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Washington Irving set this story in an actual town in upstate New York.
What is "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow?"
This character was quick to help others, but neglected his own work.
Who is Rip Van Winkle?
Ichabod Crane is courting Katrina Van Tassel because he finds this attractive about her.
What is her father's money?
This was Harriet Beecher Stowe's primary objection to slavery.
What is it made people feel bad?
Abraham Lincoln claimed Uncle Tom's Cabin brought about this historic event.
What is the U.S. Civil War?
In this story a murder is narrated in the first person.
What is "The Telltale Heart?"
What character in this Hawthorne novel lives a life of repentance and humble service?
Who is Hester Prynne?
Edgar Allen Poe chose the raven as the character for his poem for this/these reason(s).
What is they are a bad omen?
What is they can talk?
This author wrote stories simply for the fun of story telling.
Who is Washington Irving?
Author Nathaniel Hawthorne had ancestors who participated in this historic New England travesty.
What are the Salem Witch Trials?
This Emily Dickenson poem has as its second line, "He kindly stopped for me."
What is, “Because I could not stop for death . . . “
This protagonist in The Jungle emigrates to Chicago because he heard America was the land of economic opportunity.
Who is Jurgis Rudkis?
In this Edgar Allen Poe story a criminal is betrayed by his own guilty conscience.
What is "The Telltale Heart"?
As a Transcendentalist, Hawthorne believed this was the origin of injustice and pain in the world.
What is organized society and its institutions?
In addition to breaking conventions of capitalization, punctuation, and rhyme schemes, Emily Dickinson was not taken seriously for many years for this reason.
What is she was a woman?
This short story tells the tale of Angelo and Luigi Capello.
What is "Those Extraordinary Twins"?
This Edgar Allen Poe character is plagued with a diseased eye.
Who is the murder victim in "The Telltale Heart"?
Edgar Allen Poe believed an event such as this evoked the most intense and profound emotions.
What is the death of a beautiful woman?
After freeing the slaves, Harriet Beecher Stowe wanted to do this for them.
What is educate them and return them to Africa?
Congress passed this legislation, in part because of Upton Sinclair's book, The Jungle.
What is the Food and Drug Act of 1906?
The author of this book believed that "All art is propoganda".
What is The Jungle?
This character is wracked with guilt but cannot confess his crime because he is morally weak.
Who is Hawthorne's Rev. Arthur Dimmsdale?
This fate befalls characters of every story we have read after Washington Irving.
What are suffering and injustice?
This political and economic ideology aims to remedy the many injustices brought about by industrialization.
What is Socialism?
The country of Liberia was founded in 1847 upon principles advocated in this book.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?