Question 1

1 out of 1 points According to the textbook, in 1494 a man amazed Europeans with his tales of the New World, something they'd never experienced before. Who was that man? A man named: Answer Selected Answer: Diego Colon

Question 2
2 out of 2 points While at first there was a lot of "wonder" at the novelty of new things each culture experienced with their first encounters, what appalled the Natives most at first? "The Natives at first found the [a] of European [b] appalling." Specified Answer for: a scale

Specified Answer for: b warfare

Question 3
2 out of 2 points What were the twin "diseases" that decimated the Native peoples? (Two answers required.) Answer Selected Answers: microbes

slavery

Question 4
13 out of 13 points What form did some of the Native expressions of literature take? Match the form with the tribe.

Answer Question Winnebago Apache Hopi Yaqui Piman Iroquois Navajo Chippewa Selected Match D. trickster tale cycles H. jokes C. personal naming and grievance chants G. deer songs F. shamanic chants A. condolence rituals B. curing and blessing chants E. songs of the Great Medicine Society

Question 5
2 out of 2 points Native American verbal expression could only be accepted as literature after what literary movement moved from medium of expression to kind of expression? Answer Selected Answer: Romanticism

Question 6
2 out of 2 points After the Discovery of the New World, about how long did it take to explore the continental coasts and much of the interior? About. . . Answer Selected Answer: 50 years

 Question 7
2 out of 2 points Shakespeare uses a perilous voyage which ultimately colonizes America as a backdrop for which of his plays? Answer Selected Answer: The Tempest

Question 8
2 out of 2 points There were three purposes of Early American writing. Which one of the following is not one of the three? Answer Selected Answer: Letters from wives and families to keep up the spirits of the explorers.

Question 9
2 out of 2 points The main difference between Pilgrim and Puritan is that the Puritans tried to worked within the established church while the Pilgrims didn't. Answer Selected Answer: True

Question 10
2 out of 2 points Who was the most prolific American author near the end of the 17th century? Answer Selected Answer: Cotton Mather

Question 1
2 out of 2 points

What two things had to happen before justice could be done to the Native American creation stories? Answer Selected Answers:

Euro-Americans had to develop the linguistic skills and cultural understanding of Native Americans.

The collaboration of Native Americans

Question 2
0 out of 1 points The Iroquois Creation Story Define cosmogonic myth: "a [narrative] of the establishment of the world." Answer Selected Answer: Creation

Question 3
1 out of 1 points The Iroquois Creation Story When the sky woman self-conceived and began to sink to the dark world, which was the only animal able to comply with the requisition to provide a landing spot for the skywoman? Answer Selected Answer: turtle

Question 4

1 out of 1 points The sky woman suffered from what problem during her pregnancy? The twins within her were Answer Selected Answer: fighting over how they should be born.

Question 5
1 out of 1 points The good mind creates people out of dust then breathing into their nostrils. The evil mind first forms people out of clay imperfectly and they become Answer Selected Answer: apes

Question 6
1 out of 1 points The good mind intervenes in the evil mind's second attempt by providing the humans created with clay a/the. . . Answer Selected Answer: most knowledge of good and evil.

Question 7
2 out of 2 points The good mind attempts a reconciliation with the evil mind which soon falls apart. The evil

mind proposes a contest to determine who should govern the universe. Match being with the thing that will end each one's temporal life. Answer Question Enigorio Selected Match F. cornstalks, rushes, reeds, or cattails Enigonhahetgea B. deer antlers

Question 8
1 out of 1 points Pima Stories of the Beginning of the World What was Thin Leather? A Pima word that meant a recognized master who knew all the ancient stories: Answer Selected Answer: see-nee-yaw-kum

Question 9
1 out of 1 points Pima Stories of the Beginning of the World Juhwertamahkai creates a bit of earth out of his perspiration and then creates the greasewood bush to grow upon it. However, what does he rely upon to enlarge this small patch of dirt? Answer Selected Answer: white ants

Question 10

1 out of 1 points Juhwertamahkai destroys all of human beings three times. Which one of the following is NOT a reason for this destruction? Answer Selected Answer: Refusing to worship the gods

Question 11
1 out of 1 points Who creates the "most beautiful man yet made"? [a] Specified Answer for: a Seeurhuh

Question 12
1 out of 1 points What strange thing happens to the young man when the doctor's fearful daughter eats the leftover corn broth? Answer Selected Answer: He transforms into a woman and gives birth.

Question 13
5 out of 5 points In what ways do the following attempt to deal with the flood? Answer

Question Juhwerta Mahkai

Selected Match G. walking stick

Toehahvs

E. canetube

Ee-ee-toy

D. olla or vessel

Humans who ran to Juhwerta Mahkai

H. hole in earth

Humans who followed "a doctor (mahkai)"

F. climb a mountain

Question 14
1 out of 1 points The water from the flood was made to go down by the singing of little birds. Answer Selected Answer: True

Question 15
1 out of 1 points Why does Juhwerta Mahkai become angry with Ee-ee-toy after the flood? Ee-ee-toy. . . Answer Selected Answer:

destroys the imperfect new humans Juhwerta Mahkai has created.

Question 16
1 out of 1 points After the flood, what happens to the dolls Toehahv's made that Ee-ee-toy flings into the river? They become _______ and _____. Answer Selected Answers: ducks

beavers

Question 17
2 out of 2 points Columbus What were the two reasons relationships turned sour between the Taino Indians and those left behind by Columbus after his first voyage? The settlers demanded. . . Answer Selected Answers: gold

sexual partners

 Question 18
1 out of 1 points Columbus According to his letter to Luis de Santangel, what procedure did Columbus follow when he took possession of the islands he called the Indies for King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain? Answer Selected Answer: He read a proclamation and unfurled a flag.

Question 19
1 out of 1 points Which of the following did Columbus claim exists in the interior of the island of Espanola? Answer Selected Answer: metal mines

Question 20
1 out of 1 points In the letter to Luis de Santangel, Columbus emphasizes the New Worlds Answer Selected Answer: fertility.

Question 21
1 out of 1 points

What does Columbus ask King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella to do for him in the letter regarding the Fourth Voyage? Answer Selected Answer: punish those who had stolen from him and infringed on his rights

Question 22
1 out of 1 points Which of the following best describes Columbuss financial situation on his final voyage? Answer Selected Answer:

He had spent or been stripped of most of the wealth he had accrued on earlier voyages.

