Colonial Test Review

from Of Plymouth Plantation

1. What is the “First Encounter”?

2. Please summarize “The Starving Time”.

3. How did Squanto help the colonists?

4. What conditions did the Pilgrims face on the First Thanksgiving?

5. Who is the author?

from Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

5. What feeling does the author hope to inspire in his listeners?

6. Who is the audience?

7. Who is the author?

from The General History of Virginia

8. How was Smith saved form death in Powhatan’s court?

9. Why were the Native Americans important to the colonists?

10. What does Smith’s description of giving gifts to the Native Americans reveal about his attitude toward them?

11. Who is the author?

from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano

12. How can we tell that the slave traders wanted to keep the captives alive?

13. Why did Equiano fear the sailors?

14. In what ways were the sailors cruel?

15. Why was Equiano whipped?

16. According to Equiano, what added to the horror of slavery?

17. Who is the author?

The World on the Turtle’s Back

18. Why does the man go to the Great Tree at the beginning of the myth?

19. Why is the Great Tree important to the Iroquois’ creation myth?
20. What does this creation myth explain about the Iroquois dance rituals?

21. What do the arrows that the man brings to the girl represent?

22. What does the twins’ competition to make animals in this creation myth explain?

23. What does the gods’ reaction to the woman’s fall tell you about the role of the gods in Iroquois culture?

24. Why is the diversity of plants on the Great Tree is important to the creation myths of the Iroquois?

To My Dear and Loving Husband
Upon the Burning of Our House
Huswifery

25. What metaphor is used in line 7 of “To My Dear and Loving Husband”?

26. The last lines of “To My Dear and Loving Husband” reveal what about the speaker?

27. What does the poet of “Huswifery” use to show that practicing faith is an everyday activity?

28. What does the speaker in “Huswifery” hopes to be ready for?

29. What is the view that both poets use their poetry to express?

30. Bradstreet uses hyperbole in the first four lines of “To My Dear and Loving Husband” to exaggerate what truth?

31. What does the “hope and treasure” that the speaker refers to at the end of “Upon the Burning of Our House” represent?

32. In “Huswifery,” what does the metaphor that compares the speaker with a loom and God with a weaver suggest about Puritan life?

33. Both Bradstreet and Taylor have written poetry that expresses what?

Author Background

34. Whose sermons helped bring the Great Awakening?

35. Who wrote “Huswifery”?

36. Who was the first notable American poet?

37. Who came to America on the Mayflower?

38. Who wrote about the First Thanksgiving?

39. Who had eight kids?