Question 1

Henry David Thoreau was imprisoned briefly for

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A)   refusing to pay a poll tax.
B)   speaking against slavery.
C)   burning down his Walden cabin.
D)   refusing to serve in the U.S. Army.

Question 2

All of the following are characteristics of Hudson River School paintings EXCEPT

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A)   fidelity to nature.
B)   overt political messages.
C)   nostalgia for vanishing wilderness.
D)   emphasis on the drama of light.

Question 3

Explain Louis Agassiz's theory about the different races and its appeal to many
Americans.

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Louis Agassiz was a Swiss-American biolo...

Question 4

What other movement did Sojourner Truth and others view as part of the abolitionist movement?

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A)   Transcendentalism
B)   democracy
C)   child labor reform
D)   women's rights

Question 5

Frederick Douglass eventually broke away from the Anti-Slavery Society out of

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A)   concern that their doctrine would dissolve the Union.
B)   disgust with their exploitation of him as an intelligent African American.
C)   concern that they were becoming too militant.
D)   disillusionment with their talk but lack of action to help slaves.

Question 6

In A Visit from the Old Mistress,Winslow Homer portrays the old mistress dressed in black and the former slaves in white to

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A)   celebrate the new equality of the races.
B)   heighten the tension of the scene.
C)   show the disparity in wealth between them.
D)   balance the colors of his composition.

Question 7

During the Civil War,Winslow Homer work on assignment as

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A)   a literary journalist.
B)   an illustrator.
C)   a photographer.
D)   a medic.

Question 8

Define Emerson's Transcendentalist beliefs,and show how his friend Thoreau lived what Emerson preached.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson was a leading figure...

Question 9

What about America attracted artist Thomas Cole that he claimed had "long since been destroyed or modified" in Europe?

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A)   the Noble Savage
B)   creativity
C)   the wilderness
D)   farm life

Question 10

According to Ralph Waldo Emerson,transcendentalism's fundamental principle was

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A)   the spirit's oneness with nature.
B)   obedience to religious laws.
C)   following the political order of the day.
D)   the balance of faith and commerce.

Question 11

Compare the depiction of slavery in Uncle Tom's Cabin to that in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

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Question 12

According to Washington Irving's two most famous stories,"Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," the image of American productivity was the

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A)   cultivated farm.
B)   wilderness.
C)   Hudson River.
D)   railroad.

Question 13

Some people found Louis Agassiz's theory of origin more appealing than Charles Darwin's,because Agassiz

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A)   offered a Christian idea.
B)   explained white superiority.
C)   explained natural selection.
D)   offered a godless theory.

Question 14

Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin was inspired by

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A)   stories told by her father's slaves.
B)   the death and burial of her young son.
C)   public speeches of Frederick Douglass.
D)   a narrative told by Sojourner Truth.

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