Practice Quiz: The Colonial Period
Question 11.25 / 1.25 pts
Calvinistic aesthetics suggest that in life as in art, obscurity and complexity should be preferred.
False
Question 21.25 / 1.25 pts
Chesapeake Bay was the first permanent settlement in colonial New England.
False
Question 31.25 / 1.25 pts
Is a pastoralist, or his writing may be described as idyllic or bucolic.
John Smith
Question 41.25 / 1.25 pts
Examples of writers of the colonial period of American literature include the following: Anne Bradstreet
True
Question 51.25 / 1.25 pts
For wee must Consider that wee shall be as a Citty upon a hill. The eies of all people are uppon Us, soe
that if wee shall deale falsely with our god in this worke wee have undertaken, and soe cause Him to
withdrawe his present help from us, wee shall be made a story and a by-word through the world.
According to the excerpt, what will the consequences be for dealing falsely with God?
God will abandon and punish them
Question 61.25 / 1.25 pts
Anne Bradstreet wrote during the period of the American Renaissance.
False
Question 71.25 / 1.25 pts
Michael Wigglesworth established the Indian Captivity Narrative
False
Question 81.25 / 1.25 pts
1850 was the year the first English settlement was established
False
Question 111.25 / 1.25 pts
"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" uses the Ministerial Three Method.
True
Question 101.25 / 1.25 pts
1775 was the year the permanent settlement in New England was established
False
Question 91.25 / 1.25 pts
Thus stands the cause betweene God and us. We are entered into Covenant with Him for this worke.
Wee have taken out a Commission. The Lord hath given us leave to drawe our own articles. Wee have
professed to enterprise these Actions, upon these and those accounts, upon these and those ends, wee
have hereupon besought Him of favour and blessing. Now if the Lord shall please to heare us, and bring
us in peace to the place wee desire, then hath hee ratified this Covenant and sealed our Commission,
[and] will expect a strict performance of the Articles contained in it; but if wee shall neglect the
observation of these Articles which are the ends wee have propounded, and, dissembling with our God,
shall fall to embrace this present world and prosecute our carnall intentions, seekeing greate things for
ourselves and our posterity, the Lord will surely breake out in wrathe against us; be revenged of such a
perjured people and make us knowe the price of the breache of such a covenant. This is an excerpt
from_________
"A Model of Christian Charity"
Question 141.25 / 1.25 pts
Another name for the Pilgrims is Separatists.
True
Question 151.25 / 1.25 pts
Author of meditative poem titled "Contemplations."
Anne Bradstreet
Question 161.25 / 1.25 pts
John Winthrop established the Indian Captivity Narrative
False
Question 131.25 / 1.25 pts
Authored a narrative documenting the Pilgrims' pilgrimage to the New World
William Bradford
Question 121.25 / 1.25 pts
Alliterations such as "Root and rise"; "Bloody and barbarous"; "Fain and flee" appear in this author’s
work.
William Bradford
