This exam will cover the readings from the Cooper and Apess (Week 8) through Stowe, Jacobs, and Douglass (Week 12).You must address the following andupload your exam using the link at the bottom of this page.

American literature of the Romantic period exemplifies emotion and individualism over rationalism and religion. For your second exam, you will address each of the following in a full, short answer paragraph. This is not an essay. It is five separate full, short answer paragraph responses focusing on the given prompt for each. You do not need to submit separate pages. Simply number your first response 1. and then continue with 2., 3., etc.

1. Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau: What do the works of Emerson and Thoreau illustrate about the trajectory of transcendentalism in American culture of the mid-19th century? How does this exemplify the Romantic Period?
2. Nathaniel Hawthorne: What does the work of Hawthorne illustrate about religion in American culture of the mid-19th century? How does this exemplify the Romantic Period?
3. Edgar Allan Poe: What do the works of Poe illustrate about the human connection in American culture of the mid-19th century? How does this exemplify the Romantic Period?
4. Margaret Fuller: What does the work of Fuller illustrate about the trajectory of transcendentalism in American culture of the mid-19th century? How does this exemplify the Romantic Period?
5. Harriet Beecher Stowe and Frederick Douglass: What do the works of Stowe and Douglass illustrate about slavery protest in the mid-19th century? How does this exemplify the Romantic Period?

As this exam is worth 200 points, submit five answers at a possible of 40 points each, for a maximum score of 200 points.