Question 23
1 out of 1 points In his letter to King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, Columbus concludes by stating his future plans if he survives his final voyage. What are they? Answer Selected Answer: to go to Rome and other sites of religious pilgrimage

Question 1
1 out of 1 points From "The Very Brief Relation of the Devastation of the Indies" Intro What was the "Devastation of the Indies" based on?

Answer Selected Answer: oral arguments against slavery

Question 2
2 out of 2 points From "The Very Brief Relation of the Devastation of the Indies" In his overview of the colonization efforts of the New World, Casas cites several abuses of the Indians including: "The [a] did not content themselves with what the [b] gave them of their own [c], according to their [d],. . . for a [e] eats and [f] in one day an amount of [g] that would suffice to feed [h] houses inhabited by [i] Indians for [j] month." Selected Answer: From "The Very Brief Relation of the Devastation of the Indies" In his overview of the colonization efforts of the New World, Casas cites several abuses of the Indians including: "The Spaniards did not content themselves with what the Indians gave them of their own free will, according to their ability,. . . for a Christian eats and consumes in one day an amount of food that would suffice to feed three houses inhabited by ten Indians for one month."

Question 3
2 out of 2 points What two "sins" are committed against the natives that are against Christian doctrine? Answer Selected Answers: 13 victims strung up representing "Our Redeemer" and 12 Apostles

pearl divers are denied Christian sacraments

Question 4
1 out of 1 points

Casas relates the harsh treatment of the Indians aboard slave ships at one point relating what macabre form of navigation? The captains could navigate by. . . Answer Selected Answer: following Indian corpses thrown overboard by earlier ships.

Question 5
2 out of 2 points A royal decree called [a] was issued which required that the "masters" of the Indians convert them to Christianity and supervise their property. In reality the "masters" took this decree and created a slave-holding system. Specified Answer for: a repartimiento

Question 6
2 out of 2 points What two types of cruel labor forced on the Indians does Casas specifically mention? Answer Selected Answers: pearl diving

mining

Question 7
4.9 out of 7 points From The Relation of lvar Nez Cabeza de Vaca Intro Sequence the events that took place in Vaca's life from earliest to latest. Answer Selected Answer 1. 2. possibly saw Columbus in chains joined Narvaez's Florida expedition

3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.

stranded near Sarasota Bay convoy of "barges" disperses near Mobile Bay encounter with Alcaraz return to Spain to make a case before Charles V sent in chains back to Spain from his enlightened colonial attempt Algerian exile completes first version of his narrative

10. second publication of his narration, corrected and expanded

Question 8
1 out of 1 points To Vaca, what is of most concern to the natives? In other words, what do they have to spend most of their time doing? Answer Selected Answer: searching for food.

Question 9
1 out of 1 points Vaca relates many strange practices among the Malhado Indians. What is the strange custom when "acquaintances met or occasionally visit"? Before speaking they. . . Answer Selected Answer: cry for a half hour.

Question 10
1 out of 1 points What social more of the Old World specifically referred to in the text does De Vaca violate while among the Avavares Indians? Answer Selected Answer: he wanders around naked

 Question 11
1 out of 1 points What was De Vaca doing that made for his days of "greatest prosperity"? Answer Selected Answer: scraping and softening skins

Question 12
1 out of 1 points Children are breast fed until the age of Answer Selected Answer: 12

Question 13
0 out of 2 points At first, De Vaca is happy to run into the Christians headed by de Alcaraz. However, what two things sour their relationship. Answer Selected Answers: The Pimas and Opatas with De Vaca were enslaved

They are of different religions: Catholic and Protestant

Question 14
2 out of 2 points The Indians are confused by the behavior of Alcaraz's men (the Christians) and De Vaca and his band thinking they couldn't possibly be from the same culture because "We had come from the [a], they from the [b]; we [c] the sick, they [d] the sound; we came naked and barefoot, they clothed, horsed, and lanced; we coveted nothing but gave whatever we were given, while they [e] whomever they found and bestowed nothing on anyone."

Selected Answer:

The Indians are confused by the behavior of Alcaraz's men (the Christians) and De Vaca and his band thinking they couldn't possibly be from the same culture because "We had come from the sunrise, they from the sunset; we healed the sick, they killed the sound; we came naked and barefoot, they clothed, horsed, and lanced; we coveted nothing but gave whatever we were given, while they robbed whomever they found and bestowed nothing on anyone."

Question 15
3 out of 4 points Match the event with the author Answer Question Sovereign is Charles V Selected Match D. Both Las Casas and De Vaca C. Las Casas B. De Vaca C. Las Casas C. Las Casas A. Neither Las Casas or De Vaca D. Both Las Casas and De Vaca A. Neither Las Casas or De Vaca

Was a student when Columbus triumphantly returned through Seville Perhaps saw Columbus return in chains through Cadiz Natives flee to the mountains to avoid the Christians After a male dies, the household stays inside for three months Ended up at one point on an island off Texas

Spoke out against the ill-treatment of natives

Upon returning from the New World was awarded the title of Admiral of the Ocean Sea

Question 1
2 out of 2 points

Native American Trickster Tales Intro The "term trickster has been used to describe a character who is a wandering, [a], gluttonous,m and obscene figure." "Selfish, amoral, foolish, destructive, and. . .given to [b] others in his own interest." Specified Answer for: a bawdy

Specified Answer for: b duping

Question 2
2 out of 2 points Two reasons trickster tales have survived are that they provided. . . Answer Selected Answers: great pleasure

important cultural instruction

Question 3
1 out of 1 points All trickster tales have some form of an etiological element. Answer Selected Answer: False

Question 4
1 out of 1 points Winnebago Trickster Which one of the following is not one of the Trickster's entourage? Answer Selected Answer: beaver

Question 5
2 out of 2 points The Trickster comes up with a plan to save them from starvation by turning into a woman and marrying a bountiful village's son of a chief. What is used to transform him into a woman? Answer Selected Answers: elk's liver

elk's kidneys

Question 6
1 out of 1 points Immediately after being changed into a woman, he/she has sexual relations with Answer Selected Answer: the Trickster's companions

Question 7
2 out of 2 points What is the Trickster fed for his/her wedding feast? Answer Selected Answers: dried corn

bear-ribs

Question 8
1 out of 1 points

How is the Trickster's deception discovered? While jumping over a fire pit he/she drops. . . Answer Selected Answer: something very rotten

Question 9
1 out of 1 points This revelation of the Trickster's deception violates a powerful taboo against Answer Selected Answer: homosexuality.

