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Quiz: The American Renaissance/Romantic Period
Due Jul 1, 2022 at 11:59pm Points 80 Questions 40
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Question 1
Authored the “The Masque of the Red Death”
Edgar Allan Poe
Ralph Waldo Emerson
William Cullen Bryant
Washington Irving
Henry D. Thoreau
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Question 2
Emerson's "The American Scholar," inter alia, is a call for American
intellectual independence.
True
False
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Question 3
Incorrect
Incorrect
Uses the phrase or refrain "I prefer not to."
Walt Whitman
Herman Melville
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Bartleby
Emily Dickinson
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Question 4
This poet made a plea for physical, intellectual, and spiritual unity
of all nations.
Abraham Lincoln
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Walt Whitman
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Washington Irving
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Question 5
Charlotte and Emily Bronte were British contemporaries of Emily
Dickinson.
True
False
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Question 6
According to Emerson, the scholar is "Man Thinking."
True
False
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Question 7
His graduation poem expressed religious views of orthodox
Puritanism.
Edgar Allan Poe
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William Cullen Bryant
Washington Irving
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Question 8
Romantic prose writer of the sea
Herman Melville
Edgar Allan Poe
Ralph Waldo Emerson
William Cullen Bryant
Washington Irving
Henry David Thoreau
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Question 9
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
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Joy
Greek
Latin
Poetry
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Question 10
Edgar Allan Poe is famous for his work as a literary critic, short
story writer, and poet.
True
False
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Question 11
William Cullen Bryant discarded his neoclassicism and embraced
romanticism.
True
False
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Question 12
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Uses archaic words such as “thee,” “thou,” “list,” and “couldst” in his
major poem.
Herman Melville
Edgar Allan Poe
Ralph Waldo Emerson
William Cullen Bryant
Washington Irving
Henry David Thoreau
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Question 13
William Cullen Bryant's "Thanatopsis" is his most famous poem.
True
False
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Question 14
We slowly drove – He knew no haste
And I had put away
My labor and my leisure too,
For His Civility –
The “He” in the poem is an example of ________
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Personication
Allegory
Doublet
Alliteration
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Question 15
The Romantic writers had little or no interest in nature.
True
False
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Question 16
We slowly drove – He knew no haste
And I had put away
My labor and my leisure too,
For His Civility –
The “He” in the poem refers to ________
The poet
Death
Immortality
God
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Question 17
One of the major characters in Melville’s “Bartleby the Scrivener” is
a Lawyer.
True
False
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Question 18
Was a strange young man who took employment in a lawyer's
oce.
Walt Whitman
Herman Melville
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Bartleby
Emily Dickinson
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Question 19
Inuenced by English Romantics, especially John Keats.
Walt Whitman
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Herman Melville
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Bartleby
Emily Dickinson
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Question 20
Says nature has "various language"
Edgar Allan Poe
William Cullen Bryant
Washington Irving
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Question 21
Incorrect
Incorrect
Who made the statement that the absolute, all-pervading God “has
its center everywhere but its circumference nowhere.”
Henry David Thoreau
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Plotinus
William Cullen Bryant
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Question 22
The "dead letters' in this author’s story are equated with his own
rejected manuscripts / failed novels.
Walt Whitman
Herman Melville
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Bartleby
Emily Dickinson
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Question 23
Wrote “Benito Cereno.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Herman Melville
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Charles Wadsworth
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Question 24
Authored "The Tell-Tale Heart," and “The Purloined Letter”
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Edgar Allan Poe
William Cullen Bryant
Washington Irving
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Question 25
The Romantic writers valued reason over feeling and emotion.
True
False
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Question 26
Wrote "Because I Could Not Stop for Death.”
Walt Whitman
Herman Melville
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Bartleby
Emily Dickinson
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Question 27
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Argued that the scholar derives scholarly truth about himself and
democratic America through nature, action and, intuition.
Henry David Thoreau
Herman Melville
Walt Whitman
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Question 28
The "Melville Revival" occurred in _______
1920's and 1930's
1820's and 1830's
1720's and 1730's
1960's and 1970's
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Question 29
Dying unmourned is not important, according to this speaker/poet
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 30
“The Melville Revival” occurred during the 1920’s and 1930’s.
True
False
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Question 31
Primitivism and pantheism are some of the major characteristics
of Romanticism.
True
False
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Question 32
Taught Emily Dickinson how to read and encouraged her to write
poetry.
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Benjamin Newton
Charles Wadsworth
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
None of the above
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Question 33
Uses references to walls as symbols/metaphors of connement
Herman Melville
Edgar Allan Poe
Ralph Waldo Emerson
William Cullen Bryant
Washington Irving
Henry David Thoreau
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Question 34
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
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Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
Which period of American literature does this poem best
exemplify?
Romantic period
Colonial period
Age of Reason
Revolutionary period
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Question 35
Emily Dickinson considered him "her dearest earthly friend."
Benjamin Newton
Charles Wadsworth
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
None of the above
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Question 36
Wrote satirical pieces called “Letters of Jonathan Oldstyle, Gent.”
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 37
In his "Civil Disobedience" Thoreau applies transcendentalism to
politics.
True
False
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Question 38
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 39
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"Bartleby, the Scrivener" is about an individual’s rebellion against
society, custom, and authority.
True
False
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Question 40
"Rip Van Winkle" exhibits elements of legend and folklore.
True
False
Quiz Score: 78 out of 80
