Captain John Smith authored A Description of New England (1616)
*True
False
Question 2
2 / 2 pts
Thou ill-form’d offspring of my feeble brain,
Who after birth didst by my side remain,
Till snatched from thence by friends, less wise than true,
Who thee abroad, expos’d to publick view,
Made thee in raggs, halting to th’ press to trudge,
Where errors were not lessened (all may judg).
At thy return my blushing was not small,
My rambling brat (in print) should mother call,
In this excerpt, the poet or speaker refers to the poem as _________
The poet’s or speaker’s wife
The poet’s or speaker’s husband
*The poet’s or speaker’s child
The poet’s or speaker’s sibling
Question 3
2 / 2 pts
The following is a genre of American literature of the colonial period: travel accounts
*True
False
Question 4
2 / 2 pts
The following is a genre of American literature of the colonial period: sermons
*True
False
Question 5
2 / 2 pts
Michael Wigglesworth’s “The Day of Doom” expresses the theme of poetic inadequacy.
True
*False
Question 6
2 / 2 pts
Refers to himself as a “crumb of dust.”
William Bradford
John Smith
Anne Bradstreet
John Winthrop
Michael Wigglesworth
* Edward Taylor
Jonathan Edwards
Question 7
2 / 2 pts
This colonial American poet alludes to classical myths such as Neptune, Calliopes, Phoebus, and Thetis:
Michael Wigglesworth
*Anne Bradstreet
Edward Taylor
Margaret Tyndal
IncorrectQuestion 8
0 / 2 pts
The following is one of the earliest examples of a Puritan sermon:
"A Model of Christian Charity"
“Of Plimoth Plantation”
*“A True Relation”
“The Tenth Muse”
IncorrectQuestion 9
0 / 2 pts
Authored what many describe as the first colonial American "best-seller," because 1800 copies were sold
during first year.
* Captain John Smith
Michael Wigglesworth
John Winthrop
William Bradford
Question 10
2 / 2 pts
Wrote A faithful Narrative of the Surprising Work of God …in Northampton to describe revival.
Edward Taylor
Anne Bradstreet
*Jonathan Edwards
Michael Wigglesworth
Question 11
2 / 2 pts
This author claimed to have seen God’s “dreadful of judgement” in a dream.
Edward Taylor
William Bradford
*Michael Wigglesworth
John Winthrop
Question 12
2 / 2 pts
Authored the poem titled "The Author to Her Book."
Michael Wigglesworth
*Anne Bradstreet
Jonathan Edwards
Edward Taylor
Question 13
2 / 2 pts
Perceives the American wilderness as "hideous and desolate," full of "wild beasts and wild men"
*William Bradford
John Smith
Anne Bradstreet
John Winthrop
Michael Wigglesworth
Edward Taylor
Jonathan Edwards
Question 14
2 / 2 pts
One theme found in the works of Captain John Smith is new lands, new people.
*True
False
Question 15
2 / 2 pts
Gave the sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"
Edward Taylor
John Winthrop
*Jonathan Edwards
Michael Wigglesworth
Question 16
2 / 2 pts
This author’s work was deposited in old South church in 1728:
* William Bradford
Edward Taylor
John Winthrop
Jonathan Edwards
Question 17
2 / 2 pts
From my years young in days of youth,
God did make known to me this truth,
And call’d me from my native place
For to enjoy the means of grace.
In wilderness he did me guide,
And in strange lands for me provide,
In fears and wants, through weal and woe,
A Pilgrim passed I to and fro.
This poem was written by_________
John Winthrop
Anne Bradstreet
*William Bradford
Michael Wigglesworth
Question 18
2 / 2 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. According to this
excerpt, what will be evidence that God “hath…ratified this Covenant”?
If He showed them the “worke” He has called them to do
If He seals it with thunder
* If He brings them to the New World in peace
If a son is born to one of them that day
Question 19
2 / 2 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 excerpt is taken
from_________
"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"
*"A Model of Christian Charity"
“The Eagle Stirreth it Wings”
"Of Plimoth Plantation"
Question 20
2 / 2 pts
From my years young in days of youth,
God did make known to me this truth,
And call’d me from my native place
For to enjoy the means of grace.
In wilderness he did me guide,
And in strange lands for me provide,
In fears and wants, through weal and woe,
A Pilgrim passed I to and fro.
