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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year did Adam Winthrop purchase the confiscated monastery at Bury St. Edmunds in Suffolk?
(a) 1599
(b) 1531
(c) 1625
(d) 1544

2. In what year did John Winthrop’s eldest son, John Jr., come of age?
(a) 1701
(b) 1565
(c) 1627
(d) 1635

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

4. 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) George Phillips
(b) Nicholas Knopp
(c) Roger Williams
(d) Nathaniel Ward

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. When did James I ascend the throne of England?

3. How many years before John Winthrop’s arrival in the New World had Samuel Maverick arrived with his bride and built a house?

4. The author notes in Chapter 6: “A Special Commission” that by 1635, “a dozen churches were scattered round the bay from Hingham to” where?

5. Winthrop warned his constituents in the New World that “when God gives a special Commission, He looks to have” what in return?

Short Essay Questions

1. What were John Winthrop’s main concerns as he prepared to depart for New England, according to the author in Chapter 4: “The Way to a New England”?

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

3. How did John Winthrop’s views of the English government change during the late 1610s and early 1620s, according to the author in Chapter 2: “Evil and Declining Times”?

4. What immediate obstacles did the Massachusetts Bay colonists face upon arrival in the New World, according to the author in Chapter 5: “Survival”?

5. What did the Council for New England do with their royal grant in order to begin a colonization effort, according to the author in Chapter 3: “A Shelter and a Hiding Place”?

6. What “technical oversight” allowed the Massachusetts Bay Company greater freedom from the crown, according to the author in Chapter 4: “The Way to a New England”?

7. How does the author describe the beliefs of the Puritans when John Winthrop converted in Chapter 1: “The Taming of the Heart”?

8. 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?

9. How does the author describe the groups called the Presbyterians and the Congregationalists in Chapter 6: “A Special Commission”?

10. What caused the tensions within Puritanism in the 1610s and 1620s, according to the author in Chapter 1: “The Taming of the Heart”?

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