Good Ol' Dates
In what two centuries did Washington Irving live?
What did Henry David's Thoreau's brother die of?
Tetanus after cutting his finger
How did the author of Nature describe an eyeball?
transparent
How long was Rip Van Winkle asleep?
20 years
Who is the author of the essay titled Nature?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
In what year in the 1800s was Nature published?
1836
How old was Ralph Waldo Emerson's wife, Ellen Tucker, when she died?
19 years old
Washington Irving was the youngest of how many children?
11 children
What inspired Henry David Thoreau to write Civil Disobedience?
A night in jail
What movement did Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau start?
Transcendentalism
What year in the 1800s was Henry David Thoreau born in?
1817
What three things led to Henry David Thoreau's death?
John Brown being hanged; a psychic shock; tuberculosis
Under what name did Washington Irving publish A History of New York, from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty and is placed at the start of Rip Van Winkle?
Diedrich Knickerbocker
Name at least three themes of Ralph Waldo Emerson's Nature.
nature, solitude, commodity, contemplation, beauty, corruption, provision, egotism, discipline, idealism, prospects, spirit, language
What is the name of the magazine that Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau started?
The Dial
After 1815, how many years did it take for Washington Irving's family merchant business to go bankrupt?
3 years
What war did Washington Irving serve during?
The War of 1812
What is the name of the lady that Henry David Thoreau fell in love with, proposed marriage to, and who immediately broke off the engagement at the insistence of her parents?
Ellen Sewall
What is the name of Rip Van Winkle's daughter?
In Chapter 3 of Nature, Emerson draws attention to the fact that in ancient Greek, the world for the world -- __________ -- is synonymous with beauty. What is the word?
cosmos
In what year in the 1800s did Ralph Waldo Emerson begin studying at Harvard College?
1817
How old was Ralph Waldo Emerson's son who died in 1842?
BONUS 50pts: What was the son's name?
5 years old
Waldo
Rudolph
What is Transcendentalism?
A system or movement based on the idea that, in order to understand the nature of reality, one must first examine and analyze the reasoning process which governs the nature of experience.
What are the names of the three short stories in Washington Irving's The Sketch Book?
Rip Van Winkle, Legend of Sleepy Hollow, & Spectre Bridegroom