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HISTORY
100

Washington Irving set this story in an actual town in upstate New York.

What is "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow?"

100

This character was quick to help others, but neglected his own work.

Who is Rip Van Winkle?

100

Ichabod Crane is courting Katrina Van Tassel because he finds this attractive about her.

What is her father's money?

100

This was Harriet Beecher Stowe's primary objection to slavery.

What is it made people feel bad?

100

Abraham Lincoln claimed Uncle Tom's Cabin brought about what historic event?

What is the U.S. Civil War?

200

What story centers on a murder as revenge for an unspecified insult?

What is "The Cask of Amontillado?"

200

What character in this Hawthorne novel lives a life of repentance and humble service?

Who is Hester Prynne?

200

Edgar Allen Poe chose the raven as the character for his poem for which reason(s)?

What is they are a bad omen?

What is they can talk?

200

This author wrote stories simply for the fun of story telling.

Who is Washington Irving?

200

Author Nathaniel Hawthorne had ancestors who participated in what New England travesty?

What are the Salem Witch Trials?

300

This Emily Dickenson poem has as its second line, "He kindly stopped for me."

What is, “Because I could not stop for death . . . “

300

This protagonist in The Jungle emigrates to Chicago because he heard America was the land of economic opportunity.

Who is Jurgis Rudkis?

300

Montressor kills his enemy in this Edgar Allen Poe story by doing this.

What is imprisoning him alive behind a brick wall?

300

As a Transcendentalist, Hawthorne believed this was the origin of injustice and pain in the world.

What is organized society and its institutions?

300

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?

400

This Mark Twain short story tells the tale of Angelo and Luigi.

What is "Those Extraordinary Twins"?

400

The name of this victim in Edgar Allen Poe's tale means "Lucky One".

What is Fortunado?

400

Edgar Allen Poe believed an event such as this evoked the most intense and profound emotions.

What is the death of a beautiful woman?

400

After freeing the slaves, Harriet Beecher S towe wanted to do this for them.

What is educate them and return them to Africa?

400

Congress passed this legislation, in part because of Upton Sinclair's book, The Jungle.

What is the Food and Drug Act of 1906?

500

The author of this book believed that "All art is propoganda".

What is The Jungle?

500

This Hawthorne character is wracked with guilt but cannot confess his crime for what reason(s)?

What is he is morally weak and afraid to lose his position.

500

This fate befalls the characters of every story we have read after Washington Irving.

What are suffering and injustice?

500

This political and economic ideology aims to remedy the many injustices brought about by industrialization.

What is Socialism?

500

The country of Liberia was founded in 1847 upon principles advocated in this book.

What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?