This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Movements > Puritan > Puritan Literature – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Puritan Literature Quiz 1 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. When Bradstreet talks about the "Architect, " this is actually a metaphorical reference to whom A) Their home's builder. B) Herself. C) God. D) The Fire. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) God. 2. Deliberate exaggeration to emphasize a point A) Antithesis. B) Simile. C) Hyperbole. D) Rhetorical Question. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 3. Why does Elizabeth want John to go to Salem? A) To confess he used witchcraft. B) To buy George Jacob's heifer. C) To say that Abigail told him the girls are lying. D) To prove her innocence. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To say that Abigail told him the girls are lying. 4. John Smith wrote which text? A) From the General History of Virginia . B) The Mayflower Contract. C) Of Plymouth Plantation. D) My Sweet Pocahontas. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) From the General History of Virginia . 5. The Native Princess, Pocahontas, was from which tribe? A) Navajo. B) Iroquois. C) Powhatan. D) Cayuga. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Powhatan. 6. Placing the elements of a sentence out of order is called A) Inverted syntax. B) Puritan Plain Style. C) Archetype. D) Allegory. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Inverted syntax. 7. Puritans used writings to explore their inner and outer lives for .....? A) Ways to serve the Natives. B) For instruction on farming the land. C) Reasons to leave England. D) Signs of God's Work. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Signs of God's Work. 8. In "Of the Plymouth Plantation, " what did the colonists do first when they arrived in North America? A) Searched for shelter from the cold. B) Fell on their knees and blessed God. C) Repaired their shallop (boat) and fished. D) Fought Native Americans. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fell on their knees and blessed God. 9. For Puritans, life revolved around ..... A) Church. B) Scandal. C) Government. D) CS:GO. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Church. 10. Repeating words or similarly structuring phrases or clauses A) Parallelism and Repetition. B) Antithesis. C) Analogy. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Parallelism and Repetition. 11. Steadfast; strong; faithful A) Rogue. B) Blatent. C) Obstinate. D) Staunch. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Staunch. 12. The word recompense means A) Repayment; something given or done in return for something else. B) Wealth. C) Foolishness. D) Happiness; bliss. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repayment; something given or done in return for something else. 13. Puritans believed in which of the following? A) Socialism. B) Predestination. C) Reincarnation. D) Foreordination. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Predestination. 14. Predestination is the Puritan belief that ..... A) God will exact his judgment over sinners. B) God has already chosen who would be saved. C) God has complete and total control. D) God and people have a joint agreement. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) God has already chosen who would be saved. 15. What is the central message of Edwards' sermon? A) Sinners can save their souls by praying. B) The only hope for salvation is through Christian rebirth. C) There is no hope for salvation. D) The only hope for salvation is through good deeds. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The only hope for salvation is through Christian rebirth. 16. Which member of the family was kidnapped and sold into slavery alongside Equiano? A) His brother. B) His mother. C) His sister. D) His father. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) His sister. 17. The study of the nature of God A) Predestination. B) Conform. C) Theology. D) Hysteria. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Theology. 18. Why does the speaker believe the fire was "just" ? A) It was revenge for a crime she had committed. B) Other people had lost their homes as well. C) They were moving anyway. D) Everything was God's anyway, He can give and take as He pleases. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Everything was God's anyway, He can give and take as He pleases. 19. What did Anne Bradstreet write? A) The Sky Tree. B) Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God. C) Verses Upon the Burning of Our House. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Verses Upon the Burning of Our House. 20. In the World on the Turtle's Back, why are there so many different versions of this story? A) Different tribes fought over which version was correct. B) Each religion had its over version. C) The oral tradition caused the story to change with each telling. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The oral tradition caused the story to change with each telling. 21. What is the author's tone in "To My Dear and Loving Husband" ? A) Romantic and devoted. B) Angry and vengeful. C) Deferential and pleading. D) Fearful and melancholy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Romantic and devoted. 22. The idea that God has already decided who was saved from the beginning A) Presdestination. B) Theology. C) Conform. D) Paranoia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Presdestination. 23. This character practices witchcraft and is the widow of a Puritan magistrate. A) Mrs. Chillingworth. B) Pearl. C) Mistress Hibbins. D) Hester Prynne. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mistress Hibbins. 24. Which was NOT a virtue valued by puritans? A) Vanity. B) Temperance. C) Sobriety. D) Industriousness. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Vanity. 25. In Anne Bradstreet's "To My Dear and Loving Husband" (p. 139), what does she "prize more than whole mines of gold" ? A) God. B) Her Husband. C) Her Bible. D) Her Life. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Her Husband. 26. Puritans believed that all humans are inherently evil and sinful. This is known as ..... A) Human depravity. B) Covenant relationship. C) Absolute sovereignty. D) Predestination. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Human depravity. 27. In "The Autobiography, " Franklin is striving for A) Moral perfection. B) Better relationships. C) More money. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Moral perfection. 28. From his plunder (objects taken from others during the war), an Indian gives Mary Rowlandson an item that she sees as evidence of "God's mercy." That item is a ..... A) Sewing machine. B) Bible. C) Book of poetry. D) Small knife. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bible. 29. In "Of the Plymouth Plantation, " the "Savage Barbarians" that the author writes about are ..... A) Native Americans. B) African slaves. C) Catholic. D) The colonial Spanish. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Native Americans. 30. What type of figurative language is shown? Tracy was really feeling down in the dumps . A) Personification. