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Chapter 13 Review

Total questions: 11

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Walt Whitman introduced great innovations to American literature, and devised a poetic style, free verse.

a)

True

b)

False

2.

Emily Dickinson's poems are usually long, exploring the inner life of the individual.

a)

True

b)

False

3.

America's most renowned playwright is Tennessee Williams, and his plays are highly experimental in form and style.

a)

True

b)

False

4.

Of the following writers, _______ are from the Colonial and Revolutionary Periods.

a)

Benjamin Franklin and Edgar Allan Poe

b)

Edgar Allan Poe and Jonathan Edwards

c)

Benjamin Franklin and Jonathan Edwards

d)

Edgar Allan Poe and Washington Irving

5.

______ is regarded as the "father of American Literature".

a)

James Fenimore Cooper

b)

Ralph Waldo Emerson

c)

Thomas Jefferson

d)

Washington Irving

6.

Of the following, ______ is considered Herman Melville's masterpiece.

a)

The Last of the Mohicans

b)

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

c)

Moby Dick

d)

Daisy Miller

7.

Of the following, _____ is NOT characteristic of Mark Twain's works.

a)

colloquial speech

b)

a sense of humor

c)

a realistic view

d)

an idealistic view

8.

Of the following writers, ______ is NOT included in the group of naturalists.

a)

Stephen Crane

b)

Frank Norris

c)

Theodore Dreiser

d)

Herman Melville

9.

F. Scott Fitzgerald's finest novel is ______, and its theme is about _______.

a)

The Great Gatsby, the American Dream

b)

Tender Is the Night, love

c)

Tales of the Jazz Age, the loss of oneself

d)

The Beautiful and Damned, the evil of human nature

10.

Of the following writers, ______ is NOT a Nobel Prize winner.

a)

Alice Walker

b)

Ernest Hemingway

c)

William Faulkner

d)

Eugene O'Neill

11.

_______ is the first African-American winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

a)

Ralph Ellison

b)

Toni Morrison

c)

Richard Wright

d)

James Baldwin