a)to defend actions taken in the Americas

b)to influence official policy in Europe

c)to counter Native American responses to European chronicles of events

d)to stir individual imagination and national ambition

e)to reveal political intentions to European powers

5. Who wrote The Selling of Joseph, one of the earliest antislavery tracts written and published in North America?

a)Samuel Sewall

b)Daniel Gould

c)Jonathan Dickinson

d)Thomas Maule

e)Benjamin Franklin

6. Which pamphlet is generally credited with tipping the igniting colonists toward revolution?

a)Ralph Waldo Emerson's ‘Self-Reliance’

b)Benjamin Franklin's ‘Rules by Which a Great Empire May Be Reduced to a Small One’

c)Judith Sargent Murray's ‘On the Equality of the Sexes’

d)Cotton Mather's ‘The Wonders of the Invisible World’

e)Thomas Paine's ‘Common Sense’

7. What type of writing is generally considered the most significant in terms of establishing a ‘national literature’ for the newly independent United States of America?

a)political essays

b)autobiographies

c)captivity narratives

d)polite literature

e)popular novels

8.Nathaniel Hawthorne did NOT write:

a)The Scarlett Letter

b)Vanity Fair

c)The Blithedale Romance

d) Twice Told Tales

9. What best describes the common experience of European immigrants to the British colonies in North America?

a)ocean passage

b)freedom from religious persecution

c)the desire to make new lives for themselves

d)a and c, only

e)a, b, and c

10. Which of the following is NOT related to the delayed creation of a national book-buying market for American literature?

a)American printers sold pirated copies or works by British and Continental writers very cheaply.

b)For American writers to receive royalties, their books had to be priced above the prices charged for the works of famous British writers.

c)American publishers generally carried only a few American works for prestige value.

d)The British market for American writers dried up by the middle of the century.

e)Illiteracy was still high in the United States.

11. Which writer’s Waverley novels appealed to aspiring American writers due to his use of historical setting and his creation of imagined scenes with real historical people and fictional characters?

a)Sir Walter Scott

b)Samuel Richardson

c)Samuel Johnson

d)Jonathan Swift

e)Tobias Smollett

12. Which fugitive described his own slavery in lectures and publications?

a)John Greenleaf Whittier

b)Frederick Douglass

c)Jean Toomer

d)Sterling A. Brown

e)T. B. Thorpe

13. Which subjects were identified by critics as potentially fruitful in order that writers could celebrate the new country in poetry and prose?

a)the American Revolution

b)Native American legends

c)stories of colonial battles

d)a and c, only

e)a, b, and c

14. As making a serious American contribution to world literature was no guarantee of monetary rewards, what related activities did many writers undertake to earn a living?

a)writing newspaper articles and columns

b)editing magazines

c)giving lectures

d)a and c, only

e)a, b, and c

15. Which writer stood alone in his anguishing conviction that true Christianity was impractical?

a)Walt Whitman

b)Ralph Waldo Emerson

c)Henry David Thoreau

d)Edgar Allan Poe

e)Herman Melville

16. Whereas Washington Irving lived abroad in England and Spain, in which county did James Fennimore Cooper reside?

a)Belgium

b)France

c)Italy

d)Germany

e)Russia

17. Which previously unknown author did Washington Irving urge George P. Putnam to publish?

a)Herman Melville

b)Emily Dickinson

c)Edgar Allan Poe

d)Nathaniel Hawthorne

e)Ralph Waldo Emerson

18. In Walden, who urges people to simplify their lives and look to nature for meaning?

a. Robert Frost

b. Walt Whitman

c. Henry David Thoreau

d. Herman Melville

19. The Scarlet Letter is set where?

a. England during World War II

b. Paris during the French Revolution

c. the Middle Ages in Italy

d. Puritan America

20. Which of Washington Irving's characters falls asleep for twenty years?

a. Tom Buchanan

b. Tom Joad

c. Philip Marlowe

d. Rip van Winkle

21. Which famous club was organized by James Fennimore Cooper in 1824 in the back room of his publisher’s Manhattan bookstore?

