April Morning Test - Honors American Literature Flashcards
Adam soberly tells the newspaperman at the meeting house all about the battle
False
The Reverend invites Sam Adams and John Hancock to his house for a meeting right before the British arrive
False
Moses Cooper favors the Committee’s keeping minutes
True
On the day before the battle, Adam Cooper appreciates his father’s positive counsel
False
The Reverend agrees with Solomon Chandler that the colonists fight in God’s cause
False
The village Committee is well supplied with the latest firearms and ammunition
False
Solomon Chandler criticizes Adam for running away instead of firing his gun at the redcoats on the Common
False
When Adam has question, he usually talks to his grandmother
True
Moses Cooper does not encourage Adam to participate in the Committee meeting
True
The redcoats do not find any of the colonists’ store of ammunition and firearms at Concord
True
When he asks the blessing before meals, Moses Cooper reverently and politely blows his head and insists that his family do the same
False
Adam is definitely leaving home to go to sea
False
Michel-Guillaume Jean de Crevecoeur wrote about the transformation of Americans into Europeans
False
Ben Franklin was self-educated and self-made, and as a printer, author, scientists, musician, philosopher, inventor, diplomat, and statesman, he was considered a “Renaissance Man”
True
Both Ben Franklin and Thomas Jefferson helped to frame the Declaration of Independence and were also signers
True
Thomas Jefferson founded the University of Miami
False
Phyllis Wheatley was a literary phenomenon is that she was a female slave who published sophisticated poetry in her second language
True
Thomas Paine wrote Common Sense in which he argued that Americans must fight for independence
True
Patrick Henry was considered the worst orator of the American Revolution
False
Patrick Henry could move his listeners to anger, fear, or laughter more easily than the most talented actor
True
Thomas Paine was known for his rhetoric and persuasiveness
True
Patrick Henry’s most famous line, “Give me liberty or give me death,” came from his “Speech in the Virginia Convention”
True
Ben Franklin advocated moral mediocrity as can be seen in his “Autobiography”
False
A cultural revolution occurred in the midst of the revolutionary period
True
The core of American identity and expression is the Declaration of Independence, the single most significant literary and political work of the 18th century
True
Writers of the Revolutionary Period (1760-1800) reflected The Age of Romanticism believing that by using reason, people could manage themselves and society without depending on authorities or past traditions
False
The American Revolution was fought not only with weapons but with thousands of pamphlets, essays, songs, poems, and speeches
True
The war of words began in 1763 with religious intolerance and finally led to the American Revolution
False
When the Reverend begins speaking to the British officers, Major Pitcairn
drives his horse toward the Reverend and forces him to leap aside
Moses Cooper believes that the rights of human beings derive from
their ability to reason
The first member of the family to see Adam return from the fighting is
Levi
The British do not surrender because
there is no one to whom they can surrender
The first Committeemen to fall is
Moses Cooper
Father believes that the proper way to defeat superstition is
a belief in materialism
The men marching to Concord are unashamed to weep because they are
plain people, unaccustomed to war
Adam tells his mother that another massacre cannot happen because the
Committeemen now know how they must fight, whether they want to or not
Cousin Simmons is unsure whether to sign the muster book the second time because
he is Lexington’s only blacksmith
At the dinner table, Mr. Cooper admonishes Adam for
being supersitious
The village Reverend has to step in when the women have a great controversy over
the use of maize or flour in making boiled pudding
The decision to muster the militia is made on the basis of ringing oratory delivered by
Moses Cooper
Levi cleans Adam’s fowling pice in the beginning of the novel because he wants to
apologize for having gotten Adam into trouble
Adam agrees with Samuel Hodley that the
whole affair is based on a rumor, and an attack by the British is unlikely
The first express rider believes the British army is headed for
Concord
In Levi’s nightmare, the sky is
red
Mr Cooper is a man who
tolerates no one’s opinion except his own
Shivering on the common shortly before dawn is a muster of
seventy men
Solomon Chandler has learned what he knows of the British army and soldiers during
the French and Indian War
Sarah Cooper’s grandfather Isaac has an unfavorable reputation for
bigamy
The undertaker apologizes to Adam for
the poor workmanship on the coffin
When the British open fire on the colonists, Adam screams and
runs away with everyone else
Adam likes to visit his grandmother’s room because she
allows him to provoke her
The Committeemen decide to break into groups of twos and threes rather than fight as a unit because
the British cannot chase down small groups of men
Moses Cooper believes that when the British soldiers see the militia, the soldiers will
respect the colonists for standing up for principle
Solomon Chandler believes the redcoats are
highly disciplines but ignorant
Adam dislikes Isaiah Peterkin because of his
hypocrisy
In the crowd at Buckman’s, Cousin Simmons asks Adam to
find Ruth and escort her home
Solomon Chandler
elderly firebrand; befriends Adam and gives him food
Ishmael Jamison
sea captain; Adam’s maternal uncle
Jonathan Harrington
militia’s musician; killed in battle
Joseph Simmons
Cooper cousin; Committeemen
Levi
Adam’s younger brother
Sarah Cooper
“A boy doesn’t turn into a man overnight. It takes learning and growing and hurting. And most of all, it takes time.”
Moses Cooper
“The proof of a man is the will to work and the ability to use his mind and his judgement”
Cousin Simmons
“We took up arms for our home place, and he died for it. That’s an old, old way, Adam, older than you or me, remember. There are worse ways for a man to die, I tell you
Solomon Chandler
“It take no courage to fire a gun and to kill, merely a state of mind that makes killing possible”
Granny
“Abraham Cooper had many fine qualities, something I will not deny, nut he was just so pegheaded and stubborn and enamored of the sound of his own voice as you are”
