Creation Myths
Characteristics of Puritans
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The Crucible
Grab Bag
100
Native Americans emigrated from this continent into North America around 35,000 BCE.
What is Asia?
100
This acronym is helpful in determining Puritan basic beliefs.
What is T.U.L.I.P.?
100
This extended metaphor is used by Taylor in his poem "Huswifery" to illustrate his relationship to God.
What is the act of spinning yarn into cloth/ing?
100
This is the year in which 19 men and women were carted to Gallows Hill near Salem Village for hanging.
What is 1692?
100
The reign of Joseph McCarthy and his HUAC hearings of possible Red sympathizers occurred during which war?
What is The Cold War?
200
Native American creation myths originated as this, where stories were passed down verbally through generations.
What is oral tradition?
200
This type of depravity was considered to run through as men and women as a result of Adam and Eve's Fall from Grace.
What is Innate Depravity or Total Depravity?
200
According Edwards' "SitHoaAG," this is the only thing that keeps sinners from falling into Hell.
What is the "power and mere pleasure of God that holds you up"(Edwards 108)?
200
This is the character who most exemplifies the theme of appearance vs. reality in that throughout the play the townspeople see her as innocent.
Who is Abigail Williams?
200
This poet writes "I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold."
Who is Anne Bradstreet?
300
One of the 4 functions of myth is to awaken this and the wonder of creation.
What is mystery?
300
This Puritan tenet holds that God "saves" those He wishes and that only a few are reserved for salvation.
What is the Doctrine of the Elect or Unconditional Election?
300
Puritan thought is derived from this type of thought which originated from the founder of the Presbyterian Church in Geneva, Switzerland.
What is Calvinistic thought?
300
This character most exemplifies the character and actions of a Christ-figure, although, ironically proclaiming that "God is dead."
Who is John Proctor?
300
These types of writings were viewed as imaginative and thus sinful in the eyes of the Puritans.
What is poetry, fiction, drama, romances, imaginative writing etc.?
400
Another function of myth is to pass down these codes.
What are moral and ethical codes?
400
Perseverance of these is a Puritan tenet that holds that those elected by God have full power to interpret the will of God.
Who are "the saints"?
400
True or False: Puritans founded colonies on Rhode Island which allowed for religious toleration and separation of church and state.
What is false? This was Roger Williams, founder of the Quakers.
400
This character is the most defensive character in the play due to his fear of ruining his reputation in the community.
Who is Parris?
400
True or False: The Puritans felt that the established Church of England was pure, and not open to the influence of politics.
What is false?
500
In "The Earth on Turtle's Back" this creature is responsible for bringing Earth from the deep.
Who is Muskrat?
500
True or False: According to Puritan belief, God's wrath and reward are present in natural phenomena such as floods or bountiful harvests.
What is true?
500
This is the belief that God elects who goes to heaven and who goes to hell.
What is predestination?
500
This character abandons her individuality by turning on Proctor, maintaining the girls' lie, and literally running into Abigail's arms.
Who is Mary Warren?
500
These are three ways in which Puritan beliefs excluded others.
Answers may vary, but: 1. Thought themselves a chosen people 2. Thought that challenging them was challenging God's will 3. Were intolerant of others' views 4. Made laws concerning morality 5. Drove Quakers from their colonies