American literature test

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

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

AMERICAN LITERATURE QUIZ

1. Which of the following is an accurate statement about the difference between Native Americans and European colonists in 1492?

a)The European colonists spoke a greater variety of languages than the Native Americans.

b)Unlike most of the Native Americans, the European colonists used a written alphabet.

c)The modes of expression of the Native Americans were primarily oral, as they were among the European colonists.

d)The Native Americans practiced fewer variations of religious belief than the European colonists.

e)None of the above

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

a)epic

b)prose narrative

c)protest manuals

d)musical comedy

e)oral performance

3. With what European literary movement came recognition from a Western perspective of Native American verbal expression as a literature?

a)Neoclassicism

b)Symbolism

c)Romanticism

d)Realism

e)Naturalism

4. Which of the following is not a primary purpose that colonists sent written texts to Europe?

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