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The American Tradition in Literature, Volume 2 Book Cover
The American Tradition in Literature, Volume 2, 10/e
George Perkins, Eastern Michigan University
Barbara Perkins, University of Toledo-Toledo

Multiple Choice



1

The poem inspired by Poe's first love is
A)"Israfel"
B)"Dream-Land"
C)"Ulalume"
D)"To Helen"
2

The effects wrought on the narrator of "Lygeia" might have been the result of
A)ocular deceptions
B)an opium dream
C)Lygeia's decline
D)the ghost of Rowena
3

Poe's essay "Twice-Told Tales, A Review" celebrates the short fiction of
A)Nathaniel Hawthorne
B)Herman Melville
C)Ralph Waldo Emerson
D)Henry David Thoreau
4

In his essay "The Philosophy of Composition," Poe compares the creation of his poem "The Raven" to a the development of a/an
A)intuitive eruption
B)carefully organized essay
C)a mathematical problem
D)a musical composition
5

The horrific motif evoked in "The Fall of the House of Usher" is
A)premature burial
B)an ancestral curse
C)the return of the dead
D)premature aging








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