American Romanticism + Fireside Poets

Question 1

Both "The Chambered Nautilus" and "Old Ironsides" use the sea to represent?

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the challenges of life

Question 2

The Fireside Poets: John Greenleaf Whittier, Oliver Wendel Holmes, James Russell Lowell, and:

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Question 3

The speaker in “A Psalm of Life” highlights life’s difficulties when he/she says life is like

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a field of battle

Question 4

Which authors were most successful in attracting a British audience in the antebellum years?

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Anti-slavery authors such as Harriet Beecher Stowe

Question 5

Which was not a result of discrepancies between the copyright laws of the U.S. and England?

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Crowds met the installments of serialized novels at ports

Question 6

Poe, Hawthorne, and Melville were considered

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Anit-Transcendentalists

Question 7

All of the following are characteristics of American Romanticism except for

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believed the city to be a place to find success

Question 8

One of the authors associated with the popularity of American Novels was

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James Fenimore Cooper

Question 9

Unlike the American novelists of the time period, the Fireside poets:

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worked within European literary traditions

Question 10

Romantics felt that the exploration of the past, the exotic, the supernatural, could lead to

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understanding higher truths

Question 11

Which two cities were the major publishing hubs in the United States before 1840?

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New York and Philadelphia

Question 12

Which of the following works was not written in response to the end of the Civil War?

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The Gettysburg Address

Question 13

What does the speaker’s daughter ask him in “The First Snowfall”?

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Where does snow come from?

Question 14

How closely connected were the authors of the American Renaissance?

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They read and reacted to each other's books and responded

Question 15

Line 19 of “Old Ironsides” stresses the 1st syllables of thunders and mighty to highlight that

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the ship is great and impressive

Question 16

What is the speaker describing in “The Chambered Nautilus”?

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a broken shell

Question 17

How does the shell get its shape in “The Chambered Nautilus”?

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The animal creates a new cavity as it grows

Question 18

Lines 5–6 of “Old Ironsides ” stresses the words shout, burst, and roar because

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the sounds are important to the ship’s history

Question 19

Lowell shows that the speaker of “The First Snowfall” finds the snow beautiful when the speaker

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says snow looks like expensive furs

Question 20

Why did women play such an important role in the urban reform movements of the 1840s?

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Urban reform centered on creating secure domestic spaces

Question 21

The 2 writers mainly associated with Transcendentalism were:

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Emerson and Thoreau

Question 22

The author of “Snowbound” uses the imagery of snow to create what kind of mood?

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cold and unpleasant

Question 23

How does the poet use rhyme between the stanzas to emphasize the permanence of the tides?

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The first, second, and last lines of each stanza rhyme.

Question 24

This time period is often called a "renaissance"--but a more accurate description would be

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a coming of age

Question 25

Which battle of the War of 1812 allowed Andrew Jackson to emerge a national "mythological" hero

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the Battle of New Orleans

Question 26

Travel Literature became very popular because of

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population growth and territory expansion

Question 27

How does the speaker in “Snowbound” let you know that it is extremely cold outside?

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No coat, however warm, can stop the chill.

Question 28

The title “The First Snowfall” is significant because this is the first snowfall since the

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death of the speaker’s first daughter

Question 29

The speaker of “A Psalm of Life” would most likely describe life as a

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journey

Question 30

The speaker at the beginning of “Snowbound” is

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doing chores in the barn

Question 31

What technique does the poet of “The First Snowfall” use to create a calm mood?

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figurative language comparing patience to snow

Question 32

In “A Psalm of Life.” What two things does the speaker say you need to live life fully?

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heart and God

Question 33

The romantics associated the countryside with independence, moral clarity, and

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healthful living

Question 34

In “The Chambered Nautilus,” you can infer that the speaker thinks change is good because the

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animal moves through a shining archway

Question 35

What does the speaker of “The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls” explain about human life?

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It ends, but the world continues.

Question 36

What time frame do the events of “The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls” happen in?

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twilight to dawn

Question 37

The speaker of “Old Ironsides” believes that it would be best to

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sink the ship

Question 38

The two poets considered to be the greatest American poets of the 19th century

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Whitman and Dickinson

Question 39

Why did the urban population of American Catholics increase dramatically in the 1840s?

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Irish Catholics emigrated because of a tragic potato blight

Question 40

Why wereMelville, Dickinson, Thoreau, and Whitman neglected until the 20th century?

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Their works often addressed readers who did not yet exist

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