Literature Honors Midterm Study Guide

When did Nathanial Hawthorne write The Scarlet Letter?

1800s

"A Good Man is Hard to Find" is written in ______________.

1953

What does the church sexton find of Dimmesdale's

A glove

What appears in the sky while Hester, Pearl, and Dimmesdale are holding hands?

A meteor

According to Hawthorne, every Puritan society must establish these 2 things at the outset:

A prison and a cemetary

What is located right in front of the prison door?

A rose bush

What does the Scarlet letter "A" stand for?

Adultery

He owned the slaves on Don Benito's ship

Alexandro Aranda

He is the servant who never leaves Don Benito's side

Babo

These two slaves had daily conferences to discuss what they needed in order to reach their desired destination and if they should kill all of the Spaniards

Babo & Atufal

Name of Captain Delano's ship

Bachelor's Delight

He is the grandmother's only son

Bailey

Who is this passage describing: "He seldom, it is true, sent either his eyes or his thoughts beyond the boundaries of his own farm; but within those everything was snug, happy, and well-conditioned. He was satisfied with his wealth, but not proud of it; and piqued himself upon the hearty abundance, rather than the style in which he lived."

Baltus Van Tassel

This was NOT one of Herman Melville's jobs

Blacksmith

In what city does "The Scarlet Letter" take place?

Boston

Hester is never asked to provide her sewing services for....

Brides

Rode a horse named Daredevil

Brom Bones

Who is this passage describing: "He was broad-shouldered and double-jointed, with short curly black hair, and a buff but not unpleasant countenance, having a mingled air of fun and arrogance.

Brom Bones

Babo's "original office"

Captain of the slaves

What does Usher's sister suffer from?

Catalepsy

________________ means to have a "physical condition usually associated with catatonic schizophrenia, characterized by suspension of sensation, muscular rigidity, fixity of posture, and often by loss of contact with environment."

Cataleptic

Who said this: "Even if I imagine a scheme of vengeance, what could I do better for my object than to let thee live,- than to give thee medicines against all harm and peril of life,- so that this burning shame may still blaze upon thy bosom"?

Chillingworth

Ichabod is said to be the "perfect master" of this book:

Cotton Mather's History of New England Witchcraft

Who said this: "For Hester Prynne's sake, then, and no less for the poor child's sake, let us leave them as Providence hath seen fit to place them!"

Dimmesdale

When the slaves revolt, Babo initially demands to be taken to:

Either Senegal or the islands of St. Nicholas

After his harrowing ordeal is over, the only time that Don Benito is able to look at Babo is when the court convicts him of murder and mutiny

False

As she played alone in her house, Pearl created imaginary friends to keep her company

False

Babo distributes the water when the supply arrives

False

Captain Delano offers to buy Babo from Don Benito for a thousand doubloons

False

Captain Delano's mate yells "Follow your leader!" As a battle cry when leading the men to take the Bachelor's Delight back from the slaves

False

Don Benito eagerly accepts Captain Delano's offer to share a cup of coffee when their ships dock next to each other

False

Hester reveals the father of her baby to the "doctor" in the jail but swears him to secrecy

False

Hester says her child must seek an earthly father because she will never know a heavenly one

False

If he accidentally stayed out too late reading after school in the afternoon and had to venture home "at that witching hour," Ichabod would beat sticks loudly in an effort to drive away evil spirits

False

Pearl kept mostly to herself, but if approached by other children, she was friendly and played well with others

False

Pitty Sing is the little girl with yellow hair in the family

False

Poe married his fourteen year old cousin, Virginia Clemm

False

While Captain Delano and Don Benito eat lunch, Babo stands behind Don Benito's chair

False

The original destination of the family's road trip is _____________.

Florida

He is the mulatto steward who announces lunch in the cabin, and who suggest poisoning Delano, which Babo disapproves of

Francesco

How does the narrator know Usher?

From boyhood

At the end of his testimony to the notary, Don Benito says that when he is dismissed by the court, he will...

Go to the monastery on Mount Agonia

___________ means "odd or unnatural in shape, appearance, or character; fantastically ugly or absurd; bizarre."

Grotesque

There is evidence that Ichabod Crance did not in fact encounter the headless horseman. Which of these is NOT a part of that collection of evidence?

Gunpowder made it back home safely

Roderick Usher's condition is formally known as ?

Hyperesthesia

_____________ is "an abnormally acute sense of pain, heat, cold, or touch."

Hyperesthesia

________________ is "excessive worry or talk about one's health."

Hypochondria

Rode a horse named Gunpowder

Ichabod Crane

Who is this passage describing: "When school hours were over, he was even the companion and playmate of the larger boys; and on holiday afternoons would convoy some of the smaller ones home, who happened to have pretty sisters, or good housewives for mothers, noted for the comforts of the cupboard.

