Unit 13 – Biography and Autobiography Review
Plots, Themes, and Settings
1. What profession was Benjamin Franklin’s father determined to have him pursue?
2. What did Franklin want to attain?
3. How many virtues did Franklin work on?
4. Which virtue gave Franklin the most trouble?
5. Who tried to get Abraham Lincoln arrested?
6. What interested Lincoln after this incident?
7. What city did Lincoln and Allen Gentry travel to in order to deliver goods?
8. What was the big outing for Marian Anderson’s family?
9. Where was Marian Anderson’s first public appearance to sing?
10. What musical instruments did Marian Anderson try to play?
11. Where did Jesse Stuart want to teach school?
12. Whom did Stuart persuade to return to school?
13. Why did he want to teach there?
14. What game did the students play at recess?
15. What change did the teacher make about drinking from the water dipper?
16. Who wanted to fight with Stuart?
17. Who won the fight?
18. In “Mission Accomplished,” what tribe of Indians were the missionary men trying to reach?
19. Why did the missionaries keep their plan to reach the Aucas secret?
20. How did the missionaries make initial contact with the Aucas?
21. In what country were Jim and Elisabeth Elliot missionaries?
22. What happened to the five missionaries who went to meet the Aucas?
Characters
The Thread That Runs So True
1. Don Conway
2. Guy Hawkins
3. Ova Salyers
Mission Accomplished
1. Jim Elliot
Authors
1. What famous political leader wrote an autobiography?
2. Who wrote “Young Abe Lincoln”?
3. Who was the author of “Philadelphia Childhood”?
4. What was Marian Anderson’s occupation?
5. Who wrote The Thread That Runs So True?
6. Who wrote about his experiences as a schoolteacher in Kentucky?
7. Who wrote “Mission Accomplished”?
Terms
Quotations
1. “I made a little book, in which I allotted a page for each of the virtues.”
2. “Tho’ I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious f obtaining, but fell far short of it, yet I was, by the endeavor, a better and happier man than I otherwise should have been if I had not attempted it.”
3. “I was born on Webster Street in South Philadelphia in a room my parents had rented when they were married.”
4. “After I’d seen the way my sister was beaten up, I begged to go to Lonesome Valley.”
5. “Now I had whipped him and I wondered as I looked at him stretched on the floor how I’d done it.”
6. “The prayer that had been in Jim’s heart for years was prayed with renewed energy now—that those who still had never heard, . . . might hear.”
7. “God, send me soon to the Aucas.”
Plots, Themes, and Settings
1. What profession was Benjamin Franklin’s father determined to have him pursue?
2. What did Franklin want to attain?
3. How many virtues did Franklin work on?
4. Which virtue gave Franklin the most trouble?
5. Who tried to get Abraham Lincoln arrested?
6. What interested Lincoln after this incident?
7. What city did Lincoln and Allen Gentry travel to in order to deliver goods?
8. What was the big outing for Marian Anderson’s family?
9. Where was Marian Anderson’s first public appearance to sing?
10. What musical instruments did Marian Anderson try to play?
11. Where did Jesse Stuart want to teach school?
12. Whom did Stuart persuade to return to school?
13. Why did he want to teach there?
14. What game did the students play at recess?
15. What change did the teacher make about drinking from the water dipper?
16. Who wanted to fight with Stuart?
17. Who won the fight?
18. In “Mission Accomplished,” what tribe of Indians were the missionary men trying to reach?
19. Why did the missionaries keep their plan to reach the Aucas secret?
20. How did the missionaries make initial contact with the Aucas?
21. In what country were Jim and Elisabeth Elliot missionaries?
22. What happened to the five missionaries who went to meet the Aucas?
Characters
The Thread That Runs So True
1. Don Conway
2. Guy Hawkins
3. Ova Salyers
Mission Accomplished
1. Jim Elliot
Authors
1. What famous political leader wrote an autobiography?
2. Who wrote “Young Abe Lincoln”?
3. Who was the author of “Philadelphia Childhood”?
4. What was Marian Anderson’s occupation?
5. Who wrote The Thread That Runs So True?
6. Who wrote about his experiences as a schoolteacher in Kentucky?
7. Who wrote “Mission Accomplished”?
Terms
Quotations
1. “I made a little book, in which I allotted a page for each of the virtues.”
2. “Tho’ I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious f obtaining, but fell far short of it, yet I was, by the endeavor, a better and happier man than I otherwise should have been if I had not attempted it.”
3. “I was born on Webster Street in South Philadelphia in a room my parents had rented when they were married.”
4. “After I’d seen the way my sister was beaten up, I begged to go to Lonesome Valley.”
5. “Now I had whipped him and I wondered as I looked at him stretched on the floor how I’d done it.”
6. “The prayer that had been in Jim’s heart for years was prayed with renewed energy now—that those who still had never heard, . . . might hear.”
7. “God, send me soon to the Aucas.”
Unit 12 – Realism and Local Color Review
Plots, Themes, and Settings
1. What city did Ben-Hur sail to at the beginning of the story?
2. Who was the servant who took over the Hurs’ business dealings?
3. Whom did Ben-Hur visit once he arrived in the city?
4. What did Simonides require from Ben-Hur at their meeting?
5. Whom did Simonides send after Ben-Hur to follow and learn about him?
6. Where did Malluch and Ben-Hur go to watch the chariots?
7. Whom did Ben-Hur see at the chariot races?
8. What animal did the Egyptian and his daughter ride on?
9. Who almost ran over the Egyptian and his daughter?
10. What was the Egyptian’s name?
11. What did the Egyptian’s daughter give to Ben-Hur?
12. Why did Ben-Hur want to race against Messala?
13. Whose horses did Ben-Hur want to use for the race?
14. Did Esther believe Ben-Hur’s story?
15. What connection did Balthasar have to the Christ child?
16. How big an advertisement did Mr. Dimmidge buy?
17. How many advertisements did Mr. Dimmidge put in the paper?
18. What happened after the newspaper came out with Mr. Dimmidge’s advertisement?
19. Who visited the newspaper editor at night?
20. Why did the visitor come?
21. How did people respond when they saw the second large advertisement?
22. Did Mr. and Mrs. Dimmidge resolve their differences?
23. What is the name of the new schoolteacher in The Hoosier School-Master?
24. Whose friendship did Ralph most desire?
25. What animal did Ralph want to imitate?
26. What did Bill Means put in the master’s desk?
27. Who loved Ralph?
28. Did he return her love?
29. Who warned Ralph about the loose board at school?
30. Who fell into the pond beneath the school?
31. Who was expected to win at the spelling-school?
32. Who defeated Ralph at the spelling-school?
33. In Uncle Remus, what did Brer Wolf say had happened to Brer Fox?
34. What did Brer Rabbit say that dead people do?
35. Who replaced Candace Whitcomb as the new soloist?
36. How did Candace show her displeasure while Alma was singing?
37. How did Candace receive notice that she had to quit singing in the choir?
38. Did Candace eventually apologize?
Characters
Ben-Hur
1. Ben-Hur
2. Simonides
3. Esther
4. Tirzah
5. Malluch
6. Sheik Ilderim
7. Messala
8. Balthasar
The Boom in the Calaveras Clarion
1. Eliza Jane Dimmidge
2. Micah Dimming
The Hoosier School-Master
1. Ralph Heartsick
2. Bud Means
3. Mirandy
4. Hank
5. Shocky
6. Jim Phillips
7. Hannah
Uncle Remus
1. Brer Rabbit
2. Brer Wolf
3. Brer Fox
The Village Singer
1. Alma Way
2. Candace Whitcomb
3. Wilson Ford
4. William Emmons
Under the Lion’s Paw
1. Stephen Council
2. Mrs. Council
3. Tim Haskins
4. Jim Butler
Authors
1. Who was the soldier, lawyer, and statesman who wrote Ben-Hur?
2. What is Lew Wallace’s most popular novel?
3. Who became the first prose writer after the Civil War to gain popularity with his famous stories of the West and became the leading local color writer of his day?
4. Who wrote “The Boom in the Calaveras Clarion”?
5. What circuit-riding preacher wrote The Hoosier School-Master?
6. Who wrote the Uncle Remus stories?
7. What author from New England wrote “A Village Singer”?
8. Who is the author of “Under the Lion’s Paw”?
Terms
1. Realism
2. Local color writing
3. Naturalism
Quotations
1. “’To Mr. M.J. Dimmidge.—Hope you’re still on R. B.’s tracks. Keep there!—E.J.D.’”
2. “’Ef Bull once takes a holt, heaven and yarth can’t make him let go!’”
3. “’Hanner beat! my Hanner spelled down the master!’”
