This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Movements > Puritan > Puritan Literature – Quiz 3 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Puritan Literature Quiz 3 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What metaphor did Bradstreet use for God? (She compares God to ..... ) A) Father Christmas. B) The Great Creator. C) Heavenly Son. D) The Mighty Architect. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Mighty Architect. 2. The destruction of her house makes heaven seem more A) Unreal to the speaker. B) Appealing to the speaker. C) Frightening to the speaker. D) Distant and remote to the speaker. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Appealing to the speaker. 3. A paragraph or stanza (just like Metaphor but longer) A) Metaphor. B) Ext. Metaphor. C) Inversion. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ext. Metaphor. 4. "A true friend is the best possession" is an example of A) Parallel structure. B) An aphorism. C) An anecdote. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) An aphorism. 5. What is the central message of the sermon? A) Sinners can save their souls through constant prayer. B) The only hope for salvation is through Christian rebirth. C) The only hope for salvation is in good deeds. D) There is no hope for salvation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The only hope for salvation is through Christian rebirth. 6. Anne Bradstreet was the first A) Female poet. B) Female poet in the New World. C) Poet. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Female poet in the New World. 7. Moral principles that governs people's behavior A) Hysteria. B) Omnipotent. C) Ethics. D) Conform. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ethics. 8. How does Paine persuade his audience? A) He appeals to their sense of fear. B) He appeals to their sense of logic. C) He appeals to their sense of duty. D) He uses all of these appeals. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) He uses all of these appeals. 9. In the World on the Turtle's Back, the twins' creations in this myth tell you that Iroquois culture A) Believes in a balance in nature. B) Bases its rituals on deer meat. C) Respects the porcupine the most. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Believes in a balance in nature. 10. Exaggerated or uncontrollable emotion or excitement, especially among a group of people. A) Hysteria. B) Predestination. C) Ethics. D) Puritan. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hysteria. 11. In Coyote and Buffalo, when Buffalo Bull gives Coyote the magic cow, the reader can predict that A) Coyote will kill the cow. B) Coyote will have meat for the rest of his life. C) The magic cow will not follow Coyote. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Coyote will kill the cow. 12. Which of the following was NOTvalued by the Puritans? A) Wealth. B) Temperance. C) Self-reliance. D) Charity. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Wealth. 13. How many of the Ten Commandments do you know? A) All ten, I'm a child of God. B) 6-9. C) 3-5. D) One; do unto others before they do unto you. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) All ten, I'm a child of God. 14. The three most crucial scenes in the novel all take place A) In the Governor's house. B) In the prison. C) On the scaffold. D) In the forest. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) On the scaffold. 15. Religious reformers who tried to purify the Church of England A) Leisure. B) Puritan. C) Omnipotent. D) Theocracy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Puritan. 16. What is the "house on high erect" in Bradstreet's poem about her burning house? A) Her future house here on earth. B) Her neighbor's house on the hill, which she will buy. C) The memory of her old house. D) Her future house in heaven. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Her future house in heaven. 17. Which of the following was Equiano's "fake" name, given to him by Pascal? A) Bob. B) Gusto Vassa. C) Gustavus Vassa. D) Equiano Vassa. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Gustavus Vassa. 18. What is the most important part of your life? A) God. B) Friends. C) Me. D) Family. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) God. 19. Which of the following best represents your beliefs? A) Predestination. B) Karma. C) Fate. D) Free will. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Predestination. 20. In Olaudah Equiano's narrative, the sailors whipped Equiano because he A) Escaped from the hold. B) Fought with others. C) Refused to eat anything. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Refused to eat anything. 21. What type of figurative language is shown? I have told you a million times not to do that! A) Personification. B) Alliteration. C) Hyperbole. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 22. The best synonym for the word "chide" is: A) Regret. B) Scold. C) Mock. D) Disdain. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Scold. 23. Which virtue did Franklin have the most trouble with? A) Order. B) Silence. C) Humilty. D) Temperance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Order. 24. Which emotion did Bradstreet NOT experience in her poem "Upon the Burning of Our House" ? A) Gratitude. B) Fear. C) Sorrow. D) Jealousy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Jealousy. 25. A major Puritan belief is in God's providence, which is ..... A) God's wrath against evildoers. B) God's supreme judgment. C) God's loving kindness. D) God's absolute sovereignty and control. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) God's absolute sovereignty and control. 26. Edwards compares each of his listeners to "a spider, or some loathsome insect [held] over the fire" in order to stress a human being's A) Powerlessness in comparison to God. B) Ugliness in God's eyes. C) Unimportance in God's plan. D) Courage in the face of God's wrath. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Powerlessness in comparison to God. 27. Came to a consolation about her faith through "God's wondrous works" A) William Bradford. B) Anne Bradstreet. C) Mary Rowlandson. D) Jonathan Edwards. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Anne Bradstreet. 28. According to the text, why haven't sinners fallen into hell yet? A) They have done enough good works to keep them out. B) They have spent enough time in church to keep them out. C) They are held up by God's hand and his will keeps them out. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They are held up by God's hand and his will keeps them out. 29. How much work do you do on Sundays? A) None whatsoever! Never!. B) Just a little bit, but not to much. C) Some work depending on the week. D) A lot-I don't have time to rest. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) None whatsoever! Never!. 