WorksheetsAm LIt Final review pt 2 - time periods & stories review
Total questions: 35
Worksheet time: 18mins
Which group of colonists believed in predestination?
Pilgrims
Puritans
Which group of Europeans believes that God has already decided who will be save and who wouldn't.
Pilgrims
Puritans.
Jack London
Thomas Paine
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Edgar Allen Poe
Documents, speeches, and pamphlets were the predominant types of literature during this period?
Romantic
Colonial
Transcendental
Revolutionary
Political topics were the main focus of this literary period.
Colonial
Revolutionary
Romantic
Dark Romantic
Finish the literary period analogy:
Logic & Science : Sin & Salvation
Colonial : Revolutionary
Revolutionary : Romaniticism
Romanticism : Revolutionary
Revolutionary : Colonial
Emerson, Thoreau & Whitman were all influential authors of what philosophy?
Sin and Redemption
Transcendentalism
Dark Romantics
Revolutionists
William Cullen Bryant and Washington Irving were poets during what period?
Romanticism
Transcendentalism
Colonial
American
Anne Bradstreet, Jonathon Edwards, Edward Taylor & Mary Rowlandson were all authors during what period?
Revolutionary
Colonial
Romantic
Transcendental
Anne Bradstreet wanted to teach what lesson from her poem Upon the Burning of Our House.
Material possessions are the most important treasures
God will take away your possessions if you sin
The importance of fire safety
Heavenly treasures should be your primary concern
In the sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" what was his final message to his congregation?
Sinners are doomed and there is no need to follow the Puritan teachings.
All of them are doomed and there is no need to follow God's word.
They are lucky to have him in their community to save their souls.
Sinners need to change their ways and be faithful and follow the Puritan teachings.
Bradstreet speaks of another "house" in an extended metaphor at the end of her poem. What is the house and who is the architect?
Hell, the devil
Heaven, God
Her neighbor's house, her neighbor
none of the choices
According to the Puritan faith and the message in Huswifery, how does a person "receive God's grace"?
Become an instrument of God and serve those in need
Publicly follow the rules, but privately sin
Giving tithings (money) to the church
Get married and have a family.
During the Revolutionary period, the periods influential authors felt
the colonists were being treated respectfully by Great Britain
the colonists and Great Britain had a good relationship
the colonists were being treated like slaves by Great Britain
the colonists were being rude to Great Britain
After his journey in the forest, Young Goodman Brown
loses his faith and is depressed and cynical
his faith is strong and he is joyful
goes back to his normal, everyday life and is unaffected
becomes a drunk and is heartbroken
Seeing the "upstanding" religious leaders in the forest, Young Goodman Brown exposes what about the Puritans?
Their love of nature
Their commitment to God
Their hypocrisy
Why is it significant that Young Goodman Brown leaves at dusk (nightfall)?
Because all good things happen in the dark
Because sinful things happen in the dark
Because fun things happen in the dark
In the Scarlet Letter, what character is thought to practice witchcraft?
Governor Winthrop
Roger Chillingsworth
Mistress Hibbens
Hester
From who did Chillingworth learn his medical skills?
Dimmesdale
Gov. Bellingham
Native Americans
Hester
True or False: Gov. Winthrop asks Hester to come to his house to question her about her ability to be a proper mother to Pearl.
True
False
Who washed off Dimmesdale's kiss on her forehead?
Pearl
Mistress Hibbens
Hester
Who says that Chillingworth's sin of revenge is worse than their own?
Gov. Bellingham
Hester
Dimmesdale
Pearl
Who promises Dimmesdale that he can save him?
Hester
Chillingworth
Pearl
Mistress Hibbens
When Pearl asks if Dimmesdale will stand with her and Hester at noontime, what is his response?
He will never stand with them.
He will stand with them in a couple of weeks at noontime.
He will stand with them on judgement day.
He will stand with them on Christmas day.
True or False: The Scarlet Letter represents anger.
True
False
True or False: Hester is a devoted mother to Pearl and could not imagine a life without her.
True
False
In the Night Thoreau Spent in Jail, where did John work before AND after his teaching job?
In a canoe factory
In a pencil factory
In a bible factory
In a wheelbarrow factory
What war is Henry protesting by not paying his taxes?
The Civil War
The Mexican American War
The Vietnam War
The American Revolution
Henry is a passionate social activist, while Emerson is a passional social ______.
activist
husband
philosopher
father
How many years does Thoreau live at Walden Pond?
1
2
3
4
True or False:
In the end, Thoreau leaves Walden pond and declares that he has more lives to live.
True
False
The central message of "Thanatopsis" is that when you die
you are alone
you will be buried in a tomb
you are not alone
you won't know it
"Thanatopsis" states that after a person dies, they
will be preserved (not decompose) by the earth
will go to heaven or hell
will become one with nature
lie in purgatory forever
Who urged Dimmesdale to keep his secret sin and save his good reputation?
Gov. Winthrop
Rev. Beasley
Hester
Chillingworth
