QUESTION: 5

To whom was William Bradford referring to when he used the term “Saint” to describe some of his fellow voyagers at sea?

The first sailors to join the voyage
Those who died before reaching America
His fellow Puritans
The clergymen aboard ship
The ship’s crew

Answer(s): C

Explanation:

William Bradford, author of The Plymouth Plantation, was aboard the Mayflower ship that brought the first Puritan settlers to America. Bradford and the other Puritans aboard the Mayflower referred to themselves as “Saints” and those of other faiths who shared the ship with them as “Strangers.”

The Mayflower Compact described in Bradford’s writings was in part a social contract between these two groups of settlers.

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QUESTION: 6

The author of Common Sense was

James Madison
Langston Hughes
Alexander Hamilton
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Paine

Answer(s): E

Explanation:

Thomas Paine published Common Sense in 1776. In it, he argued that the colonies had outgrown the need for English rule and should be granted independence.

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QUESTION: 7

Ichabod Crane is the main character in which of the following works?

Leaves of Grass
The Guilded Age
“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”
“Rip Van Winkle”
Last of the Mohicans

Answer(s): C

Explanation:

Ichabod Crane is the itinerant schoolteacher who has a terrifying encounter with the Headless Horseman in “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.”

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QUESTION: 8

Who has earned the nickname “The Father of the American Novel”?

Washington Irving
Edgar Allan Poe
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Charles Brockden Brown
Henry David Thoreau

Answer(s): D

Explanation:

Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810) was the first American novelist. His gothic romances set in America formed the basis of later American masters Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne.

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