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Booker T. Washington – Up from Slavery When Washington enjoins both African Americans and white Southerners to “cast down your bucket where you are,” what types of employment does he seem to envision African Americans will find in the alliance he proposes?

“The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” According to the story, this “curiosest man” bet on all of the following, except which one?

Dickinson – “A narrow Fellow in the Grass” What is the speaker referring to as the “narrow Fellow in the grass”?

Frost – “Mending Wall” While winter weather has caused most of the damage to the wall, there is occasionally other damage to the wall. Who or what has caused damage during other seasons to the wall?

Glaspell – Trifles Which of the following descriptions most closely resembles how the men in the play characterize women?

Glaspell – Trifles Who killed John Wright?

Twain – “The Notorious Jumping Frog” Twain’s short story “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” is written from what point of view?

Jonathan Edwards – “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” Why, according to Edwards, is God wrathful toward the Puritan people of New England?

William Bradford and excerpts from Of Plymouth Plantation Why did the Pilgrims originally break away from the Church of England according to William Bradford?

Christopher Columbus – “Letter of Discovery” Where did Columbus initially believe he’d landed when he first sighted what is now modern-day Cuba?