Test #5
The new literary spirit of romanticism dominated American literature during what years?
1820-1865
What was Irving's first major work, supposedly written by an old, eccentric historian?
A History of New York
What was the "American Renaissance"?
A five-year break out of creativity
What is "the only edged tool that grows Keener with constant use"?
A sharp tongue
To try to escape his wife, where does Rip meet with "other...personages of the village"?
At Nicholas Vedder's inn
How is the manner of Dame Van Winkle's death ironically appropriate?
Because she is characterized by her ill temper, it seems fitting that her death is caused by a broken blood vessel during a fit of passion aimed at a new England peddler.
How does Rip respond to his wife's nagging?
Both a and b, He says nothing and He leaves the house
Instead of speaking, how does Nicolas Vedder ordinarily communicate his opinions?
By the way he smokes his pipe
How can Nicholas Vedder's neighbors tell the time of day without looking at a Sundial?
By watching Vedder's movements
In what aspect was the United States thought of as inferior to the other highly developed countries?
Culture
Why does Wolf "sneak about with with a gallows air"?
Dame Van Winkle treats him in the same way that she treats Rip
Unitarianism was the religious outgrowth and counterpart of what philosophy?
Deism
What is Rip's primary fault?
Distaste for profitable labor
Irving's mock history was approved by many people but offended families of what heritage
Dutch
Irving was the first American writer to emphasize what purpose for writing?
Entertainment
What replaced the philosophy of romanticism as another futile effort to find meaning in life apart from God?
Evolution
"Rip Van Winkle" is one of Irving's few completely original stories.
False
"Rip Van Winkle" suggests that only a dog's courage, not a man's, can withstand the force of a woman's tongue.
False
Although much admired in America, Irving was distrusted and scoffed at by major writers in England.
False
Although resulting in heavy casualties and material losses, the Civil War managed to quickly heal the wounds of division in the country.
False
During the last years of his life, Irving wrote the two works that would make him most famous: "Rip Van Winkle and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."
False
Nature had a more important position in the thinking and works of 18th century writers than that of the romantic writers.
False
Ordinarily, Romantics distrusted religion, particularly pantheism.
False
Rip Van Winkle's grandson is just like a Rip in physical appearance and disposition.
False
Rip is nagged by all the women in the town in the same way as by his wife.
False
Rip returns to the town on the anniversary of the end of the war.
False
The great revival of 1857 apparently began as a result of prayer meetings held independently by a number of rural preachers, primarily in Virginia.
False
The group of romantic writers known as the New England school was centered in Boston and focused on the development of the short story and novel.
False
Each of the following is an important product of technological advances during the romantic period except the ...
First steamboat
Which writer's contribution to the development of the short story was primarily connected to theme rather than style?
Hawthorne
What is ironic about Rip's pronouncement, "surely... I have not slept here all night"?
He had slept for 20 years, much more than one night
In what way is Rip not like his ancestors?
He has a little Marshall character
In addition to his farm, what else reveals Rip's neglect?
His children, particularly Rip
Which inclination motivates Rip most after he waits and takes stock of his situation?
Hunger
Discounting the shock of almost everything in town being different, why would rip be uncomfortable with how the tone of life has changed in the town?
Instead of the "drowsy tranquility" that he was used to and that fit his character, the towns people had a "busy, bustling, disputatious tone."
What writer and work were the first from America to be widely read and respected in both England and the United States?
Irving, The Sketch Book
According to the Romantics, God...
Is understandable only through nature
They Romantics considered the imagination to be a primary importance in...
Literary creation
Why does Rip's pronouncement of blessing on the king create a near panic?
Neither A nor B
The great revival of 1857 primarily affected what to regions of America?
North and Midwest
What benefit does Rip gain from his relationship with his wife?
Patience
What was the only kind of government that had any importance to Rip?
Petticoat government-that is, the rule of his wife
As the mountain stranger approaches him, Rip has each of the following reactions except
Preparing to raise his gun
What event brought more attacks against the Bible then did any other source?
Publication of Darwin's Origin of Species
Each of the following is a key word that describes an idea favored by the Romantics except...
Rationality
The opening description in "Rip Van Winkle"
Reflects Irving's interest in painting
Why is the description of Rip, Jr., as Rip, Sr.'s, "heir" ironically appropriate?
Rip, Jr., "inherited" his father's "disposition to attend to any thing else but his business"
Which of the following ideas is a central concept of Unitarianism?
Salvation by works
What two elements of "rip van winkle" and "the legend of sleepy hollow" made important contributions to their genre?
Setting and characterization
What literary form did Irving create by combining the narrative tale in the essay of character?
Short story
What two aspects of the sense of distance were employed by romantic writers?
Space and time
The major romantic writers...
Strove for universal themes and forms
Each of the following references is a clue to the reader about the length of Rip's stay on the mountain except
That Rip wakes in the same place where he first saw the stranger
The settling of "Rip Van Winkle" is
The Catskill mountains
Some revival historians suggest that the great revival of 1857 was providential preparation for what?
The Civil War
What form of evangelism, popular for most of the 19th century, helped maintain an emphasis on Orthodox religion?
The camp meeting
Each of the following ideas is central to Unitarianism except...
The depravity of man
Which of the four key elements of American romanticism would tend to be least objectionable to the Puritans?
The distant
What strikes Rip as odd about the men playing nine-pins?
Their dress
During Irving's time Americans had an increased interest in literature because
They had more opportunity for leisure pursuits than before.
How was Emerson's and Thoreau's use of the distant different from that of other romantic writers?
They were attracted to the distant future rather than to the past
The Romantics believed that the way to improve man was...
To remove negative influences from his environment.
After Rip wakes and decides to retrace his path to the scene of the nine-pins, he finds the way much different
True
Despite his place in American literature, relatively few of Irvings works have distinctly American settings.
True
In addition to stories, Irving was also known for his writing of biography.
True
In the space of only 30 years, an overwhelming majority of Boston's congregational churches had become Unitarian.
True
Irving was America's first professional man of letters.
True
Irving's popularity was, to a great extent, caused by the American thirst for cultural independence from Europe.
True
It was during this time of American literary history that American literature matured in the United States one literary independence from England.
True
Most of the towns people seem skeptical at first about Rip's sanity and the authenticity of his story
True
Not even the townsmen are safe from the scourge of Dame Van Winkle's tongue.
True
Rip's story about the stranged mountain men is corroborated by the oldest member of the town.
True
The compromises of 1820, 1833, and 1850 provided only a temporary solution for the major disagreements between the north and the south.
True
The romantic writers centered in New York City were called knickerbockers after Diedrich Knickerbocker, the storyteller invented by Washington Irving.
True
What word refers to the romantic view of a perfect world based on either past innocence or future self-realization?
Utopia
Even after her death, in what way does Dame Van Winkle still have an influence on rip?
Whenever her name is mentioned, he shakes his head, shrugs his shoulders, and casts up his eyes just as he did in response to her nagging when she was alive