Puritans Test Review - B Smith

Why did the Puriatns leave England?

• They wanted a fresh start
• They were  searching for riches
• They were facing religious persecution 
• They were hoping to find a home 

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The Puritans believed that your after life is chosen before your birth. This idea is called

• Predetermination 
• Predestination 
• Pre-afterlife
• Prealtercation 

An American revivalist preacher and philosopher. Author of "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God." 

• Jonathan Edwards
• Edward Taylor
• Anne Bradstreet 
• J.R.R. Tolkien 

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CCSS.RL.9-10.9

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Which of the following lines is an example inversion?

• "It was his own, it was not mine"

• "And them behold no more shall I"

• "Raise up thy thoughts above the sky"

• "Farewell, my pelf, farewell, my store"

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CCSS.RL.9-10.9

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Which of the following lines contains a metaphor?

• "When by the ruins oft I past"

• "Framed by that mighty Architect"

• "Where oft I sat and long did lie"

• "And to my God my heart did cry"

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CCSS.RL.9-10.9

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What is the "house on high erect" in Bradstreet's poem about her burning house?

• her future house here on earth
• her future house in heaven
• her neighbor's house on the hill, which she will buy
• the memory of her old house

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CCSS.RL.9-10.9

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Why does the speaker believe the fire was "just"?

• It was revenge for a crime she had committed.

• Other people had lost their homes as well.

• They were moving anyway.

• Everything was God's anyway, He can give and take as He pleases.

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CCSS.RL.9-10.9

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Bradstreet's poem is an example of "Puritan Plain Style." What are the characteristics of Puritan Plain Style?

• complex sentences

• embellished and ornate words.

• ordinary words are used to make simple, direct statements

When Bradstreet says "I blest His name that gave and took," she implies that

• she is being punished for being her vanity

• material objects are God's, not hers

• she secretly wants all her possessions to vanish

• God will be happy with her if she blesses Him

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CCSS.RL.9-10.9

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Point of view is the view from which this poem is told. Since the speaker uses "I" in the poem, which point of view would it be?

• Omniscient

• 2nd person

• first person

• third person

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