30. Puritans viewed God as a ..... so they were intolerant of sin. A) Harsh judge. B) Humble servant. C) Friend. D) Mighty warrior. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Harsh judge. 31. A clear purpose is the highest goal. Uses ordinary words and objects to make a simple, direct statement. A) Myth. B) Parallelism. C) Plain style. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Plain style. 32. Comply with rules, standards, or laws A) Conform. B) Theocracy. C) Hysteria. D) Paranoia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Conform. 33. Education was important because once educated, Puritans could read ..... A) Plays. B) Magazines. C) Fiction. D) Bible. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bible. 34. The attitude created by an author is also known as A) Tone. B) Imagery. C) Diction. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tone. 35. This character dies on the night a letter A is seen in the sky. A) Governor Winthrop. B) Roger Chillingworth. C) Arthur Dimmesdale. D) Rev. Blackstone. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Governor Winthrop. 36. First governor of the Massachusetts Bay colony A) Jonathan Edwards. B) George Gordon. C) William Bradford. D) Anne Bradstreet. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) William Bradford. 37. Why is textual evidence needed? A) To cite the location of a quote. B) To support an inference or idea about a text. C) To add length to a written response. D) To state a reader's inference about a text. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To support an inference or idea about a text. 38. If someone does not have the same beliefs as you do, what do you do? A) Publically judge and shame them. B) Attempt to change their beliefs to mine. C) Silently judge them, but keep it to myself. D) Respect their beliefs and let them believe what they want. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Publically judge and shame them. 39. In the World on the Turtle's Back, the arrows that the man brings to the girl represent A) The twins that are born. B) Ocean waves. C) Fish and birds. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The twins that are born. 40. When an author refers to something well known outside of the text, such as a biblical story or an historical figure, he or she is making use of ..... A) Imagery. B) Allusion. C) Inversion. D) Confusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Allusion. 41. In Coyote and Buffalo, what does this myth explain? A) How the world was created. B) Why Coyote and Buffalo are mortal enemies. C) Why there are no Buffalo in the region. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Why there are no Buffalo in the region. 42. Who was the first American poet? A) Bradford. B) Bradstreet. C) Taylor. D) Edwards. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bradstreet. 43. In The World on the Turtle's back, why does the man go to the Great Tree at the beginning of the myth? A) His wife wants some flowers. B) He wants to make his wife happy. C) The tree has been growing forever. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He wants to make his wife happy. 44. The Puritans believed that your after life is chosen before your birth. This idea is called A) Pre-afterlife. B) Prealtercation. C) Predetermination. D) Predestination. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Predestination. 45. This character lives with the physical and spiritual anguish of hidden guilt. A) Arthur Dimmesdale. B) Hester Prynne. C) Rev. Wilson. D) Roger Chillingworth. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Arthur Dimmesdale. 46. The primary emotional appeal used by Edwards in "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" is A) Appeal to pity. B) Appeal to logic. C) Appeal to fear. D) Appeal to vanity. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Appeal to fear. 47. The first writer in England's North American colonies to be published. Author of "The Author to Her Book." A) Anne Bradstreet. B) Jonathan Edwards. C) Arthur Miller. D) Edward Taylor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anne Bradstreet. 48. For what does Bradstreet pray the heavens will reward her husband in "To My Dear and Loving Husband" ? A) His Honesty. B) His Good Looks. C) His Gold. D) His Love. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) His Love. 49. Puritans favored this type of writing. A) Imaginative. B) Plain Style. C) Figurative. D) Relating to nature. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Plain Style. 50. At the end of the sermon, Edwards' tone shifts from: A) His tone is unchanged. B) Threatening to thoughtful. C) Angry to excited. D) Threatening to motivating. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Threatening to motivating. 51. Why did the Puriatns leave England? A) They were facing religious persecution. B) They wanted a fresh start. C) They were searching for riches. D) They were hoping to find a home. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They were facing religious persecution. 52. In what year does the Salem Witch Trials take place? A) 1692. B) 1843. C) 1960. D) 1765. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1692. 53. Caught in; to be involved in something that will be difficult to escape A) Comprised. B) Resolved. C) Affirmed. D) Entangled. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Entangled. 54. Which of the following is NOT an example of puritan literature? A) Romance stories. B) Sermons. C) Letters. D) Journals. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Romance stories. 55. What is the basic way in which Edwards tries to move his listeners in "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" ? A) With stories of salvation. B) With descriptions of spiders. C) With cries for them to flee. D) With images of hell. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) With images of hell. 56. "God's wrath is like damned waters ..... " A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 57. The speaker of "To My Dear and Loving Husband" addresses which of the following? A) Her husband. B) Herself. C) The Puritan leadership council. D) The Lord. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Her husband. 58. Came to the Americas on the Mayflower A) George Gordon. B) William Bradford. C) Anne Bradstreet. D) Jonathan Edwards. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) William Bradford. 59. Who says, "I will come to you in the black of some terrible night, and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you" ? A) Abigail. B) Mary Warren. C) Elizabeth Proctor. D) John Proctor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Abigail. 60. ChoiceSalem witch trials A) Harvard college. B) Columbus. 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