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| Analysis Essay Quiz 1. What is Phillis Wheatley's attitude to Christianity? About blacks as Christians? 2. Why was Phillis Wheatley's collected poetry published in London? (See the "Voices from the Gap" website.) Evaluation Essay Quiz 3. What poem best reflects Phillis Wheatley's attitudes about her life in the American colonies? 4. Why might Phillis Wheatley's poem, "To His Excellency General Washington," be regarded as a Neo-classical work? Interpretation Essay Quiz 5. Why might some readers take offense at the attitudes of Phillis Wheatley as they are expressed in "On Being Brought from Africa to America"? 6. What may have moved Phillis Wheatley to write a tribute on the death of the Reverend George Whitefield? |