American Literature Questions With Single-Line Answers

Question: The limpid liquid within the young man, The vexed corrosion, so pensive and so painful, The torment–the irratable tide that will not be at rest, The like of the same I feel–the like of the same in others, The young man that flushes and flushes, and the young woman that flushes and flushes The young man that wakes, deep at night, the hot hand seeking to repress what would master him. Write the title of this work, correctly spelled:
Answer: Spontaneous Me

Question: The catalyst for Wolfe's downfall is…
Answer: Dr. May

Question: Since then – 'tis Centuries – and yet Feels shorter than the Day I first surmised the Horses' Heads Were toward Eternity Write the title of this work, correctly spelled:
Answer: Because I could not stop for Death

Question: As they could not reach me, they had resolved to punish my body; just as boys, if they cannot come at some persons against whom they have a spite, will abuse his dog. I saw that the State was half-witted, that it was timid as a lone woman with her silver spoons, and that it did not know its friends from its foes, and I lost all my remaining respect for it. Write the title of this work, correctly spelled:
Answer: Resistance to Civil Government

Question: She looked upward with an intent gaze, as if she held communion with an invisible being. 'Spirit of my mother!' burst from her lips. Oh! that I could follow the to that blessed land where I should no more dread the war-cry, nor the death-knife!' Write the title of this work, correctly spelled:
Answer: Hope Leslie

Question: They have tears to shed over Greece and Poland; they have an abundance of sympathy for 'poor Ireland'; they can furnish a ship of war to convey the Hungarian refugee from a Turkish prison to the 'land of the free and home of the brave.' They boast that America is the 'cradle of liberty'; if it is, I fear they have rocked the child to death. Write the title of this work, correctly spelled:
Answer: Clotel; or, The President's Daughter

Question: Why Are We in Vietnam?
Answer: Norman Mailer

Question: Two together! Winds blow south, or winds blow north, Day come white, or night come black Home, or rivers and mountains from home, Singing all time, minding no time, While we two keep together Write the title of this work, correctly spelled:
Answer: Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking

Question: To Jerusalem and Back
Answer: Saul Bellow

Question: Their Eyes Were Watching God
Answer: Zora Neale Hurston

Question: Cup of Gold
Answer: John Steinbeck

Question: The American Democrat
Answer: James Cooper

Question: But at last you may think I am what is called a hard and uncharitable man. But not so. I believe there are many who would not hesitate to advocate our cause; and those too who are men of fame and respectability—as well as ladies of honor and virtue. Write the author's full name, correctly spelled:
Answer: William Apess

Question: Maud Martha
Answer: Gwen Brooks

Question: 'Full of these ideas, I prepared myself with a pair of green spectacles, and called one fine morning, quite by accident, at the Ministerial hotel. I found D—— at home, yawning, lounging, and dawdling, as usual, and pretending to be in the last extremity of ennui. He is, perhaps, the most really energetic human being now alive—but that is only when nobody sees him.' Write the author's name in full, correctly spelled:
Answer: Edgar Allan Poe

Question: Satan in Goray
Answer: Isaac Singer

Question: The order of civilization is reversed here. The name of the child is not expected to be that if its father, and his condition does not necessarily affect that of the child. He may be the slave of Mr. Tilgman; and his child, when born, may be the slave of Mr. Gross. He may be a freeman; and his child may be a chattel. Write the title of this work, correctly spelled:
Answer: My Bondage and My Freedom

Question: Lie Down in Darkness
Answer: William Styron

Question: Who wrote 'The Heights of Macchu Picchu?'
Answer: Pablo Neruda

Question: 'His lynx eye immediately perceives the paper, recognizes the handwriting of the address, observes the confusion of the personage addressed, and fathoms her secret. After some business transaction, hurried through in his ordinary manner, he produces a letter somewhat similar to the one in question, opens it, pretends to read it, and then places it in close juxtaposition to the other. Again he converses, for some fifteen minutes, upon the public affairs. At length, in taking leave, he takes also from the table the letter to which he had no claim.' Write the title of this work, correctly spelled:
Answer: The Purloined Letter

Question: Three Lives
Answer: Gertrude Stein

Question: The disease of the lady […] had long baffled the skill of her physicians. A settled apathy, a gradual wasting away of the person, and frequent although transient affections of a partially cataleptical character, were the usual diagnosis. Write the title of this work, correctly spelled:
Answer: The Fall of the House of Usher

Question: He seldom has to listen to lectures on propriety of behavior, or an anything else. He is never chided for handling his little knife and fork improperly or awkwardly, for he uses none. He is never reprimanded for soiling the table-cloth, for he takes his meals on the clay floor. He never has the misfortune, in his games or sports, of soiling or tearing his clothes, for he has almost none to soil or tear. Write the author's name in full, correctly spelled:
Answer: Frederick Douglass

Question: The Fall of America: Poems of These States
Answer: Allen Ginsburg

Question: The Progress of Love
Answer: Alice Munro

Question: Black Magic…
Answer: Amiri Baraka

Question: The Strange Case of Miss Annie Spragg
Answer: Louis Bromfield

Question: Rolling Stones
Answer: O. Henry

Question: Not one of all the purple Host Who took the Flag to-day Can tell the definition, So clear, of victory.. Write the author's name in full, correctly spelled:
Answer: Emily Dickinson

Question: Rocket Ship Galileo
Answer: Robert Heinlein

Question: The Pump House Gang
Answer: Tom Wolfe

Question: 'A blight came down, a blast swept by, The cone-roof'd cabins fell, And where that exil'd people fled, It is not ours to tell.' Write the title of this work, correctly spelled:
Answer: Our Aborigines

Question: One Writer's Beginnings
Answer: Eudora Welty

Question: The Soul selects her own Society - Then – shuts the Door – To her divine Majority - Present no more Write the title of this work, correctly spelled:
Answer: The Soul selects her own Society

Question: The Neon Wilderness
Answer: Nelson Algren

Question: Beautiful dripping fragments, the negligent list of one after another as I happen to call them to me or think of them, The real poems, (what we can call poems being merely pictures,)* The poems of the privacy of the night, and of men like me, This poem drooping shy and unseen that I always carry, and that all men carry, (Know once for all, avow'd on purpose, wherever are men like me, are our lusty lurking masculine poems,) Write the title of this work, correctly spelled:
Answer: Spontaneous Me

Question: Begorra! On the spools. Alleys behint, though we helped her, we dud. An wid ye! Let Deb alone! It's ondacent frettin' a quite body. Be the powes, an'we'll have a night of it! There'll be lashin's ódrink, - the Vargent be blessed and praised for it! What does this Welsh worker mean by Vargent?
Answer: The virgin Mary

Question: The Winthrop Covenant
Answer: Louis Auchincloss

Question: 'They rear'd their dwellings on our side, Their corn upon our breast; A blight came down, a blast swept by, The cone-roof'd cabins fell…' Write full name of author, correctly spelled:
Answer: Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney

Question: Her good luck was owing to the exceeding care which she took in preventing the succulent root from getting bruised in the digging, and in placing it beyond the reach of frost, by actually burying it under the hearth of her cabin during the winter months. What does succulent mean?
Answer: Juicy

Question: _______ _______ of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz
Answer: a woman of genius: the intellectual biography

Question: The shriek, I said, was my own in a dream. The old man, I mentioned, was absent in the country. I took my visitors all over the house. I bade them search—search well. I led them, at length, to his chamber. I showed them his treasures, secure, undisturbed. In the enthusiasm of my confidence, I brought chairs into the room, and desired them here to rest from their fatigues… Write the title of this work, correctly spelled:
Answer: The Tell-Tale Heart

