American Literature: Final Exam with correct answers 2024
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Where is Walt Whitman from? correct answers Long Island, NY
What is significant about Whitman growing up in this place? correct answers It was in the country & right by a growing city
Describe Whitman's education: correct answers Went to school when he was 11, never went to college
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Where is Walt Whitman from? correct answers Long Island, NY
What is significant about Whitman growing up in this place? correct answers It was in
the country & right by a growing city
Describe Whitman's education: correct answers Went to school when he was 11, never
went to college
List 2 authors Whitman read growing up & influenced his own writings: correct answers
Shakespeare & The Bible
To what city does Whitman travel from Brooklyn? correct answers New Orleans
What does Whitman do for a living while in New Orleans? correct answers Writes for
The Crescent
What is the name of Whitman's mist famous work, that he continues for his entire career
until his death? correct answers Leave of Grass
Besides being a writer/journalist, name one other type of work Whitman performed in
his life: correct answers Carpentry
Describe the correspondence b/w Whitman & Ralph W. Emerson: correct answers
Whitman sent his poetry to other poets & Emerson sent a response back
Whitman wanted his poetry to appeal to what kind of person? correct answers The
everyday man
One critic said about Whitman's poetry: " Its sweep is easy and its range broad." What
does this mean? correct answers Poetry not as a strictly organized word structure that
neatly clicks shut at end of each line
What is one controversial thing about Janie dating Tea Cake? correct answers She's
older than him
What game do Tea Cake & Janie first play together? correct answers Checkers
What color does Tea Cake like Janie wearing? correct answers Blue
What does Tea Cake do with the money he stole from Janie? correct answers He buys
clothes for himself
, How does Tea Cake get hurt? correct answers Gambling
Why was Thoreau fired from being a schoolteacher? correct answers He refused to
whip a disobedient child
Where did Thoreau attend college? correct answers Harvard
Where does Thoreau go to live in the woods by himself? correct answers Walden Pond
Which of these words would best describe Thoreau's personality? correct answers
Eccentric
Why does Thoreau spend a night in jail? correct answers He refuses to pay his poll tax
in protest of the Mexican War
Thoreau's family & another famous author's family are close friends. Who is that
author? correct answers Ralph Waldo Emerson
In Walden, Thoreau claims that he went to the woods because he wished to "Live
______" correct answers Deliberately
What is the cause of Thoreau's death? correct answers Tuberculosis
What does Thoreau claim that all houses, big & small, have in common? correct
answers They have cellars
What was the major technological advancement of Thoreau's age, which he addresses
in the "Where I lived, and What I Lived For" section of the reading? correct answers
Trains
According to Thoreau, no 2 men are ever really that physically far apart. What truly
separates people from one another?
A. Differences in religion
B. Race
C. Differences in mentality
D. None of the above correct answers D. None of the above
In the "Economy" section of Walden, Thoreau observes that humans no longer do
what? correct answers Build their own houses
What animal does Thoreau use as an analogy for humans to prove they they no longer
build their own houses? correct answers Beavers
What animals does Thoreau watch fight in his yard? correct answers Ants
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