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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. In what year did John Winthrop’s second wife die?
(a) 1616
(b) 1629
(c) 1659
(d) 1598
2. 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) 6
(c) 5
(d) 7
3. On what date was Charles I crowned at Westminster Abbey?
(a) June 11, 1630
(b) March 10, 1629
(c) July 28, 1629
(d) February 2, 1626
4. How old was John Winthrop when he married his first wife?
(a) 17
(b) 19
(c) 20
(d) 16
5. 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) Charlestown
(b) Newtown
(c) Mount Desert
(d) Cape Sable
Short Answer Questions
1. 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?
2. When John Winthrop was young, his father became a director at what college?
3. What company established the Sagadahoc Colony in 1607 in present-day Maine?
4. Margaret Tyndal’s father held what position when she married John Winthrop?
5. Tattershall is described in Chapter 4: “The Way to a New England” as the home of whom?
Short Essay Questions
1. What official statement did John Winthrop’s party pen prior to their departure, according to the author in Chapter 4: “The Way to a New England”?
2. How does the author describe the journey of John Winthrop’s fleet in Chapter 5: “Survival”? Where did the fleet cast anchor in America?
3. When and where was John Winthrop born? What important event took place in the year Winthrop was born, according to the author in Chapter 1: “The Taming of the Heart”?
4. What influenced John Winthrop to compose documents regarding the immigration effort, according to the author in Chapter 3: “A Shelter and a Hiding Place”?
5. What was the Puritan relationship with Parliament in England, according to the author in Chapter 2: “Evil and Declining Times”?
6. How does the author describe the early Puritan establishment of churches in Chapter 6: “A Special Commission”?
7. How does the author describe the Puritans’ perception of sin and the punishment of sin in the New World in Chapter 6: “A Special Commission”?
8. How does the author describe the beliefs of the Puritans when John Winthrop converted in Chapter 1: “The Taming of the Heart”?
9. What caused the tensions within Puritanism in the 1610s and 1620s, according to the author in Chapter 1: “The Taming of the Heart”?
10. How does the author describe the popular perception of colonization of the New World during the 1620s in Chapter 3: “A Shelter and a Hiding Place”?
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