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Idiom. 31. "The bow of God's wrath is bent, and the arrow is made ready on the string ..... " Which type of figurative language is the blue portion? A) Alliteration. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 32. A comparison between two unlike things without the use of specific words (Like/as) A) Metaphor. B) Extended metaphor. C) Inversion. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 33. In the World on the Turtle's Back, the right-handed twin is angry because the left-handed twin A) Is his mother's favorite. B) Is a better archer. C) Kills their mother. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Kills their mother. 34. Writer of "Sinners in the Hands of An Angry God" A) Anne Bradstreet. B) Edward Taylor. C) Jonathan Edwards. D) William Bradford. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Jonathan Edwards. 35. In La Relacion, Cabeza de Vaca's role during the first meeting between his men and the Native Americans was to A) Make peace with them. B) Beg the Native Americans to take them to their home. C) Act as medicine men for them. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Make peace with them. 36. The rosebush outside the prison is supposed to have sprung up in the footsteps of A) Pearl. B) Hester Prynne. C) Mistress Hibbins. D) Anne Hutchinson. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Anne Hutchinson. 37. A question that does not require an answer because the speaker sees the question as obvious. A) Rhetorical Question. B) Simile. C) Antithesis. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhetorical Question. 38. Rowlandson receives food from several members of the tribe in exchange for ..... A) Sewing. B) Gathering firewood. C) Cooking. D) Washing clothes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sewing. 39. When Jonathan Edwards was 11 years old, he wrote a book on this animal: A) Spider. B) Beetle. C) Roach. D) Fly. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Spider. 40. A figure of speech in which two vastly different objects are likened together with the help of similes or metaphors. This is usually found in poetry. A) Simile. B) Analogy. C) Metaphor. D) Conceit. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Conceit. 41. What figure of speech is in the following quote: "My love is such that rivers cannot quench." A) Hyperbole. B) Allusion. C) Metaphor. D) Inverted Syntax. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 42. In The Coyote and the Buffalo, what problem does Coyote face after he abuses Buffalo Bull's skull? A) His powers abandon him for asking too much. B) He feels guilty for abusing Buffalo Bull's skull. C) Buffalo Bull comes back to life and chases. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Buffalo Bull comes back to life and chases. 43. Give an example of temperance. A) Working hard. B) Not giving in to want you want. C) Growing your own food. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Not giving in to want you want. 44. In "The Crisis, Number 1, " what is he trying to persuade his audience to do? A) Move to America. B) Continue their fight. C) Kill the Indians. D) Vote. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Continue their fight. 45. Where does the speaker get the inner strength to face the loss of her house? A) Her belief that rewards are in Heaven. B) Her anger toward God. C) Her family and friends. D) She does not have the strength to deal with what happened. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Her belief that rewards are in Heaven. 46. An American revivalist preacher and philosopher. Author of "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God." A) Anne Bradstreet. B) Jonathan Edwards. C) Edward Taylor. D) J.R.R. Tolkien. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Jonathan Edwards. 47. The author of "Of Plymouth Plantation" is: A) Myles Standish. B) William Bradford. C) John Robinson. D) Squanto. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) William Bradford. 48. In "Of the Plymouth Plantation, " who is the Native American who served as an interpreter for the people? A) Atta-Kulla-Kulla. B) Akitowa. C) Squanto. D) Samoset. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Squanto. 49. This is the one place that Dimmesdale is safe from Chillingworth. A) The forest. B) The scaffold. C) The company of the governor. D) His chamber. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The scaffold. 50. Suffered rhuematic fever as a child A) William Bradford. B) Anne Bradstreet. C) Mary Rowlandson. D) Jonathan Edwards. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Anne Bradstreet. 51. The literacy rate in Puritan communities was high due to their desire to read ..... A) Poems. B) News. C) Mysteries. D) Bible. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bible. 52. Abigail Williams used to work for ..... and currently works for .....? A) Corey, Putnam. B) Nurse, Proctor. C) Parris, Proctor. D) Elizabeth and John Proctor, Rev. Parris. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Elizabeth and John Proctor, Rev. Parris. 53. What experiences does this portion of Equiano's slave narrative describe? A) The loss of African cultural traditions. B) The fight to abolish slavery. C) The observations of a slave merchant. D) The horrors slaves faced during The Middle Passage. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The horrors slaves faced during The Middle Passage. 54. The first and most famous Puritans landed in Cape Cod in .....? A) 1699. B) 1701. C) 1607. D) 1620. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1620. 55. Which of the following is NOT true about Puritan literature? A) Religious topics. B) Straightforward. C) Plain. D) Fanciful language. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Fanciful language. 56. A claim is ..... A) A detail from a text used to support an idea. B) A citation of where a piece of evidence came from. C) An inference a reader makes about a text. D) Something that belongs to me. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) An inference a reader makes about a text. 57. ..... is one of the first settlements in America. A) New York, New York. B) Jamestown, Virginia. C) Plymouth, Massachusetts. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Jamestown, Virginia. 58. What is reflected in Puritan literature? A) Devotion to God. B) Sense of adventure. C) Belief in magic. D) Devotion to the church. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Devotion to God. 59. Who was the intended audience for the "Declaration of Independence" ? A) Other world leaders. B) People who were planning to immigrate to America. C) Anyone; the common man anywhere. D) Other American colonists. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Other world leaders. 60. Health; physical condition A) Recompense. B) Contrivance. C) Omnipotent. D) Constitution. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Constitution. Next →Related QuizzesMovements QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesPuritan Literature Quiz 2Puritan Literature Quiz 3Puritan Literature Quiz 4Puritan Literature Quiz 5 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books