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Excerpt from: Life on the Mississippi
Mark Twain
THERE was no use in arguing with a person like this. I promptly put such a strain on my memory that by and by even the shoal water and the countless crossing-marks began to stay with me. But the result was just the same. I never could more than get one knotty thing learned before another presented itself. Now I had often seen pilots gazing at the water and pretending to read it as if it were a book; but it was a book that told me nothing. A time came at last, however, when Mr. Bixby seemed to think me far enough advanced to bear a lesson on water-reading. So he began—
What conclusion can you make from the first paragraph?
A) Mr. Bixby dislikes the narrator.
B) The narrator is angry with Mr. Bixby.
C) The narrator thinks Mr. Bixby is stubborn.
D) Mr. Bixby thinks the narrator is stubborn.
C) The narrator thinks Mr. Bixby is stubborn.
The trials described by Franklin took place in New Jersey, they took place at the same time and were not fair.
Benjamin Franklin wrote "A Witch Trial at Mount Holly," a short text that satirized the witch trials taking place in the country.
By reading this text, we can see that:
- Franklin describes the trial of a man and a woman who were accused of witchcraft.
- The accusers said they saw them making the pigs sing and the sheep dance.
- The trials put the accused through absurd tests, which caused the death of the accused, or forced them to admit the practice of witchcraft.
Franklin's intention in addressing this topic was to show how the witch trials were not coherent, but rather a crazy illusion. Franklin had this thought because he was so influenced by the stimulation of reason shown in the Enlightenment, which made him critically observe everything.
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