English 2327
The Third Assignment
Calvin Quiz
1. Part of the contents of the essay below contains an extensive section on the Tenets of Calvinism. This will introduce you to the beliefs of the Puritans in Europe in the 16th C. These ideas infomed the basis of the Separtist movement in Europe and explains the essential differences between the Roman Catholic and Anglican Churches as compared with the Calvin based Congretationalists in the Colonies. You are to search the www for further information about the Calvinist ideas, and report these sources as part of your quiz. The link noted above is for "Northernlight.com"; try this for your information. Otherwise, go to the standard search engines, and this URL will surprise you. It is so thorough!
2. Next, read the first essay in the series on "Course Documents," which you will find on the course page for English 2327 . Read the essay, American Literature, Part I, the Seventeenth Century.
You will have a quiz on this essay, and you will prepare it in a word-processing document, and send it to me by "e-mail and attachment"; your major work in this essay is already online, and you are invited to study it. You will be taking a "Calvin Quiz, Online" or "The Tenets of Calvinism."
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