Which statement below best paraphrases what John Winthrop meant when he declared that the MBC would be as a “city upon a hill” ?

Related Mcqs:

1. What statement below best sums up the literary significance of John Winthrop ?

   A. American myths
   B. non separating puritan
   C. City upon a hill
   D. All are correct

2. We associate John Winthrop with what colonial Settlement ?

   A. Plymouth
   B. Mayflower compact
   C. Massachusetts Bay Colony
   D. Rhode Island

3. What statement below best sums up the literary significance of John Saffin ?

   A. Anti-Slavery
   B. Father of american poetry
   C. Pro Slavery
   D. Father of American Liteature

4. Where was John Milton born? Where was John Milton born ?

   A. London
   B. Bristol
   C. Wales
   D. Yorkshire

5. Fill in the blank. In the second edition of_________________, John Foxe promised that he would edit a collection of the works of William Tyndale, John Frith, and Robert Barnes?

   A. “Acts and Monuments”
   B. “Utopia”
   C. “Euphues”
   D. “Paradise Regained”

6. Which of the following themes or subjects was not common in the works of Cavalier poets, such as Thomas Carew, Sir John Denham, Edmund Walter, Sir John Suckling, James Shirely, Richard Lovelace, and Robert Herrick ?

   A. courtly ideals of the good life
   B. carpe diem
   C. loyalty to the king
   D. pious devotion to religious virtues

7. Fill in the blank. John Lyly’s ________ exercised considerable influence upon its author’s contemporaries?

   A. “Euphues”
   B. “Paradise Lost”
   C. “Utopia”
   D. “Zelauto”

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. It was possible, I reflected, that a mere different arrangement of the particulars of the scene, of the details of this picture, would be sufficient to modify, or perhaps to annihilate its capacity for sorrowful impression; and, acting upon this idea, I reined my horse to the precipitous brink of a black and lurid tarn that lay in unruffled lustre by the dwelling, and gazed down – but with a shudder even more thrilling than before – upon the re-modelled and inverted images of the gray sedge, and the ghastly tree-stems, and the vacant eyelike windows. What is the meaning of the word tarn? Veldu eitt ?

   A. A bird
   B. A small mountain lake
   C. A wide river
   D. A high cliff

10. What is Strawberry Hill ?

    A. The ancestral home of Ann Radcliffe
    B. The ancestral home of HoraceWalpole
    C. One of the settings in “The Mysteries of Udolpho”
    D. The inspiration for “The Castle of Otranto”