LITERATURE QUESTIONS
PURITAN LITERATURE
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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whatever is destroyed can soon be rebuilt
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God has prepared an eternal home for all believers
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she is bitter about those people who still have homes
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one should dwell upon the good things in life
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Detailed explanation-1: -In the poem “Upon the Burning of Our House, ” the speaker states, “He might of all justly bereft, / But yet sufficient for us left” (Lines 19-20). This would be paraphrased as God has left us without, but what we have left is sufficient enough. Their possessions belong to God; he has the entitlement to take them away.
Detailed explanation-2: -Describe the speaker’s initial feelings as she realizes that her house is on fire. She was shocked, upset, and afraid. The speaker allows herself to mourn her house and her possessions.
Detailed explanation-3: -Her possessions really belonged to God the whole time, and the speaker thus tells herself to “raise up [her] thoughts above the sky”-to let go of material attachments to the earthly realm and consider the heavenly.