4. Document Project 4: Awakening Religious Tensions

Quiz for Document 4.7 Jonathan Edwards, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, 1741

Quiz for Document 4.7: Jonathan Edwards, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, 1741

Document 4.7: Jonathan Edwards, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, 1741

Choose the best answer to each question.

Question 1

1. According to Jonathan Edwards, what was the spiritual condition of every human being?

All were saved by God’s mercy.

All hung by a thin thread over Hell.

All souls were predestined to Heaven or Hell.

All men were judged by their actions.

Question 2

2. What is significant about Edwards’s statement, “And you that are young Men, and young Women, will you neglect this precious Season that you now enjoy”?

He equated men and women in their faith.

He was celebrating the changing of the seasons.

He thought the young were more sinful.

He believed that the young were too vain in America.

Question 3

3. To what emotion does Edwards most appeal in his sermons?

Compassion

Sadness

Joy

Fear

Question 4

4. What part of Edwards’s message and the broader message of the Great Awakening was disconcerting to the Old Light leaders?

Repentance

Revival

Equality

Wrath

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