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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the agreement worked out with the Massachusetts Bay Company’s investors, it was agreed that the company would be managed by undertakers. How many of these undertakers would be stationed in England?
(a) 2
(b) 5
(c) 7
(d) 6

2. 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 five years
(c) For ten years
(d) For six years

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

4. Where had John Winthrop’s second eldest son, Henry, gone to make his fortune but returned in 1629 with expensive habits and no fortune?
(a) Japan
(b) Barbados
(c) France
(d) Africa

5. In what year did Adam Winthrop purchase the confiscated monastery at Bury St. Edmunds in Suffolk?
(a) 1599
(b) 1625
(c) 1544
(d) 1531

6. What did the Puritans believe “was the mother of heresy,” according to the author in Chapter 6: “A Special Commission”?
(a) Ignorance
(b) Lust
(c) Knowledge
(d) Government

7. 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?
(a) To control all
(b) To control the King
(c) To punish the wicked
(d) To establish equanimity

8. The narrator says in Chapter 3: “A Shelter and a Hiding Place that in New England” that a group of separatists had been living at Plymouth since what year?
(a) 1620
(b) 1515
(c) 1640
(d) 1598

9. The author says in Chapter 3: “A Shelter and a Hiding Place” that the idea of going to the New World was not novel in Winthrop’s time. Englishman “had drifted back and forth between England and the wilderness across the water” for over how many years?
(a) 20
(b) 10
(c) 40
(d) 60

10. On what date did John Winthrop become officially engaged to Mary Forth?
(a) March 28, 1605
(b) April 7, 1630
(c) April 29, 1618
(d) August 26, 1629

11. In what year did John Winthrop’s second wife die?
(a) 1598
(b) 1659
(c) 1616
(d) 1629

12. What was the name of John and Margaret Winthrop’s youngest son that stayed with Margaret when John Winthrop first set out for New England?
(a) Paul
(b) James
(c) William
(d) Samuel

13. Where was land first sighted aboard the ships of John Winthrop, according to the author in Chapter 5: “Survival”?
(a) Connecticut
(b) New Hampshire
(c) Cape Sable
(d) Barbados

14. How many colonists came to the New World to establish the Sagadahoc Colony in 1607?
(a) 120
(b) 150
(c) 300
(d) 500

15. The author states in Chapter 3: “A Shelter and a Hiding Place” that “Winthrop knew that in England he was not tall enough to do anything effective for the cause of God against the towering ungodliness of” whom?
(a) Queen Mary
(b) Queen Elizabeth
(c) King James
(d) King Charles

Short Answer Questions

1. On what date did John Winthrop’s ships pass the Isles of Shoals, where a ship lay at anchor, upon arriving in the New World?

2. How many men, women, and children were aboard the four ships of John Winthrop’s fleet that first arrived in the New World on the Massachusetts Bay Charter?

3. 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”?

4. 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"?

5. In what year did John Winthrop’s first wife, Mary Forth Winthrop, die?

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