The annals of Massachusetts Bay will inform us, that of six governors, in the space of about forty years from the surrender of the old charter, under James II., two were imprisoned by a popular insurrection – a third, as Hutchinson inclines to believe, was driven from the province by the whizzing of a musket ball – a fourth, in the opinion of the same historian, was hastened to his grave by continual bickerings with the house of representatives – and the remaining two, as well as their successors, till the Revolution, were favored with few and brief intervals of peaceful sway. What is an “insurrection” ?

Related Mcqs:

1. Which of the following shifts began in the reign of Henry VII and continued under his Tudor successors ?

   A. the growing authority of the Pope over domestic English affairs
   B. the expansion of England’s colonial possessions
   C. the rise in the power and confidence of the aristocracy
   D. the countering of feudal power structures by a stronger central authority

2. Fill in the blank. The greatest insurrection of the______________ age in England was over religion?

   A. Hanover
   B. Protestant
   C. Tudor
   D. None of these

3. His son Rip, an urchin begotten in his own likeness, promised to inherit the habits, with thåe old clothes of his father. He was generally seen trooping like a colt at his mother’s heels, equipped in a pair of his father’s cast-off galligaskins, which he had much ado to hold up with one hand, as a fine lady does her train in bad weather. What are “galligaskins” ?

   A. Long, wide petticoats
   B. A trench-coat
   C. Loose, wide breeches
   D. Underpants

4. Why do most scholars assume that Radcliffe favored “explained supernaturalism” ?

   A. Her sense of morality and decorum
   B. Her defiance of contemporary culture
   C. Her lack of imagination
   D. Her full embrace of the Gothic vision of Walpole, Beckford, and Lewis

5. “The Prince Of Poets in his time”, on whom grave the inscription is given ?

   A. Sir Philip Sidney
   B. John Milton
   C. Edmund Spencer
   D. John Donne

6. I took my visitors all over the house. I bade them search — search well. I led them, at length, to his chamber. I showed them his treasures, secure, undisturbed. The narrator is________________?

   A. Helping Robin to search for his uncle
   B. A detective
   C. Leading the police to the scene of a crime
   D. Helping the police to look for a letter

7. Who is the author of ‘A Brief History of Time’ ?

   A. Albert Einstein
   B. Stephen Hawking
   C. Jagadish Chandra Basu
   D. Isaac Newton

8. _____________the eyes of all people are upon us; soe that if wee shall deale falsely with our god in this worke wee have undertaken and soe cause him to withdrawe his preent help from us, wee shall be made a story and a by-word through the world, wee shall open the mouthes of enemies to speake evill of the ways of god and all professours for Gods sake; wee shall shame the faces of many of gods worthy servants, and cause theire prayers to be turned into Cursses upon us till we be consumed out of the good land whether wee are going ?

   A. Fredrick Douglass
   B. John Winthrop
   C. Benjamin Franklin
   D. William Apess

9. The hairy wild-bee that murmurs and hankers up and down, that gripes the fullgrown lady-flower, curves upon her with amorous firm legs, takes his will of her, and holds himself tremulous and tight till he is satisfied. What does tremulous mean ?

   A. Trembling and timid
   B. Stiff
   C. Afraid
   D. Contemplating and deciding

10. Which of the following statements accurately characterizes Marianne Moore’s poem “A Grave ?”

    A. It juxtaposes human consciousness against the sea.
    B. It uses alliteration and iambic pentameter.
    C. It has a subtle formal structure, even though it does not use rhyme.
    D. Both A and C