AML3031 - American Literature I (Quiz 1)

According to the video, the Puritans believed they were the "New Christians."

False

(Exp: They believed they were the "New Israelites" [see the 8:00 mark])

According to the scholars in the "Utopian Promises" video, what is significant about Winthrop's use of the "ship" metaphor?

The fact that he gives the sermon while aboard a ship; it emphasizes to his audience how dangerous is their mission and why they must put their trust in God

(Exp: [Utopian Promises: 6:40-7:15])

According to the "Utopian Promises" video, Puritan and Quaker writing:

Shared a love of the "plain" style; they believed it was a more "Godly" way of writing

(Exp: [Utopian Promises: 3:15-3:25)

According to the video, the Puritans dominated New England for nearly 70 years.

True

(Exp: [Utopian Promises: 5:00 mark)

According to the video, the Puritans believed they were "reliving" the Biblical narrative.

True

(Exp: [Utopian Promises: 9:06-9:30 mark)

According to the "Utopian Promises" video, typology is:

The use of Biblical scripture as a way to understand their experiences and to "predict" future events.

(Exp: [Utopian Promises: 8:40-9:33 mark)

Why did Williams initially write his "key into the language"?

As a memory aid

(Exp: "I drew the Materialls in a rude lumpe at Sea, as a private helpe to my owne memory, that I might not by my present absence lightly lose what I had so dearely bought in some few yeares hardship and charges among the Barbarians; yet being reminded by some, what pitie it were to bury those Materialls in my Grave at land or Sea;
and withall, remembring how oft I have been importun'd by worthy friends of all sorts, to afford them some helps this way.")

What is Williams's hope for this "key"?

That it might "unlock" more knowledge about the Native Americans and their way of life

(Exp: He hopes that it "happily may unlock some Rarities concerning the Natives themselves, not yet discovered.")

"The Bloody Tenet": Williams argues that a person cannot say they are true followers of Christ if they are willing to persecute people who are acting in accordance with a cause of conscience.

True

(Exp: "Whether thou standest charged with ten or but two talents, if thou huntest any for cause of conscience, how canst thou say thou followest the Lamb of God, who so abhorred that practice?")

"A Letter to the Town of Providence": What is Roger Williams's point in the example of the ship filled with people from diverse backgrounds?

That none should be forced to participate in religious practices they don't agree with

According to Winthrop, how can the Puritans achieve the "counsel of Micah"?

By working together as one unit

(Exp: He says:  "Now the only way to avoid this shipwreck, and to provide for our posterity, is to follow the counsel of Micah, to do justly, to love mercy, to walk humbly with our God.  For this end, we must be knit together in this work as one man."

As seen in your open-access pdf:

“Now the onely way to avoyde this shipwracke, and to provide for our posterity, is to followe the counsell of Micah, to doe justly, to love mercy, to walk humbly with our God. For this end, wee must be knitt together, in this worke, as one man.”)

Winthrop offers two sets of "rules" and "laws" that we should observe or be regulated by.  Which of the following does he NOT include?  Choose two:

• Preservation of future generations

• An eye for an eye

What "conclusion" does Winthrop draw in Part I of his "A Model of Christian Charity"?

That love and community within their ranks is integral to their survival

How would you describe Winthrop's style in "A Model of Christian Charity"?

It reads like a legal argument, with objections, questions, and answers

In "The General History," John Smith writes about himself in the third person.

True

According to Cabeza de Vaca, what is his remaining duty?

To transmit, or describe, what he saw and experienced during his time as a captive

(Exp: “To me, one only duty remains, to present a relation of what was seen and heard in the ten years I wandered lost and in privation through many and remote lands.”)

What gift does John Smith share with his captors that leave them "amazed with admiration"?

A compass

(Exp: “He demanding for their Captaine, they shewed him Opechanka∣nough, King of Pamavnkee, to whom he ga[v]e a round Ivory double compass D[i]al. Much they marvailed at the playing of the Fly and Needle, which they could see so plainely, and yet not touch it, because of the glasse that covered them. But when he demonstrated by that Globe-like [J]ewell, the roundnesse of the earth and skies, the spheare of the Sunne, Moone, and Starres, and how the Sunne did chase the night round about the world continually; the greatnesse of the Land and Sea, the diversi∣tie of Nations, varietie of complexions, and how we were to them Antipodes, and many other such like matters, they all stood as amazed with admiration.”)

John Smith uses his guide as a human shield.

True

(Exp: “Salvages, two of them hee slew, still defending himselfe with the ayd of a Salvage his guid[e], whom he bound to his arme with his garters, and [u]sed him as a buckler, yet he was shot in his thigh a little, and had many arrowes that stucke in his cloathes but no great hurt, till at last they tooke him prisoner.”)

According to Cabeza de Vaca, he could not convince the Indians that he came from the same background as the Christian slavers.

True

(Exp: "Finally, we never could convince the Indians that we belonged to the other Christians, and only with much trouble and insistency could we prevail upon them to go home.")

According to John Smith, he set the colonists to work, but he always took the greatest tasks for himself.

True

(Exp: “The new President and Martin, being little beloved, of weake iudgement in dangers, and lesse industr[y] in peace, committed the managing of all things abroad to Captaine Smith: who by his owne example, good words, and faire promises, set some to mow, others to binde thatch, some to build houses, others to thatch them, himselfe alwayes bearing the greatest taske for his owne share, so that in short time, he provided most of them lodgings, neglecting any for himselfe.”)