From such an Assembly can a perfect Production be expected? It therefore astonishes me, Sir, to find this System approaching so near to Perfection as it does; and I think it will astonish our Enemies, who are waiting with Confidence to hear that our Councils are confounded, like those of the Builders of Babel, and that our States are on the Point of Separation, only to meet hereafter for the Purpose of cutting one another’s Throats. The above passage is from ______________________ by ____________________________________________ .

Benjamin Franklin detested his father’s business (tallow chandler and soap boiling business) in particular because he ____________________________, so he was eventually apprenticed to his brother James, who had learned the printing trade in England.

When Equiano purchases his freedom from his master, he recieves a formal certificate of freedom, otherwise known as his _______________________.

In his letter to Ezra Stiles in which Franklin, near death, writes: “. . . it is a question I do not dogmatize upon, having never studied it, and think it needless to busy myself with it now, when I expect soon an opportunity of knowing the truth with less trouble. What is the question, the “it” to which he is referring?

Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive, and will every now and then peep out and show itself; even if I could conceive that I had completely overcome it, I should probably be proud of my humility.The above passage is from ______________________ by ____________________________________________ .

This text was published in London in 1789 and printed in New York in 1791; it is considered the fundamental text in the genre of the slave narrative.

Jefferson and Franklin both spent time in ______________________–a natural ally because it was a traditional enemy of England.

In The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Equiano says that on board the slave ship he sees mariners using this navigational device, which intrigued him.

Which of the following are characteristics of the Enlightenment?

By Nature’s self in white array’d,She bade thee shun the vulgar eye,And planted here the guardian shade,And sent soft waters murmuring by;   Thus quietly thy summer goes,   Thy days declining to repose. The above passage is from ______________________ by ____________________________________________ .