Question 10
1 out of 1 points After the firepit incident, they all run away. The Trickster returns to his original sex and wife to take care of his family but after a long period, decides to leave for what reason? Answer Selected Answer: all of the above

Question 11
2 out of 2 points After leaving his family, the Trickster encounters a plant which has bulbs that have what two properties, one of which is very odd? Answer Selected Answers: they talk

they are a powerful laxative

Question 12
1 out of 1 points

In an attempt to escape the effects of the bulb, he climbs to the highest limb of a tree before slipping and falling into what? Answer Selected Answer: dung

Question 13
1 out of 1 points To cleanse himself, the Trickster inquires after who or what to find his way? Answer Selected Answer: trees

Question 14
1 out of 1 points Apart from washing himself, also carefully cleans a box which contains what? Answer Selected Answer: his penis

Question 15
0 out of 2 points Overall, the what two lessons are to be learned from the talking bulb encounter? Answer Selected Answers: be wary of inanimate objects that possess human characteristics

do not think yourself superior to natural forces

Question 16
2 out of 2 points

Sioux, "Ikto Conquers Iya, the Eater" According to the textbook, Iktomi invented [a], named the [b], and discovered [c]. Specified Answer for: a language

Specified Answer for: b animals Specified Answer for: c

colors

Question 17
1 out of 1 points When Ikto first meets up with Iya, what question must be resolved? Answer Selected Answer: who is eldest

Question 18
1 out of 1 points After resolving that question, Ikto decides to accompany Iya to a village where Iya proposes to do what? Answer Selected Answer: eat the villagers

Question 19
1 out of 1 points Ikto peers into the mouth of the sleeping Iya. What does he see? Answer Selected Answer: many living tribes alive and engaging in everyday activities

Question 20
2 out of 2 points

Ikto tells Iya he must be afraid of something, to which Iya responds: "Yes; the sound of [a], and [b], the hooting of [c], and the shouts of [d]" Specified Answer for: a rattles

Specified Answer for: b drums Specified Answer for: c owls

Specified Answer for: d men

Question 21
1 out of 1 points Ikto develops an elaborate contest to take place at the village. What is the ultimate prize for the winner? Answer Selected Answer: He can eat the loser.

Question 22
1 out of 1 points Since these are oral histories, some contemporary events are bound to creep into the stories. In this tale, what contemporary event is alluded to? Answer Selected Answer: Influx of whites into traditional Sioux lands

Question 1
5 out of 5 points Smith Intro Place into chronological order Smith's experiences prior to landing in the New World the first time. Answer Selected Answer 1. May have tried to join Sir Francis Drake 2. Fought for the Dutch against the Phillip II (Spain)

3. Fought for the Austrians against the Turks 4. Sold in slavery to a Turk 5. Murders his master and flees back to Romania

Question 2
1 out of 1 points Smith, Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles As long as the ships from England remained anchored at Jamestown, the settlers didn't suffer want because the sailors would exchange their biscuits for a number of items. Which one of the following is NOT in the list of items Smith mentions? Answer Selected Answer: corn

Question 3
1 out of 1 points On Smith's first voyage, Smith takes exception to those who thought "it was ill done of the council to send forth men so badly provided." Besides themselves, he blames who or what? Answer Selected Answer: the "transporters"

Question 4
3 out of 3 points What is the name of the idol made of skins, stuffed with moss, all painted and hung with chains and copper? [a] Specified Answer for: a okee

Question 5
1 out of 1 points Smith and a small party voyages upriver leaving a boat and the main body of men behind.

What do these men left behind do against Smith's wishes? Answer Selected Answer: They go ashore.

Question 6
1 out of 1 points Smith fights off the Indians, using what as a shield? Answer Selected Answer: Another Indian

Question 7
4 out of 4 points Smith is saved from certain death at first by an object and later by a person. What is the object? Who is the person? Answer Selected Answers: compass

Pocohantas

Question 8
0 out of 1 points While in captivity, Smith offers to help a sick Indian's son. They won't let him return to the fort to get what he needs to help the boy, but they will send a party to retrieve the items he needs. What do they term the method that Smith uses to communicate? Answer Selected Answer: birch bark talk

Question 9

1 out of 1 points What strange thing do the Indians plan to do with the bag of gunpowder they acquire? Answer Selected Answer: Plant it along with the corn in the spring

Question 10
4 out of 4 points Powhatan finally decides to become friends with Smith and sends him back to the fort with a request that he send back what two items? Answer Selected Answers: cannons

grindstone

Question 11
4 out of 4 points What two groups of people does Smith specifically appeal to come to America? Answer Selected Answers: fatherless children (13-14 years old)

young married people

Question 12
1 out of 1 points What did the "Dutchmen," who were sent to build a house for Powhatan, do that so upset Smith?

Answer Selected Answer: they allied with Powhatan against Smith and the colony

Question 13
1 out of 1 points What did Master Hunt do that upset Smith? Answer Selected Answer: stole savages from the coast to sell

Question 14
1 out of 1 points According to Smith, one of the problems was that all condemned men in England given the choice of either being hanged or go to America, chose to settle in America. Answer Selected Answer: False

Question 15
1 out of 1 points In the end, after all that Smith had gone through, he says he'd still return. Answer Selected Answer: True

Question 1
1 out of 1 points Morton, New English Canaan While not much is know of Morton's early life, he was a capable attorney in the court of . . . . Answer Selected Answer:

King Charles I

Question 2
2 out of 2 points What were the two unsubstantiated rumors that scandalized Morton? Answer Selected Answers: murder of a business partner

spousal abuse

Question 3
1 out of 1 points Morton, New English Canaan Morton called Merry Mount by another name: [a] Mount. Specified Answer for: a ma-re

Question 4
1 out of 1 points According to Morton, the Separatists named Merry Mount: Mount [a]. Specified Answer for: a Dagon

Question 5
1 out of 1 points The Mayday festivities included all the following EXCEPT which one? Answer Selected Answer: an orchestra

 Question 6
1 out of 1 points Which small animal does Morton compare the Separatists to? Answer Selected Answer: mole

Question 7
1 out of 1 points Morton describes himself as and advocate of the Church of England, but the Separatists showed their scorn for that church by inveighing against which sacred work? Answer Selected Answer: Book of Common Prayer

Question 8
1 out of 1 points Morton is first captured then escapes. To what does he attribute this escape? Answer Selected Answer: The guards were passed out from drink.

