Purtanism Movement Flashcards

0
Q

food or provisions

A

victuals

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
1
Q

“seker” : begging for help

A

succor

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
2
Q

strengthen or support physically or mentally

A

Sustain

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
3
Q

a dense group of bushes or trees

A

Thicket

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
4
Q

refusing to obey orders, rebellion

A

Mutinous

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
5
Q

written or spoken communication or debate

A

Discourse

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
6
Q

the place or roll someone or something should fill

A

Stead

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
7
Q

deserving praise

A

Laudable

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
8
Q

knowledge awareness or notice

A

Cognizance

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
9
Q

Was the governor of England

A

William Bradford

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
10
Q

Mark Twain’s real name

A

Samuel Langhorne Clemens

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
11
Q

Mark twain was Born in 1835 in

A

Florida, Missouri

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
12
Q

(Twain) Childhood In _______, Missouri (Mississippi river); makeshift rafts and swimming holes.

A

Hannibal

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
13
Q

(Twain) Father faltered business speculations, died when Twain was ___ years old.

A

12

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
14
Q

(Twain) Ceased formal study; began apprenticing as ____________

A

a typesetter for local newspapers.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
15
Q

(Twain) Worked for his brother, who owned several newspapers; wrote under _______

A

pseudonym

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
16
Q

Twain and brother suffered Bussiness failings, twain departed,
wandered from the Midwest to the East Coast and supported himself by publishing his ________ in the various newspapers still managed by brother.

A

observations

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
17
Q

(Twain) Intentions of traveling down the Missisispi river to _________ from which he would then depart for South America with intentions of amassing a fortune there

A

New Orleans, LA

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
18
Q

Twain met a veteran steamboat captain named ___________

A

Horace Bixby

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
19
Q

Twain Obtained his own pilots license, spent more time traveling _________

A

up and down.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
20
Q

Twain Briefly served in the ___________, traveled with his brother to Nevada, then began a years work panning for gold and silver

A

Confederate Army

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
21
Q

(Twain) While writing in Virginia city, angered a rival journalist, who insisted on a ____. Fled to _________

A

Duel

San Francisco

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
22
Q

(Twain) Worked with newspapers, known for moralistic but humorous, _______ against public figures and institutions

23
Q

(Twain) Offended the city’s _________, which responded with a lawsuit charging libel. Fled to the ______, eventually returned.

A

police department

Sierras

24
(Twain) prominent humorist ___________ for a piece to be included in a forthcoming humor anthology, responded with "The Celebrated Jumping Frog or Calaveras County"
Artemus Ward
25
(Twain)Most celebrated and notorious writings came as a correspondent for the ____________; convinced editors to finance a 5- month trip aboard the Quaker City pleasure boat bound for Europe and the Middle East; mocked the sailing party's wealthier members and reveled in the pranks of its younger more reckless members, sent 51 letters to the Alta
Alta California
26
The Innocents Abroad sold ______ copies in the first year realizing profits, respectively, of $______ equivalent in current dollars would be $165,000
69,500 | $14,000
27
Twain Married ___________, father provided Twain with a sizable shareholding of a newspaper in Buffalo and housed the couple in a furnished mansion
Olivia Langdon
28
(Twain) Lived in _______ for twenty years, nearby other writers
Hartford
29
(Twain)Collaborated with Warner on _________, a love story set President Ulysses S. Grant's cur root administration (not received by public and critics)
The Gilded Age
30
Who wrote the adventures of Tom Sawyer?
Mark Twain
31
(Twain) After publishing the Adventures of Tom Sawyer, immediately began work on a novel about Huckleberry Finn it took _______ years
Seven
32
(Twain) In 1881 published _______________, a straightforward novel about mistaken identities in sixteenth-century England (won acclaim as a compelling and convincing tale of historical England) financial failure
The prince and the Pauper
33
(Twain) In 1883, _____________, Twain's recollection of his steamboat adventures: "wrote nostalgically of his steamboat years, rendering the Mississippi River as an every mysterious, unfathomable force of powerful reflections, murky shores, and colorful travelers"; faltered commercially though
Life on the Mississippi
34
(Twain) 1884 completed ________________; considered his masterpiece and one of greatest works in American literature; initially condemned in some areas as "inappropriate material for young readers; it sold well, and became prized for its recreation of the Antebellum South, insights into slavery, depiction of adolescent life
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
35
(Twain) By the 1880s no longer enjoyed financial security of before: poor investment in a publishing house and an alternative _______ device
typesetting
36
(Twain) In 1889 ______________________: a harsh depiction of life in sixth-century England; compared its repressive, anti democratic society to that of post- Civil War America; only scant success when it appeared; acid humor and bleak depiction of human progress-- particularly technology
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
37
Twain: in ____ declared bankruptcy
1891
38
(Twain) The ______________, and _____________; satisfactory sales, recently, critics place it among the finest American novels of the late-nineteenth century
Tragedy off Pudd'nhead Wilson and the comedy of Those Extraordinary Twins
39
Twain Started a series of successful lecture tours in __________________in the mid-1890s; published observation as Following the Equator; substantial sales; once again achieved financial stability
Canada, Australia, India, South Africa
40
(Twain) Favorite daughter, ______ (born in 1872),died of ________ in (twain) August 1896, in 1904 his wife died, never having fully recovered from the shattering ____________. Then in December 1909, his daughter Jean (born in 1880) died of an __________. His only son, _________ (born in 1870), had died at the age of 19 months in 1872. Of his four children, only _____ (born 1874) survived him
``` Susy meningitis blow of Susy's death epileptic seizure Langdon Clara ```
41
(Twain) By 1906 Twain was professing to see no hope for "the damn'd human race", and in __________, published that year, he humorlessly indicted all people as pitiful creatures of low self-interest
What is Man?
42
Twain lived in __________ from 1900 to 1903 and in ___________, from 1903 to 1908, when he built a house, Stormfield, In Redding, Connecticut. In his last years he suffered from heart disease. He died in Redding at the age of seventy-four
New York City | Florence, Italy,
43
First female author/poet Puritanism movement
Anne Bradstreet
44
(Anne) Born ____ in _________, England
1612 | Northampton
45
(Anne) | Sailed to American colonies with her husband Simon, settling in ___________
Massachusetts
46
Anne was the mother of __ She wrote a book of long poetry that was published in England with her later work focusing on family, habitat and death. She also wrote the prose work, _________.
8 | meditations
47
(Anne) She died on __________, in Andover, Massachusetts
sept. 16, 1672
48
(Anne) Her identity is linked because of her predominant father and husband, both __________________
governors of Massachusetts
49
Anne's Her domain was domestic, separated from the ____________________
linked affairs of church and state
50
(Anne) Her friend _____________, the mother of 14 children, held prayer meeting where women debated about what they feel.
Anne Hutchinson
51
(Anne)Hutchinson was labeled a _______ and banished, eventually slain in an Indian attack in New York
Jezebel
52
(Anne)Bradstreet wrote _________ for both her mother and father which not only show her love for them but shows them as models of male and female behavior in Puritan culture
epitaphs
53
The poems were published under The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America in 1650 when she was 38 and it sold well in England
The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America
54
Anne She was seen as a strange _________ of womanhood at the time
aberration