American Literature Unit #9 Flashcards
What is the key idea of a Spiritual song?
Biblical truths in the midst of tribulations
What is the title of the ballad song that talks about a legendary railroad hero?
John Henry
Who wrote “Oh! Susanna” and “My Old Kentucky Home”?
Stephen Foster
Who was American’s most beloved popular song composer?
Stephen Foster
Who was American’s most beloved hymn writer of the nineteenth century?
Fanny Crosby
Who wrote the hymn “Close to These” and “More like Jesus Would I Be”?
Fanny Crosby
Who were the great orate statesmen of the century?
Daniel Webster, John C. Calhoun, Henry Clay, and Abraham Lincoln
Who gave the Second Inaugural Address speech?
Abraham Lincoln
Who gave The Secret of Progress speech?
Booker T. Washington
Who gave the speech Is the Bible True?
William Jennings Bryan
What three Bible verses did William Jennings Bryan (in Is the Bible True speech) that defeat the claims of evolution?
Genesis 1:1 (give origin of life)
Genesis 1:24 (life’s continuity)
Genesis 1:26 (explanation of man’s presence here)
Who wrote A Father’s Prayer?
Douglas MacArthur
What prayer is about a father wanting his son to develop character?
A Father’s Prayer
Who gave The Nobel Prize Speech?
William Faulkner
Who said, “The problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing…”?
William Faulkner in his Nobel Prize Speech
Read about William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925)
Read about Booker T. Washington (1856-1915)
Read about Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008)
Read about William Faulkner (1897-1962)
