BI 4325, THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN CHRISTIANITY

Study Questions (Hudson, Chaps. 1-8)

October 26, 1995

  1. Associate: S.P.G.

A. Anglicans

B. Puritans

C. Presbyterians

D. Methodists

  1. ______were Congregationalists who had become convinced that if churches were to be composed of believers only, then baptism should be restricted to those who were able to give some account of their own faith.
  1. none of these
  2. Baptists
  3. Anglicans
  4. Puritans

3. Associate: Henry Dunster rejected infant baptism in 1654 and was forced to resign as president of Harvard.

A. German Reformed

B. Congregationalists

C. Presbyterians

D. Baptists

4. With the exception of transient groups, the ______were the smallest of the religious minorities in colonial America.

A. Dunkers

B. Sandemanians

C. Jews

D. German Reformed

5. Associate: NazarethBethlehem, Pennsylvania; Salem, North Carolina

  1. none of these
  2. Moravians
  3. Mennonites
  4. Quakers

6. ENTHUSIASM DESCRIBED AND CAUTIONED AGAINST

A. Charles Chauncy

B. Solomon Stoddard

C. Gilbert Tennent

D. none of these

7. Identify: Church of the Brethren

  1. Dunkers
  2. Quakers

C. Moravians

D. Mennonites

8. ______was the great center of German immigration to the colonies.

A. New Jersey

B. Virginia

C. Pennsylvania

D. none of these

9. Identify: The second manifestation of the Great Awakening.

  1. Theodore J. Frelinghuysen
  2. George Whitefield
  3. Jonathan Edwards
  4. The Tennents among the Presbyterians

10.Which of the following is NOT true of the Virginia colony?

  1. Anglicans were a majority of the population.
  2. Anglicanism was established from the beginning.
  3. Conformity to the Church of England was enforced.
  4. none of these

11. Associate: Theodore J. Frelinghuysen

  1. none of these
  2. Presbyterian
  3. Congregational
  4. Dutch Reformed

12. Associate: “The fatherhood of God, the brotherhood of man and the neighborhood Boston.”

  1. Anglicanism
  2. Presbyterianism
  3. Congregationalism
  4. Unitarianism

13. OberlinCollege

  1. 1832
  2. 1801
  3. 1861
  4. 1807

14. “The Grand Itinerant”

A. William Tennent

B. George Whitefield

C. John Wesley

D. none of these

15. Associate:Massachusetts Bay

  1. Anglican
  2. Anglican
  3. Separatist
  4. Nonseparating Congregationalists

16. Associate: Mary Fisher and Ann Austin

  1. none of these
  2. Quakers
  3. Anglicans
  4. Baptists

17. Identify: The ______sought to reconcile the rationalism of their fathers with the romanticism of their age by introducing a strong note of mysticism.

  1. Unitarians
  2. Universalists
  3. none of these
  4. Trancendentalists

18. Peter Cartwright

  1. Cumberland Presbyterian
  2. Methodist
  3. Baptist
  4. Christian

19. Associate: “Holy Experiment”

  1. Pennsylvania
  2. Georgia
  3. Virginia
  4. Connecticut

20. In ______alone of all the colonies did the Anglicans command a clear majority of the religious population.

  1. Virginia
  2. North Carolina
  3. Maryland
  4. Georgia

21. Associate: John Woolman

  1. Anglicans
  2. Moravians
  3. Baptists
  4. Quakers

22. Which of the following was NOT a prominent figure in the Southern phase of the Great Awakening?

  1. Devereux Jarratt
  2. Shubal Stearns
  3. Samuel Davies
  4. William Tennent

23. Associate: St. Augustine, New Mexico, Texas, California

  1. none of these
  2. French missions
  3. Spanish missions
  4. English missions

24. Identify: This colony, founded to provide a place for Catholic colonists, accepted Anglican establishment in 1702.

A. Maryland

B. Massachusetts Bay

C. Virginia

D. Pennsylvania

25. Associate: Lord Baltimore

  1. New Jersey
  2. none of these
  3. Virginia
  4. South Carolina

26. THE DANGER OF AN UNCONVERTED MINISTRY

  1. Gilbert Tennent
  2. George Whitefield
  3. Theodore Frelinghuysen
  4. Jonathan Edwards

27. “Nobody was out but crows and ______preachers.”

