Midterms

Name: Date:

Test I. Instructions: Define the following:

1. Romanticism
2. Southern Gothic

Test II. Classify the following words. If the phrase or word pertains to Romanticism, write R. If it is
Southern Gothic , write S.
________1. Moby Dick
________2. Herman Melville
________3. Frankenstein
________4. Ichabod Crane
________5. Nathaniel Hawthorne
________6. James Fennimore Cooper
________7. Washington Irving
________8. Freakishness
________9. Imprisonment
________10. Sense of Place

Test III. Identify the following characters from Moby Dick, Scarlet Letter, The Wind in the Willows and
Frankenstein and the Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Use the description given:
1. a great white whale
2. an innocent child born to Hester _____________________
3. the most beautiful girl, loved by Ichabod Crane ________________________________
4. the Captain of the Pequoud _______________________________
5. the motorcar obsessed multi-millionaire _______________________________
6. the minister who bore a scarlet letter ________________________________
7. Hester’s ex husband ________________________________
8. the narrator of Moby Dick ___________________________________
9.the collective name of the scheming criminals who took Toad’s mansion
_______________________________
10. the name of Frankenstein’s assistant_______________________________

Test IV. True or False. Write Toad if the statement is true and WEASEL if the statement is false.
1. Hester legally separated from her husband before entertaining someone else.
2. Hester lived in Massachusetts.
3. Her daughter’s name is Pearl.
4. Ichabod Crane’s work is a librarian.
5. Ichabod Crane is afraid of the supernatural.
6. Moby Dick is a great white, humpback whale
7. Captain Ahab hates the whale for it bit his right hand
8. Captain Ahab had never caught a whale
9. Dr. Frankenstein only used one body, part for creating his monster
10. BONUS

Tes t. V : Enumerate and explain the five characteristics of Southern Gothic literature.