4. “’If they’d gone about it any decent way, told me right out honest that they’d got tired of me, an’ wanted Alma Way to sind instead of me, I wouldn’t minded so much.’”
5. “’You flatted a little on—soul.’”
6. “’Make out y’r deed and morgige, an’ git off’n my land, an’ do’t ye never cross my line again; if y’d do, I’ll kill ye.’”
Plots, Themes, and Settings
1. What city did Ben-Hur sail to at the beginning of the story?
2. Who was the servant who took over the Hurs’ business dealings?
3. Whom did Ben-Hur visit once he arrived in the city?
4. What did Simonides require from Ben-Hur at their meeting?
5. Whom did Simonides send after Ben-Hur to follow and learn about him?
6. Where did Malluch and Ben-Hur go to watch the chariots?
7. Whom did Ben-Hur see at the chariot races?
8. What animal did the Egyptian and his daughter ride on?
9. Who almost ran over the Egyptian and his daughter?
10. What was the Egyptian’s name?
11. What did the Egyptian’s daughter give to Ben-Hur?
12. Why did Ben-Hur want to race against Messala?
13. Whose horses did Ben-Hur want to use for the race?
14. Did Esther believe Ben-Hur’s story?
15. What connection did Balthasar have to the Christ child?
16. How big an advertisement did Mr. Dimmidge buy?
17. How many advertisements did Mr. Dimmidge put in the paper?
18. What happened after the newspaper came out with Mr. Dimmidge’s advertisement?
19. Who visited the newspaper editor at night?
20. Why did the visitor come?
21. How did people respond when they saw the second large advertisement?
22. Did Mr. and Mrs. Dimmidge resolve their differences?
23. What is the name of the new schoolteacher in The Hoosier School-Master?
24. Whose friendship did Ralph most desire?
25. What animal did Ralph want to imitate?
26. What did Bill Means put in the master’s desk?
27. Who loved Ralph?
28. Did he return her love?
29. Who warned Ralph about the loose board at school?
30. Who fell into the pond beneath the school?
31. Who was expected to win at the spelling-school?
32. Who defeated Ralph at the spelling-school?
33. In Uncle Remus, what did Brer Wolf say had happened to Brer Fox?
34. What did Brer Rabbit say that dead people do?
35. Who replaced Candace Whitcomb as the new soloist?
36. How did Candace show her displeasure while Alma was singing?
37. How did Candace receive notice that she had to quit singing in the choir?
38. Did Candace eventually apologize?
Characters
Ben-Hur
1. Ben-Hur
2. Simonides
3. Esther
4. Tirzah
5. Malluch
6. Sheik Ilderim
7. Messala
8. Balthasar
The Boom in the Calaveras Clarion
1. Eliza Jane Dimmidge
2. Micah Dimming
The Hoosier School-Master
1. Ralph Heartsick
2. Bud Means
3. Mirandy
4. Hank
5. Shocky
6. Jim Phillips
7. Hannah
Uncle Remus
1. Brer Rabbit
2. Brer Wolf
3. Brer Fox
The Village Singer
1. Alma Way
2. Candace Whitcomb
3. Wilson Ford
4. William Emmons
Under the Lion’s Paw
1. Stephen Council
2. Mrs. Council
3. Tim Haskins
4. Jim Butler
Authors
1. Who was the soldier, lawyer, and statesman who wrote Ben-Hur?
2. What is Lew Wallace’s most popular novel?
3. Who became the first prose writer after the Civil War to gain popularity with his famous stories of the West and became the leading local color writer of his day?
4. Who wrote “The Boom in the Calaveras Clarion”?
5. What circuit-riding preacher wrote The Hoosier School-Master?
6. Who wrote the Uncle Remus stories?
7. What author from New England wrote “A Village Singer”?
8. Who is the author of “Under the Lion’s Paw”?
Terms
1. Realism
2. Local color writing
3. Naturalism
Quotations
1. “’To Mr. M.J. Dimmidge.—Hope you’re still on R. B.’s tracks. Keep there!—E.J.D.’”
2. “’Ef Bull once takes a holt, heaven and yarth can’t make him let go!’”
3. “’Hanner beat! my Hanner spelled down the master!’”
4. “’If they’d gone about it any decent way, told me right out honest that they’d got tired of me, an’ wanted Alma Way to sind instead of me, I wouldn’t minded so much.’”
5. “’You flatted a little on—soul.’”
6. “’Make out y’r deed and morgige, an’ git off’n my land, an’ do’t ye never cross my line again; if y’d do, I’ll kill ye.’”
Unit 11 –New Voices in Poetry Review
Plots, Themes, and Settings
1. What poem says that nothing can be compared to a book?
2. What is the theme of “Success Is Counted Sweetest”?
3. What is the theme of “We Never Know How High We Are”?
4. What poem by Emily Dickinson is a description of the dawn?
5. What is “Song of the Chattahoochee” referring to?
6. What poem gives a description of Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane?
7. Which poem by James Whitcomb Riley describes early autumn?
8. What is described in “Away”?
9. In “Outwitted,” was love successful?
Authors
1. What poet wrote almost two thousand poems, most of which were published after death?
2. Who wrote “I Never Saw a Moor,” “If My Bark Sink,” and “There Is No Frigate Like a Book”?
3. Who wrote “A Ballad of Trees and the Master” and “Song of the Chattahoochee”?
4. What poet is known for attempting to combine musical techniques in his poetry?
5. Who is known as the Hoosier Poet?
6. Who wrote “When the Frost Is on the Punkin”?
7. Who wrote “Eletelephony”?
8. Who wrote “Outwitted”?
Quotations
1. “How frugal is the Chariot / That bears the Human soul.”
2. “Mortality’s Ground Floor / Is Immortality—“
3. “’Twas on a tree they slew Him—last / When out of the woods He came.”
4. “I can not say, and I will not say / That he is dead.—He is just away!”
5. “But Love and I had the wit to win; / We drew a circle that took him in!”
Plots, Themes, and Settings
1. What poem says that nothing can be compared to a book?
2. What is the theme of “Success Is Counted Sweetest”?
3. What is the theme of “We Never Know How High We Are”?
4. What poem by Emily Dickinson is a description of the dawn?
5. What is “Song of the Chattahoochee” referring to?
6. What poem gives a description of Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane?
7. Which poem by James Whitcomb Riley describes early autumn?
8. What is described in “Away”?
9. In “Outwitted,” was love successful?
Authors
1. What poet wrote almost two thousand poems, most of which were published after death?
2. Who wrote “I Never Saw a Moor,” “If My Bark Sink,” and “There Is No Frigate Like a Book”?
3. Who wrote “A Ballad of Trees and the Master” and “Song of the Chattahoochee”?
4. What poet is known for attempting to combine musical techniques in his poetry?
5. Who is known as the Hoosier Poet?
6. Who wrote “When the Frost Is on the Punkin”?
7. Who wrote “Eletelephony”?
8. Who wrote “Outwitted”?
Quotations
1. “How frugal is the Chariot / That bears the Human soul.”
2. “Mortality’s Ground Floor / Is Immortality—“
3. “’Twas on a tree they slew Him—last / When out of the woods He came.”
4. “I can not say, and I will not say / That he is dead.—He is just away!”
5. “But Love and I had the wit to win; / We drew a circle that took him in!”
Unit 10 – Devotional Writings Review
Plots, Themes, and Settings
1. What sermon illustrates that the only reason man is not thrown into hell instantly is God’s mercy?
2. What creature does Edwards use to illustrate how God holds us over the pit of hell?
3. Which sermon says that to have a supreme regard for our own happiness is unlike God?
4. Which sermon discusses what departed friends are now doing in heaven?
5. The importance of a happy home is the theme of what selection?
6. According to “Nuts for Skeptics to Crack,” why do some people not understand the Bible?
7. What is the wonderful temple that Billy Sunday preached about?
8. According to R.G. Lee, is evolution scientific?
9. What is the theme of “The All-Importance of Motive”?
10. What poem gives a fresh outlook on God’s creation after a storm?
11. Which poem says that God wants to bless us if we let Him?
12. What poem shows the conversation between Satan and Jesus over a Christian who had sinned?
13. Which poem shows the importance of training children about God?
14. What is the theme of “Long and Long Ago”?
Authors
1. Who preached “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”?
2. Who preached “Selfishness Not True Religion”?
3. Who preached “Employments of Heaven”?
4. Who is the author of “Conjugal Harmony”?
5. What preacher was once a ball player that became one of the greatest revival preachers in America?
6. Who preached “Nuts for Skeptics to Crack” and “This Wonderful Temple”?
7. Who preached “Evolution”?
8. Who preached “The All-Importance of Motive”?
9. Who wrote the poem “I Saw God Wash the World”?
10. What poet is an invalid whom God used to write hundreds of poems of praise and encouragement?
11. Name the four poems from the text written by Martha Snell Nicholson.
Terms
1. Simile –
2. Refrain –
3. Metaphor –
4. Symbol –
5. Personification –
6. Tone -
Quotations
1. “The wrath of God is like great waters that are dammed for the present; they increase more and more, and rise higher and higher, till an outlet is given.”
