pt 2 Flashcards
“M ‘Fingal” is a brilliant mock-epic play
false (poem)
“ The Columbiad” was written by Joel Barlow
true
“ The Columbiad” is written in a neo-classical vein
true
The political essay “ Advice to the Privileged Orders” was written
by Shakespeare.
false (Joel Barlow)
“ The Hasty Pudding” was written by Joel Barlow
true
Barlow believed that the equality of rights is the leading principle on which their constitution should be founded
true
Barlow, during his own times, enjoyed international renown for
his vision of a republican future
true
Franklin is best known for his epistolary
false (autobiography)
Franklin produced dark satirical essays.
true
Franklin’s writings were elusive and double-edged
true
Jefferson, like Franklin, spent time working as a diplomat in Rome.
false (Paris)
Cabanis described how sensibility lay at the heart of all things
true
Jefferson was influenced by the general culture of sensibility .
true
Early N.Davidson associated culture of sentiment specifically with
the early American plays
false (novels)
N.Davidson identified in the early American novel a
predominantly male discourse.
false (female)
The conception of early American novel was gender-natured
true
“Charlotte Temple” was written and published in England.
true
The Dudley family crosses the Atlantic over several generations in
search for wealth and freedom .
true
The circulation of sentiment across a transatlantic axis was also
facilitated by the regular movements of theatrical companies.
true
Rowson herself was a monologist.
false (dramatist)
Tyler’s play “ The Contrast” achieved a great success when it was
performed in New York.
true
English literature is a packaged and commodified phenomenon.
false (American)
“ The Widow Ranter” is a novel.
false (play)
The Widow Ranter” comically portrays the colony Virginia as a
heaven for dozy officials
true
America in the 17th and 18th centuries entered into Britain colonial
consciousness
true
Lennox was born as charlotte Ramsey in Gibraltar
true
Lennox first novel “The Life of Heriot Stuart” is clearly based on
her own experience
true
Edmund Burke and Tom Paine agreed on the meaning of
democracy and revolution.
false (clashed over)
“ The Female Review” is narrated in the 2nd person.
false (1st)
“ The Female Review” detailed attention to the history and
geography of the war.
true
One of the side effect of the war’s outcome was to divide the 18th century novel into 2 discrete national traditions
true
Emma Corbett can be read as a British colonial novel
true
American post-revolutionary novelists portrayed France as an
unnaturally cruel parent
false (Britain)
The early American novel usually fell into one of two categories
true
“Melville and Phalez” is a novel published in serial form .
true
“ The Asylum ” remained popular in the US throughout the 19th
century
true
The language of “ The Asylum ” has disorder and interruption.
false (connexion and regularity)
William Hill Brown’s “The Power of Sympathy” is credited the
second American novel
false (first)
The American novels in its early years was shaped more by both
slaves and sentiment.
true
The 18th century American novel developed across a transatlantic
axis
true
Noah Webster asserted that “ America must be independent in
literature as she is in politics”
true
Paine’s “Common Sense” is said to have converted George
Washington to the cause of independence.
true
Paine’s “The Contrast” was a direct reply to Burke’s “Reflection
on the Revolution in France”
false (the right of man)
Paine was imprisoned as a traitor to France
true
If Paine’s characters were less generous, he would have been
more famous.
true
Paine’s writing remains valuable as it advances the prospect of
America not just as a new nation but as a world
true
Paine argues that there can be national flourishing alone in
commerce.
false (can’t)
According to Paine, if commerce spread globally , it would end the
system of war
true
In “The Age of Reason”, Paine discussed the solar system and the
spherical rotation of the planets.
true
Paine was an atheist believing “in one God, and no more”
false (deist)
Paine was disowned by politicians of his own time such as
Jefferson and Rush
true
Many of Paine’s novels and travel narratives introduced
transitional perspectives.
true
The major American writer in the 19th century dealt with Indian affairs is … … … … .. a)William W ells Brown b)John Dryden c)James Fenimore Cooper d)Charles Dickens
c)James Fenimore Cooper
“The Spy” was published by … … … … … … .
a) James Fenimore Cooper
b) John Dryden
c) Samuel Johnson
d) John Donne
a)James Fenimore Cooper
Other volumes of “Gleanings in Europe” deal with … … … … .. .
