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Description: Covers Abeka American Literature units 8–12 with verified exam questions and answers. Includes key quotes, authors, themes, literary devices, transcendentalism, naturalism, and character analysis from classic works. Mary E Wilkins Freeman - answerquote - "You flatted a little on - soul" Edward Eggleston - answerquote - "Ef Bull once takes a holt, heaven and yarth can't make him let go." Martha Snell Nicholson - answerquote - "The twig was bent, the ...

American Lit II Exam Questions and Answers Latest Update Hamlin garland - Answers Under the lions Paw Mary Wilkins - Answers The Revolt of Mother What forced the Haskins to leave their home? - Answers Correct! grasshoppers Who takes the Haskins in? - Answers Correct! the Councils How many living children do the Haskins have? - Answers 3 Who owns the farm the Haskins rent? - Answers Mr. Butler What weapon does Haskins almost use on his landlord? - Answers A pitchfork What is Father b...

American Lit test 1 Questions and Answers Latest Update 2025 Twain is satirizing the lynch mob in these chapters. In what way can the individuals in a mob be seen as cowards? Discuss the psychology of a lynch mob. Why is Sherburn successful in breaking up the mob? Cite examples from the novel to support your argument. - Answers The mob can be described as cowards because they only attack at night. They strike when their victim will be least expecting it and to many that is not how you go ab...

American Lit. Exam 1 Questions and Answers Latest Update 2025 Graded A+ Billy Collins - Answers 1941- Present -NYC -Imagines poet and reader sitting together -Funny poems yet sad -No metaphysical structure -Taking off Emily Dickinsons clothes Billy Collins- Marginalia - Answers "Pardon the egg salad stains, I'm in love" -Having an active relationship with text Robert Frost - Answers -Born in California but identified with New England -Modernism -Clarity of his diction, coll...

This document provides concise summaries and correct answer explanations for key literary concepts and texts included in the WSC-2025 curriculum. It covers "Rip Van Winkle" with context on its plot and historical background, and explains the literary technique "slice of life" in both theater and literature. Ideal for preparation and quick revision.

Final Exam in American Literature MOST TESTED QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED ANSWERS The poem "How to Write the Great Native American Indian Novel" includes: - CORRECT ANSWER A series of unrhymed couplets In "Superman and Me," Alexie relates that he was ridiculed at school and on the reservation for being different. - CORRECT ANSWER True Alexie uses the poem "How to Write the Great Native American Indian Novel" to criticize the stereotypical depiction of Native Ame...

Final Exam in American Literature ACTUAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND WELL ELABORATED ANSWERS Which of the following best describes the eighteenth-century movement known as "the Enlightenment?" - CORRECT ANSWER the belief that the physical universe only exists insofar as it is constructed by the human mind and the view that emotional connections between human beings are necessarily psychological projections rather than actual moments of sympathy Which of the following best descri...

Final Exam in American Literature ACTUAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND WELL ELABORATED ANSWERS (MOST TESTED QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED ANSWERS) LATEST How does Harriet Jacobs time living in the secrecy in the attic serve a special narrative function in addition to recounting the horror of such confinement A. It shows how depraved slave owners could be to lock someone in an attic like that B. It offered an objective view of the slave system C. It is one of the first instances of an experiment...

Final Exam in American Literature ACTUAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND WELL ELABORATED ANSWERS (MOST TESTED QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED ANSWERS) LATEST In "The Fall of the House of Usher," as Poe's narrator approaches the house of his friend Roderick Usher, he notices what? A. A movement in the tarn, indicating that there may be a creature living there B. A beautiful garden extending off the side of the house C. A fissure in the structure of the house, from top to bottom D. The house...

Final Exam in American Literature ACTUAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND WELL ELABORATED ANSWERS (MOST TESTED QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED ANSWERS) Which of the following lines from Walden is NOT a metaphor? - CORRECT ANSWER Be it life or death, we crave only reality. Thoreau explains that he purchased the Hollowell farm but was asked to sell it back when the previous owner's wife objected to the sale. - CORRECT ANSWER True Thoreau includes in his discussion of the drawbacks to Hollowell f...