American Literature I

1. The dominant spirit, however, that haunts this enchanted region, and seems to be commander-in-chief of all the powers of the air, is the apparition of a figure on horseback, without a head. It is said by some to be the ghost of a Hessian trooper, whose head had been carried away by a cannon-ball, in some nameless battle during the Revolutionary War, and who is ever and anon seen by the country folk hurrying along in the gloom of night, as if on the wings of the wind. Write the author's name in full, correctly spelled:

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3. "Full of these ideas, I prepared myself with a pair of green spectacles, and called one fine morning, quite by accident, at the Ministerial hotel. I found D—— at home, yawning, lounging, and dawdling, as usual, and pretending to be in the last extremity of ennui. He is, perhaps, the most really energetic human being now alive—but that is only when nobody sees him." Write the author's name in full, correctly spelled:

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4. The shriek, I said, was my own in a dream. The old man, I mentioned, was absent in the country. I took my visitors all over the house. I bade them search—search well. I led them, at length, to his chamber. I showed them his treasures, secure, undisturbed. In the enthusiasm of my confidence, I brought chairs into the room, and desired them here to rest from their fatigues... Write the title of this work, correctly spelled:

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9. "His lynx eye immediately perceives the paper, recognizes the handwriting of the address, observes the confusion of the personage addressed, and fathoms her secret. After some business transaction, hurried through in his ordinary manner, he produces a letter somewhat similar to the one in question, opens it, pretends to read it, and then places it in close juxtaposition to the other. Again he converses, for some fifteen minutes, upon the public affairs. At length, in taking leave, he takes also from the table the letter to which he had no claim." Write the title of this work, correctly spelled:

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10. He now became entangled in a succession of crooked and narrow streets, which crossed each other, and meandered at no great distance from the water-side. The smell of tar was obvious to his nostrils, the masts of vessels pierced the moonlight above the tops of the buildings, and the numerous signs, which [he] paused to read, informed him that he was near the centre of business. But the streets were empty, the shops were closed, and lights were visible only in the second stories of a few dwelling houses. Write the title of this work, correctly spelled:

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11. Well, then; I have received personal information, from a very high quarter, that a certain document of the last importance, has been purloined from the royal apartments. The individual who purloined it is known; this beyond a doubt; he was seen to take it. It is known, also, that it still remains in his possession. What is the meaning of the verb to purloin?

To borrow

To steal

To ruin

To return

12. In truth, all through the haunted forest, there could be nothing more frightful than the figure of ... On he flew, among the black pines, brandishing his staff with frenzied gestures, now giving vent to an inspiration of horrid blasphemy, and now shouting forth such laughter, as set all the echoes of the forest echoing like demons around him. Write the title of this work, correctly spelled:

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13. "Why, I will tell you," replied the Prefect, as he gave a long, steady, and contemplative puff, and settled himself in his chair. "I will tell you in a few words; but, before I begin, let me caution you that this is an affair demanding the greatest secrecy, and that I should most probably lose the position I now hold, were it known that I confided it to any one." Write the title of this work, correctly spelled:

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14. "We also measured the thickness of every book-cover, with the most accurate admeasurement, and applied to each the most jealous scrutiny of the microscope. Had any of the bindings been recently meddled with, it would have been utterly impossible that the fact should have escaped observation. Some five or six volumes, just from the hands of the binder, we carefully probed, longitudinally, with the needles." Write the title of this work, correctly spelled:

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16. A stern, a sad, a darkly meditative, a distrustful, if not a desperate man, did he become, from the night of that fearful dream. On the Sabbath-day, when the congregation were singing a holy psalm, he could not listen, because an anthem of sin rushed loudly upon his ear, and drowned all the blessed strain. When the minister spoke from the pulpit, with power and fervid eloquence, and, with his hand on the open bible, of the sacred truths of our religion, and of saint-like lives and triumphant deaths, and of future bliss or misery unutterable, then did [he] turn pale, dreading, lest the roof should thunder down upon the gray blasphemer and his hearers... Write the title of this work, correctly spelled:

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19. Emerson believed that people should not strive to fit in.

