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Quiz for America Compared: American Camp Meetings and English Church Hierarchies

Question

1. In this source, Frances Trollope describes which of the following elements of the Second Great Awakening?

Celebration of human reason

Religious emotionalism

Christian self-governance

Rejection of the Trinity

Correct. The answer is b. Trollope offers a classic description of a rural camp meeting in which the preacher, using the techniques of “practical preaching,” elicited strong, emotional responses from his prospective converts, most of whom were women.

Incorrect. The answer is b. Trollope offers a classic description of a rural camp meeting in which the preacher, using the techniques of “practical preaching,” elicited strong, emotional responses from his prospective converts, most of whom were women.

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2. To what does Trollope attribute the greater frequency of “profane” religious expression in America and its relative rarity in England?

America’s lack of an established national church

The greater proportion of immigrants in the U.S. population

Higher levels of poverty in the United States than in Britain

British culture’s emphasis on the need for a stiff upper lip

Correct. The answer is a. Trollope suggests that the frequency of profane religious expression in the United States, as compared to England, stems from the lack of an established national church in the United States and the resulting “ever-varying innovations of sectarian licence.”

Incorrect. The answer is a. Trollope suggests that the frequency of profane religious expression in the United States, as compared to England, stems from the lack of an established national church in the United States and the resulting “ever-varying innovations of sectarian licence.”

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3. According to Trollope, the English version of typical American “domestic manners” was visible among people from which segment of her home country?

The countryside

Large cities

Anglican bishops

The lower classes

Correct. The answer is d. Trollope argued that the sort of domestic manners she observed in America could only be seen in England “among persons in a much lower station of life.”

Incorrect. The answer is d. Trollope argued that the sort of domestic manners she observed in America could only be seen in England “among persons in a much lower station of life.”