Unit 1 Test

Question 1

What does the personification in lines 8-10 of “Upon the Burning of our House” reveal about the speaker?

Answer 1

She prays to God in times of trouble.

Question 2

Which sentence best restates lines 1-2 of “Upon the Burning of our House”?

Answer 2

I went to sleep without expecting any trouble.

Question 3

Which lines from “Upon the Burning of Our House” indicates that the speaker misses her home after it burns down?

Answer 3

“There lay that store I counted best”

Question 4

Which description from “Upon the Burning of our House” shows the speaker’s belief that faith in God is more important than earthly possessions?

Answer 4

“Mold’ring dust”

Question 5

“In silence ever shalt thou lie;/Adieu, Adieu, all’ vanity.” Name the work this passage comes from.

Answer 5

“Upon the Burning of our House”

Question 6

“And when I could no longer look;/ I blest his name that gave and took,” Name the work this passage comes from.

Answer 6

“Upon the Burning of our House”

Question 7

The speaker of “Upon the Burning of our House” learns of the fire when

Answer 7

She wakes up during the night and hear people screaming.

Question 8

“In silence ever shalt thou lie;/Adieu, Adieu, all’ vanity.” What literally advice is being employed?

Answer 8

Biblical illusion

Question 9

“And when I could no longer look;/ I blest his name that gave and took,” Name the author of this work

Answer 9

Anne Bradstreet

Question 10

The speaker of “Upon the Burning of our House” reveals her belief that God is protective when she says

Answer 10

Provided everything she needs

Question 11

“And when I could no longer look;/ I blest his name that gave and took,” what literary device is being employed?

Answer 11

Biblical Allusion

Question 12

The “hope and treasure” that the speaker refers to at the end of “Upon the Burning of our House” represent

Answer 12

Eternal life and happiness from faith in God

Question 13

He Speaker of “To my Dear Loving Husband” shows her faith in God when she

Answer 13

That she and her husband will live together for eternity.

Question 14

“The heavens reward thee manifold I pray.” What literary device is being employed?

Answer 14

Inverted syntax

Question 15

Bradstreet uses hyperbole n the first four lines of “My Dear Loving Husband” To exaggerate the truth that

Answer 15

She and her husband love each other

Question 16

What does the speaker claim t the beginning of “To my Dear Loving Husband”?

Answer 16

Her relationship is the best that their ever was

Question 17

“I prize my love more than whole mines of gold/ or all the risks that the East doth hold” what literary d vice is being employed?

Answer 17

Hyperbole

Question 18

Clarify the meaning of line 8 from “To my dearest Husband” which sentence best restates the line?

Answer 18

O thing but your love can repay me for my love

Question 19

The last lines of “ To my dearest husband” reveal the speakers

Answer 19

Strong belief in eternal life and God.

Question 20

“To my dearest loving husband” uses a metaphor to compare

Answer 20

Love with thirst

Question 21

Clarify the meanings of Lines 11-12 from “Housewifery” which sentence best restates the line?

Answer 21

Dye and decorate the fabric with the best colors of heaven

Question 22

What literary device dominates the poem “Housewifery”?

Answer 22

Extended metaphor

Question 23

In “Housewifery” the author compares the speaker to

Answer 23

A loom

Question 24

The speaker in housewifery hopes to be ready for

Answer 24

Eternal life

Question 25

In “housewifery” what does the metaphor hat compares the speaker to a loom and God with a weaver suggests about puritan life.

Answer 25

Making cloth at home was an everyday activity

Question 26

What does the poet of housewifery use to show that that practicing faith is an everyday activity

Answer 26

Metaphor compares practicing to the making of cloth

Question 27

In the “Burning of our House” the poet uses poetry to o express the view that

Answer 27

God does not desert people

Question 28

To inundate means to

Answer 28

Cover with water

Question 29

Hat does it mean to cauterize a wound

Answer 29

Burn it to destroy disease tissue

Question 30

“Near dawn I seemed to hear breaks responding; the coast lying low, they roared louder” name the author

Answer 30

Cabeza de vaca

Question 31

Alvar Nunez abeja de vaca attributes the fact that his barge survived the storm

Answer 31

Gods great mercy

Question 32

What does tarry mean

Answer 32

To delay

Question 33

To integrate is to

Answer 33

To gain another’s favor by deliberate effort

Question 34

What does locomotion mean

Answer 34

Power to move from place to place

Question 35

Hen the Native Americans saw the two drown they felt

Answer 35

Sad

Question 36

If you embody something

Answer 36

Represent it in human form

Question 37

To embody means to

Answer 37

show in human form

Question 38

If something is invincible

Answer 38

Unbeatable

Question 39

What does insidious mean

Answer 39

Treacherous

Question 40

If something is inviolate it is

Answer 40

Intact

Question 41

Hebert sees the basic question of debate as a choice between

Answer 41

Freedom and slavery

Question 42

“…but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!” Who is the speaker

Answer 42

Patric Henry

Question 43

To extenuated means to

Answer 43

To lessen

Question 44

Vigilant

Answer 44

Watchful

Question 45

Supinely

Answer 45

Lying face upward in helpless manner

Question 46

To extenuate means to

Answer 46

Lesson the seriousness of

Question 47

Martial

Answer 47

Warlike

Question 48

Hebert begins his speech with

Answer 48

Polite references to other speakers

Question 49

Insidious

Answer 49

Stealthy

Question 50

Patric Hebert presents God as a being who is

Answer 50

Often angry and vengeful