Question 9
1 out of 1 points Who is Captain Shrimp? Answer Selected Answer: Myles Standish

Question 10
2 out of 2 points

Returning to Merry Mount, Morton prepares to defend himself by arming himself and two others. What ultimately made the two others useless for defense? Answer Selected Answers: One was a coward

One was a drunk.

Question 11
1 out of 1 points Not wanting to shed the blood of his would-be captors, Morton surrenders under conditions which are immediately violated after his apprehension. Who steps in to prevent them from beating him to death? Answer Selected Answer: a proverbial soldier of the Queen's

Question 12
1 out of 1 points After Morton was sentenced to return to England as a prisoner, what difficulty do the authorities encounter? Answer Selected Answer: no ship will take him

Question 13
4 out of 4 points According to the savages, the ruling chief of the Passonagessit (Morton) is also called a [a]. Specified Answer for: a sachem

Question 14

1 out of 1 points Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation What distinguished the "Separatists" from the Puritans? As opposed to Puritans, Separatists . . . Answer Selected Answer: saw no hope of reforming the Church of England from within.

Question 15
1 out of 1 points Much of Bradford's success can be attributed to the fine university education he received in England as a young man. Answer Selected Answer: False

Question 16
1 out of 1 points Which important American foundational document was described by Bradford? Answer Selected Answer: Mayflower Compact

Question 17
1 out of 1 points Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation Who was the leader of the original expedition to America of which Morton was a part? Answer Selected Answer: Captain Wollaston

Question 18
1 out of 1 points

Once this leader disappears into Virginia to offload indentured servants, what promise does Morton make to the servants left behind? Answer Selected Answer: He'll make them equals and partners.

Question 19
2 out of 2 points According to Bradford, after this Morton became the lord of [a], and maintained (as it were) a school of [b]. Specified Answer for: a misrule

Specified Answer for: b atheism

Question 20
2 out of 2 points Bradford is concerned about arming the Indians for what two reasons? Answer Selected Answers: The Indians are natural hunters and will negatively affect the settlers' ability to procure game.

Armed Indians create fear in the settlers.

Question 21
1 out of 1 points The plantations surrounding Merry Mount were most concerned with Morton's proclivity to Answer Selected Answer: attract and entertain the scum of the country and discontents.

Question 22

1 out of 1 points The surrounding plantations meet and decide on what action to try first to get Morton to change his ways? Answer Selected Answer: They write him letters.

Question 23
1 out of 1 points Having exhausted all other possibilities, the plantations arrange to send soldiers to take Morton by force. The defenders of Merry Mount surrendered almost without incident for what reason? Answer Selected Answer: They were all drunk.

Question 24
1 out of 1 points In the end, the messenger sent with Morton back to England successfully prosecutes Morton thereby preventing him from ever returning to America again. Answer Selected Answer: False

Question 1
1 out of 1 points Sewall, Intro What was the topic of Sewall's Harvard thesis? Answer Selected Answer: original sin

Question 2

1 out of 1 points Sewall twice avoided a religious appointment, but did become a central figure in what? Answer Selected Answer: mercantile life

Question 3
1 out of 1 points What did Sewall first publish in his appointment as print manager? Answer Selected Answer: The Pilgrim's Progess

Question 4
1 out of 1 points Sewall never regretted his participation in the Salem witch trials. Answer Selected Answer: False

Question 5
1 out of 1 points What was Sewall's singular gift to the nation? Answer Selected Answer: He published the first anti-slavery tract in America

Question 6
2 out of 2 points Sewall, from The Diary of Samuel Sewall Sewall attends a lot of funerals. What is sent as the signal for invitation to a funeral? Answer

Selected Answer: gloves

Question 7
2 out of 2 points What is expected in return after attending a funeral? Answer Selected Answer: a ring

Question 8
2 out of 2 points What is the law from a "Motion by the Boston Committee" to discourage slavery? Answer Selected Answer: Slave importers would be made to pay 40 shillings per head.

Question 9
2 out of 2 points Sewall visits his son Sam at boarding school who misses his father greatly. Sam has a bad cough from going to Cambridge on foot at night. How old is sam? Answer Selected Answer: 13

Question 10
2 out of 2 points What catastrophic event has happened in Jamaica as reported by Mr. Waterhouse? Answer Selected Answer: earthquake

 Question 11
2 out of 2 points At the Salem witch trials, evidently one of the accused, a Mr. Burrough, moves a lot of people with his "Speech, Prayer, and Protestatin of his Innocence." Sewall dismisses the people so moved as. . . Answer Selected Answer: unthinking

Question 12
2 out of 2 points Sewall eventually feels guilty and remoresful for the Salem witch trials. Answer Selected Answer: True

Question 13
3 out of 3 points What two reasons does Josiah Willard give for shaving his head and donning a wig? Answer Selected Answers: His hair was straight

His hair parted behind

Question 14
2 out of 2 points At the beginning of the courtship of Mrs. Winthrop, how does she respond to Sewall concerning a group of people in the "Fore-seat"? Answer

Selected Answer: She recommends some of the other ladies as possible matches.

Question 15
2 out of 2 points What request preceded Sewall's witty response: "Twas great odds between handling a dead Goat, and a living Lady." Answer Selected Answer: That she remove her gloves.

Question 16
2 out of 2 points Sewall is persistent in his pursuit of Mrs. Winthrop, but what one thing that she wants he ultimately refuses? Answer Selected Answer: a coach

Question 17
2 out of 2 points Sewall negotiates about his and her estates. She's concerned that he's already arranged to leave everything to the church. Answer Selected Answer: False

Question 1
1 out of 1 points Mather, Intro What was unusual about Mather's admission to Harvard? Answer

Selected Answer: His age.