a) the Transcendental Club

b) the Bread and Cheese Club

c) the Saturday Club

d) the Harvard Club

e) the Friday Night

22. Who did Abraham Lincoln teasingly call the little woman who started the big war?

a) Rebecca Harding Davis

b) Harriet Prescott Spofford

c) Louisa May Alcott

d) Harriet Beecher Stowe

e) Margaret Fuller

23. Which poet would be most associated with an expansive and gregarious form of self-celebration?

a) Ralph Waldo Emerson

b) Walt Whitman

c) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

d) Emily Dickinson

e) Robert Frost

24. Which of the following poets has a style that is considered introspective, concise, and radically private?

a) Walt Whitman

b) Robert Frost

c) Henry David Thoreau

d) Emma Goldman

e) Emily Dickinson

25. Who is associated with the idea that whosoever is a man must be a nonconformist?

a) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

b) Ralph Waldo Emerson

c) Mark Twain

d) Abraham Lincoln

e) Booker T. Washington

1 What is the most characteristic feature of Native American story
telling:

A Linearity????

B Realistic Narrative

C Mystery

D Circularity

2 What is the most popular type of Native American story:

A War Myth

B Creation Myth
С Ceremony Story
D Ritual Story

3 What is the central action of exploration narratives of Early American
Literature:

A Survival in wilderness

B Contact with natives

С Establishment of democracy D Christian preaching

4 Who is the author of "The General History of Virginia, New England
and the Summer Islands":

A Mary Rowlandson

B Columbus

C Captain John Smith

D W Bradford

5 Who is the author of "Of Plymouth Plantation":
A W Bradford

B Mary Rowlandson

C Jonathan Edwards

D Captain Smith

6 Who is the author of "Sinners in the Hands of Angry God":

A W. Bradford

B Mary Rowlandson
C Jonathan Edwards

D B. Franklin

7 What is the form of "Personal Narrative" by J Edwards:

A Captivity narrative

B Autobiography

C Spiritual autobiography D Exploration story

8 Name the poet of American Revolution:

A A. Bradstreet

B W Whitman

C В. Franklin

D Philip Frenau

9 Who is the author of "Poor Richard's Almanac":
A Philip Frenau

B Franklin

C Thomas Paine

D W. Bradford

10 What is another name of "The Autobiography" by Franklin:

A Way to Wealth???

B Almanac

С Virtues

D Improvement

11 Which of the following forms best describes traditional Native American literatures in origin?

A Epic

B Prose narrative

C Protest manuals

D Oral performance??

12 What type of writing is generally considered the most significant in terms of establishing a ‘national literature’ for the newly independent United States of America?

A Political essays

B Autobiographies

C Captivity narratives

D Polite literature

13 Who is the author of "Common Sense":

A Thomas Paine

B Thomas Jefferson
С W. Bradford

D H. Melville

14 What is the form of "Common Sense":

A Captivity narrative

B Short story

C Myth

D Pamphlet

15 Who is the creator of frontier novel:

A B Franklin

B W Irving

C Th. Jefferson
DJ.F. Cooper

16 Who is the author of the poem "To my Dear and Loving Husband":

A Philis Whitley
B A. Bradstreet

C Philip Frenau

D B. Franklin

17 Which of Leather-Stocking tales describes the problem of building
democratic society in wilderness:

Ал "The Pioneers"???

B "The Pathfinder"
С "The Deerslayer"
D "The Prairie"

18 Who is the main character of Leather-Stocking Tales:

A Captain Ahab

B Hester Pryn

С Young Goodman Brown

D Natty Bumpo

19 Who is the author of "The Sketch Book":

A W Irving

B J.F. Cooper

C Н. Melville

D H. D Thoreau

20 Who introduced the character of Diedrich Knickerbocker:
A B. Franklin

B W Irving

C J.F. Cooper

D R.W. Emerson

21 Who is the author of the story "Rip Van Winkle":

A J.F. Cooper

B Е.А. Рое
C W. Irving

D Th. Jefferson

22 Where do we meet the Headless Horseman:
A "Rip Van Winkle"

B "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"

С "Purloined Letter"

D "Nature"

23 What is the central issue of Irving's stories:

A The problem of frontier

B American revolution

C Survival in Wilderness

D Absence of American cultural tradition???

