CFA: Chapter 1 Introduction - Encounters and Foundations to 1800
Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
1. The Native Americans were affected by the Europeans in all of the following ways, except:
a. The Native Americans acquired European fire arms, textiles and steel tools.
b. The Native Americans became healthier and stronger.
c. The Native Americans lost much of the land.
d. The Native Americans taught the Europeans how to survive in the new world.
2. The first written observations of life on the North American continent were from:
a. Chinese diaries from railroad workers
b. Spanish and French explorers
c. English and Latin nursery rhymes
d. Native American myths
3. The Spanish explorer Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca —
a. reached the shores of the New World before Columbus
b. was shipwrecked off the west coast of Florida
c. wrote a firsthand account about some southwestern American Indian tribes
d. told about tribes he lived with in Mexico
4. The Puritans played a key role during the Age of Faith. By the seventeenth century a new era called the Age of Reason developed. Which one of the following philosophies is not associated with the Age of Reason?
a. Deism
b. Paganism
c. Rationalism
d. Patriotism
5. Which of the following statements about the English Puritans is not true?
a. They were Protestants who sought to purify the Church of England and return to a simpler form of worship.
b. They believed that the clergy and government should act as intermediaries between the individual and God.
c. Some of them thought the Church of England was too corrupt to reform and called for complete separation from it.
d. They wanted to establish a new society that would be a profitable colony modeled on God’s word.
6. Because Puritans believed that the arrival of God’s grace was demonstrated by saintly behavior, they —
a. thought it was easy to differentiate between the saved and the damned
b. could try to earn salvation by giving money to the church
c. tried to behave in as exemplary a way as possible
d. thought there was no need for rigorous self-examination
7. What inferences can you draw about the characters, plots and settings used in
Puritan literature based on what you have learned about the Puritans value system?
a. These might be based on fantasy
b. These might be about scientists, scientific discoveries and far away galaxies.
c. These might be based on real people facing moral dilemmas.
d. It might be humorous and entertaining
8. The Mayflower Compact paved the way for —
a. a national church
b. a constitutional democracy
c. the Salem witch trials
d. war against the American Indians
9. Rationalists believed that all people —
a. were sinners in the eyes of God, with no hope of redemption
b. were either saved or damned, according to God’s will
c. could change the course of human events through prayer
d. could think in an ordered manner, thereby improving their lives
10. How did Puritans and Rationalists differ in their beliefs?
a. Puritans relied on God while Rationalists relied on reason.
b. Rationalists relied on friends while Puritans relied on purity.
c. Puritans relied on intuition and Rationalists relied on science.
d. Both a and c.
11. Arthur Miller’s play, “The Crucible,” is a reflection of which social/political event?
a. The Boston Tea Party
b. The Revolutionary War
c. The crowning of King Henry VIII.
d. The Salem Witch trials.
12. Cotton Mather is best remembered in the annals of science as the —
a. experimenter who began a public campaign for inoculation against smallpox
b. smallpox patient who believed himself to be one of the “elect” and refused treatment
c. minister who said that inoculation against smallpox was unnecessary, since God’s will would prevail
d. devout Puritan who refused to support any smallpox treatment developed by Muslim doctors
13. According to the deists, the best form of worship was —
a. deep introspection c. regular prayer in church
b. creating greater business profits d. doing good for others
14. Benjamin Franklin’s The Autobiography —
a. tells in detail what Puritans believed
b. describes Franklin’s devout religious practices
c. provides the model for the classic American rags-to-riches story
d. shows that the notion of a self-made person is an unrealistic myth