This is a Jeopardy-type game with answers and questions covering the Puritans.

1. JEOPARDY!
Puritan Puritan Of Sinners in Mish
History Beliefs Plymouth Hands of Mash
Plantation Angry God
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2. It’s what the Puritans were
called when they traveled
to the New World.
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3. Who are the Pilgrims?

4. It’s the year the Puritans
arrived in the New World.
question

5. What is 1620?

6. It’s the reason they left England
for the New World.
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7. What is religious freedom?
OR
What is suffering
Persecution?

8. It’s about how many Puritan
colonists from the Mayflower
died during the first winter
in the New World.
question

9. What is half?
OR
What is about 50?

10. It’s the sacrament Puritans
believed was necessary to
wipe away Original Sin.
question

11. What is baptism?

12. It’s the reason Puritans wanted
all of their children to be educated.
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13. What is to be able to read the Bible?

14. It’s the other purpose through
which God reveals himself besides
the Bible and Divine Providence.
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15. What is the natural world?
OR
What is nature?

16. To a Puritan, when a person has
been “reborn” into the community
of saints, the person has been
_____ by _____.
question

17. What is Graced by God?

18. Puritans believed that
“idle hands” led to this.
question

19. What is the “Devil’s Playground”?

20. It’s the Puritan belief that God
decided a person’s path in life and
decided if the person would be saved
before the person was born.
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21. What is predestination?

22. Besides disease and the cold, it was
the greatest danger to the Puritans
during their early months at
Plymouth in the New World.
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23. What is starvation?

24. It’s the type of literature “Of
Plymouth Plantation” is since it
was written by Bradford, who
experienced everything firsthand.
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25. What is a primary source?

26. It’s who Bradford attributes the
Puritans’ safe arrival to in the text.
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27. Who is God?

28. It’s what the six terms between
the Puritans and the Indians
can best be compared to.
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29. What is a peace treaty ?

30. In the beginning of the text,
Bradford calls the Indians “savage
barbarians,” but in the end he
refers to them as _____.
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31. Who are allies?
OR
Who are (peaceful) friends?

32. It’s who Edwards says can protect
people from the miseries of Hell.
question

33. Who is God?

34. It’s evident in the text that
Edwards believes that all
humans have committed _____.
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35. What is sin?

36. It’s the name of the religious
movement in the 1740s that
prompted Edwards to write and
give his sermon.
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37. What is the Great Awakening?

38. The best idea of the sermon can be
summed up by saying that
Edwards believes people are in
terrible danger from the anger of
God unless they are _____ _____.
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39. What is born again?

40. It’s what Jonathon Edwards
died from.
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41. What is smallpox?

42. The reason John Proctor confessed,
in court, to being a lecher
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43. What is to discredit Abby and to
save his innocent wife?

44. The reason the Putnams’ daughter
Ruth “conveniently” testified
against George Jacobs
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45. What is because her father, Thomas
Putnam, wanted to buy the
deceased Jacobs’ land?

46. The reason Elizabeth Proctor
claimed there were no witches
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47. What is because she knew she could
not be a witch (and she was
accused)?

48. In the play’s deleted scene (one that
the movie partially included), the
reason John Proctor met with
Abigail in the woods
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49. What is to threaten her if she did not
take back her accusation against
Elizabeth?

50. The reason Reverend John Hale
decides to return to the court after
he quits
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51. What is to make up for some of the
wrong he’d felt he had done and to
save the innocent souls left?