Washington Irving – “Rip Van Winkle” How long is Rip asleep in the woods?

John Smith – “The General History of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles” How did the settlers who survived the first summer in Jamestown avoid starvation in the fall of 1607?

 Henry David Thoreau – Walden According to Thoreau, what is the goal of life?

Benjamin Franklin-Autobiography What is the “Junto”?

Thomas Jefferson – “The Declaration of Independence” What is one ironic fact concerning Jefferson’s legacy that caused tension related to slavery?

Washington Irving – “Rip Van Winkle” What causes Rip Van Winkle to fall asleep?

With which New Englander was Mary Rowlandson in most regular contact during her captivity?

Anne Bradstreet—“To My Dear and Loving Husband” At what point in the poem does Bradstreet introduce spiritual concerns and ideas about the afterlife? What is the relationship between her passion for her husband and her commitment to a Puritan ideal of a union with God?

In The Wonders of the Invisible World , what did the devil promise to Martha Carrier?

In The Wonders of the Invisible World , the devil decided to make a most surprising and snarled attempt at ruling over the territories once again by introducing what sin into the Puritan colony?