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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. In order to secure the Massachusetts Bay Company’s investors, an agreement was finally worked out whereby the remaining resources of the company would be managed for seven years by "undertakers." How many of these undertakers would be established in Massachusetts?
(a) 6
(b) 3
(c) 7
(d) 5

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) Six miles north of the Hudson River
(b) Three miles north of the Merrimack River
(c) Four miles east of the Raritan 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) Mount Desert
(b) Charlestown
(c) Newtown
(d) Cape Sable

4. What son of John Winthrop’s died by drowning just a few days after the arrival in the New World?
(a) John Winthrop, Jr
(b) Peter Winthrop
(c) Henry Winthrop
(d) James Winthrop

5. Whom did James I appoint as Archbishop of Canterbury?
(a) George Abbott
(b) William Laud
(c) Thomas Fones
(d) Isaac Johnson

Short Answer Questions

1. On what date did John Winthrop ride to Cambridge, “where he with eleven other leading Puritans signed an agreement to be ready by the following March to embark for New England”?

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

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. According to the author in Chapter 5: “Survival,” it cost the better part of what amount of money “to come to New England properly equipped, even if one knew exactly what to bring and what not to bring”?

5. How much money does the author assert a tent had cost in England for those few who had been able to bring one to the new world in Chapter 5: “Survival”?

Short Essay Questions

1. What “technical oversight” allowed the Massachusetts Bay Company greater freedom from the crown, according to the author in Chapter 4: “The Way to a New England”?

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

3. 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”?

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

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

6. 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”?

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

8. 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?

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. 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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