Question 1
Who cried out books, books, books to attract attention?
A) rural book peddlers seeking buyers
B) preachers denouncing lax parishioners' habits
C) paper dealers looking for scrap
D) schoolmarms scolding their pupils
Question 2
Susanna Haswell Rowson's Book, Charlotte Temple, illustrated:
A) the rise of feminist views in the Revolution of 1800.
B) the rise in demand for books appealing to women.
C) the rise of the American novel as an art form.
D) the ideas of republican motherhood.
Question 3
Federalists responded to woman writers like Murray by arguing that women:
A) should be content with their roles as wives and mothers.
B) had as much right as men to be literary figures.
C) should leave teaching civic virtue to their husbands.
D) were incapable of benefiting from education.
Question 4
Judith Sargent Murray was notable as a/n:
A) poet.
B) novelist.
C) playwright.
D) all of these
Murray River Curly Coated Retriever
Some scholars regard Walt Whitman as a poet of nature, and others, a poet of the body—a reference to
Elizabeth Murray, Just in Time.
Liang Kai, The Poet Li Bo Walking and Chanting a Poem.
John Singer Sargent, Rushing Brook.
Elizabeth Murray, Bop.