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

2. 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) Mount Desert
(b) Charlestown
(c) Cape Sable
(d) Newtown

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

4. In what year did John Winthrop’s second wife die?
(a) 1629
(b) 1659
(c) 1598
(d) 1616

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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”?

3. What was the name of John and Margaret Winthrop’s youngest son that stayed with Margaret when John Winthrop first set out for New England?

4. The Charter of the Virginia Company of London was an English joint stock company established by royal charter by whom?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did the travels of John Winthrop’s sons influence his opinions of settlement in the New World, according to the author in Chapter 3: “A Shelter and a Hiding Place”?

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

4. 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?

5. 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”?

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 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”?

8. How does the author explain the relationship between Puritanism and government in Chapter 2: “Evil and Declining Times”?

9. 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”?

10. 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”?

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