Question: In truth, all through the haunted forest, there could be nothing more frightful than the figure of … On he flew, among the black pines, brandishing his staff with frenzied gestures, now giving vent to an inspiration of horrid blasphemy, and now shouting forth such laughter, as set all the echoes of the forest echoing like demons around him. Write the title of this work, correctly spelled:
Answer: Young Goodman Brown

Question: The night in prison was novel and interesting enough. The prisoners in their shirtsleeves were enjoying a chat and the evening air in the doorway, when I entered. But the jailer said, 'Come, boys, it is time to lock up'; and so they dispersed, and I heard the sound of their steps returning into the hollow apartments. My room-mate was introduced to me by the jailar as 'a first-rate fellow and clever man.' Write the author's name in full, correctly spelled:
Answer: Henry David Thoreau

Question: Azul was written by
Answer: Ruben Dario

Question: The great chastity of paternity, to match the great chastity of maternity, The oath of procreation I have sworn, my Adamic and fresh daughters, The greed that eats me day and night with hungry gnaw, till I saturate what shall produce boys to fill my place when I am through, The wholesome relief, repose, content, And this bunch pluck'd at random from myself, It has done its work – I toss it carelessly to fall where it may. Write the title of this work, correctly spelled:
Answer: Spontaneous Me

Question: Hopskotch is by
Answer: Julio Cortazar

Question: Flor Y Canto is by the
Answer: aztecs

Question: The Princess Casamassima
Answer: Henry James

Question: That bond-woman's corse, - let Potomac's proud wave Go bear if along by our Washington's grave, And heave it high up on that hallowed strand, To tell of the freedom he won for our land. What does hallowed mean?
Answer: Sacred

Question: How to Write Short Stories
Answer: Ring Lardner

Question: Nine Stories
Answer: J. D. Salinger

Question: The inconsistencies of Slaveholding professors of religion cry to Heaven. We are not disposed to detest, or refuse communion with them. Their blindness is but one form of that prevalent fallacy which substitutes a creed for a faith, a ritual for a life. Write the title of this work, correctly spelled:
Answer: Review of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave

Question: Here the fugitive saw nothing but slaves brought in and taken out, to be placed in ships and sent away to the same part of the country to which she herself would soon be compelled to go. She had seen or heard nothing of her daughter while in Richmond, and all hopes of seeing her now had fled. If she was carried back to New Orleans, she could expect no mercy from her master. Write the title of this work, correctly spelled:
Answer: Clotel; or, The President's Daughter

Question: Fanny
Answer: Erica Jong

Question: A free, firm step, a clear-cut olive face, with a scarlet turban tied on one side, dark, shining eyes, and on the head the basket poised, filled with fruit and flowers, under which the scarlet turban and bright eyes looked out half-shadowed. The picture caught his eye. It was good to see a face like that. He would try to-morrow, and cut one like it. To-morrow! He threw down the tin, trembling and covered his face with his hands. When he looked up again, the daylight was gone. Write the title of this work, correctly spelled:
Answer: Life in the Iron-Mills

Question: The continence of vegetables, birds, animals, The consequent meanness of me should I skulk or find myself indecent, while birds and animals never once skulk or find themselves indecent. The great chastity of paternity, to match the great chastity of maternity. Write the author's name in full, correctly spelled:
Answer: Walt Whitman

Question: Its principle feature seemed to be that of an excessive antiquity. The discoloration of ages had been great. Minute fungi overspread the whole exterior, hanging in a fine tangled webwork from the eaves. Yet all of this was apart from any extraordinary dilapidation. Write the author's name in full, correctly spelled:
Answer: Edgar Allan Poe

Question: Name an author whose grandmother was thought to have the magical powers of a witch?
Answer: Frederick Douglass

Question: The House of Dust: A Symphony
Answer: Conrad Aiken

Question: Two sleepers at night lying close together as they sleep, one with an arm slanting down across and below the waist of the other, The smell of apples, aromas from crush'd sage-plant, mint, birch-bark, The boy's longings, the glow and pressure as he confides to me what he wad dreaming, The dead leaf whirling its spiral whirl and falling still and content to the ground, Write the title of this work, correctly spelled:
Answer: Spontaneous Me

Question: Uncle Tom's Children
Answer: Richard Wright

Question: Seize the Day
Answer: Saul Bellow

Question: He had stepped aside where the light fell boldest on the figure, looking at it in silence. There was not one line of beauty or grace in it: a nude woman's form, muscular, grown coarse with labor, the powerful limbs instinct with some one poignant longing. One idea: there it was in the tense, rigid muscles, the clutching hands, the wild, eager face, like that of a starving wolf's Write the author's name in full, correctly spelled:
Answer: Rebecca Harding Davis

Question: The pulse pounding through palms an trebling encircling finger, the young man all color'd, red, ashamed, angry; The souse upon me of lover the sea, as I lie willing and naked. The merriment of the twin babies that crawl over the grass in the sun, the mother never turning her vigilant eyes from them… What does souse mean in this context?
Answer: Drenching in water

Question: Vineland
Answer: Thomas Pynchon

Question: He seldom has to listen to lectures on propriety of behavior, or on anything else. He is never chided for handling his little knife and fork improperly or awkwardly, for he uses none. He is never reprimanded for soiling the table-cloth, for he takes his meals on the clay floor. He never has the misfortune, in his games or sports, of soiling or tearing his clothes, for he has almost none to soil or tear. Write the title of this work, correctly spelled:
Answer: My Bondage and My Freedom

Question: it conveyed to my mind in a sense of my entire dependence on the will of somebody I had never seen; and, from some cause or other, I had been made to fear this somebody above all else on earth. Write the title of this work, correctly spelled:
Answer: My Bondage and My Freedom

Question: We feel that his view, even of those who have injured him most, may be relied upon. He knows how to allow for motives and influences. Upon the subject of Religion; he speaks with great force, and not more than our own sympathies can respond to. Write the title of this work, correctly spelled:
Answer: Review of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave

Question: A stern, a sad, a darkly meditative, a distrustful, if not a desperate man, did he become, from the night of that fearful dream. On the Sabbath-day, when the congregation were singing a holy psalm, he could not listen, because an anthem of sin rushed loudly upon his ear, and drowned all the blessed strain. When the minister spoke from the pulpit, with power and fervid eloquence, and, with his hand on the open bible, of the sacred truths of our religion, and of saint-like lives and triumphant deaths, and of future bliss or misery unutterable, then did [he] turn pale, dreading, lest the roof should thunder down upon the gray blasphemer and his hearers… Write the title of this work, correctly spelled:
Answer: Young Goodman Brown

Question: The experience through which I was passing, they had passed through before. They had already been initiated into the mysteries of old master's domicile, and they seemed to look upon me with a certain degree of compassion; but my heart clave to my grandmother. Think it not strange, dear reader, that so little sympathy of feeling existed between us. Write the author's name in full, correctly spelled:
Answer: Frederick Douglass

Question: A Choice of Enemies
Answer: Mordecai Richler

Question: She crept into a corner of the cell, and stood watching him. He was scratching the iron bars of the window with a piece of tin which he had picked up, with an idle, uncertain, vacant stare, just as a child or idiot would do. Write the title of this work, correctly spelled:
Answer: Life in the Iron-Mills

Question: We slowly drove - He knew no haste And I had put away My labor and my leisure too, For his Civility - What does leisure mean?
Answer: Pastime

