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1. Which was not a reason the American Civil War was fought? (Points : 10)

       access to the railway system

       states' rights

       economics

       slavery

2. Who were the authors of the novels The Scarlet Letter and Moby Dick? (Points : 10)

       Dickinson and Whitman

       Poe and Whitman

       Emerson and Thoreau

       Hawthorne and Melville

3. What European literary movement emphasized individual expression in art and individual rights in politics and directly influenced the flowering of the first significant American literature? (Points : 10)

       Stoicism

       Calvinism

       Empiricism

       Romanticism

4. What period of time refers to the span of American literary history referred to as the American Renaissance? (Points : 10)

       1492-1550

       1825-1865

       1900-1950

       1777-1810

5. Who is considered the father of the modern-day short story? (Points : 10)

       Herman Melville

       Walt Whitman

       Nathaniel Hawthorne

       Edgar Allan Poe

6. What early American literary and philosophical movement emphasized the power of the individual and a personal connection with nature? (Points : 10)

       Transcendentalism

       Realism

       Agrarianism

       Pessimism

7. The denouement comes: (Points : 10)

       after the falling action

       before the climax

       just after the exposition

       in the sequel

8. What rapidly developing industry flourishing in America helped produce the great generation of writers in the period following the Civil War? (Points : 10)

       Journalism

       Textiles

       Agriculture

       Automobiles

9. Irony is: (Points : 10)

       a scheme by one character to trap another

       a contrast between appearance and reality

       language soothing to the ear

       writing that transcends reality

10. What great American poet saw fewer than 20 poems published in his/her lifetime but is recognized today for using short, passionate, symbolic verse? (Points : 10)

       Walt Whitman

       Emily Dickinson

       Kate Chopin

       Ralph Waldo Emerson