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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. On what date did John Winthrop marry his second wife?
(a) May 15, 1629
(b) December 6, 1615
(c) February 2, 1626
(d) April 29, 1618

2. What is the approximate distance between London, England, and Boston, Massachusetts?
(a) 3,300 miles
(b) 1,550 miles
(c) 4,230 miles
(d) 2,000 miles

3. 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) 5
(d) 7

4. How old was John Winthrop when he married his first wife?
(a) 19
(b) 17
(c) 16
(d) 20

5. What company established the Sagadahoc Colony in 1607 in present-day Maine?
(a) The Massachusetts Bay Company
(b) The Dorchester Company
(c) The St. James Charter Company
(d) The Plymouth Company

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was John and Margaret Winthrop’s son that stayed with Margaret when John Winthrop first set out for New England?

2. Where had John Winthrop’s second eldest son, Henry, gone to make his fortune but returned in 1629 with expensive habits and no fortune?

3. Tattershall is described in Chapter 4: “The Way to a New England” as the home of whom?

4. When was John Calvin born?

5. 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?

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