QUESTION 1

In “The Fall of the House of Usher,” Poe creates an Amercan version of the European

naturalistic novel
gothic

novel of manners

picaresque novel

2 points
QUESTION 2

Long after his death, Poe’s poetry had a major influence on

Emerson

free verse

the symbolist movement

the Harlem Renaissance

2 points
QUESTION 3

The setting for the “Fall of the House of Usher” is

spring

summer

winter

fall

2 points
QUESTION 4

In the poem “the Haunted Palace” (in the Fall of the House of Usher”), “the two luminous windows” are

Christmas lights

store display windows

Usher’s eyes

windows in Usher’s house illuminated by a fireplace

2 points
QUESTION 5

One of the conventions of horror stories that Poe establishes in The Fall of the House of Usher is

being alone in a house with a crazy person

haunted suits of armor

using an evil scientist to bring people back from the dead

strange apparitions of ghosts

2 points
QUESTION 6

Without Poe, there might not have been

Hamlet

Sherlock Holmes

Pride and Prejudice
Moby Dick

2 points
QUESTION 7

Poe called his stories like “The Purloined Letter”

tales of ratiocination

romances

science fiction

romances

2 points
QUESTION 8

According to Poe’s definition of beauty in “The Philosophy of Composition,” the beauty that appears in both “the Raven,” and Ulalume” is represented by a

blackbird

marble bust

dead young woman

full moon over the river

2 points
QUESTION 9

According to Poe, the most beautiful sound in the English language is

the tinkle of money

the long vowel O

the long vowel A

a rolled R

2 points
QUESTION 10

In his review of Hawthorne’s writings in “Twice-To;d Tales: a Review,” Poe identifies the most important quality of a work of fiction as

the power of blackness

characterization

plot

the single effect

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QUESTION 11

In his review of Hawthorne’s writings, Poe says Hawthorne’s stories are

less original than Irving’s

less realistic than Irving’s

more original than Irving’s

more derived from European sources than Irving’s

2 points
QUESTION 12

In “The Minister’s Black Veil,” Hawthorne wants his readers to conclude that Reverend Hooper

has gone crazy
yound

killed someone

none of the above

2 points
QUESTION 13

From Hawthorne’s point of view, the greatest price that Hooper pays for wearing the veil is

ridicule

loss of the woman he loves

loss of his effectiveness as a preacher

loss of his self respect

2 points
QUESTION 14

Hawthorne believed that his wife Sophia had taught him

everything he knew about writing

that he had a heart

that he could succeed in business

how to read Greek

2 points
QUESTION 15

In”My Kinsman Major Molineux,” Hawthorne’s opening paragraph about royal governors

has no relevance to the story
Molineux
Molineux
Molineux

2 points
QUESTION 16

In romance, evil women have

blond hair and blue eyes

dark hair and dark eyes

dark hair and green eyes

tattoos

2 points
QUESTION 17

According to Hawthorne, a romance was

a love story

realistic in setting

true to the human heart

totally fanciful

2 points
QUESTION 18

The greatest suffering for Major Molineux was

being tarred and feathered

losing his job

being thrown out of town
seeing

2 points
QUESTION 19

Young Goodman Brown commits the sin of

egotism

gluttony

lust

anger

2 points
QUESTION 20

The reader knows that Goodman Brown may have been deceived because

the story is set after dark

the setting is in the forest

the guide has satanic qualities

all of the above

2 points
QUESTION 21

The Devil in Young Goodman Brown

has a long tail

has cloven feet

is red

looks like Goodman Brown

2 points
QUESTION 22

Young Goodman Brown
character

is the only clearly evil character in the story

is of average moral character

is basically good but has a few flaws

2 points
QUESTION 23

When Hawthorne read the Scarlet Letter to his wife, she

fell asleep
criticized his work

went to bed with a headache

asked him to read it again

2 points
QUESTION 24

Hawthorne considered the Scarlet Letter

realistic

naturalistic

a novel of manners

a romance

2 points
QUESTION 25

The work that the English writer D.H. Lawrence considered to be “the most colossal satire ever penned,” is

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

The House of the Seven Gables

The Scarlet Letter

The Tell-Tale Heart

2 points
QUESTION 26

The Scarlet Letter symbolized

adultery

Able

Angel

all of the above

2 points
QUESTION 27

When Hester takes off her hat in the forest and lets her hair hang free, she is suggesting to Dimmesdale that

she would like to resume her passionate relationship with him

she is a loose woman

she has lost her mind

she is breaking the law

2 points
QUESTION 28

A Roman Catholic in the crowd by the scaffold where Hester is holding her baby Pearl might have

approved of the punishment

attempted to free Hester

approved of her adultery

compared her to the Virgin Mary

2 points
QUESTION 29

Although most people think intelligence is a good quality, the phrase, “The remarkable intelligence in his features” has negative connotations for

