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What is the Bible?
The most important book for the Puritans.
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What is oral literature
The literature of a culture before they begin to write myths and histories.
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Who is Phillis Wheatley
The first published African American poet.
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What is the American Myth or the American Dream
The idea that anyone from any level of poverty or disadvantage can make it if they work hard enough.
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Who is Equiano
The author of the slave autobiography which we read.
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What is "City on a Hill"
The phrase made famous by John Winthrop, taken from the Bible.
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What is the trickster
The primary example of an archetype that we discussed in relation to Native American mythology
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What are the spirituals.
The earliest body of music from which most of the African American music tradition springs. Like Go Down Moses
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What is American excceptionalism
The idea that America is like a shining "City on a Hill" whose light cannot be hidden. Lighting up the rest of the whole world.
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Who is Anne Bradstreet
The author of "Upon the Burning of Our House."
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What is syntax
The way the words go.
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What is land could be owned privately
The difference in ideas between the Native Americans and Europeans regarding their relationship to the land. The Europeans' view.
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What is the Bible
The origin of spirituals' titles like Go Down Moses and Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho. A book.
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What is essentializing
The language that uses one quality of a person and makes it their essence by avoiding "person first" language.
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Who is Abigail Adams
The author of "A Letter to Her Daughter."
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What is she blest the LORD.
The strange reaction that Anne Bradstreet had to her house burning down.
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What is Huron
The tribe from which "The Sky Tree" comes.
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What is "published under her name"
The phrase the Thomas Jefferson used to cast doubt on the authorship of Phillis Wheatley's poetry.
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What is the frontier
The space that exists between the city/civilization and the wild.
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Who is Toni Morrison
The author of "Thoughs on the African American Novel."
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What is 1630
The year Anne Bradstreet came to the Massachusetts Bay Colony
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What is the mother.
The kind of human through whom the lineage was traced according to the Iroquois Constitution.
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What is black preaching or African American musical traditions.
The cadence, the life, and the urgency of African American novels should derive be like according to Toni Morrison
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Who is Thomas Jefferson
The author of Notes on Virginia.
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Who is Phillis Wheatley
The author of "To His Excellency, General George Washington."
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