Authors
According to Wharton's story, "Xingu," who wrote "Wings of Death"?
What is the name of the manager of the paper mill in "The Tartarus of Maids"?
Cupid
He briefly knew her uncle.
Which of our other gothic writers was a close friend of Edith Wharton?
Henry James
"I lifted the corpse in my arms and laid it on the bed. I gazed upon it with delight. Such was the elation of my thoughts, that I even broke into laughter. I clapped my hands and exclaimed, 'It is done! My scared duty is fulfilled'..."
"Wieland," Charles Brocken Brown
We read the creation story of which Native American tribe?
The Iroquois
When Perdita returns home briefly after her wedding, what two items does she find Rosalind wearing?
Her wedding dress and her pearl necklace
Mrs. Roby, Mrs. Ballinger, Osric Dane, Mrs. Leveret, Mrs. Plinth, Miss Van Vluyck, Laura Glyde
What was prescribed for women with "neurasthenia"? (And which author wrote about it?)
The Rest Cure: being bed-ridden, drinking milk and eating eggs, isolation, speaking/hearing only of "positive things". Charlotte Perkins Gilman depicted this treatment in "The Yellow Wallpaper."
“Faith, sir,” replied the story-teller, “as to that matter, I don’t believe
one-half of it myself.”
"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," Washington Irving
What famous text is Hawthorne's "The Celestial Railroad" based on (and who wrote the original)?
"The Pilgrim's Progress" by John Bunyan
At the beginning of Gertrude Atherton's "The Striding Place," it states that protagonist Weigall is tired of what activity?
Grouse shooting
What is the name of the narrator's devilish companion in "The Celestial Railroad"?
Mr. Smooth-It-Away
The Mexican War
"Laborin' man an' laborin' woman/Hev one glory an' one shame/ev'ythin that's that's done inhuman/injers on all 'em the same."
"The Biglow Papers", James Russell Lowe
Who wrote "The Sot-weed Factor"?
Ebenezer Cooke
In "The Damned Thing," Hugh Morgan's diary uses two animal species to explain Morgan's reason for believing in the existence of sensory cues that humans cannot perceive (such as sound and color).
Which two animals does he use in his analogies?
Blackbirds and whales
Who edited our satire textbook?
Nicholas Bakalar
What famous writer founded the American Philosophical Society?
Ben Franklin
"You think you have mastered it, but just as you get well underway in following, it turns a back-somersault and there you are. It slaps you in the face, knocks you down, and tramples upon you. It is like a bad dream."
"The Yellow Wallpaper," Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Which of our authors was a master of the harpsichord and became the first American-born composer to compose on paper?
Francis Hopkinson
In "Young Goodman Brown," the devil aided Goodman's father and grandfather in what two evil acts/movements?
The Salem Witch Trials and King Philip's War
Fill in the blanks from our textbook intro (same word):
"It was the ______ that that supplied the ideology for the French Revolution; and the same ______ shaped the thinking of the American founding fathers."
Prior to a wedding, the bride was
expected to have a “trousseau,” containing what?
bedding, linens, curtains, kitchenware and bridal gowns.
Name the piece and the blank word:
"'And the _____? You've been concealing from us the fact that there is no _____!"
"Afterward," Edith Wharton
"ghost"