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20. How long is Rip asleep in the woods?

Fifty years

Twenty years

One hundred years

Eighty years

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25. Its evidence—the evidence of the sentience—was to be seen, he said, (and I here started as he spoke,) in the gradual yet certain condensation of an atmosphere of their own about the waters and the walls. The result was discoverable, he added, in that silent, yet importunate and terrible influence which for centuries had moulded the destinies of his family, and which made him what I now saw him—what he was.

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29. As the enraptured Ichabod fancied all this, and as he rolled his great green eyes over the fat meadow lands, the rich fields of wheat, of rye, of buckwheat, and Indian corn, and the orchards burthened with ruddy fruit, which surrounded the warm tenement of Van Tassel, his heart yearned after the damsel who was to inherit these domains, and his imagination expanded with the idea, how they might be readily turned into cash, and the money invested in immense tracts of wild land, and shingle palaces in the wilderness. The word "tenement" is another word for "residence."

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30. I have just spoken of that morbid condition of the auditory nerve which rendered all music intolerable to the sufferer, with the exception of certain effects of stringed instruments. It was, perhaps, the narrow limits to which he thus confined himself upon the guitar, which gave birth, in great measure, to the fantastic character of his performances. Write the author's name in full, correctly spelled:

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31. He now suspected that the great roysters of the mountain had put a trick upon him, and having dosed him with liquor, had robbed him of his gun. Wolf, too, had disappeared, but he might have strayed away after a squirrel or partridge. The word "roysters" means "roosters."

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32. "Bryant, in his very learned 'Mythology,' mentions an analogous source of error, when he says that 'although the Pagan fables are not believed, yet we forget ourselves continually, and make inferences from them as existing realities.' With the algebraist, however, who are Pagans themselves, the 'Pagan fables' are believed, and the inferences are made, not so much through lapse of memory, as through an unaccountable addling of the brains." Write the author's name in full, correctly spelled:

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33. They measure their esteem of each other by what each has, and not by what each is. But a cultivated man becomes ashamed of his property, out of new respect for his nature. Especially he hates what he has, if he see that it is accidental, – came to him by inheritance, or gift, or crime; then he feels that it is not having; it does not belong to him, has no root in him, and merely lies there, because no revolution or no robber takes it away. Write the title of this work, correctly spelled:

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35. The cautious old gentleman knit his brows tenfold closer after this explanation, being sorely puzzled by the ratiocination of the syllogism; while methought the one in pepper and salt eyed him with something of a triumphant leer. At length he observed, that all this was very well, but still he thought the story a little extravagant – there were one or two points on which he had his doubts. "Faith, sir," replied the story-teller, "as to that matter, I don't believe one half of it myself." Write the title of this work, correctly spelled:

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36. Let me refer you to the churches only. And, my brethren, is there any agreement? Do brethren and sisters love one another? Do they not rather hate one another? Outward forms and ceremonies, the lusts of the flesh, the lusts of the eye, and pride of life is of more value to many professors than the love of God shed abroad in their hearts, or an attachment to his altar, to his ordinances, or to his children. But you may ask: Who are the children of God? Write the author's full name, correctly spelled:

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37. Soon, however a bewildering excitement began to seize upon his mind; the preceding adventures of the night, the unexpected appearance of the crowd, the torches, the confused din and the hush that followed, the spectre of his kinsman reviled by that great multitude, -- all this, and more than all, a perception of tremendous ridicule in the whole scene, affected him with a sort of mental inebriety Write the author's full name, correctly spelled:

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40. He was a native of Connecticut, a State which supplies the Union with pioneers for the mind as well as for the forest, and sends forth yearly its legions of frontier woodmen and country schoolmasters. The cognomen of Crane was not inapplicable to his person. He was tall, but exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders, long arms and legs, hands that dangled a mile out of his sleeves, feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together. Write the title of this work, correctly spelled:

