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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2: Evil and Declining Times.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Mary Tudor die?
(a) 1625
(b) 1660
(c) 1498
(d) 1558

2. When was Mary Tudor born?
(a) 1501
(b) 1498
(c) 1621
(d) 1516

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

4. According to the author, Arminianism was a belief that men could do what by their own will power?
(a) Deny grace
(b) Respond to God’s will
(c) Endorse one another’s salvation
(d) Achieve faith and win salvation

5. John Winthrop worked in London as counsel to a Parliamentary committee engaged in drafting legislation, and following this, he was appointed what government job?
(a) Common attorney in Her Majesty’s Court of Wards and Liveries
(b) Common attorney in His Majesty’s Court of Wards and Liveries
(c) Common attorney in the People’s Court of Wards and Liveries
(d) Common attorney in the Parliamentary Court of Wards and Liveries

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the London apothecary that John Winthrop’s older sister Anne married?

2. When did James I ascend the throne of England?

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

4. In what year did John Winthrop’s eldest son, John Jr., come of age?

5. How old was John Winthrop when he married for the third time?

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