Which school did Booker T. Washington try to enroll in?

What did B.T. Washington have to do in order to be considered for enrollment at the school he wanted?

Alexander de Toqueville, a Frenchman visiting America in the 1800s, coined what term in reference to the American independent spirit?

What is the name of the large land transaction/purchase that Thomas Jefferson made with France in 1803? (give me the most common name)

What are the names of the explorers that explored that newly acquired land purchased by Jefferson from France?

Who was called the "People's President" after the 1828 election?

What is the term/name that refers to the idea that it was America's right to settle lands across the entire North American continent?

How/where was Walt Whitman educated?

Leaves of Grass is whose life work?

Which of the following is NOT a poem written by Walt Whitman

What is the literary term that means poetry or verse without a regular meter, no rhyme scheme and varying line lengths?

Anaphora is....

Explicit, in literary terms means what?

What is the name of the rhetorical device that refers to words that mimic the sounds that they make, like "yap", "bang" and "clatter" ?

Catalogues, as rhetorical devices, are typically what?

Approximately how many poems did Emily Dickinson write in her lifetime (that we know of now)?

Where was Emily Dickinson born and raised?

Which of the following is NOT a school that Emily Dickinson attended?

All of the following are works written by Emily Dickinson except:

Who wrote "A Wagner Matinee"?

Exact rhyme means the words have identical sounds, what is the term for rhyming that is similar, but not identical? (Hint: E. Dickinson used a lot of this type of rhyming)

How did Dickinson title her poems?

Which of the following terms names something you can see, hear, touch, taste or feel?

A noun that refers to an idea, quality or concept (something you cannot see or touch or experience with your 5 senses) is called

Which of the following words means remarks that illustrate a point, prompt a realization or explain something?

Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in which year? (Hint: Same year Jefferson made the Louisiana Purchase)

What did Emerson's father do for a living?

How old was Ralph Waldo Emerson when he entered Harvard University?

What was the title of the major work published by Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1841?

Which of the following works was NOT written by Emerson?

In his essay entitled Self Reliance, Emerson says self-reliance is the aversion of what?

Emerson also says in Self-Reliance that "Whoso would be a man must be a _______________________?

Whose house did Henry David Thoreau move into in 1841?

Both Emerson & Thoreau were members of what club?

How old was Thoreau when he died?

Which of the following titles was NOT written by Henry David Thoreau?

Who refused to pay his taxes and ended up spending the night in jail?

What is the title of the essay Thoreau wrote after spending the night in jail after refusing to pay his taxes in order to protest slaver and the Mexican-American war?

Which word refers to the section of patent application in which the inventor fully describes the invention?

Who invented the window-cleaning device pictured in your textbook?

A view of a three-dimensional object that shows the interior a if a cut has been made across the object is called a....

Who invented the telephone?

When did T.S. Eliot complete "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"?

What is the name of the work published by T.S. Eliot in 1922 that was a critique of the "spiritual barrenness of the modern world"?

In what year did Willa Cather win the Pulitzer Prize?

Which word means the state or quality of being holy or sacred?

Which of the following words means to be full of or swarming with?

Which word means the crime of betraying one's own country?

A person whose behavior or views do not conform to prevailing ideas or practices is called a ___________________?

Which of the following words means "the habit or principle of being independent and self-reliant"?

Which of the following words means having many offspring or plentiful?

Which of the following terms means "of very great extent or quantity; immense"?

Which of the following terms means "too long, slow, or dull: tiresome or monotonous?"

Which term means "beyond or above the range of normal or merely physical human experience."