Author: Anonymous

8 pt. paragraph answer: Compare two of the play performances you watched for this class in three specific ways. Do NOT discuss the plot (what happened). Instead, focus on THREE specific observations related to the actual production videos that were assigned, such as how they were costumed and staged. 

Who wrote the play “Trifles”?

The word thespian means _____.

Identify the title of the quote: Yes; there is a word of God; there is a revelation. THE WORD OF GOD IS THE CREATION WE BEHOLD; and it is in this world, which no human invention can counterfeit or alter, that God speaketh universally to man. It is only in the CREATION that all our ideas and conceptions of the word of God can unite. The creation speaketh a universal language. . . 

The occupation of Mary Rowlandson’s husband

  Author described:  Rational, practical, interested in the world, I represented the essence of the eighteenth century. I was able to retire at age 42 because of my shrewd business sense. I enjoyed inventing and making the quality of life better for everyone. I spent many years as a diplomat in England and France and participated in the writing of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. I was never president although my image is on one of the U. S. bills. Philadelphia was the city where I lived.

  Identify: This first American treaty with the Wampanoag people, was faithfully kept for fifty-four years, until 1675, when Metacomet, or King Philip, began attacks that became known as King Philip’s War. This war is the one that includes the events described by Mary Rowlandson.  

  Author described:   I was educated in England, having been sent to school there when I was only seven. I remained in England until I was twenty-two at which time I returned to the New World to take my place as a colonial leader. My mansion in Virginia was named Westover. I founded the city of Richmond. I was important in establishing the boundary between North Carolina and Virginia.

Identify the speaker:  “O, ye nominal Christians! might not an African ask you–Learned you this from your God, who says unto you, Do unto all men as you would men should do unto you? Is it not enough that we are torn from our country and friends to toil for your luxury and lust of gain? Must every tender feeling be likewise sacrificed to your avarice? . . . Why are parents to lose their children, brothers their sisters, or husbands their wives? . . .”

  The question that Benjamin Franklin asked himself every morning as he relates in The Autobiography.