Question: We passed the school where children strove At recess – in the ring - We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain - We passed the setting Sun - Write the title of this work, correctly spelled:
Answer: Because I could not stop for Death

Question: Black Rock: A Tale of the Selkirks
Answer: Ralph Connor

Question: The young man that wakes deep at night, the hot hand seeking to repress what would master him, The mystic amorous night, the strange half-welcome pangs, visions, sweats, The pulse pounding through palms and trembling encircling fingers, the young man all color'd, red, ashamed, angry; Write the title of this work, correctly spelled:
Answer: Spontaneous Me

Question: 'Have I not heard her footsteps on the stair? Do I not distinguish that heavy and horrible beating of her heart? Madman!' —here he sprung violently to his feet, and shrieked out his syllables, as if in the effort he were giving up his soul—'Madman! I tell you that she now stands without the door!' Write the title of this work, correctly spelled:
Answer: The Fall of the House of Usher

Question: Fantastic Voyage
Answer: Isaac Asimov

Question: The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
Answer: Robert Heinlein

Question: A Wonder Book for Boys and Girls
Answer: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Question: Grendel
Answer: John Gardner

Question: Following the Equator
Answer: Mark Twain

Question: A Mixture of Frailties
Answer: Robertson Davies

Question: The cautious old gentleman knit his brows tenfold closer after this explanation, being sorely puzzled by the ratiocination of the syllogism; while methought the one in pepper and salt eyed him with something of a triumphant leer. At length he observed, that all this was very well, but still he thought the story a little extravagant – there were one or two points on which he had his doubts. 'Faith, sir,' replied the story-teller, 'as to that matter, I don't believe one half of it myself.' Write the title of this work, correctly spelled:
Answer: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Question: Jose hernandez wrote:
Answer: the departure of martin fierro

Question: The dominant spirit, however, that haunts this enchanted region, and seems to be commander-in-chief of all the powers of the air, is the apparition of a figure on horseback, without a head. It is said by some to be the ghost of a Hessian trooper, whose head had been carried away by a cannon-ball, in some nameless battle during the Revolutionary War, and who is ever and anon seen by the country folk hurrying along in the gloom of night, as if on the wings of the wind. Write the author's name in full, correctly spelled:
Answer: Washington Irving

Question: Name the author who called attention to 'white slavery' in the US.
Answer: Rebecca Harding Davis

Question: The souse upon me of my lover the sea, as I lie and naked, The merriment of the twin babes that crawl over the grass in the sun, the mother never turning her vigilant eyes from them. Write the author's name in full, correctly spelled:
Answer: Walt Whitman

Question: The Cave
Answer: Robert Penn Warren

Question: Isabel Allende wrote:
Answer: house of the spirits

Question: The Painted Bird
Answer: Jerzy Kosinski

Question: A man, yet by these tears a little boy again, Throwing myself on the sand, confronting the waves, I, chanter of pains and joys, uniter of here and hereafter, Taking all hints to use them, but swiftly leaping beyond them, A reminiscence sing. Write the author's name in full, correctly spelled:
Answer: Walt Whitman

Question: Which author was a recluse?
Answer: Emily Dickinson

Question: Name the first author who wrote the first African American play?
Answer: William Wells Brown

Question: Jorge Luis Borges wrote _______
Answer: Ficciones

Question: Beloved
Answer: Toni Morrison

Question: That it was affirmed that the great Hendrick Hudson, the first discoverer of the river and country, kept a kind of vigil there every twenty years, with his crew of the Half-moon, being permitted in this way to revisit the scenes of his enterprise, and keep a guardian eye upon the river, and the great city called by his name. Write the author's name in full, correctly spelled:
Answer: Washington Irving

Question: Considered merely as a narrative, we have never read one more simple, true, coherent, and warm with genuine feeling. It is an excellent piece of writing, and on that score to be prized as a specimen of the powers of the Black Race, which Prejudice persists in disputing. We prize highly all evidence of this kind, and it is becoming more abundant. What does coherent mean?
Answer: Clear and understandable

Question: Fifth Business
Answer: Robertson Davies

Question: She was a dainty little figure with a white neck, round arms, and a slender waist, at the extremity of which her scarlet petticoat jutted out over a hoop, as if she were standing in a balloon. Moreover, her face was oval and pretty, her hair dark beneath the little cap, and her bright eyes possessed a sly freedom, which triumphed over those of … Write the title of this work, correctly spelled:
Answer: My Kinsman, Major Molineux

Question: Born for another's benefit, as the firstling of the cabin flock I was soon to be selected as a meet offering to the fearful and inexorable demigod, whose huge image on so many occasions haunted my childhood's imagination Write the title of this work, correctly spelled:
Answer: My Bondage and My Freedom

Question: We wish that every one may read his book and see what a mind might have been stifled in bondage, - what a man may be subjected to the insults of spendthrift dandies, or the blows of mercenary brutes, in whom there is no whiteness except of the skin, no humanity except in the outward form, and of whom the Avenger will not fail yet to demand – 'Where is thy brother?' Write the title of this work, correctly spelled:
Answer: Review of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave

Question: He was an elderly man, of large and majestic person, and strong, square features, betokening a steady soul; but steady as it was, his enemies had found means to shake it. His face was pale as death, and far more ghastly; the broad forehead was contracted in his agony, so that his eyebrows formed one grizzled line; his eyes were red and wild, and the foam hung white upon his quivering lip. His whole frame was agitated by a quick and continual tremor, which his pride strove to quell, even in those circumstances of overwhelming humiliation. Write the author's full name, correctly spelled:
Answer: Nathaniel Hawthorne Discuss this Question

Question: The Rebel Angels
Answer: Robertson Davies

Question: When school hours were over, he was even the companion and playmate of the larger boys; and on holiday afternoons would convoy some of the smaller ones home, who happened to have pretty sisters, or good housewives for mothers, noted for the comforts of the cupboard. Indeed, it behooved him to keep on good terms with his pupils. Write the title of this work, correctly spelled:
Answer: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Question: Name a work form this period that alludes to Emerson?
Answer: Life in the Iron-Mills

Question: It was market-day. The narrow window of the jail looked down directly on the carts and the wagons drawn up in a long line, where they had unloaded. He could see, too, and hear distinctly the clink of money as it changed hands, the busy crowds of whites and blacks shoving, pushing one another, and the chaffering and swearing at the stalls. Somehow, the sound, more than anything else had done, wakened him up, - made the whole real to him. He was done with the world and the business of it. Write the title of this work, correctly spelled:
Answer: Life in the Iron Mills

Question: Through this unjust and oppressive law, many persons born in the Free States have bee consigned to a life of slavery on the cotton, sugar, or rice plantations of the Southern States. Write the author's name in full, correctly spelled:
Answer: William Wells Brown

Question: My own songs awaked from that hour, And with them the key, the word up from the waves, The word of the sweetest song and all songs, That strong and delicious word which, creeping to my feet, (Or like some old crone rocking the cradle, swathed in sweet garments, bending aside) The sea whisper'd me. Write the title of this work, correctly spelled:
Answer: Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking

Question: 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 men in prison, or give up war and slavery, the State will not hesitate which to choose. Write the author's name in full, correctly spelled:
Answer: Henry David Thoreau

Question: Another Country
Answer: James Baldwin

Question: The Morning Watch
Answer: James Agee

Question: Jane of Lantern Hill
Answer: Lucy Maud Montgomery

Question: Society and Solitude
Answer: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Question: Letting Go
Answer: Philip Roth