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43. Among the musical disciples who assembled, one evening in each week, to receive his instructions in psalmody, was ... the daughter and only child of a substantial ... farmer. She was a blooming lass of fresh eighteen; plump as a partridge; ripe and melting and rosy-cheeked as one of her father's peaches, and universally famed, not merely for her beauty, but her vast expectations. Write the author's name in full, correctly spelled:

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48. I have even talked with [him] myself, who, when last I saw him, was a very venerable old man, and so perfectly rational and consistent on every other point, that I think no conscientious person could refuse to take this into the bargain; nay, I have seen a certificate on the subject taken before a country justice and signed with a cross, in the justice's own handwriting. The story, therefore, is beyond the possibility of a doubt. Write the author's name in full, correctly spelled:

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49. But, irreverently consorting with these grave, reputable, and pious people, these elders of the church, these chaste dames and dewy virgins, there were men of dissolute lives and women of spotted fame, wretches given over to all mean and filthy vice, and suspected even of horrid crimes. It was strange to see that the good shrank not from the wicked, nor were the sinners abashed by the saints. Scattered also among their pale-faced enemies were the Indian priests, or powwows, who had often scared their native forest with more hideous incantations than any known to English witchcraft. Write the author's full name, correctly spelled:

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53. There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do nor does he know until he has tried. Write the title of this work, correctly spelled:

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54. In the enthusiasm of my confidence, I brought chairs into the room, and desired them here to rest from their fatigues; while I myself, in the wild audacity of my perfect triumph, placed my own seat upon the very spot beneath which reposed the corpse of the victim. What is the meaning of the word audacity?

Fearless daring or aggressive boldness

Auditory city

Authority

Insanity or dementia

55. I was astounded. The Perfect appeared absolutely thunderstricken. For some minutes he remained speechless and motionless, less, looking incredulously at my friend with open mouth, and eyes that seemed starting from their sockets; then, apparently in some measure, he seized a pen, and after several pauses and vacant stares, finally filled up and signed a check for fifty thousand francs, and handed it across the table to [my friend]. Write the author's name in full, correctly spelled:

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56. He was an elderly man, of large and majestic person, and strong, square features, betokening a steady soul; but steady as it was, his enemies had found means to shake it. His face was pale as death, and far more ghastly; the broad forehead was contracted in his agony, so that his eyebrows formed one grizzled line; his eyes were red and wild, and the foam hung white upon his quivering lip. His whole frame was agitated by a quick and continual tremor, which his pride strove to quell, even in those circumstances of overwhelming humiliation. Write the author's full name, correctly spelled:

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58. I ask: Is it not the case that everybody that is not white is treated with contempt and counted as barbarians? And I ask if the word of God justifies the white man in so doing. When the prophets prophesied, of whom did they speak? When they spoke of heathens, was it not the whites and others who were counted Gentiles? And I ask if all nations with the exception of the Jews were not counted heathens. Write title of this work, correctly spelled:

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59. The annals of Massachusetts Bay will inform us, that of six governors, in the space of about forty years from the surrender of the old charter, under James II., two were imprisoned by a popular insurrection - a third, as Hutchinson inclines to believe, was driven from the province by the whizzing of a musket ball - a fourth, in the opinion of the same historian, was hastened to his grave by continual bickerings with the house of representatives - and the remaining two, as well as their successors, till the Revolution, were favored with few and brief intervals of peaceful sway. What is an "insurrection"?

An act or instance of beginning

An of revolting against civil authority

The state of one risen from the dead

The condition of being stopped

60. She was a dainty little figure with a white neck, round arms, and a slender waist, at the extremity of which her scarlet petticoat jutted out over a hoop, as if she were standing in a balloon. Moreover, her face was oval and pretty, her hair dark beneath the little cap, and her bright eyes possessed a sly freedom, which triumphed over those of ... Write the title of this work, correctly spelled:

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66. Of the two, reverend Sir," said the voice like the deacon's, "I had rather miss an ordination-dinner than to-night's meeting. They tell me that some of our community are to be here from Falmouth and beyond, and others from Connecticut and Rhode-Island; besides several of the Indian powows, who, after their fashion, know almost as much deviltry as the best of us. A "powow" in this context is:

A devil-worshipper

A boxer

An apples-salesman

A medicine man

67. His son Rip, an urchin begotten in his own likeness, promised to inherit the habits, with thåe old clothes of his father. He was generally seen trooping like a colt at his mother's heels, equipped in a pair of his father's cast-off galligaskins, which he had much ado to hold up with one hand, as a fine lady does her train in bad weather. What are "galligaskins"?

