Test review Romantics, Transcendentalism, Realism

What does the narrator do when he is scared by the Oval Portrait?

• shuts his eyes for several minutes

• he takes it out of the room

• he covers it with a sheet

• he calls his valet and asks him if the painting is strange

In the INSIDE frame, what happens to the wife at the end of the story "The Oval Portrait"?

• she dies

• she becomes a piece of art

• she rises from the dead

• she turns on her husband

Why did Thoreau leave the woods?

• he was falling into routine

• he was sick and needed help

• it was winter and too cold

In the outside frame of "The Oval Portrait," how does the narrator describe his condition when they go into the house?

• desperately wounded

• recovering from a long illness

• happy to be alive

• he is soaking wet from the rainstorm

What was Jourdon Anderson's primary concern for his daughters if they were to return to Tennessee?

• Their education

• Their safety

• Their job prospects

• Their social lives

In "The Story of an Hour" What word(s) does Mrs. Mallard say over and over just a few minutes after her husband’s death?

• free, free

• life, love

• what will I do

• how, how

"The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls" references many natural cycles. What are these supposed to suggest about the passage of time?

• man's time is short; nature is forever

• time passes slowly when you have lost a love

• time flies when you are having fun

Why does Jourdan say that Colonel Anderson can't offer him freedom?

• he owes too much money and could be in trouble

• too many people in Tennessee might enslave him again

• he already has his freedom

• the laws won't protect him enough to be truly free

Which is one of the ways Longfellow PERSONIFIES nature in "The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls"?

• the waves have hands that moves the sand

• the wind hugs to the traveler

• the sea sings a song

• the horses speak to the hostler

Which is one of the ways that the personality of the MAN could be described in this story "To Build a Fire"?

• overconfident

• lazy

• careful

• kind