Ichabod Crane

It is implied that the Usher family is historically ___________?

Incestuous

He is the eight year old boy of the family

John Wesley

She is the love interest of Brom Bones and Ichabod Crane

Katrina Van Tassel

Usher has the narrator help him do this:

Lock his sister's body in the vault

What is the name of Usher's twin sister?

Madeline

Where Captain Delano comes from

Massachusetts

He is the jailer in "The Scarlet Letter."

Master Brackett

In light of the plot twist revelation, in the quote "As master and man stood before him..." who is the master and who is the slave

Master- Babo Slave- Cereno

Mr. Dimmesdale is best described as:

Meek, childlike, speaks like an angel

Chapter 8 is called "The Elf Child and the _____________."

Minister

The grandmother tells the children about a man who courted her before she was married. He brought her a watermelon with his initials carved into it. Who was this man?

Mr. Edgar Atkins Teagarden

He is described as the eldest clergyman of Boston

Mr. Wilson

Chapter 5 is called "Hester at her _______________."

Needle

When supplies come, Babo insists on setting ____________ aside for his master

One bottle of cider

Who says this: "Thou wast not bold!- thou wast not true! Thou wouldst not promise to take my hand..."

Pearl

Hester's only comfort came when....

Pearl was asleep

_______________ means "having a fantastic or deceptive appearance, as something in a dream or created by the imagination."

Phantasmagoric

He is the Spanish sailor who is a good navigator and Don Aranda's friend, who the slaves regret killing later in the text

Raneds

This is NOT one of the themes in "Benito Cereno"

Redemption

He is physically suffering and appears to be dying

Reverend Dimmesdale

He is the one who convinces the men to allow Hester to keep her child

Reverend Dimmesdale

He questions Pearl to see if she has the appropriate "Christian nurture as benefits a child of her age."

Reverend Wilson

What is Usher's first name?

Roderick

When playing in the graveyard one day, Pearl notices that her and Hester are being watched. She says, "Come away mother! Come away, or that old Devil will catch you! He's caught the minister already. Come away mother, or he'll catch you! But he can't catch little Pearl!" Who is the "old Devil" she is referring to?

Roger Chillingworth

The name of the whaleboat that brings supplies from Captain Delano's ship to Don Benito's

Rover

The name of Don Benito's ship

San Dominick

Usher suffers from "a morbid acuteness of the ___________"

Senses

Out of overwhelming guilt due to his sin, Dimmesdale tortures himself by doing each of the following EXCEPT

Signing his name in blood in the devil's book

The House of Usher is built upon a...

Tarn

The grandmother convinces the family to take their trip to east _______________ to "see different parts of the world and be broad."

Tennessee

What had the grandmother remembered right before the accident occurred?

That the house she had remembered was not in Georgia but Tennessee

Who is the main character of The Fall of the House of Usher?

The narrator

Where does Dimmesdale go as a form of penance in Chapter 12?

The scaffold

As a baby, the first object of which Pearl became aware was...

The scarlet letter

What does Mistress Hibbins ask Hester?

To attend a witches gathering with her in the forest

"Benito Cereno" was published in The Piazza Tales as part of a short story collection in 1856

True

At the end of the story, Babo's head is fixed on a pole in the plaza and made to look towards St. Bartholemew's church

True

Babo tells Captain Delano that Don Benito cut him with the razor to punish him for drawing blood while shaving him

True

Edgar Allen Poe died at the age of forty, the exact cause of which still remains a mystery

True

Edgar Allen Poe's biological parents were traveling actors

True

Hester and baby Pearl move to the outskirts of the town, showing their isolation from the community

True

Hester says that she will never reveal the secret of her baby's paternity

True

Out of all the living beings in the car that day, the Misfit leaves only the cat alive

True

The "doctor" is revealed to be Hester's husband

True

The Valley of Sleepy Hollow is located a couple of miles outside Tarry Town

True

The car accident is caused by the grandmother upsetting the cat and making him jump up on the driver's shoulder

True

The original destination of Don Benito's ship was Lima, Peru

True

The original figure-head of the San Dominick is the image of Christopher Colon

True

The sight of a mother loving on her infant child deepens Captain Delano's confidence and ease

True

When his boat brings supplies, Captain Delano does not permit his men to board Don Benito's ship

True

While she is on the scaffold, Mr. Wilson tells Hester that if she reveals the paternity of her child, she may be able to remove the scarlet letter from her breast

True