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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The charter granted to the New England Company in 1628 authorized the company to settle and govern the area from three miles south of the Charles River to what location?
(a) Three miles north of the Merrimack River
(b) Four miles east of the Raritan River
(c) Six miles north of the Hudson River
(d) Six miles east of the Mississippi River

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

3. Arminianism is based on the theological ideas of what Dutch Reformed theologian?
(a) Isaac Arminus
(b) Elmore Arminian
(c) Jacobus Arminius
(d) James Arminus

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

5. What minister that lived near Groton Manor and accompanied Winthrop to New England was so obsessed with the need for avoiding separatism that “he declared not only the churches of England but also those of Rome to be true churches”?
(a) Roger Williams
(b) Nathaniel Ward
(c) Nicholas Knopp
(d) George Phillips

6. The Charter of the Virginia Company of London was an English joint stock company established by royal charter by whom?
(a) King Charles I
(b) King James I
(c) Queen Elizabeth I
(d) Queen Mary

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

8. What was the profession of Adam Winthrop prior to his purchase of the confiscated monastery at Bury St. Edmunds in Suffolk?
(a) He was a spice merchant
(b) He was a cloth merchant
(c) He was a surgeon
(d) He was a wheat farmer

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) A separatist activity
(b) An economically profitable activity
(c) An unprofitable activity
(d) A religious activity

10. How much money does the author assert a tent had cost in England for those few who had been able to bring one to the new world in Chapter 5: “Survival”?
(a) 50 pounds
(b) 10 pounds
(c) 20 pounds
(d) 5 pounds

11. What company established the Sagadahoc Colony in 1607 in present-day Maine?
(a) The Dorchester Company
(b) The Massachusetts Bay Company
(c) The St. James Charter Company
(d) The Plymouth Company

12. On what date was Charles I crowned at Westminster Abbey?
(a) February 2, 1626
(b) June 11, 1630
(c) March 10, 1629
(d) July 28, 1629

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why did many members of Parliament oppose the marriage of Charles I?

3. On what date did James I die?

4. On what date did John Winthrop marry his second wife?

5. Margaret Tyndal’s father held what position when she married John Winthrop?

(see the answer keys)

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