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American Literature I Final
Preparation for Amer. Lit. I - To 1865 Final, University of Alabama, Summer 2009, EN 209-001
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Literature
Undergraduate 2
07/01/2009

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1630
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Massachusetts Bay Founded
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1636
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Harvard College Founded; Printing Press brought to America
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Governor of Mass. Bay colony
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John Winthrop
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Governor of Jamestown
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John Smith
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1620
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Plymouth Plantation Founded
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1607
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Jamestown Established
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"City Upon A Hill"
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John Winthrop
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Work that contains the Mayflower Compact
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"Of Plymouth Plantation"
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Banished for Dissenting Religious Beliefs
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Anne Hutchison
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Separatists from the Church of England
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Pilgrims
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Wanted to reform the Church of England
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Puritans
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Work containing the details of Anne Hutchison
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"Journal" by John Winthrop
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Work containing the account of Tom Granger
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"Of Plymouth Plantation"
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"Of Plymouth Plantation"
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William Bradford
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Governor of Plymouth Plantation
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William Bradford
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"Sinners at the Hands of an Angry God"
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Jonathon Edwards
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"A Model of Christian Charity"
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John Winthrop
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Filled with maxims against idleness, sloth, and folly
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"A Way to Wealth"
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"A Way to Wealth"
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Benjamin Franklin
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Work that lays out the case for independence from Britain.
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"Common Sense"
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"Common Sense"
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Thomas Paine
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"Age of Reason"
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Thomas Paine
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"Resistance to Civil Government"
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Henry David Thoreau
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Captured by N.A. and later killed her captors
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Hannah Dustan
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Wrote about Hannah Dustan
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John Greenleaf Whittier, Cotton Mather, etc.
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"Three flowers, two scarcely blown"
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Anne Bradstreet, death of her third grandchild, Simon
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"A Description of New England"
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John Smith
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"The Prologue"
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Anne Bradstreet
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"Contemplations"
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Anne Bradstreet
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"The Author to Her Book"
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Anne Bradstreet
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"In Memory of Elizabeth"
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Anne Bradstreet
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"In Memory of Anne"
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Anne Bradstreet
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"In memory of Simon"
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Anne Bradstreet
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"Follows some Verses" on the burning of her house
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Anne Bradstreet
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"Upon Wedlock"
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Edward Taylor
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"Huswifery"
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Edward Taylor
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"On being brought from Africa to America"
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Phillis Wheatley
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"To the University of Cambridge"
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Phillis Wheatley
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"Thoughts on the Works of Providence"
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Phillis Wheatley
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"The Day of Doom"
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Michael Wigglesworth
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"Remarks concerning Savages"
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Benjamin Franklin
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"Nature"
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Self Reliance"
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Autobiography"
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Benjamin Franklin
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"Walden"
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Henry David Thoreau
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"Last of the Mohicans"
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James Fenimoore Cooper
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"Rip Van Winkle"
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Washington Irving
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"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"
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Washington Irving
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"Young Goodman Brown"
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"The Minister's Black Veil"
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"The Birth-Mark"
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"Ligeia"
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Edgar Allan Poe
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"The Black Cat"
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Edgar Allan Poe
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"The Cask of Amontillado"
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Edgar Allan Poe
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"Bartleby, the Scribner"
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Herman Melville
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"Narrative of the Life"
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Frederick Douglass
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"Song of Myself"
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Walt Whitman
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"Crossing Brooklyn Ferry"
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Walt Whitman
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Character: "The cough is a mere nothing; it will not kill me. I shall not die of a cough."
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Fortunada, "Cask of Amontillado"
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Character: "I would prefer not to"
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Bartleby, "Bartleby, the Scribner"
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Character: "The corpse, I repeat, stirred, and now more vigorously than before."
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Narrator of Ligeia, "Ligeia"
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Character: "Faith kept me back a while"
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Young Goodman Brown, "Young Goodman Brown"
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Character: "He was, moreover, esteemed by the women as a man of great erudition, for he had read several books quite through, and was a perfect master of Cotton Mather's History of New England Witchcraft, in which, by the way he most firmly and potently believed."
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Ichabod Crane, "Legend of Sleepy Hollow"
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Character: Wears pink ribbons in her cap.
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Faith, "Young Goodman Brown"
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Character: "Either remove this dreadful hand, or take my wretched life!"
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Georgiana, "The Birth-Mark"
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What work makes an allusion to Jonathan Edwards?
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"Bartleby, the Scrivner"
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Character: The burly fellow who is after Katrina von Tassel.
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Bram Bones, "Legend of Sleepy Hollow"
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Character: "This dismal shade must separate me from the world."
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Reverend Hooper, "The Minister's Black Veil"
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Character: "Will you, or will you not, quit me?"
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Narrator of "Bartleby, the Scrivner"
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Character: "At length, I even offered her personal violence." Who says this?
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Narrator of "The Black Cat"
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Character: Obsessed with the birth mark on his wife's, Georgiana, cheek.
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Aylmer, "The Birth-Mark"
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America's First Poet
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Anne Bradstreet
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This work had little effect in it's time but greatly influenced Mahatma Ghandi and MLK Jr.
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"Resistance to Civil Government", Henry David Thoreau
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Religious poet not discovered until the 20th century. In one poem, and extended metaphor of a spinning wheel is used.
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Edward Taylor
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Coined the phrase, "Pilgrim".
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William Bradford
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Transcendental writer who gave 1500 lectures in his lifetime and eulogized his friend Thoreau.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Work: "I went into the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."
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"Walden", Henry David Thoreau
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Work: "My own mind is my own church."
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"Age of Reason", Thomas Paine
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Author: "If it is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law."
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Henry David Thoreau, "Resistance to Civil Government"
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Author: "To be great is to be misunderstood."
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance"
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Author: "My list of virtues consisted of at first but twelve: But a Quaker friend having kindly informed me that I was generally thought proud..."
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Benjamin Franklin, "Autobiography"
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What two poems/authors use an image of a cropped flower?
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"In Memory of Simon" by Anne Bradstreet
"Upon Wedlock" by Edward Taylor
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What was the occasion for "Resistance to Civil Government" and what experience did Thoreau draw upon to increase his credibility?
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To encite Massachusetts to take a stand on slavery prompted by the Mexican War. He uses his one night spent in jail (for not paying a poll tax) as a source of credibility.
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What is the belief in God due to proof observed in nature rather than from the Bible?
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Deism
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