2. “A supreme regard to our own happiness is inconsistent with true religion.”
3. “A church within a church, a republic within a republic, a world within a world, is spelled by four letters—home!”
4. “Can you tell me why it is that a black cow can eat green grass and give white milk?”
5. “I do not believe that grass and flowers and trees grew by chemical force anymore than I believe that a book on botany describing flowers came from chemical forces.”
6. “’You cannot be an informed Christian and a logical evolutionist.’”
7. “That God COULD not pour His riches / Into hands already full!”
8. “The twig was bent, the tree inclined, / And so his heart and soul and mind / Found it too hard a thing to do. . . .”
Plots, Themes, and Settings
1. What sermon illustrates that the only reason man is not thrown into hell instantly is God’s mercy?
2. What creature does Edwards use to illustrate how God holds us over the pit of hell?
3. Which sermon says that to have a supreme regard for our own happiness is unlike God?
4. Which sermon discusses what departed friends are now doing in heaven?
5. The importance of a happy home is the theme of what selection?
6. According to “Nuts for Skeptics to Crack,” why do some people not understand the Bible?
7. What is the wonderful temple that Billy Sunday preached about?
8. According to R.G. Lee, is evolution scientific?
9. What is the theme of “The All-Importance of Motive”?
10. What poem gives a fresh outlook on God’s creation after a storm?
11. Which poem says that God wants to bless us if we let Him?
12. What poem shows the conversation between Satan and Jesus over a Christian who had sinned?
13. Which poem shows the importance of training children about God?
14. What is the theme of “Long and Long Ago”?
Authors
1. Who preached “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”?
2. Who preached “Selfishness Not True Religion”?
3. Who preached “Employments of Heaven”?
4. Who is the author of “Conjugal Harmony”?
5. What preacher was once a ball player that became one of the greatest revival preachers in America?
6. Who preached “Nuts for Skeptics to Crack” and “This Wonderful Temple”?
7. Who preached “Evolution”?
8. Who preached “The All-Importance of Motive”?
9. Who wrote the poem “I Saw God Wash the World”?
10. What poet is an invalid whom God used to write hundreds of poems of praise and encouragement?
11. Name the four poems from the text written by Martha Snell Nicholson.
Terms
1. Simile –
2. Refrain –
3. Metaphor –
4. Symbol –
5. Personification –
6. Tone -
Quotations
1. “The wrath of God is like great waters that are dammed for the present; they increase more and more, and rise higher and higher, till an outlet is given.”
2. “A supreme regard to our own happiness is inconsistent with true religion.”
3. “A church within a church, a republic within a republic, a world within a world, is spelled by four letters—home!”
4. “Can you tell me why it is that a black cow can eat green grass and give white milk?”
5. “I do not believe that grass and flowers and trees grew by chemical force anymore than I believe that a book on botany describing flowers came from chemical forces.”
6. “’You cannot be an informed Christian and a logical evolutionist.’”
7. “That God COULD not pour His riches / Into hands already full!”
8. “The twig was bent, the tree inclined, / And so his heart and soul and mind / Found it too hard a thing to do. . . .”
Unit 9 – The Voice of the People Review
Plots, Themes, and Settings
1. What is the key idea of all spirituals?
2. What popular ballad tells the story of a legendary railroad hero?
3. What song tells about a dying cowboy who does not want to be buried on the prairie?
4. What is the theme of “My Old Kentucky Home”?
5. What three Bible verses foes William Jennings Bryan use to prove that the Bible is true?
6. According to Bryan, what is attacking the Bible?
7. What selection speaks of a father’s desire for his son to develop character?
8. What speech says that only “the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself . . . can make good writing”?
9. What speech tells of the threat of humanism in the West?
Characters
1. John Henry
Authors
1. Who wrote “Oh! Susanna” and “My Old Kentucky Home”?
2. Who was America’s most beloved song composer?
3. Who wrote the hymn “Close to Thee”?
4. Who was the most beloved hymn writer of the nineteenth century?
5. Who gave his “Second Inaugural Address” on March 4, 1865?
6. Who founded Tuskegee Institute?
7. What speech did Booker T. Washington give in 1895 in Atlanta?
8. Who delivered the speech “Is the Bible True?”
9. Who was the orator and political figure who was the prosecutor in the Scopes Trial?
10. Who prayed “A Father’s Prayer”?
11. From this unit, what author gave “The Nobel Prize Speech”?
12. Who delivered “A World Split Apart” at Harvard University in 1978?
Terms
1. Spirituals -
Quotations
1. “With malice toward none; with charity for all; . . . let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation’s wounds.”
2. “The Bible is either true or false; it is either the Word of God or the work of man, one or the other.”
3. “Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid.”
4. “The young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat.”
Plots, Themes, and Settings
1. What is the key idea of all spirituals?
2. What popular ballad tells the story of a legendary railroad hero?
3. What song tells about a dying cowboy who does not want to be buried on the prairie?
4. What is the theme of “My Old Kentucky Home”?
5. What three Bible verses foes William Jennings Bryan use to prove that the Bible is true?
6. According to Bryan, what is attacking the Bible?
7. What selection speaks of a father’s desire for his son to develop character?
8. What speech says that only “the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself . . . can make good writing”?
9. What speech tells of the threat of humanism in the West?
Characters
1. John Henry
Authors
1. Who wrote “Oh! Susanna” and “My Old Kentucky Home”?
2. Who was America’s most beloved song composer?
3. Who wrote the hymn “Close to Thee”?
4. Who was the most beloved hymn writer of the nineteenth century?
5. Who gave his “Second Inaugural Address” on March 4, 1865?
6. Who founded Tuskegee Institute?
7. What speech did Booker T. Washington give in 1895 in Atlanta?
8. Who delivered the speech “Is the Bible True?”
9. Who was the orator and political figure who was the prosecutor in the Scopes Trial?
10. Who prayed “A Father’s Prayer”?
11. From this unit, what author gave “The Nobel Prize Speech”?
12. Who delivered “A World Split Apart” at Harvard University in 1978?
Terms
1. Spirituals -
Quotations
1. “With malice toward none; with charity for all; . . . let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation’s wounds.”
2. “The Bible is either true or false; it is either the Word of God or the work of man, one or the other.”
3. “Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid.”
4. “The young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat.”
Unit 8 – Transcendentalism: The Recurring Failure
Plots, Themes, and Settings
1. What work became the bible of the Transcendentalists?
2. Which selection emphasizes the importance of trusting yourself and promotes nonconformity?
3. What is the theme of “Each and All”?
4. Which poem commemorates the first shots fired in the War for Independence?
5. According to “A Nation’s Strength,” what can make a nation strong?
6. What poem’s theme is that everyone and everything has a purpose?
7. How long did Thoreau live at Walden Pond?
8. According to Thoreau, what are man’s necessities?
9. How did Thoreau get his food?
10. Does Thoreau think that news and post offices are necessary?
11. In “The Experiences of the A.C.,” what did A.C. stand for?
12. What was the purpose of the A.C.?
13. Who told the group what they were allowed to eat?
14. Who had the idea for the group to tell each other their faults?
15. What alcoholic drink did Abel Mallory decide was a natural beverage?
16. What happened to the A.C. soon after Abel discovered this drink?
17. What poem celebrates America’s opportunities?
18. “O Captain! My Captain!” mourns the death of whom?
Characters
The Experiences of the A.C.
1. Enos Billings
2. Abel Mallory
3. Miss Ringtop
4. Hollins
5. Eunice Hazelton
6. Shelldrake
7. Perkins Brown
Authors
1. Who was the founder of Transcendentalism?
2. Who wrote “Self-Reliance”?
3. Who wrote “Concord Hymn”?
4. Who is the author of Walden?
5. Which follower of Emerson probably came the closest to carrying out the teachings of Transcendentalism?
6. Who wrote “The Experiences of A.C.”?
7. Who is considered to be America’s first modern poet?
8. Who wrote “I Hear America Singing,” “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bllom’d,” and “O Captain! My Captain!”?
Terms
1. Transcendentalism –
2. Aphorisms –
Quotations
1. “I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing;
I see all; the currents of the Universal Being
Circulate through me; I am par or parcel of God . . .”
