Which author is credited with starting American detective fiction with his character Mr. Dupin?
Edgar Allan Poe
100
Which sleepy character awoke to find a new nation had been born during his slumber?
Rip Van Winkle
100
Upon her escape, where did Harriet Jacobs hide for an extended period of time?
In an attic
100
While Thomas Jefferson gets the credit for penning the Declaration of Independence, name the other two prominent founders that actually helped him find the right words.
John Adams and Ben Franklin
100
In section 21 of “Song of Myself,” Whitman proclaims “I am the poet of the Body, and I am the poet ___________.”
"Of the soul"
200
The journey of Goodman Brown as an extended metaphor for life is an example of what literary form?
allegory
200
Captain John Smith hailed from what original colony?
Virginia
200
Frederick Douglass hailed from what city?
Baltimore
200
Which author was excommunicated by Harvard University for his incendiary comments about the state of religious preaching?
Emerson
200
Jonathan Edwards famously said that God holds us like a “_________ over the fire.”
spider
300
In “The Tell-Tale Heart” the narrator is disturbed by an eye watching over him as if from what creepy bird?
a vulture
300
Who is the Romantic hero of Cooper’s “Leatherstocking Tales”?
Hawkeye or Natty Bumpo
300
Which young slave-poet was so highly regarded that she actually got to meet George Washington?
Phillis Wheatley
300
Which author spent much of his young adult life sailing around the world?
Herman Melville
300
Recite Bartleby’s now famous line in reply to being asked to accomplish various types of work.
"I would prefer not to."
400
Walt Whitman was one of the first poets to employ this casual style of poetry, characterized by unrhymed lines and inconsistent meter.
free verse
400
Name one of the many pseudonyms used by Benjamin Franklin.
Richard Saunders, Silence Dogood, etc.
400
Who is Frederick Douglass’s primary nemesis in his Narrative?
Mr. Covey
400
Which author was humorously and harshly critiqued by Mark Twain?
James Fenimore Cooper
400
Thoreau claimed that he ventured into the woods in order to “live _______.”
"deliberately"
500
Who kept account of some of America’s first settlers in On Plymouth Plantation?
William Bradford
500
In what state did Walden take place?
Massachusetts
500
Who was the first published female poet in the American colonies?
Anne Bradstreet
500
Name the two prominent preachers we studied in this course.
George Whitefield and Jonathan Edwards
500
Who wrote the famous political tract “Common Sense”?