Practice_QuizThe_Age_of_ReasonRevolutionary_PeriodENGL201American_Literature

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In “Common Sense” Thomas Paine recommended reconciliation with King George II.

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False

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Phillis Wheatley’s poetry suggests that she was a Christian who was influenced by Puritan

beliefs. True

False

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False

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Established the blueprint for the rag-to-riches narrative.

Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Paine

Benjamin Franklin

Francis Bacon

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Phillis Wheatley envisioned America as an Edenic place of new beginnings and regeneration.

True

Thomas Paine's Age of Reason was published during the American Revolution.

True

False

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Phillis Wheatley’s work features a deeply deistic ideas.

True

False

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Phillis Wheatley adopted an abstruse language and a personal voice in her poetry.

True

The clause too, reprobating the enslaving the inhabitants of Africa, was struck out in complaisance to

South Carolina and Georgia, who had never attempted to restrain the importation of slaves, and who, on

the contrary, still wished to continue it. Our northern brethren also, I believe, felt a little tender under

those censures; for though their people had very few slaves themselves, yet they had been pretty

considerable carriers of them to others. This excerpt is from Thomas Jefferson’s______

Initial draft of the Declaration of Independence

“Notes of Virginia”

Autobiography

The Declaration of Independence

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False

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In his Autobiography, Thomas Jefferson expounds 13 virtues of his self-improvement course as a way to

moral perfection.

True

False

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Author of "Silence Dogood"

Thomas Jefferson

Benjamin Franklin