Name That Character
This guy knows how to enjoy life by taking a (very) long nap in the woods.
Who is Rip Van Winkle?
This author advertised "gold incalculable" and other treasures to be found in a newly discovered land.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
"My Life had stood a Loaded ____"
What is "Gun"?
The number of limbs that George Dedlow loses in the Civil War.
What is four?
This author claims to have been saved by Pocahontas because she was in love with him.
Who is John Smith?
Who is Aylmer?
This underpaid minister and teacher devised an innovative method of teaching his pupils to recognize the letters of the alphabet.
Who is Samson Occom?
"I celebrate ____ and sing _____"
What is "myself"?
The name of the lost love in "The Raven."
Who is Lenore?
The food item that Bartleby and the other law office employees consume most frequently during the workday.
What is a ginger nut (cake)?
This magazine editor offered a struggling, underpaid writer a fair deal and moral support.
Who is Mr. (John) Walter?
This author wrote about reading "The Columbian Orator," a textbook of rhetoric, and "The Liberator," a newspaper.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
"Verses upon the Burning of Our ____"
(title of a poem)
What is "House"?
The poet Phillis Wheatley addressed one of her poems to this famous American of her time.
Who is George Washington?
This water-loving rodent is presented as one of the creators of the Earth in several Native American legends.
What is a muskrat?
Named after the Roman god of love, this young man performs assorted errands in a paper mill.
Who is Cupid?
This author famously wrote, "The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet."
Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson?
"Ah, Bartleby! Ah, ___________ !"
What is "humanity"?
The place where Linda hides from Dr. Flint for several years.
What is an attic?
The poem "The Haunted Palace" appears in full length in this text.
What is "The Fall of the House of Usher"?
A mysterious black veil ruined this woman's relationship with the man she loved.
Who is Elizabeth?
This author created a fragmentary tale of a stalker with murderous tendencies.
Who is Charles Brockden Brown?
"I went to the ______ because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."
What is/are "woods"?
This piece of evidence, which Auguste Dupin removes from the scene of a crime, leads him to suspect a Maltese sailor.
What is a hair ribbon or tie?
The number of virtues that Ben Franklin writes about and tracks in his autobiography.
What is thirteen?