1.4.4 Test (TST): The American Revolution
Test
English 11 Sem 1
Points Possible: 45
Name: Peter Xia
Date: 25/10/2020
1. Short-response prompt (15 points)
Read the following excerpt from Patrick Henry’s speech to the Convention of Delegates in Virginia
(1775).
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided; and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way
of judging of the future but by the past. And judging by the past, I wish to know what there has been in
the conduct of the British ministry for the last ten years to justify those hopes with which gentlemen
have been pleased to solace themselves and the house? Is it that insidious smile with which our petition
has been lately received? Trust it not, sir; it will prove a snare to your feet. Suffer not yourselves to be
