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Which American president was the inspiration for Walt Whitman’s O Captain! My Captain!

  1. Andrew Jackson
  2. George Washington
  3. Ulysses S. Grant
  4. Thomas Jefferson
  5. Abraham Lincoln

Answer(s): E

Explanation:

“O Captain! My Captain!” was inspired by the assassination of President Lincoln. Walt Whitman was a great admirer of President Lincoln and published a number of poems inspired by the great leader’s life and tragic death.



Which of the following was the preeminent female essayist of the Transcendentalist period in American literature?

  1. Edith Wharton
  2. Phillis Wheatley
  3. Margaret Fuller
  4. Emily Dickinson
  5. Ellen Glasgow

Answer(s): C

Explanation:

Margaret Fuller worked as a teacher and editor and wrote about transcendentalism, women’s rights, critical theory, gender roles, and related subjects.



Which of the following is set among a cannibalistic tribe in the Marquesas Islands of the South Pacific?

  1. Typee
  2. Moby Dick
  3. The Marble Faun
  4. A Paumanok Picture
  5. Thanatopsis

Answer(s): A

Explanation:

Herman Melville’s first novel was based on this experience living with the supposedly cannibalistic Taipis of the Marquesas Islands in the South Pacific.



The Prairie States

A NEWER garden of creation, no primal solitude,
Dense, joyous, modern, populous millions, cities and farms,
With iron interlaced, composite, tied, many in one,
By all the world contributed – freedom’s and law’s and thrift’s society,
The crown and teeming paradise, so far, of time’s accumulations,
To justify the past.

“iron interlaced” in line 3 refers to

  1. the steel industry
  2. slaves
  3. railroads
  4. telephone system
  5. the Internet

Answer(s): C

Explanation:

The author Walt Whitman refers to the important role played by the railroad lines made of iron that helped to develop and tie together the Midwestern states.






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