ENGL2010 TEST 2 Questions and Answers Lowa University

 Question 1
2 out of 2 points
Words such as "inalienable," "annihilation," "usurpations," and "invariably" are
examples of the formal language used by Thomas Jefferson in “The Declaration of
Independence.”
Selected Tru
Answer: e
 Question 2
0 out of 2 points
Which of Thomas Paine’s work was a discourse intended to be a religious revolution
to subject major religions to scientific scrutiny and criticism?
Selected Common Sense
Answer:
 Question 3
2 out of 2 points
Advocated 13 down to earth get-ahead-in-life virtues.
Selected Benjamin
Answer: Franklin
 Question 4
2 out of 2 points
The clause too, reprobating the enslaving the inhabitants of Africa, was struck out in
complaisance to South Carolina and Georgia, who had never attempted to restrain
the importation of slaves, and who, on the contrary, still wished to continue it. Our
northern brethren also, I believe, felt a little tender under those censures; for though
their people had very few slaves themselves, yet they had been pretty considerable
carriers of them to others. This statement was written by________
Selected Thomas Jefferson
Answer:
 Question 5
2 out of 2 points
First African-American woman to publish a book of poetry.
Selected Phillis Wheatley
Answer:
 Question 6
0 out of 2 points
Rationalists did not view human beings as free agents whose minds work as they
themselves choose.
Selected Tru
Answer: e
 Question 7
0 out of 2 points
Benjamin Franklin’s success as a writer is in part due to his use of formal language
rather than the plain style and language of the common people.

, Selected Tru
Answer: e
 Question 8
2 out of 2 points
Thomas Paine was coeditor of the
Selected Pennsylvania Magazine
Answer:
 Question 9
0 out of 2 points
Viewed America as an Edenic place of new beginnings and regeneration.
Selected Phillis Wheatley
Answer:
 Question 10
0 out of 2 points
Similar to Anne Bradstreet, Phillis Wheatley adopted a poetic voice that is personal
and private.
Selected Tru
Answer: e
 Question 11
2 out of 2 points
Regarded as a model of the self-made man; shared his rag-to-riches story in his
Autobiography.
Selected Benjamin
Answer: Franklin
 Question 12
0 out of 2 points
Rene Descartes propounded the idea of God as “First Cause.”
Selected Tru
Answer: e
 Question 13
2 out of 2 points
Rene Descartes propounded a philosophy with the insistence that only thing one
cannot doubt is one’s own existence.
Selected Tru
Answer: e
 Question 14
2 out of 2 points
Wrote “The American Crisis,” a series of pamphlets published during the actual
fighting for independence that made possible the motivation and success of the
Revolution.
Selected Thomas Paine
Answer: