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American Lit. MCC
Final
Question | Answer |
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Poem written by Edwin Arlington Robinson | Richard Cory |
Rich man who was a "gentleman from sole to crown" and "glittered when he walked" | Richard Cory |
"man went home and put a bulllet through his head" | Richard Cory |
Poem written by Paul Laurence Dunbar | An Ante- Bellum Sermon |
Poem written in slave vernacular | An Ante- Bellum Sermon |
Poem talking about Moses setting his people free | An Ante- Bellum Sermon |
"But de Lawd will sen' Some Moses/ Fu' to set his chillun free" | An Ante- Bellum Sermon |
Poem written by Carl Sandburg | The Grass |
Poem names some of history's famous battles | The Grass |
"Shovel them under and let me work" | The Grass |
Poem written by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper | Bury Me in Free Land |
"I could not rest if I heard the lash/ Drinking her blood at each fearful gash" | Bury me in Free Land |
Poem by Emily Dickenson | Because I could not stop for death #479 |
Poem depicts death as a carriage ride | Because I could not stop for death # 479 |
"The Carriage held but just ourselves and immortality" | Because I could not stop for death # 479 |
Speech by Fredrick Douglas | what to slaves is the Fourth of July |
Speech that argues against slavery | What to the Slave is the Fourth of July |
"I answer, a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim" | What to the Slave is the Fourth of July |
Speech given by Abraham Lincoln | The Gettysburg Address |
"Four Score and seven years ago" | The Gettysburg Address |
Speech given at the location of a battlefield | The Gettysburg Address |
"gov. of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish..." | The Gettysburg Address |
Written by William Faulkner | A Rose for Emily |
Story where woman poisons her boyfriend | A Rose for Emily |
long strand of iron- gray hair | A Rose for Emily |
Woman who never married | A Rose for Emily |
Written by Langston Hughes | Mother to Son |
"Life for me aint been no crystal air" | Mother to Son |
Poem where mother tells son not to give up or turn back | Mother to Son |
Written by John Updike | Separating |
Joan and Richard give their children some unpleasant news | Separating |
Which story did a son ask his parents' "why?" | Separating |
"Years ago the Maples had observed how often, among their friends, divorce followed a dramatic home improvement as if marriage were making one last twitchy effort to live" | Separating |
Story written by Toni Morrison | Racitatif |
Story about friendship of black girl and a white girl | Racitatif |
"My mother danced all night and Roberta's was sick" | Racitatif |
Story questioned what happened to Maggie, the kitchen help | Racitatif |
Written by Mark Twain | The Notorious Jumping Frog |
Main Character named Jim Smiley who has a gambling problem | The Notorious Jumping Frog |
Animals named Daniel Webster and Andrew Jackson | The Notorious Jumping Frog |
"he would foller that straddle- bug to Mexico but what he would find out where he was bound for and how long he was on the road" | The NOtorious Jumping Frog |
Written by Samuel Clemens | The Notorious Jumping Frog |
Written by Edgar Allan Poe | The Tell- Tale Heart |
Man killed an older man because of the older man's vulture eye | The Tell- Tale Heart |
Man watched his victim sleep at midnight every night for seven days | The Tell- Tale Heart |
Man confesses to murder because of a pounding sound only he could hear | The Tell- Tale Heart |
"True!- nervous- very, very dreadfully nervous I had been, and am; but why will you say that I am mad? | The Tell- Tale Heart |
Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe | Uncle Tom's Cabin |
"But who, sir, makes the trader? Who is most to blame? The enlighten, cultivated, intelligent man" | Uncle Tom's Cabin |
Tells about slaves being bought and sold with parent and child being separated | Uncle Tom's Cabin |
Slave named Tom and slave trader named Mr. Haley | Uncle Tom's Cabin |
Written by Kate Chopin | Desiree's Baby |
"Armand will never know that his mother, who adores him, belongs to the race that is cursed with the brand of slavery" | Desiree's Baby |
Found Toddler and taken in by a childless couple | Desiree's Baby |
Husband rejects wife and child because the child was of mixed race | Desiree's Baby |
Written by Charles Chestnutt | Wife of his Youth |
society called the Blue Veins | Wife of His Youth |
Black woman named Liza Jane who searched for her husband for twenty five years | Wife of His Youth |
Mr. Ryder throws a ball so he could propose to Molly Dixon | Wife of His Youth |
"Self Preservation is the first law of nature" | Wife of His Youth |
Written by F. Scott Fitzgerald | Winter Dreams |
Main Characters Dexter Green and Judy Jones | Winter Dreams |
"I cannot cry. I cannot care. That thing will come back no more." | Winter Dreams |
Started as a Caddy and worked himself up to a well- to0 do man, but didn't get the girl | Winter Dreams |
Written by Ambrose Bierce | Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge |
Main character Peyton Farguhar was hung | Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge |
Main Character dreams of a heroic and miraculous escape | Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge |
"To die of hanging at the bottom of a river!- the idea seemed to him ludicrous" | Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge |
Where events take place during the Civil War | Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge |