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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6: A Special Commission.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In what year did King Charles I ascend the throne of England?
(a) 1632
(b) 1624
(c) 1601
(d) 1616

3. The Charter of the Virginia Company of London was an English joint stock company established by royal charter by whom?
(a) Queen Mary
(b) King James I
(c) Queen Elizabeth I
(d) King Charles I

4. In what year did John Winthrop’s eldest son, John Jr., come of age?
(a) 1627
(b) 1565
(c) 1701
(d) 1635

5. 93. For how many years does the author say the “human flood swept into Massachusetts, pushing up the rivers, swarming over the champion lands, some twenty thousand souls, and every soul was checked off as saved or damned” in Chapter 6: “A Special Commission”?
(a) For two years
(b) For six years
(c) For ten years
(d) For five years

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many of the previous Salem settlers had died in the preceding winter when John Winthrop arrived with his fleet, according to the author in Chapter 5: “Survival”?

3. What was the name of the flagship of the Winthrop Fleet that sailed to the New World?

4. John Winthrop, Jr. considered going to New England with Endecott’s group but instead went on a fourteen-month tour of what region, according to the author in Chapter 3: “A Shelter and a Hiding Place”?

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

(see the answer key)

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