Question 2
1 out of 1 points Mather paid a price for excelling at Harvard; what was that price? One aspect was that his moods alternated from ecstasy and despair. The other was Answer Selected Answer: stammering

Question 3
1 out of 1 points What bitterness did Mather never overcome throughout his life? Answer Selected Answer: being rejected for the presidency of Harvard

Question 4
1 out of 1 points What was the underlying purpose of everything Mather wrote? Answer Selected Answer: to preserve the Puritan ways

Question 5
1 out of 1 points In his later writings, Mather sought to replace the old political power of the clergy with moral persuasion. Answer Selected Answer: True

 Question 6
1 out of 1 points Mather, from "The Life of William Bradford" Which English monarch caused the "separatists" to flee England? Answer Selected Answer: Queen Elizabeth I

Question 7
1 out of 1 points The puritans fled to the Low Countries also named [a]. Specified Answer for: a Holland

Question 8
1 out of 1 points A story is told of the hardships of the "separatists" had in leaving England. What is the nationality of the principle villain in this story? Answer Selected Answer: a Dutchman

Question 9
4 out of 4 points In the short "example" story, what twin disasters befall the male and female passengers upon arrival in the Low Countries? Answer Selected Answers: The women became separated from the men.

The men almost die in a tempest.

 Question 10
1 out of 1 points What was the initial cause that kept Bradford from succombing to the "vanities of youth"? Answer Selected Answer: a long sickness

Question 11
1 out of 1 points As a young man, Bradford came under the sway of the Puritans. His family and friends welcomed this influence. Answer Selected Answer: False

Question 12
1 out of 1 points On his way to Holland, most of his fellow religous were clapped into prison. How does Bradford escape this fate? Answer Selected Answer: by virtue of his youth, 18 years old

Question 13
1 out of 1 points Bradford now decides to come to the American colonies. What tragic event occurs upon his arrival? Answer Selected Answer: his wife falls overboard and drowns

Question 14

1 out of 1 points Bradford eventually takes over the colony. What reason is given that supports this as a wise choice? Answer Selected Answer: his "treasure of experiences"

Question 15
4 out of 4 points What two illustrations are given that demonstrate early on that, according to Mather, he's a good governor. Answer Selected Answers: subdues the Indians

stops the fun the newly arrived youths are having on Christmas Day

Question 16
1 out of 1 points Which ancient Greek philosopher is mentioned in comparison to Bradford's community? Answer Selected Answer: Plato

Question 17
1 out of 1 points What French doctrine provided "liberty of conscience for all"? Answer Selected Answer: Edict of Nantes

 Question 18
1 out of 1 points To which Biblical character is Bradford compared? Answer Selected Answer: Moses

Question 19
1 out of 1 points Bradford was tolerant of other Christian religions, but had a major dispute with which? Answer Selected Answer: Anabaptists

Question 20
5 out of 5 points Several Greek and Latin aphorisms are written after Bradford's death. The following is one of them: O [a] si [b] Contingat [c] [d]! Selected Answer: Several Greek and Latin aphorisms are written after Bradford's death. The following is one of them: O mihi si Similis Contingat Clausula Vitae!

Question 1
1 out of 1 points American Literature, General Intro II What did Cotton Mather's death symbolize? Answer Selected Answer: the passing of Puritanism

 Question 2
2 out of 2 points What two reasons are given for the decline of the influence of clergy after 1728? Answer Selected Answers: intellectuals believed the human mind could comprehend the universe

human sympathy, rather than divine grace, could guide moral life

Question 3
0 out of 1 points What was the political implication of the Enlightenment for the colonists? Answer Selected Answer: the separation of church and state

Question 4
1 out of 1 points What was the hallmark of the beginning of modern consumerism? Answer Selected Answer: the rapid expansion of transatlantic trade

Question 5
5 out of 5 points Scientists and philosophers following the Englightenment ideals deduced the existence of a supreme being from design rather than from divine word and were called Answer Selected Answer: deists

 Question 6
0 out of 2 points Locke suggested that rather than being born evil with original sin after the Fall and thereby requiring redemption through the Incarnation, we're born with our mind being a [a] [b]. Note one word per blank. Specified Answer for: a wax

Specified Answer for: b tablet

Question 7
1 out of 1 points Unexpectedly, Locke's philosophy of "feeling" energized fundamentalists of his day in colonial America. Answer Selected Answer: True

Question 8
2 out of 2 points Critics of the Second Awakening said that "revivalists were too given over to "[a]" at the expense of their [b]. Specified Answer for: a enthusiasm

Specified Answer for: b reason

Question 9
0 out of 1 points According to the textbook, it was the power of the word that transformed revolutionaries and also created a distinctly American literature. Which one of the following is not specifically mentioned as an influential work? Answer Selected Answer: Letters from an American Farmer

Question 10

0 out of 1 points European critics were blind to the great social change possible in America primarily because Answer Selected Answer: communication among colonial cities and with Europe was very slow

Question 11
1 out of 1 points To many, who best represents the promise of the Enlightenment in America? Answer Selected Answer: Benjamin Franklin

Question 12
1 out of 1 points What was the first thing Knight encountered that struck terror into her heart? Answer Selected Answer: a river crossing

Question 13
1 out of 1 points After going along in darkness and then rising to the top of a hill, Knight composes a poem to Answer Selected Answer: Cythia the moon

Question 14
0 out of 1 points What are the two "topers" arguing about at Mr. Havens' that affects Knight's sleep? Answer

Selected Answer: trying to square a triangle

Question 15
4 out of 4 points While the drunks argue, Knight composes a poem: I ask thy aid, O potent [a]! To charm these wrangling [b] dumb. Thou has their giddy [c] possessed-The man confounded with the beast-And I, poor I, can get no rest. Intoxicate them with they [d]: O still their [e] 'till morning comes! Selected Answer: While the drunks argue, Knight composes a poem: I ask thy aid, O potent rum! To charm these wrangling topers dumb. Thou has their giddy brains possessed-The man confounded with the beast-And I, poor I, can get no rest. Intoxicate them with they fumes: O still their tongues 'till morning comes!

Question 16
1 out of 1 points What is Knight's first impression of New Haven's citizens? Answer Selected Answer: they are too independent in their principles

Question 17
1 out of 1 points Knight doesn't like what familiarity that exists between teh farmers and their slaves? Answer

Selected Answer: they eat dinner together

Question 18
1 out of 1 points What is the diversion of New Yorker's in winter? Answer Selected Answer: riding sleighs

Question 19
1 out of 1 points Who does Knight dine with in New London? Answer Selected Answer: Gov. Winthrop

Question 20
1 out of 1 points When Knight is almost home, what happens to prevent her from doing so? Answer Selected Answer: Her horse drops as if dead

Question 1
2 out of 2 points As part of his morning routine, Byrd often "dances his dance." To what does this refer? Answer Selected Answer: morning exercise

Question 2

6 out of 6 points Byrd has two significant dreams involving Answer Selected Answers: a flaming sword

a coffin

Question 3
2 out of 2 points Byrd attends a ball. Who was the worst dressed? Answer Selected Answer: The President

Question 4
2 out of 2 points The Governor had made a bargain with his servants to remain sober on the Queen's birthday, and they could get drunk the day after. Answer Selected Answer: True

Question 5
3 out of 3 points While Mr. Mumford visits, Byrd's wife has the servant Eugene whipped. Why? Answer Selected Answer: to demonstrate her authority

Question 6

3 out of 3 points Near the end of the selection, why does Byrd have Anaka beaten? Answer Selected Answer: as retribution on his wife who had Prue beaten

Question 7
3 out of 3 points Pontiac relates a journey a Delaware undertook to meet the Great Spirit who tells him to trust only one group of whites who are the Answer Selected Answer: French

Question 8
3 out of 3 points Samson Occom cannot pursue his studies any longer because Answer Selected Answer: of eyestrain.

Question 9
3 out of 3 points Logan justifies his eventual participation in the uprising by saying: "There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature" which alludes to . . . Answer Selected Answer: Logan's family was murdered.

Question 10
3 out of 3 points

Red Jacket offers several logical arguments to support his "separatist" position. Which one of the following is NOT one of his arguments? Answer Selected Answer: If the Great Spirit truly hated them, He would never have created them.

Question 1
1 out of 1 points Franklin's Intro How many children were there in Franklin's family? Answer Selected Answer: 15

Question 2
1 out of 1 points What was his most serious youthful error? Answer Selected Answer: Trusting Pennsylvania governor Sir William Keith

Question 3
1 out of 1 points Which of the following languages did Franklin NOT teach himself? Answer Selected Answer: German

Question 4
1 out of 1 points Which one of the following did Franklin not participate?

Answer Selected Answer: Council of Ghent

Question 5
3 out of 3 points Franklin Fill in the blanks in this and the following quotes from Poor Richard. "But dost thou love life, then do not squander [a], for that's the stuff [b] is made of" Specified Answer for: a time

Specified Answer for: b life

Question 6
3 out of 3 points "One [a] is worth two [b]." Specified Answer for: a today

Specified Answer for: b tomorrows

Question 7
3 out of 3 points "A little [a] may breed great [b]." Specified Answer for: a neglect

Specified Answer for: b mischief

Question 8
3 out of 3 points "The Way to Wealth" "For want of a [a] the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy; all for want of care about a

[b] and nail." Specified Answer for: a nail

Specified Answer for: b horseshoe

Question 9
3 out of 3 points "[a] have better memories than [b]." Specified Answer for: a creditors

Specified Answer for: b debtors

Question 10
3 out of 3 points "[a] keeps a dear school, but [b] will learn in no other, and scarce in that." Specified Answer for: a experience

Specified Answer for: b fools

Question 11
1 out of 1 points According to "Father Abraham" doing what too much to others' care "is the ruin of many"? Answer Selected Answer: trusting

Question 12
1 out of 1 points After hearing "Father Abraham," what did Franklin forego buying "stuff" for? Answer Selected Answer: a new coat

 Question 13
1 out of 1 points On what genre of writing is Franklin's work "Rules by Which a great Empire May Be Reduced to a Small One"? Answer Selected Answer: satire

Question 14
2 out of 2 points From: "Rules by Which a great Empire May Be Reduced to a Small One" "Though many can forgive [a], none ever forgave [b]." Specified Answer for: a injuries

Specified Answer for: b contempt

Question 15
1 out of 1 points From "Rules by Which a great Empire May Be Reduced to a Small One" What does "Q.E.D." stand for? Answer Selected Answer: Quod erat demonstrandum

Question 16
1 out of 1 points From "Information to Those Who Would Remove to America" One of the biggest protections against abuse of public office is Answer Selected Answer:

"No office should be so profitable as to make it desirable."

Question 17
1 out of 1 points From: "Information to Those Who Would Remove to America" Which one of the following is NOT one of the reasons Franklin gives as a benefit of emigrating to America? Answer Selected Answer: Each immigrant receives a five year income tax exemption.

Question 1
1 out of 1 points Jefferson As Jefferson waxes eloquent over the beauty of the natural bridge, one thing he spots is of practical value, which is. . .? Answer Selected Answer: the stream flowing underneath can power a grist-mill even in the driest of seasons.

Question 2
2 out of 2 points Jefferson answers the charges that Indians are less procreative with the assertion that they love children to the extreme. However, two things negatively affect procreation which are: Answer Selected Answers: famine

inconvenience/hazard

 Question 3
1 out of 1 points One thing that affects the behavior of the Indians is that their society resists all attempts at being forced under compulsion to do things. Answer Selected Answer: True

Question 4
1 out of 1 points The biggest factor affecting the lack of the Indians' so-called genius, is that they do not have. . .. Answer Selected Answer: a written language.

