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- 1. Multiple Choice
Which of the following is NOT a type of Colonial Literature?
Revolutionary Literature
Puritan Literature
Traditional Literature
Native American Literature
- 2. Multiple Choice
Which type of Colonial Literature is composed of myths, fables, and folktales?
Native American Literature
Puritan Literature
Revolutionary Literature
Traditional Literature
- 3. Multiple Choice
Which type of Colonial Literature is characterized as coming from an oral tradition because there was no written language?
Puritan Literature
Revolutionary Literature
Traditional Literature
Native American Literature
- 4. Multiple Choice
Which type of Colonial Literature is characterized as being religious in nature and having a plain style?
Revolutionary Literature
Puritan Literature
Native American Literature
Traditional Literature
- 5. Multiple Choice
Which type of Colonial Literature consists of diary/journal entries, hymns, sermons, autobiographies/biographies, and practical texts?
Traditional Literature
Revolutionary Literature
Native American Literature
Puritan Literature
- 6. Multiple Choice
Which type of Colonial Literature is characterized by the American Revolutionary War?
Revolutionary Literature
Traditional Literature
Puritan Literature
Native American Literature
- 7. Multiple Choice
Which type of Colonial Literature consists of speeches, essays, pamphlets, government writing, and slave narratives?
Traditional Literature
Puritan Literature
Native American Literature
Revolutionary Literature
- 8. Multiple Choice
Plymouth Colony was established in:
1492
1607
1620
1776
- 9. Multiple Choice
Jamestown was established in:
1776
1492
1607
1620
- 10. Multiple Choice
Which of the following is NOT one of the reasons the Puritans wanted to leave England?
They wanted to separate from the Church of England.
They wanted to practice and spread their religion freely.
They wanted to live on and explore land of their own.
They wanted to convert Native Americans to Christianity.
- 11. Multiple Choice
What is a form of government in which the church or a religion rules?
democracy
monarchy
anarchy
theocracy
- 12. Multiple Choice
The Puritans saw themselves as
the City on a Hill.
the salvation of the world.
the judgment of God.
the jewel in the crown.
- 13. Multiple Choice
Which of the following is NOT a Puritan belief/value?
Humans exist for the glory of God.
Education for all
Predestination
Natural human goodness
- 14. Multiple Choice
The Puritans called the ones who were chosen by God to go to Heaven:
the elect
the good.
the degenerate.
the chosen.
- 15. Multiple Choice
Puritans believed that fiction, or any "vain and idle" time waster was
bad for your health.
evidence of being holy.
a sin.
a moral right.
- 16. Multiple Choice
A figure of speech in which a speaker directly addresses a person who is dead or is not physically present, a personified object, a non-human thing, or an abstract concept such as God.
imagery
alliteration
irony
apostrophe
- 17. Multiple Choice
Opposite of the normal syntactical structure of a sentence.
introspection
inversion
extended metaphor
slant rhyme
- 18. Multiple Choice
Type of irony where the reader is aware of something that the characters are not.
verbal irony
situational irony
dramatic irony
literary irony
- 19. Multiple Choice
A reference to something literary, historical, classical, or Biblical
paradox
hyperbole
allusion
simile
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