Long, wide petticoats

A trench-coat

Loose, wide breeches

Underpants

68. Peter Van der Donk was a real New Netherlands historian.

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False

69. He was famed for great skill in horsemanship; he was foremost at all races and cockfights; and, with the ascendancy which bodily strength acquires in rustic life, was the umpire in all disputes. He was always ready for either a fight or a frolic, but had more mischief and good humor than ill will in his composition. Who is this?

Cotton Mather

Diedrich Knickerbocker

Brom Bones

Geoffrey Crayon

Ichabod Crane

70. This character survived a massacre:

Faith

Hope

Magawisca

Katrina

Madeline

71. I took my visitors all over the house. I bade them search — search well. I led them, at length, to his chamber. I showed them his treasures, secure, undisturbed. The narrator is:

Helping Robin to search for his uncle

A detective

A mad twin

Leading the police to the scene of a crime

Helping the police to look for a letter

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73. For a time the narrator comforts Roderick by reading and painting with him; one of Roderick's paintings is described as follows: "A small picture presented the interior of an immensely long and rectangular vault or tunnel, with low walls, smooth, white, and without interruption or device. Certain accessory points of the design served well to convey the idea that this excavation lay at an exceeding depth below the surface of the earth." What later event in the story does this picture foreshadow?

The narrator and Roderick bury Madeline alive in a stone tomb beneath the mansion.

The narrator and Roderick drown Madeline in the tarn next to the mansion.

Roderick and Madeline escape the house via an underground tunnel.

The narrator and Roderick become trapped in catacombs beneath the mansion.

74. "True;" said Dupin, after a long and thoughtful whiff from his meerschaum, "although I have been guilty of certain doggerel myself." The word "doggerel" means to bark like a dog.

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False

75. The Sketch Book is an example of the personal travel book, a genre that became popular in American literature.

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False

76. But when to their feminine rage the indignation of the people is added, when the ignorant and the poor are aroused, when the unintelligent brute force that lies at the bottom of society is made to growl and mow, it needs the habit of magnanimity and religion to treat it godlike as a trifle of no concernment. What does "mow" mean in this context?

To grimace

To bleat like sheep

To lift heavy things

To cut grass

77. But for many minutes the heart beat on with a muffled sound. This, however, did not vex me; it would not be heard through the wall. At length it ceased. The old man was dead. I removed the bed and examined the corpse. Yes, he was stone, stone dead. This victim is killed because of:

A letter

His clouded eye

His pact with the devil

His loud heart beat

His money

78. The farmer drove his plough-share deep "Whose bones are these?" said he, "I find them where my browsing sheep Roam o'er the upland lea." What does "lea" mean? Veldu eitt:

Rocky land

Bridge

Plain or plateau

Meadow or pastureland

79. "Can this be so!" cried goodman Brown, with a stare of amazement at his undisturbed companion. Howbeit, I have nothing to do with the governor and council - they have their own ways, and are no rule for a simple husbandman, like me. But, were I to go on with thee, how should I meet the eye of that good old man, our minister, at Salem village? Oh, his voice would make me tremble, both Sabbath-day and lecture-day!" The word "husbandman" usually means farmer, but in this context it means something else - what?

Rancher

Male partner in a marriage

Cowboy

Man of ordinary status

80. The ambitious spirits of his brother chieftain Sassacus, had ever aspired to dominion over the allied tribes - and immediately after the appearance of the English, the same temper was manifest in a jealousy of their encroachments. He employed all his art and influence and authority, to unite the tribes for the extirpation of the dangerous invaders. Mononotto, on the contrary, averse to all hostility, and foreseeing no danger from them, was the advocate of a hospitable reception, and pacific conduct.
What does "extirpation" mean?

