Literature
Ophelia
Publication year and author of The Adventures of Huck Finn
Mark Twain. 1884
What did the 13th amendment do?
Outlaw slavery and indentured servitude
What did the early socialists believe about private property?
It should be outlawed and that all resources should be pooled within a community/state.
Macroevolution is what?
Major genetic changes over time. Kind to Kind evolution
"O Captain! My Captain!" was written in honor of who?
Abraham Lincoln
Publication year and author of Leaves of Grass
1891. Walt Whitman
Treaty of Paris did what?
Ended the American Revolution with the Britain recognizing the US as a free nation
What spurred on mass immigration from Europe in the late 19th century?
Overpopulation, excess labor, cheap fare to the US and the Western Hemisphere, and Religious or Ethnic Persecution
The Descent of Man proposed what theory?
That all living things, including mankind, come from one common ancestor
Why does it take Tom and Huck so long to free Jim from captivity when he is caught at Aunt Sally's house?
They make up obstacles so that they feel like it is a proper escape
Author and rough composition/publication date for Hamlet.
William Shakespeare. c. 1600
What is Sherman's March to the Sea?
A Union military campaign of total war from Atlanta to Savannah, Georgia
Nationalism taught what?
That people should be ruled by people of their own national identity
The two sides of the English Civil War
Royalists and the Parliamentarians
Who is Polonius?
Ophelia and Laertes's dad
Sophia Grangerford and Harney Shepherdson's story can be read as a spoof of what Shakespeare play?
Romeo and Juliet.
Feuding families with no known cause, lots of death, star-crossed lovers that elope, etc.A yeoman farmer is __________.
non-slaveholding, small landowning farmer
"Angel in the House" meant what?
Women are meant to be the comforters of their husbands, confined to the domestic sphere as they offer moral support.
TULIP is the acronym to represent the central theological points of what religious group(s)?
Acceptable answers: Calvinism, Presbyterianism, Puritanism, Oliver Cromwell's crew, the Doctrines of Grace.
Who is Mr Utterson?
Dr Jekyll's lawyer and friend. Narrator of Jekyll and Hyde
Who is the first to learn the truth about Dr. Jekyll being Mr. Hyde? What happens to that person?
Dr. Lanyon. The shock makes him critically ill, leading to his death.
The Lewis & Clark Expedition set out from _____ to explore _____ hoping to find ____.
St Louis; Louisiana Purchase; a Northwest Passage
Define Romanticism
A cultural movement emphasizing individualism, emotion, and the worship of nature.
Name one theological point in the acronym TULIP.
Total Depravity (every part of you is fallen in Adam)
Unconditional Election (God chooses his people based on nothing in them. Unmerited)
Limited Atonement (Jesus's death on the cross saves only the believers)
Irresistible Grace (If God chose you for salvation, you can't/won't want to refuse.)
Perseverance of the Saints (Once saved, you are always saved and always being saved. True believers are never lost in the end)