Which one of the following people does the main character in Hawthorne’s short story, “My Kinsman, Major Molineux,” NOT encounter during his strange night in Boston?

Identify the author of the following quote: “Make me, O Lord, Thy Spinning Wheel Complete.”

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.

Identify this enlightenment thinker and author of Common Sense who was the most persuasive rhetorician of the cause for American independence.

Cotton Mather wrote biograhical sketches of __________ and __________.

Harriet Jacobs used her narrative to highlight the unique cruelties of the slavery experience by women, including sexual abuse, exploitation, and violence.

Identify the author of the following quote:  “Man is not a farmer, or a professor, or an engineer, but he is all. Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.”

True or False? Eleazar Wheelock made sure that Samson Occom’s family was provided for while he (Occom) was in England raising funds for Wheelock’s Indian Charity-School.

Benjamin Franklin created the archetype of someone coming from low origins, who, against all odds, breaks out of his inherited social position, climbs up the social ladder and creates a new identity for himself. Key factors in this rise from rags to riches are hard work and a solid moral foundation. Franklin also stresses the significance of education for self-improvement.  This concept, known as the self-made man, is deeply rooted in the __________________________ and is found numerous times in Early American works following Franklin’s Autobiography.

True or False? Both economic depression in England and the ascension of a Presbyterian king pushed John Winthrop and other Puritans to obtain permission to emigrate from England to the New World.