This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Movements > Puritan > Puritan Literature – Quiz 4 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Puritan Literature Quiz 4 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Where did the Puritans settle? A) Charlestown. B) Jamestown. C) Massachusetts Bay. D) Pennsylvania. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Massachusetts Bay. 2. Having unlimited power, able to do anything A) Omnipotent. B) Theocracy. C) Theology. D) Predestination. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Omnipotent. 3. To what does Paine compare the British government? A) A thief breaking into your home. B) A rat gnawing at a bone. C) A fish lost in the sea. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A thief breaking into your home. 4. What was the "thund'ring noise" that woke Bradstreet up? A) The drums of English soldiers. B) A raging river. C) A clap of lightning. D) The burning of her home. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The burning of her home. 5. Who wrote "Huswifery? " A) Edward Taylor. B) William Bradford. C) Jonathan Edwards. D) George Gordon. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Edward Taylor. 6. What did Puritans believe about Native Americans? A) They were associated with the Devil. B) They were primitive, but harmless. C) They should be slaughtered. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They were associated with the Devil. 7. To which chief emotion does Edwards appeal in the following passage of the sermon? How awful is it to be left behind at such a day! To see so many others feasting, while you are pining and perishing. A) Grief. B) Sympathy. C) Envy. D) Joy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Envy. 8. V. stirred up; made angry; enraged A) Righteousness. B) Uphold. C) Provoked. D) Congregation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Provoked. 9. In "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, " when Edwards says that "men are held in the hand of God, " he means that A) All human beings can fit into the palm of God's hand. B) God is a kind father. C) The fate of human beings is determined by God. D) God will save everyone. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The fate of human beings is determined by God. 10. 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. 11. A question asked only for effect; expects no answer. A) Rhetorical. B) Aphorism. C) Plain style. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhetorical. 12. Edwards emphasizes that destruction can come at any moment in order to A) Create a sense of urgency and fear so unbelievers repent. B) Encourage the congregation to donate to his cause. C) Persuade the congregation to fast and pray for sinners. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Create a sense of urgency and fear so unbelievers repent. 13. The majority of his works were not published until roughly 200 years after he died. A) Taylor. B) Edwards. C) Bradford. D) Bradstreet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Taylor. 14. What is your work to fun ratio? A) All work, no fun. B) Work hard, play hard-balanced. C) I definitely have more fun, even though I still work. D) LOL What is work? #funfordays. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) All work, no fun. 15. Church attendence was A) Frowned upon. B) Reccomended. C) Manditory. D) Unregulated. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Manditory. 16. Education was stressed for ..... Puritans. A) All. B) Male. C) Female. D) Elite. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) All. 17. In Upon the Burning of Our House, the speaker most closely associates the afterlife with A) A humble dwelling place. B) A richly furnished, fireproof house. C) The ruins of her house. D) A burning house. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A richly furnished, fireproof house. 18. What is your preferred form of government? A) Democracy. B) Dictatorship. C) Government? ! Anarchy!. D) Theocracy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Theocracy. 19. When Bradstreet refers to a "mighty Architect, " whom is she referring to? A) Herself. B) Her father. C) God. D) Her husband. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) God. 20. Puritans separated from the church of ..... A) England. B) Italy. C) America. D) Spain. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) England. 21. Why did Abigail accuse Elizabeth of witchcraft? A) She wants her to burn. B) Elizabeth was never accused. C) She didn't-Ruth did. D) She wants John to herself. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) She wants John to herself. 22. In Olaudah Equiano's narrative, why did Equiano spend most of this time on deck instead of below deck? A) He was too weak to survive below deck. B) He was young and would have been crushed. C) The sailors knew the escape was impossible. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He was too weak to survive below deck. 23. What was the name of the book of Anne Bradstreet's poems? A) "The Twelfth Muse". B) "A Good Puritan Woman". C) "The Goodye Wife". D) "The Tenth Muse". Show Answer Correct Answer: D) "The Tenth Muse". 24. Edwards presents God as a being who A) Is often angry and vengeful. B) Enjoys human suffering and misery. C) Continually redefines the universe. D) Easily forgives repentant sinners. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Is often angry and vengeful. 25. The lines "If ever two were one, then surely we. / If ever man were lov'd by wife, then thee" illustrate the Puritan Plain Style because they A) Rhyme. B) Use simple common words. C) Make references to everyday objects. D) Focus on the love between a man and a woman. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Use simple common words. 26. The repeated use of any element of language, including imagery, sentence structure, transitions, and words. A) Imagery. B) Rhetorical. C) Repetition. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Repetition. 27. Wrote "Of Plymouth Plantation" A) Anne Bradstreet. B) Jonathan Edwards. C) William Bradford. D) Edward Taylor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) William Bradford. 28. In The World on the Turtle's back, the Great Tree is important in the Iroquois' creation myth because the tree's roots A) Provide the earth's plants. B) Show the way to the sea. C) Are home to the earth's birds. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Provide the earth's plants. 29. People who wanted to purify, or change the Church of England were called A) Commoners. B) Pilgrims. C) Separatists. D) Puritans. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Puritans. 30. What does Franklin decide to track and monitor? A) His eating and drinking habits. B) His earnings. C) How closely he follows the moral virtues. D) His relationship with God. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) How closely he follows the moral virtues. 