Unit 3 Test Review: Literature of the Nineteenth Century

Which of the following was NOT a conflict associated with the American Literary Renaissance?

• Exclusion of writers from Massachusetts and New York

• Failure to address slavery and immigration

• Exclusion of women and minority writers

• Overemphasis of the separateness of English and American literary traditions

Irving’s belief in the importance of ___________ in the development of national character explains the detailed descriptions of autumn splendor Ichabod encounters while on horseback.

• Capitalism

• Abolitionism

• Landscape

• Self-sufficiency

Marking a shift in the characterization of American Literature in the 1820s, many writers rejected _____________ by arguing that British literary traditions were valuable and Patriotism deserved critique.

• Capitalism

• Romanticism

• Transcendentalism

• American Literary Nationalism

In "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," who is the apparition of the headless horseman believed to be?

• A Hessian soldier who fought for the British in the Revolutionary War

• Thomas Jefferson

• A complacent New Yorker

• Roger Williams

Though Poe valued some of the ideals, why did he still take issue with Emerson and other transcendentalists views in breaking from tradition?

• He thought the terms they used to describe their beliefs were too complex

• He thought the formal qualities of a piece of writing inform the experience of the writer and reader

• He disliked writing about nature

• Transcendentalists didn't like poetry

Truth connected women's rights to slavery in her "Speech to the Women's Rights Convention" by arguing that:

• A woman's role as a wife, mother, and daughter gives her great power toward ending slavery.

• Slavery deprives women of their right to a maternal role

• Women should read the bible thoroughly to identify arguments against slavery

• The physical strength of a female slave was just as great, if not greater, than a man

Poe compares the impact of science on poetry to the displacement of:

• Natives

• Mythical creatures

• European immigrants

• Unified religious communities