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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 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?
(a) To control all
(b) To control the King
(c) To establish equanimity
(d) To punish the wicked

2. In what famous sermon by John Winthrop, delivered en route to Massachusetts, did he first apply the phrase “City upon a Hill” to the founding of America?
(a) A Model of Christian Charity
(b) Approbate Consuetudinis
(c) On the Danger of an Unconverted Ministry
(d) Peak of Eloquence

3. 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"?
(a) Nathaniel Ward
(b) Roger Williams
(c) Robert Ryece
(d) William Bradford

4. The author states in Chapter 3: “A Shelter and a Hiding Place” that “Winthrop knew that in England he was not tall enough to do anything effective for the cause of God against the towering ungodliness of” whom?
(a) King Charles
(b) King James
(c) Queen Mary
(d) Queen Elizabeth

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

Short Answer Questions

1. On what date did Charles I formally dissolve the English Parliament?

2. Who succeeded Mary Tudor as the ruler of England?

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

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

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

2. 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”?

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

4. 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?

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. How does the author describe John Winthrop’s education in Chapter 1: “The Taming of the Heart”? When did John Winthrop leave school and marry?

7. 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”?

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

9. How is John Winthrop’s family described in Chapter 1: “The Taming of the Heart”? What was John’s father’s profession?

10. 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”?

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