What is the term for the meeting where the decision is made on whether a child is to be remanded to a shelter or released while the case is pending?

Identify the author of the following quote: “I used to think, if I could once learn to read, I would instruct the poor children in reading.”

Which of the following is an example of a “good Indian”?

In “Rip Van Winkle,” Dame Van Winkle symbolizes Old Mother England.

Identify the author of the following quote: I went to take up my dead child in my arms to carry it with me, but they bid me let it alone: there was no resisting, but goe I must and leave it.”

Although Cotton Mather was a skillful preacher and eminent theologian, it is his work as a historian that has earned him a significant place in Ameircan literature.

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.