Which Boston Brahmin poet published The Courtship of Miles Standish in 1858?
Answer(s): A
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.
What is the setting for the protagonist’s walk with the devil in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Young Goodman Brown?
Answer(s): B
Young Goodman Brown leaves his wife Faith to walk through a dark and forbidding forest with the devil.
Which American president was the inspiration for Walt Whitman’s O Captain! My Captain!
Answer(s): E
“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?
Answer(s): C
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?
Herman Melville’s first novel was based on this experience living with the supposedly cannibalistic Taipis of the Marquesas Islands in the South Pacific.
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