Final Exam Prep. Unit 3

Washington Irving was considered by many to be the first true American Author.

• True

• False

Some of the characteristics of early American literature are humor, ruggedness, and individuality.

• True

• False

Irving first published The Legend of Sleepy Hollow under the pseudonym Diedrich Knickerbocker.

• True

• False

Romanticism was in favor of the Industrial Revolution’s push towards urbanization and consumerism.

• True

• False

While Romanticism is a reaction to Neoclassicism, Gothic Fiction takes Romanticism and explores its darkest extremes.

• True

• False

At the end of the story we discover that Katrina and Brom Bones become married

• True

• False

 The ending of Sleepy Hollow is definite; that is, the narrator tells us exactly what happened to Ichabod.

• True

• False

Who fits the description?

“their marvellous tales of ghosts and goblins, and

haunted fields, and haunted brooks, and haunted

bridges, and haunted houses, and particularly of

the headless horseman”

• Dutch Wives

• Headless Horseman

• Ichabod Crane

• Headless Horseman

Who fits the description?

“a blooming lass of fresh 18; plump as a partridge;

ripe and melting and rosy-cheeked as one of her

father’s peaches”

• Katrina Van Tassel

• Dutch Wives

• Hans Van Ripper

• Katka Van Winkle

Who fits the description?

“a perfect picture of a thriving, contented, liberal-

hearted farmer... He loved his daughter better

even than his pipe.”

• Hans Van Ripper

• Baltus Van Tassel

• Brom Bones

• Diedrich Knickerbocker