american lit final quiz answers
according to the introduction, why were American writers generally unappreciated by
literary critics in the early twentieth century? correct answers American literature was
not taught at the university level.
In the introduction, how did the literary critic F. O. Matthiessen describe American
literature from writers like Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, and Whitman?
correct answers It was seen as a literary Renaissance.
According to the Introduction, why were American writers primarily concerned with
creating "American" works of literature? correct answers They believed that a great
nation should have great literature.
According to the Introduction, why was writing not a lucrative profession, and thus few
professional authors, prior to the Civil War? correct answers Publishers were reluctant
to pay American writers when they could published pirated European works cheaply.
According to the introduction, as America expanded westward; and as roads, canals,
and railroads opened up more movement west, what literary genre became popular?
correct answers travel writing
According to the introduction, which most accurately describes women's roles in the
literary market during the period before the Civil War? correct answers Women were
very active in the antebellum literary market, particularly through publication in
newspapers and magazines.
According to the Introduction, of the various reform trends sweeping the nation, which
WAS NOT prominent in American antebellum writing? correct answers environmental
protection
According to the Introduction, which is the most accurate description of the literature of
Transcendentalism? correct answers It was a shared regard between a variety of
writers in the power of the individual self, creativity, and a questioning of tradition and
the establishment.
According to the Introduction, what is most true of the relationship between writers in
the pre-Civil War era? correct answers collegial
According to the intro to "Nature," the universe is composed of what? correct answers
Nature and Soul
, According to "Nature", how does a person look for solitude in order to reflect? correct
answers One finds solitude by being in nature.
What one type of person, according to "Nature", is best suited to visualize the "integrity
of impression" made by the land? correct answers the poet
In "Nature", all of the uses of the world can be divided into which four categories?
correct answers commodity, language, beauty, and discipline
What word is used in "Nature" to express humanity's creation of beauty? correct
answers art
In Chapter Four of "Nature", what is the role of language in relation to Nature? correct
answers Language is the vehicle by which nature is symbolized in words to reveal the
spirit.
In his chapter 6 of "Nature", the author describes how feelings of the sublime result from
realizing the gap "between man and nature." In what ways does Emerson's poet
communicate this sublime aspect of nature? correct answers The poet indulges his
imagination to present nature in a new perspective to humans.
In chapter seven of "Nature", the author tells how the world differs from the physical
body in one important way. What is this essential difference? correct answers The body
is subjected to human will, but the world is not.
In "Nature", what is closest to the meaning of the author's call "to look at the world with
new eyes"? correct answers We must recognize the miracles of spirit in the smallest
details of nature.
How does the author of "Nature", near the end of the essay, compare personages like
Adam and Caesar to us, the common person? correct answers We are equally good,
since for the common person, just as it was for Caesar, nature is always available and
ready to be shaped for whatever end we wish.
What does Thoreau say is the goal of life in Chapter 2 of Walden? correct answers to
live freely and without commitments
What is the "cheerful invitation" that each new day holds for Thoreau? correct answers
to be simple and innocent as Nature
Why does Thoreau say that he went to live in the woods? correct answers to live
deliberately and know it by experience
What best describes Thomas Jefferson's views on slavery, according to our text?
correct answers He held antislavery views, saw slavery as despotic; yet he thought
blacks were inferior and was himself a slaveholder.