Question: There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do nor does he know until he has tried. Write the title of this work, correctly spelled:
Answer: Self-Reliance

Question: Lost in the Funhouse
Answer: John Barth

Question: The Story of a Novel
Answer: Tom Wolfe

Question: Any free coloured persons visiting Washington, if not provided with papers asserting and providing their right to be free, may be arrested and placed in one of those dens. If they succeed in showing that they are free, they are set at liberty, provided they are able to pay the expenses of their arrest and imprisonment; if they cannot pay these expenses, they are sold out. Write the author's name in full, correctly spelled:
Answer: William Wells Brown

Question: Orion and Other Poems
Answer: Charles Roberts

Question: 'Why, I will tell you,' replied the Prefect, as he gave a long, steady, and contemplative puff, and settled himself in his chair. 'I will tell you in a few words; but, before I begin, let me caution you that this is an affair demanding the greatest secrecy, and that I should most probably lose the position I now hold, were it known that I confided it to any one.' Write the title of this work, correctly spelled:
Answer: The Purloined Letter

Question: I was astounded. The Perfect appeared absolutely thunderstricken. For some minutes he remained speechless and motionless, less, looking incredulously at my friend with open mouth, and eyes that seemed starting from their sockets; then, apparently in some measure, he seized a pen, and after several pauses and vacant stares, finally filled up and signed a check for fifty thousand francs, and handed it across the table to [my friend]. Write the author's name in full, correctly spelled:
Answer: Edgar Allan Poe

Question: Mules and Men
Answer: Zora Neale Hurston

Question: Soon, however a bewildering excitement began to seize upon his mind; the preceding adventures of the night, the unexpected appearance of the crowd, the torches, the confused din and the hush that followed, the spectre of his kinsman reviled by that great multitude, – all this, and more than all, a perception of tremendous ridicule in the whole scene, affected him with a sort of mental inebriety Write the author's full name, correctly spelled:
Answer: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Question: He likes a boggy acre, A floor too cool for corn. Yet when a child, and barefoot, I more than once, at morn, Write the title of this work, correctly spelled:
Answer: A narrow Fellow in the Grass

Question: But may I remark, that, if the lineal descendants of Ham are only to be enslaved, according to the scriptures, slavery in the country will soon become an unscriptural institution; for thousands are ushered into the world annually, who – like myself – owe their existence to white fathers, and, most frequently, to their masters, and their master's sons. Write the title of this work, correctly spelled:
Answer: My Bondage & My Freedom

Question: Low-hanging moon! What is that dusky spot in your brown yellow? O it is the shape, the shape of my mate. O moon do not keep her from me any longer. Write the title of this work, correctly spelled:
Answer: Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking

Question: Picturing Will
Answer: Ann Beattie

Question: You Know Me Al
Answer: Ring Lardner

Question: We the Living
Answer: Ayn Rand

Question: Notwithstanding his special acuteness and ability, he is unable to take a fact out of its merely political relations, and behold it as it lies absolutely to be disposed of by the intellect, - what, for instance, it behoves a man do here in America to-day with regard to slavery, but ventures, or is driven, to make some such desperate answer as the following, while professing to speak absolutely, and as a private man, - from which that new and singular code of consideration, under their responsibility to their constituents, to the general laws of propriety, humanity, and to God… What does acuteness mean?
Answer: Sharpness

Question: As they could not reach me, they had resolved to punish my body; just as boys, if they cannot come at some person against whom they have a spite, will abuse his dog. I saw that the State was half-witted, that it was timid as a lone woman with her silver spoons, and that it did not know its friends from its foes, and I lost all my remaining respect for it. Write the author's name in full, correctly spelled:
Answer: Henry David Thoreau

Question: May stopped, heated, glowing with his own magnanimity. And it was magnanimous. The puddler had drunk in every word, looking through the Doctor's flurry, and generous heat, and self-approval, into his will, with those slow, absorbing eyes of his. 'Make yourself what you will. It is your right.' 'I know,' quietly. 'Will you help me?' Write the title of this work, correctly spelled:
Answer: Life in the Iron-Mills

Question: The Groves of Academe
Answer: Mary McCarthy

Question: Diary of a Yuppie
Answer: Louis Auchincloss

Question: A Slipping-Down Life
Answer: Anne Tyler

Question: After what I have now said of the circumstances of my mother, and my relations to her, the reader will not be surprised, nor be disposed to censure me, when I tell but the simple truth, viz: that I received the tidings of her death with no strong emotions of sorrow for her, and with very little regret for myself on account of her loss. I had to learn the value of my mother long after her death, and by witnessing the devotion of other mothers to their children. Write the author's name in full, correctly spelled:
Answer: Frederick Douglass

Question: Going to the Territory
Answer: Ralph Ellison

Question: Nobody Knows My Name
Answer: James Baldwin

Question: This is what I want you to do. I want you to hide your disgust, take no heed to you clean clothes, and come right down with me, - here, into the thickest of the fog and mud and foul effluvia. I want you to hear this story. There is a secret down here, in this nightmare fog, that has lain dumb for centuries: I want to make it a real thing to you. Write the author's name in full, correctly spelled:
Answer: Rebecca Harding Davis

Question: Our Mr. Wrenn
Answer: Sinclair Lewis

Question: In this district is situated the capitol of the U.S. Any free coloured person visiting Washington, if not provided with papers asserting and providing their right to be free, may be arrested and placed in one of these dens. If they succeed in showing that they are free, they are set at liberty, provided they are able to pay the expenses of their arrest and imprisonment; if they cannot pay these expenses, they are sold out. Write the title of this work, correctly spelled:
Answer: Clotel; or, The President's Daughter

Question: 'And now, my children, look upon each other!' They did so; and, by the blaze of the hell-kindled torches, the wretched man beheld his [wife], and the wife her husband, trembling before that unhallowed altar. Write the title of this work, correctly spelled:
Answer: Young Goodman Brown

Question: The grass divides as with a comb, A spotted shaft is seen; And then it closes at your feet And opens further on. Write the author's name in full, correctly spelled:
Answer: Emily Dickinson

Question: The Long Valley
Answer: John Steinbeck

Question: Drum-Taps
Answer: Walt Whitman

Question: The Outsider
Answer: Richard Wright

Question: 'Have we come to the counsel of old men and old women!' said Sassacus in the bitterness of his spirit. 'When women put down their womanish thoughts and counsel like men, they should be obeyed,' said my father. 'Follow me, warriors!' Write the title of this work, correctly spelled:
Answer: Hope Leslie

Question: The Wapshot Scandal
Answer: John Cheever

Question: In every threat and in every compliment there was a blunder; for they thought that my chief desire was to stand the other side of that stone wall. I could not but smile to see how industriously they locked the door on my meditations, which followed them out again without let or hindrance, and they were really all that was dangerous. Write the title of this work, correctly spelled:
Answer: Resistance to Civil Government

Question: The Criterion (a magazine)
Answer: T. S. Eliot

Question: Name the first African American novelist:
Answer: William Wells Brown

Question: When the time of my departure was decided upon, my grandmother, knowing my fears, and in pity for them, kindly kept me ignorant of the dreaded event about to transpire. Write the title of this work, correctly spelled:
Answer: My Bondage and My Freedom

Question: A Bridge for Passing
Answer: Pearl Buck

Question: Silver Pitchers and Independence
Answer: Louisa Alcott

Question: Here, inside, is a little broken figure of an angel pointing upward from the mantel-shelf; but even its wings are covered with smoke, clotted and black. Smoke everywhere! A dirty canary chirps desolately in a cage beside me. Write the title of this work, correctly spelled:
Answer: Life in the Iron-Mills

