Question 1
The message of the Second Great Awakening
A. restored the traditional belief in predestination.
B. incorporated the belief of skeptical rationalism.
C. was rejected by most women as being retrograde and reactionary.
D. found its greatest number of converts among young men.
E. called for an active and fervent piety.
Question 2
The Second Great Awakening
A. was consistent with the ideas of the Enlightenment.
B. began as an effort by church establishments to revitalize their organizations.
C. helped promote universalism and unitarianism.
D. rejected the idea of the Trinity.
E. was confined to New England.
Question 3
Religious skepticism resulted in
A. the disestablishment of the Anglican Church.
B. both the philosophy of unitarianism and a wave of revivalism.
C. the decline of universalism.
D. a growth of commitment to organized churches and denominations.
E. no discernible effect on American religious life.
Question 4
During the Second Great Awakening, the Indian revivalist Handsome Lake called for
A. an armed Indian rebellion against white American society.
B. the return of lands taken from Indian tribes by the United States.
C. the adoption by Indian tribes of white American culture.
D. the United States to live up to its broken treaties with Indian tribes.
E. the restoration of traditional Indian culture.
Question 5
The writer Washington Irving is best remembered for his
A. work on George Washington.
B. works on Philadelphia society.
C. role in the American Revolution.
D. works about Ichabod Crane and Rip Van Winkle.
E. works on the Mohican Indians.