Censorship by which of the following helped to determine the content of early American literature?
Answer(s): A
The Protestant clergy exerted great influence over the cultural life of early America. Written works could not be easily published without the approval of the religious establishment. Further, certain subjects were considered off-limits.
Which of the following authors is NOT classified as a member of the Romantic period in American fiction?
Answer(s): B
The Romantic Period in American fiction ran from roughly 1830 until 1870. Not only does James Fenimore Cooper pre-date the movement, but also his work doesn’t incorporate the Romantic vision. While Cooper’s characters took part in extraordinary adventures that were anything but mundane, he attempts to describe as accurately as possible realistic characters. In contrast, Romantic authors created characters that were larger than life – less realistic and yet imbued with greater symbolic meaning.
The main characters in the poems and short stories of Edgar Allen Poe can best be described as
Answer(s): E
Poe’s dark stories of moral or physical decay are often populated with madmen, such as the speaker in “The Raven,” the speaker in “Annabel Lee,” and Montressor in “The Cask of Amontillado.”
In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story “The Birthmark,” Aylmer commits a fatal error when his
Aylmer believes that perfection is achievable through the rational application of science. When he removes the birthmark on the cheek of his wife Georgiana, he removes her last imperfection and she dies
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