FREE LITERATURE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT AMERICAN

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FREE LITERATURE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT AMERICAN

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Question 1: hindrance; blockage

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obstruction

Question 2: Thoreau's hope for the democracy of his time was that it

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was one step along the route to a more perfect state

Question 3: having influence

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predominating

Question 4: many different

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manifold

Question 5: When the narrator opens the door of his chamber and peers out, he half expects to find

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the deceased woman with whom he has been in love

Question 6: Which word in the following passage is an example of onomatopoeia?

"While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, / As of someone gently rapping, rapping at me chamber door--"

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tapping Question 7: What does the following figure of speech mean? "Speak what you think now in hard words, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again..."

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Say what's on your mind in the strongest way you can.Question 8: Thoreau believes that all of the following are important in life except

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details

Question 9: Emerson states that the most sacred aspect of a person is the

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integrity of an individual's mind Question 10: Which of the following best describes Thoreau's attitude toward government after he was jailed?

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He lost all respect for the government and pitied it.Question 11: Which of the following statements best summarizes what Thoreau might have thought about paradoxes.

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Truths can be revealed by examining

Question 12: secret plot with a harmful or illegal purpose

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conspiracy

Question 13: unnecessary

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superfluous Question 14: Which of the following quotations from the selection does not contain an example of sensory imagery

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"Standing on the bare ground--my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space--all mean egotism vanishes."

Question 15: impulsive

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impetuous

Question 16: recurring yearly

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perennial

Question 17: Thoreau's major purpose in this essay is to persuade people to

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follow their individual consciences Question 18: With which of the following statements would Emerson be most likely to agree?

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All elements of nature make a unified impression on those whose minds are open.Question 19: The narrator guesses that the Raven says the single word "Nevermore" because

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his former master was an unhappy person

Question 20: Which of the following is the best interpretation of Thoreau's statement, "In most books the I, or first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained. . . . I am confined to this theme by the narrowness of my experience"?

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authors' thoughts and feelings inform everything that write

Question 21: mildly warning

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admonishing

Question 22: impenetrable; resistant

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impervious Question 23: In the following metaphor "...no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till..." which of the following best describes what "that plot of ground" represents

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the circumstances an individual is born into Question 24: In which lines below are the underlined words an example of alliterations?

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"What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and ominous bird of yore / Meant in croaking 'Nevermore.'"

Question 25: eagerness; promptness in responding

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alacrity

Question 26: balanced

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proportionate

Question 27: worldly

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temporal