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Dr. Felix American Literature, Calhoun Community College

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Who counts success as sweetest?   show
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show Success/Victory  
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show The victors.  
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show Her childhood/life's morning  
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show Her father's law apprentice, Ben Newton.  
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show There was no church.  
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Abraham Lincoln worked on a New Orleans flat boat on his way to Mississippi. (True/False)   show
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What are the three tones in Lincoln's second inaugural address?   show
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Whose words were received and treasured around the Earth as the language of Humanity itself?   show
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Without the assistance of ______________, Lincoln could not succeed.   show
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show Mr. Symmes  
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Transcendentalist believed that evil is ________?   show
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What was Sojourner Truth called until her mid 40's?   show
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When was Sojourner Truth freed?   show
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What did Elizabeth Stanton use as a reference?   show
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show Litchfield, Connecticut  
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show He was going into office instead of leaving Springfield.  
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show No  
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Where did Linda Brent hide?   show
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show She could not walk or talk.  
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show She was a woman.  
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show 87 years  
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Who did Elizabeth Stanton marry?   show
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show Eliza's master/trader.  
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show Brook Farm  
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What is one theme of "Uncle Tom's Cabin"?   show
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show True  
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In line 17 of Dickinson's "Because I could not stop for Death", What else does the word "house" symbolize?   show
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What is the main theme of Dickinson's "Success is counted Sweetest"?   show
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Because Sojourner Truth was illiterate and could not write, how were her speeches recorded?   show
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What inspired Harriet Beecher Stowe to write "Uncle Tom's Cabin"?   show
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show Ohio River  
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When was the Fugitive Slave Act passed?   show
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show mother  
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show Sleeping with her master.  
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show protagonist,pseudonym for author, begins life innocently, unaware shes enslaved develops the knowledge, skills, and determination that she needs to defend herself. torn b/w a desire 4 personal freedom and a feeling of responsibility to her fam esp kids  
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An acquaintance of Linda’s from home whom she meets on the street in New York. Luke has escaped by stealing money from his dead master, and Linda uses him as an example of how slaves cannot be judged by the same moral standards as free citizens.   show
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show Mrs. Fanny  
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A slave friend of Linda’s with whom she escapes by boat to the North. Fanny had the devastating experience of watching all of her children be sold to slave traders.   show
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show Reverend and Mrs. Durham  
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Abolitionist antislavery friends of Linda’s in Rochester. The Posts appear in the book under their real names. They show Linda that it is possible for white people to treat her as an equal.   show
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show Mrs. Bruce (#2)  
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Mrs. Bruce’s husband, who takes Linda on a trip to England.   show
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Linda’s first employer in New York City. Mrs. Bruce is a kindly Englishwoman who helps Linda hide from the Flints. She dies and is replaced by Mrs. Bruce #2.   show
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A southerner visiting Brooklyn who betrays Linda’s whereabouts to Dr. Flint. Like Mrs. Hobbs, Mr. Thorne signals that a fugitive slave can never feel safe again.   show
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Mr. Sands’s New York cousin, to whom he “gives” Ellen. Mrs. Hobbs is a little slice of the Old South in Brooklyn, selfishly treating Ellen as property and highlighting the continued danger for escaped slaves even after they reach the Free States.   show
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Nicholas’s bride. Seemingly kind at first, young Mrs. Flint provides further evidence of the cruelty of slaveholding women when she orders an elderly slave to eat grass.   show
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show Nicholas Flint  
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show Mr. Dodge  
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show Emily Flint  
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An old slave woman who tells Aunt Martha to rejoice that William has run away. Aggie provides a counterpoint to Aunt Martha’s reluctance to see her loved ones escape to the North.   show
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show Sally  
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A slave in the household of the white benefactress. Betty is uneducated but an intelligent, loyal, and resourceful slave who provides material assistance and encouragement to Linda.   show
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show The “white benefactress”  
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A family friend who helps Linda escape. Peter urges Linda to risk the escape he has planned rather than to remain in her attic hideaway.   show
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Linda’s maternal aunt and Mrs. Flint’s slave. A martyr figure, Aunt Nancy is slowly killed by Mrs. Flint’s abuse.   show
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Linda’s brother, to whom she is close. William’s escape from Mr. Sands, his relatively “kind” master, shows that even a privileged slave desires freedom above all else.   show
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- Linda’s other uncle, instrumental in her escape. Uncle Phillip is reliable and moderate, remaining in the South with his family long after his mother, Aunt Martha, buys his freedom.   show
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Linda’s children with Mr. Sands. Linda loves Benny and Ellen passionately, and her feelings about them drive the book’s action. Benny and Ellen are dutiful children but otherwise are not characterized in great detail.   show
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show Uncle Benjamin  
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Linda’s white lover and the father of her children. Mr. Sands has a kindlier nature than Dr. Flint, but he feels no real love or responsibility for his mixed-race children. He repeatedly breaks his promises to Linda that he will free them.   show
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Linda’s mistress and Dr. Flint’s jealous wife. Mrs. Flint is characterized mainly by her hypocrisy. She is a church woman who supposedly suffers from weak nerves, but she treats her slaves with callousness and brutality.   show
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Mrs. Flint demonstrates how the slave system has...?   show
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show Aunt Martha  
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Aunt Martha represents...   show
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Linda’s master,enemy,and would-be lover.   show
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show Dr. Flint  
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show Dr. Flint  
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show Emily Dickinson’s calm acceptance of death. It is surprising that she presents the experience as being no more frightening than receiving a gentleman caller—in this case, her fiancé (Death personified).  
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show Death comes calling in a carriage in which Immortality is also a passenger.  
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As the trip continues in Stanza 2,   show
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show the author appears to review the stages of her life: childhood (the recess scene), maturity (the ripe, hence, “gazing” grain), and the descent into death (the setting sun)–as she passes to the other side.  
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Dickinson was born 10 December 1830   show
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