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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3: A Shelter and a Hiding Place.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Margaret Tyndal’s father held what position when she married John Winthrop?
(a) Chancery judge
(b) Common attorney
(c) Wheat farmer
(d) Butcher

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

4. In what year did John Winthrop’s first wife, Mary Forth Winthrop, die?
(a) 1629
(b) 1620
(c) 1615
(d) 1600

5. Where had John Winthrop’s second eldest son, Henry, gone to make his fortune but returned in 1629 with expensive habits and no fortune?
(a) Barbados
(b) Africa
(c) Japan
(d) France

Short Answer Questions

1. On what date did James I die?

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

3. How old was John Winthrop when he left for college?

4. How old was John Winthrop when he married his first wife?

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

(see the answer key)

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