2. “Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.”
3. “Here once the embattled farmers stood
And fired the shot heard round the world.”
4. “When Duty whispers low, Thou must,
The youth replies, I can.”
5. “Then Beauty is its one excue for being”
6. “Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.”
7. “I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there.”
8. “None of us were prepared for such a sudden and complete wreck of our Arcadian scheme.”
9. Exult O shores, and ring O bells!
But I with mournful tread,
Walk the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.”
Plots, Themes, and Settings
1. What work became the bible of the Transcendentalists?
2. Which selection emphasizes the importance of trusting yourself and promotes nonconformity?
3. What is the theme of “Each and All”?
4. Which poem commemorates the first shots fired in the War for Independence?
5. According to “A Nation’s Strength,” what can make a nation strong?
6. What poem’s theme is that everyone and everything has a purpose?
7. How long did Thoreau live at Walden Pond?
8. According to Thoreau, what are man’s necessities?
9. How did Thoreau get his food?
10. Does Thoreau think that news and post offices are necessary?
11. In “The Experiences of the A.C.,” what did A.C. stand for?
12. What was the purpose of the A.C.?
13. Who told the group what they were allowed to eat?
14. Who had the idea for the group to tell each other their faults?
15. What alcoholic drink did Abel Mallory decide was a natural beverage?
16. What happened to the A.C. soon after Abel discovered this drink?
17. What poem celebrates America’s opportunities?
18. “O Captain! My Captain!” mourns the death of whom?
Characters
The Experiences of the A.C.
1. Enos Billings
2. Abel Mallory
3. Miss Ringtop
4. Hollins
5. Eunice Hazelton
6. Shelldrake
7. Perkins Brown
Authors
1. Who was the founder of Transcendentalism?
2. Who wrote “Self-Reliance”?
3. Who wrote “Concord Hymn”?
4. Who is the author of Walden?
5. Which follower of Emerson probably came the closest to carrying out the teachings of Transcendentalism?
6. Who wrote “The Experiences of A.C.”?
7. Who is considered to be America’s first modern poet?
8. Who wrote “I Hear America Singing,” “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bllom’d,” and “O Captain! My Captain!”?
Terms
1. Transcendentalism –
2. Aphorisms –
Quotations
1. “I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing;
I see all; the currents of the Universal Being
Circulate through me; I am par or parcel of God . . .”
2. “Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.”
3. “Here once the embattled farmers stood
And fired the shot heard round the world.”
4. “When Duty whispers low, Thou must,
The youth replies, I can.”
5. “Then Beauty is its one excue for being”
6. “Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.”
7. “I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there.”
8. “None of us were prepared for such a sudden and complete wreck of our Arcadian scheme.”
9. Exult O shores, and ring O bells!
But I with mournful tread,
Walk the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.”
Unit 7 – The Fireside Poets
Plots, Themes, and Settings – Know each writings plot, themes, and settings.
1. Which poem by Longfellow tells of a time when we will see those friends who have died before us?
2. In “A Psalm of Life,” what kind of attitude toward life does the poet have?
3. How is the village blacksmith described in Longfellow’s poem?
4. What lesson does the reader learn from “The Arrow and the Song”?
5. What is the theme of “The Builders”?
6. Whom did Hiawatha want to marry?
7. Who warned Hiawatha not to marry a girl from a warring tribe?
8. How did Minnehaha meet Hiawatha?
9. Did Hiawatha marry Minnehaha?
10. Who sent John Alden to propose to Priscilla for him?
11. Why did Priscilla not want to marry him?
12. Who really loved Priscilla?
13. Who rode through villages and farms warning colonial Americans that the British were coming?
14. In “Loss and Gain,” what is meant by the line “The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide”?
15. What is the book in “The Book Our Mothers Read”?
16. What is the theme of “Dear Lord and Father of Mankind”?
17. Whom did Maud Muller want to marry?
18. Why did the judge not marry Maud Muller?
19. Why would Maud Muller and the judge probably not have been happy had they married?
20. What poem refers to the Word of God as “the pearl of price” yet was given freely?
21. What poem helped save the Constitution from being destroyed?
22. What poem discusses the freedom from bondage of sin and self?
23. Which poem challenges the reader not to dwell on past accomplishments but to focus on present duties?
24. Who wanted to court Huldy?
25. Did she agree to marry him?
26. What is the theme of “International Copyright”?
27. What poem satirized popular nineteenth century writers?
28. What six major writers are critiqued in this selection?
Characters – Know specific details and information about the following characters:
Hiawatha’s Wooing
1. Hiawatha
2. Nokomos
3. Minnehaha
The Lover’s Errand
1. John Alden
2. Priscilla Mullins
Maud Muller
1. Maud Muller
2. the judge
The Courtin’
1. Zekle
2. Huldy
Authors – Know each of the authors and their writings.
1. Who was the most famous American poet of the nineteenth century?
2. Who wrote “Auf Wiedereshen”?
3. Who wrote “Hiawatha’s Wooing”?
4. Who wrote “Paul Revere’s Ride”?
5. Who wrote America’s greatest pastoral poem?
What was it?
6. Who is the author of “Maud Muller”?
7. Who wrote “Old Ironsides” and “The Ploughman”?
8. Who is the author of “Fourth of July Ode” and A Fable for Critics?
Terms – Know the definition for each term and be able to identify a term when given a line from any selection.
1. Fireside Poets -
2. Schoolroom Poets -
Quotations – Know which writing the quote comes from and who said it (where applicable).
1. “. . . then only for a season / Our partings are, nor shall we wait in vain / Until we meet again!”
2. “Let us then, be up and doing, / With a heart for any fate; / Still achieving, still pursuing, / Learn to labor and to wait.”
3. “Archly the maiden smiled, and, with eyes over-running with laughter, / Said, in a tremulous voice, ‘Why don’t you speak for yourself, John?’”
4. “Defeat may be victory in disguise; / The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide.”
5. “For of all sad words of tongue or pen / The saddest are these: ‘It might have been!’”
6. “’Here lady fair, is the pearl of price, may it prove as such to thee! / Nay, keep thy gold—I ask it not, for the Word of God is free.’”
7. “Our fathers fought for Liberty / They struggled long and well, / History of their deeds can tell--/But ourselves must set us free.”
Plots, Themes, and Settings – Know each writings plot, themes, and settings.
1. Which poem by Longfellow tells of a time when we will see those friends who have died before us?
2. In “A Psalm of Life,” what kind of attitude toward life does the poet have?
3. How is the village blacksmith described in Longfellow’s poem?
4. What lesson does the reader learn from “The Arrow and the Song”?
5. What is the theme of “The Builders”?
6. Whom did Hiawatha want to marry?
7. Who warned Hiawatha not to marry a girl from a warring tribe?
8. How did Minnehaha meet Hiawatha?
9. Did Hiawatha marry Minnehaha?
10. Who sent John Alden to propose to Priscilla for him?
11. Why did Priscilla not want to marry him?
12. Who really loved Priscilla?
13. Who rode through villages and farms warning colonial Americans that the British were coming?
14. In “Loss and Gain,” what is meant by the line “The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide”?
15. What is the book in “The Book Our Mothers Read”?
16. What is the theme of “Dear Lord and Father of Mankind”?
17. Whom did Maud Muller want to marry?
18. Why did the judge not marry Maud Muller?
19. Why would Maud Muller and the judge probably not have been happy had they married?
20. What poem refers to the Word of God as “the pearl of price” yet was given freely?
21. What poem helped save the Constitution from being destroyed?
22. What poem discusses the freedom from bondage of sin and self?
23. Which poem challenges the reader not to dwell on past accomplishments but to focus on present duties?
24. Who wanted to court Huldy?
25. Did she agree to marry him?
26. What is the theme of “International Copyright”?
27. What poem satirized popular nineteenth century writers?
28. What six major writers are critiqued in this selection?
Characters – Know specific details and information about the following characters:
Hiawatha’s Wooing
1. Hiawatha
2. Nokomos
3. Minnehaha
The Lover’s Errand
1. John Alden
2. Priscilla Mullins
Maud Muller
1. Maud Muller
2. the judge
The Courtin’
1. Zekle
2. Huldy
Authors – Know each of the authors and their writings.
1. Who was the most famous American poet of the nineteenth century?
2. Who wrote “Auf Wiedereshen”?
3. Who wrote “Hiawatha’s Wooing”?
4. Who wrote “Paul Revere’s Ride”?
5. Who wrote America’s greatest pastoral poem?
What was it?
