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Test 9 Flashcards

1
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America’s most beloved popular song composer

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Stephen Foster

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Most beloved hymn writer of the nineteenth century

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Fanny Crosby

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Founded Tuskegee Institute

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Booker T. Washington

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The leading local color writer of his day

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Bret Harte

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5
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Known for uncle Remus stories

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Joel Chandler Harris

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America’s first modern poet

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Walt Whitman

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In The Hoosier School-Master, whose actions did Ralph try to emulate?

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Bull

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What did Bill Means pit in Ralph’s desk?

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a puppy

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Hat event was helped in Hoopole County?

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Spelling-school

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10
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Who did Mirandy have a crush on?

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Ralph

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Whose friendship did Ralph most want to win?

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Bud

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12
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Who “spelled down” the master?

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Hannah

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13
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In “A Village Singer”, why did Candace dislike Alma?

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Alma had replaced her as church soloist

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14
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In “Under the Lions Paw”, who helped the Haskins family?

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Steve council

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15
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What misfortune had befallen the Haskins family?

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Grasshoppers

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16
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Who took unfair advantage of Mr. Haskins success?

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Jim Butler

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17
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Who wrote Ben-Hur?

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Lew Wallace

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18
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Who was Ben- Hur attracted to?

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Esther

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Who was a false friend to a Ben-Hur and the object of his revenge?

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Messala

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Who took control of Ben-Hur’s holdings after the demis of the family?

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Simonides

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21
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Who was sent to learn about Ben-Hur and report his findings?

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Malluch

22
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Who owned horses which Ben-Hur wanted to use for the chariot race?

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Ilderim

23
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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Self-Reliance”

24
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Henry David Thoreau

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Walden

25
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James Whitcomb Riley

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“When the First Frost Is on The Pumpkin”

26
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Sidney Lanier

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“Song of the Chattahoochee”

27
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Emily Dickinson

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“I Never Saw a Moor”

28
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Billy Sunday

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“Nuts for Skeptics to Crack”

29
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Jonathan Edwards

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“Sinners In The Hands of an Angry God”

30
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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“A World Split Apart”

31
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William Jennings Bryan

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“Is the Bible True?”

32
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“I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there.”

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Walden

33
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“None of us were prepared for such a sudden and complete wreck of our Arcadian scheme.”

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“The Experiences of the A.C.”

34
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“To Mr. M. J. Dimmidge,—- Hope you’re still on R. B.’s tracks. Keep there! —E. J. D.”

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“The Boom in the Calaveras Clarion”

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“I can not say, and I will not say That he is dead,— He is just away!”

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“Away”

36
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“Here once the embattled farmers stood And fired the shot heard round the world.”

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“Concord Hymns”

37
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“Can you tell me why it is that a black cow can eat green grass and give white milk?”

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“Nuts for Skeptics to Crack”

38
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What movement believes that man is divine, that he must rely on himself, and that he must not be bound by biblical principles or human conventions?

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Transcendentalism

39
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What view of life emphasizes a detached scientific and photographic accuracy which includes everything and selects nothing?

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Naturalism

40
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What literary device is a compact statement expressing a truth?

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Aphorism

41
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What literary device is shed in the following quote: “A church within a church, a republic, a world within a world, is spelled by four letters—- home!”?

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Metaphor

42
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What literary device is used in the following line: “Where drowsy poppies nod,/ Where ill thoughts die and good are born—“?

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Personification

43
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What poem’s theme is that everyone and everything has a purpose?

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“Fable”

44
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What poem’s theme is that God has a plan for our lives?

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“Long and Long Ago”

45
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What poem gives a description of Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane?

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“A Ballad of Trees and the Master”

46
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What author wrote the following quote:”You flatted a little on —soul”?

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Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

47
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Who is the author of the following quote:”Ef Bull once takes a holt, heaven and yarth can’t make him let go”?

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Edward Eggleston

48
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Who is the author of the following quote: “The twig was bent, the tree inclined,/ And so his heart and soul and mind/ Found it too hard a thing to do….”?

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Martha Snell Nicholson

49
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Wha sermon by T. Dwight Talmage emphasizes the importance of a happy home?

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“Conjugal Harmony”

50
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What sermon by A. W. Tower teaches that why something is done is more important than what is done?

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“The All-Importance of Motive”

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