In addition to your basic partisanship, the conflicting ideas within contemporary American politics must be viewed within the context of _________________.

Teresa recently learned that she has a mental illness. Since her diagnosis, she has begun to act according to the illness and in ways that she thinks others expect someone with a mental illness to act. Which theory of health and illness best explains her situation?

Both political parties represent essential, consistent ideas in American culture, which sociologists refer to as ______________;  the major difference between the parties reflects ___________.

What poet is the first African-American to publish a book of poetry, although Jupiter Hammon probably published some of his poems before she did?

What character races pell-mell past a church and across a bridge on a horse named Gunpowder?

The Phi Beta Kappa journal is named after this speech by Emerson that urged a distinctly American literature and scholarship.  What is the title of this speech, later published as an essay, that Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. called “the intellectual Declaration of Independence”?

There’s a wedding at the end of “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.”  Name the groom.

What New York writer and conversationalist popularized the term “Gotham” for New York City and invented the term “Knickerbocker” to refer to its residents?

What schoolteacher character had read “several books,” including Cotton Mather’s book on New England witchcraft, all the way through?

Which one of the writers had the best beard?