Nathaniel Hawthorne

Question 0

Place if birth

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Salem, MA

Question 1

Year of birth

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1804

Question 2

History of his father’s family

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They were all generally wealthy

Merchants, ship captains, or public officials

Question 3

Great-great-grandfather

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John Hathorne from The Crucible

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Age when father died

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4

Question 5

Name of mother

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Elizabeth Manning

Question 6

College attended

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Bowdoin College

Question 7

Description of himself at the college he attended

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“An idle student, negligent of cage life and the Procrustean details of academic life, rather choosing to nurse (his) own fallacies.”

Question 8

Government involved friend

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Franklin Pierce

Question 9

Wife

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Sophia Peabody

Question 10

Transcendentalism

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A literary and social movement that dresses human goodness and a reliance on individual rather than societal rules

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Commune lived with wife

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Brook Farm and Emerson Old Manse

Question 12

First novel

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Title: Fanshawe
Sold portly and he eventually grew to dislike it
He eventually bought and burned unsold copies

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Short stories

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The Twice Told Tale

Mosses from an Old Manse

Question 14

The Scarlet Letter

Answer 14

• Published in 1850

- Gave significant financial and critical success

Question 15

Hester Prynne

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• Puritan who commits adultery in colonial MA

- Gives birth to a child with unknown father and is forced to wear a scarlet A for the remainder of her life

Question 16

Custom-House

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• place where goods from recently docked ships arrived, get classified, and taxed

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Spoils system

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• a type of political cronyism

- entering the government through someone you know because you helped get them the position

Question 18

Physiognomy

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• ability to judge character from appearance

Question 19

Name what this is: “With his florid cheek, his compact figure smartly arrayed in bright-buttoned blue coat, his brisk and vigorous step, and his gal end hearty aspect, altogether, he seemed-not young, indeed-but a kind of new contrivance of Mother Nature in the shape of man, whom age and infirmity had not business to touch.”

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Physiognomy

Question 20

Labyrinthine Sentence

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Sentences with complex syntax and which as filled with more phrases and clauses than most writers use in a paragraph

Question 21

Name what this is an example of: “Poking and burrowing into the heaped-up rubbish in the corner; unfolding one and another document, and reading the names of vessels that has long ago foundered at sea or rotted at the wharves, and those of merchants, never heard if now, nor very readily decipherable on their mossy tombstones; glancing at such matters with the saddened, weary, half-reluctant internet with which we bestow the corpse of dead activity, I chanced to lay my hand on a small package carefully done up in yellow parchment.”

Answer 21

Labyrinthine Sentence