Naturalism Unit Test

Naturalism Unit Review

Answer questions on the back.

Explain how these words are associated with Naturalism or define.

· Industrialization

· Urban setting

· Loss of the Frontier

· President Lincoln

· Civil War

· Agriculture

· Naturalism

Spirituals

· Give the double meanings of “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot” and “Go Down, Moses”

· Are there metaphors in these Spirituals? If so, name them.

· From the point of view of the slaveholder, what made spirituals most dangerous?

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

· Why does the author describe the sound of his watch at the beginning of the story?

· What would make us sympathize with Peyton Farquhar?

· How does Farquhar get in this predicament?

· What is the message the author trying to convey in this story?

· Know the real sequence of events in the story vs. the sequence in which the story is written.

· What does Frederick Douglass mean by this? A religious master is the worst kind of slaveholder.

· What do the slaveholders think about African American Spirituals? What does Douglass say they actually mean?

The Gettysburg Address

· Why did Lincoln give the Gettysburg Address?

· Find examples of parallelism, charged words, emotional appeal and logical appeal in the speech.