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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On what date did John Winthrop write home to Margaret from London about the prospect of moving to New England, saying, “If the Lord seeth it wil be good for us, he will provide a shelter and a hidinge place for us and ours”?
(a) February 2, 1626
(b) August 23, 1630
(c) May 15, 1629
(d) October 19, 1630

2. 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) March 28, 1605
(b) July 20, 1629
(c) December 6, 1615
(d) May 15, 1629

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

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

5. 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) Tolerance and minimalism
(c) It strictly observed in every Article
(d) It looked after by God’s will

6. 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) February 2, 1626
(c) June 11, 1630
(d) July 28, 1629

7. On what date did the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Company select John Winthrop as the governor of the new colony?
(a) October 20, 1629
(b) July 28, 1629
(c) May 15, 1629
(d) February 2, 1626

8. In what year did King Charles I ascend the throne of England?
(a) 1616
(b) 1632
(c) 1601
(d) 1624

9. On what date did John Winthrop ride to Cambridge, “where he with eleven other leading Puritans signed an agreement to be ready by the following March to embark for New England”?
(a) March 27, 1625
(b) February 2, 1626
(c) August 26, 1629
(d) July 16, 1630

10. In what year did John Winthrop’s second wife die?
(a) 1659
(b) 1598
(c) 1616
(d) 1629

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

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

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

14. The author says in Chapter 3: “A Shelter and a Hiding Place” that the idea of going to the New World was not novel in Winthrop’s time. Englishman “had drifted back and forth between England and the wilderness across the water” for over how many years?
(a) 60
(b) 20
(c) 40
(d) 10

15. Where was land first sighted aboard the ships of John Winthrop, according to the author in Chapter 5: “Survival”?
(a) Cape Sable
(b) New Hampshire
(c) Barbados
(d) Connecticut

Short Answer Questions

1. The Charter of the Virginia Company of London was an English joint stock company established by royal charter by whom?

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?

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

4. What was the name of the estate that Adam Winthrop purchased as a confiscated monastery at Bury St. Edmunds in Suffolk?

5. In what year did John Winthrop’s first wife, Mary Forth Winthrop, die?

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