Execution

Going to extremes

Extermination

Expatriating

81. She was a blooming lass of fresh eighteen, plump as a partridge, ripe and melting and rosy-cheeked as one of her father's peaches, and universally famed, not merely for her beauty, but her vast expectations. … She wore ornaments of pure yellow gold to set off her charms, and a provokingly short petticoat to display the prettiest foot and ankle in the country round. This is:

Faith

Madeline

Magawisca

Hope

Katrina

82. It was the very witching time of night that he, heavyhearted and crestfallen, pursued his travel homeward. Far below, the Tappan Zee spread its dusky waters. In the dead hush of midnight he could hear the faint barking of a watchdog from the opposite shore. The night grew darker and darker; the stars seemed to sink deeper in the sky, and driving clouds occasionally hid them from his sight. This passage is from:

A fairy tale

An autobiography

A detective story

A novel

A Gothic tale

83. Let me for a few moments turn your attention to the reservations in the different states of New England, and, with but few exceptions, we shall find them as follows: the most mean, abject, miserable race of beings in the world - a complete place of prodigality and prostitution. What does "prodigality" mean?

Wasteful extravagance

Promiscuity

Return from the dead

Redemption

84. Usher can only stand types of noises in his acutely uncomfortable state. The narrator describes a number of impromptus that Usher plays for him on which instrument?

The harp

The guitar

The ukulele

The violin

The piano

85. Wanders in that happy valley
Through two luminous windows saw
Spirits moving musically
To a lute's well-tunéd law,
Round about a throne, where sitting
(Porphyrogene!)
In state his glory well befitting,
The sovereign of the realm was seen.
What does Porphyrogene mean?

Born to be free

Inflicted with the disease Porphyria

Of royal birth

Wearing purple robes

86. At the beginning of the period of 1820-1865 fiction was still seen as a threat, likely to inflame the imagination and passion of susceptible young readers, in particular of young women.

True

False

87. Sir Walter Scott had an immense impact on American literature with his historical novels cast in historical settings, intermingling historical people with fictional characters.

True

False

88. Of what does Goodman Brown become guilty after his midnight meeting in the woods?

Atonement

Catharsis

Gullibility

Hubris

Empathy

89. Transcendentalists were in favor of the conservative Protestant scrutiny practiced by publicists nationwide.

True

False

90. What does the narrator of the story about Rip describe as the great error in Rip's composition?

His weakness for spirits

That he is henpecked by his wife

His love of town gossip

His unwillingness to work

91. I knew him, however, as both mathematician and poet, and my measures were adapted to his capacity, with reference to the circumstances by which he was surrounded. I knew him as a courtier, too, and as a bold intriguant. Such a man, I considered, could not fail to be aware of the ordinary political modes of action. Who is speaking?

Brown

Brom Bones

Rip

Robin

Dupin

92. I ask: Is it not the case that everybody that is not white is treated with contempt and counted as barbarians? And I ask if the word of God justifies the white man in so doing. When the prophets prophesied, of whom did they speak? When they spoke of heathens, was it not the whites and others who were counted Gentiles? And I ask if all nations with the exception of the Jews were not counted heathens. This passage exemplifies:

Jamming

Snaring

Foreshadowing

Hortatory sermon

Framing

93. "Mingled with fine wheat and the fat of a new-born babe," said the shape of old goodman Brown. "Ah, your worship knows the receipt," cried the old lady, cackling aloud. "So, as I was saying, being all ready for the meeting, and no horse to ride on, I made up my mind to foot it; for they tell me, there is a nice young man to be taken into communion to-night. But now your good worship will lend me your arm, and we shall be there in a twinkling." The word "receipt" in this context means "a written acknowledgment of having received a specified amount of money or goods."

True

False

94. He had seen his people slaughtered, or driven from their homes and hunting-grounds, into shameful exile; his wife had died in captivity, and his children lived in servile dependence in the house of his enemies. The author of this work wanted to raise awareness of women's part in US history.

True

False

95. Monadnock on his forehead hoar
Doth seal the sacred trust,
Your mountains build their monument,
Though ye destroy their dust.

