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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. In what famous sermon by John Winthrop, delivered en route to Massachusetts, did he first apply the phrase “City upon a Hill” to the founding of America?
(a) Approbate Consuetudinis
(b) On the Danger of an Unconverted Ministry
(c) A Model of Christian Charity
(d) Peak of Eloquence

4. 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) Cape Sable
(b) Charlestown
(c) Mount Desert
(d) Newtown

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

6. John Winthrop worked in London as counsel to a Parliamentary committee engaged in drafting legislation, and following this, he was appointed what government job?
(a) Common attorney in the Parliamentary Court of Wards and Liveries
(b) Common attorney in His Majesty’s Court of Wards and Liveries
(c) Common attorney in the People’s Court of Wards and Liveries
(d) Common attorney in Her Majesty’s Court of Wards and Liveries

7. Since what year had there been a fairly substantial group of colonists at Cape Ann, according to the author in Chapter 3: “A Shelter and a Hiding Place”?
(a) 1616
(b) 1623
(c) 1630
(d) 1598

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

9. Whom did James I appoint as Archbishop of Canterbury?
(a) William Laud
(b) Isaac Johnson
(c) George Abbott
(d) Thomas Fones

10. 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”?
(a) 50
(b) 20
(c) 80
(d) 200

11. What son of John Winthrop’s died by drowning just a few days after the arrival in the New World?
(a) James Winthrop
(b) John Winthrop, Jr
(c) Peter Winthrop
(d) Henry Winthrop

12. How old was John and Margaret Winthrop’s son that stayed with Margaret when John Winthrop first set out for New England?
(a) 3
(b) 5
(c) 4
(d) 2

13. What group amongst the New England Puritans “insisted that the bishops be replaced by another organization, with churches and clergy arranged in a pyramidal structure,” according to the author in Chapter 6: “A Special Commission”?
(a) The Congregationalists
(b) The Presbyterians
(c) The Calvinists
(d) The royalists

14. When did Mary Tudor die?
(a) 1558
(b) 1498
(c) 1625
(d) 1660

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was John Winthrop when he married for the third time?

2. Where did John Winthrop enroll to study law in 1613?

3. On what date did the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Company select John Winthrop as the governor of the new colony?

4. How old was John Winthrop when he left for college?

5. What is the approximate distance between London, England, and Boston, Massachusetts?

(see the answer keys)

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