24 Which literary movement spoke about indwelling God, Intuitive
thought, and Natural Knowledge:

A Romanticism

B Transcendentalism

C Unitarism

D Naturalism

25 Who is the speaker of Transcendentalism in American Literature:

A N. Hawthorne

B E.A Рое

C W. Irving

D R. W. Emerson

25 Who is the speaker of Transcendentalism in American Literature:

A N. Hawthorne

B E.A Рое

C W. Irving

D R. W. Emerson

26 Who is the author of "Nature":

A H.D. Thoreau

B R.W. Emerson

C M. Fuller

D N. Hawthorne

27 Define the form of Emerson's literary works:
A Essay

B Pamphlet
С Novel

D Poem

28 What should be the source for developing unique American culture
according to Emerson:

A Freedom

B American Economy

C American Frontier

D American Nature

29 Who is the author of "Walden; or Life in the Woods":

A R.W. Emerson
BН.D. Thoreau

C Е.А. Рое

D N. Hawthorne

30 Who is the author of the passage " every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity Moral reform is the effort to throw off sleep The millions are awake enough for physical labor, and only one in millions is awake for divine life":

A H.D. Thoreau

B R.W. Emerson

C М Fuller

D N Hawthorne

31 What is the form of "The Fall of the House of Usher":

A Novel

B Poem

C Detective story

D Horror story

32 The Scarlet Letter is set where?

A England during World War II

B Paris during the French Revolution

C the Middle Ages in Italy

D Puritan America

33 Which of Washington Irving's characters falls asleep for twenty years?

A Tom Buchanan

B Tom Joad

C Philip Marlowe

D Rip van Winkle

34 How did E.A. Рое call his detective stories:

A Argumentative

B Arabesque

C Rational

D Burlesque

35 What is the name of the detective in E.A. Poe's stories:

A Megre

B Dupin
С Watson
D Clark

36 N. Hawthorne belongs to the period of:

A Naturalism

B Realism

C Colonial Literature

D American Renaissance

37 What is the typical setting for Hawthorne's America:

A Puritan America

B Frontier

C Contemporary to the author

D America of 20^th century

38 Who is the author of "Scarlet Letter":

A H Melville

B Е Hemingway
С N. Hawthorne

D R.W. Emerson

39 Who is the author of "Typee" and "Omoo":

A H. Melville

B N. Hawthorne

С R.W. Emerson

D E.A. Рое

40 Who is the main character in the novel "Moby-Dick":

A Dupin

B Pequod

CCaptain Ahab D Captain Smith

41 Which novel the passage is taken from "He tasks me, he heaps me:
I see in him outrageous strength, with inscrutable malice sinewing it
That inscrutable thing is what I hate":

A "Scarlet Letter" '

B "Omoo"
C "Moby-Dick"

D "Pioneers"

42 The Novel "Moby-Dick" displays the conflict of:

A Democracy and Nature

B Male-Female conflict *
С Relation of Man and Nature

D Christianity

43 Which American poet employs hymn as major poetic form:

A Philip Frenau

B W. Whitman
C H. Melville
D E. Dickinson

44 Who is the author of "Leaves of Grass":
A E Dickinson

B W Whitman

C F. Douglass

D E. Hemingway

45 Which poet pronounces the unity of body, self, and community:

A W. Whitman

B E. Dickinson

C Philip Frenau

D R. W. Emerson

46 Which of the following poets has a style that is considered introspective, concise, and radically private?

A Walt Whitman

B Robert Frost

C Henry David Thoreau

D Emily Dickinson f

47 Which poet would be most associated with an expansive and gregarious form of self-celebration?

A Ralph Waldo Emerson

B Walt Whitman

C Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

D Emily Dickinson

48 Which previously unknown author did Washington Irving urge George P. Putnam to publish?

A Herman Melville

B Emily Dickinson

C Edgar Allan Poe

D Nathaniel Hawthorne

49 As making a serious American contribution to world literature was no guarantee of monetary rewards, what related activities did many writers undertake to earn a living?

A writing newspaper articles and columns

B editing magazines

C giving lectures

D a and c, only

E a, b, and c

50 Which writer’s Waverley novels appealed to aspiring American writers due to his use of historical setting and his creation of imagined scenes with real historical people and fictional characters?

A Sir Walter Scott

B Samuel Richardson

C Samuel Johnson

D Jonathan Swift

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