Question 1

Nathaniel Hawthorne briefly lived at the ________________ experiment in communal living.

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Question 2

Most early nineteenth-century American physicians opposed medical innovations and experimentation.

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 B)False

Question 3

The Oneida Community sought to redefine gender roles and engage in "free love."

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 4

What were the motives for the founding of the many communal living societies in the first half of the nineteenth century?

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Question 5

In redefining gender roles, the experimental 1840s Oneida community

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A)  put women in charge of all major aspects of the community.
B)  was a controversial experiment in "free love."
C)  demanded celibacy from all its participants.
D)  carefully monitored sexual behavior to protect women.
E)  put fathers in charge of child-rearing and taking care of the home.F) A) and C)
G) A) and B)

Question 6

American transcendentalists borrowed heavily from European thinkers.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 7

Prior to 1860, prison reform in the United States

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A)  included the practice of solitary confinement.
B)  led to widespread calls to end capital punishment.
C)  focused on punishment, not on rehabilitation.
D)  began largely in the West and spread to the East.
E)  decried the racial bias of the judicial system.F) A) and B)
G) C) and E)

Question 8

How could one argue that William Lloyd Garrison both helped and hurt the cause of abolition?

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Question 9

Both Brook Farm and New Harmony were essentially failures as communal experiments.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 10

Frederick Douglass

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A)  was born free but was sold into slavery as a youth.
B)  wrote for William Lloyd Garrison's abolitionist newspaper.
C)  spent years lecturing in England against slavery.
D)  was an ordained minister.
E)  argued that blacks wanted only an end to slavery, and not full social equality.F) D) and E)
G) B) and E)

Question 11

The Supreme Court case of Prigg v.Pennsylvania concerned the issue of ______________________.

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Question 12

The events depicted in Uncle Tom's Cabin were taken from news accounts.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 13

In the 1840s, the organized movement against drunkenness in the United States

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A)  linked alcohol to crime and poverty.
B)  grew largely out of immigrant communities.
C)  was actively opposed by a large majority of Americans.
D)  remained a minor social movement.
E)  spent much of its time and resources battling evangelical Protestants.F) All of the above
G) B) and E)

Question 14

By the beginning of the Civil War, the United States had one of the highest literacy rates of any nation of the world.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

Which of the following nineteenth-century leaders is primarily known for her pioneering work in the American feminist movement?

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A)  "Mother" Ann Lee
B)  Harriet Tubman
C)  Sojourner Truth
D)  Rachel Eaton
E)  Elizabeth Cady StantonF) None of the above
G) D) and E)

Question 16

In the mid-nineteenth century, romanticism

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A)  was consistent with traditional Calvinist assumptions.
B)  considered instincts to be sinful and needed to be repressed.
C)  had its origins in the American Midwest.
D)  All the answers are correct.
E)  None of the answers are correct.F) C) and D)
G) A) and C)

Question 17

Transcendentalists

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A)  rejected European intellectuals.
B)  regarded reason to be the most important human faculty.
C)  argued that emotional responses inhibited the internal development of individuals.
D)  believed all individuals should develop their intellectualism.
E)  argued for the liberating potential of "understanding."F) A) and B)
G) A) and C)

Question 18

Mark Twain was the leading writer in the Southern Romantic tradition.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 19

Which statement about Mormonism is FALSE?

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A)  Its founder was murdered.
B)  It advocated sexual equality.
C)  Early Mormons practiced polygamy.
D)  The first Mormons were generally marginally poor.
E)  Early Mormons met with much persecution from their neighbors.F) A) and D)
G) B) and D)

Question 20

In the 1830s and 1840s, cholera epidemics in the United States

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A)  were transmitted to humans by fleas living on rats.
B)  led many cities to build water treatment facilities.
C)  were diminished as physicians gained a basic understanding of bacteria.
D)  typically killed more than half of those who contracted the disease.
E)  None of the answers are correct.F) None of the above
G) B) and E)

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Nathaniel Hawthorne briefly lived at the ________________ experiment in communal living.

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In the mid-nineteenth century, romanticism

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Prior to 1860, prison reform in the United States

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In the 1830s and 1840s, cholera epidemics in the United States

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Mark Twain was the leading writer in the Southern Romantic tradition.

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American transcendentalists borrowed heavily from European thinkers.

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How could one argue that William Lloyd Garrison both helped and hurt the cause of abolition?

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Which of the following nineteenth-century leaders is primarily known for her pioneering work in the American feminist movement?

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Frederick Douglass

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Most early nineteenth-century American physicians opposed medical innovations and experimentation.

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By the beginning of the Civil War, the United States had one of the highest literacy rates of any nation of the world.

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The events depicted in Uncle Tom's Cabin were taken from news accounts.

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The Oneida Community sought to redefine gender roles and engage in "free love."

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In redefining gender roles, the experimental 1840s Oneida community

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The Supreme Court case of Prigg v.Pennsylvania concerned the issue of ______________________.

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Transcendentalists

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Which statement about Mormonism is FALSE?

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Both Brook Farm and New Harmony were essentially failures as communal experiments.

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What were the motives for the founding of the many communal living societies in the first half of the nineteenth century?

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