American Roots: From Native Traditions to the American Revolution — Test

Question 1

Read the statement. Achieving independence requires sacrifice and determination. This statement is the The Crisis, Number IV ’s

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major premise.

Question 2

Read the excerpt from The Crisis, Number IV . Shall a band of ten or twelve thousand robbers, who are this day fifteen hundred or two thousand men less in strength than they were yesterday, conquer America, or subdue even a single state? The thing cannot be, unless we sit down and suffer them to do it. In this excerpt, Paine uses a rhetorical device to encourage readers to

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feel anger and contempt for the British troops.

Question 3

Which is the best summary of the final paragraph of The Crisis, Number IV ?

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Paine informs General Howe that the colonists will continue to fight for independence.

Question 4

Throughout "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God," Edwards uses imagery in an attempt to make readers feel

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fear about being sent to hell.

Question 5

In paragraph six of "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God," what does Edwards suggest about spiritual reform?

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He suggests that good works alone will not save a person from damnation.

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