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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4: The Way to a New England.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Three miles north of the Merrimack River
(b) Four miles east of the Raritan River
(c) Six miles north of the Hudson River
(d) Six miles east of the Mississippi River

2. On what date did John Winthrop write home to Margaret from London about the prospect of moving to New England, saying, “If the Lord seeth it wil be good for us, he will provide a shelter and a hidinge place for us and ours”?
(a) February 2, 1626
(b) August 23, 1630
(c) May 15, 1629
(d) October 19, 1630

3. On what date did John Winthrop become officially engaged to Mary Forth?
(a) April 7, 1630
(b) April 29, 1618
(c) August 26, 1629
(d) March 28, 1605

4. Why did many members of Parliament oppose the marriage of Charles I?
(a) He married a Roman Catholic
(b) He married a Calvinist
(c) He married a Jew
(d) He married a Presbyterian

5. How old was John Winthrop when he married for the third time?
(a) 35
(b) 25
(c) 40
(d) 30

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom did James I appoint as Archbishop of Canterbury?

2. Who was the governor of the Massachusetts Bay Company when John Winthrop went to Cambridge to sign the agreement to be ready by the following March to Embark for New England?

3. What was the profession of Adam Winthrop prior to his purchase of the confiscated monastery at Bury St. Edmunds in Suffolk?

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

5. According to the author, Arminianism was a belief that men could do what by their own will power?

(see the answer key)

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