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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5: Survival.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On what date did John Winthrop pen a letter to his wife Margaret that said, “Yet for all these thinges (I prayse my God) I am not discouraged, nor doe I see cause to repent, or dispaire of those good dayes heere, which will make amends for all”?
(a) July 28, 1629
(b) March 28, 1605
(c) March 10, 1629
(d) July 16, 1630

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

3. Whom did James I appoint as Archbishop of Canterbury?
(a) William Laud
(b) George Abbott
(c) Isaac Johnson
(d) Thomas Fones

4. 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

5. In what year did the English navy defeat the Spanish Armada, ensuring that the Catholic Church could not recapture England?
(a) 1598
(b) 1588
(c) 1632
(d) 1625

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the name of John Winthrop’s second wife?

3. On what date did John Winthrop and several other prominent Puritans who were interested in emigrating assemble in Lincolnshire to talk it over, according to the author in the beginning of Chapter 4: “The Way to a New England”?

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

5. What minister is quoted in the book as having said of his apprehension of leaving England, “The Lord made me feare my affliction came in part for running too far in a way of separation from the mixt Assemblies in England: tho I blesse God I have ever beleeved that there are true churches in many parishes in England where the Lord sets up able men and ministers of his gospell; and I have abhorred to refuse to heare any able minister in England”?

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