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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did John Winthrop set up his headquarters when he moved the colony into the bay, according to the narrator in Chapter 5: “Survival”?
(a) Newtown
(b) Cape Sable
(c) Charlestown
(d) Mount Desert

2. On what date did John Winthrop ride to Cambridge, “where he with eleven other leading Puritans signed an agreement to be ready by the following March to embark for New England”?
(a) August 26, 1629
(b) February 2, 1626
(c) March 27, 1625
(d) July 16, 1630

3. When John Winthrop was young, his father became a director at what college?
(a) Aylesbury College
(b) Abingdon and Witney College
(c) Trinity College, Cambridge
(d) Oxford College, London

4. What was the name of John Winthrop’s younger sister who married Emmanuel Downing?
(a) Sara
(b) Lucy
(c) Marie
(d) Elizabeth

5. What well-known Suffolk antiquary and friend of Winthrop told him of going to the New World, "The church and common welthe heere at home, hath more neede of your best abyllitie in these dangerous tymes, than any remote plantation"?
(a) Thomas Fones
(b) William Laud
(c) Robert Ryece
(d) Isaac Johnson

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the Merrimack River empty into the Atlantic Ocean?

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

3. Arminianism is based on the theological ideas of what Dutch Reformed theologian?

4. In what year did John Winthrop’s second wife die?

5. 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?

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