Literature/The Fall of the House of Usher," Poe creates an Amercan version of the European

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 2 points 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