6. Who is the author of “Maud Muller”?
7. Who wrote “Old Ironsides” and “The Ploughman”?
8. Who is the author of “Fourth of July Ode” and A Fable for Critics?
Terms – Know the definition for each term and be able to identify a term when given a line from any selection.
1. Fireside Poets -
2. Schoolroom Poets -
Quotations – Know which writing the quote comes from and who said it (where applicable).
1. “. . . then only for a season / Our partings are, nor shall we wait in vain / Until we meet again!”
2. “Let us then, be up and doing, / With a heart for any fate; / Still achieving, still pursuing, / Learn to labor and to wait.”
3. “Archly the maiden smiled, and, with eyes over-running with laughter, / Said, in a tremulous voice, ‘Why don’t you speak for yourself, John?’”
4. “Defeat may be victory in disguise; / The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide.”
5. “For of all sad words of tongue or pen / The saddest are these: ‘It might have been!’”
6. “’Here lady fair, is the pearl of price, may it prove as such to thee! / Nay, keep thy gold—I ask it not, for the Word of God is free.’”
7. “Our fathers fought for Liberty / They struggled long and well, / History of their deeds can tell--/But ourselves must set us free.”
Unit 6 - The Beginning of Romanticism
Plots, Themes, and Settings – Know each writings plot, themes, and settings.
1. Washington Irving compared prairie dogs to whom?
2. Who had captured Deerslayer at the beginning of “A Rescue”?
3. Who penetrated the Huron camp to rescue Deerslayer?
4. Which poem is a meditation on death?
5. What is the name of Captain Ahab’s ship?
6. Who was Captain Ahab’s first mate?
7. Who tried to convince Captain Ahab to stop chasing the whale?
8. How did Captain Ahab know they were getting near the whale on the first day?
9. Who was the first person killed while chasing Moby Dick?
10. How did Captain Ahab die?
11. Who survived the shipwreck?
12. Which poem describes a Civil War battle fought near a church?
13. Who did St. Clare purchase for Miss Ophelia? Why?
14. In Two Years before the Mast, why was the author unable to eat and was feeling such pain?
Characters – Know specific details and information about the following characters:
A Rescue
1. Natty Bumppo
2. Chingagook
3. Rivenoak
Moby Dick
1. Moby Dick
2. Captain Ahab
3. Starbuck
4. Tashtego
5. Daggoo
6. Queequeg
7. Ishmael
8. Fedallah
Topsy
1. Miss Ophelia
2. St. Clare
3. Topsy
Authors – Know each of the authors and their writings.
1. Who was the first writer of creative stories and sketches?
2. Who wrote “A Republic of Prairie Dogs”?
3. Who wrote “A Rescue”?
4. Name America’s first novelist.
5. Who was America’s first eminent poet of nature?
6. Who wrote “Thanatopsis,” “To the Fringed Gentian,” and “To a Waterfowl”?
7. Who is the author of “Annabel Lee” and “A Dream within a Dream”?
8. What has been called America’s only epic?
9. Who wrote Moby Dick?
10. Who wrote “Shiloh,” “The Tuft of Kelp,” “Art,” and “The Whale”?
11. Who became famous for writing Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
12. What work was instrumental in bringing on the Civil War and the freeing of slaves?
13. Who wrote Two Years before the Mast?
Terms – Know the definition for each term and be able to identify a term when given a line from any selection.
1. Knickerbockers
2. Rhetorical questions
3. Alliteration
4. Metaphor
5. Imagery
6. Consonance
7. Simile
Quotations – Know which writing the quote comes from and who said it (where applicable).
1. “Having heard much of the habits and peculiarities of these little animals, I determined to pay a visit to the community.”
2. “We traversed the whole village, or republic, which covered an area of about thirty acres; but not a whisker of an inhabitant was to be seen.”
3. “. . . approach thy grave,
Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch
About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.”
4. “Vainly the fowler’s eye
Might mark thy distant flight”
5. “But we loved with a love that was more than love”
6. “Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?”
7. “Shall we keep chasing this murderous fish till he swamps the last man? Shall we be dragged by him to the bottom of the sea? Shall we be twoed by him to the infernal world? Oh, oh,--Impiety and blasphemy to hunt him more!”
8. “For the third time my soul’s ship starts upon this voyage, Starbuck.”
9. “The drama’s done. Why then here does any one step forth?—Because one did survive the wreck.”
10. “While over them the swallows skim, / And all is hushed at Shiloh.”
11. “I spect I grow’d. Don’t think nobody ever made me.”
12. “We were now nearly up to the latitude of Cape Horn.”
Plots, Themes, and Settings – Know each writings plot, themes, and settings.
1. Washington Irving compared prairie dogs to whom?
2. Who had captured Deerslayer at the beginning of “A Rescue”?
3. Who penetrated the Huron camp to rescue Deerslayer?
4. Which poem is a meditation on death?
5. What is the name of Captain Ahab’s ship?
6. Who was Captain Ahab’s first mate?
7. Who tried to convince Captain Ahab to stop chasing the whale?
8. How did Captain Ahab know they were getting near the whale on the first day?
9. Who was the first person killed while chasing Moby Dick?
10. How did Captain Ahab die?
11. Who survived the shipwreck?
12. Which poem describes a Civil War battle fought near a church?
13. Who did St. Clare purchase for Miss Ophelia? Why?
14. In Two Years before the Mast, why was the author unable to eat and was feeling such pain?
Characters – Know specific details and information about the following characters:
A Rescue
1. Natty Bumppo
2. Chingagook
3. Rivenoak
Moby Dick
1. Moby Dick
2. Captain Ahab
3. Starbuck
4. Tashtego
5. Daggoo
6. Queequeg
7. Ishmael
8. Fedallah
Topsy
1. Miss Ophelia
2. St. Clare
3. Topsy
Authors – Know each of the authors and their writings.
1. Who was the first writer of creative stories and sketches?
2. Who wrote “A Republic of Prairie Dogs”?
3. Who wrote “A Rescue”?
4. Name America’s first novelist.
5. Who was America’s first eminent poet of nature?
6. Who wrote “Thanatopsis,” “To the Fringed Gentian,” and “To a Waterfowl”?
7. Who is the author of “Annabel Lee” and “A Dream within a Dream”?
8. What has been called America’s only epic?
9. Who wrote Moby Dick?
10. Who wrote “Shiloh,” “The Tuft of Kelp,” “Art,” and “The Whale”?
11. Who became famous for writing Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
12. What work was instrumental in bringing on the Civil War and the freeing of slaves?
13. Who wrote Two Years before the Mast?
Terms – Know the definition for each term and be able to identify a term when given a line from any selection.
1. Knickerbockers
2. Rhetorical questions
3. Alliteration
4. Metaphor
5. Imagery
6. Consonance
7. Simile
Quotations – Know which writing the quote comes from and who said it (where applicable).
1. “Having heard much of the habits and peculiarities of these little animals, I determined to pay a visit to the community.”
2. “We traversed the whole village, or republic, which covered an area of about thirty acres; but not a whisker of an inhabitant was to be seen.”
3. “. . . approach thy grave,
Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch
About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.”
4. “Vainly the fowler’s eye
Might mark thy distant flight”
5. “But we loved with a love that was more than love”
6. “Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?”
7. “Shall we keep chasing this murderous fish till he swamps the last man? Shall we be dragged by him to the bottom of the sea? Shall we be twoed by him to the infernal world? Oh, oh,--Impiety and blasphemy to hunt him more!”
8. “For the third time my soul’s ship starts upon this voyage, Starbuck.”
9. “The drama’s done. Why then here does any one step forth?—Because one did survive the wreck.”
10. “While over them the swallows skim, / And all is hushed at Shiloh.”
11. “I spect I grow’d. Don’t think nobody ever made me.”
12. “We were now nearly up to the latitude of Cape Horn.”
The Scarlet Letter
Plots, Themes, and Settings – Know each writings plot, themes, and settings.
1. Name of Hester’s child
2. Secret Hester kept about Chillingworth
3. Sin Hester committed for which she was being punished
4. Punishment for Hester’s sin
5. Pearl’s father
6. Dimmesdale’s occupation
7. Number of scaffold scene’s in the novel
8. Dimmesdale’s physician
9. Hester’s vocation
10. Apparel Hester was not allowed to make
11. First thing Pearl noticed about her mother
12. Appealed to by Hester when she thought Pearl was to be taken away
13. Sought revenge on Dimmesdale
14. Response of congregation when Dimmesdale said how vile he was
15. Meaning of A for townspeople during meteor shower
16. Dimmesdale’s apparel found by sexton after midnight vigil on scaffold
17. Meaning of Hester’s A for townspeople after several years18. Pearl’s response when Dimmesdale kissed her in the forest
19. Hester and Dimmesdale’s decision in the forest
20. Dimmesdale’s desired action before leaving Boston with Hester
21. Booked passage on the same ship as Dimmesdale, Hester, and Pearl
22. Called to the scaffold by Dimmesdale after the Election Sermon
23. Seen on Dimmesdale’s chest as he lay dying
24. Pear’s action as she stood on the scaffold with Hester and Dimmesdale
25. Theme of the Scarlet Letter
Characters – Know specific details and information about the following characters:
1. Hester Prynne –
2. Arthur Dimmesdale –
3. Roger Chillingworth –
4. Pearl –
5. Mistress Hibbins -
Authors – Know each of the authors and their writings.
