1. The novel The Pearl contains much 'symbolism,' which is using people, places, and things that represent ideas larger than their literal meaning.

2. Although Steinbeck wrote about people from California, he himself was born and lived in New York City.

3. Emerson encouraged people to learn from the great people of the past who gave their name to whole periods.

4. Nathanial Hawthorne was America's leading transcendentalist thinker.

5. Emerson influenced Friedrich Nietzsche.

6. The poetry of T.S.Eliot is an example of Modernism.

7. The romantic movement in early nineteenth-century literature was a reaction against the Age of Reason.

8. As the enraptured Ichabod fancied all this, and as he rolled his great green eyes over the fat meadow lands, the rich fields of wheat, of rye, of buckwheat, and Indian corn, and the orchards burthened with ruddy fruit, which surrounded the warm tenement of Van Tassel, his heart yearned after the damsel who was to inherit these domains, and his imagination expanded with the idea, how they might be readily turned into cash, and the money invested in immense tracts of wild land, and shingle palaces in the wilderness. The word 'tenement' is another word for 'residence.'

9. John Steinbeck worked for a while as a farm laborer. His experiences showed him how to survive and gave him material for his later writings like The Grapes of Wrath.

10. Transcendentalists were in favor of the conservative Protestant scrutiny practiced by publicists nationwide.

11. Many writers turned editors of magazines or newspapers in order to see their work published. Washington Irving was one of those writers.

12. He had seen his people slaughtered, or driven from their homes and hunting-grounds, into shameful exile; his wife had died in captivity, and his children lived in servile dependence in the house of his enemies. The author of this work wanted to raise awareness of women's part in US history.

13. John Saffin supported the institution of slavery in colonial Massachusetts

14. William Faulkner was born in New Orleans

15. Mark Twain's real name was Samuel Clemens.

16. Cast your whole vote, not a strip of paper merely, but your whole influence. A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight. If the alternative is to keep all just men in prison, or give up war and slavery, the State will not hesitate which to choose. In this work the author argues in favour of…

17. Transcendentalism was embraced in the late 1830s and 1840s by all the mainstream newspapers and magazines.

18. Samuel Sewall was a leading supporter of slavery in colonial Massachusetts.

19. The Sketch Book is an example of the personal travel book, a genre that became popular in American literature.

20. 'Mingled with fine wheat and the fat of a new-born babe,' said the shape of old goodman Brown. 'Ah, your worship knows the receipt,' cried the old lady, cackling aloud. 'So, as I was saying, being all ready for the meeting, and no horse to ride on, I made up my mind to foot it; for they tell me, there is a nice young man to be taken into communion to-night. But now your good worship will lend me your arm, and we shall be there in a twinkling.' The word 'receipt' in this context means 'a written acknowledgment of having received a specified amount of money or goods.'

21. The Pearl takes place in rural South America.

22. Henry David Thoreau believed that the Mexican War was immoral because it advanced the cause of slavery.

23. The final writing assignment in this class was on each student's favorite author.

24. He now suspected that the great roysters of the mountain had put a trick upon him, and having dosed him with liquor, had robbed him of his gun. Wolf, too, had disappeared, but he might have strayed away after a squirrel or partridge. The word 'roysters' means 'roosters.'

25. William Carlos Williams wrote the poem 'The Red Wheelbarrow' which, like T.S. Eliot's poetry, contained complex images and allusions.