American Lit Midterm Exam Review

Pilgrims led American society in education and science.

Benjamin Franklin was a key contributor to the Pennsylvania Gazette.

Usher and Tell-Tale Heart build suspense using _____ protagonists.

Billy Budd is compared to Adam in the garden of Eden.

Education, media, and peers play a large role in developing your worldview.

The Van Tassel estate is located near the ______ River.

Brom Bones is the _______ of the story who is also seeking Katrina's attention.

A religious reform movement in the late 16th and 17th centuries that sought to cleanse the Church of Roman Catholicism

The first constitution in North America was written by the ______ native American nation.

Which of the following is NOT one of the four types of stories that Poe wrote?

Puritans were known for both their love of life and love for God.

________ authored "A Modell of Christian Charity."

Worldviews are best discerned through art and literature.

Poe invented what we know today as the modern ________ story.

Benjamin Franklin's worldview is considered strictly Deistic.

The Pilgrims lived in _______ before they traveled to America.

Katrina Van Tassel is known for her youth and beauty.

Sacred hymns of the African American slave community were called _____.

Subjective feeling is all that matters; life is all about personal experience.

Billy's reaction to ________ allegation was impeded by his speech problems.

Tom meets the Devil for the first time on a stump near an old Indian fort.

In his autobiography, Benjamin Franklin thanked _______ for his happiness and success in life.

_______ wrote Billy Budd, Moby Dick, and Typee.

Despite his melancholy tone and grave themes, Poe was actually a very happy and healthy man.

The Puritans were motivated by business and commerce.

Billy Budd was written during the ______ literary period.

Edward Winslow wrote _________, the only currently existing recording of the first Thanksgiving.

Benjamin Franklin finished his autobiography in _______.

Benjamin Franklin is well known for his experiment with a _____.

_________ authored "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God."

________ is the antagonist in “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas”

_________ is the antagonist in Billy Budd.

The pain in The Raven is best described as pain from failure.

_______'s famous "City on a Hill" speech is a testament to the religious roots of our country.

According to the textbook, everyone has a _______ that reflects the personal bias with which they see the world.

Those with the _____ worldview have abandoned hope of finding meaning and have embraced nihilism

Tom later regrets his bargain and hopes that honesty will protect him from the Devil.

Billy's conviction was brought about strictly by

Tom and the devil shake hands and agree Tom will open a ______.

The belief that God is absent/weak or worse, malevolent; God, his creation, and nature are evil

Ichabod Crane was a _______

The Massachusetts Bay Colony was made up of primarily

Social justice plays a large role in shaping your personal belief system.

Which of the following is NOT one of the four main worldview epochs that evolved from the time or Aristotle and Plato?

Sermons written in the Puritanism era are considered ______ source documents.

The warning of something to follow in a story is called _____.

By the end of the story, Tom fervently attends church.

_______ is the main character of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

Benjamin Franklin grew up in a _____ home but struggled with faith later in his life.

Little Women was written during the ______ literary period.

The Boston Puritans loved the church of England and only wished to ________ it.

Billy Budd takes place during the _________

Shelby Foote considered the American Civil War as the last _______ and first modern war.

_______ represents Melville's own spiritual condition.

The use of two words with the same first consonant sound is called

Tom kicked a decayed stump just before the Devil appeared to him.

Frederick Douglass grew up with both his parents in a stable household.

Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote "O Captain! My Captain!" as an elegy to commemorate ________.

_______ in Little Women is/are symbolic of male protectiveness.

Poe uses limited omniscience/first person narration in The Fall of the House of Usher.

The worldview that the world was created by Creator who is now absent, leaving mankind to figure out how it works

In "Usher," the state of the ______ symbolizes the state of ______.

"Thantopsis" is ________'s famous poem.

“Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch about him...” is an example of

The main theme of Billy Budd is

_________ compared New England to a "City upon a Hill."

In Billy Budd, the Dansker was the only one who warned Billy about Claggart's ill will.

Benjamin Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanac reached up to _________ prints in a year.

Romanticism says that nature is godlike; returning to nature determines man's goodness/effectiveness.

_______ wrote "History of Plymouth Plantation."

Which of the following is NOT one of the primary themes in Little Women?

The overall tone of “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Fall of the House of Usher” can be described as melancholy.

Cotton Mather wrote some of the most engaging poetry of the 17th century.

A non-fictional literary genre showing a factual record of events in chronological order

Anne Bradstreet, though married to a Puritan believer, was accused in the Salem Witch Trials.

Poe's reference to the goddess Athena is an example of

Edgar Allen Poe is more well known for his

Anne Bradstreet's poem In Reference to Her Children compares her children to ______.