American Art and Literature

Question 1

Which best describes the work of James Fenimore Cooper?

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D: He wrote novels that celebrated American Indian culture.

Question 2

Read the following excerpt by Henry David Thoreau.I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.Which statement best summarizes this excerpt?

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D: Thoreau went to the woods to learn about life from nature.

Question 3

During the early nineteenth century, Enlightenment culture in Europe celebrated civilization, while American artists celebrated

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B: the wilderness and open spaces.

Question 4

How did Emily Dickinson reflect romanticism in her poetry?

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B: Dickinson wrote poems that addressed death and nature.

Question 5

Which American novelist is known for his tales of the American frontier, including The Last of the Mohicans?

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C: James Fenimore Cooper

Question 6

Which person was a transcendentalist writer who lived on Walden Pond?

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B: Henry David Thoreau

Question 7

Transcendentalist Walt Whitman captured the spirit of young America by creating

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B: song-like poetry.

Question 8

Romantic author Edgar Allen Poe was known for

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A: inventing the detective story.

Question 9

The romanticism movement could best be described as a

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C: rejection of the classicism movement.

Question 10

Read the excerpt below by Walt Whitman.Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.Which statement best summarizes the excerpt?

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D: The common people in the United States give the nation its vitality.

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