  1. Baptist
  2. Methodist
  3. Anglican
  4. Presbyterian

28. Identify: “The aim, effort, and expectation” should be that a child may “grow up a Christian and never know himself as being otherwise.”

  1. none of these
  2. Henry David Thoreau
  3. Horace Bushnell
  4. Bronson Alcott

29. Associate: The “banding” of a number of students at Andover Theological Seminary (1810).

  1. The beginning of the “holiness” movement.
  2. Foreign missions
  3. none of the above
  4. Indian missions

30. Identify: The Baptist belief in apostolic succession through an unbroken line of New Testament churches.

  1. Missionary Baptists
  2. Landmark Baptists
  3. Primitive Baptists
  4. Hard Shell Baptists

31. ______and Congregationalists were the most active in founding academies and colleges.

  1. Presbyterians
  2. Methodists
  3. Anglicans
  4. Baptists

32. Previous to his coming, the “quickening” sermons had been preached in churches and in stated hours of public worship.

  1. Whitefield
  2. Woolman

C. Frelinghuysen

D. Wesley

33. Landmark Baptists: Which of the following does NOT fit?

  1. James M. Pendleton
  2. B. none of these
  3. George Ripley

D. James R. Graves

34. Which of the following is NOT true of Charles G. Finney's “new

measures"?

  1. He refused to allow women to testify.
  2. He used the “anxious bench.”
  3. He adapted the revival to an urban environment.
  4. He mentioned sinners by name.

35. Associate: College of Rhode Island (BrownUniversity)

  1. Presbyterian
  2. Anglican
  3. Congregational
  4. Baptist

36. Identify: An insistence upon divine immanence, a dependence upon intuitive perception of truth, and a rejection of all external authority.

  1. Unitarianism
  2. Deism
  3. Universalism
  4. Trancendentalism

37. Associate: Philadelphia Confession of Faith

  1. Presbyterians
  2. Anglicans
  3. Congregationalists
  4. Baptists

38. Associate: Westminster Confession

  1. Puritan
  2. Presbyterian
  3. Baptist
  4. Anglican

39. Identify: He established the first permanent Lutheran synod in

America.

  1. Henry Melchior Muhlenberg
  2. Peter Stuyvesant
  3. Nicholas Ludwig von Zinzendorf
  4. Johann Valentin Kraft

40. Identify: “Benevolent Empire”

  1. The collection of national societies
  2. The Southern colonies
  3. TheLouisiana Purchase
  4. TheNew England colonies

41. Identify: They were a plain people--plain in dress, plain in speech, and plain in behavior. They gathered in silence for worship until one of their number was led by the Spirit to speak.

  1. Moravians
  2. Dunkers
  3. Quakers
  4. Mennonites

42. Transcendentalism--which of the following does NOT fit?

  1. Theodore Parker
  2. Henry David Thoreau
  3. Ralph Waldo Emerson
  4. William Ellery Channing

43. Identify: The founder of missions at San Diego, San Antonio, San Juan Capistrano.

  1. Junipero Serra
  2. La Salle
  3. none of these
  4. Marquette

44. North Carolina, South Carolina and ______had little in common with Virginia beyond a nominal establishment of Anglicanism.

  1. West Virginia
  2. Maryland
  3. Pennsylvania
  4. Georgia

45. The ______or Unitas Fratrum, had their origin in the evangelical movement that sprang from the preaching of John Hus of Prague in the 15th century.

