Stuart Period Test

Question 1

List the three reasons the Commonwealth government failed.

Answer 1

1. It sank further and further into debt, 2. Independents and Presbyterians couldn’t agree on matters of church government, 3. Richard Cromwell was not an effective successor to his father

Question 2

What year did the Restoration take place?

Answer 2

1660

Question 3

List three facts about the Westminster Confession.

Answer 3

It temporarily replaced the 39 articles of the English church, it became the official creed of the Scottish Presbyterian church, it was comprised of a longer and shorter catechism

Question 4

Define Latitudinarianism.

Answer 4

The broadening of Christian identity that limits doctrinal essentials

Question 5

During whose reign did the first English dictionaries appear?

Answer 5

James I

Question 6

What did William and Mary do after they were crowned king and queen?

Answer 6

Write a Bill of Rights

Question 7

What did Sir Francis Bacon conclude is needed?

Answer 7

More direct observation of external phenomena and less dependence on ancient authorities such as Aristotle and Galen for information about the physical world

Question 8

What two things did Bacon’s style of his essays show?

Answer 8

Extreme compression and balance

Question 9

When Bacon advocates reading books rapidly and superficially, what process does he describe?

Answer 9

Swallowing

Question 10

Read only in parts (skimming)

Answer 10

To be tasted

Question 11

To read it and know what’s there

Answer 11

To be swallowed cursorily

Question 12

To read it wholly with diligence and attention

Answer 12

To be chewed and digested

Question 13

In “Of Great Place”, what principles is Bacon talking about?

Answer 13

Great leadership

Question 14

Bacon concluded they needed to accept what as graciously as possible?

Answer 14

Criticism

Question 15

They needed to learn to do what as a general rule?

Answer 15

Delegate responsibilities

Question 16

We should give clear reasons when we what?

Answer 16

Change our position

Question 17

Why did Sir Francis Bacon go on trial?

Answer 17

For taking bribes (confessed he was guilty but wasn’t influenced to show favoritism)

Question 18

Bacon says when a man gains power over others, paradoxically, he does what?

Answer 18

Loses power over himself, his own time and actions

Question 19

Death presses heavily on him who dies well known to others but …?

Answer 19

Unknown to himself

Question 20

List two things about the quote: “Illi mors gravis incubat, qui notus nimis omnibus, ignotus moritur sibi.”

Answer 20

It was a quote from a play and was the best well-known and most influential moral maxim of the Renaissance

Question 21

What precedes repentance in salvation?

Answer 21

Self-recognition

Question 22

John Donne converted from what to what?

Answer 22

Catholicism to Anglicanism

Question 23

What was John Donne jailed for?

Answer 23

An imprudent marriage to his bosses 17 year old niece

Question 24

John Donne became the dean of what?

Answer 24

St. Paul’s cathedral

Question 25

What 20th century poet was largely responsible for a resurgence of literary interest in Donne?

Answer 25

T.S. Elliot

Question 26

Donne wrote treaties against what?

Answer 26

Catholicism

Question 27

List the four characteristics of metaphysical verse.

Answer 27

They have arrestingly abrupt openings, dramatic personal quality, roughened meter, and striking figurative physical comparisons (conceit)

Question 28

What differentiates the metaphysical from the Petrarchan conceit?

Answer 28

The logical rather than the literal or physical basis of comparison

Question 29

Know Enjambement, Caesura, apostrophe, epigrams, and pun.

Answer 29

I never put these in my notes so yeah

Question 30

"Your trumpets, Angels; and arise, arise From death, you numberless infinities" is en example of what three literary concepts?

Answer 30

Enjambement, Caesura, and apostrophe

Question 31

What occurs prior to taking holy communion?

Answer 31

Self-examination

Question 32

The speaker's attitude in "A Hymn to God the Father" is described as what?

Answer 32

Confident

Question 33

What is the theme of his second sermon?

Answer 33

God is so powerful, He can easily reconcile opposites

Question 34

What is unusual about the statement "Stand still and I will read to thee"?

Answer 34

It is a command (not the usual way to start a poem)

Question 35

The way "Lecture Upon a Shadow" is started is characteristic of what?

Answer 35

His verses (also metaphysical)

Question 36

Ben Jonson was the first English author to what?

Answer 36

Publish his own works

Question 37

What was Jonson's official title?

Answer 37

Poet laureate

Question 38

What did Jonson's imitators become known as?

Answer 38

The cavalier poets

Question 39

What does Jonson's poetry anticipate?

Answer 39

Neoclassicism

Question 40

What three things does "Song to Celia" imply?

Answer 40

Celia's gaze is better than heavenly drink, dead flowers revive at her breath, dead flowers retain her fragrance

Question 41

What is the mythological drink of the gods?

