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.

In Poe’s short story, “The Cask of Amontillado,” the narrator pretends to be concerned about Fortunato’s health as he leads him deeper into the catacombs.

This evangelical protestant minister was a leader of the Great Awakening.  Although he was very popular in the early years of his movement, he ultimately experienced a politician-like fall after naming “backsliders” from his pulpit, including some of the best families int he town of Northampton, Massachusetts.  He is most well-known for his sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.”

This Italian-born explorer sailed west to find a route to Asia and instead “discovered” a New World.  Regarding his “discovery,” in his “Letter to Luis de Santangel” he wrote, “Espanola is a marvel.” 

True or False?  The Great Awakening was an 18th century philosophical movement stressing the importance of reason and the critical reappraisal of existing ideas and social institutions.