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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 narrator says in Chapter 3: “A Shelter and a Hiding Place that in New England” that a group of separatists had been living at Plymouth since what year?
(a) 1620
(b) 1515
(c) 1640
(d) 1598

2. What company was responsible for establishing a short-lived settlement on Cape Ann in 1624?
(a) The Plymouth Company
(b) The Massachusetts Bay Company
(c) The Dorchester Company
(d) The St. James Charter Company

3. When John Winthrop was young, his father became a director at what college?
(a) Abingdon and Witney College
(b) Aylesbury College
(c) Oxford College, London
(d) Trinity College, Cambridge

4. In what year did Adam Winthrop purchase the confiscated monastery at Bury St. Edmunds in Suffolk?
(a) 1599
(b) 1625
(c) 1531
(d) 1544

5. How old was John and Margaret Winthrop’s son that stayed with Margaret when John Winthrop first set out for New England?
(a) 3
(b) 2
(c) 5
(d) 4

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. Who succeeded Mary Tudor as the ruler of England?

3. What was the name of John Winthrop’s younger sister who married Emmanuel Downing?

4. John Winthrop worked in London as counsel to a Parliamentary committee engaged in drafting legislation, and following this, he was appointed what government job?

5. 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?

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