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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 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) July 16, 1630
(d) August 26, 1629

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

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

4. 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) Jamestown Cove
(b) Richards Cove
(c) Plum Cove
(d) Humboldt Bay

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

6. Who is said to have warned Winthrop of the Massachusetts Bay Company in Chapter 3: “A Shelter and a Hiding Place,” saying "The pipe goeth sweete tyll the Byrde be in the nett, many bewtifull hopes are sett before your eyes to allewer you to danger"?
(a) Nathaniel Ward
(b) Robert Ryece
(c) Roger Williams
(d) William Bradford

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

8. 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) Salem
(b) Newbury
(c) Plum Cove
(d) Medford

9. How old was John Winthrop when he married for the third time?
(a) 25
(b) 35
(c) 30
(d) 40

10. What group amongst the New England Puritans “insisted that the bishops be replaced by another organization, with churches and clergy arranged in a pyramidal structure,” according to the author in Chapter 6: “A Special Commission”?
(a) The Calvinists
(b) The Congregationalists
(c) The royalists
(d) The Presbyterians

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

12. 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) Barbados
(b) Japan
(c) France
(d) Africa

13. 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 promise land of wealth, independence, and liberty
(c) A new start; a blank slate for democracy
(d) The citadel of God’s chosen people, a spearhead of world Protestantism

14. What son of John Winthrop’s died by drowning just a few days after the arrival in the New World?
(a) James Winthrop
(b) Peter Winthrop
(c) Henry Winthrop
(d) John Winthrop, Jr

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom did James I appoint as Archbishop of Canterbury?

2. What was the name of the flagship of the Winthrop Fleet that sailed to the New World?

3. What company was responsible for establishing a short-lived settlement on Cape Ann in 1624?

4. John Winthrop, Jr. considered going to New England with Endecott’s group but instead went on a fourteen-month tour of what region, according to the author in Chapter 3: “A Shelter and a Hiding Place”?

5. What group of the New England Puritans wanted to destroy the bishops and then let each individual church be sufficient to itself, according to the author in Chapter 6: “A Special Commission”?

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