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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. Who were the other three candidates for governor of the new colony that the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Company voted on, along with John Winthrop, prior to leaving England?
(a) William Bradford, John Haynes, and John Cotton
(b) William Blackstone, Richard Clough, and Nicholas Knopp
(c) Roger Ludlow, John Wilson, and William Bradford
(d) John Humfrey, Isaac Johnson, and Sir Richard Saltonstall

2. What was the name of the estate that Adam Winthrop purchased as a confiscated monastery at Bury St. Edmunds in Suffolk?
(a) Epperson Manor
(b) Tattershall
(c) Groton Manor
(d) Guilford Manor

3. On what date did John Winthrop marry Margaret Tyndal?
(a) May 15, 1629
(b) April 7, 1630
(c) April 29, 1618
(d) July 28, 1629

4. What term refers to a council of a church, usually convened to decide an issue of doctrine, administration or application?
(a) Fraternity
(b) Synod
(c) Catechism
(d) Antibody

5. Who wrote to Winthrop in a letter, regarding the ordinances in the colony, that by treating temptation as a sin, it was making “more sins than (as yet is seene) God himself hath made,” according to the author in Chapter 6: “A Special Commission”?
(a) William Bradford
(b) Nicholas Knopp
(c) Roger Ludlow
(d) Thomas Shepard

Short Answer Questions

1. The first glimpse that the Puritans aboard John Winthrop’s ships got of New England was the hills of what Maine town, according to the author in Chapter 5: “Survival”?

2. The author notes in Chapter 6: “A Special Commission” that Winthrop soon discovered that the “misdirected zeal” of some of the colonists indicated “that he faced a far more difficult problem to control the good than” to do what?

3. In order to secure the Massachusetts Bay Company’s investors, an agreement was finally worked out whereby the remaining resources of the company would be managed for seven years by "undertakers." How many of these undertakers would be established in Massachusetts?

4. How many colonists came to the New World to establish the Sagadahoc Colony in 1607?

5. According to the author in Chapter 5: “Survival,” it cost the better part of what amount of money “to come to New England properly equipped, even if one knew exactly what to bring and what not to bring”?

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