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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. The charter granted to the New England Company in 1628 authorized the company to settle and govern the area from three miles south of the Charles River to what location?
(a) Three miles north of the Merrimack River
(b) Four miles east of the Raritan River
(c) Six miles east of the Mississippi River
(d) Six miles north of the Hudson River

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

3. On what date did John Winthrop pen a letter to his wife Margaret that said, “Yet for all these thinges (I prayse my God) I am not discouraged, nor doe I see cause to repent, or dispaire of those good dayes heere, which will make amends for all”?
(a) July 16, 1630
(b) March 28, 1605
(c) March 10, 1629
(d) July 28, 1629

4. 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) Peak of Eloquence
(d) A Model of Christian Charity

5. According to the author, Arminianism was a belief that men could do what by their own will power?
(a) Respond to God’s will
(b) Achieve faith and win salvation
(c) Deny grace
(d) Endorse one another’s salvation

Short Answer Questions

1. On what date did John Winthrop become officially engaged to Mary Forth?

2. When did Mary Tudor die?

3. The author asserts in Chapter 3: “A Shelter and a Hiding Place” that the founding of colonies was notoriously what kind of activity?

4. What son of John Winthrop’s died by drowning just a few days after the arrival in the New World?

5. 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”?

Short Essay Questions

1. What “technical oversight” allowed the Massachusetts Bay Company greater freedom from the crown, according to the author in Chapter 4: “The Way to a New England”?

2. What were John Winthrop’s main concerns as he prepared to depart for New England, according to the author in Chapter 4: “The Way to a New England”?

3. 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”?

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. How did the members of the Massachusetts Bay Company perceive the charter when they were told about it in Chapter 4: “The Way to a New England”? Why?

6. How did the Massachusetts Bay colonists begin the process of settling after their arrival, according to the author in Chapter 5: “Survival”?

7. How does the author describe the early Puritan establishment of churches in Chapter 6: “A Special Commission”?

8. 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”?

9. How did the Puritans of the late 16th and early 17th Centuries feel about the state of the government in England, according to the author in Chapter 2: “Evil and Declining Times”?

10. How does the author describe the beliefs of Charles I in Chapter 2: “Evil and Declining Times”? How is Arminianism described?

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