Question: The eyes glaze once – and that is Death – Impossible to feign The Beads upon the Forehead By homely Anguish strung.. What does feign mean?
Answer: Fake

Question: Have passed I thought a Whip Lash Unbraiding in the Sun When stooping to secure it It wrinkled And was gone - Write the author's name in full, correctly spelled:
Answer: Emily Dickinson

Question: Henry James: A Life
Answer: Leon Edel

Question: Ollantay is by
Answer: incas

Question: The Lost World
Answer: Randall Jarrell

Question: It was open—wide, wide open—and I grew furious as I gazed upon it. I saw it with perfect distinctness—all a dull blue with a hideous veil over it that chilled the very marrow of my bones; but I could see nothing else of the old man's face or person, for I had directed the ray as if by instinct precisely upon the damned spot. Write full name of author, correctly spelled:
Answer: Edgar Allan Poe

Question: Name a best-selling author from this period:
Answer: Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney

Question: 'We also measured the thickness of every book-cover, with the most accurate admeasurement, and applied to each the most jealous scrutiny of the microscope. Had any of the bindings been recently meddled with, it would have been utterly impossible that the fact should have escaped observation. Some five or six volumes, just from the hands of the binder, we carefully probed, longitudinally, with the needles.' Write the title of this work, correctly spelled:
Answer: The Purloined Letter

Question: Its evidence—the evidence of the sentience—was to be seen, he said, (and I here started as he spoke,) in the gradual yet certain condensation of an atmosphere of their own about the waters and the walls. The result was discoverable, he added, in that silent, yet importunate and terrible influence which for centuries had moulded the destinies of his family, and which made him what I now saw him—what he was. Write the title of this work, correctly spelled:
Answer: The Fall of the House of Usher

Question: The Crayon Miscellany
Answer: John Irving

Question: I like a look of Agony Because I know it's true - Write the author of this work, correctly spelled:
Answer: Emily Dickinson

Question: Alexander's Bridge
Answer: Pearl Buck

Question: Literary Lapses
Answer: Stephen Leacock

Question: Rootabaga Stories
Answer: Carl Sandburg

Question: One Man's Meat
Answer: E. B. White

Question: He said to be an excellent speaker – can speak from a thorough personal experiences – and has upon the audience, beside, the influence of a strong character and uncommon talents. In the book before us he has put into the story of his life the thoughts, the feelings and the adventures that have been so affecting through the living voice; nor are they less so from the printed page. Write the author's name in full, correctly spelled:
Answer: Margaret Fuller

Question: The Cross of the Legion of Honor has just been conferred in France on Dumas and Soulié, both celebrated in the paths of light literature. Dumas, whose father was a general in the French Army, is a Mulatto; Soulié a Quadroon. Write the title of this work, correctly spelled:
Answer: Review of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave

Question: They measure their esteem of each other by what each has, and not by what each is. But a cultivated man becomes ashamed of his property, out of new respect for his nature. Especially he hates what he has, if he see that it is accidental, – came to him by inheritance, or gift, or crime; then he feels that it is not having; it does not belong to him, has no root in him, and merely lies there, because no revolution or no robber takes it away. Write the title of this work, correctly spelled:
Answer: Self-Reliance

Question: Xingu and Other Stories
Answer: Edith Wharton

Question: I like a look of Agony, Because I know it's true - Men do not sham Convulsion, Nor simulate, a Throe - What does sham mean?
Answer: Fake

Question: It is an excellent piece of writing, and on that score to be prized as a specimen of the powers of the Black Race, which Prejudice persists in disputing. We prize highly all evidence of this kind, and it is becoming more abundant. Write the author's name in full, correctly spelled:
Answer: Margaret Fuller

Question: There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men. When the majority shall at length vote for the abolition of slavery, it will be because they are indifferent to slavery, or because there is but little slavery left to be abolished by their vote. They will then be the only slaves. Only his vote can hasten the abolition of slavery who asserts his own freedom by his vote. Write the title of this work, correctly spelled:
Answer: Resistance of Civil Government

Question: Ye say they all have passed away, That noble race and brave, That their light canoes have vanished From off the crested wave…. Write full name of author, correctly spelled:
Answer: Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney

Question: Or rather – He passed Us - The Dews drew quivering and Chill - For only Gossamer, my Gown - My Tippet – only Tulle - Write the title of this work, correctly spelled:
Answer: Because I could not stop for Death

Question: Black Music
Answer: Amiri Baraka

Question: My Ten Years in a Quandary
Answer: Robert Benchley

Question: Sor _______
Answer: Juana Ines de la Cruz

Question: We wish that every one may read his book and see what a mind might have been stifled in bondage, - what a man may be subjected to the insults of spendthrift dandies, or the blows of mercenary brutes, in whom there is no whiteness except of the skin, no humanity except in the outward form, and of whom the Avenger will not fail yet to demand – 'Where is thy brother?' Who is being described?
Answer: An escaped slave

Question: 'Spiritual Laws'
Answer: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Question: Although some of them have been published, most American stories, songs, tales, and stories are in the _______ tradition.
Answer: oral

Question: Andres Bello wrote
Answer: american wood

Question: Beyond Desire
Answer: Sherwood Anderson

Question: In Native American origin myths, _______ can be creators.
Answer: birds or animals

Question: Down from the shower'd halo, Up from the mystic play of shadows twining and twistling as if they were alive, Out from the patches of briers and blackberries, From the memories of the bird that chanted to me, Write the title of this work, correctly spelled:
Answer: Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking

Question: Answered Prayers
Answer: Truman Capote

Question: The Leaning Tower
Answer: Katherine Anne Porter

Question: Considered merely as a narrative, we have never read one more simple, true, coherent, and war with genuine feeling. It is an excellent piece of writing, and so that score to be prized as a specimen of the powers of the Black Race, which Prejudice persists in disputing. We prize highly all evidence of this kind, and it is becoming more abundant. What does abundant mean?
Answer: In great quantity

Question: Name an author whose biography was falsified:
Answer: Edgar Allan Poe

Question: Bluebeard
Answer: Kurt Vonnegut

Question: The devastation of the indies is by
Answer: bartolome de las casas

Question: I should look at all the skins, and I know that when I cast my eye upon that white skin, and if I saw those crimes written upon it, I should enter my protest against it immediately, and cleave to the which is more honorable. And I can tell you that I am satisfied with the manner of my creation, fully—whether others are or not. Write title of this work, correctly spelled:
Answer: An Indian's Looking-Glass for the White Man

Question: The Black Riders
Answer: Stephen Crane

Question: 'Experience'
Answer: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Question: Success is counted sweetest By those who ne'er succeed. To comprehend a nectar Requires sorest need. Write the title of this work, correctly spelled:
Answer: Success is counted sweetest

Question: Which author argued that voting was like playing in a lottery?
Answer: Henry David Thoreau

Question: The Witches' Brew
Answer: E. J. Pratt

Question: I have just spoken of that morbid condition of the auditory nerve which rendered all music intolerable to the sufferer, with the exception of certain effects of stringed instruments. It was, perhaps, the narrow limits to which he thus confined himself upon the guitar, which gave birth, in great measure, to the fantastic character of his performances. Write the author's name in full, correctly spelled:
Answer: Edgar Allan Poe