  1. Church of the Brethren
  2. Moravians

C. Mennonites

D. German Reformed

46. Associate: Mobile(1702)and New Orleans(1718)

A. none of these

B. French

C. English

D. Spanish

47. American Antislavery Society

  1. 1833
  2. 1807
  3. 1861
  4. 1799

48. American Sunday School Union

  1. 1807
  2. 1901
  3. 1816
  4. 1824

49. The urban phase of the Second Awakening can be seen most clearly in the person and activity of

  1. Charles G. Finney
  2. Nathaniel Taylor
  3. none of these
  4. Barton W. Stone

50. “HighChurch”: Which of the following does NOT fit?

  1. Charles Hodge
  2. John Henry Hobart
  3. none of these
  4. John W. Nevin

51. The ______were tardy in forming a missionary society, but they had little need of this kind of organization since every conference was in effect a missionary society.

  1. Congregationalists
  2. Baptists
  3. Methodists
  4. Presbyterians

52. “The Great Century”

  1. 20th
  2. 18th
  3. none of these
  4. 19th

53. Associate: The major flow of Scotch Irish was into the middle colonies and down the Shenandoah Valley into the Piedmont region of the South, and these became the great centers of ______strength and influence.

  1. Anglican
  2. Quaker
  3. Presbyterian
  4. Mennonite

54. Associate: “... one of the next things we longed for and looked after was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity, dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches when our present ministers shall lie in the dust.”

  1. William and Mary
  2. Columbia
  3. Harvard
  4. Dartmouth

55. CHRISTIAN NURTURE (1847)

  1. Charles G. Finney
  2. Horace Bushnell
  3. Ralph Waldo Emerson
  4. George Ripley

56. Associate: Francis Makemie

  1. Dutch Reformed
  2. Congregational
  3. Presbyterian
  4. Anglican

57. Identify: The “beginner of the great work” (Great Awakening)

  1. Theodore J. Frelinghuysen
  2. none of these
  3. George Whitefield
  4. Jonathan Edwards

58. Although ______initially were the largest group in Rhode Island, they were soon rivaled and then surpassed by the Quakers.

  1. Puritans
  2. Anglicans
  3. Baptists
  4. Presbyterians

59. Associate: “The fatherhood of God, the brotherhood of man, the leadership of Jesus, salvation by character, and the progress of man onward and upward forever.”

  1. Deism
  2. New Light Congregationalism
  3. Unitarianism
  4. none of these

60. Potential Presbyterian strength represented by the Scotch Irish in Virginia was marshaled very effectively by

  1. Jonathan Edwards.
  2. Samuel Davies.
  3. John Woolman.
  4. George Whitefield.

61. Unitarian Christianity

  1. Peter Cartwright
  2. Charles B. Finney
  3. William Ellery Channing
  4. Francis Asbury

62. The ______baptized by a threefold immersion rather than by pouring.

  1. Mennonites
  2. Dutch Reformed
  3. Dunkers
  4. Moravians

63. This Great Awakening revivalist was concerned about both youthful “licentiousness” and the spread of “Arminian” principles.

