Q 01/05

In which Nottinghamshire village did the future Mayflower Separatists meet secretly at a manor house?

A) Scrooby

B) Babworth

C) Gainsborough

D) Austerfield

Answer · why

A) Scrooby

Scrooby Manor belonged to the Archbishop of York, so the Separatists who met there from about 1606 were defying the very churchman who was their landl...

Q 02/05

Before crossing the Atlantic, the Separatists spent about a dozen years living in which Dutch city?

A) Amsterdam

B) Leiden

C) Rotterdam

D) Utrecht

Answer · why

B) Leiden

The Separatists settled in Leiden in 1609, many of them working in its cloth and textile trades, before the first group sailed for America in 1620.

Q 03/05

Which pastor led the congregation in Holland but never made the crossing, dying there in 1625?

A) Richard Clyfton

B) John Smyth

C) John Robinson

D) Robert Cushman

Answer · why

C) John Robinson

John Robinson stayed in Holland with the larger part of the congregation and died there in 1625; his son Isaac joined the colony in 1631.

Q 04/05

What were the London investors who financed the Pilgrims' voyage called?

A) the Virginia Company

B) the Plymouth Company

C) the Company of Undertakers

D) the Merchant Adventurers

Answer · why

D) the Merchant Adventurers

The Merchant Adventurers, about seventy London investors, were to be repaid in fish, timber and furs; the colonists did not clear the debt until the 1...

Q 05/05

Which patch of coast was the Pilgrims' intended destination when they set out in 1620?

A) the Kennebec River

B) the Delaware River

C) the Connecticut River

D) the Hudson River

Answer · why

D) the Hudson River

The mouth of the Hudson River lay at the northern edge of the Virginia Company's territory; the Dutch founded New Netherland there instead.