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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 were the three arrangements that John Winthrop had to oversee once he was voted as governor for the new colony and prior to departure from England?
(a) Livestock, housing, and furniture
(b) Trading routes, financial funds, and communication with the natives
(c) Ships, provisions, and passengers
(d) Ships, the establishment of the mint, and trade routes

2. In what year did John Winthrop’s first wife, Mary Forth Winthrop, die?
(a) 1615
(b) 1620
(c) 1600
(d) 1629

3. When did Mary Tudor die?
(a) 1558
(b) 1660
(c) 1498
(d) 1625

4. 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?
(a) July 28, 1629
(b) April 7, 1630
(c) April 29, 1618
(d) March 27, 1625

5. When did James I ascend the throne of England?
(a) 1567
(b) 1698
(c) 1598
(d) 1625

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did many members of Parliament oppose the marriage of Charles I?

2. The author notes in Chapter 6: “A Special Commission” that Winthrop soon discovered that the “misdirected zeal” of some of the colonists indicated “that he faced a far more difficult problem to control the good than” to do what?

3. How many of the previous Salem settlers had died in the preceding winter when John Winthrop arrived with his fleet, according to the author in Chapter 5: “Survival”?

4. Who wrote to Winthrop in a letter, regarding the ordinances in the colony, that by treating temptation as a sin, it was making “more sins than (as yet is seene) God himself hath made,” according to the author in Chapter 6: “A Special Commission”?

5. 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"?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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”?

2. 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”?

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

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

5. 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?

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

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

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

9. 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”?

10. 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”?

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