The second exam will consist of three parts: a short answer section, a quotation identification section, and an extended paragraph, 300-word essay response. Partial credit may be awarded as merited. Answering all the journalists' questions (who, what, where, when, why, and how) where applicable will ensure a thoughtful yet succinct response.

This guide is designed to help you perform at your best by encouraging you to make connections between the works and authors before exam day. You should review all of your notes in addition to focusing on the following study prompts. Some material not represented below but discussed in class could still be on the test. Likewise, not all of the material below will be represented on the exam. I encourage you to study with your fellow classmates and to exchange notes. You still have plenty of time to properly prepare.

Finally, I would like to remind you that this exam represents 20% of your semester grade, so you should take it seriously. Scoring 50% on this test will, for example, reduce your final semester grade by 10 points, or one full letter grade. (Remember, I don't offer extra credit--ever.)

Issues and Definitions That May (or May Not) Appear on the Exam (in no particular order):

• Be able to list characteristics of American Gothic literature.

• Discuss the void in American writing that Washington Irving tried to fill with his short stories.

• Be able to discuss the social and political paradoxes in America during the eighteenth century.

• Explain how Enlightenment ideals are expressed in the Declaration of Independence.

• Be able to define and explain Deism using the Watchmaker's Analogy as part of your support.

• Explain how Franklin (the man and his work) is the embodiment of a self-made man. Feel free to also use "The Way to Wealth" to support your argument.

• Provide examples of Franklin's virtues, and briefly describe his system of applying them in his daily life.

• Discuss how Crevecoeur's Farmer James persona reflects the prototypical American.

• Which author suggested today's commonly held view of America as a "melting pot"?

• Which author we have read is most responsible for the myth of the American West?

• Be able to identify Natty Bumppo in at least one of his many incarnations.

• Describe the impact of Paine's and Crisis pamphlets.

  Common Sense

• Know to whom the Declaration of Independence's 27 enumerated grievances were addressed.

• Who is considered, according to prevailing critics of today, to be "the poet of the American Revolution"?

• Define thanatopsis.

• Define "frame narrative," and provide one example.