The main character in Hawthorne’s short story, “My Kinsman, Major Molineux,” hoped that his kinsman would serve as a benefactor for him.  Similarly,  a young Benjamin Franklin hoped that ________________ would help him make his way in the world.

This Massachusetts Bay poet grappled with being both Puritan and human in her poems.  She describes an author’s relationship with her writing in “The Author to Her Book.”

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? Vikings established a settlement on the northern tip of Newfoundland about 500 years before Columbus landed on Guanahani/San Salvador.

True or False? Both Christopher Columbus and John Smith were seeking fame.

Identify the work in which the following quote appears:  “The Breaking into this Money of Vernon’s was one of the first great Errata of my Life.”

Both The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano and the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass are examples of what literary genre?

True or False?  Common Sense employed a counterargument/refutation structure in order to appeal to its readers.

Identify the work in which the following quote appears:  “There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God.” 

Identify the puritan minister’s wife who became a victim of “King Philip’s War.”