Lit: Sec 3

Question 1

Where did Charles Brockden Brown have his secondary education?

Answer 1

Friends Latin School

Question 2

What friend of Brown wrote Brown’s first biography and was drawn to New York?

Answer 2

William Dunlap

Question 3

what was his first book? What was it about?

Answer 3

Alcuin: A Dialogue > a utopia where women have the same rights as men

Question 4

what work by Nathaniel Hawthorne praised Brown as an excpetional American artist?

Answer 4

Hall of Fantasy

Question 5

what book by Miguel de Cervantes is considered one of the earlies novels?

Answer 5

Don Quixote

Question 6

What are the three genres that define novels?

Answer 6

picaresque, sentimental, gothic

Question 7

what was the first novel Benjamin Franklin printed in his shop?

Answer 7

Pamela

Question 8

in the advertisement at the beginning of Wieland, Clara is referred to as what?

Answer 8

Lady

Question 9

Father Wieland was attracted to what French Protestant sect?

Answer 9

Camisards

Question 10

The story takes place in rural Philadelphia in Mettingen, what river was near here?

Answer 10

Schuylkill

Question 11

what was the laws of coverture?

Answer 11

all property women brought into marriage became her husband’s

Question 12

why does Pleyel want to go to Saxony?

Answer 12

has romatnic interest in woman from Leipzig

Question 13

whose voice does everyone hear at the temple but Clara says it’s impossible

Answer 13

Catharine

Question 14

Pleyel tells Clara that Carwin committed a crime where?

Answer 14

Ireland

Question 15

who told Clara that Carwin did not murder the family?

Answer 15

uncle

Question 16

why isn’t Wieland subjected to capital punishment?

Answer 16

because he is declared as insane

Question 17

who was president and vice president around the same time Brown published Wieland?

Answer 17

John Adams = president

Thomas Jefferson > vice president

Question 18

what country was cited for why a representative government controlled by the elite was necessary?

Answer 18

France

Question 19

To what was Brown referred as the first in the U.S.?

Answer 19

Professional writer

Question 20

When and where was Charles Brockden Brown born?

Answer 20

January 17, 1771 in Philadelphia, PA

Question 21

What religion and class did Brown grow up?

Answer 21

Quaker, middle class

Question 22

What profession did Brown abandon to be a writer?

Answer 22

Law

Question 23

What disease seemed to “plague” Brown’s life?

Answer 23

Yellow fever

Question 24

Who did Brown marry?

Answer 24

Married Elizabeth Linn; she was not a Quaker and he was disowned

Question 25

Brown was critical of this President’s administration, and his failure to protect American access to the Port of New Orleans

Answer 25

Thomas Jefferson

Question 26

How did Brown die and at what age?

Answer 26

tuberculosis at 39