31. If the events in the beginning of the first Act had happened yesterday, which text would Abigail have sent to the other girls in the forest? A) Put your clothes on, quick!. B) Parris sux!. C) Mmmm..chicken blood . D) Any you girls cross me, I'm gonna shank you!. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Any you girls cross me, I'm gonna shank you!. 32. A system of government in which priests/ministers rules in the name of God A) Omnipotent. B) Ethics. C) Hysteria. D) Theocracy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Theocracy. 33. She is not upset about the fire destroying everything, because ..... A) It is all just vanity. B) She has excellent insurance. C) She keeps her valuables elsewhere. D) She didn't like that house anyway. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It is all just vanity. 34. Useful things; products A) Scoffs. B) Calamities. C) Commodities. D) Rogues. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Commodities. 35. Give an example of being self reliant. A) Growing your own food. B) Visiting with your neighbors. C) Not giving in to your wants. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Growing your own food. 36. What type of government did the Puritans have in America? A) Theocracy. B) Dictatorship. C) Republic. D) Democracy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Theocracy. 37. In Olaudah Equiano's narrative, Equiano includes the story of a white man beaten to death because it explains A) His fear of the sailors. B) His belief that the sailors were spirits. C) The sailors' cruelty toward the captives. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) His fear of the sailors. 38. In "Upon the Burning of Our House, " who is the "mighty Architect" ? A) Bradstreet's brother-in-law. B) A kindly Puritan. C) God. D) The man who built Bradstreet's house. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) God. 39. When Bradstreet talks about the "Architect, " who is she actually talking about? A) Herself. B) God. C) Her Husband. D) The Fire. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) God. 40. Which of the following lines is an example inversion? A) "It was his own, it was not mine". B) "And them behold no more shall I". C) "Raise up thy thoughts above the sky". D) "Farewell, my pelf, farewell, my store". Show Answer Correct Answer: B) "And them behold no more shall I". 41. What two pieces of information are needed for an MLA parenthetical citation? A) Title of work & page #. B) Author's last name & year of publication. C) Author's name & title. D) Author's last name & page #. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Author's last name & page #. 42. How does the wife in "To My Dear ..... Husband" want her husband rewarded for his love of her? A) With riches from the East. B) By living forever. C) By going to heaven. D) With mines of gold. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) By going to heaven. 43. A group of English Protestants of the late 16th and 17th centuries who sought to purify the Church of England and simplify and regulate forms of worship. A) Conceit. B) Similes. C) Pilgrims. D) Puritan. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Puritan. 44. Characteristic of Puritan "Plain Style" A) Familiar images. B) Simple Words. C) Direct Statements. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 45. Edwards's vivid descriptions of Hell are meant to A) Frighten his audience. B) Amuse his audience. C) Fascinate his audience. D) Make his audience feel superior. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Frighten his audience. 46. Puritans separated from the ..... A) Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. B) Calvinists. C) Church of God. D) Church of England. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Church of England. 47. In Bradstreet's "Upon the Burning of Our House, July 10th 1666" (p. 140-1), the first thing Bradstreet did upon realizing her home was on fire was ..... A) Call 911. B) Woke her husband. C) Yelled for her neighbors' help. D) Prayed to God. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Prayed to God. 48. In Act I, we learn that Thomas Putnam and Giles Corey have argued over ..... in the past. A) Land borders. B) Religion. C) Money. D) Wives. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Land borders. 49. Which person is considered America's first poet? A) Anne Bradstreet. B) Jonathan Edwards. C) Pocahontas. D) John Smith. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anne Bradstreet. 50. Which of the following could be considered an abolitionist? A) Mary Rowlandson. B) Anne Bradstreet. C) William Bradford. D) Olaudah Equiano. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Olaudah Equiano. 51. Which of the following was NOT a theme found in Puritan literature? A) Salvation. B) Relaxation. C) Piousness. D) Persecution. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Relaxation. 52. "arrow ..... made drunk with your blood" A) Personification. B) Hyperbole. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 53. In "Of the Plymouth Plantation, " what were the major causes of loss of life? A) Animal attack and weather. B) Indian attack and weather. C) Suicide and weather. D) Disease, weather and starvation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Disease, weather and starvation. 54. The best synonym for "abhors" is: A) Misses. B) Despises. C) Adores. D) Pities. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Despises. 55. What contrasting images does Edwards use to describe God's wrath? A) Heat and cold. B) Sunlight and rain. C) Darkness and light. D) Fire and water. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Fire and water. 56. What is the name of the contract that outlined how the Puritans would govern? A) The Mayflower contract. B) The Constitution. C) The Virginia Agreement. D) The Bible Contract. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Mayflower contract. 57. The Puritans tried to live an ..... A) Exciting life. B) Eventful life. C) Equally just life. D) Exemplary life. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Exemplary life. 58. This character tosses burrs at the letter A. A) Roger Chillingworth. B) Mistress Hibbins. C) Hester Prynne. D) Pearl. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pearl. 59. Comparing two unlike things using words such as like, as, than, resembles ..... A) Rhetorical Question. B) Metaphor. C) Antithesis. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 60. " ..... hell opens its mouth wide to receive them ..... " What type of figurative language is the portion in blue? A) Alliteration. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesMovements QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesPuritan Literature Quiz 1Puritan Literature Quiz 2Puritan Literature Quiz 3Puritan Literature Quiz 5 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books