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Total questions: 61

Worksheet time: 32mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

60. What literary device is used extensively in Emily Dickinson’s poetry?

a)

Metaphor

b)

Simile

c)

imagery, enjambment, and dashes

2.

61. Which novel by Herman Melville is considered a masterpiece of American literature?

a)

The Scarlet Letter

b)

Moby-Dick

3.

62. Which American poet is famous for her reclusive life and unique punctuation style?

a)

Sylvia Plath

b)

Emily Dickinson

4.

63. Who wrote “The Last of the Mohicans”?

a)

James Fenimore Cooper

b)

Nathaniel Hawthorne

5.

64. What literary period followed the American Civil War?

a)

Romanticism

b)

Realism

6.

65. Which American writer is known for the novel “The Red Badge of Courage”?

a)

Stephen Crane

b)

Ernest Hemingwa

7.

66. What was a major theme of the Harlem Renaissance?

a)

Technology

b)

Racial pride

c)

Black identity and pride

8.

67. Who was the author of “The House of the Seven Gables”?

a)

Nathaniel Hawthorne

b)

Mark Twain

9.

68. Who wrote the pamphlet “Common Sense,” inspiring American independence?

a)

Benjamin Franklin

b)

Thomas Paine

10.

69. Who is the protagonist of “The Great Gatsby”?

a)

Nick Carraway

b)

Jay Gatsby

11.

70. Who was the central figure of American modernist poetry known for “The Waste Land”?

a)

T. S. Eliot

b)

Walt Whitman

12.

71. What was the pen name of Samuel Clemens?

a)

Mark Twain

b)

James Fenimore Cooper

13.

72. Who is the author of the novel “The Grapes of Wrath”?

a)

John Steinbeck

b)

F. Scott Fitzgerald

14.

73. Which literary period is associated with “The Catcher in the Rye”?

a)

Romanticism

b)

Post-World War II

15.

74. Who is the author of the novel “Native Son”?

a)

Richard Wright

b)

Toni Morrison

16.

75. Which novel is considered the first American bestseller?

a)

The Scarlet Letter

b)

Charlotte Temple by Susanna Rowson

17.

76. What was the main theme of Henry David Thoreau’s “Walden”?

a)

Simple living

b)

Wealth

c)

simplicity, self-reliance, and living in harmony with nature

18.

77. Which work by Benjamin Franklin is an example of early American autobiography?

a)

Poor Richard's Almanack

b)

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

19.

78. What is the setting of “The Scarlet Letter”?

a)

19th-century New York

b)

17th-century Puritan Massachusetts

20.

79. Which work made Upton Sinclair famous?

a)

The Jungle

b)

Oil!

21.

80. What is the genre of Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman”?

a)

Comedy

b)

Tragedy play dramа

22.

81. Who is considered the father of American poetry?

a)

Robert Frost

b)

Walt Whitman

23.

82. Who wrote the novel “Beloved,” dealing with slavery and memory?

a)

Zora Neale Hurston

b)

Toni Morrison

24.

83. Which writer was known for the use of stream of consciousness?

a)

Mark Twain

b)

James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and William Faulkner

25.

84. Who wrote the satirical story “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”?

a)

Mark Twain

b)

O. Henry

26.

85. What was a central theme in the works of William Faulkner?

a)

Decay of the Old South

b)

Urban life

c)

decline of the Southern American and tradition

27.

86. Who is considered the first major American novelist?

a)

James Fenimore Cooper

b)

Nathaniel Hawthorne

28.

87. Which literary work was central to the Transcendentalist movement?

a)

"Self-Reliance" by Emerson

b)

Nature

29.

88. Who was the editor of The Dial, a Transcendentalist journal?

a)

Margaret Fuller

b)

Harriet Beecher Stowe

30.

89. What genre is The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe?

a)

Science fiction

b)

Gothic fiction or horror

31.

90. What is the central theme in The Scarlet Letter?

a)

Sin and redemption

b)

American politics

c)

the impact of sin and guilt on the individual and society

32.

91. Which novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe fueled anti-slavery sentiment in the U.S.?

a)

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

b)

Native Son

33.

92. What is the profession of the narrator in Bartleby, the Scrivener?

a)

Journalist

b)

Lawyer

34.

93. What literary technique did Ernest Hemingway popularize?

a)

Irony

b)

The Iceberg Theory

35.

94. Who is the author of Song of Myself?

a)

Walt Whitman

b)

T. S. Eliot

36.

95. What major event influenced the emergence of Realism in American literature?

a)

The American Civil War

b)

The Revolutionary War

37.

96. Who wrote the novel Sister Carrie?

a)

Theodore Dreiser

b)

John Steinbeck

38.

97. Which novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne explores the consequences of sin and guilt?

a)

The Scarlet Letter

b)

The House of the Seven Gables

39.

98. Who was the first African American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature?

a)

Maya Angelou

b)

Toni Morrison

40.

99. Which work is associated with the Lost Generation?

a)

The Great Gatsby

b)

The Sun Also Rises

41.

100. Which novel established Louisa May Alcott as a major American writer?

a)

Little Women

b)

The Awakening

42.

101. Who is the author of The Road Not Taken?

a)

Robert Frost

b)

Walt Whitman

43.

102. What is the main subject of Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible?

a)

The Great Depression

b)

Salem witch trials

44.

103. Who wrote Self-Reliance, an essay central to American individualism?

a)

Ralph Waldo Emerson

b)

Henry David Thoreau

45.

104. Which novel features the character Hester Prynne?

a)

The Scarlet Letter

b)

Little Women

46.

105. What genre is the work of Stephen King most commonly associated with?

a)

Romance

b)

Horror

47.

106. What movement was Langston Hughes associated with?

a)

Transcendentalism

b)

Harlem Renaissance

48.

107. Which American author created the fictional Yoknapatawpha County?

a)

William Faulkner

b)

F. Scott Fitzgerald

49.

108. Who is the author of The Awakening, an early feminist novel?

a)

Toni Morrison

b)

Kate Chopin

50.

109. What novel by John Steinbeck depicts the plight of tenant farmers during the Great Depression?

a)

The Grapes of Wrath

b)

Of Mice and Men

51.

110. Which novel by Sylvia Plath is considered semi-autobiographical?

a)

The Bell Jar

b)

To the Lighthouse

52.

111. What theme is dominant in the work of Emily Dickinson?

a)

War

b)

Death and immortality

53.

112. Which author was best known for sharp wit and surprise endings?

a)

O. Henry

b)

Ernest Hemingway

54.

113. Who is the main character in Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison?

a)

Jay Gatsby

b)

Unnamed narrator

55.

114. What genre best describes The Call of the Wild by Jack London?

a)

Adventure novel

b)

Historical fiction

56.

115. What American novel begins with the line “Call me Ishmael”?

a)

Moby-Dick

b)

The Old Man and the Sea

57.

116. What is the primary setting of To Kill a Mockingbird?

a)

New Orleans, Louisiana

b)

Maycomb, Alabama

58.

117. Which American author is known for writing dystopian fiction like Fahrenheit 451?

a)

Ray Bradbury

b)

Stephen King

59.

118. What kind of story is A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Connor?

a)

Southern Gothic

b)

Science fiction

60.

119. Which of the following is a play by Tennessee Williams?

a)

The Crucible

b)

A Streetcar Named Desire

c)

The Glass Menagerie

61.

120. Which author is famous for I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings?

a)

Maya Angelou

b)

Toni Morrison