Questions And CORRECT Answers
Novels marking emergence of Sentimentalism? - CORRECT ANSWERS 1. Power of
Sympathy*
2. The Coquette
3. Charlotte Temple
The definitions of "sentiment", "sentimental", "sensibility", and "sentimentality" all share
common references to what? - CORRECT ANSWERS emotions
Philosophical roots? - CORRECT ANSWERS John Locke
David Hume and Adam Smith were associated with what school of philosophers? - CORRECT
ANSWERS Moral Sense School
What was given to the cultural movement devoted to tear-demanding exhibitions of pathos? -
CORRECT ANSWERS The Cult of Sensibility
Mid-19th Century bestsellers - CORRECT ANSWERS 1. The Wide Wide World
2. Uncle Toms Cabin
3. The Lamplighter
NOT: Scarlett Letter
What are the literary genres that emerged in the post-revolutionary period? - CORRECT
ANSWERS captivity narrative, picaresque, gothic, frontier romance
, Whoch of the following is not of the three novels published in the 1780s and 1790s that marked
the emergence of American sentimentalism? - CORRECT ANSWERS Uncle Tom's Cabin
The novel of sensibility is best represented by the words of which of the following writers? -
CORRECT ANSWERS Samuel Richardson
Traits of Sentimentalism - CORRECT ANSWERS 1. Scenes of distress
2. Visible expressions of sympathy
3. Moralistic lessons
4. Privileging emotion
Stowe worked on Uncle Tom's Cabin while her husband Calvin worked for what college? -
CORRECT ANSWERS Bowdoin
In what state was Harriet Beacher Stowe born? - CORRECT ANSWERS Connecticut
At age twenty-two Stowe belonged to a literary club named what? - CORRECT
ANSWERS Semi-Colon Club
Semi-Colon Club - CORRECT ANSWERS devoted to intellectual discussions of society,
education and religion
What was the occupation of Stowe's father - CORRECT ANSWERS Congregationalist
minister
What was the occupation of Stowe's husband - CORRECT ANSWERS clergyman (aka
minister)