Which of the following is an important theme in “My Kinsman, Major Molineux”?

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.”

True or False?  In A Model of Christian Charity, John Winthrop drew a comparison between the way that the ligaments unify the human body and the way that prayer unites the Christian community.

The Coquette by Hannah Webster Foster is an example of the seduction novel, which belongs to the “sentimental” tradition.

In the manner of Benjamin Franklin, whom he greatly admired, Frederick Douglass presented himself as a representative American whose rise in the culture attested to the possibilities inherent in the nation’s egalitarian ideology.  This is also known as the concept of  ___________________.

In “The Cask of Amontillado,” the word “mason” has a double meaning.

What interesting grammatical feature did Mary Rowlandson use in her captivity narrative  that seemed to indicate that she was still emotionally affected by her captivity experience?

Which of the following if NOT a defining characteristic of transcendentalism?

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl remained in obscurity until the Civil Rights and Women’s Movements of the 1960s and 1970s spurred a reprint of the work in 1973.  Not until the extensive archival work of Jean Fagan Yellin did Incidents begin to take its place as a major African American slave narrative.

In Part I of the Franklin’s Autobiography, Franklin’s errata can be characterized in terms of __________, ____________, ______________.