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Selection Test B/C

Comprehension

Read each of the following questions. Then choose the letter of the best answer. (6 points each)

1. The most likely purpose of Jonathan Edwards’s sermon is to

A. terrify listeners with the hopelessness they face

B. make people pity neighbors bound for hell

C. frighten listeners into accepting Jesus

Christ

D. teach people about religious beliefs

2. Edwards directs his sermon on God’s wrath toward congregation members who

A. will speak to those who are unconverted

B. are yet to be born again

C. are too focused on God’s love

D. practice religion with their families

3. Why does Edwards say that people in his congregation have yet to drop into the pit of hell?

A. The love of God prevents their demise.

B. The works they perform please God.

C. God is angry and wrathful but fair.

D. God’s hand holds them up each moment.

4. What emotional appeal does Edwards use when he emphasizes the everlasting nature of God’s wrath?

A. appeal to fear

B. appeal to vanity

C. appeal to pity

D. appeal to wonder

5. The human condition that Edwards stresses throughout the sermon is people’s

A. ability to change their fate by good works

B. desire to better themselves

C. dependence on their neighbors for help

D. reliance on God to save them from hell

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Vocabulary

Choose the answer that best explains the meaning of each underlined word. (6 points each)

6. What does whet mean?

A. monotonous

B. sharpened C. exposed D. resilient

7. If you discern something, you

A. duplicate it B. visualize it C. divide it

D. recognize it

8. To ascribe means to

A. attribute to a specified source B. assign to a particular person C. write with a specific slant

D. complete a task without fail

9. To induce means to succeed in

A. persuading someone to do something

B. convincing someone of the truth

C. determining a difficult answer

D. recognizing important ideas

10. What does mitigation mean?

A. revising of a legal document

B. combining of two religious ideas

C. repeating of something vitally important

D. lessening of something that causes suffering

Written Response

Short Response Answer the following questions based on your knowledge of the sermon. Write a sentence or two on a separate sheet of paper. (10 points each)

11. Who is Edwards’s audience for this sermon? Use two details from the sermon to support your response.

12. Why does Edwards associate humans with animals or objects? Use one detail from the sermon to support your response.

Extended Response Answer one of the following questions based on your knowledge of the sermon. Write one or two paragraphs on a separate sheet of paper. (20 points)

13. Analyze how Edwards uses the appeal to fear to emphasize his message. Support your response with details from the sermon.

14. Challenge How does Edwards depict God in the sermon? Support your response with details from the text.

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Answer Key

Selection Test B/C

p. 229

Comprehension

1. C

2. B

3. D

4. A

5. D

Vocabulary

6. B

7. D

8. A

9. A

10. D

Short Response

11. Edwards’s audience includes members of his congregation who consider themselves

safe from God’s wrath. Students may use the following details to support their responses:

A. Edwards says God is angry with many in the congregation who are “at ease” (lines 9–11).

B. He addresses “natural men,” those who are unconverted (lines 27 and 42–46).

C. He begins to use you consistently. This strategy suggests that he is now addressing the people listening to his sermon (line 39 through the end of the sermon).

D. He invites people in the congregation to come to a change of heart (lines 105–106).

12. Edwards associates humans with a number of creatures and objects to emphasize humans’ sinfulness. Students may use these details to support their responses:

A. It is just as easy for God to cast the wicked into hell as it is for us to crush a worm

(line 1) or to cut a slender thread by which something hangs (line 2).

B. God holds the unconverted over the pit of hell in same way that a person dangles a spider or a loathsome insect over fire

(lines 50–51).

C. The unconverted are worse than a most hateful venomous serpent (lines 54–55).

Extended Response

13. Responses may vary. Students may say that Edwards uses the appeal to fear in several ways to frighten listeners into conversion. Students may include the following details in their analysis:

A. He tries to frighten them with strong imagery of God’s wrath (lines 1–3, 7–11,

15–18, and 21–26).

B. He stresses that merely attending church without conversion still puts you at risk for hell (lines 8–11, 61–63, and 90–92).

C. He stresses people’s inability to save themselves to frighten his congregation into conversion (lines 46–49, 72–74, and 89–92).

D. He stresses the everlasting, or eternal, nature of hell to frighten listeners

(lines 75–88).

14. Responses may vary. Students may say that Edwards depicts God as vengeful and may use the following assertions from the sermon to support their answers:

A. God condemns the wicked into the torments of hell (lines 7–8).

B. God seems to take a certain zest in punishing the wicked (lines 15–18).

C. God has innumerable ways of sending the unconverted to hell (lines 22–26).

D. God is wrathful toward the unconverted

(lines 28–32).

E. God appears as a vengeful assassin

(lines 38–42).

F. God tortures the wicked (lines 50–51). Students may say that Edwards depicts God as angry but also patient with sinners and offers them mercy and the chance to convert. Students may use the following assertions from the

sermon to support their answers:

A. Despite God’s wrath, God refrains from sending the wicked into hell at each moment (lines 4–6).

B. God is unlike the wicked (lines 13–14).

C. Although angrily holding “natural men” over the pit, God refrains from letting go (lines 27–28 and 56–62).

Answer Key

D. God refrains from shooting arrows into the

hearts of the wicked (lines 39–42).

E. God is angry but keeps the unconverted from

“everlasting destruction” (lines 48–49).

F. Christ has thrown open the door of mercy to all and calls out to sinners to convert (lines

93–95).

G. God offers love, joy, glory, and feasting to those who respond (lines 98–102).

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Copyright by McDougal Littell, a division of Houghton Mifflin Company

from SINNERS IN THE HANDS OF AN ANGRY GOD

Copyright by McDougal Littell, a division of Houghton Mifflin Company

from SINNERS IN THE HANDS OF AN ANGRY GOD

Copyright by McDougal Littell , a division of Houghton Mifflin Company.

Copyright by McDougal Littell , a division of Houghton Mifflin Company.

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