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In “Rip Van Winkle,” Dame Van Winkle symbolizes Old Mother England.

Both Thomas Paine in his pamphlet titled ________________________ and Frederick Douglass in his speech titled __________________________ use effective argumentative strategies to make their points.

What interesting grammatical feature did Mary Rowlandson use in her captivity narrative  that seemed to indicate that she was still emotionally affected by her captivity experience?

Identify the author of the following quote: “I used to think, if I could once learn to read, I would instruct the poor children in reading.”

The Coquette by Hannah Webster Foster is an example of the seduction novel, which belongs to the “sentimental” tradition.

One carry over from Enlightenment thinking to the transcendentalist movement was that the transcendentalists continued to embrace the ideals of liberty and freedom.  This was demonstrated in the following ways:

True or False? A pattern of friendly contact followed by bloody conflict characterized the relationship between Native Americans and Europeans from earliest settlement until almost the turn of the 20th century.

In the manner of Benjamin Franklin, whom he greatly admired, Frederick Douglass presented himself as a representative American whose rise in the culture attested to the possibilities inherent in the nation’s egalitarian ideology.  This is also known as the concept of  ___________________.

Cotton Mather wrote biograhical sketches of __________ and __________.

True or False? The primary goal of the Jamestown settlers was to establish a Christian community that would be a model for the rest of the (Eurocentric) world.