English Quiz

Front 1

What are the 2 styles of essays?

Back 1

formal and informal

Front 2

French writings were called pensees, or ____________

Back 2

Thoughts

Front 3

The word essay was first used by a French man named ____________________

Back 3

Montaigne

Front 4

The Englishman who wrote essays about travel, truth, riches, and other serious subjects was ____________

Back 4

Bacon

Front 5

The Tatler and Spectator papers were produced by ___________ and _______________

Back 5

Addison and Steele

Front 6

The 2 English poets who wrote literary essays about poetry were _____________ and ______________

Back 6

Addison and Wordsworth

Front 7

Franklin claimed to have heard and understood the conversation of ephemera, a type of _____________

Back 7

insect

Front 8

The ephemera's life was so _________ that it measured its life by _______________

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short, minutes

Front 9

The elderly ephemera's felt that his struggles in life were worth it because he gained a name for himself: True or False

Back 9

False

Front 10

Edward says that the ___________ and ______________ of God keeps sinful mankind from going to hell immediately

Back 10

power and pleasure

Front 11

Who is Anne Frank?

Back 11

A young Jewish girl whose family was hidden by a kind Dutch family in Amsterdam

Front 12

True or False : William Bradford's account about the Puritans ,
"The History of Plymouth Plantation," is serious in tone.

Back 12

True

Front 13

Captain James Smith may have exaggerated or invented parts of his account : True or False

Back 13

True

Front 14

William Bryd wrote an informal yet informative account of a trip to Virginia and the Carolinas : True or False

Back 14

True

Front 15

Byrd explains the problems he's had with Powhatan: True or False

Back 15

False. That was James Smith

Front 16

Thomas Jefferson's letter applauds Thomas Paine 's efforts: True or False

Back 16

True

Front 17

Name the 2 reasons that diaries are written :

Back 17

To record feelings and experiences for personal pleasure

For posterity

Front 18

The first book to be written in America with Smith's __ ____________ ______________.

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A true relation

Front 19

The rescue of John Smith by Pocahontas is believed to have been ____________

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fictional or exaggerated

Front 20

The houses built by Byrd were constructed of ________

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logs, pine, cypress shingles

Front 21

The selection illustrating the idea that "the pen is mightier than the sword" is:

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Jefferson's letter to Paine

Front 22

Cotton Mather wrote a biography of _________

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John Winthrop

Front 23

Cotton Mather was a Puritan Minister : True or False

Back 23

True

Front 24

Winthrop held what political position?

Back 24

Governor

Front 25

An author's story about himself is:

Back 25

autobiography

Front 26

Douglass says the experience with Mr. Covey turned him into a "_____________"

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"brute"

Front 27

The sight of ___________ would fill Douglass with torment

Back 27

sails

Front 28

2 Most popular forms of nonfiction are:

Back 28

newspapers and magazines

Front 29

The questions a newspaper article should ask are _____, __________, _________, _________, ___________

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Who, what, when, where, how

Front 30

An essay type of writing stating the opinions of the publisher is called an ___________

Back 30

editorial

Front 31

The type of issue most commonly discussed in editorials are:

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economic, political, and social