NAME: ________________________
← AP Lit Works (Midterm) Test
5 Written Questions
5 Matching Questions
- William Shakespeare
- Michael Wigglesworth
- Louise Erdrich
- William Bradford
- Sherman Alexie
- a Othello.
- b "This Is What It Means To Say Pheonix, Arizona". *Symbols/motifs: -fathers and sons -fire, ashes, rebirth -last image= salmon swimming upstream
- c "On Plymouth Plantations".
- d "Dear John Wayne".
- e "The Day of Doom" & "God's Controversy with New England".
5 Multiple Choice Questions
- "The Devil and Tom Walker". -faust story (sells his soul to the devil)
- "The Yellow Wallpaper".
- "The Story of an Hour". Themes: repression of women in a male-dominated society Symbols: -springtime -patches of blue sky
- "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God".
- "Landscape and Desire: The European Imagination and the New World". -his idea of paradise -eroticism of nature and the land
5 True/False Questions
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John Winthrop → "A Model of Christian Charity" (City on a Hill).
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Samuel Clemens/Mark Twain → "Verses Upon the Burning of Our House, July 18th, 1666". -2 Houses: 1) burns, in this world 2) doesn't burn, eternal salvation/heaven one
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??? → "Song of the Sky Loom". -family/creation -seasonal renewal -weaving conceit (warp/weft)
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Edgar Allen Poe → "Huswifery". -extended metaphor of process of saving your own soul
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Nathaniel Hawthorne → The Scarlet Letter. Motifs: -civilization vs. the wilderness -night vs. day Symbols: -scarlet letter -the meteor -Pearl -rosebush next to the prison door
Regenerate Test