ENGL 201 Colonial Period Quiz

ENGL 201 Colonial Period Quiz

ENGL 201 Quiz The Colonial Period

Covers the Learn material from Module 2: Week 2 — Module 3: Week 3.

1. This famous sermon was preached to a rural congregation at Eneld, Connecticut.
2. John Winthrop deemed the “calling” of men in Colonial New England as attending to “household affairs and such things as belong to women.”
3. Cotton Mather called this author the “American Nehemiah”:
4. 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. “Citty upon a hill” is an allusion to_
5. You are reading a poem entitled “The Day of Doom” and you think a Puritan might have written it during the colonial period of American Literature. Its publication date of about 1662 might help you conrm that a Puritan indeed wrote it during the colonial period.
6. Authored Of Plimoth Plantation
7. 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.
   In this poem, the poet offers
8. Examples of writers of the colonial period of American literature include the following: Anne Bradstreet and Jonathan Edwards
9. Documents conicts with Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson.
10. 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.
    A synonym for Pilgrim is
11. Which of the following poem by Edward Taylor thematizes God choosing the “elect” and the conicts the elect go through?
12. Which of the following poems by Edward Taylor thematizes the day of judgement, when body and soul become “two true lovers”?
13. In his writings, Captain John Smith portrayed English North America as a land of endless bounty.
14. “City [set] upon a hill” is a metaphor that appears in
15. Example(s) of doctrines of Puritanism and Calvinism thematized in the literature of the colonial include the following:
16. You are reading a poem entitled “The Day of Doom” and you think a Puritan might have written it during the colonial period of American Literature. The religious theme and salvic message of the poem might help you determine that a Puritan indeed wrote it during the colonial period.
17. Says “reprobate infants” would be cast into the “easiest room in hell.”
18. Authored what many describe as the first colonial American “best-seller,” because 1800 copies were sold during first year.
19. Cotton Mather considered Michael Wigglesworth’s poetry as “grateful entertainments unto the ingenious.”
20. Says “There is nothing that keeps wicked men, at any one moment, out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God.”
21. The narrative of this author describes the wanderings, struggles, and triumphs of his group.
22. 1785 was the year the permanent settlement in New England was established.
23. Gave the sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”
24. Which of the following poem by Edward Taylor thematizes victory over death?
25. Examples of writers of the colonial period of American literature include the following: William Cullen Bryant and Jonathan Edwards
26. The “Greatest” American poet before the C19th.
27. Therefore lett us choose life, that wee and our seede may live by obeying his voyce and cleaveing to him, for hee is our life and our prosperity. What is the setting of this sermon?
28. The following is a genre of American literature of the colonial period: exploration literature
29. In his Of Plimoth Plantation, William Bradford for the fertile land, year-round supply of fish, and gold mines and silver found in the New World.
30. The first permanent English settlement was established at Jamestown.
31. Authored the poem “The Flesh and the Spirit”
32. Examples of writers of the colonial period of American literature include the following: Anne Bradstreet and Phillis Wheatley
33. The reputation of this author is the first woman to be acknowledged as a skillful New World poet:
34. 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
35. Edward Taylor authored The General History of VA & N. England
36. Cotton Mather considered this author’s poetry as “grateful entertainments unto the ingenious.”
37. Examples of writers of the colonial period of American literature include the following: William Bradford and Edward Taylor.
38. Which of the following ancient myth(s) does Captain John Smith appropriate or draw upon to portray a paradisiacal image of the New World?
39. Ancestors of this author came to New England during Great Migration.
40. 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 ratied 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…ratied this Covenant”?