Put the following in chronological order. Label them 1-4, with 1 representing the earliest work.
____ "Here Follow Some Verses Upon the Burning of our House"
____ "Rip Van Winkle"
____ "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"
____ "Uncle Tom's Cabin" correct answers 1, 3, 2, 4
Whic...
Which of the following statements accurately describe Puritan New England during the
colonial period? Circle all that apply.
1. widespread belief in predestination
2. publication of America's first best-selling novel
3. Belief in religious toleration
4. desire to start an exemplary Christian civilization
5. literature often focused on overtly religious topics correct answers 1, 3 & 5
in "On Being Brought from Africa to America," Phillis Wheatley...
a. directly confronts slavery and calls for immediate emancipation
b. uses christianity to articulate the value of people of African descent
c. demonstrates that slavery is antithetical to the values of the American Revolution
d. questions her own religiosity correct answers b.
all of the following are likely to appear in a slave narrative EXCEPT
a. a description of the narrator's exact place and date of birth
b. descriptions of cures whippings and the violence endured by the enslaved
c. critique of slaveholders who claimed to be Christian
d. a description of the meager food and clothing allocated to the enslaved correct
answers a.
the dramatic expansion of American literature between 1830 and 1860 and the
publication of many literary texts now considered canonical has eld to the period
referred to as...
a. postbellum period
b. the American Renaissance
, c. the Early Republic
d. the Great Awakening correct answers b.
American literary nationalism refers to...
a. the characteristics of literary texts that make them distinctly American, like regional
settings and local dialects
b. the influence of American literature on the literatures of other countries and
immigrants
c. the diversity of regions and experiences reflected in American literature and the
questions about American identity that this diversity inspires
d. the belief that America's form of government, mix of peoples, and geographical
grandeur would inspire literature independent and superior to Great Britain's correct
answers d.
according to Thoreau, when an unjust law violates the dictates of one's conscience, one
should...
a. petition the government to change the unjust law
b. organize a boycott of US businesses
c. violate the law and accept the consequences of doing so
d. cease voting in the US elections correct answers c.
which of the following should I expect to find in a work of sentimentalism? circle all that
apply.
1. appeals to a christian ethos
2. potent against social ills
3. emphasis on nature
4. appeals to the reader's sympathy and compassion
5. references to predestination correct answers 1, 2 and 4
in "The Poet," Emerson anticipates the creation of which of the following forms?
a. elegy
b. free verse
c. ballad stanza
d. blank verse correct answers b. free verse
all of the following represent values of Transcendentalism EXCEPT
a. support for women's rights, abolition, and environmentalism
b. belief in the importance of self-reliance and self-trust
c. belief that each individual soul is illuminated by the divine
d. celebrations of femininity and domesticity correct answers d.
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