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Question 1. (Summaries all of the passages down below and include important events and characters)
Question 3. You should be able to give the characteristics of Romanticism and relate those characteristics to selections.
Question 4. Know Poe's importance to American literature, Walt Whitman's contributions, and Dickinson's uniqueness.
Question 5. Be able to explain Transcendentalism, giving some of its beliefs.
Question 6. Know about Hawthorne's writings.
Question 7. There may be a few other questions to test your knowledge of the material, but these are the main ones.
From this book: The Norton Anthology of American Literature Shorter Tenth Edition (volumes one and two)
These questions are regarding the following:
Literature of the American Renaissance 1820-1865
Truth- "Speech to the Women's Rights Convention ...," pp.737-738; Stowe- "The Mother's Struggle," pp.792-801; Thoreau- pp.904-906; pp.946-951; Douglas -"What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July," 1040-1043. Whitman - "When I Heard the ...,"p.1118; Beat! Beat! "p.1119; Melville- Read a synopsis of "Bartleby the Scrivener" online or pp.1132-1157
Dickinson- "I Heard a Fly Buzz,"p.1238; "Because I could not stop for Death," p.1236; "A narrow Fellow In the Grass," p.1243 "My life closed twice...," p.1245