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

2. In the agreement worked out with the Massachusetts Bay Company’s investors, it was agreed that the company would be managed by undertakers. How many of these undertakers would be stationed in England?
(a) 6
(b) 2
(c) 7
(d) 5

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

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

5. The author says in Chapter 3: “A Shelter and a Hiding Place” that the idea of going to the New World was not novel in Winthrop’s time. Englishman “had drifted back and forth between England and the wilderness across the water” for over how many years?
(a) 40
(b) 60
(c) 10
(d) 20

Short Answer Questions

1. The Charter of the Virginia Company of London was an English joint stock company established by royal charter by whom?

2. 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?

3. The author says of Winthrop in Chapter 3: “A Shelter and a Hiding Place” that he “did not aim at power for the sake of power, but he longed to” do what?

4. What were the three arrangements that John Winthrop had to oversee once he was voted as governor for the new colony and prior to departure from England?

5. The Massachuset, Nauset, and Wampanoag people spoke using what subfamily of Native American languages?

(see the answer key)

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