Puritans Test Review

Question 1

On what holiday was Hawthorne born?

Answer 1

4th of July

Question 2

Who was his ancestor that was involved in the Salem Witch Trials?

Answer 2

John Hathorne

Question 3

How did Hawthorne distance himself from his ancestors?

Answer 3

By adding a “W” to his last name

Question 4

What job did he fill at the custom house?

Answer 4

Surveyor

Question 5

What was Brook Farm?

Answer 5

A transcendentalist utopia

Question 6

Brook Farm: “the ________________, anew”

Answer 6

City of God

Question 7

Name 3 beliefs of Brook Farm

Answer 7

Anti-Slavery, Pro-Worker, Pro-Woman

Question 8

Who did Hawthorne marry?

Answer 8

Sophia Peabody

Question 9

Conversations with Hawthorne’s friend, _________, led to the book ____________ being written.

Answer 9

Herman Melville, Moby Dick

Question 10

Franklin Pierce appointed Hawthorne to what position?

Answer 10

US Consul to Liverpool

Question 11

Who were 2 neighbors of Hawthorne?

Answer 11

Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson

Question 12

How did Hawthorne feel about Puritanism?

Answer 12

He thought they were judgmental people and felt cursed by his family’s past.

Question 13

What book did Hawthorne write while living in Rome?

Answer 13

Marble Faun

Question 14

Hawthorne wrote one of the first ___________ novels.

Answer 14

Psychological

Question 15

What genre did Hawthorne help establish?

Answer 15

American Short Story

Question 16

Like Poe, Emerson, and Thoreau, Hawthorne began exploring what topic?

Answer 16

Nature of people (Evil vs. Good)

Question 17

What genre did Hawthorne consider Scarlet Letter to be?

Answer 17

Romance

Question 18

Novel is not colored by the ___________.

Answer 18

Marvelous

Question 19

Novel: “Life seen in the __________”

Answer 19

Sunlight

Question 20

Romance permits _____________________.

Answer 20

A modest use of the marvelous

Question 21

Romance must maintain _________________, meaning it must not swerve too far from the truth.

Answer 21

Verisimilitude

Question 22

Romance: “the familiar seen in the ___________ and warmed slightly by the ____________________.”

Answer 22

Moonlight; light of the fire

Question 23

What word means a public shaming or degradation?

Answer 23

Public humiliation or degradation

Question 24

What scenes form the background of the Scarlet Letter’s plot?

Answer 24

Scaffold

Question 25

Romans crucifying people is an example of a _____________________.

Answer 25

Ignominious death

Question 26

What tem means that although the original effect of a sin is negative, a person, through intense suffering, learns much about him or herself?

Answer 26

Fortunate fall

Question 27

What is a piece of literature where setting, characters, dialogue and objects become symbolic called?

Answer 27

Allegory

Question 28

What does the Forest represent in YGB? What does the town represent? Why is this ironic?

Answer 28

Evil; Good; All are sinners in the town, too. All have been to the forest

Question 29

__________ is the nature of mankind.

Answer 29

Evil

Question 30

Hawthorne leaves the end of YGB ambiguous, saying what?

Answer 30

That Brown might have fallen asleep and just dreamed it.

Question 31

What is the theme of YGB and TMBV?

Answer 31

All are capable of sinning, although we veil our iniquities from the public

Question 32

Young Goodman Brown is furthest from what type of literature?

Answer 32

Realism

Question 33

Name 4 types of nonrealistic literature.

Answer 33

Fantasy, romance, fable, allegory

Question 34

What allegory writers influenced Hawthorne?

Answer 34

Spense and John Bunyan

Question 35

Why do Hawthorne’s allegories contain doubt, ambiguity and slyness?

Answer 35

He doesn’t possess the religious certainty of ancestors necessary for pure allegory.

Question 36

Hawthorne includes “___________________” to help readers choose which way to read it.

Answer 36

Ocular deception

Question 37

Goodman brown experiences ____________________: glee at discovering a scandal as town elders, divines, etc. are present at devil’s meeting

Answer 37

Schadenfreude

Question 38

What sin does Brown become guilty of?

Answer 38

Pride (he feels he is morally superior to others)

Question 39

Who did Anne Bradstreet marry? Their ages?

Answer 39

Simon Bradstreet (he was in her family’s care since his father’s death). He was 25; she 16.

Question 40

What ship did she come to America on?

Answer 40

The Arabella

Question 41

It was one of the first ships to bring _________ from ________ to America

Answer 41

Purtains; England

Question 42

Simon, her husband, took up a career in what?

Answer 42

Politics

Question 43

Who was Bradstreet’s friend, considered to be one of the first feminists in the Puritan society?

Answer 43

Anne Hutchinson

Question 44

What is the belief that the Gospel frees Christians from required obedience to law and that salvation is attained solely through faith and the gift of divine grace called?

Answer 44

Antinomanism

Question 45

Who published Bradstreet’s work?

Answer 45

Her brother-in-law John Woodbridge secretly published it in England without her permission.

Question 46

What did Bradstreet die of?

Answer 46

TB

Question 47

What sexist claim was levied against her?

Answer 47

Some felt her husband wrote her poems, rather than believe that a woman could have written them

Question 48

What theme was Bradstreet’s writing?

Answer 48

Salvation and redemption

Question 49

Bradstreet saw her misfortunes as “________________”

Answer 49

training for salvation

Question 50

Bradstreet perhaps influenced _________________.

Answer 50

Emily Dickinson

Question 51

Where did John Edwards go to college? How old was he?

Answer 51

Yale @ age 13

Question 52

What religious revival swept through American colonies from 1735-1742?

Answer 52

The Great Awakening

Question 53

What did Edwards believe was the essence of religious life?

Answer 53

Grace (believed in predestination; some could be denied grace even though they lived a good life)

Question 54

“God holds you over the pit of Hell,much as one holds a ________ over the fire”

Answer 54

Spider

Question 55

Edwards believed he had God’s grace because of what?

Answer 55

Thunder and lightning no longer scare him.