QUESTION: 29

All of the following are known primarily as poets active during the American Romantic period EXCEPT

Lowell
Longfellow
Emerson
Whitman
Dickinson

Answer(s): C

Explanation:

Although Emerson wrote during the Romantic period, he – along with Thoreau and Holmes – was known primarily as an essayist, not a poet.

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Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchers of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?

The passage above is from the work of

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mark Twain
Edith Wharton
Louisa May Alcott
Kate Chopin

Answer(s): A

Explanation:

The passage is from the opening paragraph of Emerson’s Nature (1836). Nature explains the main principle of Transcendentalism, the concept of a “mystical unity of nature.” Emerson urged independent thinking and encouraged readers to learn from life rather than from books alone.

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QUESTION: 31

Which Boston Brahmin poet published The Courtship of Miles Standish in 1858?

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Oliver Wendell Holmes
John Greenleaf Whittier
Emily Dickinson
Henry David Thoreau

Answer(s): A

Explanation:

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow published The Courtship of Miles Standish in 1858. Of the other answer choices, only Oliver Wendell Holmes is numbered among the Brahmin Poets.

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QUESTION: 32

What is the setting for the protagonist’s walk with the devil in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Young Goodman Brown?

The gardens of a country estate
A path in the forest
The streets of a slum community
A church graveyard
The halls of a courthouse

Answer(s): B

Explanation:

Young Goodman Brown leaves his wife Faith to walk through a dark and forbidding forest with the devil.

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