1. Who wrote The Scarlet Letter?
2. What year was Hawthorne born?
3. What was Hawthorne’s most popular and greatest novel?
Terms – Know the definition for each term and be able to identify a term when given a line from any selection.
1. Novel
2. Protagonist
3. Antagonist
4. Subplots
5. Plot
6. Climax
7. Theme
8. Symbols
9. Setting
10. Connotations
11. Denotations
12. Imagery
13. Figurative language
14. Characters
15. Direct exposition
16. Indirect revelation
17. Static character
18. Dynamic character
19. Conflict
20. Allegory
Quotations – Know which writing the quote comes from and who said it (where applicable)
1. “”Sooner or later, he must needs be mine!”
2. “Thou must gather thine own sunshine.”
3. “She is my happiness! —she is my torture, none the less!”
4. “Herein is the sinful mother happier than the sinful father.”
5. “Wilt thou go with us to-night? There will be a merry company in the forest.”
6. “No! –not to thee! –not to an earthly physician!”
7. “I, . . . whom you so reverence and trust, am utterly a pollution and a lie!”
8. “Wilt thou stand here with mother and me, tomorrow noontide?”
9. “I have surely acted a false part by the only man to whom the power was left me to be true!”
10. “No!—no!—He has but increased the debt!”
11. “What does the scarlet letter mena? . . . and why does the minister keep his hand over his heart?”
12. “Thou shalt forgive me!”
13. “How am I to live longer, breathing the same air with this deadly enemy?”
14. “So thou thinkest the child will love me?”
15. “Thou hast escaped me!”
Plots, Themes, and Settings – Know each writings plot, themes, and settings.
1. Name of Hester’s child
2. Secret Hester kept about Chillingworth
3. Sin Hester committed for which she was being punished
4. Punishment for Hester’s sin
5. Pearl’s father
6. Dimmesdale’s occupation
7. Number of scaffold scene’s in the novel
8. Dimmesdale’s physician
9. Hester’s vocation
10. Apparel Hester was not allowed to make
11. First thing Pearl noticed about her mother
12. Appealed to by Hester when she thought Pearl was to be taken away
13. Sought revenge on Dimmesdale
14. Response of congregation when Dimmesdale said how vile he was
15. Meaning of A for townspeople during meteor shower
16. Dimmesdale’s apparel found by sexton after midnight vigil on scaffold
17. Meaning of Hester’s A for townspeople after several years18. Pearl’s response when Dimmesdale kissed her in the forest
19. Hester and Dimmesdale’s decision in the forest
20. Dimmesdale’s desired action before leaving Boston with Hester
21. Booked passage on the same ship as Dimmesdale, Hester, and Pearl
22. Called to the scaffold by Dimmesdale after the Election Sermon
23. Seen on Dimmesdale’s chest as he lay dying
24. Pear’s action as she stood on the scaffold with Hester and Dimmesdale
25. Theme of the Scarlet Letter
Characters – Know specific details and information about the following characters:
1. Hester Prynne –
2. Arthur Dimmesdale –
3. Roger Chillingworth –
4. Pearl –
5. Mistress Hibbins -
Authors – Know each of the authors and their writings.
1. Who wrote The Scarlet Letter?
2. What year was Hawthorne born?
3. What was Hawthorne’s most popular and greatest novel?
Terms – Know the definition for each term and be able to identify a term when given a line from any selection.
1. Novel
2. Protagonist
3. Antagonist
4. Subplots
5. Plot
6. Climax
7. Theme
8. Symbols
9. Setting
10. Connotations
11. Denotations
12. Imagery
13. Figurative language
14. Characters
15. Direct exposition
16. Indirect revelation
17. Static character
18. Dynamic character
19. Conflict
20. Allegory
Quotations – Know which writing the quote comes from and who said it (where applicable)
1. “”Sooner or later, he must needs be mine!”
2. “Thou must gather thine own sunshine.”
3. “She is my happiness! —she is my torture, none the less!”
4. “Herein is the sinful mother happier than the sinful father.”
5. “Wilt thou go with us to-night? There will be a merry company in the forest.”
6. “No! –not to thee! –not to an earthly physician!”
7. “I, . . . whom you so reverence and trust, am utterly a pollution and a lie!”
8. “Wilt thou stand here with mother and me, tomorrow noontide?”
9. “I have surely acted a false part by the only man to whom the power was left me to be true!”
10. “No!—no!—He has but increased the debt!”
11. “What does the scarlet letter mena? . . . and why does the minister keep his hand over his heart?”
12. “Thou shalt forgive me!”
13. “How am I to live longer, breathing the same air with this deadly enemy?”
14. “So thou thinkest the child will love me?”
15. “Thou hast escaped me!”
Unit 5 – An Early American Collection
Plots, Themes, and Settings – Know each writings plot, themes, and settings.
1. Who entreated Powhatan to preserve John Smith’s life?
2. What happened to the profane seaman who spoke hatefully to the Pilgrims?
3. What document did the Pilgrim’s sign as a foundation for their government?
4. Whom did the Pilgrims choose as their first governor?
5. How did Anne Bradstreet feel about her book?
6. What is The Day of Doom a picture of?
7. How is God’s love expressed in “Meditation One”?
8. Whom did Samuel Sewall want to court?
9. What poem describes the rebels trying to sneak into the city of Philadelphia?
10. In “An Escape from Alligators,” why were so many alligators near the shore where William Bartram was camping?
Characters – Know specific details and information about the following characters:
Captain John Smith and Pocahontas
Powhatan
Pocahontas
The Courtship of Madam Winthrop
Madam Winthrop
Authors – Know each of the authors and their writings.
1. Who wrote about his capture by Powhatan?
2. Who was the Massachusetts Bay Colony governor who kept a journal which became the History of New England?
3. Who wrote Of Plymouth Plantation, America’s first history book
4. Who is the author of A Key into the Language of America?
5. Who was the first poet to write verse in America?
6. Who wrote “The Author and Her Book” and “Verses upon the Burning of Our House”?
7. Who was the most widely read poet of Puritan New England?
8. What 224-stanza poem did Michael Wigglesworth write?
9. Who is the author of “Meditation One”?
10. Who wrote about his courtship with Madam Winthrop?
11. “My Journey from Boston to New York” was written by whom?
12. What author wrote Poor Richard’s Almanac?
13. Who wrote the poem “Psalm 137”?
14. Who wrote “The Battle of the Kegs”?
15. Who wrote “On Being Brought from Africa to America”?
16. Who wrote about his account of escaping from alligators?
17. Who was America’s first dictionary writer?
18. Who is the author of “The Definition and Origin of Language”?
Terms – Know the definition for each term and be able to identify a term when given a line from any selection.
1. Allusion
2. Conceit
3. Ballad
4. Rhythm
5. Meter
6. Foot
7. Monosyllabic foot
8. Blank verse
Quotations – Know which writing the quote comes from and who said it (where applicable).
1. “Being thus arrived in a good harbor, and brought safe to land, they fell upon their knees and blessed the God of Heaven who had brought them over the vast and furious ocean."
2. “Boast not, Proud English, of they birth and blood, /Thy brother Indian is by birth as good.”
3. “Thou ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain.”
4. “For at midnight broke forth a light, /which turned the night to day, /and speedily a hideous cry/did all the world dismay.”
5. “In measure small! In manner chilly! See! /Lord, blow the coal, Thy love enflame in me.”
6. “I did not bid her draw off her glove as some time I had done. Her dress was not so clean as sometime it had been. Jehovah jireh!”
7. “I love Thy kingdom, Lord. /The house of thine abode, /The church, our blest Redeemer sav’d/With his own precious blood.”
8. “They struck their jaws together so close to my ears as almost to stun me, and I expected every moment to be dragged out of the boat and instantly devoured.”
Plots, Themes, and Settings – Know each writings plot, themes, and settings.
