What is the author’s purpose in the Zuni origin tale “The Flood” ?

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But when to their feminine rage the indignation of the people is added, when the ignorant and the poor are aroused, when the unintelligent brute force that lies at the bottom of society is made to growl and mow, it needs the habit of magnanimity and religion to treat it godlike as a trifle of no concernment. What does “mow” mean in this context ?

A. To grimace B. To bleat like sheep C. To lift heavy things D. To cut grass...

To which country do George and Eliza plan to immigrate ?

A. Liberia B. Nigeria C. France D. Algeria...

William Bradford’s Of Plymouth Plantation exemplifies what genre of early American writing ?

A. Slave narrative B. Free verse poem C. Journal D. Spiritual diary...

The annals of Massachusetts Bay will inform us, that of six governors, in the space of about forty years from the surrender of the old charter, under James II., two were imprisoned by a popular insurrection – a third, as Hutchinson inclines to believe, was driven from the province by the whizzing of a musket ball – a fourth, in the opinion of the same historian, was hastened to his grave by continual bickerings with the house of representatives – and the remaining two, as well as their successors, till the Revolution, were favored with few and brief intervals of peaceful sway. What is an “insurrection” ?

A. An act or instance of beginning B. An of revolting against civil authority C. The state of one risen from the dead D. The condition of being stopped...

Which of the following is not a cultural myth we attribute to those earliest Massachusetts colonial settlements at Plymouth and Massachusetts ?

A. Democracy B. Brother love/charity C. US Exceptionalism D. None of the above...