a) France
b) Switzerland
c) Italy
d) All of the above.
d)All of the above
Headsman was set in the eighteenth century …………..
a) Switzerland
b) England
c) Italy
d) Germany
a)Switzerland
"The Marble Faun" and "The Scarlet Letter" were written by … … … … . a)Hawthorne b)Shakespeare c)Coleridge d)John Donne
a)Hawthorne
… … … … ..is a novel by “ Nathaniel Hawthorne” which embodied
world of ordinary human jealousy and passion.
a)Robinson Crusoe
b)The Blithedale Romance
c) Hamlet
d)The Old Man and the Sea
b)The Blithedale Romance
Douglass’s “North Star” is a … … … … … … ..
a) novel
b) play
c) journal
d) pamphlet
c)journal
Douglass’s “My Bondage and My Freedom “ is his second … … … ..
a) epistolary
b) autobiography
c) picaresque
d) Gothic
b)autobiography
Douglass…… his line of argument throughout his career.
a) Shifted
b) Kept
c) Refused
d) contained
a)shifted
During Douglass’s trip to Ireland, he expressed.... with Daniel O ’Connell and the Fenians. a)Sympathy b)Disagreement c)Happiness d)Sadness
a)sympathy
In his final autobiography “Life and Times”, Douglass insists on
dissociating civil equality from … … equality .
a)Social
b)Economic
c)Political
d)Religious
a)social
In his final autobiography “Life and Tim es”, Douglass … … civil equality . a)Supported b)Refused c)Attacked d)Stopped
a)supported
Assing was an American … … for the German newspaper.
a. Correspondent
b. Doctor
c. Surgeon
d. Teacher
a)correspondent
Brown’s “Clotel” bring together … … … … … in equal measure.
a) lecture
b) fiction
c) history
d) all of the above
d)All of the above
American Literature is understood as an ancient Subject
false (modern)
American Literature’s historical reach often does not go back
earlier than “The Great Gatsby”.
true
American Literature started gaining popularity after World War
One.
false (two)
Matthiessen’s ideological predilection included women, African
American writers and southerners
false (excluded)
William Gilmore Simms’s “The Cassique of Kiawah” emphasizes
words such as region, locality and territory
true
Lincoln began his own career as a lawyer of national boundaries
during the Black Hawk War
false (policer)
“When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed” is written by
Whitman.
true
Catherine Sedgwick’s “ Hope Leslie” seeks to bring Native
Americans and white settlers together
true
Cooper in his novels probes the places where identity becomes a
more complex , hybrid construction
true
Cooper’s work fed into the intense debates about national
identity in USA .
true
Cooper’s work involves a com parative analysis of American
culture.
true
Cooper’s sea fiction was in his own lifetime often considered his
minor literary achievement
false (major)
Coop er’s “The Crater” revolves around the discovery of a new
island in the Pacific and its sudden disappearance after a volcanic
eruption on the ocean
true
Emerson recommended that American intellectuals remake the
world according to their own designs
true
“The Scarlet Letter” was appropriated as a utopian Vehicle
true
All of Hawthorne’s work involves dialogues
true
In “Our Old Home”, Hawthorne wrote account of his travels in
Germany
false (England)
“Moby-Dick” was written by Herman Melville
true
“Moby-Dick” was Melville’s first novel
'’Typee’’
“Moby-Dick” traverses the ocean in a way that parallels Melville’s
aspiration
true
Melville’s texts engage in various ways with race and slavery
true
Melville avoided reducing psychological and social questions to
issues deriving merely from local politics
true
Melville’s novella “Billy Budd” was published after his death
true
Frederick Douglass’s first biographical narrative was his account of
his “escape from slavery”.
false (autobiographical)
Tom Taylor’s “Our American Cousin” is a tragic drama.
false (farcical)
Stowe’s “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” was a best-selling novel in both
America and Britain
true
Stowe treated “Tom Gordon” in her novel “Dred” as harshly as he
himself treats his own slaves
true
Stowe couldn’t enter the spirit of her various characters
false (could)
(AASS) stands for American Anti-Slavery Society
true
Douglass went on a tour to Britain
true
Europe was the first to give Douglass a taste of a different kind of
freedom .
