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WorksheetsAm. Lit. Time Periods
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
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Class
Date
1.
Poems, journals, and letters are genres that were common in which period?
a)
Harlem Renaissance
b)
Colonial
c)
Realist
d)
Revolutionary
2.
This literary time period rejected Romanticism.
a)
Realism
b)
Revolutionary
c)
Colonial
d)
Modernism
3.
Which of the following authors became famous for his horror writing during the Romantic period?
a)
Walt Whitman
b)
Edgar Allen Poe
c)
Kurt Vonnegut
d)
Thomas Jefferson
4.
Religious writing was characteristic of which of the following time periods?
a)
Revolutionary
b)
Colonial
c)
Modernism
d)
Realism
5.
This author was prominent in the Revolutionary period for his persuasive writing.
a)
Jack London
b)
Thomas Paine
c)
Nathaniel Hawthorne
d)
Edgar Allen Poe
6.
Which of the following periods showed a break from tradition and included strong use of symbols?
a)
Harlem Renaissance
b)
Naturalism
c)
Romanticism
d)
Modernism
7.
Urban life and African-American culture were focuses of which time period?
a)
Harlem Renaissance
b)
Colonial
c)
Modernism
d)
Naturalism
8.
The Romantic period introduced an emphasis on ________________________________________
a)
guilt and sin.
b)
emotions, personality, and imagination.
c)
independence and self-sufficiency
d)
simple language and ordinary people
9.
F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" represented
a)
exploration of God's role in life.
b)
A faithful representation of reality.
c)
an emphasis on imagination and emotion.
d)
the disillusionment of the American Dream.
10.
Which of the following authors became popular during the Harlem Renaissance?
a)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
b)
F. Scott Fitzgerald
c)
Anne Bradstreet
d)
Langston Hughes
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