Review part 2: Romanticism Unit Test

What genre of writing is Edgar Allen Poe known for?

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In The Black Cat, what act was the speaker trying to justify when he says "perverseness is one of the impulses of the human heart"

• Killing his wife

• Cutting out Pluto's eye

• Cutting out his wife's eye

• Hanging and killing his cat

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In The Black Cat, which 2 quotes best explain why the narrator talks about the construction of the house just as the police are leaving?

• I had walled the monster up within the tomb.

• The glee at my heart was too strong to be restrained. I burned to say if but one word, by way of triumph, and to render doubly sure their assurance of my guiltlessness.

• But may God shield and deliver me from the fangs of the Arch-Fiend!

• Secure, however, in the inscrutability of my place of concealment, I felt no embarrassment whatever.

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Because the narrator of "the Black Cat" is possibly insane, he is considered an _________

• unrequited narrator

• gothic narrator

• unbelievable narrator

• unreliable narrator

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Who is the author of this quote: "I had walled the monster up within the tomb."

• Emily Dickinson

• Edgar Allen Poe

• Walt Whitman

• Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Who is the author of this quote: "A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best" ?

• Emily Dickinson

• Edgar Allen Poe

• Walt Whitman

• Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Who is the author of this quote: "I celebrate myself and sing myself" ?

• Emily Dickinson

• Edgar Allen Poe

• Walt Whitman

• Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Who is the author of this quote: "Unmoved — she notes the Chariots — pausing —At her low Gate —Unmoved — an Emperor be kneeling Upon her Mat —" ?

• Emily Dickinson

• Edgar Allen Poe

• Walt Whitman

• Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Why is the writing of the transcendentalists (Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman) considered so important to American Literature?

Which piece of literature that we read is this quote from: "To be great is to be misunderstood"

• Because I could not stop for Death

• Song of My Self Reliance

• Self Reliance

• Song of Myself

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