Literature part 1

8. Which of the following was NOT a member of the English Romantic movement?

• Samuel Taylor Coleridge

• William Blake

• Rudyard Kipling

• John Keats

• Percy Bysshe Shelly

Barbara Kingsolver’s novel Flight Behavior uses which of the following as a literary device?

• supersonic jets

• drones

• bald eagles

• hummingbirds

• monarch butterflies

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What is the title of Ursula K. Le Guin’s 1972 novel about nature?

• The Word for World is Forest

• Pacific Edge

• The Fifth Sacred Thing

• Ecotopia

• A Psalm for the Wild-Built

Transcendentalism held that

• all souls contain the divine

• souls can be reincarnated

• people should transcend their relationships with other people

• people should pool their resources and live communally

• machinery is destructive and should be shunned

Which of the following was NOT an American writer who wrote about or advocated for the natural world?

• John Muir

• Rachel Carson

• Charles Brockden Brown

• Aldo Leopold

• Octavia Butler

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Wordsworth’s poem about the plight of the poor was called

• “It Snows”

• “The Eve of St. Agnes”

• “The Beggar”

• “Is There For Honest Poverty”

• “The Ruined Cottage”

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Climate science fiction that inspires hope is often called

• solarpunk

• climate opera

• slipstream

• biopunk

• soft science fiction

In addition to Transcendentalism, both Emerson and Thoreau advocated for the cause of

• a. lowering the voting age

• the abolition of slavery

• vegetarianism

• the right of Catholics to hold public office

• universal basic income

How does the news of the dam come to Adam’s Rib?

• People hear about it on the radio.

• People hear about it from TV.

• Men come in a canoe with the news.

• A hunter from up north relays the news as he is passing through.

• An elder sees it in a dream

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Angel first sees the frog contained in amber

• in a drawer belonging to Bush on Fur Island

• in a sack that used to belong to her mother

• wrapped in a hide belonging to Agnes

• in a box belonging to Dora-Rouge

• in a present from Tommy

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