Final Exam Review

Question 1

What is theme of “Iroguois Creation Myth”?

Answer 1

Religion (Cain and Able)

Question 2

What is the theme of “Mrs. Mary Rowlandson”?

Answer 2

Religion (Mary’s faith in God)

Question 3

What is the theme of “Meditation No. 8”?

Answer 3

Religion (Compares God to bread)

Question 4

What is the theme of “Young Goodman Brown”?

Answer 4

Religion (Goodmans wife’s name is Faith and the old man is probably the Devil)

Question 5

What is the theme of “The Masque of the Red Death”?

Answer 5

Economic class (The rich are partying while the poor are outside dying)

Question 6

What is the theme of “Sinners in the Hand of an Angry God”?

Answer 6

Religion (No one is stronger than God)

Question 7

What is the theme of “Rip Van Winkle”?

Answer 7

Time doesn’t wait (Rip wakes up after 20 years later after drinking, he is mad that he missed out on so many events)

Question 8

Who wrote “Young Goodman Brown”?

Answer 8

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Question 9

Who wrote “Mrs. Mary Rowlandson”?

Answer 9

Mary Rowlandson

Question 10

Who wrote “Meditation No. 8”?

Answer 10

Edward Taylor

Question 11

Who wrote “Iroquois Creation Myth”?

Answer 11

Unknown

Question 12

Who wrote “The Masque of the Red Death”?

Answer 12

Edgar Allen Poe

Question 13

Who wrote “Sinners in the Hand of an Angry God”?

Answer 13

Jonathan Edwards

Question 14

Who wrote “Rip Van Winkle”?

Answer 14

Washington Irving

Question 15

Who wrote “Bartleby the Scribner”?

Answer 15

Herman Melville

Question 16

Who wrote “Hills like White Elephants”?

Answer 16

Ernest Hemingway

Question 17

What is the theme of “Hills like White Elephants”?

Answer 17

Anti-Feminism (The man is telling her to get an abortion, but the woman wants to keep it)

Question 18

Who wrote “The Chrysanthemums”?

Answer 18

John Steinbeck

Question 19

What is the theme of “The Chrysanthemums”?

Answer 19

Gender inequality (Even though she is a smart girl, Elisa feels trapped because she stays at home)

Question 20

Who wrote “A Rose for Emily”?

Answer 20

William Faulkner

Question 21

What is the theme in “A Rose for Emily”?

Answer 21

Betrayal (She supposedly kills her lover and then her family starts to judge her)

Question 22

Who wrote “I, Too” and “Song for a Dark Girl”?

Answer 22

Langston Hughes

Question 23

What are the themes for “I, Too” and “Song for a Dark Girl”?

Answer 23

“I, Too”: Racial equality (wanting to be treated the same as the white people)
“Song for a Dark Girl”: Seeing her boyfriend lynched