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WorksheetsChapter 13 Review
Total questions: 11
Worksheet time: 8mins
Walt Whitman introduced great innovations to American literature, and devised a poetic style, free verse.
True
False
Emily Dickinson's poems are usually long, exploring the inner life of the individual.
True
False
America's most renowned playwright is Tennessee Williams, and his plays are highly experimental in form and style.
True
False
Of the following writers, _______ are from the Colonial and Revolutionary Periods.
Benjamin Franklin and Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe and Jonathan Edwards
Benjamin Franklin and Jonathan Edwards
Edgar Allan Poe and Washington Irving
______ is regarded as the "father of American Literature".
James Fenimore Cooper
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thomas Jefferson
Washington Irving
Of the following, ______ is considered Herman Melville's masterpiece.
The Last of the Mohicans
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Moby Dick
Daisy Miller
Of the following, _____ is NOT characteristic of Mark Twain's works.
colloquial speech
a sense of humor
a realistic view
an idealistic view
Of the following writers, ______ is NOT included in the group of naturalists.
Stephen Crane
Frank Norris
Theodore Dreiser
Herman Melville
F. Scott Fitzgerald's finest novel is ______, and its theme is about _______.
The Great Gatsby, the American Dream
Tender Is the Night, love
Tales of the Jazz Age, the loss of oneself
The Beautiful and Damned, the evil of human nature
Of the following writers, ______ is NOT a Nobel Prize winner.
Alice Walker
Ernest Hemingway
William Faulkner
Eugene O'Neill
_______ is the first African-American winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Ralph Ellison
Toni Morrison
Richard Wright
James Baldwin
