Mid-Terms

Question 1

What emblem did Hester have to wear? Why was she sentenced to wear it?

Answer 1

(A)

Bc she committed adultery

Question 2

What was the relationship between Hester and Roger Chillingworth?

Answer 2

They were married

Question 3

What did Hester promise to Roger Chillingworth?

Answer 3

She would council his identity

Question 4

How did Hester support herself and Pearl?

Answer 4

She was a seamstress

Question 5

Why did Hester go to see Governor Bellingham

Answer 5

To give him the gloves

Question 6

What did Hester and Pearl see in the breastplate of the armor? Why is the significance of the exaggeration?

Answer 6

The letter A

The scarlet letter was magnified

Question 7

What convinced the governor to let Hester keep Pearl ?

Answer 7

Dimmesdale talking to him

Question 8

Why did Mr.Dimmesdale rush from the room to end the conversation he had with Roger Chillingworth?

Answer 8

So he could escape from making a confession

Question 9

What does Rev.Dimmesdale’s congregation think of him? Why is that ironic?

Answer 9

The think revenge Dimmesdale is chosen by God and is perfect because he is the revenge it’s ironic sin he sinned for adultery

Question 10

Where did Mr.Dimmesdale go at midnight? why?

Answer 10

scaffold; he felt guilty

Question 11

What did Pearl as Mr.Dimmesdale

Answer 11

if he would stand with her and Hester

Question 12

What “Sign” did the meteor make in the sky?

Answer 12

Giant “A”

Question 13

Where had Mr.Wilson,Hester,Pearl, and Roger Chillingworth been that night,that they would all be walking by the scaffolding at midnight?

Answer 13

returning from the governor’s deathbed

Question 14

What was the “other” view of Hester?

Answer 14

she is seen as “able” rather than an adulterer

Question 15

Why did Hester and Pearl go to the forest?

Answer 15

To intercept Dimmesdale

Question 16

What did Hester have to do by the brook before Pearl would come across?

Answer 16

Pin her A back on.

Question 17

Mr.Dimmesdale kissed Pearl . what did she do in response?

Answer 17

She went to the brook, and washed it off.

Question 18

What did Mr.Dimmesdale tell the people of New England before he died?

Answer 18

He told them he was Pearl’s father

He is the other adulterer

Question 19

What did the people see when Mr.Dimmesdale took off his ministerial band ?

Answer 19

Some saw a scarlet letter, some saw nothing

Question 20

Able ?

Answer 20

Some people came to stay Hester’s A stood for this

Question 21

Armor ?

Answer 21

Hester saw a distorted A in it

Question 22

Bellingham ?

Answer 22

Governor

Question 23

Bristol ?

Answer 23

Commander of the ship brought Hester news

Question 24

Commander ?

Answer 24

Brought Hester bad news

Question 25

Forest ?

Answer 25

Hester and Pearl go there to intercept Dimmesdale

Question 26

Hawthorne ?

Answer 26

Author

Question 27

Witch ?

Answer 27

A woman who works for the devil

Question 28

Abate

Answer 28

Lessen

Question 29

Albeit

Answer 29

Although

Question 30

Amid

Answer 30

Surrounded by

Question 31

Avail

Answer 31

Make use of

Question 32

Benign

Answer 32

Gentle or Mild

Question 33

Epoch

Answer 33

Milestone

Question 34

Err

Answer 34

Make a mistake

Question 35

Impalpable

Answer 35

Not able to be touched

Question 36

Implied

Answer 36

Suggested

Question 37

Implore

Answer 37

Plead

Question 38

Inauspicious

Answer 38

Unfortunate

Question 39

Incredulity

Answer 39

Disbelief

Question 40

Inevitable

Answer 40

Unavoidable

Question 41

Infamy

Answer 41

Evil fame or reputation

Question 42

Iniquity

Answer 42

Sin

Question 43

Invariably

Answer 43

Not changing or capable of being changed

Question 44

Malicious

Answer 44

Spitefully mischievous

Question 45

Pious

Answer 45

Religious

Question 46

Requite

Answer 46

Repay

Question 47

Unrelenting

Answer 47

Intensity or effort

Question 48

Usurping

Answer 48

Taking over

Question 49

Venerable

Answer 49

Worthy of reverence or respect

Question 50

Where was the 1st permanent English settlement in the New World?

Answer 50

Virginia

Question 51

What had to occur before a distinctly American literature could exist?

Answer 51

Dependence on English literature had to be abandoned

Question 52

Because colonial literature naturally reflected the interests and concerns of its writers it is not surprising that the earliest author wrote mostly about?

Answer 52

Prosperity

Question 53

Once the colonist had established permanent settlements, the subject matter of literature predominantly concerned ?

Answer 53

Religious

Question 54

What is the unexpected result of Captain Smiths capture ?

Answer 54

The Indians offer friendship and provisions

Question 55

In arguing for the worthiness of colonization,Smith lists responsibilities to four powers from most to least important. Which order is correct ?

Answer 55

God,King,Country, ourselves

Question 56

Bradford began writing Of Plymouth Plantation in 1630 perhaps because?

Answer 56

He was afraid that the Massachusetts bay colony would overshadow the Plymouth colony

Question 57

Winthrop's Journal primarily focuses on ?

Answer 57

God's providential care for the colonist

Question 58

According to Winthrop's "Letter from Boston" one of the purposes of the letter to his wife is to?

Answer 58

Warn her to be prepared for the dangers of sea travel

Question 59

Mrs.Rowlandson's narrative ?

Answer 59

Emphasizes the author's reliance on God's providence

Question 60

Although Puritan theology lost its hold American thought within 2 hundred years what 3 aspects of Puritan influence continue today ?

Answer 60

Work ethic, God centered, Pleasure of duty

Question 61

Name one of the nonreligious motives for immigration?

Answer 61

Land

Question 62

Who were the 2 leading figures of the Great Awakening ?

Answer 62

Edwards/Whitefield

Question 63

The Separatist theory of government by contrast of those governed evidently influenced what eighteenth-century document?

Answer 63

The Constitution

Question 64

The 1st consciously American voices began to speak through literature after what major event?

Answer 64

War for Independence

Question 65

In Of Plymouth Plantation, Bradford alludes to Mount Pisgah, where Moses viewed the land promised by God to his people.What is the purpose of this Biblical reference?

Answer 65

How the peril grams war in search of the "promise land" and they held there faith in God

Question 66

What book of the Bible was the primary basis for the law of the Massachusetts Bay Colony?

Answer 66

Leviticus

Question 67

Winthrop refer to what two relationships to describe civil or federal Liberty?

Answer 67

A wife submission to her husband and the church submission to God

Question 68

The Puritan diary is considered the basis of what genre of literature?

Answer 68

Autobiography

Question 69

In The Diary, by describing the damage to his house as an "awful providence" what does Sewall mean ?

Answer 69

Awe inspiring power of gods providence care

Question 70

The main motive behind the early migration to New England was religious

Answer 70

True

Question 71

Deism maintained that the solution to mans problems lies in human reason rather than in the supernatural revelation of the bible

Answer 71

True

Question 72

The primary purpose of literature in early American was entertainment

Answer 72

False:Religious

Question 73

According to Of Plymouth Plantation, in addition to the initial agreement written and signed aboard the Mayflower, the colonists wrote rules of law and order as they became necessary

Answer 73

True

Question 74

Mrs.Rowlandson curses God and wishes to die after discovering what has happened to her daughters body

Answer 74

False: Gives glory to God