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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.

Identify this future poet who was born in Africa, kidnapped, and then brought to Boston at age seven or eight. It has been argued that she launched both the African-American literary tradition and the African-American women’s literary tradition. She was either 19 or 20 years old when her Poems on the Various Subjects, Religious and Moral was published in London in 1773.

True or False? Both economic depression in England and the ascension of a Presbyterian king pushed John Winthrop and other Puritans to obtain permission to emigrate from England to the New World.

True or False?  Benjamin Franklin lists five reasons for writing his autobiography.

Washington Irving made short fiction popular; his work, The Sketch Book, which contains “Rip Van Winkle” and “The Legend of Sleep Hollow” has been identified as the starting point for this literary form.

Identify the author of the following quote: “My rambling brat (in print) should mother call.”

Mary Rowlandson’s captivity novel raises “the question of freedom, its meaning and its limits, in a new land newly dedicated to births of new freedoms” through its portrayal of a woman who neither embodies nor practices domestic virtue.

True or False?  While the Pilgrims were initially willing to work within the confines of the established Church of England, the Puritans saw no hope of reforming it from within and wished to separate themselves from it completely.  Early American poets such as Anne Bradstreet and Edward Taylor emerged from Pilgrim-founded Plymouth Colony.