Semester Final

Question 0

grace

Answer 0

the quality needed to go to heaven

Question 1

predestination

Answer 1

one’s fate is already decided for them by God

Question 2

elect

Answer 2

those who were aved

Question 3

covenant

Answer 3

a promise between man and God

Question 4

Calvinists

Answer 4

in 17th century America they were called Puritans

Question 5

Where did the Puritans land

Answer 5

Plymouth around 1620

Question 6

Why did puritans migrate?

Answer 6

poverty, overcrowded island, debt/jail terms, religious “freedom”

Question 7

Locke

Answer 7

the mind is a blank slate at birth; no innate ideas of good or evil; tabula rasa

Question 8

Ben Franklin

Answer 8

represents spirit of the Enlightenment; depended on firsthand experience; secularized Puritan: spiritual questions of past now became questions of ethics, self-discipline, and public service

Question 9

Great Awakening

Answer 9

Backlash to a scientific world that didn’t put God at the center; Occurs about one hundred years after Winthrop’s “Model of Christian Charity”

Question 10

Poor Richard’s Almanac

Answer 10

1. Fish and visitors stink in three days.
2. Hunger never saw bad bread.
3. Little rogues easily become great ones.
4. Who has deceived thee as often as thyself?
5. Wish not so much to live long as to live well.

Question 11

What is an American

Answer 11

De Crevecoeur

Question 12

A Model of Christian Charity

Answer 12

John Winthrop

Question 13

Of Plymouth Plantation

Answer 13

William Bradford

Question 14

The Prologue, Verses Upon the Burning of Our House, To My Dear and Loving Husband

Answer 14

Anne Bradstreet

Question 15

On the Relgion of Nature

Answer 15

Philip Freneau

Question 16

The Way to Wealth

Answer 16

Ben Franklin

Question 17

Age of Reason

Answer 17

Thomas Paine

Question 18

Thanatopsis

Answer 18

Bryant

Question 19

Nature and Self-Reliance

Answer 19

Emerson

Question 20

Walden, Civil Disobedience, Resistance to Civil Government

Answer 20

Thoreau

Question 21

Ethan Brand, Young Goodman Brown and Rappaccini’s Daughter

Answer 21

Hawthrone

Question 22

Rip Van Winkle and Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Answer 22

Irving

Question 23

Moby Dick

Answer 23

Melville

Question 24

The fall of the House of Usher, The Raven, Annabel-Lee, Sonnet–To Science

Answer 24

Poe

Question 25

Individualism

Answer 25

the individual is beholden to no institute outside the self

Question 26

Intuition

Answer 26

basic truths come by way of intuition rather than the senses or reason

Question 27

Nature

Answer 27

is symbolic—everything in nature is significant and symbolic of spirit

Question 28

Oversoul

Answer 28

humanity and nature share a universal soul

Question 29

Everyone

Answer 29

can experience God firsthand

Question 30

Transcendentalism Principle

Answer 30

Structure of the Universe literally duplicated the structure of the individual self, and that all knowledge therefore begins with self-knowledge