Unit 2 Test Review

Read the excerpt from Thomas Paine and answer the question below:

A man can distinguish himself between temper and principle, and I am as confidant, as I am that God governs the world, that America will never be happy till she gets clear of foreign domain.

What was the reason for Thomas Paine’s use of personification in Common Sense?

• Emphasize the economic benefits of independence

• An ability to relate to the colonists and their fears

• Create  fictional characters for entertainment

• Provide a historical account of America's relationship to Great Britain

 "Of more worth is one honest man to society, and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived.” Why did Paine call the Royal Family “ crowned ruffians”?

• To highlight their benevolent nature.

• To emphasize their oppressive behavior.

• To praise their governance and policies.

• To acknowledge their royal lineage and heritage.

Why does Thomas Paine use Pathos to get his point across in Common Sense?

• To praise the King of England on his policies

• To showcase how America has flourished under British Rule

• To emphasize that being ruled by an unseen government is unjust

• To facilitate mutual trust between the Tories and the Whigs

How does Franklin view the role of mistakes and failures in his life?

• Failures must be avoided at all costs

• Failures does not help personal growth

• Failures can be learning opportunities for personal growth

•  Failure is irrelevant

Which one of the following excerpts is an example of sensory language?

• The closeness of the place, and the heat of the climate, added to the number in the ship was so crowded that each had scarcely room to turn himself, almost suffocated us

• Happily, perhaps to myself I was soon reduced so low here that is was thought necessary to keep me almost always on deck

• In this manner, we continued to undergo more hardships than I can now relate, hardships which are inseparable from this accursed trade

• But this disappointment was the least of my sorrows

What is the author’s purpose for writing “Aboard a Slave Ship”?

• To inform the reader of a voyage across the middle passage

• To convey the feeling of relief when aboard the deck of the ship

• To showcase the hardships of those who were transported across the middle passage

• To compare the bottom of the ship to the deck of the ship

What does the flag symbolize in the "The Star-Spangled Banner?

• Defeat and Surrender

• Peace and Calmness

• Friendship and Partnership

• Victory and Resilience

 

Read the following excerpt from "Aboard a Slave Ship" :"One day they had taken a number of fishes; and when they had killed and satisfied themselves with as many as they thought fit, to our astonishment who were on the deck, rather than give any of them to us to eat as we expected, they tossed the remaining fish into the sea again, although we begged and prayed for some as well as we could, but in vain." 

What did the tossing of the fish into the sea represent?

• Shame

• Patience

• Greed

• Cruelty

 

Read this verse from "The Star-Spangled Banner":

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore

That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion

A home and a country should leave us no more? Their blood has wash'd out their foul footsteps' pollution.

No refuge could save the hireling and slave

From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave: And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave, 

O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

 How would you describe the author's tone? 

• gloomy

• defiant

• confused

• frightened

Read the following poem by Phillis Wheatley: "On Being Brought From Africa to America"

Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan land,

Taught my benighted soul to understand

That there's a God, that there's a Savior too:

Once I redemption neither sought nor knew,

Some view our sable race with scornful eye,"

Their color is a diabolic die.

"Remember, Christians, Negroes, black as Cain,

May be refin'd, and join th' angelic train."

What is the subject of this poem?

• the poet's gratitude for Christian salvation

• the poet's anger towards those who enslaved her

• people who mistreat Africans

• the role of angels in a human's life