ENGL 201 Practice Quizzes

ENGL 201 Practice Quizzes

ENGL 201 Practice Quizzes

ENGL 201 Practice Quiz The Colonial Period

1. Covers the Learn material from Module 2: Week 2.
2. “The Day of Doom” was authored by Michael Wigglesworth.
3. In his “Journal,” John Winthrop refers to Anne Hutchinson as
4. Author of meditative poem titled “Contemplations.”
5. John Winthrop established the Indian Captivity Narrative
6. Most of Edward Taylor’s series of “Meditation” poems use the Ministerial Three Method.
7. His sermon on the Arbella was delivered in 1630.
8. Calvinistic aesthetics suggest that in life as in art, obscurity and complexity should be preferred.
9. Thus stands the cause betweene God and us. We are entered into Covenant with Him for this worke. Wee have taken out a Commission. The Lord hath given us leave to drawe our own articles. Wee have professed to enterprise these Actions, upon these and those accounts, upon these and those ends, wee have hereupon besought Him of favour and blessing. Now if the Lord shall please to heare us, and bring us in peace to the place wee desire, then hath hee ratied this Covenant and sealed our Commission, [and] will expect a strict performance of the Articles contained in it; but if wee shall neglect the observation of these Articles which are the ends wee have propounded, and, dissembling with our God, shall fall to embrace this present world and prosecute our carnall intentions, seekeing greate things for ourselves and our posterity, the Lord will surely breake out in wrathe against us; be revenged of such a perjured people and make us knowe the price of the breache of such a covenant. This excerpt is an example of what genre?
10. Jonathan Edwards’ “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” showcases the origins, wanderings, and struggles of the Puritans.
11. Chesapeake Bay was the first permanent settlement in colonial New England.
12. Is a pastoralist, or his writing may be described as idyllic or bucolic.
13. John Winthrop authored Meditation 38
14. Literature of the Colonial Period basically is a record of the literature of what is called the American Renaissance.
15. Literature of the Colonial Period may be defined as a literary record of the period called the Age of Reason or Revolution.
16. Michael Wigglesworth established the Indian Captivity Narrative
17. Examples of writers of the colonial period of American literature include the following: Michael Wigglesworth and Edward Taylor

ENGL 201 Practice Quiz The Age of Reason/Revolutionary Period

Covers the Learn material from Module 4: Week 4.

1. Benjamin Franklin’s success as a writer is in part due to his use of obscure discourse rather than the plain style.
2. Francis Bacon expounded the theory that the physical world is a mechanism that operates according to a system of natural laws that can be rationally understood through the application of scientific methods.
3. Thomas Paine’s Age of Reason was published during the American Revolution.
4. In “Common Sense,” Thomas Paine argued for independence solely on the issue of taxes.
5. Harvard was founded in 1718 to offset or counter the rationalism of Yale.
6. Francis Bacon propounded the idea of God as “First Cause.”
7. The 13 virtues of self-improvement course that Thomas Jefferson expounded in his Autobiography included love of country.
8. In “Common Sense” Thomas Paine recommended reconciliation with King George II.
9. Phillis Wheatley envisioned America as an Edenic place of new beginnings and regeneration.
10. Isaac Newton theorized that human beings are irrational creatures and, therefore, were incapable of understanding the mechanistic laws of nature.
11. The Age of Reason marked a shift from Theism to Deism.
12. Isaac Newton perceived God deistically as First Cause, as the creator of the Universe, and as one who works through unchangeable laws of nature.
13. The 13 virtues of self-improvement course that Benjamin Franklin expounded included the Love of God.
14. Harvard was founded in 1618 in Puritan New Haven to offset rationalism at Yale.
15. Phillis Wheatley’s poetry suggests that she was a Christian who was inuenced by Puritan beliefs.
16. Thomas Paine’s works such as the “Crisis Series” are considered a form of propaganda.