The poem alludes to the journey _________
*Of the Pilgrims from England to the New World
By Christopher Columbus to the New World
From Africa to the New World
Jamestown to England
Question 21
2 / 2 pts
The following are genres of American literature of the colonial period: historical and descriptive
accounts.
*True
False
Question 22
2 / 2 pts
In his writings, Captain John Smith portrayed English North America as a land of endless bounty.
* True
False
Question 23
2 / 2 pts
Captain John Smith depicts the New World as a paradise.
*True
False
Question 24
2 / 2 pts
Example(s) of doctrines of Puritanism and Calvinism thematized in the literature of the colonial include
the following:
Total depravity
Predestined election
Limited atonement
*All the above
Question 25
2 / 2 pts
And first of the occasion and inducements thereunto; the which that I may truly unfould, I must begine
at the very roote & rise of the same. The which I shall endevor to manefest in a plaine stile, with singuler
regard unto the simple truth in all things, at least as near as my slender judgmente can attaine the same.
The phrase “roote & rise” is an example of ______
simile
*doublet
metonym
synonym
IncorrectQuestion 26
0 / 2 pts
John Winthrop deemed the “calling” of women in Colonial New England as attending to “household
affairs and such things as belong to women.”
True
*False
Question 27
2 / 2 pts
The text of this famous sermon is "Their feet shall slide in due time."
*"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"
"A Model of Christian Charity"
“The Eagle Stirreth it Wings”
"A Fig for Thee oh! Death"
Question 28
2 / 2 pts
Unlike Captain John Smith who depicted the New World as a land of opportunity, this author rather
portrayed it as a land of spiritual testing.
Jonathan Edwards
Edward Taylor
John Winthrop
*William Bradford
Question 29
2 / 2 pts
Which of the following ancient myth(s) does Captain John Smith appropriate or draw upon to portray a
paradisiacal image of the New World?
Atlantis, see Plato's Timaeus and Critias
The Fortunate Isles, described in the voyage of St. Brendan
The enchanted garden of Renaissance literature
*All the above
Question 30
2 / 2 pts
Captain John Smith’s motives for writing included economic reasons such as employment without taxes
and fines; and acquisition of property and wealth;
*True
False
Question 31
2 / 2 pts
Both Captain John Smith and William Bradford draw on the idea that America is for hardworking people.
*True
False
Question 32
2 / 2 pts
In his works, Captain John Smith appropriates ancient stories that blend myth and historical fact and
adopts the long tradition of exaggerated exploration reports.
* True
False
Question 33
2 / 2 pts
Says "reprobate infants" would be cast into the "easiest room in hell."
William Bradford
John Smith
Anne Bradstreet
John Winthrop
* Michael Wigglesworth
Edward Taylor
Jonathan Edwards
Question 34
2 / 2 pts
In the moneth of Aprill, 1614. with two Ships from London, of a few Marchants, I chanced to arriue in
New-England, a parte of Ameryca, at the Ile of Monahiggan, in 43 1/2 of Northerly latitude: our plot was
there to take Whales and make tryalls of a Myne of Gold and Copper. According to this excerpt, in what
season did the speaker arrive in Ameryca?
*Spring
Winter
Summer
Autumn
Question 35
2 / 2 pts
Cotton Mather considered Michael Wigglesworth’s poetry as “grateful entertainments unto the
ingenious.”
True
*False
Question 36
2 / 2 pts
Both Anne Bradstreet and Edward Taylor used disparaging expressions of poetic failure.
*True
False
IncorrectQuestion 37
0 / 2 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. The
phrase “a Citty upon a hill” means that _________
*their city will be on highest mountain
they will be the light of the world
their city will be like Babylon
God will fortify their city
Question 38
2 / 2 pts
This famous sermon was preached to a rural congregation at Enfield, Connecticut.
* "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"
"A Model of Christian Charity"
“The Eagle Stirreth it Wings”
"A Fig for Thee oh! Death"
IncorrectQuestion 39
0 / 2 pts
This writer instructed his heirs never to publish his poetry.
Michael Wigglesworth
Edward Taylor
Jonathan Edwards
*Anne Bradstreet
Question 40
2 / 2 pts
In the moneth of Aprill, 1614. with two Ships from London, of a few Marchants, I chanced to arriue in
New-England, a parte of Ameryca, at the Ile of Monahiggan, in 43 1/2 of Northerly latitude: our plot was
there to take Whales and make tryalls of a Myne of Gold and Copper. In this excerpt, what motive for
travel is announced by the speaker?
* Economic
Religious
Political
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