View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) July 16, 1630
(b) March 10, 1629
(c) July 28, 1629
(d) March 28, 1605

2. Who were the other three candidates for governor of the new colony that the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Company voted on, along with John Winthrop, prior to leaving England?
(a) William Bradford, John Haynes, and John Cotton
(b) Roger Ludlow, John Wilson, and William Bradford
(c) William Blackstone, Richard Clough, and Nicholas Knopp
(d) John Humfrey, Isaac Johnson, and Sir Richard Saltonstall

3. In the agreement worked out with the Massachusetts Bay Company’s investors, it was agreed that the company would be managed by undertakers. How many of these undertakers would be stationed in England?
(a) 7
(b) 2
(c) 5
(d) 6

4. 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 royalists
(b) The Presbyterians
(c) The Calvinists
(d) The Congregationalists

5. Why did many members of Parliament oppose the marriage of Charles I?
(a) He married a Presbyterian
(b) He married a Jew
(c) He married a Roman Catholic
(d) He married a Calvinist

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. 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?

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

5. When was Mary Tudor born?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the author describe the early Puritan establishment of churches in Chapter 6: “A Special Commission”?

2. Who was the governor of the Massachusetts Bay Company when the company members met to discuss the charter in Chapter 4: “The Way to a New England”? What plans were made at this meeting?

3. What was the Puritan relationship with Parliament in England, according to the author in Chapter 2: “Evil and Declining Times”?

4. How did John Winthrop perceive the growing corruption within the English government, according to the author in Chapter 2: “Evil and Declining Times”?

5. When and where was John Winthrop born? What important event took place in the year Winthrop was born, according to the author in Chapter 1: “The Taming of the Heart”?

6. What various problems did John Winthrop address as leader of the colonists after their arrival, according to the author in Chapter 5: “Survival”?

7. How does the author describe the popular perception of colonization of the New World during the 1620s in Chapter 3: “A Shelter and a Hiding Place”?

8. What arguments did the Massachusetts Bay Company make regarding settlement in the New World in Chapter 3: “A Shelter and a Hiding Place”?

9. How did the Puritans of the late 16th and early 17th Centuries feel about the state of the government in England, according to the author in Chapter 2: “Evil and Declining Times”?

10. How did the Massachusetts Bay colonists begin the process of settling after their arrival, according to the author in Chapter 5: “Survival”?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 1,048 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample