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15 Cards in this Set
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Who wrote The Devil and Tom Walker? |
Washing Irving |
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Who wrote Walden and Civil Disobedience? |
Henry David Thoreau |
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Who wrote The Minister's Black Veil? |
Nathaniel Hawthorn |
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Who wrote The Tide Rises and The Tide Falls? |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
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Who wrote The Raven and The Pit and the Pendulum? |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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Tom Walker’s business choice:
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He was an usurer (someone who loans money at very high interest rates)
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Tom Walker’s fate (what happened to him):
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The devil put him on a black horse and he rode off never to be seen again
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The effect of the Tide on the footprints and what that symbolizes:
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the footprints represent our imprint on the world and how they are washed away by the tide (time) after we die. A person’s life will be forgotten over time
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The phrase used to describe the first shots at Concord:
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Shot hear round theworld
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What Thoreau hoped to figure out at Walden:
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the meaning of life
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Why the Minister wears the veil:
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as a symbol of his secret sins and/or of others secret sins
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The first sermon’s topic:
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secret sins
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The word the Raven uses to answer the questions:
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Nevermore |
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The tortures:
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the pit, the pendulum, the walls
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Who wrote Concord Hymn? |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
