quiz 20, chapter 12, pp. 210-216

Question 1

only American poet honored in England’s Westminster Abbey

Answer 1

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Question 2

Schoolroom Poet who wrote ‘‘Snowbound’’

Answer 2

John Greenleaf Whittier

Question 3

introduced the Blue-Backed Speller and wrote the first dictionary of the American language

Answer 3

Noah Webster

Question 4

wrote exciting stories about frontier life in his Leatherstocking Tales

Answer 4

James Fenimore Cooper

Question 5

What do we call education that passes accumulated knowledge of the past to the present generation?

Answer 5

traditional education

Question 6

Name the two authors whose understanding of man’s fallen nature made them perhaps the two greatest novelists of the 1800s.

Answer 6

Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville

Question 7

What movement was begun in the United States by Josiah Holbrook?

Answer 7

Lyceum movement

Question 8

What group of poets became a favorite in American homes and schools?

Answer 8

Fireside (or Schoolroom Poets)

Question 9

______ was responsible for the start of the public education.

Answer 9

Horace Mann

Question 10

_____ is best remembered for his paintings of George Washing-a-ton.

Answer 10

Gilbert Stuart