Literatura Norte Americana Quiz 2

Plymouth Plantation by William Bradford (1590-1657) is:

• a dictionary

• an historical document

• a bible

• a letter

The only author from the Puritanism time below is:

• Benjamin Franklin

• Edgar Allan Poe

• William Bradford

• Thomas Jefferson

Anne Bradstreet was the first woman to write ________.

• poems

• essays

• novels

• letters

All below are Founding Fathers of America, EXCEPT:

• George Washington

• Thomas Jefferson

• Benjamin Franklin

• Abraham Lincoln

William Bradford wrote about the first settlement in the USA. He was heavily influenced by a religious oral and written text called:

• poem

• sermon/mass

• memorial

• biography

During the first years of the Romantic Period, one type of text became extremely famous:

• novel

• novella

• short story

• epic

A recurring character from Indian novels was called Natty Bumppo, which also appear in The last of the Mohicans. These texts were written by:

• James Fenimore Cooper

• Cotton Mather

• Benjamin Franklin

• Anne Bradstreet

Benjamin Franklin represents a time called ​ ________ or ________.

• Enlightenment

• Age of Reason

• Romanticism

• Puritanism

• Colonialism

"Seventeenth-century Puritans wanted to ________ corruptions within the Church of England."

• maintain

• keep

• purify

• use

The famous poem William Cullen Bryant wrote and published in 1821 called "Thanatopsis" means:

• a time of death

• a view of death

• dead night

• dead silence