QUESTIONS FOR TEST ON PURITANISM

The Puritan Movement in England - historical background;
Puritanism in America: Calvin's Doctrine,
the Enlightenment or the Age of Reason;
American Enlightenment- Am. Enlighteners;
The Restoration period;
the Commonwealth. Cromwell;
Historical and Social Background of the War of Independence;
Problems the War of Independence solved;
Liberal humanism, the Aspects of the American National Ideology;
The Doctrine of Natural Man;
Puritanism in America – the Symbol of America;
The Stuart idea of the divine rights of kings, periods;
Literature of the Puritan and Restoration period, authors;
Jonathan Swift – about him, books;
James I; Charles I

LITERARY TERMS: satire, parody, bathos, political pamphlet /pamphleteering/