Question: Hugh Selwyn Mauberley
Answer: Ezra Pound

Question: Here a general shout burst from the bystanders—'A tory! a tory! a spy! a refugee! hustle him! away with him!' It was with great difficulty that the self-important man in the cocked hat restored order; and having assumed a tenfold austerity of brow, demanded again of the unknown culprit, what he came there for, and whom he was seeking. Write the title of this work, correctly spelled:
Answer: Rip Van Winkle

Question: The night in prison was novel and interesting enough. The prisoners in their shirtsleeves were enjoying a chat and the evening air in the doorway, when I entered. But he jailer said, 'Come, boys, it is time to lock up'; and so they dispersed, and I heard the sound of their steps returning into the hollow apartments. My room-mate was introduced to me by the jailar as 'a first-rate fellow and clever man.' Write the title of this work, correctly spelled:
Answer: Resistance to Civil Government

Question: The Living Reed
Answer: Pearl Buck

Question: Main-Travelled Roads
Answer: Hamlin Garland

Question: Outre Mer–A Pilgrimage Beyond the Sea
Answer: Henry Longfellow

Question: Several old logs and stumps imposed upon me, and got themselves taken for wild beasts. I could see their legs, eyes, and ears, or I could see something like eyes, legs and ears, till I got close enough to them to see that the eyes were knots, washed white with rain, and the legs were broken limbs, and the ears, only ears owing to the point from which they were seen. Thus early I learned that the point from which a thing is viewed is of some importance. As the day advanced the heat increases, and it was not until the afternoon that we reached the much dreaded end of the journey. Write the title of this work, correctly spelled:
Answer: My Bondage & My Freedom

Question: Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Answer: Joan Didion

Question: Making, Knowing, and Judging
Answer: W H Auden

Question: As For Me and My House
Answer: Sinclair Ross

Question: When I was let out the next morning, I proceeded to finish my errand, and, having put on my mended shoe, joined a huckleberry party, who were impatient to put themselves under my conduct; and in half an hour, - for the horse was soon tackled, - was in the midst of a huckleberry field, on one of our highest hills, two miles off; and then the State was nowhere to be seen. What is the meaning of tackled in this context?
Answer: Harnessed

Question: Breakfast of Champions
Answer: Kurt Vonnegut

Question: Fear of Flying
Answer: Erica Jong

Question: The Two Magics
Answer: Henry James

Question: American Wood is by:
Answer: Andres Bello

Question: Which work exemplifies the hortatory sermon?
Answer: An Indian's Looking-Glass for the White Man

Question: Aloneness
Answer: Gwendolyn Brooks ∙ Gwen Brooks

Question: Seeing escape impossible in that quarter, she stopped suddenly, and turned upon her pursuers. On came the profane and ribald crew, faster than ever, already exulting in her capture, and threatening punishment for her flight. For a moment she looked wildly and anxiously around to see if there was no hope of escape.. Write the title of this work, correctly spelled:
Answer: Clotel; or, The President's Daughter

Question: 'Bryant, in his very learned 'Mythology,' mentions an analogous source of error, when he says that 'although the Pagan fables are not believed, yet we forget ourselves continually, and make inferences from them as existing realities.' With the algebraist, however, who are Pagans themselves, the 'Pagan fables' are believed, and the inferences are made, not so much through lapse of memory, as through an unaccountable addling of the brains.' Write the author's name in full, correctly spelled:
Answer: Edgar Allan Poe

Question: The Beads upon the Forehead By homely Anguish strung. Write the author's name in full, correctly spelled:
Answer: Emily Dickinson

Question: Eighteen centuries ago, the Master of this man tried reform in the streets of a city as crowded and vile as this, and did not fail. His disciple, showing Him to-nigh to cultured hearers, showing the clearness of the God-power acting through Him, shrank back from one coarse fact; that in birth and habit the man Christ was thrown up from the lowest of the people: his flesh, their flesh; their blood, his blood; tempted like them, to brutalize day by day; to lie, to steal: the actual slime and want of their hourly life, and the wine-press he trod alone. Write the author's name in full, correctly spelled:
Answer: Rebecca Harding Davis

Question: G. G. Marquez…. G.G. stands for:
Answer: Gabriel Garcia

Question: City Life
Answer: Donald Barthelme

Question: 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. Write the title of this work, correctly spelled:
Answer: Resistance to Civil Government

Question: One Day in the Afternoon of the World
Answer: William Saroyan

Question: Monadnock on his forehead hoar Doth seal the sacred trust, Your mountains build their monument, Though ye destroy their dust. Write the author's name in full, correctly spelled:
Answer: Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney

Question: 'M.S. Found in a Bottle'
Answer: Edgar Allen Poe

Question: The Temple of My Familiar
Answer: Alice Walker

Question: A Month of Sundays
Answer: John Updike

Question: The Rains Came
Answer: Louis Bromfield

Question: 'The Celestial Road'
Answer: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Question: The Moviegoer
Answer: Walker Percy

Question: The Underground Woman
Answer: Kay Boyle

Question: Axel's Castle
Answer: Edmund Wilson

Question: The disease had sharpened my senses—not destroyed—not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute. I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell. Write the title of this work, correctly spelled:
Answer: The Tell-Tale Heart

Question: Raven's Wing
Answer: Joyce Oates

Question: Mulatto
Answer: Langston Hughes

Question: Several of nature's people I know, and they know me; I feel for them a transport Of cordiality Write the author's name in full, correctly spelled:
Answer: Emily Dickinson

Question: Surfacing
Answer: Margaret Atwood

Question: The Old South
Answer: Arna Bontemps

Question: Ernest Hemingways role in ww1 was _______
Answer: Ambulance

Question: Our simple habitations were soon consumed; we heard the foe retiring, and when the last sound had died away, we came forth to a sight that made us lament to be among the living. Write the full name of the author of this work, correctly spelled:
Answer: Catharine Maria Sedgwick

Question: The Iron Heel
Answer: Jack London

Question: The Single Hound
Answer: Emily Dickinson

Question: The Friday Book
Answer: John Barth

Question: Name the author who inspired people like Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King to political action?
Answer: Henry David Thoreau

Question: Name a Gothic writer:
Answer: Edgar Allan Poe

Question: God's Grace
Answer: Bernard Malamud

Question: Which poem has a classical opening, similar to an epic poem?
Answer: Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking

Question: Among the musical disciples who assembled, one evening in each week, to receive his instructions in psalmody, was … the daughter and only child of a substantial … farmer. She was a blooming lass of fresh eighteen; plump as a partridge; ripe and melting and rosy-cheeked as one of her father's peaches, and universally famed, not merely for her beauty, but her vast expectations. Write the author's name in full, correctly spelled:
Answer: Washington Irving

Question: He now became entangled in a succession of crooked and narrow streets, which crossed each other, and meandered at no great distance from the water-side. The smell of tar was obvious to his nostrils, the masts of vessels pierced the moonlight above the tops of the buildings, and the numerous signs, which [he] paused to read, informed him that he was near the centre of business. But the streets were empty, the shops were closed, and lights were visible only in the second stories of a few dwelling houses. Write the title of this work, correctly spelled:
Answer: My Kinsman, Major Molineux

Question: Black Thunder
Answer: Arna Bontemps

Question: Excursions
Answer: Henry David Thoreau

Question: The proper place today, the only place which Massachusetts has provided for her freer and less despondent spirits, is in her prison, to be put out and locked out of the State by her own act, as they have already put themselves out by their principles. It is there that the fugitive slave, and the Mexican prisoner on parole, and the Indian come to plead the wrongs of his race should find them; on that separate but more free and honorable ground, where the State places those who are not with her, but against her – the only house in a slave State in which a free man can abide with honor. Write the author's name in full, correctly spelled:
Answer: Henry David Thoreau

