Review of American Renaissance Website

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1. Which author wrote the collection of poetry called "Leaves of Grass?"
Emily Dickinson
Walt Whitman
Henry David Thoreau
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Herman Melville
Nathaniel Hawthorne
2. Which text by an A.R. author deals with issues of Manifest Destiny concepts that occurred in the middle of the 19th Century in the U.S.?
Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter"
Emerson's "Experience"
Whitman's "I Hear America Singing"
Melville's "Moby Dick"
Thoreau's "Walden"
3. What historical conflict was at the center of many of A.R. authors' minds during their time of writing?
The Mexican American War
The War of 1812
World War I
Conflict with Russia
The American Civil War
4. Which A.R. author did not reside in Massachusetts?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Walt Whitman
5. What two authors were bosom friends and at one point lived together in Concord, Mass?
Emerson and Thoreau
Melville and Hawthorne
Dickinson and Whitman
6. The American Literary movement called Romanticism focused on what concepts?
Falling in Love
Falling out of Love
Gothic Tendencies in Literature
Realism and a focus on Intellectual Advancement
Nature and a Return to the Natural World
7. All of the prominent A.R. authors wanted to do what one collective thing?
Make lots of money
Establish themselves as famous authors
Break away from the Literary Traditions of Europe and define an American form of Literature
Influence each other's work
8. What A.R. author served a majority of his younger life on sea voyages - serving as an inspiration for his later writing?
Hawthorne
Melville
Thoreau
Emerson
Whitman
9. What is your English Teacher's name?
Mr. Moore
Mr. Bush
Mrs. Calloway
Mr. Lawrence
Mr. Hawthorne
10. Nathaniel Hawthorne is often described as the American parallel to what English writer?
Shakespeare
Milton
Blake
Wordsworth

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