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

2. How old was John Winthrop when he married his first wife?
(a) 19
(b) 16
(c) 20
(d) 17

3. On what date did James I die?
(a) March 27, 1625
(b) April 29, 1618
(c) April 7, 1630
(d) June 11, 1630

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

5. What was the name of the London apothecary that John Winthrop’s older sister Anne married?
(a) John Endecott
(b) Thomas Fones
(c) Thomas Shepard
(d) George Phillips

Short Answer Questions

1. 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”?

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

3. 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”?

4. How old was John and Margaret Winthrop’s son that stayed with Margaret when John Winthrop first set out for New England?

5. In what year did John Winthrop’s first wife, Mary Forth Winthrop, die?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What influenced John Winthrop to compose documents regarding the immigration effort, according to the author in Chapter 3: “A Shelter and a Hiding Place”?

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. 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. How does the author describe the Puritans’ perception of sin and the punishment of sin in the New World in Chapter 6: “A Special Commission”?

7. 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”?

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

9. 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”?

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

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