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Semester 1 Exam Flashcards

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Sepulchre

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Noun: burial chamber

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Congenial

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Adjective: naturally suited

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Inauspicious

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Adjective: having unfavorable prospects

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Augur

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Verb: to foretell from omens

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Betoken

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Verb: to signal

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Antinomian

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Noun: one who believes salvation requires only faith in God

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Heterodox

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Adjective: having opinions that oppose the church

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Interpose

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Verb: to interject or interrupt

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Abashed

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Adjective: embarrassed

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Evanescent

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Adjective: momentary

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Ignominy

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Noun: disgrace

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Rankle

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Verb: irritate or inflame

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Mien

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Noun: characteristics expressive of attitude

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Contumely

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Noun: harsh language or treatment

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Progenitor

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Noun: direct ancestor

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Sumptuary

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Adjective: relating to laws that control personal behavior

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Emolument

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Noun: payment for a service

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Ascetic

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Adjective: self-denying

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Succor

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Verb: to give or offer relief

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Exhortation

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Noun: persuasive verbal attempt to urge people to take action

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Contumaciously

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Adverb: disobediently

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Phantasmagoric

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Adjective: surreal

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Abate

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Verb: to decrease

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Intervolution

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Noun: a coil or spring

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Peccadillo

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Noun: a small sin or fault

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Peccant

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Adjective: violating a moral law

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Malinger

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Verb: to pretend to be sick

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Malaise

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Noun: a sense of unease

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Jocose

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Adjective: cheerful

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Fete

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Verb: to honor with a banquet

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Bacchic

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Adjective: of or related to a wild celebration

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Plaintive

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Adjective: sorrowful

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Plaint

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Noun: complaint

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Elegiac

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Adjective: mourning that which is lost

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Somnolent

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Adjective: drowsy

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Quittance

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Noun: repayment

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When did Puritans emerge from the Church of England

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Mid-1500s

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Whose theology did the Puritans share

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John Calvin

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When did Puritanism decline in England

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circa 1660

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When did the Puritans settle their various American colonies

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Plymouth: 1620s

Massachusetts Bay, Connecticut, and Rhode Island: 1630s

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What was the Puritans’ goal for their culture

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To cleanse it of corrupt, sinful practices

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What was the role of civil government in peoples’ lives

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Strictly enforce public morality

43
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To whom was membership in the Church limited

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The “visibly godly” or elect

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How did one come to be considered elect

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Testify to their conversion experience and be deemed worthy by the other members of the church

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Who had to go to church

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Everyone

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How did Puritans see God’s role in their lives

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They believed in predestination, so they thought he had had a plan for each individual person from the beginning of time, and had already chosen the elect before any of them had even been born

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How were the elect supposed to live their lives

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With a continued sense of doubt in their own election, continually examining their evidence and living the most virtuous life possible

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How did John Calvin view good works

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As the effect of election, not the cause

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Why did Puritans believe in predestination

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It gave them a sense of order and meaning in their lives

50
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When did the Salem witch trials occur

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February 1692-May 1693

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How many people died as a result of the Salem witch trials

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20, in addition to the 12 who had been executed for witchcraft earlier in the century

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Who was John Hathorne and how is he connected to the Scarlet Letter

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Hathorne was one of the main judges of the Salem witch trials, and unlike the other judge never repented his actions. He was Nathaniel Hawthorne’s direct ancestor, and Hawthorne may have changed the spelling of his name to distance himself from the judge

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Briefly explain the story of Plato’s Allegory of the Cave

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~A group of people are born and raised in a cave facing a wall, never able to turn and see the opening
~Other people move mannequins behind them, casting shadows on the cave wall
~If the people are allowed to turn around they can see the mannequins, but they can never see the real living things the mannequins represent

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Briefly explain the meaning behind Plato’s allegory of the cave

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~There are perfect forms in heaven of what humans call Justice, Freedom, etc.
~Humans see shadows of the forms, which is what they are talking about when they use the words “Justice” and “Freedom”
~Philosophers can tell the difference between the shadows and the real forms and get closer to reality through meditation

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Briefly describe the diagram for Plato’s allegory of the cave

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A right triangle with an eye (humans) on the bottom left, shadows of the forms on the right, and True Forms/Ideals on the top.
~Arrow between eye and shadows “What humans see”
~Arrow between shadows and Forms “philosophers know the difference”
~Arrow between eye and Forms “Through meditation humans can get closer”

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Huck Finn publication date

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December 1884

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Scarlet Letter publication date

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1850

58
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Moby Dick publication date

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October 1851

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My antonia publication date

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1918

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