Common Mistakes 1

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Author of Frankenstein and the Modern Prometheus

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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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An advocate of educational equality for women, particularly in A Vindication of the Rights of Wonan (1792)

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Mary Wollstonecraft

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Pejorative nickname of Mary 1 Tudor, the queen if England who preceded Elizabeth I, so named for her persecution of Protestants

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Bloody mary

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Mary Stuart, the queen of Scotland during the first part of Elizabeth’s reign

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Mary queen of Scots

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the title character of The Merchant of Venice is

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Antonio

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The large sea of eastern Canada is

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Hudson bay

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The company named for the large sea of eastern Canada is

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The Hudson’s Bay Company

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Bishop of Hippo, wrote Confessions and City of God

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Saint Augustine (354-430)

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Founder of the Christian church in southern England; was the first Archbishop of Canterbury

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Saint Augustine (604/605)

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A novel by Ralph Ellison about an unnamed African-American protagonist in search of personal identity

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Invisible Man

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1897 novel by H. G. Wells about a man who has turned himself invisible but is slowly being driven insane

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The invisible man

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The scientific name for the order of primates is

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Primates (pree-MAY-teez)

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An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding was written by

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David Hume

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Treatise concerning the principles of human knowledge was written by

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George Berkeley

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An essay concerning human understanding was written by

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John Locke

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A physician, poet, humorist who wrote “Old Ironsides” and The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table

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Oliver Wendell Holmes

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A justice of the Supreme Court Known as “the great dissenter”

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Oliver Wendell holmes