 16

9. The author notes in Chapter 6: “A Special Commission” that Winthrop soon discovered that the “misdirected zeal” of some of the colonists indicated “that he faced a far more difficult problem to control the good than” to do what?
(a) To control all
(b) To establish equanimity
(c) To control the King
(d) To punish the wicked

10. On what date did John Winthrop pen a letter to his wife Margaret that said, “Yet for all these thinges (I prayse my God) I am not discouraged, nor doe I see cause to repent, or dispaire of those good dayes heere, which will make amends for all”?
(a) March 28, 1605
(b) July 28, 1629
(c) July 16, 1630
(d) March 10, 1629

11. How many colonists came to the New World to establish the Sagadahoc Colony in 1607?
(a) 500
(b) 120
(c) 300
(d) 150

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

13. The first church within the boundaries of Massachusetts Bay to be founded in the congregational manner was "gathered" on what date, according to the author in Chapter 6: “A Special Commission”?
(a) May 15, 1629
(b) March 28, 1605
(c) December 6, 1615
(d) July 20, 1629

14. Of the plan developed for governing the proposed colony by the Massachusetts Bay Company, the author says in Chapter 4: “The Way to a New England,” “The colony would not be a mere commercial enterprise, nor would it be simply a hiding place from the wrath of God. It would be instead” what?
(a) An idealized model of England but lacking of its corruption and authority
(b) The citadel of God’s chosen people, a spearhead of world Protestantism
(c) The promise land of wealth, independence, and liberty
(d) A new start; a blank slate for democracy

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did King Charles I ascend the throne of England?

2. In what year did Adam Winthrop purchase the confiscated monastery at Bury St. Edmunds in Suffolk?

3. Who is described as “one of the Puritans’ most illustrious preachers” and spoke before the House of Commons in the summer of 1625?

4. What son of John Winthrop’s died by drowning just a few days after the arrival in the New World?

5. 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?

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