Q 01/05

Mercy Otis Warren's brother James, the lawyer who fought the writs of assistance, was killed by what in 1783?

A) A musket ball

B) Lightning

C) A runaway horse

D) Smallpox

Answer · why

B) Lightning

Lightning struck James Otis as he watched a thunderstorm from a friend's doorway. A brawl with a customs officer years earlier had left him with a hea...

Q 02/05

Which US president, stung by Mercy Otis Warren's History, fumed that history is not the province of the ladies?

A) George Washington

B) James Madison

C) James Monroe

D) John Adams

Answer · why

D) John Adams

John Adams had urged her to write the book, then sent furious letters when it accused him of forgetting the Revolution's principles. The two old frien...

Q 03/05

Mercy Otis Warren's 1788 pamphlet attacked the US Constitution for lacking which safeguard, added three years later?

A) A bill of rights

B) A national bank

C) A two-term limit

D) A supreme court

Answer · why

A) A bill of rights

A bill of rights was the missing piece, she argued, and she listed protections such as a free press and trial by jury. The first ten amendments were r...

Q 04/05

Which college, closed to women like Mercy Otis Warren, taught both her brother James and her future husband?

A) Yale

B) Brown

C) Harvard

D) Rutgers

Answer · why

C) Harvard

Harvard is where James Warren befriended her brother. She may have first met her future husband at her brother's commencement there, though she could ...

Q 05/05

Mercy Otis Warren wrote a poem, at a friend's request, about which famous event before the Revolutionary War?

A) The Boston Massacre

B) The Boston Tea Party

C) Paul Revere's ride

D) The burning of the Gaspee

Answer · why

B) The Boston Tea Party

The Boston Tea Party poem was a favour for a friend. She told her husband it had been written off with little attention and lacked the merit for the p...