In “The Cask of Amontillado,” the English translation of the Montresor family motto is as follows:

Which of the following is NOT a defining characteristic of transcendentalism?

Choose the correct answer below to fill in the blank:  In the manner of ______________, whom he greatly admired, Frederick Douglass presented himself as a representative American whose rise in the culture attested to the possibilities inherent in the nation’s egalitarian ideology.

In “The Cask of Amontillado,” the word “mason” has a double meaning:  While Fortunato is referring to the Freemasons, Montresor uses the term to mean one who builds with stone, brick, etc.

Identify the work in which the following quote appears:  “The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge.”

Identify the work that was first delivered as an oration before the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Cambridge on August 31, 1837, by Ralph Waldo Emerson.

In “The American Scholar,” Emerson’s controlling metaphor is a hand divided into fingers.

In “The Cask of Amontillado,” Montresor lures Luchresi to the catacombs of the Montresor estate by asking him to evaluate the authority of a pipe of “what passes for amontillado.”

Mandatory, non-discretionary spending consumes what percentage of the annual federal budget?

According to the “Simplified Veto Game,” under which scenario may Congress pass its most preferred legislation, which, in turn, the president will sign into law?