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You’ve got an exciting exam coming up next Monday, so be prepared! The test covers these authors: Irving, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman. You can download all of the notes for the test from the class downloads section here.

You can bring one 3×5 notecard with notes for the test.

Section 1 of the test will be quotation identification, matching authors to their quotes. You don’t need to memorize quotations from the notes or readings, but do need to be familiar with their writing styles and content.

Section 2 is the meat of the exam: paragraph (6-8 sentence) responses to these topics. The test will have 5-6 to respond to, taken from this list.

1. Themes of Romanticism
2. Contrast Romanticism with Dark Romanticism
3. The Utopian Impulse
4. Mellville’s Dark Romanticism: Corruptibility of Humans
5. Irving’s Vision of America
6. Plato’s Influence on Transcendentalism
7. Emerson: Nature
8. Emerson: Self-Reliance
9. Thoreau: Simplicity
10. Thoreau: War
11. Thoreau: Purpose of Existence
12. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience
13. Whitman: Poetic Techniques and Beliefs About Humanity