true
Douglass’s “Narrative” was not so well written
false (well)
Douglass was aware of the complex nature of social and economic
power that makes it hard to reduce slavery
true
Douglass associated slavery with the poverty he witnessed
true
Douglass was an African American writer
true
for Douglass, the end tended to oppose the means
false (justify)
Most of African American prose writers shifted from 1st-person to
3rd-person narrators
true
Douglass was a visible leader of the African American community
true
Some of the power of Douglass derives from parody and irony
true
Douglass was famous for his realistic imitations of slave master
and pro-slavery preachers
false (parodic)
Douglass’s autobiography presented freedom more as a self-evident
true
“The Heroic Slave” might be understood as a typical Douglass
form of ironic paradox
true
American Slaves’ right to freedom was forbidden by the Word of
the Owner according to their condition of Christianity
false (God)
The country was divided into two parts: North against slavery and
South with slavery
true
A ll of the following are from Steinbeck’s writings ex cep t for:
a) Of Mice and M en
b) The Grapes of Wrath
c) East of Eden
d) The Contrast
d) The contrast
… … … was Steinbeck’s first novel.
a) Cup of Gold
b) The Grapes of wrath
c) Of Mice and Men
d) The Escape
a) cup of gold
Steinbeck’s writings were… …
a) Realistic
b) Imaginative
c) Realistic and Imaginative
d) None of the above
c) Realistic and Imaginative
Steinbeck was interested in… …
a) Marine biology
b) Politics
c) Religion
d) All of the above
d) All of the above
In “ The Grapes of Wrath” the themes of… … play a great role.
a) Conversion
b) Self-sacrifice
c) All of the above
d) None of the above
c) All of the above
“ Of Mice and Men” represents the themes of
a) Racism
b) Loneliness
c) Prejudice
d) All of the above
d) All of the above
John Steinbeck was born in America.
true
John Steinbeck was a novelist and short story writer
true
Steinbeck won the Nobel Prize in Culture
false (Literature)
Steinbeck has been called “a giant of American letters”.
true
Many of Steinbeck’s works are considered classics of Eastern
literature.
false (Western)
Steinbeck won The Pulitzer Prize for his novel “The Grapes of
Wrath”.
true
“ The Grapes of Wrath” is considered Steinbeck’s masterpiece and
part of the American literary canon
true
Steinbeck’s works frequently explored the themes of love and
death
false (fate and injustice)
Monterey and the San Joaquin Valley were the setting for many of
his stories.
true
In his works of fiction, Steinbeck didn’t care about religion
false (did)
Steinbeck’s beliefs remained a powerful influence within his
fiction and non-fiction work
true
Steinbeck joined the League of American Writers
true
“ Of Mice and Men” is a comic play .
false (tragedy)
Of Mice and Men” is a tragedy novel
false (play)
“East of Eden” was made into a movie
true
“East of Eden” deals with the nature of good and evil
true
“ The Grapes of Wrath” won… …
a) The National Book Award
b) Pulitzer Prize
c) The Nobel Prize
d) All of the above
d)All of the above
The “Joads” set out for California because of… …
a) Drought
b) Economic hardship
c) Agricultural industry changes
d) All of the above
d)All of the above
The main male character in “The Grapes of Wrath” is called… …
a) Noah
b) Jonathan
c) Tom
d) Casy
c)Tom
In the final chapter of the book, the family takes shelter from the flood in… … a)Farm b)Old barn c)Castle d)Church
b)old barn
Tom is the Joad family’s … … son
a) First
b) Second
c) Elder
d) Adopted
b)Second
“The Grapes of Wrath” is a realist novel
true
“ The Grapes of Wrath” is a British novel
false (American)
“ The Grapes of Wrath” is an American novel published in 1939.
true
The Grapes of Wrath” is set during Great Depression
true
“ The Grapes of Wrath” is read in American high school and
college literature classes.
true
The “Joads” traveled from California to Oklahoma.
false (Oklahoma to California)
Grandpa and Grandma die after arriving in California.
false (Before)
Noah and Connie Rivers leave the family .
true
Casy becomes a labor organizer and tries to recruit for a labor
union
true
The remaining Joads find work as strikebreakers
true
Tom takes leadership of the family , even though he is young
true
Tom is a Christ-like figure.
false (Casy)
Noah is the first to leave the family .
true
