Final Review

1. If Edgar Allen Poe had taken a transcendentalist's view, one key difference regarding the poem's theme would most likely be

• A. a focus on logic and rationalization as opposed to emotion and nature.

• B. a change in theme altogether.

• C. a change in diction to a more common tone in order to a create a more objective perspective.

• D. a shift of grasping at nature for indications of reality to utilizing the inner consciousness instead.

2. The focus on nature and the inward thoughts make this poem most characteristic of which major American literary movement?

• A. Realism

• B. Romanticism

• C. Modernism

• D. Enlightenment

3. Which universal theme BEST applies to this passage?

• A. the balance between friendship and responsibility

• B. personal satisfaction for one's achievements

• C. the acceptance of individual beliefs

• D. appreciation for the rules of society

4. This sentence below is related to which historical event of the 1800s?

The next morning I was to start for the West to make my fortune.

• A. the expedition of Lewis and Clark

• B. the relocation of the United States capital

• C. the California Gold Rush

• D. the war with Great Britain

5. Queen Elizabeth I seems to be arguing that she has the welfare of her people at heart. Which line from the passage BEST supports this interpretation?

• A. I am come amongst you at this time, not as for my recreation or sport, but being resolved, in the midst and heat of the battle, to live or die amongst you. ..

• B. I know already, by your forwardness, that you have deserved rewards and crowns. ..

• C. My loving people, we have been persuaded by some, that are careful of our safety, to take heed how we commit ourselves to armed multitudes. ..

• D. . ..I assure you, I do not desire to live to distrust my faithful and loving people.

6. Queen Elizabeth I seems to be arguing that she has the welfare of her people at heart. Which line from the passage BEST supports this interpretation?

• A. I know already, by your forwardness, that you have deserved rewards and crowns. ..

• B. I am come amongst you at this time, not as for my recreation or sport, but being resolved, in the midst and heat of the battle, to live or die amongst you. ..

• C. My loving people, we have been persuaded by some, that are careful of our safety, to take heed how we commit ourselves to armed multitudes. ..

• D. . ..think foul scorn that Parma or Spain, or any prince of Europe, should dare to invade the borders of my realms. .. .

7. Read this excerpt from Paragraph 1.

If a man supplies 600 customers with shoes in place of 300, there is no question as to such result. Why not, then, if I can supply 60,000 readers instead of 30,000?

Which argument is this excerpt intended to support?

• A. An accelerated rate of production results produces inflated profits.

• B. An author should receive a percentage of the price of every book sold.

• C. The greater the quality of a product, the higher the price the consumer will pay.

• D. When the size of the audience increases, so does the extent of the author’s influence.

8. Select the counterargument(s) that Anthony Trollope addresses in Paragraph 2.

• A. In the matter of copyright agreements, Americans will not act against their own best interests.

• B. Because Americans are fundamentally unprincipled, they cannot be trusted to support an international copyright agreement.

• C. An international copyright agreement would be impossible to enforce, but it will send an important message to American scofflaws.

• D. Because the English and American governments are different, it will be impossible to create a copyright agreement that will satisfy both countries.