Score for this quiz: 40 out of 50 *
Submitted Feb 28 at 1:52pm
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Question 1
2 / 2 pts
Who was NOT an editor of a sensational penny-press newspaper during the Jacksonian
Era?
James Gordon Bennett
Benjamin H. Day
James Watson Webb
William Ellery Channing
Question 2
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Ralph Waldo Emerson was interested in what?
Agriculture
Chess
Transcendentalism
Romanticism
C and D
Question 3
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What was the name of a popular painting technique in Jacksonian art that featured
gleaming light pointing to the ideal in natural scenes and capturing miraculous detail?
Abstract Expressionism
Luminism
Impressionism
Transcendentalism
Question 4
2 / 2 pts
What was the “-est factor” that Reynolds used to characterize American art and
literature during the Jacksonian Era?
A commitment to using art as a way to explore philosophies and ideologies like
Transcendentalism.
A fascination with the most extreme in every category and a tendency towards
exaggeration.
A move to categorize every work of art into narrow and concretely defined genres.
Question 5
2 / 2 pts
“Light” or optimistic authors during the Jacksonian Period emphasized what themes in
their works?
nature’s miraculous beauty
spiritual truths revealed by the physical world
the potential divinity of each individual
all of the above
Question 6
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Which of the writers below was not a Democrat?
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Henry David Thoreau
Walt Whitman
Herman Melville
Question 7
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Who was a popular author of sensational novels like The Quaker City?
Walt Whitman
William Ellery Channing
George Lippard
Thomas Cole
Question 8
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Who were two well-known American writers who first established themselves in the pre-
Jacksonian phase of American cultural expression?
Washington Irving and James Fennimore Cooper
Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman
Cormac McCarthy and Frank McCourt
Question 9
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Who wrote The Scarlet Letter?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Edgar Allen Poe
Henry David Thoreau
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Question 10
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What political party did Nathaniel Hawthorne support?
Jacksonian Democrats
Whigs
Liberty Party
Labor Party
Question 11
2 / 2 pts
For Ralph Waldo Emerson, what should be the most powerful influence in society
the Bible
the Book of Mormon
the individual conscience
government
Question 12
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What famous painter was a founder of the Hudson River School?
Edgar Allen Poe
Washington Allston
Thomas Cole
Hiram Power
Question 13
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What unique form of painting became popular during the Jacksonian years?
Random applications of oil paints similar to the abstract expressionism that would
inform modern art later.
Miniaturization---painting grand scenes of nature on very small items like shells or the
insides of lockets.
Panoramas—an oversize rendering of a scene.
Question 14
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What poetic work of the Jacksonian Era tried to combat sectionalism and promote unity
between Americans of every class, race, and religion?
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Question 15
2 / 2 pts
In addition to minstrelsy, what was another popular form of music during the
Jacksonian Era?
Gregorian Chant
Family singing groups that would perform around the country
Japanese Harp
Musical productions played on traditional Native American instruments
Question 16
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Which Jacksonian artist became famous for his portraits of Native Americans?
Thomas Cole
William Sidney Mount
George Catlin
John Quidor
Question 17
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Which of the below was NOT a Hudson River School artist?
Edwin Forrest
Thomas Cole
Frederick Edwin Church
Asher B. Durand
Question 18
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What was a tableaux vivant?
a unique type of table that would depict a work of art when unfolded to its full length.
actual men and women posing stationary and depicting scenes from classical
literature and art.
a miniaturized sculpture collection showing scenes from American history made for
display on a coffee table.
Question 19
2 / 2 pts
What was the “lyceum movement”?
A group of American scientists who organized study of the new flora and fauna
discovered in the West.
A utopian community of New England intellectuals who gave up private property and
devoted the majority of each day to study.
An organized network of lectures and seminars that provided entertainment and
instruction for common people.
Question 20
2 / 2 pts
Who was a popular lyceum lecturer?
Andrew Jackson
James Gordon Bennett
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Edmund Spencer
Question 21
Not yet graded / 10 pts
Drawing on the presentations, contrast New England Transcendentalism with the Dark
Romanticism and localism of Southern literary figures.
Your Answer:
These two movements took place from 1840 to 1860. Romanticism and
Transcendentalism have some similarities and differences. One of these differences
was how the perspective was pertaining to God. Transcendentalism tells how God is the
inner strength. Romanticism doesn't really say much about God, but that there is a being
far beyond what they know and understand. They also tell of a darkness and light built
within humans. Dark Romantics believed that all humans would sink to evil things. In the
southern states, literature focused more on Christianity, family, and unity among people.
So the literature was vastly different of the Transcendentalism and Dark Romanticism.
