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Puritans 5Beliefs and
Assumptions 1Declaration of Independence 2
The Autobiography
3Speech to the Virginia
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QUESTION:
•TRUE or FALSE: According to Rationalism, human history is known for progress towards a more perfect existence..
ANSWER:
•True!
QUESTION:
•Rationalists believe this is the best way to arrive at truth.
ANSWER:
•Logic and reason.
QUESTION:
•Deists believed that the best way to worship God is this:
ANSWER:
•Doing good for others.
QUESTION:
•The Puritan minister Cotton Mather is best known for this:
ANSWER:
•A public campaign for inoculation against smallpox.
QUESTION:
•Puritans believed what about the Church of England and government?
ANSWER:
•That it is corrupt and should not act as an intermediary between God and the people.
QUESTION:
•True or False: Benjamin Franklin wrote the Declaration of Independence.
ANSWER:
•False! Thomas Jefferson is the author.
QUESTION:
•“Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes” suggests what?
ANSWER:
•The overthrow of a government is only justified by serious causes.
QUESTION:
•This is the primary function of the grievances Jefferson lists:
ANSWER:
•Evidence of the king’s tyranny.
QUESTION:
•Define and give an example of parallelism from the Declaration of Independence.
ANSWER:
•The same grammatical structure repeated to make a point. Examples will vary.
QUESTION:
•This is the main claim of the Declaration of Independence:
ANSWER:
•Freedom is a right.
QUESTION:
•True or False: Franklin’s The Autobiography shows that the notion of a self-made person is an unrealistic myth.
ANSWER:
•False! It shows a classic rags to riches story!
QUESTION:
•This is how Franklin believes one can achieve moral perfection:
ANSWER:
•Attainable through study and practice.
QUESTION:
•This is the aphorism that means that successfully ordering your own affairs is better than ordering things on paper.
ANSWER:
•“He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes books.”
QUESTION:
•The aphorism that suggests that you should make the most of each day and not procrastinate is this:
ANSWER:
•“One today is worth two tomorrows.”
QUESTION:
•This is a common element of aphorisms:
ANSWER:
•Wit and wordplay.
QUESTION:
•True or False: The main purpose of Patrick Henry’s speech is to seek revenge for personal injuries committed by the British king.
ANSWER:
•False!
QUESTION:
•When Henry uses the words “chains and slavery” in his speech he is referring to what?
ANSWER:
•That the British want to enslave the colonists with their rules.
QUESTION:
•This is the main purpose of Henry’s speech:
ANSWER:
•To persuade the delegates to fight against the British.
QUESTION:
•When Henry claims, “I know of no way of judging the future but by the past, I wish to know what there has been in the conduct of the British Ministry for the last ten years, to justify those hope with which gentlemen have been pleased to solace themselves. . .” he is using what?
ANSWER:
•Logos, appeal to logic to persuade his listeners.
QUESTION:
•This line (s) is an example of Henry’s appeal to pathos to persuade his audience:
ANSWER:
•Various/ “Give me liberty or give me death!”
QUESTION:
•True or False: The Puritans viewed the Bible as the literal word of God.
ANSWER:
•True!
QUESTION:
•This is the form of literature and writing that came from the Puritans and is still used today.
ANSWER:
•Autobiographical narrative.
QUESTION:
•To understand the Bible and God’s word, the Puritans valued this and even established this institution:
ANSWER:
•Education, Harvard College.
QUESTION:
•Puritans favored this form of writing and this style of writing:
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•Diaries and histories in a plain style of writing.
QUESTION:
•Today’s social welfare programs and Cotton Mather’s struggle to encourage inoculation against smallpox in the 1721 are both an example of what?
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•Deism or deist philosophical assumptions.
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