Format:  The format for Exam II will be as follows: possibly some multiple-choice questions or a brief explication passage instead of identification questions, and an essay.  Those who completed the extra credit option will be able to skip the first part (receiving 50/50 points) and simply write the essay.

Works Covered: 

• Hawthorne, "Rappaccini’s Daughter" 
• Preface to The House of the Seven Gables"
• My Kinsman, Major Molineux" (1223-36)
• Melville, "Hawthorne and His Mosses" (2261-73)
• Billy Budd
• Fuller, The Great Lawsuit (1590-1626) 
• Fern, Fern Leaves from Fanny’s Portfolio (1706-1717) 
• Dickinson  (especially but not exclusively poems discussed in class)
• Davis, "Life in the Iron Mills"
• Whitman, "Out of the Cradle, Endlessly Rocking" (2161-65)
• Whitman, "When Lilacs last in the Dooryard Bloom'd"

Potential topics for essays
Explication of a poem or section of a poem
Analysis of Hawthorne’s symbols or allegory 
Rhetorical strategies in the struggle for women’s rights
Comparing Whitman and Dickinson
Interpretations of Billy Budd
Dickinson and Whitman’s conceptions of the poet