Question: Isidro
Answer: Mary Austin

Question: New Hampshire
Answer: Robert Frost

Question: Portrait in Brownstone
Answer: Louis Auchincloss

Question: Marjorie Morningstar
Answer: Herman Wouk

Question: After the kings of Great Britain had assumed the right of appointing the colonial governors, the measure of the latter seldom met with the ready and general approbation, which had been paid to those of their predecessors, under the original charters. Write title of this work, correctly spelled:
Answer: My Kinsman, Major Molineux

Question: He was a native of Connecticut, a State which supplies the Union with pioneers for the mind as well as for the forest, and sends forth yearly its legions of frontier woodmen and country schoolmasters. The cognomen of Crane was not inapplicable to his person. He was tall, but exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders, long arms and legs, hands that dangled a mile out of his sleeves, feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together. Write the title of this work, correctly spelled:
Answer: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Question: The slow tides of pain he had borne gathered themselves up and surged against his soul. His squalid daily life, the brutal coarseness eating into his brain, as the ashes into his skin: before, these things had been a dull aching into his consciousness; to-night, they were reality. He griped the filthy red shirt that clung, stiff with soot, about him, and tore it savagely from his arm. Write the title of this work, correctly spelled:
Answer: Life in the Iron-Mills

Question: Genealogy was a theme in which period?
Answer: pre-colonial

Question: Searching for Caleb
Answer: Anne Tyler

Question: The Family Moskat
Answer: Isaac Bashevis Singer

Question: I knew what the old man felt, and pitied him, although I chuckled at heart. I knew that he had been lying awake ever since the first slight noise, when he had turned in the bed. His fears had been, ever since, growing upon him. He had been trying to fancy them causeless, but could not. Write the title of this work, correctly spelled:
Answer: The Tell-Tale Heart

Question: Ultramarine
Answer: Malcolm Lowry

Question: Letters Home
Answer: Sylvia Plath

Question: Unmoved – she notes the Chariots – pausing - At her low Gate - Unmoved – an Emperor be kneeling Upon her Mat - I've known her – from an ample nation - Then – close the Valves of her attention - Like Stone. What are Chariots?
Answer: Light carriages

Question: Name a writer who worked as a war nurse:
Answer: Margaret Fuller

Question: But, irreverently consorting with these grave, reputable, and pious people, these elders of the church, these chaste dames and dewy virgins, there were men of dissolute lives and women of spotted fame, wretches given over to all mean and filthy vice, and suspected even of horrid crimes. It was strange to see that the good shrank not from the wicked, nor were the sinners abashed by the saints. Scattered also among their pale-faced enemies were the Indian priests, or powwows, who had often scared their native forest with more hideous incantations than any known to English witchcraft. Write the author's full name, correctly spelled:
Answer: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Question: I knew that he had been lying awake ever since the first slight noise when he had turned in the bed. His fears had been ever since growing upon him. He had been trying to fancy them causeless, but could not. Write full name of author, correctly spelled:
Answer: Edgar Allan Poe

Question: I ask: Is it not the case that everybody that is not white is treated with contempt and counted as barbarians? And I ask if the word of God justifies the white man in so doing. When the prophets prophesied, of whom did they speak? When they spoke of heathens, was it not the whites and others who were counted Gentiles? And I ask if all nations with the exception of the Jews were not counted heathens. Write title of this work, correctly spelled:
Answer: An Indian's Looking-Glass for the White Man

Question: There was a laugh. The young man talking to Kirby sat with an amused light in his cool gray eye, surveying critically the half-clothed figures of the puddlers, and the slow swing of their brawny muscles. He was a stranger in the city, - spending a couple of months in the borders of a Slave State, to study the institution of the South. Write the author of this work, correctly spelled:
Answer: Rebecca Harding Davis

Question: Native Americans do not see the world in a linear fashion, where events happen one after another; they see life as _______
Answer: an endless circle.

Question: In fact, he declared it was no use to work on his farm; it was the most pestilent little piece of ground in the whole country; every thing about it went wrong, and would go wrong, in spite of him. Write the title of this work, correctly spelled:
Answer: Rip Van Winkle

Question: Who humbled 'mid these dewy glades The red deer's antler'd crown, Or soaring at his highest noon, Struck the strong eagle down Write full name of author, correctly spelled:
Answer: Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney

Question: Virtues are in the popular estimate rather the exception than the rule. There is the man and his virtues. Men do what is called a good action, as some piece of courage or charity, much as they would pay a fine in expiation of daily non-appearance on parade. Write the name of the author, correctly spelled.
Answer: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Question: 'The boy sleeps safely,' muttered the old man, and I have listened to the idle fear of a doating mother.' 'I come not of a fearful race,' said my mother. Write the full name of the author of this work, correctly spelled:
Answer: Catharine Maria Sedgwick

Question: Here the fugitive saw nothing but slaves brought in and taken out, to be placed in ships and sent away to the same part of the country to which she herself would soon be compelled to go. She had seen or heard nothing of her daughter while in Richmond, and all hope of seeing her now had fled. If she was carried back to New Orleans, she could expect no mercy from her master. Write the author's name in full, correctly spelled:
Answer: William Wells Brown

Question: The proper place today, the only place which Massachusetts has provided for her freer and less despondent spirits, is in her prison, to be put out and locked out of the State by her own act, as they have already put themselves out by their principles. It is there that the fugitive slave, and the Mexican prisoner on parole, and the Indian come to plead the wrongs of his race should find them; on that separate but more free and honorable ground, where the State places those who are not with her, but against her – the only house in a slave State in which a free man can abide with honor. Write the title of this work, correctly spelled:
Answer: Resistance to Civil Government

Question: To comprehend a nectar Requires sorest need. Write the author's name in full, correctly spelled:
Answer: Emily Dickinson

Question: Pedro Paramo is by
Answer: Juan Rulfo

Question: Riot
Answer: Gwen Brooks

Question: The love in the heart long pent, now loose, now at last tumultuously bursting, The aria's meaning, the ears, the soul, swiftly depositing, The strange tears down the cheeks coursing, The colloquy there, the trio, each uttering, The undertone, the savage old mother incessantly crying, To the boy's soul's questions sullenly timing, some drown'd secret hissing. To the out setting bard. Write the author's name in full, correctly spelled:
Answer: Walt Whitman

Question: Coyote disappeared _______
Answer: Because his work was finished.

Question: 'Israfel'
Answer: Edgar Allen Poe

Question: Eighteen centuries ago, the Master of this man tried reform in the streets of a city as crowded and vile as this, and did not fail. His disciple, showing Him to-night to cultured hearers, showing the clearness of the God-power acting through Him, shrank back from one coarse fact; that in birth and habit the man Christ was thrown up from the lowest of the people: his flesh, their flesh; their blood, his blood; tempted like them, to brutalize day by day; to lie, to steal: the actual slime and want of their hourly life, and the wine-press he trod alone. Write the title of this work, correctly spelled:
Answer: Life in the Iron-Mills

Question: Let me refer you to the churches only. And, my brethren, is there any agreement? Do brethren and sisters love one another? Do they not rather hate one another? Outward forms and ceremonies, the lusts of the flesh, the lusts of the eye, and pride of life is of more value to many professors than the love of God shed abroad in their hearts, or an attachment to his altar, to his ordinances, or to his children. But you may ask: Who are the children of God? Write the author's full name, correctly spelled:
Answer: William Apess

Question: Ye say their cone-like cabins, That clustered o'er the vale, Have fled away like withered leaves Before the autumn gale, Write the title of this work, correctly spelled:
Answer: Indian Names

Question: These prisons are mostly occupied by persons to keep their slaves in, when collecting their gangs together for the New Orleans market. Some of them belong to the government, and one, in particular, is noted for having been the place where a number of free colored persons have been incarcerated from time to time. Write the author's name in full, correctly spelled:
Answer: William Wells Brown

Question: Native Americans use stories to _______
Answer: teach a lesson and convey practical information.

