Unit II

1.

1 point

The Fireside Poets were...

Popular in their day; forgotten now

Popular in their day; celebrated now

Unpopular in their day; forgotten now

Unpopular in their day; celebrated now

2.

1 point

What was Edgar Lee Master's masterpiece?

Spoon River Anthology

Selected Epitaphs from the Greek Anthology

Tilbury Town

Leaves of Grass

3.

1 point

"Leaves of Grass" was the masterpiece of which poet?

Henry David Thoreau

Walt Whitman

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Herman Melville

4.

1 point

Which of the following was NOT a focus of Romanticism?

Intuition

Fanciful

Reason

Emotional truth

5.

1 point

Who had a great, great grandfather who was a judge during the Salem Witch Trials?

Emily Dickinson

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Edgar Lee Masters

Henry David Thoreau

6.

1 point

Which Realist was known for being pessimistic and cynical?

Ambrose Bierce

Kate Chopin

Jack London

Edgar Allen Poe

7.

1 point

Which of the following is NOT a Realist?

Kate Chopin

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Ambrose Bierce

Jack London

8.

1 point

Who was known as ”Bard of Democracy”?

Henry David Thoreau

Edgar Allen Poe

Walt Whitman

Ralph Waldo Emerson

9.

1 point

Who was the cabin boy on a ship who wrote about his sailing adventures?

Ambrose Bierce

Jack London

Herman Melville

Edwin Arlington Robinson

10.

1 point

What event ended Romanticism?

The Civil War

The American Revolution

The French Revolution

The Renaissance

11.

1 point

Which of the following is NOT a Fireside Poet?

Oliver Wendell Holmes

John Greenleaf Whittier

Edwin Arlington Robinson

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

12.

1 point

Which of the following was not a focus of Edwin Arlington Robinson's writing style?

Exploration of psychological realities

Traditional form

A focus on nature

Innovative content

13.

1 point

Transcendentalism is the opposite of Anti-Transcendentalism.

True

False

14.

1 point

Sarah Orne Jewett focused on the Creole culture of Louisiana.

True

False

15.

1 point

Which of the following is NOT accurate about Transcendentalism?

It is a sub-movement of Romanticism.

It stressed intuition, imagination, and nature.

It contains the idea of oversoul- God is in everything.

All of the above are accurate.

16.

1 point

Who was known for his heavy use of allegory and symbolism?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Herman Melville

Walt Whitman

Nathaniel Hawthorne

17.

1 point

"Tilbury Town" is a fictional town created by which poet?

Edgar Lee Masters

Edwin Arlington Robinson

Jack London

Sarah Orne Jewett

18.

1 point

Which of the following is NOT true of Edgar Allen Poe?

He emphasized setting and unity of elements in a story

He was a nobody in his lifetime

He was known for his flawless verse and meter

He wrote the "Devil's Dictionary"

19.

1 point

Which of the following is NOT true about Sarah Orne Jewitt?

She was friends with many famous writers.

She came from a long line of strong women.

She focused on New England culture, region, and speech.

The captured the changing economy.

20.

1 point

Who's poems were most likely to be untitled?

Emily Dickinson

Henry David Thoreau

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Kate Chopin

21.

1 point

Who wrote "The Minister's Black Veil" and "Young Goodman Brown"?

Edwin Arlington Robinson

Jack London

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Edgar Lee Masters

22.

1 point

Who's masterpiece was "Call of the Wind"

Ambrose Bierce

Sarah Orne Jewett

Kate Chopin

Jack London

23.

1 point

Jack London's masterpiece was...

The Devil's Dictionary

The Awakening

Call of the Wind

White Fang

24.

1 point

Kate Chopin's masterpiece is...

The Story of An Hour

The Awakening

Leaves of Grass

Desiree's Baby

25.

1 point

Which of the following is true about Washington Irving?

He was the first international American writer.

He was a Transcendentalist.

He was titled "Sage of Concord".

All of the above.

26.

1 point

Who was titled "Sage of Concord"?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Walt Whitman

Henry David Thoreau

Emily Dickinson

27.

1 point

Who wrote "The Devil and Tom Walker"?

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Washington Irving

Herman Melville

Edgar Lee Masters

28.

1 point

Who helped the Realism movement by only publishing Realists?

Oliver Wendell Holmes

William Dean Howells

James Russell Lowell

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

29.

1 point

"Ahab" means...

Chosen One

Someone who angers God

Survivor

Captain

30.

1 point

Who started Transcendentalism?

Edgar Lee Masters

Henry David Thoreau

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nathaniel Hawthorne

31.

1 point

Who did NOT live at Brook Farm?

Henry David Thoreau

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Herman Melville

Nathaniel Hawthorne

32.

1 point

Which of the following is NOT true about Jack London?

He is a critically acclaimed author.

He gained a wealth of experiences during the Alaskan Gold Rush.

He committed suicide.

He was the highest paid and most industrious writer of his time.

33.

1 point

The Fireside poets were known for their complex, deep, and at times ambiguous works of poetry.

True

False

34.

1 point

Why did Thoreau leave Harvard?

A disagreement over the issue of corporal punishment.

He felt he was not educated enough to teach there.

Emerson offered to be his mentor.

He wanted to start Transcendentalism.

35.

1 point

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of Naturalism?

It is a sub-movement of Romanticism.

It often uses a third person omniscient narrator.

It is often written with nameless characters.

It deals with helpless human beings struggling against nature.

36.

1 point

Who was the "Father and Master of the Short Story?"

Edgar Allen Poe

Walt Whitman

Washington Irving

Ralph Waldo Emerson

37.

1 point

Paul Laurence Dunbar's audience was mostly...?

White people

Other poets

Abolitionists

Black people

38.

1 point

"Ishmael" means...

Survivor

Captain

Someone who angers God

Chosen One

39.

1 point

Who wrote about the Creole culture of Louisiana?

Kate Chopin

Jack London

Ambrose Bierce

Edwin Arlington Robinson

40.

1 point

Ambrose Bierce was nicknamed...

Brilliant Bierce

Bashful Bierce

Bitter Bierce

Bright Bierce

41.

1 point

Which of the following is NOT a Romantic author?

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Kate Chopin

Walt Whitman

Emily Dickinson

42.

1 point

Who was a noted biographer of both Mark Twain and Walt Whitman?

Edgar Lee Masters

Edwin Arlington Robinson

Paul Laurence Dunbar

Walt Whitman

43.

1 point

Which of the following is NOT a part of Walt Whitman's style?

Free verse

Catalogs

Paralellism

"Every man" archetype

All of the above are part of his style.

44.

1 point

What event was the downfall of the Age of Reason?

The Civil War

The American Revolution

The French Revolution

The Renaissance

45.

1 point

Who was Thoreau's mentor?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Walt Whitman

Edwin Arlington Robinson

46.

1 point

Who is praised for winning THREE Pulitzer prizes?

Edwin Arlington Robinson

Walt Whitman

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ambrose Bierce

47.

1 point

Which of the following is NOT true of Anti-Transcendentalism?

They focused on the limitations and destructiveness of the human spirit.

It is the opposite of Transcendentalism.

It is comprised of the works of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville.

They believed that humans were innately evil.

48.

1 point

Which of the following was Emily Dickinson nicknamed?

Bard of Democracy

Belle of Creole

Sage of Concord

Belle of Amherst

49.

1 point

Who was the first African American to support themself by writing alone?

Paul Laurence Dunbar

William Dean Howells

Phillis Wheatley

Oliver Wendell Holmes

50.

1 point

Sarah Orne Jewett is considered one of the most important regionalist writers

True

False