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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.

True or False? Columbus made six voyages to the New World.

Identify the character that speaks the following line in Poe’s story, “The Cask of Amontillado”:  “The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as best could, but when he venture upon insult I vowed revenge.”

True or False? Both Christopher Columbus and John Smith were seeking fame.

True or False? Slavery began to come to the forefront of American thought as the American Revolution approached because as people were preparing to fight against British oppression, they began to consider oppression within the colonies.

This future President of the United States is known for these famous words that he penned for the Declaration of Independence:  “We hold these truths to be self-evident:  that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”