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Q1 Literature Test Flashcards

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1
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What 3 persuasion techniques did Aristotle use, that were later used by Thomas Paine?

A 
Pathos= emotion
Logos= logic
Ethos= credibility
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2
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Who wrote ‘How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents’?

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Julia Alvarez

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3
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Who wrote the American Crisis?

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Thomas Paine

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Who wrote “To believe your own heart, that is true for all men, that is genius”?

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Emerson (from Self Reliance)

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5
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Who wrote “Government is at best but an expedient”?

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Thoreau (from Civil Disobedience)

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6
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Who wrote Self Reliance?

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Emerson

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Who wrote Civil Disobedience?

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Thoreau

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According to John Locke, everyone has the right to what 3 things?

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Life, Liberty, and Property (estate)

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According to deCrevecouer, what corrupts people?

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Hunting

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10
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Name 1 women transcendentalist

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Margaret Fuller

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What religious belief was favored by Paine and Franklin?

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Deism

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12
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What was the style of writing favored by Puritans?

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Plainstyle

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13
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What area in America did Puritans settle?

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Massachusetts/New England

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14
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What was Ben Franklin’s 13th virtue?

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Humility

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15
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What country were the Garcia Girls from?

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Dominican Republic

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16
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Who wrote “There are no gains without pains”?

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Ben Franklin

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17
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Emerson said that “_______ is the main barrier of self reliance.”

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society/conformity

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Who wrote “These are the times that try men’s souls.”?

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Thomas Paine

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Who wrote “Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of it’s members”?

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Emerson

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Who wrote “There is room for everybody in America”?

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deCrevecouer

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21
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Name at least 3 of Ben Franklin’s virtues.

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Humility, Chastity, Cleanliness, Order, Silence, Temperance, Resolution, Frugality, Industry, Sincerity, Justice, Moderation, Tranquility

22
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Name the 4 Garcia Girls.

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Carla, Sandra, Yolanda, Sofia

23
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Where did the majority of the Transcendentalism movement take place?

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Concord, Massachusetts

24
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Who wrote ‘General History of Virginia, New England, and The Summer Isles’?

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John Smith

25
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Who wrote “What then is the American, this new man?”

A

deCrevecouer

26
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Transcendentalism was a spinoff of _________.

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Unitarianism

27
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Name the literary magazine that was published by Transcendentalists.

A

The Dial

28
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What was the first college in America?

A

Harvard

29
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Who wrote “Thus, his curse is light on his own head, and it was an astonishment to all his fellows, for they knew it to be the just hand of God upon him.”?

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William Bradford

30
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Name 2 Protestant Reformation thinkers who influenced Puritan thinking.

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John Calvin and Martin Luther

31
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Give 2 characteristics of Plainstyle writing.

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Self effacing/deprecating, emulates the Bible, talks about God

32
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The Age of Reason spans what years?

A

1720’s-1810’s

33
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What was the concept that each individual represents a part of a whole?

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Oversoul

34
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Who wrote “Of Plymouth Plantation”?

A

William Bradford

35
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Which author was an apprentice to his brother as a printer?

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Ben Franklin

36
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Who wrote “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds”?

A

Emerson

37
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Who wrote “We have no princes for whom we toil, starve, and bleed”?

A

deCrevecouer

38
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Which author believed that religious indifference would take over America?

A

deCrevecouer

39
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Who wrote “Mass of men serve the state thus, not as men, but as machines”?

A

Thoreau

40
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Name the man who was responsible for the courts in the Salem Witch Trials.

A

Cotton Mathers

41
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What was the belief held by Puritans that determines who enters heaven?

A

Predestination

42
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Who was the American president that influenced American Romanticism?

A

Andrew Jackson

43
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Who wrote “But the rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich”?

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Thoreau (from Civil Disobedience)

44
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Who wrote “Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered.”?

A

Thomas Paine

45
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According to Thoreau, government is at best but __________.

A

An expedient

46
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Both Paine and Franklin would say that we come to know the truth through ________.

A

Reason

47
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Who wrote “Every Tory is a coward”?

A

Thomas Paine

48
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bonus: What was the town in Holland where the Puritans lived?

A

Scrooby

49
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Name 2 Utopian societies.

A

Fruitlands and Brooke Farms

50
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Emerson calls this a fool’s paradise.

A

Travel

51
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According to Paine, these 2 people will ‘shrink from the service of his country when things go wrong’.

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The Summer Soldier and the Sunshine Patriot

52
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Who wrote the first American novel, and what was it?

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Nathaniel Hawthorne; The Scarlet Letter

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