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Quiz: The American Renaissance/Romantic Period
Due Oct 14 at 11:59pm Points 80 Questions 40
Time Limit 60 Minutes
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The quiz:
Covers the Learn material from Module 6: Week 6– Module 7: Week 7.
Contains40 multiple-choice and true/falsequestions.
Islimitedto1hour.
Allows1 attempt.
Isworth 80 points.
Submit this assignment by 11:59 p.m. (ET) on Friday of Module 8: Week 8.
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Question 1
Described poetry as "The Rhythmical Creation of Beauty"
Edgar Allan Poe
William Cullen Bryant
Washington Irving
Residential
Athletics
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Question 2
Primitivism and pantheism are some of the major characteristics of
Romanticism.
True
False
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Question 3
Incorrect
Incorrect
Was Emily Dickinson's friend and adviser, and helped her publish her
poetry.
Benjamin Newton
Charles Wadsworth
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
None of the above
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Question 4
Advocates outdoor worship or primitivism in his poetry
Herman Melville
Edgar Allan Poe
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
William Cullen Bryant
Washington Irving
Henry David Thoreau
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Question 5
E pluribus unum, Latin for “one from many,” is thematized in this
poem_______
““Song of Myself”
“Thanatopsis”
“Annabel Lee”
“the Raven”
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Question 6
Once attempted to become a scrivener
Herman Melville
Edgar Allan Poe
Ralph Waldo Emerson
William Cullen Bryant
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Washington Irving
Henry David Thoreau
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Question 7
Wrote “Benito Cereno.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Herman Melville
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Charles Wadsworth
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Question 8
William Cullen Bryant's "Thanatopsis" is his most famous poem.
True
False
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Question 9
Wrote “Young Goodman Brown”
Walt Whitman
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Herman Melville
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Bartleby
Emily Dickinson
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Question 10
Says life aboard ship (on sea) was “his Harvard and his Yale.”
Walt Whitman
Herman Melville
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Bartleby
Emily Dickinson
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Question 11
One of the major characters in Melville’s “Bartleby the Scrivener” is a
Lawyer.
True
False
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Question 12
One of the chief advocates of politics of conscience
Herman Melville
Edgar Allan Poe
Ralph Waldo Emerson
William Cullen Bryant
Washington Irving
Henry David Thoreau
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Question 13
This poet suggests that only the defeated truly understand the
blessings of victory.
William Cullen Bryant
Walt Whitman
Edgar Allan Poe
Emily Dickinson
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Question 14
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Emerson was inuenced by both 1st generation and 2nd generation
English Romantic Poets.
True
False
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Question 15
Denes the scholar as the total man at his fullest creativity.
Henry David Thoreau
Herman Melville
Walt Whitman
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Question 16
Dying unmourned is not important, according to this speaker/poet
Herman Melville
Edgar Allan Poe
Ralph Waldo Emerson
William Cullen Bryant
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Washington Irving
Henry David Thoreau
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Question 17
The following tale of terror uses psychological abnormality to
heighten terror:
“The Tell-Tale Heart”
“Bartleby the Scrivener”
“Young Goodman Brown”
“A Tour of the Prairies”
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Question 18
Transcendentalism is the belief that man has the capacity of attaining
knowledge that transcends the senses.
True
False
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Question 19
Incorrect
Incorrect
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Mysticism, intuition, pantheism, and transcendentalism are key
characteristic of Romanticism.
True
False
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Question 20
The American Renaissance was a time writers began showing
enthusiasm about portraying a unique American literature and
national life.
True
False
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Question 21
Once maintained a one-man community
Herman Melville
Edgar Allan Poe
Ralph Waldo Emerson
William Cullen Bryant
Washington Irving
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Henry David Thoreau
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Question 22
"Rip Van Winkle" exhibits elements of legend and folklore.
True
False
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Question 23
Established new magazine called “Salmagundi”
Herman Melville
Edgar Allan Poe
Ralph Waldo Emerson
William Cullen Bryant
Washington Irving
Henry David Thoreau
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Question 24
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Says he considers "a story merely as a frame on which to stretch my
materials."
Edgar Allan Poe
William Cullen Bryant
Washington Irving
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Question 25
To him who in the love of Nature holds
Communion with her visible forms, she speaks
A various language; for his gayer hours
She has a voice of gladness, and a smile
And eloquence of beauty, and she glides
Into his darker musings, with a mild
And healing sympathy, that steals away
Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
According to the excerpt, “Nature…/… speaks” "various language,"
such as
Beauty
Greek
Latin
Poetry
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Question 26
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Expresses the idea of the expansive self in his poem titled “Song of
Myself.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Walt Whitman
Herman Melville
William Cullen Bryant
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Question 27
Only published 7 poems when s/he was alive
Herman Melville
Walt Whitman
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Emily Dickinson
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Question 28
"Thanatopsis" was written when William Cullen Bryant was 17 years
old.
True
False
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Question 29
Exaltation of reason over feeling is one of the characteristic of
Romanticism.
True
False
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Question 30
Wrote a ve-volume biography of George Washington
Herman Melville
Edgar Allan Poe
Ralph Waldo Emerson
William Cullen Bryant
Washington Irving
Henry David Thoreau
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Question 31
Which period of American literature represented nature as projection
of God?
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The Colonial period
The Revolutionary era
The Romantic period
The age of Reason
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Question 32
A ___________ is “a poem written in dignied, serious language, taking
as its theme expression of loss and grief.”
Ballad
Sonnet
Spiritual
Pastoral elegy
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Question 33
When journeying in the forest, this character believes he sees the
“elect” in his town going astray. His “experiences” could be real or a
dream.
Herman Melville
Walt Whitman
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Emily Dickinson
Young Goodman Brown
Bartleby
Edgar Allan Poe
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Question 34
His story alludes to New England's (America’s) Puritan Past.
Walt Whitman
Herman Melville
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Bartleby
Emily Dickinson
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Question 35
In “Civil Disobedience,” Thoreau uses the Civil War as an example of a
19th century injustice.
True
False
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Question 36
A major tenet of Romanticism is the belief that the Natural world is a
source of corruption and, man's societies, a source of goodness.
True
False
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Question 37
An autobiographical interpretation is commonly used for analyzing the
works of Herman Melville.
True
False
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Question 38
This character is portrayed as imprudent and irrational.
Herman Melville
Walt Whitman
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Emily Dickinson
Young Goodman Brown
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Bartleby
Edgar Allan Poe
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Question 39
Which of the following is/are major Romantic characteristics of
Washington Irving's writing:
Emphasis on American regional setting and character types (literary
nationalism)
Use of the picturesque and picaresque
Escape from commonplace realities to the shadowy grandeur of the
past
All the above
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Question 40
Washington Irving authored "The legend of Sleepy Hollow."
True
False
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