Answer 41

Nectar

Question 42

According to Jonson, so high a being cannot be honored by what?

Answer 42

An earthly symbol

Question 43

How is Jonson's poetry described?

Answer 43

Informal, yet clear and precise

Question 44

George Herbert is known as the greatest writer of what?

Answer 44

English devotionals

Question 45

Herbert wrote a series of poems called what, published shortly after his death?

Answer 45

"The Temple"

Question 46

What is the religious viewpoint of "The Temple"?

Answer 46

Primarily Anglican

Question 47

The sequence of poems in "The Temple" starts at the outside porch of the temple and ultimately ends where?

Answer 47

The Holy of Holies

Question 48

How does the landlord grant his tenant's request?

Answer 48

By dying

Question 49

The poet apologizes for how he has used what?

Answer 49

His eyes

Question 50

Herbert stresses that inward preparation for service is more important than what?

Answer 50

Outward preparation

Question 51

What is the theme of "Virtue" that this poem applies in a Christian context that the cavalier poets used hedonistically?

Answer 51

Carpe diem

Question 52

Rutherford's "Lex Rex" advocates what three things?

Answer 52

Limited monarchy, theocracy, and ecclesiastical absolutism

Question 53

Baxter's "Saints Everlasting Rest" was written from the author's personal experience with what?

Answer 53

Suffering

Question 54

Baxter says that God has given us the spirit to do what?

Answer 54

Mortify the flesh

Question 55

What was John Milton?

Answer 55

A writer and a politician who went blind

Question 56

Milton was more what than what?

Answer 56

Independent than Presbyterian

Question 57

Milton maintained that genuine virtue requires what?

Answer 57

Testing

Question 58

Milton believed that Christ was not ________ with God.

Answer 58

Co-equal

Question 59

What is the theme of Sonnet 18?

Answer 59

The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church

Question 60

What is the topic of the great prose treatise "Areopagitica"?

Answer 60

Freedom of the press

Question 61

In "Paradise Lost", the hero is _____ but the true hero is ______

Answer 61

Satan, Christ

Question 62

According to the introductory lines, what is "Paradise Lost"'s primary purpose?

Answer 62

To justify the ways of God to men

Question 63

What is the first question Milton asks?

Answer 63

"Who caused man to fall"?

Question 64

Satan argued with Eve at the tree saying what three things?

Answer 64

"Surely God will not get angry over such a petty trespass", "God will admire you for daring to challenge Him", "Death actually means to become a god"

Question 65

Satan erroneously associates what with what in his speech to Eve?

Answer 65

Innocence with ignorance

Question 66

Why does God allow Satan to escape the lake of burning fire according to Milton?

Answer 66

So he could confirm his own damnation by repeatedly committing crimes and so that he could witness the failure of these attempts to thwart Providence

Question 67

According to Milton, what happens when Eve eats of the fruit?

Answer 67

Nature groans and trembles

Question 68

What is Pepys attitude toward the Puritans?

Answer 68

Inconsistent

Question 69

Pepys is a ______ who helped build the ____ ______.

Answer 69

Diarist, British navy

Question 70

At the conclusion of Dr. Bates' sermon, Pepys expresses a fear of what?

Answer 70

Bad preachers

Question 71

In the summary of the events of 1666, what three problems were occurring?

Answer 71

A demoralized navy, insufficient taxation, and powerful foreign enemies

Question 72

What is the title of Bunyan's spiritual autobiography?

Answer 72

"Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners"

Question 73

The central metaphor of "Pilgrims Progress" compares life to what?

Answer 73

A journey

Question 74

Bunyan's style includes what three things?

Answer 74

Plain language, didacticism, and emotional sincerity

Question 75

The narrator of "Pilgrims Progress" presents the story in what way?

Answer 75

As something he dreamed about

Question 76

In the story, what does Christian do in regards to the mountain?

Answer 76

Christian climbs up to Mt. Sinai, becomes afraid that the mountain will fall on him, the hill turns out to be much steeper than Christian originally thought, and flames burst out of the hill

Question 77

What wares are the most prominent and popular at Vanity Fair?

Answer 77

The wares of Italy

Question 78

What do the pilgrims say they want to buy at Vanity Fair?

Answer 78

Truth

Question 79

According to Good Will, how will Christian be able to distinguish the right paths from the wrong ones?

Answer 79

Only the right ones are straight and narrow

Question 80

How do Christian's neighbors and family react to his journey?

Answer 80

His neighbors mock his flight from home and his family members are generally unsupportive

Question 81

Years of the Stuart period

Answer 81

1603-1688