Puritans

Which of the following states is not considered part of New England?

New York

The Puritan settlers of New England originated within which denomination?

Anglican (Church of England)

Calvinism refers to those chosen for salvation as

the elect

John Winthrop was

long-time governor of Massachusetts

According to Calvinism, Christ's death takes away the sin of

only those predestined for salvation

Which of the following occurs FIRST in the history of the American colonies?

Jamestown is founded in Virginia

According to John Cotton's sermon "God's Promise To His Plantation," God makes room for a people in all of the following ways EXCEPT

devastating the land with natural disasters (NOT making the land vacant, casting out the enemies of the people by lawful war, or allowing newcomers to fairly purchase the land)

Which moral law does Winthrop propose as the most important?

love thy neighbor as thyself

In "A Model Of Christian Charity" Winthrop argues God creates some people rich and others poor, some powerful and others powerless, for all of the following reasons EXCEPT

some people must be born into slavery and misery in order to fulfill Biblical prophecies (NOT so that the rich and poor may have occasion to exercise charity and service toward one another, so mankind reflects the variety evident in all of God's creation, or that God's spirit may be seen in the good qualities of both the powerful (mercy, gentleness) and the powerless (patience, obedience))

According to "A Model of Christian Charity," what rule must lenders observe in forgiving a debt the borrower cannot repay?

forgive the debt (NOT Have faith in the legal process to resolve the issue, as it is based upon the rule of God, Help the debtor earn the money to repay the debt, or Pray for the soul of the debtor and count on God to repay the debt.)

According to Winthrop, what is the ligament that binds together the body of Christ and the Church?

Love

According to tradition, John Winthrop delivers the sermon "A Model of Christian Charity"

aboard the ship the Arbella to the soon-to-be settlers of Massachusetts.

Which of the following was settled first?

Jamestown

Which of the following elements of the American character is LEAST directly descended from the Puritans?

Rugged Individualism (NOT America as the Promised Land, Protestant work ethic, or City on a Hill)

The Mayflower Compact declares that the Puritan settlers are all of the following EXCEPT

founding an independent nation (NOT bound together in a common society, loyal subjects of the King of England, or Christians)

What form of government do the Puritan settlers initially establish for themselves in the New World?

theocracy

Which of the following do Calvinists believe best represents the Word of God?

the text of the Bible

Which of the following is NOT executed for his beliefs?

Plato (NOT John Proctor, Jesus, or Socrates)

Which of the following is incorrectly matched to the form of government in which he lived?

Issac: Monarchy (NOT Abraham : patriarchy, Rev. Parris : theocracy, or Socrates : democracy)

In The Crucible which of the following is the first to be accused of witchcraft?

Tituba

Which of the following characters in The Crucible is NOT guilty of the crime?

Mary Warren : attempting to kill Abigail with a cursed doll (NOT Abigail Williams : casting a spell to kill John Proctor's wife, Ruth Putnam : attempting to summon the souls of her deceased siblings, or John Proctor: adultery)

Which best describes Rev Hale's development over the course of the play?

Initially an enthusiastic demon hunter, he soon comes to doubt the accusers

All of the following survive the Salem Witch Trials EXCEPT

Giles Corey (NOT Rev Parris, Judge Hathorne, or Ann Putnam)

Which Salem family is the most prosperous and powerful?

The Putnams

All of the following are true of Abigail Williams in The Crucible EXCEPT

She admits to Judge Danforth that the girls were lying (NOT She saw her parents murdered when she was a child, She steals her uncle's money and escapes Salem before the trials conclude, or She threatens the girls who were in the woods with her on the night they were caught.)

In The Crucible who is executed for reading "strange books"?

Martha Corey

In what year did the Salem Witch Trials occur?

1692

What is the fate of Giles Corey?

He is pressed to death under heavy rocks.

Who says the following in The Crucible?: "You must understand, sir, that a person is either with this court or he must be counted against it, there be no road between. This is a sharp time, now, a precise time - we live no longer in the dusky afternoon when evil mixed itself with good and befuddled the world. Now, by God's grace, the shining sun is up, and them that fear not light will surely praise it."

Danforth

Which of the following is NOT a complaint Rev Parris has of his congregation?

They are hypocritical, boiling in lust (NOT They do not pay him his promised salary and allotment of firewood, You Answered They are stubborn and do not take instruction, or They have formed a faction to undermine his authority.)

What characteristic do the first few people accused in the Salem Witch Trials have in common?

They are all women

Which of the following is not one of the accusers in The Crucible?

Sarah Good

According to Arthur Miller, author of The Crucible, which best describes the attitude of the New England Puritans toward Nature?

It is a dark and evil place, the stronghold of the Devil.

Which character in The Crucible is INCORRECTLY matched to the institutional power he represents?

Hathorne: the physical power of the military (NOT Danforth: the legal power of the state, Parris: the spiritual power church, or Putnam : the power of monetary wealth)

Which character in The Crucible offers the following wise advice?:
"A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back."

Rebecca Nurse

Which of the following Bible characters most closely resembles Rev Parris in The Crucible?

Saul, the failed king (NOT Abraham, the great patriarch, Jacob, the trickster, or Jesus, the teacher)

In "God's Promise To His Plantation" John Cotton exhorts the Puritan colonists to do which of the following to the "poore Natives" of the New World?

"...make them partakers of your precious faith..." (NOT "...defeat or destroy them as Joshua destroyed Jericho.", "...learn from them for even the heathen hath a lesson to teach.", or "...fear their might for it is their land and they know it well.")

Winthrop uses all of the following Biblical characters as examples of love EXCEPT

Cain and Abel (NOT Adam and Eve, Jonathan and David, or Naomi and Ruth

Which of the following occurred or was delivered LAST?

the Salem Witch Trials (NOT "A Model Of Christian Charity", the Mayflower Compact, or "God's Promise To His Plantation")

According to "A Model Of Christian Charity" Christians love one another because

each discerns in the other the image of himself (NOT they are predestined to do so, loving one another is one of the Ten Commandments, or refusing to do so will condemn them to Hell)

Which was the first poet of the New World whose work was widely admired by the intellectual class of England?

Anne Bradstreet

Which of the following was a key figure in the foundation of the English colonies in Virginia?

John Rolfe (NOT Simon Bradstreet, Increase Mather, or William Bradford)

Which of the following historical events inspired Arthur Miller to write The Crucible?

Sen McCarthy and the Red Scare

According to author Sarah Vowell, the Puritan settlers of New England believed all of the following about themselves EXCEPT

each person must answer to the voice he hears in his own head (God is all-powerful and everything that happens is because God wants it to happen, everyone's station in life and their afterlife is all predetermined by God, or sense of wrath and fear of failure and failing their God)

The concept of a "city on a hill" appears explicitly in all of the following EXCEPT

The Crucible (the speeches of President Ronald Reagan, "A Model Of Christian Charity", the Gospel of Matthew)

All of the following are in some way expelled from or punished by their Puritan New England societies EXCEPT

Anne Bradstreet (NOT Giles Corey, or Anne Hutchinson, or Roger Williams)

According to author Sarah Vowell which of the following is a Puritan idea about wealth and economy?

God has decided what kind of life you'll have and some of you are not going to be rich.

Which of the following lines is spoken by Elizabeth Proctor in The Crucible?

"I counted myself so plain, so poorly made, no honest love could come to me! Suspicion kissed you when I did!"

According to court records of the Salem Witch Trials how old was Abigail Williams at the time of the crying out?

11

What are the last words of Giles Corey?

"More Weight"