English final

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Select the genre most typical of the following authors: Bradstreet, Taylor, Whitman, Dickinson, Frost, Eliot, Pound, Stevens

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poetry

fiction

drama

novel

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Question 2

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Select the term for the literary movement that developed in America after the Civil War, emphasizing writing that was based on genuine experience and portrayed probable and ordinary human reactions (as in Daisy Miller or Adventures of Huckleberry Finn)

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	allegory
realism
neoclassicism
	romanticism

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Question 3

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Select the era during which the following American authors lived: Anne Bradstreet, Edward Taylor, John Smith, John Winthrop, William Bradford

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Colonial Era
Age of Reason and Revolution
Era of American	Romanticism
Era of American Realism

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Question 4

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Select the term that best describes a literary movement that, influenced by Darwin’s theory of evolution, tended to portray human beings as merely biological creatures whose behavior is determined by environment or heredity

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naturalism

parody

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Question 5

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Irving, Poe, and Hawthorne became virtually the first masters of one modern literary form; select the term that best approximates this genre.

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autobiography

impressionistic poem

short story

humorous letter

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Question 6

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What is the name of the religious movement of the nineteenth century which emphasized the nearness of man to God in Nature

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Cartesian philosophy
Neoplatonic love
Transcendentalism
	Existentialism

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Question 7

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Select the author who is not an American

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman

William Shakespeare

Benjamin Franklin

Samuel L. Clemens

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Question 8

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Edgar Allan Poe’s work contains elements of each of the following except

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Gothicism

Detective Fiction

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Question 9

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Naturalism is

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	a literary school of thought that found inspiration in nature and stressed imagination over reason in its presentation
a literary school of thought that emphasized a truthful and accurat representation of the actual experiences and consequences of everyday life
	a literary school of thought that viewed man much as a scientist viewed animals in the natural world: they are controlled by environmental forces and internal stresses and drives
	a type of writing that made use of specific detail in describing the dialect, dress, customs and scenery associated with a particular geographic region of the country

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Question 10

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Romanticism is

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a literary school of thought that emphasized a fidelity in literary representation to the actual experiences and consequences of everyday life