Romantic Period Review

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Romantic Period Review

• The Grotesque

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Question 1

• What is the style of literature that emphasizes
  the grotesque, mysterious, and desolate?
  

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Answer

• Gothic

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Question 2

• In a 1938 college baseball game in New York City,
  between Fordham and Columbia, a ______ colored
  baseball was used because it was thought to be
  more visible to players and spectators alike.

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Answer

• Yellow

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Question 3

• Poe uses repetition throughout The Raven to
  achieve all of the following EXCEPT
• a) suspense c) symbolism
• b) rhyme d) develop a sing-song quality

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Answer

• C) symbolism

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Question 4

• The original name for the starship in Star Trek
  was ___________ not Enterprise.

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Answer

• Yorktown

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Question 5

• At what moment in the story does Young Goodman
  Brown lose his faith?

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Answer

• Sees the pink ribbons in the tree

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Question 6

• Pigs are no longer used to rustle up truffles
  (mushrooms), instead this animal is used.

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Answer

• Dog

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Question 7

• The pink ribbons in Young Goodman Brown
  symbolize what?

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Answer

• Innocence

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Question 8

• What city is the only city in the world to be
  located on two continents.
• (Hint- it is a city between Europe and Asia)

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Answer

• Istanbul, Turkey

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Question 9

• A piece of prose fiction which can be read at a
  single sitting is known as a ____________.

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Answer

• Short Story

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Question 10

• The worlds largest exporter of beef is not the
  United States, but this country.

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Answer

• Australia

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Question 11

• while I nodded nearly napping is an example of
  which of the following literary devices?
• a) alliteration c) personification
• b) internal rhyme d) allusion

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Answer

• A) alliteration

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Question 12

• The fastest two-legged creature on Earth is the
  _____________, which can reach 45 mph over short
  distances.

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Answer

• Ostrich

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Question 13

• Young Goodman Browns journey from innocence to
  the awareness of sin is best represented by this
  biblical story
• a) Adam taking a bite of fruit from the Tree of
  the Knowledge of Good and Evil
• b) Moses staff becoming a snake and eating the
  Egyptians snakes
• c) Pilate washing his hands before the execution
  of Christ
• d) The disciples and Christ partaking of the Last
  Supper

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Answer

• a) Adam taking a bite of fruit from the Tree of
  the Knowledge of Good and Evil

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Question 14

• True or False?
• An infant human has more bones than an adult
  human.

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Answer

• True!
• An infant has about 300 bones, some of which fuse
  together as the youngster grows up. An adult
  humans body typically contains 206 bones.

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Question 15

• What is the theme of The Raven?
• a) the anguished soul creates its own hell
• b) we cannot escape death
• c) dont fear death
• d) ravens represent death

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Answer

• a) the anguished soul creates its own hell

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Question 16

• This state is the only state in the nation who
  accepts pennies at its toll booths?

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Answer

• Illinois- remember Lincoln was from Illinois!

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Question 17

• In The Masque of the Red Death, what object is
  located in the seventh suite and has symbolic
  value?

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Answer

• Clock

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Question 17

• The old mans bothers the
  narrator and motivates him to plot and execute
  the old mans murder.

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Answer

• Eye

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Question 18

• What are the names of the three ships on which
  Columbus sailed to the New World on his first
  voyage?

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Answer

• The Nina, The Pinta, The Santa Maria

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Question 19

• In Young Goodman Brown, what is received in the
  communion of our race?
• a) Forgiveness c) Sin
• b) Righteousness d) Grace

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Answer

• C) sin

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Question 20

• Rudyard Kipling wrote what famous novel about a
  boy raised by wolves.

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Answer

• Jungle Book

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Question 21

• The narrator was never nicer to the old man than
  the week before he killed him is an example of
  what literary device?

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Answer

• Irony

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Question 21

• What is the theme of The Masque of the Red
  Death?

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Answer

• Death is inescapable

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Question 22

• People didnt always say hello when they
  answered the phone. When the first regular phone
  service was established in 1878, people uttered
  this popular nautical expression.

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Answer

• ahoy

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Question 23

• The quote He plucked a branch of maple to serve
  for a walking stickThe moment his fingers
  touched them, they became strangely withered and
  dried up as with a weeks sunshine illustrates
• a) Goodman Browns desire to resist the
  temptation of the devil
• b) Goodman Browns weakness in the face of the
  devils cunning
• c) Man is inflicting his own destructive nature
  on the environment
• d) Man trying to appreciate nature while
  embarking on a spiritual journey

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Answer

• c) Man is inflicting his own destructive nature
  on the environment

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Question 24

• Arkansas is the only state in the nation to mine
  this precious forever keepsake.

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Answer

• Diamond

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Question 25

• A poem that tells a story is known as a
  
  _________________.

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Answer

• Narrative Poem