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