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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11: The New England Way.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the profession of Adam Winthrop prior to his purchase of the confiscated monastery at Bury St. Edmunds in Suffolk?
(a) He was a wheat farmer
(b) He was a surgeon
(c) He was a cloth merchant
(d) He was a spice merchant

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

3. 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

4. On what date did the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Company select John Winthrop as the governor of the new colony?
(a) May 15, 1629
(b) February 2, 1626
(c) July 28, 1629
(d) October 20, 1629

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

Short Answer Questions

1. On what date was Charles I crowned at Westminster Abbey?

2. Winthrop and his fellow Puritans published a statement maintaining their love for the Church of England and insisting that they were not separatists, which they issued from their ship on what date?

3. 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”?

4. Upon arriving in the New World, John Winthrop’s shops sailed through the channel between Bakers Island and Little Island and cast anchor where, according to the author in Chapter 5: “Survival”?

5. What substantial and straightforward freeman from Dorchester drew up a list of arguments against Winthrop’s cause with the General Court, leading Winthrop to ride him down as "a troubler of Israel,” according to the author in Chapter 11: “The New England Way”?

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