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Puritans Test Review Flashcards

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1
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On what holiday was Hawthorne born?

A

4th of July

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

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John Hathorne

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3
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How did Hawthorne distance himself from his ancestors?

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By adding a “W” to his last name

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4
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What job did he fill at the custom house?

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Surveyor

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5
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What was Brook Farm?

A

A transcendentalist utopia

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6
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Brook Farm: “the ________________, anew”

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City of God

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7
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Name 3 beliefs of Brook Farm

A

Anti-Slavery, Pro-Worker, Pro-Woman

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8
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Who did Hawthorne marry?

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Sophia Peabody

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9
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Conversations with Hawthorne’s friend, _________, led to the book ____________ being written.

A

Herman Melville, Moby Dick

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10
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Franklin Pierce appointed Hawthorne to what position?

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US Consul to Liverpool

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Who were 2 neighbors of Hawthorne?

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Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson

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12
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How did Hawthorne feel about Puritanism?

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

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13
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What book did Hawthorne write while living in Rome?

A

Marble Faun

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14
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Hawthorne wrote one of the first ___________ novels.

A

Psychological

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15
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What genre did Hawthorne help establish?

A

American Short Story

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

A

Nature of people (Evil vs. Good)

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17
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What genre did Hawthorne consider Scarlet Letter to be?

A

Romance

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18
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Novel is not colored by the ___________.

A

Marvelous

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19
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Novel: “Life seen in the __________”

A

Sunlight

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20
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Romance permits _____________________.

A

A modest use of the marvelous

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21
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Romance must maintain _________________, meaning it must not swerve too far from the truth.

A

Verisimilitude

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22
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Romance: “the familiar seen in the ___________ and warmed slightly by the ____________________.”

A

Moonlight; light of the fire

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23
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What word means a public shaming or degradation?

A

Public humiliation or degradation

24
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What scenes form the background of the Scarlet Letter’s plot?

A

Scaffold

25
Q

Romans crucifying people is an example of a _____________________.

A

Ignominious death

26
Q

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

A

Fortunate fall

27
Q

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

A

Allegory

28
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What does the Forest represent in YGB? What does the town represent? Why is this ironic?

A

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

29
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__________ is the nature of mankind.

A

Evil

30
Q

Hawthorne leaves the end of YGB ambiguous, saying what?

A

That Brown might have fallen asleep and just dreamed it.

31
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What is the theme of YGB and TMBV?

A

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

32
Q

Young Goodman Brown is furthest from what type of literature?

A

Realism

33
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Name 4 types of nonrealistic literature.

A

Fantasy, romance, fable, allegory

34
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What allegory writers influenced Hawthorne?

A

Spense and John Bunyan

35
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Why do Hawthorne’s allegories contain doubt, ambiguity and slyness?

A

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

36
Q

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

A

Ocular deception

37
Q

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

A

Schadenfreude

38
Q

What sin does Brown become guilty of?

A

Pride (he feels he is morally superior to others)

39
Q

Who did Anne Bradstreet marry? Their ages?

A

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

40
Q

What ship did she come to America on?

A

The Arabella

41
Q

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

A

Purtains; England

42
Q

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

A

Politics

43
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Who was Bradstreet’s friend, considered to be one of the first feminists in the Puritan society?

A

Anne Hutchinson

44
Q

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?

A

Antinomanism

45
Q

Who published Bradstreet’s work?

A

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

46
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What did Bradstreet die of?

A

TB

47
Q

What sexist claim was levied against her?

A

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

48
Q

What theme was Bradstreet’s writing?

A

Salvation and redemption

49
Q

Bradstreet saw her misfortunes as “________________”

A

training for salvation

50
Q

Bradstreet perhaps influenced _________________.

A

Emily Dickinson

51
Q

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

A

Yale @ age 13

52
Q

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

A

The Great Awakening

53
Q

What did Edwards believe was the essence of religious life?

A

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

54
Q

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

A

Spider

55
Q

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

A

Thunder and lightning no longer scare him.

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