Ben Franklin's Autobiography is a great example of ...

the classic American rags-to-riches story

Cotton Mather is BEST remembered in the history of science for ...

experimenting with smallpox vaccines

Inversion occurs when ...

the normal subject/verb order is changed to make a line rhyme

The first European explorers to arrive in North America were ...

Norse explorers who arrived some time before 1492

to restate something in your own words

When we think of literature, a diary is a ...

personal, daily account of someone's experiences and feelings

An autobiography is a book that ...

is an account of a person's life written by that person

The Iroquois Confederacy is best known for ...

establishing the world's oldest living constitution

The Puritans were a group of individuals who ...

wanted simplicity with religion

an old, repeated imaginative pattern across genres and times

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Ben Franklin's Autobiography is a great example of ...
shows that the idea of a self-made person is unrealistic
the classic American rags-to-riches story
Franklin's devout religious practices
what Puritan life was like
2
Cotton Mather is BEST remembered in the history of science for ...
inventing the cotton gin
experimenting with smallpox vaccines
experimenting with electricity
charting the major rivers around Boston
3
The first written observations of North American were written in what languages?
English and French
Spanish and French
Spanish and English
Norse and Spanish
4
Inversion occurs when ...
When you write your letters upside down
When you use plain vocabulary and sentence structure
the normal subject/verb order is changed to make a line rhyme
When your chiropractor flips you upside down for treatment
5
What did Rationalists use to make decisions?
rock, paper, scissors (best 2 out of 3)
the Bible
science and reason
horoscopes and dice
6
The Mayflower Compact paved the way for -
The Salem witch trials
a national church
war against the Native Americans
a constitutional democracy
7
The first European explorers to arrive in North America were ...
explorers from Spain
Africans restrained in the holds of slave ships
ice age peoples who walk across a land bridge
Norse explorers who arrived some time before 1492
8
Paraphrase means ...
To write an entire paragraph of phrases
to not be able to move your arms and/or legs
to restate something in your own words
To use movie quotes over and over
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When we think of literature, a diary is a ...
something only girls wrote
a book secured with a heart shaped lock
personal, daily account of someone's experiences and feelings
literature that shouldn't be taken seriously
10
An autobiography is a book that ...
is an account of a person's life written by that person
an account of a person's life written automatically
an account of a person's life written by someone else
A book written in biology class about someone's life
11
The Iroquois Confederacy is best known for ...
Serving as fictional inspirations for authors
having the longest record of constant battles/ attacks
establishing the world's oldest living constitution
Serving as guards for the Revolutionary Army
12
Informational and functional documents; primary sources of information
diaries
histories
archetypes
plain style
13
The Salem Witch Trials were the result of ...
fear, hysteria, and stress
teenagers drawing pentagrams on notebooks
The Sanderson sisters and their life potion
rock and roll music
14
When a story starts at the beginning and tells events in the order in which they happened, that is ...
a personal, daily account of an individual's experiences
chronological order
informational and functional documents
an account of a person's life
15
A diest believes that the best form of worship is ...
doing good things for others
judging people and acting superior
praying really loudly
donating money to charities
16
The act of injecting a person with a small dose of a virus to help him or her build up defenses to a disease is ...
witchcraft
inoculation
inversion
stupid
17
The Puritans were a group of individuals who ...
wanted simplicity with religion
were master farmers and livestock managers
thought the clergy should work as a middle man between God and humans
wanted a corrupt religious leader
18
A disease that early settlers brought with them to the colonies; resulted in widespread Native American deaths
strep throat
chicken pox
smallpox
Covid-19
19
How was Native American literature and history passed from tribe to tribe or generation to generation?
oral tradition
text messages
carrier pidgeons
smoke signals
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An archetype is ...
an old, repeated imaginative pattern across genres and times
a type of writing with simple words and sentences
a belief in reason, science, and logic
a regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry

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