{"id":13,"date":"2010-06-29T11:49:40","date_gmt":"2010-06-29T11:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/flunkingsainthood\/2010\/06\/july-4-pop-quiz-how-much-do-you-know-about-americas-religious-roots.html"},"modified":"2010-06-29T11:49:40","modified_gmt":"2010-06-29T11:49:40","slug":"july-4-pop-quiz-how-much-do-you-know-about-americas-religious-roots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/flunkingsainthood\/2010\/06\/july-4-pop-quiz-how-much-do-you-know-about-americas-religious-roots.html","title":{"rendered":"July 4 Pop Quiz: How Much Do You Know about America’s Religious Roots?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Are you a Yankee Doodle Dandy? Take this 10-question quiz to find out! I’ll post the answers and some explanations on Saturday. (And yes, I know you’re just going to look up the answers on Google<\/a>. Here at Flunking Sainthood<\/a> we say that’s OK.) So before you eat too much corn on the cob and stay up late watching fireworks, test your knowledge of our nation’s religious heritage. <\/p>\n

FYI, much of the info in this quiz comes from a book I’ve been editing for WJK: John Fea<\/a>‘s excellent Was America Founded as a Christian Nation? A Historical Introduction.<\/em> It’ll be out in February. Until then, check out Fea’s much shorter thoughts on religion in American history at The Thoughtful Christian website. <\/a><\/p>\n

1. The first Europeans to come to America were:
\na)\tPuritans
\nb)\tCatholics
\nc)\tMuslims<\/p>\n

2. Which of the following seventeenth-century English colonies was intended to found a new nation on Christian principles?
\na)\tJamestown, Virginia (1607)
\nb)\tMassachusetts Bay (1630)
\nc)\tNeither A nor B<\/p>\n

3. Where did the largest number of English Puritans and Pilgrims wind up settling?
\na)\tThe West Indies
\nb)\tMassachusetts
\nc)\tVirginia<\/p>\n

4. After being ousted from Puritan Massachusetts, Roger Williams founded this colony as a refuge for religious dissenters:
\na)\tRhode Island
\nb)\tDelaware
\nc)\tMaine<\/p>\n

5. What percentage of the signers of the Declaration of Independence were ordained clergymen in 1776?
\na)\t76%
\nb)\t41%
\nc)\tLess than 2%<\/p>\n

\n<\/p>\n

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6. What did George Washington stop doing after the Revolution?
\na)\tpraying to God
\nb)\ttaking communion
\nc)\tchopping down cherry trees<\/p>\n

7. Before the Revolution, America’s only majority-Catholic colony was:
\na)\tSouth Carolina
\nb)\tVermont
\nc)\tMaryland<\/p>\n

8. Who wrote the 1786 Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, which profoundly influenced the religion clauses of the Constitution?
\na)\tThomas Jefferson
\nb)\tJames Madison
\nc)\tAbigail Adams<\/p>\n

9. Which of the following documents does not mention God?
\na)\tthe Declaration of Independence
\nb)\tthe Articles of Confederation
\nc)\tthe United States Constitution<\/p>\n

10. Which Founding Father was supposed to have prayed to God at Valley Forge?
\na)\tGeorge Washington
\nb)\tBenedict Arnold
\nc)\tPatrick Henry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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