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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8: Leniency Rebuked.

Multiple Choice 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”?
(a) 200
(b) 80
(c) 50
(d) 20

2. Who is described as “one of the Puritans’ most illustrious preachers” and spoke before the House of Commons in the summer of 1625?
(a) Reverend John Preston
(b) Reverend Thomas Shepard
(c) Reverend George Phillips
(d) Reverend John Endecott

3. Where does the Merrimack River empty into the Atlantic Ocean?
(a) Cape Sable
(b) Jackson Port
(c) Humboldt Bay
(d) Newburyport

4. 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) Newtown
(c) Cape Sable
(d) Charlestown

5. In what year did John Winthrop’s eldest son, John Jr., come of age?
(a) 1627
(b) 1635
(c) 1701
(d) 1565

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was land first sighted aboard the ships of John Winthrop, according to the author in Chapter 5: “Survival”?

2. When was Mary Tudor born?

3. 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”?

4. What group amongst the New England Puritans “insisted that the bishops be replaced by another organization, with churches and clergy arranged in a pyramidal structure,” according to the author in Chapter 6: “A Special Commission”?

5. Whom did Charles I appoint as Bishop of London in 1628?

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