Question 1

Both Brook Farm and New Harmony were essentially failures as communal experiments.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 2

All of the following painters were associated with the Hudson River school EXCEPT

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A)  James Whistler.
B)  Thomas Cole.
C)  Frederic Church.
D)  Albert Bierstadt.
E)  Asher Durand.F) B) and C)
G) A) and E)

Question 3

What elements of romanticism can be found in mid-nineteenth-century American art and literature?

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Question 4

The nineteenth-century reformer Horace Mann believed that education should promote

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A)  capitalism.
B)  democracy.
C)  racial equality.
D)  economic equality.
E)  Christianity.F) A) and B)
G) C) and D)

Question 5

In the 1840s,the organized movement against drunkenness in the United States

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A)  linked alcohol to crime and poverty.
B)  grew largely out of immigrant communities.
C)  was actively opposed by a large majority of Americans.
D)  remained a minor social movement.
E)  spent much of its time and resources battling evangelical Protestants.F) A) and B)
G) A) and C)

Question 6

According to the transcendentalists,________ was the highest human faculty.

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Question 7

Nathaniel Hawthorne briefly lived at the ________ experiment in communal living.

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The answer of Nathaniel Hawthorne briefly lived at the ________...

Question 8

All of the following people helped create a distinct American literature EXCEPT

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A)  Walt Whitman.
B)  Herman Melville.
C)  James Fenimore Cooper.
D)  Edgar Allan Poe.
E)  Sydney Smith.F) D) and E)
G) A) and B)

Question 9

The mid-nineteenth-century "age of reform" was characterized by a simultaneous attraction to ideas of both personal liberty and social order.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 10

A catalyst for an American feminist movement was a London convention in 1840 that dealt with

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A)  woman suffrage.
B)  prostitution.
C)  abolition.
D)  temperance.
E)  prison reform.F) B) and D)
G) A) and B)

Question 11

Of the major experiments in utopian living,which do you believe had the most long-term influence on modern society? Explain.

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One major experiment in utopian living t...

Question 12

The study of the human brain through phrenology was the origin of modern psychology.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 13

Walt Whitman's first book of poems was titled ________.

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Question 14

Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poem was titled "________."

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Question 15

Why were many utopian communities critical of the traditional role and status of women in American society? What alternatives did these communities offer?

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Question 16

Like other mid-nineteenth-century experiments in social organization,Mormons believed in human perfectibility.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 17

William Lloyd Garrison was a harsh critic of the United States government.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 18

The term "penitentiary" comes from the idea of prisoners developing ________.

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Question 19

In redefining gender roles,the experimental 1840s Oneida Community

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A)  put women in charge of all major aspects of the community.
B)  was a controversial experiment in "free love."
C)  demanded celibacy from all its participants.
D)  carefully monitored sexual behavior to protect women.
E)  put fathers in charge of child-rearing and taking care of the home.F) B) and E)
G) D) and E)

Question 20

Edgar Allan Poe's writings focused on the bleak nature of the human spirit and emotion.

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A) True 
 B)False

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