Puritan Poets and Writers: Insights into Colonial Life

1. Who is this Puritan poet that wrote poems about the difficulties of Puritan life in poem like “Upon the Burning of My House” and “To My Dear and Loving Husband?”

2. Anne Bradstreet’s poem “Upon the Burning of Our House” demonstrates which of facets of Puritan faith? A. The belief in predetermination B. The belief that heaven is better than earth C. The rejection of attachment to worldly goods D. All are correct

3. During difficult times Anne Bradstreet remained hopeful because of this. What is it?

4. Whose PURPOSE for writing was to show the development of a Godly community? • Anne Bradstreet • William Bradford

5. In William Bradford’s “Of Plymouth Planation,” what two things did Bradford say helped the Pilgrims survive?

6. True or False When William Bradford said that “God of Heaven had brought them over” and “Squanto continued with them and was their interpreter and was a special instrument sent of God” he is showing how religious faith helped the Puritan settlers.

7. The purpose of Johnathan Edward’s sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” is to evoke what kids of emotion from the audience?

8. True or False Johnathan Edwards uses descriptive images to describe a persons powerless in comparison to God’s wrath. He says the only hope for salvation is by doing good deeds.

9. Who attempted to be objective but displayed evidence of bias in his writings about the Salem Witch trials?

10. We move into Revolutionary writing in the 1700’s. Where Puritan writing was based on faith the Revolutionary writing is based on this. The call it the “Age of _____________”

11. Who was the oldest founding father. He wrote an autobiography that discussed his attempt at moral perfection?

12. Who was the oldest founding father. He wrote an autobiography that discussed his attempt at moral perfection?

13. A revolution is a sudden and dramatic… What ?

14. Was the revolution and rebellion described as a last resort in the Declaration of Independence? Yes or No

15. Where does the Declaration of Independence say that the unalienable rights come from?

16. Who wrote an impassioned speech titled “The Crisis” which started with, “These are the times that try men’s soul?”

17. Paine attempts to anger his audience when he compares America’s relationship to England to the bondage of what?

18. In The Devil and Tom Walker, Tom Walker and his wife are described a miserly. Would you say they could be described as Loving but misunderstood Greedy and careless

19. Washington Irving based The Devil and Tom Walker on legend of Faust which comes from a German ____________________.

20. The title of Thanatopsistells the meaning of the poem. It means ___________ view or seeing ___________.

21. Does Thanatopsis express feelings of fear about death? Yes or No

22. Romantic literature looked to nature for inspiration. They celebrated imagination and __________________ Clue: “without the need for conscious reasoning.”

23. We move from Revolutionary literature… to Romanticism… to Transcendentalist who believed that we are all united through a shared universal soul. GOD, MAN, and __________.

24. Was there concern about the rights of women, children and slaves during the Revolutionary period? Yes or No

25. Henry David Thoreau wrote Walden about his experience living alone for two years, which shows his unity with nature. He also wrote this which later influenced people like Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. He tells how he refused to pay taxes as he didn’t support the Mexican-American war, which he believed expanded slavery. What was the title?

26. What do people who believe in Civil Disobedience say about unjust laws?