Which author is NOT a Transcendentalist?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Margaret Fuller
Henry David Thoreau
Washington Irving
Henry David Thoreau spent 2 years living alone in the woods and then later wrote a book about his experience. What was the name of the woods and his book?
Walden
Usher Forest
Whitman Woods
Blackbird Pond
What was the name of the boys' English teacher in the movie, "Dead Poets Society"?
John Keeting
Neil Perry
Richard Cameron
Todd Anderson
If there are 3 waitresses with notepads, which would be the correct possessive form?
the waitresses' notebooks
the waitress's notebooks
the waitress' notebooks
the waitresses's notebooks
Who wrote the poem, "The Noiseless Patient Spider"?
Ambrose Bierce
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Edgar Allan Poe
Walt Whitman
Which of the following was NOT written by Edgar Allan Poe?
The Fall of the House of Usher
The Raven
The Masque of the Red Death
A Rose for Emily
Which gothic story involves someone being buried alive?
The Devil and Tom Walker
An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge
The Fall of the House of Usher
A Rose for Emily
Which gothic story does NOT contain ill-fated romance?
The Masque of the Red Death
A Rose for Emily
The Birthmark
The Raven
What do you call the 12 sided shapes hanging from the ceiling? (Gothic Projects)
dodecahedron
How long was Lincoln's speech, "The Gettysburg Address"?
5 minutes
2 minutes
3 minutes
1 minute
What does "four score and seven years ago" mean?
47 years ago
27 years ago
7 years and 4 months ago
87 years ago
Who was freed by The Emancipation Proclamation?
all slaves in rebellious states
all slaves in border states
all slaves in southern states
all slaves in the United States
Which author Was an accomplished wrestler and is honored in the National Wrestling Hall of Fame?
Ambrose Bierce
Stephen Crane
Abraham Lincoln
Frederick Douglass
Who is the most photographed man of the 19th century - over 160 different portraits of this person exist?
Frederick Douglass
Abraham Lincoln
Mark Twain
Edgar Allan Poe
This author's great-great-grandfather was a leading judge of the Salem Witch Trials, so he changed the spelling of his last name to disassociate himself from this unfortunate family history.
Thomas Putnam
Nathaniel Hawthorne
William Faulkner
Washington Irving
Which character in "The Crucible" was crushed to death with rocks?
Thomas Putnam
Giles Corey
John Proctor
Reverend Hale
