This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Movements > Puritan > Puritan Literature – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Puritan Literature Quiz 1 (20 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) Herself. B) God. C) Their home's builder. D) The Fire. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) God. 2. Deliberate exaggeration to emphasize a point A) Hyperbole. B) Antithesis. C) Rhetorical Question. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 3. Why does Elizabeth want John to go to Salem? A) To buy George Jacob's heifer. B) To prove her innocence. C) To confess he used witchcraft. D) To say that Abigail told him the girls are lying. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To say that Abigail told him the girls are lying. 4. John Smith wrote which text? A) From the General History of Virginia . B) My Sweet Pocahontas. C) Of Plymouth Plantation. D) The Mayflower Contract. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) From the General History of Virginia . 5. The Native Princess, Pocahontas, was from which tribe? A) Iroquois. B) Navajo. 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. Induce A) Hateful and detestable. B) To succeed in persuading someone to do something. C) To bring peace and calm. D) Dealing with labor and pain. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To succeed in persuading someone to do something. 10. For Puritans, life revolved around ..... A) Church. B) Scandal. C) Government. D) CS:GO. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Church. 11. 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. 12. Steadfast; strong; faithful A) Blatent. B) Obstinate. C) Rogue. D) Staunch. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Staunch. 13. The word recompense means A) Repayment; something given or done in return for something else. B) Happiness; bliss. C) Foolishness. D) Wealth. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repayment; something given or done in return for something else. 14. Puritans believed in which of the following? A) Predestination. B) Foreordination. C) Reincarnation. D) Socialism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Predestination. 15. 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. 16. What is the central message of Edwards' sermon? A) There is no hope for salvation. B) The only hope for salvation is through good deeds. C) Sinners can save their souls by praying. D) The only hope for salvation is through Christian rebirth. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The only hope for salvation is through Christian rebirth. 17. 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. 18. The study of the nature of God A) Predestination. B) Theology. C) Hysteria. D) Conform. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Theology. 19. 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. 20. Plan or scheme A) Contrivance. B) Appease. C) Inconceivable. D) Succor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Contrivance. Next →Related QuizzesMovements QuizzesPuritan Literature Quiz 2Puritan Literature Quiz 3Puritan Literature Quiz 4Puritan Literature Quiz 5Puritan Literature Quiz 6Puritan Literature Quiz 7Puritan Literature Quiz 8Puritan Literature Quiz 9Puritan Literature Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books