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ENGL 250: American Literature Final Study Quiz

Question 1 of 84

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Hawthorne's "The Birthmark" is often termed a parable because the characters are developed with diagrammatic exactness. Thus Aylmer may be said to represent

Select one of the following:

  • The body

  • The spirit

  • A harmonious mixture of the two

  • The afterlife

Explanation

Question 2 of 84

1

Aminadab may be said to represent

Select one of the following:

  • The body

  • The spirit

  • A harmonious mixture of the two

  • The afterlife

Explanation

Question 3 of 84

1

Georgiana thus represents

Select one of the following:

  • The body

  • The spirit

  • A harmonious mixture of the two

  • The afterlife

Explanation

Question 4 of 84

1

The Birthmark has the shape of a

Select one of the following:

  • Pigmy

  • Heart

  • Hand

  • Gallows

Explanation

Question 5 of 84

1

Aylmer tempers with nature but

Select one of the following:

  • Against Georgiana's wishes

  • With Georgiana's consent

  • Expects to be punished for doing so

  • All of these

Explanation

Question 6 of 84

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"Young Goodman Brown" is, at least on the surface,

Select one of the following:

  • A realistic tale

  • An allegorical tale

  • A comical yarn

  • All of these

Explanation

Question 7 of 84

1

Goody Cloyse and Martha Carrier were

Select one of the following:

  • Historical figures actually hanged for witchcraft

  • Totally fictitious characters of Hawthorne's inventing

  • Characters in "Rip van Winkle"

  • Of Russian descent

Explanation

Question 8 of 84

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Like a number of Hawthorne's tales, "Young Goodman Brown"

Select one of the following:

  • Begins at Sunset and ends at sunrise

  • Depicts a "night journey" into the most private areas of the self

  • Is set in Puritan new England

  • All of these

  • None of these

Explanation

Question 9 of 84

1

Young Goodman Brown sees evil In

Select one of the following:

  • His wife, Faith

  • The goodly members of his community

  • Everybody but himself

  • All of these

  • None of these

Explanation

Question 10 of 84

1

Apparently the Devil invites Goodman Brown and Faith to

Select one of the following:

  • Become good Puritans

  • Join the communion of their race

  • Go skinny-dipping at midnight

  • All of these

Explanation

Question 11 of 84

1

In "My Kinsman, Major Molineux" the people of the city

Select one of the following:

  • In effect play a practical joke on Robin Molineaux

  • Know where Robin's uncle is all the time

  • Symbolically cast off their British "father"

  • All of these

  • None of these

Explanation

Question 12 of 84

1

In "My Kinsman, Major Molineaux," Hawthorne repeatedly makes it clear that

Select one of the following:

  • Robin is a naïve country boy

  • Robin is a fop or a dandy

  • Robin is scared to death of prostitutes

  • None of these

Explanation

Question 13 of 84

1

Before the opening of "Young Goodman Brown," Brown has

Select one of the following:

  • Visited Boston

  • Argued with Goody Cloyse

  • Made a pact with the devil

  • Discussed the nature of good and evil with his minister

Explanation

Question 14 of 84

1

It's typical of Hawthorne that at the climax of "My Kinsman, Major Molineaux"

Select one of the following:

  • Bright light obscures the scene

  • Bright light makes everything clear

  • Good triumphs over evil

  • Evil triumphs over good

Explanation

Question 15 of 84

1

In "Young Goodman Brown," the conflict or struggle is between

Select one of the following:

  • Faith's desire to participate in the black mass and Brown's desire to go home

  • Brown's wanting to go home and the devil's luring him further into the woods

  • Brown's desire to join the communion of his race and Faith's desire to be good

  • All of these

Explanation

Question 16 of 84

1

According to the narrator, the windows of the House of Usher look like

Select one of the following:

  • Ears

  • Lips

  • Fungi

  • Eyes

Explanation

Question 17 of 84

1

In "The Fall of the House of Usher," the narrator

Select one of the following:

  • Perceives that Roderick is losing his mind

  • Perceives that Roderick realizes he (Roderick) is losing his mind

  • Perceives that Madeline is losing her mind

  • Perceives that he, the narrator, is losing his mind

Explanation

Question 18 of 84

1

In "The Fall of the House of Usher," the narrator

Select one of the following:

  • Symbolically journeys into the deepest, most interior aspects of the self

  • Joins his old boyhood buddy in Vienna

  • Commits the perfect crime

  • Symbolically murders an aspect of himself

Explanation

Question 19 of 84

1

"The Haunted Palace" is

Select one of the following:

  • An allegory about going insane

  • In Vienna also

  • A realistic poem

  • The House of Usher

Explanation

Question 20 of 84

1

Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher" is

Select one of the following:

  • A realistic tale

  • High comedy

  • Filled with Gothic claptrap

  • Based on German folklore

Explanation

Question 21 of 84

1

When narrator first meets Roderick in Roderick's room,

Select one of the following:

  • The neatness of the room reflects Madeline's woman's touch

  • The disorder of the room reflects the disorder of Roderick's mind

  • The smell is almost overwhelming

  • He, the narrator, is astonished by Rod's musical instruments

Explanation

Question 22 of 84

1

Roderick Usher says he "buries" his sister in the dungeon

Select one of the following:

  • To prevent the "resurrection men" from stealing her corpse

  • To torture her

  • To torture the narrator

  • To save him the cost of a funeral

Explanation

Question 23 of 84

1

Madeline Usher is buried alive

Select one of the following:

  • Beneath Roderick's room

  • Beneath the entranceway

  • Beneath the narrator's bedroom

  • Beneath the tarn

Explanation

Question 24 of 84

1

Once the narrator shows up at the House of Usher

Select one of the following:

  • He and Madeline become bosom buddies

  • He sees Madeline no more until he and Rod bury her

  • He and Madeline become dire enemies

  • None of these

Explanation

Question 25 of 84

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For a time the narrator comforts Roderick by reading and painting with him; one of ushers paintings is described as follows: "A small picture present of 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?

Select one of the following:

  • The narrator and Roderick become trapped in the catacombs beneath the mansion

  • The narrator and Rodrick drown Madeline in the tarn next to the mansion

  • Roderick and Madeline escape the house via an underground tunnel

  • The narrator and Roderick bury Madeline alive in a stone tomb beneath the mansion

Explanation

Question 26 of 84

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After Roderick and Madeline die, the narrator "fled aghast." As he is leaving the mansion, he turns and sees

Select one of the following:

  • Ethelreds' dragon circling overhead, breathing fire

  • A peaceful house now that the gloomy shadows have lifted; all is well

  • A red light gleaming as the house sinks into the tarn

  • The ghost of Madeline hovering over the lake

Explanation

Question 27 of 84

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Whom does Roderick suspect is on the other side of the chamber door as the narrator comes to the climax of Ethelred's story?

Select one of the following:

  • The raven

  • Madeline

  • A dragon disguised as a hermit

  • Ethelred

Explanation

Question 28 of 84

1

In "The Purloined Letter," the letter is originally stolen from

Select one of the following:

  • Dupin's salon

  • Minister D____'s bedroom

  • The royal boudoir

  • The narrator's boudoir

Explanation

Question 29 of 84

1

In "The Purloined Letter," the person to whom the letter is addressed

Select one of the following:

  • Sees the letter stolen

  • Is the Queen of France

  • Is undoubtably guilty of something incriminating

  • All of these

  • None of these

Explanation

Question 30 of 84

1

In "The Purloined Letter," Minister D___ purloins the letter because

Select one of the following:

  • He is snoopy

  • He wants to blackmail someone

  • He does not like Dupin

  • All of these

  • None of these

Explanation

Question 31 of 84

1

In "The Purloined Letter," the police are

Select one of the following:

  • Methodical

  • Rational

  • Thorough

  • All of these

  • None of these

Explanation

Question 32 of 84

1

In "The Purloined Letter," G_____, the Prefect of Police, assumes that Minister D____ is a fool because he is

Select one of the following:

  • A poet

  • A mathematician

  • A politician

  • (In?)famous for his extramarital affairs

Explanation

Question 33 of 84

1

In "The Purloined Letter," Dupin

Select one of the following:

  • Replicates or duplicates the crime

  • Outsmarts the police

  • Takes revenge upon Minister D____

  • All of these

  • None of these

Explanation

Question 34 of 84

1

In "The Purloined Letter," Dupin

Select one of the following:

  • Identifies his mind with that of the criminal

  • "Reads" the narrator's mind

  • Relies upon drugs to enhance his clairvoyance

  • All of these

  • None of these

Explanation

Question 35 of 84

1

In "The Purloined Letter," Dupin and Minister D___

Select one of the following:

  • Are both blackmailers

  • Are both poets and mathematicians

  • Are both admirers of the police

  • All of these

  • None of these

Explanation

Question 36 of 84

1

In "The Purloined Letter," Dupin's motives

Select one of the following:

  • Are entirely unselfish

  • Are entirely intellectual

  • Are selfish

  • All of these

  • None of these

Explanation

Question 37 of 84

1

In "The Purloined Letter," the narrator

Select one of the following:

  • Is a "straight man" of sorts

  • Is really the major actor in the tales

  • Is able to solve the crimes on his own

  • All of these

  • None of these

Explanation

Question 38 of 84

1

In what year was "Benito Cereno" first published?

Select one of the following:

  • 1797

  • 1799

  • 1855

  • 1805

Explanation

Question 39 of 84

1

What was the name of the real-life captain on whom Melville based his character Amasa Delano?

Select one of the following:

  • Amasa Delano

  • Amasa Cereno

  • Bonito Sereno

  • Benedict Diblassio

Explanation

Question 40 of 84

1

"Benito Cereno" takes place in the year

Select one of the following:

  • 1492

  • 1777

  • 1799

  • 1856

Explanation

Question 41 of 84

1

"Benito Cereno" takes place

Select one of the following:

  • In South America, off the coast of Chile and in Lima, Peru

  • Near Jamaica

  • In various locations throughout the Atlantic Ocean

  • In the Gulf of Mexico

Explanation

Question 42 of 84

1

Translate "Seguid vuestro jefe."

Select one of the following:

  • Live for today

  • Follow your leader

  • Welcome to our nightmare

  • Abandon all hope

Explanation

Question 43 of 84

1

Upon first approaching the San Dominick, Delano was reminded of

Select one of the following:

  • The tower of London

  • A painting he once saw in the Louvre

  • A coral reef

  • A ruined castle

Explanation

Question 44 of 84

1

Who keeps order on the deck of the San Dominick?

Select one of the following:

  • Benito Cereno

  • Francesco

  • Captain Delano

  • "Four elderly grizzled negroes" who are picking oakum

Explanation

Question 45 of 84

1

How does Melville describe the six men sharpening hatchets?

Select one of the following:

  • Ethiopian warriors

  • Ashanti conjures

  • Half-casts

  • Royal guards

Explanation

Question 46 of 84

1

When Delano first visits the San Dominick, he brings

Select one of the following:

  • His Newfoundland dog

  • Canvas for sails

  • Fresh water

  • Baskets of fish

Explanation

Question 47 of 84

1

What best describes Delano's attitude toward blacks?

Select one of the following:

  • He completely respects and admires them as equals

  • He doesn't trust them

  • He is fond of them in the same way that he is fond of dogs

  • He strongly dislikes them

Explanation

Question 48 of 84

1

As he first appears in "Benito Cereno," Babo would not be described as

Select one of the following:

  • Menial

  • Officious

  • A leader

  • Submissive

Explanation

Question 49 of 84

1

Who is Alexandro Aranda?

Select one of the following:

  • The true captain of the San Dominick

  • A gentleman of Castile who was traveling on the San Dominick as a passenger

  • Cereno's former first mate who is killed due to a misunderstanding

  • Cereno's longtime friend and the owner of the slaves on the San Dominick

Explanation

Question 50 of 84

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Why is Atufal made to appear before Cereno in chains?

Select one of the following:

  • Because Babo is making a show of Atufal's enchainment for Delano's sake

  • Because he is a constant danger to himself and others

  • Because he wrongly killed Don Aranda

  • Because he offended Benito Cereno

Explanation

Question 51 of 84

1

Delano suspects Cereno of being

Select one of the following:

  • A pirate

  • A drug addict

  • Much older than he says

  • Inappropriately fond of Babo

Explanation

Question 52 of 84

1

On several occasions, Babo helps Cereno to

Select one of the following:

  • Keep his shoes polished

  • Fix his tie

  • Light his pipe

  • Drink a cordial

Explanation

Question 53 of 84

1

What does Cereno do that especially offends Delano?

Select one of the following:

  • He turns his back on Delano during dinner

  • He refuses the courtesy of Delano's cabin

  • He eats with his elbows on the table

  • He insults Delano's ability as a navigator

Explanation

Question 54 of 84

1

What role did the Ashanti play under Babo's leadership?

Select one of the following:

  • Supervisors

  • Musicians

  • Executioners

  • Medicine men

Explanation

Question 55 of 84

1

Who led the revolt of the slaves?

Select one of the following:

  • Atufal

  • Francesco

  • Benito Cereno

  • Babo

Explanation

Question 56 of 84

1

What's supply does the San Dominick need the most?

Select one of the following:

  • Cheese

  • Water

  • Hatchets

  • Wine

Explanation

Question 57 of 84

1

What happened to Babo?

Select one of the following:

  • He was whipped then sold back into slavery

  • He was imprisoned

  • He escaped

  • He was executed, decapitated, and his head put on a stake

Explanation

Question 58 of 84

1

Emily Dickinson composed approximately 1776 poems,

Select one of the following:

  • All of which were published in her lifetime

  • Almost none of which were published in her lifetime

  • All dealing with the plight of the upwardly mobile

  • None of these

Explanation

Question 59 of 84

1

In conjunction with Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson is usually

Select one of the following:

  • Considered as the first of modern poets

  • Seen as the last of the great colonial poets

  • Valued for her realistic social commentary

  • All of these

Explanation

Question 60 of 84

1

Stylistically, Dickinson's poetry is distinctive for its frequent use of

Select one of the following:

  • Ellipses And semicolons

  • All lowercase letters

  • Dashes and unusual capitalization

  • Two-line stanzas

Explanation

Question 61 of 84

1

In terms of subject matter, most of Dickinson's poetry

Select one of the following:

  • Could be classified as sentimental nature poetry

  • Could be classified as metaphysical

  • Could be classified as social realism

  • All of these

Explanation

Question 62 of 84

1

Statements as "Much madness is heaven's divinest sense" make Emily Dickinson sound like

Select one of the following:

  • Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • Henry David Thoreau

  • Edgar Allan Poe

  • Henry James

Explanation

Question 63 of 84

1

Many of Dickinson's poems focus on

Select one of the following:

  • Her Puritan ancestors

  • War

  • Abolition and social reform

  • Death

Explanation

Question 64 of 84

1

Judging by poems such as "Publication is the Auction" and "I'm Nobody," how does Dickinson feel about publication?

Select one of the following:

  • She sees publication as degrading to the work of a poet

  • She would do anything to see her work in print

  • She is angry that her father has prevented her from publishing

  • She is self-mocking about her failure to sell her poems

Explanation

Question 65 of 84

1

Judging by poems like "Wild Nights" and "I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed," what is Dickinson's attitude toward physical passion?

Select one of the following:

  • She disapproves of physical expressions of affection

  • She is sad that she has never felt physical attraction for anyone

  • She is embarrassed by her own passionate feelings

  • She embraces passion

Explanation

Question 66 of 84

1

Which of the following does Dickinson not make use of in her poetry?

Select one of the following:

  • References to Christianity

  • Allusions to Greek mythology

  • Sound imagery

  • Nature imagery

Explanation

Question 67 of 84

1

Which of the following best describes Dickinson's use of meter and rhyme?

Select one of the following:

  • Formal, even meter; exact rhymes

  • Free verse without meter or rhyme

  • No metrical structure; some slant (or inexact) rhymes and some exact rhymes

  • Some metrical structure; some slant (or inexact) rhymes and some exact rhymes

Explanation

Question 68 of 84

1

Judging from her poetry, Dickinson focus most of her attention on

Select one of the following:

  • High society and urban life

  • A few close friends and family members and the natural world

  • Philanthropic causes and social activism

  • Church ritual

Explanation

Question 69 of 84

1

Which American city provides the primary setting for Whitman's "Song of Myself"

Select one of the following:

  • New York City

  • Boston

  • Philadelphia

  • Washington D.C.

Explanation

Question 70 of 84

1

In Whitman's "Song of Myself," which set of Americans does he not attempt to speak for?

Select one of the following:

  • Women

  • Southern slave owners

  • African Americans

  • He wants to speak for all Americans

Explanation

Question 71 of 84

1

In Whitman's "Song of Myself," which of the following best describes his attitude toward the American lives he wants to catalog and represent?

Select one of the following:

  • He is proud of his abilities, and offers his talents to his fellow citizens, who can take them or leave them

  • He is willing to go to great efforts to make himself the common element connecting these people

  • He debases himself before those he considers his betters, and treats those beneath him with contempt

  • He refers to the catalog objectively, so that he himself runs no risk in speaking for others

Explanation

Question 72 of 84

1

In Whitman's "Song of Myself," what is the name of the voice that addresses us?

Select one of the following:

  • America

  • Walt

  • George

  • No name is ever provided

Explanation

Question 73 of 84

1

"Leaves of Grass" belongs to which form of poetry?

Select one of the following:

  • Ballad

  • No particular form

  • Free verse

  • Haiku

Explanation

Question 74 of 84

1

In "Song of Myself," Whitman repeatedly tells us

Select one of the following:

  • He is the poet of the body as well as of the soul

  • He is exclusive and snobbish

  • He is indifferent to America

  • None of these

Explanation

Question 75 of 84

1

Whitman's "Song of Myself" is written in

Select one of the following:

  • Heroic couplets

  • Terza rima

  • Blank verse

  • Iambic pentameter

Explanation

Question 76 of 84

1

What is the major symbol Whitman works through in "Song of Myself"?

Select one of the following:

  • The ocean

  • A bird

  • A tombstone

  • The grass

Explanation

Question 77 of 84

1

What animal does the poet commune with in "Out of the Cradle"?

Select one of the following:

  • A dolphin

  • A deer

  • A bird

  • A fish

Explanation

Question 78 of 84

1

What is the word the sea gives the poet in "Out of the Cradle"?

Select one of the following:

  • Death

  • Love

  • Peace

  • Democracy

Explanation

Question 79 of 84

1

Which previous American writer was a great influence on Walt Whitman?

Select one of the following:

  • Henry David Thoreau

  • James Fenimore Cooper

  • Nathaniel Hawthorne

  • Ralph Waldo Emerson

Explanation

Question 80 of 84

1

In what year was the first edition of "Leaves of Grass" published?

Select one of the following:

  • 1892

  • 1860

  • 1867

  • 1855

Explanation

Question 81 of 84

1

What is the common nickname for Whitman's final edition of "Leaves of Grass," published in 1892?

Select one of the following:

  • The Abridged Edition

  • The Posthumous Edition

  • The Later Period Edition

  • The Deathbed Edition

Explanation

Question 82 of 84

1

How many poems appeared in the 1855 version of "Leaves of Grass"?

Select one of the following:

  • 12

  • 46

  • 75

  • 200

Explanation

Question 83 of 84

1

How does Whitman see himself in relation to his readers?

Select one of the following:

  • He is there equal, as they share many human experiences

  • He is inferior to them, and aspires to be like them because he feels he is a terrible person

  • Whitman never discusses his readers in his poetry

  • He is superior to them in every way

Explanation

Question 84 of 84

1

The poetry in "Leaves of Grass" clearly demonstrates Whitman's faith in

Select one of the following:

  • Bureaucracy

  • Democracy

  • Federalism

  • Socialism

Explanation

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