1. The good new for people in Edwards' congregation after hearing "Sinners in the Hands of an SAngry God" is

A)everyone in the congregation will be saved

B)those people who put over $1000 in the collection plate will be saved

C)people who have done good works will be saved

D)during the life times of the people in the congregation, God seems to be bringing in the highest percentage of the elect. (20% of all the people who ever lived overall, but much higher in the 18th Century. Good news for them; bad news for us.)

2. According to Mather, God had sent the Puritans on an errand into the new world to

A)set up the Church of England there

B)make money for Jesus

C)take God's land back from what had become "the devil's territories

D)establish a large business community

3. John Winthrop argued that he could not be empeached for exceeding his authority because

A)his actions had been constitutional

B)the situation demanded immediate action and so he had to exceed his authority

C)the King had appointed him

D)If God had not wanted him to be governor, God would have allowed him to be elected in the first place.

4. When the Puritans annihilated the Pequots by burning their town and stabbing the survivors--men, women and children--as they fled from the fire, William Bradford

A)wept

B)praised the heroism of the Indian people

C)apologized for this barbaric act

D)praised God who had wrought so wonderfully for them

5.In How Men and Women Got Together" the situation comedy is based upon the situation that
A)The women can't really survive without the men
B)the men can't survive without the women
C)the men live like slobs, but the women have nice homes, clothing, and food
D)nobody remembered to bring the beer

6)Both Roger Williams and Thomas Morton considered Native Americans to be
A) devils
B) savages
C) often more charitable than Europeans
D) good allies in time of war

7)The main difference between Anglicans and Puritans was that only Puritans believed that
A)church and state should not be separate
B)drinking alcoholic beverages was immoral
C)the Bible was the only necessary source of infomation about God
D)the Indians should be converted

8. According to Bradford, Roger Williams was "very unsettled in judgment" because

A)he danced around the maypole
B)he wanted to overthrow the government
C)he was intolerant of other religions
D)he believed in the separation of church and state

9.Part of Bradstreet's defense for women poets includes:

A)the fact that the muses were women
B)the fact that women spend their time sewing and doing household chores
C)the fact that men poets are not as sensitive as women poets
D)the fact that most poets are women

10.One of Ann Bradstreet's opinions that would have deeply upset most Puritans (had she spoken openly on the subject) was that
A)same-sex marriage should be legal
B)Catholic's are entitled to their own beliefs
C)Roger Williams was an Anglican in disguise
D)Bradford was an idiot

11.When the sailors refused to share their beer with the separatists,
A)some of them became sick and died
B)the separatists bought beer from them
C)Bradford fired upon the ship
D)the separatists drank water instead of beer

12)When the separatists found the corn that the Indians had cached for the winter, they
A)left it where it was
B)bought it from the Indians
C)stole it and gave thanks to God
D)boiled it

13.Among Winthrop's list of Christian business principles was his belief that
A)if you lost some of your merchandise at sea, you could pass the cost of the loss onto your customers
B)if you lost some of your merchandise at sea, you could NOT pass the cost of the loss onto your customers
C)God was obligated to replace it
D)you could steal the equivalent amount from a Catholic

14.In his Personal Narrative, Edwards notes how God brings him back to his faith through
A)illness
B)sudden wealth
C)his wife
D)a big offering from the church

15.In the Salem Witch trials, spectral evidenced was sufficient evidence for conviction. Spectral evidence as used in the court was
A)witnesses who testified that the spectre of the accused had come to them invisibly and inflicted some kind of harm
B)testimony of ghosts
C)voices from the grave
D)talking dogs