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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. The author asserts in Chapter 3: “A Shelter and a Hiding Place” that the founding of colonies was notoriously what kind of activity?
(a) A separatist activity
(b) An unprofitable activity
(c) An economically profitable activity
(d) A religious activity

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

3. Where did John Winthrop set up his headquarters when he moved the colony into the bay, according to the narrator in Chapter 5: “Survival”?
(a) Newtown
(b) Charlestown
(c) Cape Sable
(d) Mount Desert

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

5. What was the name of John Winthrop’s second wife?
(a) Thomasine Clopton
(b) Anne Hutchinson
(c) Mary Tudor
(d) Lucy Winthrop

Short Answer Questions

1. 93. For how many years does the author say the “human flood swept into Massachusetts, pushing up the rivers, swarming over the champion lands, some twenty thousand souls, and every soul was checked off as saved or damned” in Chapter 6: “A Special Commission”?

2. Where does the Merrimack River empty into the Atlantic Ocean?

3. How many men, women, and children were aboard the four ships of John Winthrop’s fleet that first arrived in the New World on the Massachusetts Bay Charter?

4. In what year did King Charles I ascend the throne of England?

5. Where had John Winthrop’s second eldest son, Henry, gone to make his fortune but returned in 1629 with expensive habits and no fortune?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the author describe the contents of John Winthrop’s documents regarding settlement in the New World in Chapter 3: “A Shelter and a Hiding Place”?

2. How did the members of the Massachusetts Bay Company perceive the charter when they were told about it in Chapter 4: “The Way to a New England”? Why?

3. What did Puritanism mean to John Winthrop in the 1610s and 1620s? How did his beliefs influence his actions, according to the author in Chapter 1: “The Taming of the Heart”?

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

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

6. How does the author describe the journey of John Winthrop’s fleet in Chapter 5: “Survival”? Where did the fleet cast anchor in America?

7. How does the author describe the beliefs of Charles I in Chapter 2: “Evil and Declining Times”? How is Arminianism described?

8. What official statement did John Winthrop’s party pen prior to their departure, according to the author in Chapter 4: “The Way to a New England”?

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

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

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