  1. Jonathan Edwards
  2. George Whitefield
  3. Gilbert Tennent
  4. none of these

64. Associate: Plymouth

  1. Separatist
  2. Anglican
  3. Moravian
  4. Presbyterian

65. The ______population in the colonies was largely limited to Maryland.

  1. Anglican
  2. none of these
  3. Roman Catholic
  4. Baptist

66. Associate: “New Measures”

  1. Charles G. Finney
  2. none of these
  3. James McGready
  4. John McGee

67. Thomas Campbell arrives from Ireland.

  1. 1801
  2. 1807
  3. 1790
  4. 1816

68. Which one of the following is NOT a Transcendental communal society?

  1. Brook Farm
  2. none of these
  3. Hopedale
  4. Fruitlands

69. Associate: Seventh-dayAdventistChurch

  1. Joseph Smith
  2. Katie Fox
  3. Sidney Rigdon
  4. William Miller

70. Maggie Fox

  1. Christian Scientist
  2. Spiritualism
  3. Shakers
  4. Mormons

71. Identify: She was instrumental in organizing the Holiness Movement.

  1. Ann Hutchinson
  2. Ann Judson
  3. Phoebe Palmer
  4. Nancy Towle

72. United Brethren in ChristChurch

  1. 1789
  2. 1845
  3. 1636
  4. 1800

73. Methodist Episcopal Church, South

  1. 1861
  2. 1807
  3. 1837
  4. 1845

74. Associate: Samuel Seabury

  1. Episcopal
  2. Presbyterian
  3. Methodist
  4. Congregationalist

75. Associate: Sidney Rigdon

  1. Shakers
  2. Seventh-day Adventists
  3. Jehovah's Witnesses
  4. Mormons

76. Protestant Episcopal Church

  1. 1790
  2. 1701
  3. 1801
  4. 1785

77. Southern Baptist Convention

  1. 1861
  2. none of these
  3. 1845
  4. 1816

78. Ellen Gould White

  1. Spiritualism
  2. Seventh-day Adventist
  3. Mormons
  4. Shakers

79. YMCA

  1. 1865
  2. 1830
  3. 1845
  4. 1844

80. Associate: LoganCounty

  1. Lyman Beecher
  2. Charles G. Finney
  3. James McGready
  4. Nathaniel W. Taylor

81. College of New Jersey (Princeton)

  1. 1636
  2. 1701
  3. 1776
  4. 1746

82. Identify: He led a revival at Yale in 1802.

  1. Timothy Dwight
  2. Nathaniel W. Taylor
  3. Edwin Gaustad
  4. Lyman Beecher

83. THE BOOK OF MORMON

  1. 1830
  2. 1807
  3. none of these
  4. 1845

84. As was to be true of the Methodists, the ______helped to fill the vacuum left by the shortage of ministers among those denominations that adhered more rigidly to formal educational requirements.

  1. Baptists
  2. Episcopalians
  3. Congregationalists
  4. Presbyterians

85. Which one of the following is NOT one of those groups that suffered most during the Revolutionary War?

  1. Anglicans
  2. Baptists
  3. Moravians
  4. Quakers

86. Revivalism in the 19th century caused defections to Methodist views and techniques and produced a cluster of new ecclesiastical bodies. Which one of these does NOT fit?

  1. Free-Will Baptists
  2. United Brethren
  3. Cumberland Presbyterians
  4. none of these

87. In 1808 ______was founded as a bulwark of orthodoxy in response to the liberalism of Harvard.

A. Andover Theological Seminary

B. OberlinCollege

C. Lane Seminary

D. Princeton Seminary

88. Barton W. Stone

  1. Methodist
  2. none of these
  3. Presbyterian
  4. Baptist

89. Associate: Christ in his 'second appearing'

  1. John Humphrey Noyes
  2. Ann Lee
  3. none of these
  4. George Ripley

90. Which of the following was NOT a Deist?

  1. John Cotton
  2. Benjamin Franklin
  3. Thomas Paine
  4. Thomas Jefferson

91. The ______was the greatest casualty of the American Revolution.

  1. MennoniteChurch
  2. MoravianChurch
  3. Church of England
  4. none of these

92. Abner Jones

  1. Methodist
  2. Baptist
  3. none of these
  4. Presbyterian

93. CHRISTMAS CONFERENCE

  1. none of these
  2. Episcopal
  3. Methodist
  4. Baptist

94. The decades immediately preceding the Civil War witnessed the triumph of the distinctive emphases of the ______in practically all the denominations.

  1. Methodists
  2. Presbyterians
  3. Campbellites
  4. Baptists

95. Queen's College (Rutgers)

  1. Dutch Reformed
  2. Anglican
  3. Methodist
  4. Baptist

96. Francis Asbury

  1. Congregationalist
  2. Mormon
  3. Methodist
  4. Anglican

97. Which of the following is NOT a consequence of the Great Awakening?

  1. Development of a common understanding of the Christian life.
  2. none of these
  3. The creation of a system of voluntary societies.
  4. The development of the 'denominational' concept.

