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AP Lit Works (Midterm) Test

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5 Written Questions

5 Matching Questions

  1. William Shakespeare
  2. Michael Wigglesworth
  3. Louise Erdrich
  4. William Bradford
  5. Sherman Alexie
  1. a Othello.
  2. b "This Is What It Means To Say Pheonix, Arizona". *Symbols/motifs: -fathers and sons -fire, ashes, rebirth -last image= salmon swimming upstream
  3. c "On Plymouth Plantations".
  4. d "Dear John Wayne".
  5. e "The Day of Doom" & "God's Controversy with New England".

5 Multiple Choice Questions

  1. "The Devil and Tom Walker". -faust story (sells his soul to the devil)
  2. "The Yellow Wallpaper".
  3. "The Story of an Hour". Themes: repression of women in a male-dominated society Symbols: -springtime -patches of blue sky
  4. "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God".
  5. "Landscape and Desire: The European Imagination and the New World". -his idea of paradise -eroticism of nature and the land

5 True/False Questions

  1. John Winthrop"A Model of Christian Charity" (City on a Hill).

          

  2. 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

          

  3. ???"Song of the Sky Loom". -family/creation -seasonal renewal -weaving conceit (warp/weft)

          

  4. Edgar Allen Poe"Huswifery". -extended metaphor of process of saving your own soul

          

  5. Nathaniel HawthorneThe Scarlet Letter. Motifs: -civilization vs. the wilderness -night vs. day Symbols: -scarlet letter -the meteor -Pearl -rosebush next to the prison door