What is the meaning of the word "hoar"?

Scarred

Grey or white with age

Ancient or venerable

Wrinkled with age

96. Along the way, goodman Brown and the character who seems to be the devil meet three people:

Goody Cloyse, Faith, and old goodman Brown.

Goody Cloyse, deacon Gookin, and the minister.

The minister, old goodman Brown, and deacon Gookin.

Faith, old goodman Brown and deacon Gookin.

97. It was possible, I reflected, that a mere different arrangement of the particulars of the scene, of the details of this picture, would be sufficient to modify, or perhaps to annihilate its capacity for sorrowful impression; and, acting upon this idea, I reined my horse to the precipitous brink of a black and lurid tarn that lay in unruffled lustre by the dwelling, and gazed down - but with a shudder even more thrilling than before - upon the re-modelled and inverted images of the gray sedge, and the ghastly tree-stems, and the vacant eye-like windows.
What is the meaning of the word tarn?
Veldu eitt:

A bird

A small mountain lake

A wide river

A high cliff

98. The children of the village, too, would shout with joy whenever he approached. He assisted at their sports, made their playthings, taught them to fly kites and shoot marbles, and told them long stories of ghosts, witches, and Indians. This work draws upon:

A European fairy tale

A local ghost story

An Indian legend

A European ghost story

An American fairy tale

99. It was possible, I reflected, that a mere different arrangement of the particulars of the scene, of the details of this picture, would be sufficient to modify, or perhaps to annihilate its capacity for sorrowful impression; and, acting upon this idea, I reined my horse to the precipitous brink of a black and lurid tarn that lay in unruffled lustre by the dwelling, and gazed down-but with a shudder even more thrilling than before-upon the re-modelled and inverted images of the gray sedge, and the ghastly tree-stems, and the vacant eye-like windows. "Sedge" is a plant.

True

False

100. I would not have it imagined, however, that he was one of those cruel potentates of the school, who joy in the smart of their subjects; on the contrary, he administered justice with discrimination rather than severity; taking the burthen off the backs of the weak, and laying it on those of the strong. What is the meaning of the word "smart" in this context?

Stupidity

Silliness

Pain

Intelligence

101. Apess concludes his piece by:

Predicting the Apocalypse

Declaring his intention to run for public office

Calling for Native Americans to declare themselves independent of the U.S. government

Exhorting his allies and advocates to continue working to end prejudice

102. Emerson influenced Friedrich Nietzsche.

True

False

103. Which of these statements does NOT apply to Hawthorne as a moralist:

Awareness of the importance of living a life without error and sin

Awareness of the dangers of setting yourself up as the judge of others or of isolating yourself from humanity

Awareness of the ethical problems of sin, punishment and atonement

Awareness of the mysteries and frailties of human nature

104. And then the fair Ohio charg'd Her many sisters dear, "Show me once more, those stately forms Within my mirror clear..." The author of this work wanted to:

Show the beauty of Native women

Show the beauty of Ohio women

Protest the treatment of Native Americans

Raise awareness of women's part in US history

Claim increased rights for women

105. "Left the house of the subscriber, bounden servant, Hezekiah Mudge—had on when he went away, grey coat, leather breeches, master's third best hat. One pound currency reward to whoever shall lodge him in any jail in the province." Hezekiah Mudge is a "bounden servant," meaning that he is bound by contract to be a servant (essentially a willing slave) for seven years in repayment for:

Freedom

Escape from enslavement

Transportation to the colonies

Dropping charges for murder

106. Well into the middle of the 19th century boys and girls alike were protected from sexually frank classics written in Greek and Latin.

True

False

107. The populace think that your rejection of popular standards is a rejection of all standard, and mere antinomianism - and the bold sensualist will use the name of philosophy to gild his crimes. But the law of consciousness abides. There are two confessionals, in one or the other of which we must be shriven. What is "antinomianism"?