98. James O'Kelly

  1. Baptist
  2. Free Will Baptist
  3. Presbyterian
  4. Methodist

99. Orestes A. Brownson

  1. Catholic
  2. Baptist
  3. Methodist
  4. Presbyterian

100. Cane Ridge Revival

  1. 1801
  2. none of these
  3. 1789
  4. 1816

101. Identify: The last state (former colony) to give all religious groups a purely voluntary status.

  1. Virginia
  2. Massachusetts
  3. Connecticut
  4. New Hampshire

102. American Bible Society

  1. 1816
  2. 1845
  3. none of these
  4. 1914

103. PROMISE OF THE FATHER (1859)

  1. Phoebe Palmer
  2. Ann Hutchinson
  3. C. Ann Judson
  4. Susan Humes

104. Thomas Coke

  1. Presbyterian
  2. Baptist
  3. Episcopal
  4. Methodist

105. Associate: MIDNIGHT CRY

  1. William Miller
  2. B. Sidney Rigdon
  3. Joseph Smith
  4. Adin Ballou

106. Associate: Shakers

  1. Ann Lee
  2. Joseph Smith
  3. John Humphrey Noyes
  4. William Keil

107. Which one of these groups actually prospered during the Revolutionary War?

  1. Presbyterian
  2. Baptists
  3. none of these
  4. Anglicans

108. Which of the following was NOT a pacifist group during the Revolution?

  1. Quakers
  2. Dunkers
  3. none of these
  4. Moravians

109. Three emphases stimulated by revivalistic preaching were of decisive importance in creating the climate of enthusiasm out of which the new cults, seats and communities came. Which one of the following does NOT fit?

  1. none of these
  2. S. The stress on the possibility of perfect sanctification.
  3. The expectation of a golden age to come.
  4. The demand for an immediate confrontation with God.

110. March 21, 1843---March 21, 1844

  1. Ellen Gould White
  2. Mary Baker Eddy
  3. Sidney Rigdon

D. William Miller

111. Associate: Red River--Which one of the following does NOT fit?

  1. John McGee
  2. William Hodges
  3. James McGready
  4. Charles G. Finney

112. Theodore Dwight Weld

  1. Antislavery
  2. Women's Rights
  3. Sabbath observance
  4. Temperance

113. Associate: Hampden-SydneyCollege

  1. Presbyterian
  2. Congregational
  3. Methodist
  4. Baptist

114. Methodist Episcopal Church

  1. 1784
  2. none of these
  3. 1701
  4. 1730

115. BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC

  1. Julia Ward Howe
  2. Clara Barton

C. Lousia May Alcott

D. Harriet Beecher Stowe

116. Of the original 13 colonies, which one of these had NOT been committed to a policy of religious liberty?

  1. Massachusetts
  2. Pennsylvania
  3. Delaware

D. Rhode Island

117. Massachusetts did away with religious establishment in

  1. 1833.
  2. 1818.
  3. 1819.
  4. 1776.

118. THE BOOK OF MORMON

  1. 1801
  2. 1845
  3. 1861
  4. 1830

119. Which of the following is NOT one of those groups which was least affected by the Revolutionary War?

  1. Mennonites
  2. Presbyterians
  3. none of these
  4. Congregationalists

120. Southern Baptist Convention

  1. 1865
  2. 1857
  3. 1945
  4. 1837

121. Which of the following is NOT a consequence of the Great Awakening?

  1. Revival of interest in Indian missions.
  2. none of these
  3. Role of laity in the churches was enhanced.
  4. Impulse given to higher education.

122. UNCLE TOM'S CABIN (1852)

  1. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  2. Julia Ward Howe
  3. Harriet Beecher Stowe
  4. D. Ann Lee

123. Which of the following was NOT a Deist?

  1. none of these
  2. Elihu Palmer
  3. Ethan Allen

D. Thomas Paine