Renaissance/Romantic Period
Score for this quiz: 78 out of 80
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Question 1
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Emerson's "The American Scholar," inter alia, is a call for American
intellectual independence.
True
False
Question 2
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Published only 7 poems during her lifetime
Walt Whitman
Herman Melville
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Bartleby
Emily Dickinson
Question 3
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Wrote a five-volume biography of George Washington
,Herman Melville
Edgar Allan Poe
Ralph Waldo Emerson
William Cullen Bryant
Washington Irving
Henry David Thoreau
Question 4
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Authored “Walden”
Herman Melville
Edgar Allan Poe
Ralph Waldo Emerson
William Cullen Bryant
Washington Irving
Henry David Thoreau
, Question 5
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A chief advocate of politics of conscience in his essay titled “Civil
Disobedience”
Edgar Allan Poe
Ralph Waldo Emerson
William Cullen Bryant
Washington Irving
Henry D. Thoreau
Question 6
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"We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe": who made this
statement?
Henry David Thoreau
Herman Melville
Walt Whitman
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Question 7