Doctrine of Stoicism

Doctrine of Gnosticism

Doctrine of Materialism

Doctrine of salvation by faith alone

108. The cautious old gentleman knit his brows tenfold closer after this explanation, being sorely puzzled by the ratiocination of the syllogism; while methought the one in pepper and salt eyed him with something of a triumphant leer. At length he observed, that all this was very well, but still he thought the story a little extravagant – there were one or two points on which he had his doubts. "Faith, sir," replied the story-teller, "as to that matter, I don't believe one half of it myself." This passage exemplifies:

Narrative frame

Hortatory sermon

Snaring

Jamming

Foreshadowing

109. What ritual does the character resembling the devil attempt to perform in the woods, with goodman Brown as the object?

A conversion

A christening

A wedding

A baptism

110. Many writers turned editors of magazines or newspapers in order to see their work published. Washington Irving was one of those writers.

True

False

111. The now ghastly pallor of the skin, and the now miraculous luster of the eye, above all things startled and even awed me. The silken hair, too, had been suffered to grow all unheeded, and as, in its wild gossamer texture, it floated rather than fell about the face, I could not, even with effort, connect its arabesque expression with any idea of simple humanity. The character described in this passage:

Commits suicide

Devours a heart

Meets the devil

Kills an old man

Buries someone alive

112. Transcendentalism was embraced in the late 1830s and 1840s by all the mainstream newspapers and magazines.

True

False

113. When there was a momentary calm in that tempestuous sea of sound, the leader gave the sign, the procession resumed its march. On they went, like fiends that throng in mockery around some dead potentate, mighty no more, but majestic still in his agony. On they went, in counterfeited pomp, in senseless uproar, in frenzied merriment, trampling all on an old man's heart. This is:

Historical fiction

A fairy tale

A novel

An autobiography

A detective story

114. Apess claims that Native Americans in New England are the "most mean, abject, miserable race of beings in the world." Which of the following is NOT a reason he offers as an explanation for their misery?

They are victimized by corrupt Indian Agents appointed by the government.

They are not provided with adequate education.

They are legally denied the right to engage in commerce.

Native American women have been seduced and abandoned by white men.

115. "Your goodness must have some edge to it—else it is none. The doctrine of hatred must be preached as the counteraction of the doctrine of love when that pules and whines." In this work the author argues in favour of:

Communism

Revolution

An independent nation of independent individuals

Abolition

116. The cloud-spirits peeped from their silvery islands, as the congregated mirth went roaring up the sky! The Man in the Moon heard the far bellow. "Oho," quoth he, "the old earth is frolicsome to-night!" This is:

An autobiography

A fairy tale

Gothic fiction

A novel

A detective story

117. I have said that the sole effect of my somewhat childish experiment—that of looking down within the tarn—had been to deepen the first singular impression. There can be no doubt that the consciousness of the rapid increase of my superstition—for why should I not so term it?—served mainly to accelerate the increase itself. Such, I have long known, is the paradoxical law of all sentiments having terror as a basis. This work exemplifies:

Unity of effect

Ratiocinactive effect

Cataleptic effect

Didactic effect

Delusion of effect

118. When the prophets prophesied, of whom did they speak? When they spoke of heathens, was it not the whites and others who were counted Gentiles? And I ask if all nations with the exception of the Jews were not counted heathens. The author of this passage was:

A slave

A Transcendentalist

The son of itinerant actors

A war correspondent

An indentured servant

119. Emerson encouraged people to learn from the great people of the past who gave their name to whole periods.

True

False

120. My present business," continued he, speaking with lofty confidence, "is merely to inquire my way to the dwelling of my [relative]." ... There was a sudden and general movement in the room, which Robin interpreted as expressing the eagerness of each individual to become his guide. This passage exemplifies:

Jamming

Ambiguity

Snaring

Foregrounding

Foreshadowing

121. He had heard this destruction of the original possessors of the soil described, as we find it in the history of the times, where, we are told, "the number destroyed was about four hundred;" and "it was a fearful sight to see them thus frying in the fire, and the streams of blood quenching the same, and the horrible scent thereof; but the victory seemed a sweet sacrifice, and they gave the praise thereof to God." This work is:

An elegy

A hortatory sermon

A historial novel

Gothic fiction

A narrative frame