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QUESTION: One reason Winthrop delivers this sermon to his congregation is to emphasize that the success of their community will depend on their ability to unify and function as a team.
Which detail from the sermon best helps to convey this purpose?
Question 6 options:
"For this end, we must be knit together in this work as one man."
"He ratified this covenant…and will expect a strict performance of the articles contained in it…"
"The Lord will be our God, and delight to dwell among us as His own people…"
"…we shall be made a story and a by-word through the world."
Which of the following quotes from "A Model of Christian Charity" does not contain an allusion to stories or events in the Bible?
Question 7 options:
"Now the only way to avoid this shipwreck, and to provide for our posterity, is to follow the counsel of Micah, to do justly, to love mercy, to walk humbly with our God. For this end, we must be knit together in this work as one man" (13).
"Therefore let us choose life, that we and our seed may live, by obeying His voice and cleaving to Him, for He is our life and our prosperity" (14).
"And to shut this discourse with that exhortation of Moses, that faithful servant of the Lord, in his last farewell to Israel, Deuteronomy 30. "Beloved, there is now set before us life and death, good and evil," in that we are commanded this day to love the Lord our God, and to love one another, to walk in His ways and to keep His Commandments and His ordinance and His laws, and the articles of our Covenant with Him, that we may live and be multiplied, and that the Lord our God may bless us in the land whither we go to possess it" (14).
"Thus stands the cause between God and us. We are entered into covenant with Him for this work" (12).
What effect might the use of biblical allusions have had on those who were listening to John Winthrop's sermon "A Model of Christian Charity"?
Question 8 options:
It helped the listeners see that their situation was similar to that of the ancient Israelites; they, like the Israelites, needed to obey God's commandments by loving God and one another.
It reminded the listeners that they needed to be unified.
It made the listeners proud to be descendants of the Israelites.
It made the listeners laugh with delight.
QUESTION:
In "Upon the Burning of Our House," Bradstreet explains that after losing her house, she takes comfort in knowing a permanent home awaits her in heaven.
Which lines from the poem best convey this thought?
Question 9 options:
"Under thy roof no guest shall sit, / Nor at thy table eat a bit."
"The world no longer let me love, / My hope and treasure lies above."
"Then, coming out, beheld a space / The flame consume my dwelling place."
"Raise up thy thoughts above the sky / That dunghill mists away may fly."
What is the purpose of these lines from the poem "Upon the Burning of Our House"?
Raise up thy thoughts above the sky
That dunghill mists away may fly.
Thou hast an house on high erect,
Framed by that mighty Architect,
With glory richly furnished,
Stands permanent though this be fled.
Question 10 options:
The author is reminding herself of all that she has lost in the burning of her house.
The author is lamenting her terrible homemaking skills.
The author is showing how she was weeping inconsolably.
The author is reminding herself to think about her heavenly home even though her earthly home has burned down.
