American Literature Exam- Unit #8-#9 Flashcards

1
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Match each quotation with the correct work:

“Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string”

A

“Self-Reliance”

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Match each quotation with the correct work:

“When Duty whispers low, Thou must, the youth replies, I can”

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“Voluntaries”

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Match each quotation with the correct work:

“Then Beauty is its own excuse for being”

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“The Rhodora”

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4
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Who wrote Walden?

A

Henry David Thoreau

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5
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Who wrote “Self-Reliance”?

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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6
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Who wrote “The Experiences of the A.C.”?

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Bayard Taylor

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7
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Who wrote “O Captain! My Captain!”?

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Walt Whitman

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8
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Who wrote “Concord Hymn”?

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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9
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What term refers to compact statements expressing a truth?

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Aphorisms

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10
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Who was the founder of Transcendentalism?

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Who was considered America’s most beloved hymn writer of the nineteenth century?

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Fanny Crosby

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12
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Who wrote “My Old Kentucky Home”?

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Stephen Foster

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13
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What educator shared “The Secret of Progress”?

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Booker T. Washington

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14
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What is American’s unique contribution to folk music?

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Spirituals

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15
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What poem reveals a father’s desire for his son to have character?

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A Father’s Prayer

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16
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Match each description with the correct work:

Legendary railroad hero

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“John Henry”

17
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Match each description with the correct work:

Warning against humanism

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“A World Split Apart”

18
Q

Match each description with the correct work:

Argument against evolution

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“Is the Bible True?”

19
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Match each description with the correct work:

Lament of a dying cowboy

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“Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie”

20
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Match each description with the correct work:

Writer’s role in contemporary society

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“The Nobel Prize Speech”

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