Question 5
1 out of 1 points According to Jefferson, while the first Anglican religous settlers were tolerant of later Presbyterian immigrants, they were not so tolerant with which other sect who were punished first be deportation then by death? Answer Selected Answer: Quakers

Question 6
2 out of 2 points Jefferson relates a complicated legal history the outcome of which is that citizens could be prosecuted for heresy. Common law provides for burning at the stake while the assembly provided for less harsh punishment still is severe. At the end of this overview, Jefferson says that "this is a summary view of that [a] slavery, under which a people have been willing to remain, who have lavished their lives and fortunes for the establishment of their [b] freedom." Specified Answer for: a religious

Specified Answer for: b civil

 Question 7
1 out of 1 points Jefferson says that the only "effectual agents against error" religious or otherwise are what two things? Answer Selected Answer: reason and free enquiry

Question 8
1 out of 1 points Jefferson is most concerned about acting quickly on a Bill of Rights before the war ends because at that time. . . . Answer Selected Answer: the rights of the common people will be forgotten

Question 9
1 out of 1 points Jefferson says that one profession in new America is above all others, necessary for the wellbeing of the nation, and whose members are "the chosen people of God." To which occupation is he referring? Answer Selected Answer: farmer

Question 10
1 out of 1 points From the Introduction: What brutal act occurred aboard the vessel Zong? Answer Selected Answer: The owners through overboard 132 shackled slaves to get insurance money.

 Question 11
3 out of 3 points Equiano's biological father was an elder or chief. What title did he have which signified in his language the mark of grandeur? Answer: [a] Specified Answer for: a embrenche

Question 12
1 out of 1 points Equiano's biological father sold him into slavery. Answer Selected Answer: False

Question 13
1 out of 1 points The first time and maybe only time Equiano runs away from his captors while in his own country is the result of Answer Selected Answer: accidentally killing a chicken

Question 14
3 out of 3 points Even though in a serious plight, Equiano's sense of wonder over takes him in Tinmah. What two new foods did he experience for the first time? Note: no partial credit for this answer. Answer Selected Answers: cocoa nuts

sugar cane

 Question 15
1 out of 1 points When first encountering Europeans, what amazes him most? Answer Selected Answer: They made no sacrifices or offerings among them.

Question 16
1 out of 1 points According to Equiano, on this his first voyage aboard a ship, to what does he attribute the stopping of the ship? Answer Selected Answer: magic

Question 17
3 out of 3 points Before landing at Barbadoes, what kicks in his sense of wonder again? What two things does he see? (Note: you must get both answers correct to receive credit. No partial credit.) Answer Selected Answers: flying fishes

quadrant

Question 18
1 out of 1 points After being sent to America, in Virgina, what was the slave woman wearing while cooking dinner that instilled terror in Equiano? Answer

Selected Answer: iron muzzle

Question 19
1 out of 1 points Michael Henry Pascal buys Equiano as a present. What causes the altercation between them that gains Equiano "many a cuff"? Answer Selected Answer: Pascal wants to rename Equiano Gustavus Vassa.

Question 20
1 out of 1 points Miss Guerin takes Equiano under her wing and insists to Pascal that Equiano be Answer Selected Answer: baptized.

Question 21
1 out of 1 points While studying the Bible with Daniel Queen, what is Equiano surprised to find? Answer Selected Answer: It closely resembled the laws and rules of his own country

Question 22
1 out of 1 points After the war, Pascal immediately grants Equiano his freedom so Equiano can join Daniel in his business. Answer Selected Answer: False

 Question 1
0 out of 1 points Who of the following was NOT a member of the group generally considered to have sparked an American literary Renaissance? Answer Selected Answer: Walt Whitman

Question 2
1 out of 1 points Against the backdrop of the Reign of Terror and the Napoleonic wars, there was a sense during the 1790s that American nationality was [a], [b], and [c]. Specified Answer for: a provisional

Specified Answer for: b vulnerable Specified Answer for: c fragile

Question 3
1 out of 1 points Who embodied the emergence of a national mythology of the republican hero who is an antiaristocratic, antimonarchiacal from an obscure background? Answer Selected Answer: Andrew Jackson

Question 4
1 out of 1 points After the War of 1812, there was a renewed attempt at creating a distinctively American literature that was [a], [b], and informed by the principles of the Declaration of Independence.

Specified Answer for: a

republican

Specified Answer for: b progressive

Question 5
1 out of 1 points What is the name of the first African American novel? Answer Selected Answer: Brown's Clotel

Question 6
1.5 out of 1.5 points What causes Giovanni to sigh heavily shortly after he arrives at his new apartment? Answer Selected Answer: All of the above.

Question 7
3 out of 3 points When Giovanni first sees Rappaccini, what two items does he eventually wear for protection during his tending of the garden? (Note: you must get both answers correct for credit. No partial credit given.) Answer Selected Answers: thick gloves

mask covering mouth and nostrils

Question 8
1.5 out of 1.5 points

Giovanni overhears a conversation between Rappaccini and his daughter. What does he say that she must thenceforth do? Answer Selected Answer: Take sole care of the purple flower shrub in the middle of the pool.

Question 9
4 out of 4 points After viewing this exchange between Rappaccini and his daughter in twilight, Giovanni returns to "ordinary experience" at dawn. He visits an old friend of his father's, Prof. Baglioni, who notes that Rappiccini "cares infinitely more for _____ than for mankind." [a] Specified Answer for: a science

Question 10
1.5 out of 1.5 points When Giovanni next sees Rappiccini's daughter, which one of the following is *not* an event that disturbs him about his otherwise idyllic view of her? Answer Selected Answer: a blue frog that jumps into the fountain soon floats to the top dead

Question 11
1.5 out of 1.5 points Giovanni considers three options about the present dilemma of at once being attracted and repelled by what he sees in the garden. Which of the following is NOT one of the options? Answer Selected Answer: buy some holy water from the local church and sprinkle it on himself for protection

Question 12
1.5 out of 1.5 points

Giovanni runs into Prof. Baglioni on the street and coincidentally Rappaccini also walks by. He warns Giovanni about what? Answer Selected Answer: Rappaccini is making Giovanni an experimental subject.

Question 13
1.5 out of 1.5 points Giovanni finally gets into the garden and meets up with Rappiccini's daughter. What one thing did Baglioni tell Giovanni that apparently was incorrect according to Rappiccini's daughter? Baglioni said Rappiccini's daughter. . . . Answer Selected Answer: possessed great knowledge about the "science" of the garden.

