English 1121

Question 1

Four guidelines for selecting and reading literature:

Answer 1

1. Exercise discipline and control over what you allow to come into your mind
2. Distinguish between the foolishness of this world and the wisdom of God
3. Reject that which glorifies sin
4. Read what is profitable for spiritual growth

Question 2

A gift from God?

Answer 2

Language

Question 3

Rules for correct speech and writing?

Answer 3

Grammar

Question 4

A collection of the writings of a group of people?

Answer 4

Literature

Question 5

First period of American literature?

Answer 5

Colonial Period

Question 6

First book printed in the New World?

Answer 6

The Bay Psalm Book

Question 7

John Smith wrote ____

Answer 7

A True Relation

Question 8

William Bradford wrote ____

Answer 8

Of Plymouth Plantation

Question 9

People who wanted to purify the church from within

Answer 9

Puritans

Question 10

People who left the church because it was corrupt

Answer 10

Separatists

Question 11

The first elementary schoolbook in the New World

Answer 11

The New England Primer

Question 12

John Winthrop wrote ____ and ____

Answer 12

Journal; Christian Experience

Question 13

Person who wrote “Day of Doom”

Answer 13

Michael Wigglesworth

Question 14

Person who wrote “The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung up in America”

Answer 14

Anne Bradstreet

Question 15

Person who wrote “Housewifery”

Answer 15

Edward Taylor

Question 16

Person who wrote “Magnalia Christi Americana”

Answer 16

Cotton Mathers

Question 17

Person who wrote “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”

Answer 17

Jonathan Edwards

Question 18

Person who translated of the Bible into the languages of the Massachusetts

Answer 18

John Eliot

Question 19

Person who wrote the best American verse of the seventeenth century

Answer 19

Anne Bradstreet

Question 20

Person who wrote the longest poem of the Colonial Period

Answer 20

Michael Wigglesworth

Question 21

Best known preacher of the Colonial Period

Answer 21

Jonathan Edwards

Question 22

“apostle to the Indians”

Answer 22

John Eliot

Question 23

A complete sentence must have a ____, whether ____, and ____, often called the ____

Answer 23

subject; stated or understood; predicate; verb

Question 24

What is a sentence fragment?

Answer 24

A group of words that cannot stand alone as a sentence

Question 25

Two sentences spliced together with a comma form a ____, or ____

Answer 25

comma splice; run-on sentence

Question 26

All ____ tense ____ verbs end in s or es,but all ____ nouns, unless irregular of collective, end in s or es

Answer 26

present; third person singular; plural

Question 27

The personal pronouns I, he, she, and it, take ____ verbs. The personal pronouns we, you, and they take ____ verbs

Answer 27

singular; plural

Question 28

A singular or plural ____ pronoun agrees with its verb in number, even if a prepositional phrase or a clause separates the pronoun and verb

Answer 28

indefinite

Question 29

The number of an indefinite pronoun that can either be singular or plural is determined by the ____ or by the last word of the phrase that follows it

Answer 29

object of the preposition

Question 30

A compound subject joined by “and” takes a ____ verb

Answer 30

plural

Question 31

A compound subject consisting of two or more singular words joined by “or” or “nor” takes a ____ verb

Answer 31

singular

Question 32

A compound subject consisting of two or more plural words joined by “or” or “nor” takes a ____ verb

Answer 32

plural

Question 33

When a sentence begins with “there” or “here”, the verb must agree with the ____, which follows the verb

Answer 33

subject

Question 34

Memory verse of english

Answer 34

Deutoronomy 31:6
Be strong and of good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee, he will not fail thee nor forsake thee

Question 35

A compound subject consisting of both singular and plural words joined by “or” or “nor” takes a verb that agrees in number with the word ____ the verb

Answer 35

nearer

Question 36

What is lessons in Biblical doctrine?

Answer 36

catechism