American Literature 2130 Final Exam with 100% correct answers 2024
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Which of the following best describes women roles in the marketplace during the antebellum period? correct answers Women were very active in the antebellum literary marketplace, particularly through publication in newspaper and magazines
Which of the following problems have recent critics frequ...
Which of the following best describes women roles in the marketplace during the
antebellum period? correct answers Women were very active in the antebellum literary
marketplace, particularly through publication in newspaper and magazines
Which of the following problems have recent critics frequently raised about the
construction of the so-called American Renaissance? correct answers Studies of the
American Renaissance have tended to exclude the significant contributions of women
and minority writers.
Frederick Douglass displayed a powerful capacity to stir both readers of his printed work
and audiences in lecture halls in the service of what reformist cause? correct answers a
movement to abolish the enslavement of African Americans
Which of the following best describes the effects of the lack of recognition of
international copyright law in the United States during the 1820s? correct answers
Since foreign writers did not receive international copyright protection in the United
States, American publishers routinely pirated English writers, paying nothing to the
writers when they reprinted works originally published in London. American writers thus
found publishers reluctant to pay them for their work when so much material was
available to the publishers for free.
Which of the following writers is usually credited with beginning the Transcendentalist
movement? correct answers Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man dressed in antique Dutch clothing is bearing something on his back, and asks
for Rip's help toting it through the mountains. What does he carry? correct answers a
cask of liquor
Once Rip tells the town what happened, they consult old Peter Vanderdonk, who
confirms that the Kaatskills are haunted. Whom does Peter name as the Dutch explorer
who periodically appears in the mountains? correct answers hendrick Hudson
While avoiding the terrors of Dame Van Winkle one day in the Kaatskills, Rip hears a
sound that begins his odd adventure. That sound is described most aptly as: correct
answers someone crying his name
What does the narrator of "Rip Van Winkle" describe as "the great error in Rip's
composition"? correct answers his unwillingness to work
What is young goodman Brown's companion carrying? correct answers a staff shaped
like a snake
, Who or what is described as "the chief horror of the scene?" correct answers young
goodman Brown
Who does young goodman Brown see beside him before the altar? correct answers
Faith
What ritual does the devil attempt to perform in the woods, with Goodman Brown as the
object? correct answers A Baptism
What does Usher tell the narrator is wrong with his sister Madeline? correct answers
She suffers from occasional paralysis.
What evidence does Usher provide that the stones of his House are alive with an evil
consciousness? correct answers He could feel them watching him.
For a time the narrator comforts Roderick by reading and painting with him? One of
Usher'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? correct answers The
narrator and Roderick bury Madeline alive in a stone tomb beneath the mansion.
Whom does Roderick suspect is on the other side of the chamber door as the narrator
comes to the climax of Ethelred's story? correct answers Madeline
What is Douglass's opinion about slave singing? correct answers It's done out of
sorrow, not joy.
To what two free states does Douglass finally escape? correct answers New York and
Massachusetts
Which of the following poets was Dickinson's close friend and mentor in Amherst?
correct answers Walt Whitman
In Dickinson's poem "[Because I could not stop for Death]", what literary device does
she use to speak about the true nature of death? correct answers Personification
Which of the following is NOT a common theme among Dickinson's poetry? correct
answers Prejudice
Louisa May Alcott's short story appeared under a couple of different titles. Our text book
used "My Contraband." In the context, what does the word 'contraband' mean? correct
answers A slave who escaped to the Union side and granted freedom by Union forces
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