Unit 2

Question 0

What was the essential principle for the Bay Song Book?

Answer 0

To translate literally without embellishment

Question 1

First book written in this country

Answer 1

The Bay Psalm Book

Question 2

After leaving the Bay Colony, Williams started a colony in what is now

Answer 2

Rhode Island

Question 3

Roger Williams’ writings called “The Curious Pagan” contrasts what on a symbolic level?

Answer 3

Cultivated manners and natural kindness

Question 4

Williams’s belief about what principle has been influential among religious and political conservatives since his day?

Answer 4

Separation of church and state

Question 5

What was the purpose of Williams’s book “A Key into the Language of America”?

Answer 5

To introduce the Narragansett Indian language to Americans

Question 6

Bradstreet was the first colonist to attain what achievement?

Answer 6

Writing a sizable body of verse

Question 7

What does Bradstreet accomplish more effectively than any other Puritan writer?

Answer 7

Recording the touchingly human drama of Puritan life

Question 8

Based on subject matter, into what two categories can Bradstreet’s poems be divided?

Answer 8

Religious and domestic

Question 9

In “Contemplations” the appreciation of the beauty of nature leads to

Answer 9

An appreciation of God’s majesty

Question 10

In “Upon the Burning of Our House,” what reason does Bradstreet cite for determining that God is just?

Answer 10

All her goods belong to God

Question 11

Which poetic device is featured in the concluding lines of “To My Dear and Loving Husband”?

Answer 11

Paradox

Question 12

According to “Meditations Divine and Moral” authority without wisdom is like

Answer 12

An ax without an edge

Question 13

What was the purpose of “Preparatory Meditations”?

Answer 13

The purpose of them was to prepare Taylor spiritually for preaching the sermon before communion

Question 14

According to 1.1, God’s love overflows what?

Answer 14

Hell

Question 15

In “The Experience” what does Taylor claim?

Answer 15

He claims his status with God is better than that of angels.

Question 16

In the line “Flesh of my Flesh” the relationship Taylor describes with scriptural allusions is

Answer 16

The one between God and himself

Question 17

1.6 why does Taylor want God to be his spectacles?

Answer 17

So Taylor can examine himself from God’s perspective to see if he indeed has God’s image.

Question 18

What is conceit?

Answer 18

A striking, elaborate, comparison carried out in considerable detail

Question 19

The entire poem is a prayer

Answer 19

“Huswifery”

Question 20

What does the line “His Glorious Handy Work not made by hands” illustrates what?

Answer 20

Irony

Question 21

What is the main theme of Jonathan Edwards’s writings?

Answer 21

That religious knowledge must be in the heart not just in the head

Question 22

At what age did Edwards become a believer?

Answer 22

18

Question 23

Which revival did Edwards contribute to?

Answer 23

The Great Awakening

Question 24

What year did Edwards die and what was the cause?

Answer 24

1758; smallpox

Question 25

Why were so many hearing “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” unconverted?

Answer 25

Because of the Halfway Covenant. There was relaxed membership possible to join and they had not had a true religious salvation experience.

Question 26

Bible verse for “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”

Answer 26

Deuteronomy 32:35 “Their foot shall slide in due time ….”