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Midterm 2 United States Literature

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 30mins

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Class
Date
1.

What is the American Romanticism?

a)

American Romanticism is a movement that is determines your way of living following all rules that local authorities establish to live in an order and mutual respect.

b)

American Romanticism is a literary movement that is marked by a freedom from the authority, forms, and conventions typical in Neoclassical literature.

c)

American Romanticism is a movement that involves all literature written after the World War I.

d)

American Romanticism refers to all love expressions that humans express to one another. This is mostly found among between couples.

2.

What Literary Period Does Walt Whitman belong to?

a)

Naturalistic Period

b)

Modern Period

c)

Romantic Period

d)

Realistic Period

3.

What Literary movement Do the Authors (Emily Dickinson, Kate Chopin, Mark Twain, William Dean Howells) belong to?

a)

Realistic Period

b)

American Romanticism

c)

Naturalistic Period

d)

Modern Period

4.

Name of the Author of the The Awakening.

a)

Mark Twain

b)

Kate Chopin

c)

Emily Dickinson

d)

Walt Whitman

5.

Name of the Author whose fiction is widely taught in universities and secondary schools. It is explored in hundreds of scholarly books, essays, and dissertations—as well as in the popular media. It has been made into plays, films, songs, dances, graphic fiction, and an opera.

a)

Emily Dickinson

b)

Mark Twain

c)

Kate Chopin

d)

F. S. Fitzgerald

6.

Literary Period where Many of its writers were influenced by World War I and the disillusionment that followed, especially the expatriates of the Lost Generation.

a)

American Modern Period

b)

American Romanticism

c)

The Naturalistic Period

7.

Does Stephen Crane belong to the Realistic Period?

a)

Yes, He does.

b)

No He doesn´t.

8.

Which ones are the main writers for the Modern Period?

a)

Emily Dickinson, Kate Chopin, Ernest Hemingway and Willa Cather.

b)

Mark Twain, Theodore Dreiser, Allan Poe and Stephen Crane.

c)

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, John Steinbeck, Ernest Hemingway and Willa Cather.

9.

Select the correct Literary movement the following elements belong to.


Real dialects of the area

Character development important

Importance in depicting social class

a)

Naturalistic Period

b)

American Romanticism

c)

The Realistic Period

d)

Modern Period

10.

Name of the novelist who was the outstanding American practitioner of naturalism. He was the leading figure in a national literary movement that replaced the observance of Victorian notions of propriety with the unflinching presentation of real-life subject matter.

a)

Stephen Crane

b)

Theodore Dreiser

c)

Emily Dickinson

d)

Edgar Allan Poe