Puritan Literature Quiz 1 (60 MCQs)

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1. When Bradstreet talks about the "Architect, " this is actually a metaphorical reference to whom
2. Deliberate exaggeration to emphasize a point
3. Why does Elizabeth want John to go to Salem?
4. John Smith wrote which text?
5. The Native Princess, Pocahontas, was from which tribe?
6. Placing the elements of a sentence out of order is called
7. Puritans used writings to explore their inner and outer lives for .....?
8. In "Of the Plymouth Plantation, " what did the colonists do first when they arrived in North America?
9. For Puritans, life revolved around .....
10. Repeating words or similarly structuring phrases or clauses
11. Steadfast; strong; faithful
12. The word recompense means
13. Puritans believed in which of the following?
14. Predestination is the Puritan belief that .....
15. What is the central message of Edwards' sermon?
16. Which member of the family was kidnapped and sold into slavery alongside Equiano?
17. The study of the nature of God
18. Why does the speaker believe the fire was "just" ?
19. What did Anne Bradstreet write?
20. In the World on the Turtle's Back, why are there so many different versions of this story?
21. What is the author's tone in "To My Dear and Loving Husband" ?
22. The idea that God has already decided who was saved from the beginning
23. This character practices witchcraft and is the widow of a Puritan magistrate.
24. Which was NOT a virtue valued by puritans?
25. In Anne Bradstreet's "To My Dear and Loving Husband" (p. 139), what does she "prize more than whole mines of gold" ?
26. Puritans believed that all humans are inherently evil and sinful. This is known as .....
27. In "The Autobiography, " Franklin is striving for
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 .....
29. In "Of the Plymouth Plantation, " the "Savage Barbarians" that the author writes about are .....
30. What type of figurative language is shown? Tracy was really feeling down in the dumps .
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?
32. A comparison between two unlike things without the use of specific words (Like/as)
33. In the World on the Turtle's Back, the right-handed twin is angry because the left-handed twin
34. Writer of "Sinners in the Hands of An Angry God"
35. In La Relacion, Cabeza de Vaca's role during the first meeting between his men and the Native Americans was to
36. The rosebush outside the prison is supposed to have sprung up in the footsteps of
37. A question that does not require an answer because the speaker sees the question as obvious.
38. Rowlandson receives food from several members of the tribe in exchange for .....
39. When Jonathan Edwards was 11 years old, he wrote a book on this animal:
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.
41. What figure of speech is in the following quote: "My love is such that rivers cannot quench."
42. In The Coyote and the Buffalo, what problem does Coyote face after he abuses Buffalo Bull's skull?
43. Give an example of temperance.
44. In "The Crisis, Number 1, " what is he trying to persuade his audience to do?
45. Where does the speaker get the inner strength to face the loss of her house?
46. An American revivalist preacher and philosopher. Author of "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God."
47. The author of "Of Plymouth Plantation" is:
48. In "Of the Plymouth Plantation, " who is the Native American who served as an interpreter for the people?
49. This is the one place that Dimmesdale is safe from Chillingworth.
50. Suffered rhuematic fever as a child
51. The literacy rate in Puritan communities was high due to their desire to read .....
52. Abigail Williams used to work for ..... and currently works for .....?
53. What experiences does this portion of Equiano's slave narrative describe?
54. The first and most famous Puritans landed in Cape Cod in .....?
55. Which of the following is NOT true about Puritan literature?
56. A claim is .....
57. ..... is one of the first settlements in America.
58. What is reflected in Puritan literature?
59. Who was the intended audience for the "Declaration of Independence" ?
60. Health; physical condition