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H. English III Mid-Term Review
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11th Grade
12/09/2010

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Where was John Steinbeck born? Where?
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February 27, 1902, Salinas, California
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How did Steinbeck spend his summer?
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farmhand
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When's Steinbeck decide to be a writer?
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14
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Where's Steinbeck go to college?
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Stanford
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When did Steinbeck write his first novel? What was it?
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1929, Cup of Gold
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Steinbeck's first literary award: when and for what?
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1935, Tortilla Flat
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What books came from Steinbeck's experience with migrant workers?
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Of Mice and Men, Grapes of Wrath
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Steinbeck gained the Pulitzer Prize in 1940 for...?
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Grapes of Wrath
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What newspaper did Steinbeck write for in 1943 about the war?
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Herald Tribune
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Why did Steinbeck no longer feel at home in Salinas?
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his friends didnt accept his fame
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One of Steinbeck's sons fought in ________.
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Vietnam
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What was Travelling with Charlie in Search of America about?
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Maine to Cali with poodle
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Steinbeck's final novel?
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America and the Americas
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When did Steinbeck die and where?
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December 20, 1968; New York, NY
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Where was Poe born?
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Boston
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What jobs did Poe's parents have?
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travelling actors
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John Allen (Poe's adoptive father) helped Poe get into what school?
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West Point
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What were two of Poe's alternate writing names?
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Edgar A Perry, Henri Le Rennet
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What was Poe's first published book?
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Tamberline and Other Poems
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Modern speculation assumes Poe died of...
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rabies
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What two famous writes were influenced by Poe?
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Hitchcock, Doyla
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By 1831, Poe published _ books of poetry
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3
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What was Poe's cousin/wife named?
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Virginia
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When did Poe die?
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October 7, 1849 (after 4 days in the hospital)
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What was Poe's biggest ambition?
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critic
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How old was Poe when he invented to detective genre?
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32
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Where do Poe's stories take place?
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Europe or "Nowhere in Particular"
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How does Poe create setting?
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vocabular
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What conflict does Poe describe?
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two sides of the intellect
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Where does the term gothic come from?
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European tribe, in the year 1AD
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Main points of Gothic movement:
______________ and ______________
Motif of __________________
Often involved the _________ who is forced ______________
Individual Characters ___________________
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sublime and overt;
double;
young lover (woman), to leave her lover;
have no control of situtations
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What are 3 underlying connotations of Gothic work?
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barbaric, medieval, supernatural
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T/F? Romanticism has to do with things popularly thought of as romantic
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F
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T/F? The Romantics asserted the importance of the individual, the unique, and even the eccentric.
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T
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T/F? Romanticism is a rejection of materialism
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T
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T/F? Romanticism is a rejection of the rational
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T
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T/F? Puritans believed in the idea of predestination
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T
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T/F? William Bradford is a Puritan well known for creating plain style
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T
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What did nature serve as to the Romantics?
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a healing power, a source of a subject and image, and a refuge from the artificial constructs of predestination
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Who were the two men accredited with the birth of the Romantic Movement thanks to their work "Lyrical Ballads"?
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William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge
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When did the American Romantic Movement take place?
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1800-1855
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When did the Puritan Movement take place?
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1650-1750
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Where did the Romantic Movement begin?
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England and Germany
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The early Romantic period is known as the "age of revolutions" because of these two major Revolutions.
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American, French
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Puritan Genres:
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sermons, historical poetry, historical narrative
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Where was Hawthorne born?
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Salem, Mass
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Hawthorne's family played a role in __________
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Salem Witch Trials
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What were Hawthorne's greatest novels?
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Blithedale Romance, Scarlet Letter, House of 7 Gables
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American Romanticism prefers __________________ to educated sophistication.
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youthful innocence
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Romanticism place faith in inner experience and the power of ________________.
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IMAGINATION
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