Phillis Wheatley

Question 1

She had an excellent education emphasizing ……….. and …….…

Answer 1

History and literature

Question 2

She was Free in Africa but in spiritual bondage. Bondage in American but Spiritual Freedom.”……………..

Answer 2

To the University of Cambridge

Question 3

This compares what science to the blessing of the knowledge of salvation?

Answer 3

Astronomy

Question 4

What is particularly unusual about the style of the poem is that ?

Answer 4

it is written in blank verse.

Question 5

Know the blue print words …… what are the muses?

Answer 5

Classical goddesses of poetry and learning.

Question 6

First stanza …….. God

Answer 6

Addressed

Question 7

Who does the rest of the stanzas addresses ?

Answer 7

The audience

Question 8

Second stanza links the secular study of astronomy to the awareness of divine matter.(which verse)

Answer 8

“On Being brought from Africa to America”

Question 9

Charges Christians to remember that God invites all people to come to him for what?

Answer 9

Salvation

Question 10

Her play on words about the color of her skin is to emphasize on what?

Answer 10

The blackness of the soul without Christ.

Question 11

Both of her poems are similar in her message:that all men may have ………….. Through Christ and her …….. To God for bringing her to America.

Answer 11

Redemption & praise