Unit 2 Test Review: Literature of the Eighteenth Century

Unit 2 Test Review: Literature of the Eighteenth Century

Do you remember the Enlightenment Ideals?

Authors during this time used the enligthenment ideals to characterize American life and discuss progress. They were a shift from religious worldviews. Matching the enligthenment ideal with the religious worldview it modified will help you remember them and identify them in texts.

Multiple Choice

Which enlightenment ideal counters original sin/pre-destination, a belief of the Puritans?

• Deism

• Tabula Rasa

• Sympathy

Multiple Choice

Which enlightenment ideal counters Divine Authority, and essential component of Bradford and Winthrop's plan to unify their communities?

• Deism

• Tabula Rasa

• Sympathy

Multiple Choice

Which enlightenment ideal counters the need for purified communities of mutually supporting Christians?

• Deism

• Tabula Rasa

• Sympathy

Franklin and de Crevecoeur both characterized the American life and American identity for an audience of immigrants; yet there were structural and stylistic differences. Do you remember the essential components of their texts?

Multiple Choice

__________ engages the audience by opening his text with a reflection from the viewpoint of someone who has just stepped on to American soil.

• Franklin

• de Crevecoeur

Multiple Choice

__________ engages the audience by opening his text with the acknowledgment of false ideas and expectations about American life that are circulating Europe.

• Franklin

• de Crevecoeur

Multiple Choice

Identify the characterization of sympathy and work ethic in America: “The almost general mediocrity of fortune that prevails in America obliging its people to follow some business for subsistence, those vices, that arise usually from idleness, are in a great measure prevented. Industry and constant employment are great preservatives of the morals and virtue of a nation…to this it may be truly added, that serious religious, under its various denominations, is not only tolerated, but respected and practiced. Atheism is unknown there; infidelity (lack of religious belief) rare and secret…”

• Franklin

• de Crevecoeur

Multiple Choice

Identify the characterization of tabula rasa, sympathy and work ethic in America: "Here religion demands but little of him...The American is a new main , who acts upon new principles; he must therefore entertain new ideas, and form new opinions. From involuntary idleness, servile dependence, penury, and useless labor, he has passed to toils of a very different nature, rewarded by ample subsistence--This is an American."

• Franklin

• de Crevecoeur

Multiple Choice

"Great American Asylum" and "melting of a new race of men" are descriptors of America given by:

• Franklin

• de Crevecoeur

Multiple Choice

"Land of labor" is a descriptor of America given by:

• Franklin

• de Crevecoeur

Jonathan Edwards relied on the empiricism of the Enlightenment to "awaken" complacent believers with powerful sermons. Do you remember some of the key elements of his rhetoric in "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"?

Multiple Choice

Edwards organizes his sermon using:

• Bullet points

• Numbered lists

• Psalms

• Roman numerals

Multiple Choice

Edwards refers to 'sinners' as:

• Despicable

• Black-hearted

• Wicked

• Corrupt

Paine and Madison were writing for/speaking to audiences hesitant to support revolutionary ideals. Do you remember their rhetorical strategies?

Multiple Choice

______ relied on inspirational statements like "the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph" to call for unity and minimize the devastation America was enduring in battle.

• Paine

• Madison

Multiple Choice

______ relied on legal insight to justify the complaints from citizens that only elitist issues were being prioritized.

• Paine

• Madison

Multiple Choice

______ expresses some of Bradford's divine authority rhetoric as his "secret opinion" that God will not allow people who have made a good effort to perish in war.

• Paine

• Madison

Multiple Choice

______ argues that one of the difficulties of avoiding factions is that conflicting point of views are a part of human nature.

• Paine

• Madison