Dimmesdale

Chillingworth

Reverend Wilson

The devilish Indian

2 points
QUESTION 30

The statement, “By degrees…her (Hester Prynne’s) handiwork became what would now be termed the fashion,” suggests that

Hester has been forgiven by the town
the

the elders of the town will need to enforce stricter punishment

all the women in town want to become just like her

2 points
QUESTION 31

When Reverend Wilson asks Pearl where she came from, she answers

from God

from Mommy and Mr. Dimmesdale

from a wild rose bush

from a stork

2 points
QUESTION 32

The tapestry in Dimmesdale’s study depicted

Noah’s Ark

David and Bathsheba

Adam and Eve

the crucifixion

2 points
QUESTION 33

Dimmesdale’s conflict with himself ends

he is alone in the forest with Hester, and they make love for the second time

in the second scaffold scene

in the final scaffold scene

when he kills Chillingworth

2 points
QUESTION 34

The setting for Melville’s story Bartleby is

Wall Street

Main Street

a law office in Boston

the Stock Exchange

2 points
QUESTION 35

Bartleby is narrated

by a crazy person

by a naive narrator who never does understand Bartleby
by Bartleby himself
by Bartleby’s son

2 points
QUESTION 36

The knowledge that Bartleby had worked in the Dead Letter Office
Bartleby
Bartleby
Bartleby

turns out to be false

2 points
QUESTION 37

What Melville seems to admire the most about Hawthorne’s writing is

his use of realistic dialogue

his characterization

his moral lessons

his power of blackness

2 points
QUESTION 38

The names Ahab and Ishmael in Moby Dick both come from

Shakespeare

Melville’s own family

the Bible

Milton

2 points
QUESTION 39

Melville got the idea for a whale sinking a ship from the account of the wreck of

the Titanic

the Essex

the Half Moon

the Hesperus

2 points
QUESTION 40

Melville got his idea for the white whale from

Poe

the Legend of Mocha Dick

the Big Bear of Arkansas

Hawthorne

2 points
QUESTION 41

Melville dedicated Moby Dick to

his wife

Poe

Hawthorne

Emerson

2 points
QUESTION 42

In his obsession with the idea that “all visible objects are but as pasteboard masks, and if a man would strike, he must strike through the mask,” Ahab most resembles

the puritan William Bradford

the deist Ben Franklin

the transcendentalist, Henry David Thoreau

the feminist, Margaret Fuller

2 points
QUESTION 43

When, at the end of Moby Dick, Ishmael says that, “I alone am left to tell you,” he is quoting from

the Scarlet Letter

the Raven

The Book of Job

the Book of John

2 points
QUESTION 44

In the Chapter in Moby Dick called “the whiteness of the whale,” Ishmael says that the color white is the color of

innocence

atheism

belief

virtue

2 points
QUESTION 45

In “the whiteness of the whale,” Melville concludes that all of nature, from butterfly wings to pretty girls, is

beautiful on the outside but that beauty is just a mask for deception and danger within

a manifestation of God’s goodness

working for the benefit of man

evolving into a higher beauty

2 points
QUESTION 46

In Billy Budd, the character Claggart is a good example of the puritan idea of

natural goodness

natural depravity

predestination

symbolic perception

2 points
QUESTION 47

Readers often compare Billy Budd to Jesus because of his innocence and unjust execution, but he lacks one quality that Jesus had:

compassion

kindness

an understanding of evil

generosity

2 points
QUESTION 48

In Billy Budd, Captain Vere insists on Billy’s execution because

he wants justice for Claggart

he always suspected that Billy Budd was no good

his duty as a captain of a military ship in time of war trumped his personal sense of morality

he really liked and admired the victim, Claggart

2 points
QUESTION 49

Claggart’s main motivation for undermining Billy Budd’s efforts to be a good sailor was

his own desire to be a good officer

his genuine belief that Billy Budd was evil

as payback for something Billy had done to him years ago

jealousy

2 points
QUESTION 50

In Billy Budd, Melville uses ship names ironically to show how many things in this world are the opposite of what they should be. For example, Billy Budd is impressed against his will to leave the American ship Rights of Man to serve in the British navy on a battleship. When Captain Vere, an almost god-like man, is killed in battle the ship he is fighting is named

the Pequod

the Atheist

the Revelation

the Gabrial