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Which one is regarded as one of the most important works in the Transcendentalist period?
Nature To a Waterfowl Leaves of Grass The Raven

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The Romantic writers would focus on all the following issues EXCEPT the ____in the American literary history.
individual feelings idea of survival of the fittest strong imagination return to nature
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Romanticism in American literature stretches from the ___ to the breakforth of American Civil War.
early 17th C early 18th C early 19th C
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Which poet does not belong to the New England poets?
William Cullen Bryant Walt Whitman Henry Wadsworth Longfellow James Russell Lowell
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importance of the individual faith in Christianity the Over-soul self-reliance
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The first pamphlet published in America to urge immediate independence from Britain is ____
Which one is nቤተ መጻሕፍቲ ባይዱt concluded in Edgar Allan Poe’s poetic theory?
The poetry should be short. Poetry does not have to moralize. Poe thinks misery is the most legitimate of the poetic tone Poe emphasizes the rhythm.
6. What is Hawthorne saying about the Puritan women of the New World? (Chapter2) 7. In what way is Dimmsadale’s sin worse than Hester’s? Of Hester, Chillingworth, and Dimmsdale, whose sin is the worst? Why? 8. Many critics believe the novel is structured around the three scaffold scenes: (Chatper 2/12/23) Read and discuss them. 9. Why does Hawthorne portray Pearl as such a wild child? 10. Describe the relationship between Dimmsdale and Chillingworth. What is suggested by the names Chillingworth and Dimmsdale?
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1. What is the setting of The Scarlet Letter?
2. Does the story end the way you expected? Why? 3.What are some symbols in this novel? How do they relate to the plot and characters? 4. What is your impression of how the Puritan worldview is taken up and treated by Hawthorne? 5. How does Hester’s character evolve?
The short story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is taken from Washing Irving’s work named _____. In 1845, ________ began a two year residence at Walden Pond.
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The American Puritanism as a cultural heritage benefited the Americans in( )
strengthening their moral values weakening their religious faith knowing truth intuitively
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Rip Van Winkle reveals the theme of ____ the past.
nostalgia for rejection to detachment from dislike for
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Which of the following is not one of the main ideas advocated by Emerson, the chief spokesman of American Transcendentalism?
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“ Diedrich Knickerbocker” is the pseudonym of ___for whose works which combined European legends with New England reality.
Cooper Washington Irving Nathaniel Hawthorne Philip Freneau
The Rights of man The American Crisis Declaration of Independence Common Sense
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From 1732 to 1758, Benjamin Franklin wrote and published his famous _____, an annual collection of proverbs. “_____” is perhaps the peak of ____’s work, and it has been called by an eminent critic “the most perfect brief poem in the language”.
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developing their science and technology

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The belief that first, nature is ennobling and second, the individual is divine describes( )
romanticists stream-of-consciousness novelists realists transcendentalists
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Which is not consisted in James Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales?
The Marble Faun The Last of the Mohicans The Prairie Pathfinder

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Washington Irving’s most famous tales are ___ and ___. ___ was considered as “America’s Declaration of Intellectual Independence.
Philip Freneau’s poem___ celebrates the common flowers which grow in the countryside of America. ___ is one of the forefathers of the colony of Jamestown, Virginia.