1. Who entreated Powhatan to preserve John Smith’s life?
2. What happened to the profane seaman who spoke hatefully to the Pilgrims?
3. What document did the Pilgrim’s sign as a foundation for their government?
4. Whom did the Pilgrims choose as their first governor?
5. How did Anne Bradstreet feel about her book?
6. What is The Day of Doom a picture of?
7. How is God’s love expressed in “Meditation One”?
8. Whom did Samuel Sewall want to court?
9. What poem describes the rebels trying to sneak into the city of Philadelphia?
10. In “An Escape from Alligators,” why were so many alligators near the shore where William Bartram was camping?
Characters – Know specific details and information about the following characters:
Captain John Smith and Pocahontas
Powhatan
Pocahontas
The Courtship of Madam Winthrop
Madam Winthrop
Authors – Know each of the authors and their writings.
1. Who wrote about his capture by Powhatan?
2. Who was the Massachusetts Bay Colony governor who kept a journal which became the History of New England?
3. Who wrote Of Plymouth Plantation, America’s first history book
4. Who is the author of A Key into the Language of America?
5. Who was the first poet to write verse in America?
6. Who wrote “The Author and Her Book” and “Verses upon the Burning of Our House”?
7. Who was the most widely read poet of Puritan New England?
8. What 224-stanza poem did Michael Wigglesworth write?
9. Who is the author of “Meditation One”?
10. Who wrote about his courtship with Madam Winthrop?
11. “My Journey from Boston to New York” was written by whom?
12. What author wrote Poor Richard’s Almanac?
13. Who wrote the poem “Psalm 137”?
14. Who wrote “The Battle of the Kegs”?
15. Who wrote “On Being Brought from Africa to America”?
16. Who wrote about his account of escaping from alligators?
17. Who was America’s first dictionary writer?
18. Who is the author of “The Definition and Origin of Language”?
Terms – Know the definition for each term and be able to identify a term when given a line from any selection.
1. Allusion
2. Conceit
3. Ballad
4. Rhythm
5. Meter
6. Foot
7. Monosyllabic foot
8. Blank verse
Quotations – Know which writing the quote comes from and who said it (where applicable).
1. “Being thus arrived in a good harbor, and brought safe to land, they fell upon their knees and blessed the God of Heaven who had brought them over the vast and furious ocean."
2. “Boast not, Proud English, of they birth and blood, /Thy brother Indian is by birth as good.”
3. “Thou ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain.”
4. “For at midnight broke forth a light, /which turned the night to day, /and speedily a hideous cry/did all the world dismay.”
5. “In measure small! In manner chilly! See! /Lord, blow the coal, Thy love enflame in me.”
6. “I did not bid her draw off her glove as some time I had done. Her dress was not so clean as sometime it had been. Jehovah jireh!”
7. “I love Thy kingdom, Lord. /The house of thine abode, /The church, our blest Redeemer sav’d/With his own precious blood.”
8. “They struck their jaws together so close to my ears as almost to stun me, and I expected every moment to be dragged out of the boat and instantly devoured.”
Unit 4 – American Drama
Plots, Themes, and Settings – Know each writings plot, themes, and settings.
1. What name did Lenora Thorpe tell Belinda Watson was a group of strong-willed and ruthless people?
2. Did Belinda believe Lenora’s story?
3. Why did Mrs. McWilliams hide in the closet?
4. What was the real reason for the thunder and lightning?
Characters – Know specific details and information about the following characters:
The Unerring Instinct
Lenora Thorpe
Belinda Watson
Arthur Rogers
Mrs. McWilliams and the Lightning
Evangeline McWilliams
Mortimer McWilliams
Authors – Know each of the authors and their writings.
1. Who wrote “The Unerring Instinct”?
2. Who was one of America’s most well-known playwrights?
3. Who wrote “Mrs. McWilliams and the Lightning”?
Terms – Know the definition for each term and be able to identify a term when given a line from any selection.
Quotations – Know which writing the quote comes from and who said it (where applicable).
1. “A nice Smith is still a Smith. You keep your eyes open, dear—you’ll see.”
2. “There is nothing the matter, friends—only a little discomfort on account of the thunderstorm. I—I was trying to ward off the lightning.”
Plots, Themes, and Settings – Know each writings plot, themes, and settings.
1. What name did Lenora Thorpe tell Belinda Watson was a group of strong-willed and ruthless people?
2. Did Belinda believe Lenora’s story?
3. Why did Mrs. McWilliams hide in the closet?
4. What was the real reason for the thunder and lightning?
Characters – Know specific details and information about the following characters:
The Unerring Instinct
Lenora Thorpe
Belinda Watson
Arthur Rogers
Mrs. McWilliams and the Lightning
Evangeline McWilliams
Mortimer McWilliams
Authors – Know each of the authors and their writings.
1. Who wrote “The Unerring Instinct”?
2. Who was one of America’s most well-known playwrights?
3. Who wrote “Mrs. McWilliams and the Lightning”?
Terms – Know the definition for each term and be able to identify a term when given a line from any selection.
Quotations – Know which writing the quote comes from and who said it (where applicable).
1. “A nice Smith is still a Smith. You keep your eyes open, dear—you’ll see.”
2. “There is nothing the matter, friends—only a little discomfort on account of the thunderstorm. I—I was trying to ward off the lightning.”
Unit 3 – The American Short Story Review
Plots, Themes, and Settings – Know each writings plot, themes, and settings.
1. How long was Rip Van Winkle asleep?
2. What was the setting of “The Pit and the Pendulum”?
3. What ate through the narrator’s bandages?
4. What was Soapy’s desired destination in “The Cop and the Anthem”?
5. How did Soapy try to get arrested?
6. Who were Mrs. William Trimble and Miss Rebecca Wright going to visit in “The Town Poor”?
7. What had happened to the Bray sisters?
8. What did Mrs. Trimble resolve to do for the Bray sisters?
9. What were the occupations of the four men in “The Open Boat”?
10. Which character drowned while trying to reach the shore?
11. What was the Great Carbuncle?
12. What happened to the Seeker when he discovered the Great Carbuncle?
13. What did Matthew and Hannah do with the gem?
14. What was the theme of “The Great Carbincle”?
Characters – Know specific details and information about the following characters:
Rip Van Winkle
Rip Van Winkle –
Dame Van Winkle –
Judith Gardenier –
The Cop and the Anthem
Soapy
The Town Poor
Mrs. William Trimble
Miss Rebecca Wright
Bray Sisters
The Open Boat
The cook
The oiler
The correspondent
The captain
The Great Carbuncle
The Seeker
Doctor Cacaphodel
Master Ichabod Pigsnort
The Poet
The Cynic
Lord de Vere
Matthew and Hannah
Authors – Know each of the authors and their writings.
1. Who wrote “Rip Van Winkle”?
2. Which author was the first American writer to become famous throughout the world?
3. Who is known for his tales of mystery and horror and introduced the detective story?
4. Who wrote “The Pit and the Pendulum”?
5. What is the pen name of William Sidney Porter?
6. Who was known for his use of the surprise ending?
7. Who wrote “The Cop and the Anthem”?
8. Who wrote “The Town Poor”?
9. Who wrote “The Open Boat”?
10. Which author wrote “The Great Carbuncle”?
Terms – Know the definition for each term and be able to identify a term when given a line from any selection.
1. Short story
2. Plot
3. Characters
4. Theme
5. Setting
6. Tone (mood)
7. Point of view
8. Omniscient point of view
9. Limited point of view
10. Objective point of view
11. Irony
12. Verbal irony
13. Dramatic irony
14. Irony of situation
15. Satire
16. Surprise ending
Quotations – Know which writing the quote comes from and who said it (where applicable).
1. “Times grew worse and worse . . . as years of matrimony rolled on; a tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.”
2. “It was hope that prompted the nerve to quiver—the frame to shrink. It was hope—the hope that triumphs on the rack—that whispers to the death-condemned even in the dungeons of the Inquisition.”
3. “In them there were no considerations of Mediterranean cruises, of soporific Southern skies or drifting in the Vesuvian Bay. Three months on the Island was what his soul craved.”
4. “I wish to my heart ‘t was to-morrow mornin’ a’ready, an’ I a-startin’ for the selec’men.”
5. “When it came night, the white waves paced to and fro in the moonlight, and the wind brought the sound of the great sea’s voice to the men on the shore, and they felt that they could then be interpreters.”
6. “For it is affirmed, that, from the hour when two mortals had shown themselves so simply wise as to reject the jewel which could have dimmed all earthly things, its splendor waned.”
Plots, Themes, and Settings – Know each writings plot, themes, and settings.
