True or false: Puritan literature often alluded to the Bible.
What is true?
100
What town does The Crucible take place in?
What is Salem?
100
He said: “Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life!”
Who is John Proctor?
100
What is the definition of renaissance?
What is a rebirth?
100
What was going on in Arthur Miller's time that inspired him to write The Crucible?
What is The Red Scare?
200
This Puritan author is often known as the Tenth Muse.
Who is Anne Bradstreet?
200
Abigail does what when things begin getting completely out of control in Salem?
What is steals money and flees?
200
Who is Rev. Parris' niece?
Who is Abigail Williams?
200
Emerson was the leader of what movement during the American Renaissance?
What is the Transcendental?
200
Hawthorne was part of which literary movement?
What is Romanticism?
300
The extended metaphor in Bradstreet's poem "Upon the Burning of our House" most likely compares what?
What is her earthly home and her heavenly home?
300
Before the action of the play, what were Betty and her friends caught doing?
What is dancing in the woods?
300
Other than Betty, who else has an unexplained illness?
Who is Ruth Putnam?
300
A short, witty phrase that expresses a truth about life is known as what?
What is an aphorism?
300
Arthur Miller based his plays around what kind of aspects of a person's life?
What is moral; societal; impacts of family; impacts of responsibility?
400
The purpose of Jonathon Edwards’s sermon, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” is to what?
What is to scare people into converting or maintaining Puritan beliefs?
400
Elizabeth Proctor does this when asked if her husband has been unfaithful to her.
What is lies?
400
Who is crushed to death for not making a plea in court?
Who is Giles Corey?
400
Emerson notices that man can own land but not the landscape in which of his works?
What is "Nature?"
400
Arthur Miller what other play besides The Crucible?
What is Death of a Salesman; All My Sons; etc.
500
Most scholars agree that Edwards stretches the framework of Puritan literature by breaking many of the significant tenants of that style. Which one characteristics of Puritan literature is the only one Edwards adheres to?
What is using the Bible as framework?
500
True or False: the woods is a setting in the play?
What is false?
500
John Proctor calls this man Pontius Pilot
Who is Rev. Hale?
500
The self-reliant nature of New England helped to make it what during the American Renaissance?
What is the literary epicenter?
500
These people already populated North America in many tribes.