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Question 1

Alonzo and Melissa set during :

a) Civil war
b) Revolutionary war
c) Vietnam War
d) Mexico War

Answer 1

b) revolutionary war

Question 2

The theme of Goethe’s “ The Sorrows of Young Werther” is ………….

a) Death
b) Adulterous love
c) Wealth
d) Pain

Answer 2

b) adulterous love

Question 3

In Brown's novel “ The Power of Sympathy ”, the character of
Harrington is described as … … … … .
a. a strange medley of contradiction
b. the moralist
c. the amoroso
d. all of the above

Answer 3

d) all of the above

Question 4

“The Algerine Spy in Pennsylvania” was written by … … … … … ..

a. Peter Markoe
b. Shakespeare
c. John Donne
d. Wollstonecraft

Answer 4

a) peter markowe

Question 5

Thomas Paine wrote three best-selling books of the 18th century including …………….

a. Common Sense
b. The Right of Man
c. The Right of Man
d. all of the above

Answer 5

d) all of the above

Question 6

Paine’s “The Right of Man” was published in ………. Part/s.

a) one
b) two
c) three
d) four

Answer 6

d) two

Question 7

When describing himself as “a citizen of both countries”, Paine
meant ……………….
a) Britain and Italy
b)The United States and the French republic
c) The French republic and Britain
d) Britain and Spain

Answer 7

b) the united states and the french republic

Question 8

Paine projected him self as a spokesperson for …………rational order.

a) Old World
b) Ancient World
c) New World
d) Backward World

Answer 8

c) New World

Question 9

Irish Murdoch wrote “The Nice and the Good”

Answer 9

true

Question 10

early american literature means american literature after 1800

Answer 10

false ( before )

Question 11

early american literature almost prided itself on being a scholarly world apart

Answer 11

true

Question 12

scott fitzgerald wrote ‘‘the great Gatsby’’

Answer 12

true

Question 13

early american literature has always been read historically

Answer 13

true

Question 14

political marketing involves extreme sloganeering

Answer 14

true

Question 15

most of the poets celebrated as ‘‘early american’’ writers were born in america

Answer 15

false (England)

Question 16

the american literature didn’t affect the English literature

Answer 16

false (affected)

Question 17

in the 17th century, the English literature had a great impact upon its american counterpart

Answer 17

true

Question 18

in the 17th century all the american settlements were colonies of the french crown

Answer 18

false (British)

Question 19

Edward watts and others have done important pioneering works

Answer 19

true

Question 20

the power plays in the 17th century north america were completed in nature

Answer 20

true

Question 21

'’the inclusion of a journal’’ is written by cabeza de vaca

Answer 21

true

Question 22

cabeza de vaca talks about spanish tribes

Answer 22

false (Indian)

Question 23

cabeza de vaca exemplifies a puritan style

Answer 23

false (catholic)

Question 24

Cabeza de Vaca’s geographical scope focused around the

borderlands with Mexico

Answer 24

true

Question 25

The language and culture of first people have recently received
more consideration

Answer 25

true

Question 26

America was invented by Christopher Columbus

Answer 26

false (discovered)

Question 27

Rowlandson’s “ Narrative” has become popular in moments of

national crisis

Answer 27

true

Question 28

Rowlandson was probably born in America

Answer 28

false (England)

Question 29

“ Narrative” was successful in both England and America

Answer 29

true

Question 30

The first 3 editions of “ Narrative” were released in America

Answer 30

true

Question 31

There are no similarities between Rowlandson’s “ Narrative” and
Richardson’s “ Pamela”

Answer 31

false

Question 32

Rowlandson’s works are translated across the Atlantic

Answer 32

true

Question 33

The conservative English satire was turned back on itself through “ double-coding”.

Answer 33

true

Question 34

The work of Charles Brown might be understood as transatlantic romanticism .

Answer 34

true

Question 35

“Concerning Hum an Understanding” allows hum an intelligence to produce on the basis of knowledge of truth.

Answer 35

false (empirical evidence)

Question 36

The ideas of divine revelation and philosophical absolutes were
coming to seem increasingly new-fashioned

Answer 36

false (old-fashioned)

Question 37

18th century American literature shared many of the

characteristics of its English counterpart.

Answer 37

true

Question 38

American writers never became part of the world of mutability
they were describing

Answer 38

false

Question 39

18th century writers looked back at the Bible for their source
material

Answer 39

false (Virgil)

Question 40

The idea of American literature deriving from classical templates
is irrelevant.

Answer 40

false (relevant)

Question 41

The classical idiom of American literature is from the 19th century

Answer 41

false (18th)

Question 42

18th-century America offered a modernized version of courtly

ritual.

Answer 42

true

Question 43

Shakespeare wrote “ History of the Ancient and Honorable

Tuesday Club”.

Answer 43

false (Alexander Hamilton)

Question 44

Alexander Hamilton produced a general burlesque on John

Milton’s “ Theory of State Power”

Answer 44

false (Thomas hobbe’s)

Question 45

Christopher Marlowe wrote “ Itinerarium ”.

Answer 45

false (Alexander Hamilton)

Question 46

Shield described the colonies of British America as “ transmutable regions of exchange values”.

Answer 46

true

Question 47

Aesthetics shouldn’t serve political and social purposes.

Answer 47

false (should)

Question 48

Wealthy’s language included words like “black”, “ slave”, and
“female”

Answer 48

true

Question 49

Wealthy is one of the British neoclassical poets of the 18th

century .

Answer 49

false (American)

Question 50

Wealthy and American poets of the 18th century understood

literary genre as a system to be parodied and upended

Answer 50

true

Question 51

Wealthy wrote the poem “ To the University of Cambridge”

Answer 51

true

Question 52

“ The Anarchiad” is a poem written “ in concert” by Trumbull.

Answer 52

true

Question 53

The Anarchiad” is subtitled “A New England poem “

Answer 53

true

Question 54

Parrington called the Connecticut Wits” the first school of poetry
in America”.

Answer 54

true

Question 55

In early American literature, more space is devoted to prose than
to poetry .

Answer 55

true