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Problem 1: When Poor Richard discusses the invention of the telescope and the orbits of planets around the sun, what does he assume about his readership?
A) Poor Richard assumes his readers may be in the market for telescopes, and he is an investor in the company that makes them.
B) They are ignorant and need to be taught how the world works.
D) His readers are open to discussions of Natural Law and astronomical sciences.
D) Americans have always loved the occult, and Poor Richard's Almanack was the first place a wide group of people had access to that type of literature.
Problem 2: To the historian, the printed sermon by Jonathan Edwards provides evidence that
A) Colonial Americans firmly believed in reason and scientific observation as a way of understanding and surviving in their world.
B) there was a demand for transcripts of powerful sermons among the colonial population.
C) Jonathan Edwards was a religious fanatic.
D) only preachers held the power of the written word and the gospel in their hands.