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ENGL201 Quiz: The American Renaissance/Romantic Period Summer 2025, Quizzes of English Literature

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Quiz: The American
Renaissance/Romantic Period
Score for this quiz:78out of 80
Correct Answers are Highlighted
Question 1
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Emerson's "The American Scholar," inter alia, is a call for American
intellectual independence.
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Question 2
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Published only 7 poems during her lifetime
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Walt Whitman
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Herman Melville
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Bartleby
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Emily Dickinson
Question 3
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Wrote a five-volume biography of George Washington
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Quiz: The American

Renaissance/Romantic Period

Score for this quiz: 78 out of 80

Correct Answers are Highlighted

Question 1

2 / 2 pts

Emerson's "The American Scholar," inter alia, is a call for American intellectual independence. True False

Question 2

2 / 2 pts

Published only 7 poems during her lifetime Walt Whitman Herman Melville Nathaniel Hawthorne Bartleby Emily Dickinson

Question 3

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Wrote a five-volume biography of George Washington

Herman Melville Edgar Allan Poe Ralph Waldo Emerson William Cullen Bryant Washington Irving Henry David Thoreau Question 4

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Authored “Walden” Herman Melville Edgar Allan Poe Ralph Waldo Emerson William Cullen Bryant Washington Irving Henry David Thoreau

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One of the chief advocates of politics of conscience Herman Melville Edgar Allan Poe Ralph Waldo Emerson William Cullen Bryant Washington Irving Henry David Thoreau Question 8

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Poe’s “Annabel Lee” does not meet his own criteria for a successful poem. True False Question 9

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The poem “When Lilacs Last at the Dooryard Bloom’d” thematizes the death of __________ Abraham Lincoln

Walt Whitman Ralph Waldo Emerson The American Dream Question 10

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Author of “The Fall of the House of Usher” and “The Tell-Tale Heart” Herman Melville Walt Whitman Nathaniel Hawthorne Emily Dickinson Young Goodman Brown Bartleby Edgar Allan Poe Question 11

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Helped establish the blueprint for the modern detective tale/story Edgar Allan Poe

Question 13

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E pluribus unum, Latin for “one from many,” is thematized in this poem_______ ““Song of Myself” “Thanatopsis” “Annabel Lee” “the Raven” Question 14

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Once maintained a one-man community Herman Melville Edgar Allan Poe Ralph Waldo Emerson William Cullen Bryant Washington Irving Henry David Thoreau

Question 15

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Oliver Wendell Holmes describes his essay as "our intellectual Declaration of Independence." Edgar Allan Poe Ralph Waldo Emerson William Cullen Bryant Washington Irving Henry D. Thoreau Question 16

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Was a strange young man who took employment in a lawyer's office. Walt Whitman Herman Melville Nathaniel Hawthorne Bartleby Emily Dickinson

Doublet Alliteration Question 20

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Authored “A Tour on the Prairies” Herman Melville Edgar Allan Poe Ralph Waldo Emerson William Cullen Bryant Washington Irving Henry David Thoreau Question 21

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Was supported by lawyers, including his brother and father-in-law Herman Melville Edgar Allan Poe

Ralph Waldo Emerson William Cullen Bryant Washington Irving Henry David Thoreau Question 22

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Edgar Allan Poe considered this poet greater than any other American poet. Edgar Allan Poe Ralph Waldo Emerson William Cullen Bryant Washington Irving Henry D. Thoreau Question 23

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Incorporated elements of Gothicism in his “Tales of Terror,” which featured psychological abnormalities to heighten terror. Herman Melville

False Question 26

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To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware. The above is an excerpt from________ “One’s-Self I Sing” “Thanatopsis” “Annabel Lee” “The Raven” Question 27

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Transcendentalism is the belief that man has the capacity of knowing truth intuitively, or of attaining knowledge that transcends the senses. True False Question 28

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Wrote a poem that means "a view of death." Herman Melville Edgar Allan Poe Ralph Waldo Emerson William Cullen Bryant Washington Irving Henry David Thoreau Question 29

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I was a child and she was a child, In this kingdom by the sea: But we loved with a love that was more than love… With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven Coveted her and me. And this was the reason that, long ago, In this kingdom by the sea, A wind blew out of a cloud, … And bore her away from me, To shut her up in a sepulchre In this kingdom by the sea Devices used in this excerpt include ____________ Paradox, irony, and quatrains Similes, ironies, and idioms

Emily Dickinson Question 32

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Which of the following is/are major Romantic characteristics of Washington Irving's writing: Emphasis on American regional setting and character types (literary nationalism) Use of the picturesque and picaresque Escape from commonplace realities to the shadowy grandeur of the past All the above Question 33

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William Cullen Bryant's "To A Waterfowl" celebrates God's divine providence. True False Question 34

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Wrote “Young Goodman Brown” Walt Whitman

Herman Melville Nathaniel Hawthorne Bartleby Emily Dickinson Question 35

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“The Melville Revival” occurred during the 1920’s and 1930’s. True False Question 36

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Says nature has "various language" Edgar Allan Poe William Cullen Bryant Washington Irving Question 37

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Because I could not stop for Death – He kindly stopped for me –

Edgar Allan Poe Ralph Waldo Emerson William Cullen Bryant Washington Irving Henry David Thoreau Question 40

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"Rip Van Winkle" exhibits elements of legend and folklore. True False