Question 14
1.5 out of 1.5 points So entranced was Rappiccini's daughter on first meeting Giovanni, what did she forget to do? Answer Selected Answer: tend to the purple blossum shrub, her "sister"

Question 15
1.5 out of 1.5 points After a subsequent meeting with Rappaccini's daughter, what physical "momento" pains Giovanni at first only to be forgotten when resuming his reverie for her? Answer Selected Answer: a purple imprint on the back of his hand

Question 16
1.5 out of 1.5 points

Baglioni visits Giovanni in his apartment. What does he leave with him? Answer Selected Answer: a silver vial of antidote

Question 17
1.5 out of 1.5 points What event frightens Giovanni with a "thrill of indefinable horror"? Answer Selected Answer: Fresh flowers he bought start to wilt shortly after he buys them.

Question 18
1.5 out of 1.5 points In the final confrontation with Rappaccini's daughter, what startling question does she ask of Giovanni? Answer Selected Answer: "Oh, was there not, from the first, more poison in thy nature than in mine?"

Question 19
1.5 out of 1.5 points Both Rappaccini and Giovanni die by the end of the story. Answer Selected Answer: False

Question 1
1 out of 1 points Poe Edgar Allan Poe rejected the idea that there should be a specifically national character to

American writing. Answer Selected Answer: True

Question 2
1 out of 1 points After Poe's death, his reputation suffered because Answer Selected Answer: Robert Griswold, a prominent anthologizer, began a campaign of character assassination.

Question 3
1 out of 1 points Which of Poe's works was considered the earliest example of detective fiction? Answer Selected Answer: "The Murders of the Rue Morgue"

Question 4
1 out of 1 points What was the name of the journal Poe hoped to publish on his own? The _____. Answer Selected Answer: Stylus

Question 5
1 out of 1 points According to the textbook, what was Poe's most successful year? Answer Selected Answer: 1845

 Question 6
1.5 out of 1.5 points The Raven Which one of the following words/phrases do NOT end a stanza? Answer Selected Answer: for Lenore

Question 7
0 out of 1.5 points Before the persona of the poem discovers it is a raven outside his door, what/who does he think is causing all the commotion outside? Answer Selected Answer: a visitor

Question 8
1.5 out of 1.5 points What question does the raven respond to that angers the persona? Answer Selected Answer: Lenore is not in heaven

Question 9
1.5 out of 1.5 points The Man in the Crowd

The thesis laid down in the first paragraph is that Answer Selected Answer: a crime can be so horrible as not to be revealed to anyone

 Question 10
2 out of 2 points Translate: . . [a] Specified Answer for: a The mist that was upon it before

Question 11
12 out of 12 points Match the occupation with the description Answer Question Junior Clerks Invalids Drunkards Selected Match B. wore the cast-off graces of the gentry F. in search of some chance consolation C. in shreds and patches, reeling, inarticulate, with bruised visage and lacklustre eyes A. velvet waistcoat, fancy neckerchief, gilt chains, and fillagreed buttons E. hawk eyes flashing. . .[with] and expression of abject humility D. coats and pantaloons of black or brown...with white cravats and waistcots, brod solid-looking shoes, and thick hose, or gaiters.

Gamblers Jew Pedlars Upper Clerks

Question 12
1.5 out of 1.5 points By the end of the tale, the reader is told what crime the man in the crowd committed. Answer Selected Answer: False

 Question 13
1.5 out of 1.5 points The Philosophy of Composition To Poe, poetry is mathematical, to the extent that when considering length, "brevity must be in direct ratio of the intensity of the intended effect." But there is one proviso which is Answer Selected Answer: a certain degree of duration is absolutely requisite for the production of any effect at all

Question 14
2 out of 2 points What is the "sole legitimate province of the poem"? [a] Specified Answer for: a Beauty

Question 1
5 out of 5 points Melville, Intro Match the work with the brief description. Answer Question Mardi Moby Dick Selected Match C. An epistemololgical quest mediated through language and narrative. B. Raises bold questions about narrative, interpretation, and God and the meaning of the universe. E. A domestic novel focusing on the romantic, ethical, and intellectual perplexities attending the character's coming into manhood A. a deastating indictment of the selfishness and duplicities of his contemporary world in the form of metaphysical satire, allegory, and the

Pierre

The ConfidenceMan

low comedy set on a Mississippi steamship. Billy Budd, Sailor D. Study of the tense and ambiguous conflicts between the individual and authority.

Question 2
2 out of 2 points Bartleby, the Scrivener What, exactly, is the job of a "scrivener"? A scrivener Answer Selected Answer: does what was done before Xerox was available.

Question 3
2 out of 2 points In what setting does Bartleby begin? Answer Selected Answer: at a lawyer's office

Question 4
2 out of 2 points Who is being described: "pallidly neat, pitiably respectable, incurably forlorn" Answer Selected Answer: None of the above

Question 5
2 out of 2 points For what five words is Bartleby famous? (Note: Only ONE word per blank. Also, though

there is some variation, the given words should tell you which statement he makes the most.) "I would [a] [b] to." Specified Answer for: a prefer

Specified Answer for: b not

Question 6
2 out of 2 points According to the lawyer, "nothing so aggravates an earnest person as a [a] [b]." Specified Answer for: a passive

Specified Answer for: b resistance

Question 7
2 out of 2 points What ironic turn-of-events does the lawyer suffer when, on his way to church, he stops by his office? Answer Selected Answer: Bartlelby, who's taken up residence, refuses to let him in.

Question 8
2 out of 2 points At one point, the lawyer thinks he finds a physical cause for Bartleby's behavior which is that Bartbleby. . . Answer Selected Answer: had impaired vision from copying in the dim light.

Question 9
2 out of 2 points What prompts the decisive action taken by the lawyer that rids himself of Bartleby?

Answer Selected Answer: Peer pressure from his professional colleagues.

Question 10
2 out of 2 points What is the decisive action taken by the lawyer to rid finally himself of Bartleby? Answer Selected Answer: Moves out of his office.

Question 11
2 out of 2 points At the end of the story, where does Bartleby end up? Answer Selected Answer: He is removed to the Toombs or Halls of Justice as a vagrant.

Question 12
2 out of 2 points In a postscript, we're told about Bartleby's previous employement which might serve as some sort explanation for his behavior. What is that previous employment? Answer Selected Answer: clerk in the Dead Letter Office

Question 13
2 out of 2 points Complete the following quote with one word:"Ah, Bartleby! Ah, [a]!" Specified Answer for: a humanity

Question 14

1 out of 1 points Bartleby dies at the end of the story. Answer Selected Answer: True