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1
What city was the cultural center for American Romanticism?
Boston
Philadelphia
Hartford
New York
2
His parents were traveling actors.
Irving
Poe
Cooper
Bryant
3
What story form did Poe not have a role in creating?
Sci-Fi
Horror
Detective stories
Fantasy
4
Who wrote
The Scarlet Letter
?
Melville
Poe
Hawthorne
Irving
5
According to lecture, Romanticism in America spanned what years?
1787-1860
1787-1840
1800-1865
1800-1840
6
What serves as man's mighty sepulchre?
His diseased mind
The narrow house
The Earth
The House of Usher
7
"A cadaverousness of complexion; an eye large, liquid and luminous..." Which work features this character description?
Young Goodman Brown
The Devil and Tom Walker
The Fall of the House of Usher
The Raven
8
What was the group of American Romantic landscape painters we discussed in class called?
The Hudson Cheese Club
The Knickerbocker Group
The Tennessee Valley Authority
The Hudson River School
9
This author wrote the dark romantic tale of
Moby-Dick
Washington Irving
Herman Melville
James Fenimore Cooper
Nathaniel Hawthorne
10
Who this?
Edgar Allan Poe
The Raven Master
William Cullen Bryant
Washington Irving
11
Romanticism began as a contrast with what movement that came before?
Classicism
Postmodernism
Neo-Romanticsm
Realism
12
Romanticism is characterized by its emphasis on what?
Biblical principles
Imagination and intuition
Testing hypotheses
Reason and facts
13
What did the Romatics often look to for inspiration?
Nature
The Cynics
The rights of man
The works of Shakespeare
14
Which author failed out of college twice?
Irving
Poe
Cooper
Melville
15
What was the most popular work from the Romantic period in America?
The Last of the Mohicans
'Twas the Night Before Christmas
Rip Van Winkle
Ben-Hur
16
What religious group often served as inspiration for American Gothic literature?
Hugenots
Anabaptists
Puritans
Quakers
17
What author founded the Bread and Cheese literary club?
William Cullen Bryant
Washinton Irving
Edgar Allan Poe
James Fenimore Cooper
18
Which author considered a presidential run?
William Cullen Bryant
Edgar Allan Poe
James Fenimore Cooper
Washington Irving
19
According to lecture, Romanticism ends in America with the publishing of what transcendental journal?
The New York Times
The Dial
The Clarion
Walden
20
Wrote the Leatherstocking Tales
Cooper
Poe
Bryant
Irving
21
Which of the following is not a characteristic of Gothic literature?
First-person narrative
Grotesque characters
Psychological dread
Aristocratic Corruption
22
How does the author of Thanatopsis believe we should face death?
Violently
Fearlessly
Carefully
Fearfully
23
What are Tom's last words in The Devil and Tom Walker?
"God save me!"
"You wanna catch these hands?"
"The devil take me if I've made a farthing!"
"Do your own research."
24
What influenced many of Washington Irving's tales?
Napoleonic war service
German Folklore
A bread and cheese diet
Opium
25
Who is the bust above the chamber door in The Raven?
Pallas Athena
Zeus
Homer
Shakespeare
26
Which of the folowing English poets was not an influence on American Romanticism?
Percy Shelley
John Keats
Lord Byron
William Blake
27
Wrote America's first bestseller (overseas) called
Charlotte Temple
Irving
Susanna Rowson
James Fenimore Cooper
Anne Bradstreet
28
Wrote The Fall of the House of Usher
Cooper
Bryant
Poe
Irving
29
In what sinful work did the Devil get Tom to employ himself ?
Buccaneering
Usury
The slave trade
Witchery
30
What sound does Usher compare with Lady Madeline ripping apart her coffin?
Breaking the hermit's door
Clangor of the shield
Shattering of the spear
Death cry of the dragon