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Which statement best represents Mary Rowlandson’s feelings toward the Indians?

This author’s text circulated in manuscript form and was a source for early New England histories before it was finally published in 1856.

Like many women of her era, Anne Bradstreet’s life quite literally depended upon 

King Philip

Her poetic ambitions appear through the complex poetic forms in which she wrote, including rhymed discourses and “Quaternions,” or four part poems focusing on four topics of fours: the four elements, the four humors, the four ages of man, and the four seasons.

The expeditions undertook by Columbus were financed by which monarchs? 

In a Native American trickster story, the trickster character 

A controversy over church membership, later resolved in what became known as the __________________, allowing church membership without conversion testimony.

In what ways has the literary canon in American literature evolved? 

William Bradford wrote A Model of Christian Charity on board the Arbella.