18th Centurty American Arts and Literature

18th Centurty American Arts and Literature

8th Grade

7 Qs

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18th Centurty American Arts and Literature

18th Centurty American Arts and Literature

Assessment

Quiz

Social Studies

8th Grade

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Liz Sullivan

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7 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 5 pts

This American writer based many of his stories such as "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle" on the Dutch History of early New York.

Washington Irving

Herman Melville

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

2.

DRAG AND DROP QUESTION

1 min • 5 pts

(a)   tried to live simply, and sought an understanding of beauty, goodness, and truth.

Transcendentalists
Tempereancists
Prohibitionists
Abolitionists

3.

MATCH QUESTION

1 min • 5 pts

Match the following authors to their work.

The Scarlet Letter

Walt Whitman

Walden

Henry David Thoreau

Leaves of Grass

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Moby Dick

Louisa May Alcott

Little Women

Herman Melville

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 5 pts

Who wrote Camptown Races?

Stephen Foster

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Herman Melville

Louisa May Alcott

5.

DRAG AND DROP QUESTION

1 min • 5 pts

James Finemore Cooper wrote about a character named (a)   , a frontiersman who kept moving westward.

Natty Bumpo
Hiawatha
Abe Lincoln
Daniel Boone

6.

DRAG AND DROP QUESTION

1 min • 5 pts

Americans developed their own form of Romanticism called (a)  

transcendentalism.
Protestantism.
River School.
thematic.

7.

DRAG AND DROP QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

​ (a)   wrote poems based on ​ (b)   . He wrote ​ (c)   .

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
American History
Paul Revere's Ride
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau
Walt Whitman
Song of Myself
World History
Presidents