Question: Carlos Fuentes wrote:
Answer: The Death of Artemio Cruz

Question: If there were one who lived wholly without the use of money, the State itself would hesitate to demand it of him. But the rich man – not to make any invidious comparison – is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue; for money comes between a man and his objects, and obtains them for him; it was certainly no great virtue to obtain it. Write the author of this work, correctly spelled:
Answer: Henry David Thoreau

Question: I Sing the Body Electric
Answer: Ray Bradbury

Question: I have even talked with [him] myself, who, when last I saw him, was a very venerable old man, and so perfectly rational and consistent on every other point, that I think no conscientious person could refuse to take this into the bargain; nay, I have seen a certificate on the subject taken before a country justice and signed with a cross, in the justice's own handwriting. The story, therefore, is beyond the possibility of a doubt. Write the author's name in full, correctly spelled:
Answer: Washington Irving

Question: Who wrote 'An Old Man With Enormous Wings'?
Answer: Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Question: Low hangs the moon, it rose late, It is lagging - O I think it is heavy with love, with love. What does lagging mean?
Answer: Falling behind

Question: When the time of my departure was decided upon, my grandmother, knowing my fears, and in pity for them, kindly kept me ignorant of the dreaded event about to transpire. Write the author's name in full, correctly spelled:
Answer: Frederick Douglass

Question: Western Star
Answer: Stephen Benet

Question: _______ was written by the Mayans in the pre-colonial period. _______ was written by the Incas in Peru ' _______ was written by the Aztecs '
Answer:Popol Vuh,Flor Y Canto, Ollantay
Question: The Cynic's Word Book
Answer: Ambrose Bierce

Question: The Embarrassments
Answer: Henry James

Question: But may I remark, that, if the lineal descendants of Ham are only to be enslaved, according to the scriptures, slavery in the country will soon become an unscriptural institution; for thousands are ushered into the world annually, who – like myself – owe their existence to white fathers, and, most frequently, to their masters, and their master's sons. Write the author's name in full, correctly spelled:
Answer: Frederick Douglass

Question: The Tidewater Tales
Answer: John Barth

Question: The woman sprang up, and hastily began to arrange some bread and flitch in a tin pail, and to pour her own measure of ale into a bottle. Tying on her bonnet, she blew out the candle. What is flitch?
Answer: Salt pork

Question: Demon or bird! (said the boy's soul,) Is it indeed toward your mate you sing? Or is it really me? For I, that was a child, my tongue's use sleeping, now I have heard you, Now in a moment I know what I am for, I awake, And already a thousands singers, a thousand songs, clearer, louder and more sorrowful than yours, A thousand warbling echoes have started to life within me, never to die. Write the author's name in full, correctly spelled:
Answer: Walt Whitman

Question: He occupied one window, and I the other; and I saw that if one stayed there long, his principal business would be to look out the window. I had soon read all the tracts that were left there, and examined where former prisoners had broken out, and where a grate had been sawed off, and heard the history of the various occupants of that room; for I found that even there was a history and a gossip which never circulated beyond the walls of the jail. Write the author's name in full, correctly spelled:
Answer: Henry David Thoreau

Question: The Cathedral
Answer: James Lowell

Question: The mass of men serve the state thus, not as men mainly, but as machines, with their bodies. Write the title of this work, correctly spelled:
Answer: Resistance to Civil Government

Question: Death, Sleep, and the Traveller
Answer: John Hawkes

Question: Patriotic Gore
Answer: Edmund Wilson

Question: Unmoved –she notes the Chariots – pausing At her low Gate Write the author's name in full, correctly spelled:
Answer: Emily Dickinson

Question: She was obliged to walk, unless chance flung into her way an opportunity to ride; and the latter was sometimes her good luck. But she always had to walk one way or the other. It was a greater luxury than slavery could afford, to allow a black slave-mother a horse or a mule, upon which to travel twenty-four miles, when she could walk the distance. Write the author's name in full, correctly spelled:
Answer: Frederick Douglass

Question: All stood amazed, until an old woman, tottering out from among the crowd, put her hand to her brow, and peering under it in his face for a moment, exclaimed, 'Sure enough! it is [he]—it is himself. Welcome home again, old neighbor. Why, where have you been these twenty years?' Write the title of this work, correctly spelled:
Answer: Rip Van Winkle

Question: But they replied, 'Tall barks of pride Do cleave our waters blue, And strong keels ride our farthest tide, But where's their light canoe?' Write the title of this work, correctly spelled:
Answer: Our Aborigines

Question: 'Tis where Ontario's billow Like Ocean's surge is curled, Where strong Niagara's thunders wake The echo of the world. Write the title of this work, correctly spelled:
Answer: Indian Names

Question: A basin was hollowed, naturally, in the rock. Did it contain water, reddened by the lurid light? or was it blood? Or, perchance, a liquid flame? Herein did the Shape of Evil dip his hand, and prepare to lay the mark of baptism upon their foreheads… Write the author's full name, correctly spelled:
Answer: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Question: Now back, jailor, back to they dungeons, again, To swing the red lash and rivet the chain! The form thou would'st fetter – returned to its God; The universe holdeth no realm of night More drear than her slavery - More merciless fiends than here stayed her fight - Joy! The hunted slave is free! What does fetter mean?
Answer: Shackle

Question: The name of this singularly unpromising and truly famine stricken district in Tuckahoe, a name well known to all Marylanders, black and white. It was given to this section of the country probably, at the first, merely in derision; or it may possibly have been applied to it, as I have heard, because some one of its earlier inhabitants has been guilty of the petty meanness of stealing a hoe – or taking a hoe – that did not belong to him. What is the meaning of derision?
Answer: mockery

Question: The Naked Lunch
Answer: William Burroughs

Question: We slowly drove – He knew no haste And I had put away My labor and my leisure too, For His Civility - Write the author's name in full, correctly spelled:
Answer: Emily Dickinson

Question: 'The Horse Thief'
Answer: William Benet

Question: A Story Teller's Story
Answer: Sherwood Anderson

Question: Domingo Faustino _______ wrote _______
Answer:Sarmiento,Facundo: civilizacio y barbarie

Question: We paused before a House that seemed A Swelling of the Ground The Roof was scarcely visible The Cornice – in the Ground. Write the author's name in full, correctly spelled:
Answer: Emily Dickinson

Question: In other words, when a sixth of the population of a nation which has undertaken to be the refuge of liberty are slaves, and a whole country is unjustly overrun and conquered by a foreign army, and subjected to military law, I think it is not too soon for honest men to rebel and revolutionize. What makes this duty the more urgent is the fact, that the country so overrun is not our own, but ours is the invading army. Write the author's name in full, correctly spelled:
Answer: Henry David Thoreau

Question: Not one of all the purple Host Who took the Flag today Can tell the definition So clear of Victory… Whom does Dickinson mean by Who took the Flag?
Answer: Those who triumphed