MCMS- Ora Nine Weeks (in Grade ELA WUIL
ACUVE
English
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TIME REMAINING
59:09
Read this excerpt from Thomas Jefferson: The Apostle of Americanism by Gilbert Chinard.
"I think it is Montaigne who has said that ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head," he wrote
to Edmund Randolph. "I am sure it is true as to everything political, and shall endeavor to estrange myself to
everything of that character." Since that time there have been in American politics many instances of politicians who
left for a hunting party, or retired to their farms in order to avoid responsibility.
Which character in Fever 1793 is used to contrast this perspective?
Colette Ogilvie
Mattie's grandfather
Mr. Carris
Andrew Brown