American literature test 7 study – Flashcards
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Booker T. Washington
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The Secret of Progress
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Concord Hymn
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Walt Whitman
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I Hear America Singing
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Stephen Foster
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Oh! Susanna
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Douglas MacArthur
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A Father's Prayer
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Fanny Crosby
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Close to Thee
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What is America's unique contribution to the world's folk music
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Spirituals
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Which poem commemorates the first shots fired in the war for independence
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Concord hymn
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What poem by Whitman mourns the death of Abraham Lincoln
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O captain my captain
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What poem's theme is that things are only beautiful in the right surroundings
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Each and all
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What poem's theme is everyone and everything has a purpose
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Fable
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What was William Jennings Bryan's argument against evolution called
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Is the Bible true
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In a world Split Apart, the West was warned about the threat of what
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Humanism
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What challenges future writers not to forget the problems of the human heart
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William Faulkner
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Who is the founder of transcendentalism
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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What work became the Bible of the Transcendentalists
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Nature
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What literary device is used in the following quote then beauty is its own excuse for being
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Aphorism
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Who is America's most beloved popular-song composer?
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Stephen foster
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Who is America's most beloved hymn writer of the nineteenth century?
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Fanny Crosby
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Who was America's first modern poet?
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Walt Whitman
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What song tells of a dying cowboy with one last request
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Bury me not on the lone prairie
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What song's theme is that of a sentimental look at rural life
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My old Kentucky home
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I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there
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Walden
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None of us were prepared for such a sudden and complete wreck of our Arcadian scheme
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The experiences of the A.C
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Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
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Self-reliance
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Here once the embattled farmers stood and fired the shot heard round the world
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Concord hymn
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When duty whispers low thou must the youth replies I can
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Voluntaries
