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EXAM 1 -- English 215
Part One. Objective. 2 points each (50 total points)
Write your answers on the sheet provided
MULTIPLE CHOICE. Write the letter
answer sheet.
IN CAPS of the correct response in the blank provided on the
1. Franklin’s Autobiography was written during
(A) the 16th century
(B) the 1800s
(C) the 18th century
(D) the 19th century
(E) None of the above
2. Which of the following is true about Frederick Douglass?
(A) Many thought he was involved in John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry
(B) He was taught to read by his master, Thomas Auld
(C) His father died of scarlet fever
(D) His mother helped him escape to New Bedford, Massachusetts in 1838
(E) All of the above
(F) None of the above
3. Emerson was a minister in the
(A) Methodist church
(B) Anglican church
(C) Roman Catholic church
(D) Unitarian church
(E) None of the above
4. “The American Scholar” was an address delivered to
(A) Students in the Phi Beta Kappa society at Harvard
(B) the annual meeting of the Junto Club in Philadelphia
(C) a gathering of ministers at Trinity College, Dublin
(D) the annual meeting of the American Philosophical Society at Harvard
(E) None of the above
5. The Dial was:
(A) the newspaper founded by Ben Franklin in Philadelphia
(B) the newspaper owned by James Franklin that Ben Franklin worked for in Boston
(C) the official journal of the Transcendentalists
(D) the Scottish literary periodical in which Sydney Smith mocked American literature
(E) None of the above
6. Frederick Douglass was also the author of:
(A) “Resistance to Civil Government”
(B) “Incidents in the Life of a Slave”
(C) “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”
(D) All of the above
(E) None of the above
7. Read the following passage and determine its source: “I have been the more particular in this
description of my journey, and shall be so of my first entry into that city, that you may in your mind
compare such unlikely beginnings with the figure I have since made there. I was in my working dress, my
best cloaths being to come round by sea. I was dirty from my journey; my pockets were stuff’d out with
shirts and stockings, and I knew no soul nor where to look for lodging. I was fatigued with travelling,
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rowing, and want of rest, I was very hungry; and my whole stock of cash consisted of a Dutch dollar, and
about a shilling in copper.”
(A) The passage describes Franklin’s arriving in Philadelphia as a young man
(B) The passage describes Douglass’s arriving in New Bedford as an escaped slave
(C)The passage describes Emerson’s description of the ideal “Man Thinking”
(D) The passage describes George Webb, “an Oxford scholar” when he arrives at Mr. Denham’s
counting-house in London, where Franklin worked.
(E) None of the above
8. “The mystical unity of nature” is a phrase attributed to:
(A) Jefferson
(B) Douglass
(c) Franklin
(D) Emerson
(E) None of the above
9. Which of the following was NOT one of Franklin’s 13 Virtues?
(A) Humility
(B) Chastity
(C) Industry
(D) Avarice
10. Who speaks of “being made a satellite instead of a system?”
(A) Edward Covey
(B) Frederick Douglass
(C) Emerson
(D) Jefferson
(E) None of the above
11. Which of the following is NOT TRUE of deism?
(A) It asserted the existence of a God or a higher power
(B) It emphasized the exercise of human reason
(C) In literature it often referred to God as a “divine clockmaker.”
(D) It was Calvinistic.
(E) All are true of deism.
12. Which King of England is indicted in the third section of the Declaration of Independence?.
(A) George III
(B) William of Orange
(C) George V
(D) Edward VIII
(E) None of the above
13. Chiasmus is
(A) a strong internal pause within a sentence
(B) the repetition of initial sounds in a series of words
(C) a pattern in which the second part of a sentence is balanced against the first, but in reverse
(D) philosophical objectivity in an argumentative document
(E) none of the above
14. Who speaks of “Facts” being “submitted to a candid world?
(A) Jefferson
(B) Emerson
(C) Douglass
(D) Franklin
(E) None of the above
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15. Who draws the distinction between “practical men” and “speculative men?”
(A) Franklin
(B) Douglass
(C) Emerson
(D) Jefferson
(E) None of the above
TRUE or FALSE. Write “T”
or “F” in the blank provided on the answer sheet.
TRUE 16. “The Declaration of Independence” is divided into five sections: introduction, preamble,
indictment of the king, denunciation of the British people, and conclusion.
TRUE 17. Frederick Douglass wrote three different autobiographies, the first and best known in 1845.
TRUE 18. In fighting Covey, Douglass chooses to defend himself only and not to physically harm or fight
back against his antagonist.
TRUE 19. In his autobiography, Franklin recalls that he first saw his future wife standing in the doorway of
her father’s home (Mr. Read) when he happened to be walking down Market Street one day.
FALSE 20. It’s been speculated that Douglass’s father, an unidentified white man, could possibly have
been Edward Covey, the “Negro-breaker.”
TRUE 21. In chapter 17 of Douglass’s Narrative, “The Last Flogging,” he meets a “kind-hearted fellow
named Sandy” who had been hired out, like him, but had not been hired out to be broken.
TRUE 22. Franklin says he came to believe in deism because the arguments against it were so weak.
TRUE 23. Among the main reasons that a national literature in America could not flourish at the time of
Emerson’s address were the lack of an international copyright agreement and the lack of an effective book
distribution system.
FALSE 24. Jefferson uses the following rhetorical devices in the “Declaration of Independence”:
anaphora, alliteration, and enjambment.
FALSE 25. In 1720, or thereabouts, Franklin’s brother James began to print a newspaper in Boston called
The Boston News-Letter.
Part Two. Essay.
Write a developed, specific essay of about 500 words on one of the following topics.
Use additional sheets. 50 points total.
(A)
Compare Douglass’s and Franklin’s autobiographies as expressions of the American experience.
What is similar about them; what is different? How does each correlate with the historical
moment in American in which they were written? Use specific examples.
(B)
A key topic in both Franklin’s Autobiography and Emerson’s “American Scholar” is what might
be called the uses and abuses of books. The thinking of both writers were formed in large part by
what they read, and how they used what they learned in books. Discuss. Remember to use specific
examples.
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Extra Credit.
1 point each.
EC1.
Name one historical figure, besides Emerson, who gave a speech on literary nationalism.
Edward Everett
William Ellery Channing; others
EC2.
What year was Nature published?
1836
EC3.
What was Franklin’s 13th virtue?
“Imitate Jesus and Socrates”
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