1. How long was Rip Van Winkle asleep?
2. What was the setting of “The Pit and the Pendulum”?
3. What ate through the narrator’s bandages?
4. What was Soapy’s desired destination in “The Cop and the Anthem”?
5. How did Soapy try to get arrested?
6. Who were Mrs. William Trimble and Miss Rebecca Wright going to visit in “The Town Poor”?
7. What had happened to the Bray sisters?
8. What did Mrs. Trimble resolve to do for the Bray sisters?
9. What were the occupations of the four men in “The Open Boat”?
10. Which character drowned while trying to reach the shore?
11. What was the Great Carbuncle?
12. What happened to the Seeker when he discovered the Great Carbuncle?
13. What did Matthew and Hannah do with the gem?
14. What was the theme of “The Great Carbincle”?
Characters – Know specific details and information about the following characters:
Rip Van Winkle
Rip Van Winkle –
Dame Van Winkle –
Judith Gardenier –
The Cop and the Anthem
Soapy
The Town Poor
Mrs. William Trimble
Miss Rebecca Wright
Bray Sisters
The Open Boat
The cook
The oiler
The correspondent
The captain
The Great Carbuncle
The Seeker
Doctor Cacaphodel
Master Ichabod Pigsnort
The Poet
The Cynic
Lord de Vere
Matthew and Hannah
Authors – Know each of the authors and their writings.
1. Who wrote “Rip Van Winkle”?
2. Which author was the first American writer to become famous throughout the world?
3. Who is known for his tales of mystery and horror and introduced the detective story?
4. Who wrote “The Pit and the Pendulum”?
5. What is the pen name of William Sidney Porter?
6. Who was known for his use of the surprise ending?
7. Who wrote “The Cop and the Anthem”?
8. Who wrote “The Town Poor”?
9. Who wrote “The Open Boat”?
10. Which author wrote “The Great Carbuncle”?
Terms – Know the definition for each term and be able to identify a term when given a line from any selection.
1. Short story
2. Plot
3. Characters
4. Theme
5. Setting
6. Tone (mood)
7. Point of view
8. Omniscient point of view
9. Limited point of view
10. Objective point of view
11. Irony
12. Verbal irony
13. Dramatic irony
14. Irony of situation
15. Satire
16. Surprise ending
Quotations – Know which writing the quote comes from and who said it (where applicable).
1. “Times grew worse and worse . . . as years of matrimony rolled on; a tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.”
2. “It was hope that prompted the nerve to quiver—the frame to shrink. It was hope—the hope that triumphs on the rack—that whispers to the death-condemned even in the dungeons of the Inquisition.”
3. “In them there were no considerations of Mediterranean cruises, of soporific Southern skies or drifting in the Vesuvian Bay. Three months on the Island was what his soul craved.”
4. “I wish to my heart ‘t was to-morrow mornin’ a’ready, an’ I a-startin’ for the selec’men.”
5. “When it came night, the white waves paced to and fro in the moonlight, and the wind brought the sound of the great sea’s voice to the men on the shore, and they felt that they could then be interpreters.”
6. “For it is affirmed, that, from the hour when two mortals had shown themselves so simply wise as to reject the jewel which could have dimmed all earthly things, its splendor waned.”
Unit 2 – American Humor and Legends Review
Plots, Themes, and Settings – Know each writings plot, themes, and settings.
1. What character tells the story to the narrator in “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”?
2. What was the name of Jim Smiley’s frog?
3. Why did Mark Twain and his friend feign indifference to the ancient relics?
4. What question would Mark Twain and his friend ask to disgust their guides?
Characters – Know specific details and information about the following characters:
1. Simon Wheeler
2. Jim Smiley
Authors – Know each of the authors and their writings.
1. Who wrote “They Have Yarns”?
2. Who wrote “My Life Story” and “The Business Story”?
3. Who wrote “The Bumblebee” and “The Mule”?
4. What was Mark Twain’s real name?
5. Who is the author of “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”?
6. Who was the humorist who was part Native American and was famous for his homespun philosophy?
Terms – Know the definition for each term and be able to identify a term when given a line from any selection.
1. free verse –
2. dialect –
3. cacography –
4. dialogue –
5. plot –
Quotations – Know which writing the quote comes from and who said it (where applicable).
1. “Any way that suited the other man would suit him –any way just so’s he got a bet, he was satisfied.”
2. “I never felt so fervently thankful, so soothed, so tranquil, so filled with a blessed peace, as I did yesterday when I learned that Michael Angelo was dead.”
Plots, Themes, and Settings – Know each writings plot, themes, and settings.
1. What character tells the story to the narrator in “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”?
2. What was the name of Jim Smiley’s frog?
3. Why did Mark Twain and his friend feign indifference to the ancient relics?
4. What question would Mark Twain and his friend ask to disgust their guides?
Characters – Know specific details and information about the following characters:
1. Simon Wheeler
2. Jim Smiley
Authors – Know each of the authors and their writings.
1. Who wrote “They Have Yarns”?
2. Who wrote “My Life Story” and “The Business Story”?
3. Who wrote “The Bumblebee” and “The Mule”?
4. What was Mark Twain’s real name?
5. Who is the author of “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”?
6. Who was the humorist who was part Native American and was famous for his homespun philosophy?
Terms – Know the definition for each term and be able to identify a term when given a line from any selection.
1. free verse –
2. dialect –
3. cacography –
4. dialogue –
5. plot –
Quotations – Know which writing the quote comes from and who said it (where applicable).
1. “Any way that suited the other man would suit him –any way just so’s he got a bet, he was satisfied.”
2. “I never felt so fervently thankful, so soothed, so tranquil, so filled with a blessed peace, as I did yesterday when I learned that Michael Angelo was dead.”
Unit 1 – An American Sampler Review
Plots, Themes, and Settings – Know each writings plot, themes, and settings.
1. What poem shows the love for America by comparing it to Europe?
2. What is the theme of “A Jingle of Words”?
3. What is the philosophy or philosophies which The Portland Declaration seeks to counteract?
4. What is the reason for America’s greatness cited by James Russell Lowell in “The Nation and the Gospel”?
5. What poem shows a love for America through places?
Authors – Know each of the authors and their writings.
1. Who wrote “America for Me”?
2. Who was the author of “American Names” and “A Creed for Americans”?
3. Who wrote “What is an American”?
4. Who wrote “America Was Schoolmasters”?
5. Which poet was a missionary to China and became a martyr?
6. Who wrote “A Jingle of Words”?
7. Who wrote “Liberty and Union”?
8. Who wrote “The Nation and the Gospel”?
Terms – Know the definition for each term and be able to identify a term when given a line from any selection.
1. rhyme –
2. rhythm –
3. end rhyme –
4. alliteration –
5. consonance –
6. assonance --
7. onomatopoeia –
Quotations – Know which writing the quote comes from and who said it (where applicable).
1. “Where the air is full of sunlight and the flag is full of stars.”
2. The American is a new man, who acts upon new principles; he must therefore entertain new ideas and form newopinions.”
3. “They taught the nation fairness, / Thrift, and the golden tongue.”
4. “In words you have a weapon, / More weighty than a gun-“
5. “The family is the living cell of every society.”
6. “I shall not be there. I shall rise and pass. / Bury my heart at Wounded Knee.”
Plots, Themes, and Settings – Know each writings plot, themes, and settings.
1. What poem shows the love for America by comparing it to Europe?
2. What is the theme of “A Jingle of Words”?
3. What is the philosophy or philosophies which The Portland Declaration seeks to counteract?
4. What is the reason for America’s greatness cited by James Russell Lowell in “The Nation and the Gospel”?
5. What poem shows a love for America through places?
Authors – Know each of the authors and their writings.
1. Who wrote “America for Me”?
2. Who was the author of “American Names” and “A Creed for Americans”?
3. Who wrote “What is an American”?
4. Who wrote “America Was Schoolmasters”?
5. Which poet was a missionary to China and became a martyr?
6. Who wrote “A Jingle of Words”?
7. Who wrote “Liberty and Union”?
8. Who wrote “The Nation and the Gospel”?
Terms – Know the definition for each term and be able to identify a term when given a line from any selection.
1. rhyme –
2. rhythm –
3. end rhyme –
4. alliteration –
5. consonance –
6. assonance --
7. onomatopoeia –
Quotations – Know which writing the quote comes from and who said it (where applicable).
1. “Where the air is full of sunlight and the flag is full of stars.”
2. The American is a new man, who acts upon new principles; he must therefore entertain new ideas and form newopinions.”
3. “They taught the nation fairness, / Thrift, and the golden tongue.”
4. “In words you have a weapon, / More weighty than a gun-“
5. “The family is the living cell of every society.”
6. “I shall not be there. I shall rise and pass. / Bury my heart at Wounded Knee.”
This is a review. To be fully prepared for tests, students should study each section in its entirety.