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Puritanism
Lit. of Revolution
Romanticism
Realism
Miscellaneous
100
"Young Goodman Brown" and an assortment of other short stories were written by this author with a focus on the forest.
Who is Nathaniel Hawthorne?
100
This person established the idea of tabula rasa.
Who is John Locke?
100
This person is the main character in "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."
Who is Ichabod Crane?
100
While including some romantic ideals, this novel is the realist story of a young man in Nebraska.
What is "My Antonia"?
100
This character was upset by the mark on Georgiana's cheek in "The Birthmark."
Who is Aylmer?
200
God has already predetermined who is going to heaven; similar to Calvinism.
What is Unconditional Election?
200
This author wrote a novel about his own life and experience as a slave and abolitionist.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
200
This is the opposite of imminence in realism.
What is transcendence?
200
Often taking the form of journalists, these people exposed society's flaws and criticized it.
Who are muckrakers?
200
Antonia goes to live with this family in Black Hawk. This family's father forbids Antonia from going to the dances.
Who are the Harlings?
300
This concept reflects strictness, modesty in dress and lifestyle, and faith to the church and God as the most important parts of life.
What is Puritanism?
300
This famous American "conceived the bold and arduous project of arriving at moral perfection" and found dogmas such as "eternal decrees of God" and "reprobation" to be unintelligible.
Who is Ben Franklin?
300
We utilized this concept by reading poems to random people at New Trier (answer must use Latin translation).
What is carpe diem?
300
___ wrote in ___: "The colonel was watching Collins's face. 'Look here, my lad,' he said in a pious sort of voice...'don't you think that's taking pretty big risks for a little drink of water.'"
Who is Stephen Crane, writing "A Mystery of Heroism"?
300
This character is a hired girl and is chased by Crazy Mary with a knife.
Who is Lena Lingard?
400
This writer was an early feminist who focused much on family in her works but rejected women's inferiority to men.
Who is Anne Bradstreet?
400
This writer explained an American as being part of "the most perfect society now existing in the world" where "individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men."
Who is de Crevecoeur?
400
This famous poet said: "That you are here--that life exists, and identity; That the powerful play goes on, and you will contribute a verse."
Who is Walt Whitman?
400
Played by Michelle Pfeiffer, this character struggled to get along with her husband, rejected the ideals of high society in New York, and was raised with an unconventional education.
Who is Ellen Olenska?
400
The ___ functions according to the pleasure principle; eros and thanatos are both parts of this.
What is the ID?
500
This author described the voyage to America and said "They committed themselves to the will of God and resolved to proceed."
Who is William Bradford?
500
James Madison argued that ____ had the power to tear apart the success of American Democracy.
What are factions?
500
This person said the quote below in ____ (name author and work): "When the power is once in the hands of the people, a majority are permitted, and for a long period continue, to rule, is not because they are likely to be in the right, nor because this seems fairest to the minority, but because they are physically the strongest. But a government in which the majority rule in all cases cannot be based on justice, even as far as men understand it...resign his conscience to the legislator?"
Who is Thoreau, writing "Civil Disobedience"?
500
To which character are we referring in the quote below? "More than any other person we remembered, this girl seemed to mean to us the country, the conditions, the whole adventure of our childhood."
Who is Antonia?
500
Name the story from which the quote below originates: "'Let me hear your precautions for traveling during thunder-storms.'... 'Briefly, then. I avoid pine-trees, high houses, lonely barns, upland pastures, running water...I avoid tall men.' 'Do I dream? Man avoid man? and in danger-time, too?'"
What is "The Lightning Rod Man" by Melville?