View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the Puritans believe “was the mother of heresy,” according to the author in Chapter 6: “A Special Commission”?
(a) Ignorance
(b) Government
(c) Knowledge
(d) Lust

2. 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) Peak of Eloquence
(b) On the Danger of an Unconverted Ministry
(c) Approbate Consuetudinis
(d) A Model of Christian Charity

3. 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) Separate the colony from control of the King
(d) Use his talents in the cause of God

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

5. When was John Calvin born?
(a) 1509
(b) 1559
(c) 1598
(d) 1665

6. When was Mary Tudor born?
(a) 1501
(b) 1498
(c) 1516
(d) 1621

7. 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) Six miles east of the Mississippi River
(b) Six miles north of the Hudson River
(c) Four miles east of the Raritan River
(d) Three miles north of the Merrimack River

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

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

10. 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) May 15, 1629
(c) August 23, 1630
(d) October 19, 1630

11. What company was responsible for establishing a short-lived settlement on Cape Ann in 1624?
(a) The St. James Charter Company
(b) The Massachusetts Bay Company
(c) The Plymouth Company
(d) The Dorchester Company

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

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

14. 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) December 6, 1615
(c) July 20, 1629
(d) May 15, 1629

15. 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) 20
(b) 60
(c) 10
(d) 40

Short Answer Questions

1. The first glimpse that the Puritans aboard John Winthrop’s ships got of New England was the hills of what Maine town, according to the author in Chapter 5: “Survival”?

2. Winthrop and his fellow Puritans published a statement maintaining their love for the Church of England and insisting that they were not separatists, which they issued from their ship on what date?

3. What was the name of John Winthrop’s younger sister who married Emmanuel Downing?

4. When John Winthrop was young, his father became a director at what college?

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 548 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample