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ENGL 250: American Literature Final Study Quiz

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This is a study quiz based on the quizzes that Dr. Godfrey gave us during class.
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Questão 1

Questão
Hawthorne's "The Birthmark" is often termed a parable because the characters are developed with diagrammatic exactness. Thus Aylmer may be said to represent
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  • The body
  • The spirit
  • A harmonious mixture of the two
  • The afterlife

Questão 2

Questão
Aminadab may be said to represent
Responda
  • The body
  • The spirit
  • A harmonious mixture of the two
  • The afterlife

Questão 3

Questão
Georgiana thus represents
Responda
  • The body
  • The spirit
  • A harmonious mixture of the two
  • The afterlife

Questão 4

Questão
The Birthmark has the shape of a
Responda
  • Pigmy
  • Heart
  • Hand
  • Gallows

Questão 5

Questão
Aylmer tempers with nature but
Responda
  • Against Georgiana's wishes
  • With Georgiana's consent
  • Expects to be punished for doing so
  • All of these

Questão 6

Questão
"Young Goodman Brown" is, at least on the surface,
Responda
  • A realistic tale
  • An allegorical tale
  • A comical yarn
  • All of these

Questão 7

Questão
Goody Cloyse and Martha Carrier were
Responda
  • Historical figures actually hanged for witchcraft
  • Totally fictitious characters of Hawthorne's inventing
  • Characters in "Rip van Winkle"
  • Of Russian descent

Questão 8

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

Questão 9

Questão
Young Goodman Brown sees evil In
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  • His wife, Faith
  • The goodly members of his community
  • Everybody but himself
  • All of these
  • None of these

Questão 10

Questão
Apparently the Devil invites Goodman Brown and Faith to
Responda
  • Become good Puritans
  • Join the communion of their race
  • Go skinny-dipping at midnight
  • All of these

Questão 11

Questão
In "My Kinsman, Major Molineux" the people of the city
Responda
  • 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

Questão 12

Questão
In "My Kinsman, Major Molineaux," Hawthorne repeatedly makes it clear that
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  • Robin is a naïve country boy
  • Robin is a fop or a dandy
  • Robin is scared to death of prostitutes
  • None of these

Questão 13

Questão
Before the opening of "Young Goodman Brown," Brown has
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  • Visited Boston
  • Argued with Goody Cloyse
  • Made a pact with the devil
  • Discussed the nature of good and evil with his minister

Questão 14

Questão
It's typical of Hawthorne that at the climax of "My Kinsman, Major Molineaux"
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  • Bright light obscures the scene
  • Bright light makes everything clear
  • Good triumphs over evil
  • Evil triumphs over good

Questão 15

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

Questão 16

Questão
According to the narrator, the windows of the House of Usher look like
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  • Ears
  • Lips
  • Fungi
  • Eyes

Questão 17

Questão
In "The Fall of the House of Usher," the narrator
Responda
  • 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

Questão 18

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

Questão 19

Questão
"The Haunted Palace" is
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  • An allegory about going insane
  • In Vienna also
  • A realistic poem
  • The House of Usher

Questão 20

Questão
Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher" is
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  • A realistic tale
  • High comedy
  • Filled with Gothic claptrap
  • Based on German folklore

Questão 21

Questão
When narrator first meets Roderick in Roderick's room,
Responda
  • 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

Questão 22

Questão
Roderick Usher says he "buries" his sister in the dungeon
Responda
  • To prevent the "resurrection men" from stealing her corpse
  • To torture her
  • To torture the narrator
  • To save him the cost of a funeral

Questão 23

Questão
Madeline Usher is buried alive
Responda
  • Beneath Roderick's room
  • Beneath the entranceway
  • Beneath the narrator's bedroom
  • Beneath the tarn

Questão 24

Questão
Once the narrator shows up at the House of Usher
Responda
  • 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

Questão 25

Questão
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?
Responda
  • 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

Questão 26

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

Questão 27

Questão
Whom does Roderick suspect is on the other side of the chamber door as the narrator comes to the climax of Ethelred's story?
Responda
  • The raven
  • Madeline
  • A dragon disguised as a hermit
  • Ethelred

Questão 28

Questão
In "The Purloined Letter," the letter is originally stolen from
Responda
  • Dupin's salon
  • Minister D____'s bedroom
  • The royal boudoir
  • The narrator's boudoir

Questão 29

Questão
In "The Purloined Letter," the person to whom the letter is addressed
Responda
  • Sees the letter stolen
  • Is the Queen of France
  • Is undoubtably guilty of something incriminating
  • All of these
  • None of these

Questão 30

Questão
In "The Purloined Letter," Minister D___ purloins the letter because
Responda
  • He is snoopy
  • He wants to blackmail someone
  • He does not like Dupin
  • All of these
  • None of these

Questão 31

Questão
In "The Purloined Letter," the police are
Responda
  • Methodical
  • Rational
  • Thorough
  • All of these
  • None of these

Questão 32

Questão
In "The Purloined Letter," G_____, the Prefect of Police, assumes that Minister D____ is a fool because he is
Responda
  • A poet
  • A mathematician
  • A politician
  • (In?)famous for his extramarital affairs

Questão 33

Questão
In "The Purloined Letter," Dupin
Responda
  • Replicates or duplicates the crime
  • Outsmarts the police
  • Takes revenge upon Minister D____
  • All of these
  • None of these

Questão 34

Questão
In "The Purloined Letter," Dupin
Responda
  • 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

Questão 35

Questão
In "The Purloined Letter," Dupin and Minister D___
Responda
  • Are both blackmailers
  • Are both poets and mathematicians
  • Are both admirers of the police
  • All of these
  • None of these

Questão 36

Questão
In "The Purloined Letter," Dupin's motives
Responda
  • Are entirely unselfish
  • Are entirely intellectual
  • Are selfish
  • All of these
  • None of these

Questão 37

Questão
In "The Purloined Letter," the narrator
Responda
  • 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

Questão 38

Questão
In what year was "Benito Cereno" first published?
Responda
  • 1797
  • 1799
  • 1855
  • 1805

Questão 39

Questão
What was the name of the real-life captain on whom Melville based his character Amasa Delano?
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  • Amasa Delano
  • Amasa Cereno
  • Bonito Sereno
  • Benedict Diblassio

Questão 40

Questão
"Benito Cereno" takes place in the year
Responda
  • 1492
  • 1777
  • 1799
  • 1856

Questão 41

Questão
"Benito Cereno" takes place
Responda
  • 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

Questão 42

Questão
Translate "Seguid vuestro jefe."
Responda
  • Live for today
  • Follow your leader
  • Welcome to our nightmare
  • Abandon all hope

Questão 43

Questão
Upon first approaching the San Dominick, Delano was reminded of
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  • The tower of London
  • A painting he once saw in the Louvre
  • A coral reef
  • A ruined castle

Questão 44

Questão
Who keeps order on the deck of the San Dominick?
Responda
  • Benito Cereno
  • Francesco
  • Captain Delano
  • "Four elderly grizzled negroes" who are picking oakum

Questão 45

Questão
How does Melville describe the six men sharpening hatchets?
Responda
  • Ethiopian warriors
  • Ashanti conjures
  • Half-casts
  • Royal guards

Questão 46

Questão
When Delano first visits the San Dominick, he brings
Responda
  • His Newfoundland dog
  • Canvas for sails
  • Fresh water
  • Baskets of fish

Questão 47

Questão
What best describes Delano's attitude toward blacks?
Responda
  • 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

Questão 48

Questão
As he first appears in "Benito Cereno," Babo would not be described as
Responda
  • Menial
  • Officious
  • A leader
  • Submissive

Questão 49

Questão
Who is Alexandro Aranda?
Responda
  • 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

Questão 50

Questão
Why is Atufal made to appear before Cereno in chains?
Responda
  • 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

Questão 51

Questão
Delano suspects Cereno of being
Responda
  • A pirate
  • A drug addict
  • Much older than he says
  • Inappropriately fond of Babo

Questão 52

Questão
On several occasions, Babo helps Cereno to
Responda
  • Keep his shoes polished
  • Fix his tie
  • Light his pipe
  • Drink a cordial

Questão 53

Questão
What does Cereno do that especially offends Delano?
Responda
  • 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

Questão 54

Questão
What role did the Ashanti play under Babo's leadership?
Responda
  • Supervisors
  • Musicians
  • Executioners
  • Medicine men

Questão 55

Questão
Who led the revolt of the slaves?
Responda
  • Atufal
  • Francesco
  • Benito Cereno
  • Babo

Questão 56

Questão
What's supply does the San Dominick need the most?
Responda
  • Cheese
  • Water
  • Hatchets
  • Wine

Questão 57

Questão
What happened to Babo?
Responda
  • He was whipped then sold back into slavery
  • He was imprisoned
  • He escaped
  • He was executed, decapitated, and his head put on a stake

Questão 58

Questão
Emily Dickinson composed approximately 1776 poems,
Responda
  • 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

Questão 59

Questão
In conjunction with Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson is usually
Responda
  • 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

Questão 60

Questão
Stylistically, Dickinson's poetry is distinctive for its frequent use of
Responda
  • Ellipses And semicolons
  • All lowercase letters
  • Dashes and unusual capitalization
  • Two-line stanzas

Questão 61

Questão
In terms of subject matter, most of Dickinson's poetry
Responda
  • Could be classified as sentimental nature poetry
  • Could be classified as metaphysical
  • Could be classified as social realism
  • All of these

Questão 62

Questão
Statements as "Much madness is heaven's divinest sense" make Emily Dickinson sound like
Responda
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Henry David Thoreau
  • Edgar Allan Poe
  • Henry James

Questão 63

Questão
Many of Dickinson's poems focus on
Responda
  • Her Puritan ancestors
  • War
  • Abolition and social reform
  • Death

Questão 64

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

Questão 65

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

Questão 66

Questão
Which of the following does Dickinson not make use of in her poetry?
Responda
  • References to Christianity
  • Allusions to Greek mythology
  • Sound imagery
  • Nature imagery

Questão 67

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

Questão 68

Questão
Judging from her poetry, Dickinson focus most of her attention on
Responda
  • High society and urban life
  • A few close friends and family members and the natural world
  • Philanthropic causes and social activism
  • Church ritual

Questão 69

Questão
Which American city provides the primary setting for Whitman's "Song of Myself"
Responda
  • New York City
  • Boston
  • Philadelphia
  • Washington D.C.

Questão 70

Questão
In Whitman's "Song of Myself," which set of Americans does he not attempt to speak for?
Responda
  • Women
  • Southern slave owners
  • African Americans
  • He wants to speak for all Americans

Questão 71

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

Questão 72

Questão
In Whitman's "Song of Myself," what is the name of the voice that addresses us?
Responda
  • America
  • Walt
  • George
  • No name is ever provided

Questão 73

Questão
"Leaves of Grass" belongs to which form of poetry?
Responda
  • Ballad
  • No particular form
  • Free verse
  • Haiku

Questão 74

Questão
In "Song of Myself," Whitman repeatedly tells us
Responda
  • 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

Questão 75

Questão
Whitman's "Song of Myself" is written in
Responda
  • Heroic couplets
  • Terza rima
  • Blank verse
  • Iambic pentameter

Questão 76

Questão
What is the major symbol Whitman works through in "Song of Myself"?
Responda
  • The ocean
  • A bird
  • A tombstone
  • The grass

Questão 77

Questão
What animal does the poet commune with in "Out of the Cradle"?
Responda
  • A dolphin
  • A deer
  • A bird
  • A fish

Questão 78

Questão
What is the word the sea gives the poet in "Out of the Cradle"?
Responda
  • Death
  • Love
  • Peace
  • Democracy

Questão 79

Questão
Which previous American writer was a great influence on Walt Whitman?
Responda
  • Henry David Thoreau
  • James Fenimore Cooper
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson

Questão 80

Questão
In what year was the first edition of "Leaves of Grass" published?
Responda
  • 1892
  • 1860
  • 1867
  • 1855

Questão 81

Questão
What is the common nickname for Whitman's final edition of "Leaves of Grass," published in 1892?
Responda
  • The Abridged Edition
  • The Posthumous Edition
  • The Later Period Edition
  • The Deathbed Edition

Questão 82

Questão
How many poems appeared in the 1855 version of "Leaves of Grass"?
Responda
  • 12
  • 46
  • 75
  • 200

Questão 83

Questão
How does Whitman see himself in relation to his readers?
Responda
  • 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

Questão 84

Questão
The poetry in "Leaves of Grass" clearly demonstrates Whitman's faith in
Responda
  • Bureaucracy
  • Democracy
  • Federalism
  • Socialism

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