Worksheets60-120
Total questions: 61
Worksheet time: 32mins
60. What literary device is used extensively in Emily Dickinson’s poetry?
Metaphor
Simile
imagery, enjambment, and dashes
61. Which novel by Herman Melville is considered a masterpiece of American literature?
The Scarlet Letter
Moby-Dick
62. Which American poet is famous for her reclusive life and unique punctuation style?
Sylvia Plath
Emily Dickinson
63. Who wrote “The Last of the Mohicans”?
James Fenimore Cooper
Nathaniel Hawthorne
64. What literary period followed the American Civil War?
Romanticism
Realism
65. Which American writer is known for the novel “The Red Badge of Courage”?
Stephen Crane
Ernest Hemingwa
66. What was a major theme of the Harlem Renaissance?
Technology
Racial pride
Black identity and pride
67. Who was the author of “The House of the Seven Gables”?
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Mark Twain
68. Who wrote the pamphlet “Common Sense,” inspiring American independence?
Benjamin Franklin
Thomas Paine
69. Who is the protagonist of “The Great Gatsby”?
Nick Carraway
Jay Gatsby
70. Who was the central figure of American modernist poetry known for “The Waste Land”?
T. S. Eliot
Walt Whitman
71. What was the pen name of Samuel Clemens?
Mark Twain
James Fenimore Cooper
72. Who is the author of the novel “The Grapes of Wrath”?
John Steinbeck
F. Scott Fitzgerald
73. Which literary period is associated with “The Catcher in the Rye”?
Romanticism
Post-World War II
74. Who is the author of the novel “Native Son”?
Richard Wright
Toni Morrison
75. Which novel is considered the first American bestseller?
The Scarlet Letter
Charlotte Temple by Susanna Rowson
76. What was the main theme of Henry David Thoreau’s “Walden”?
Simple living
Wealth
simplicity, self-reliance, and living in harmony with nature
77. Which work by Benjamin Franklin is an example of early American autobiography?
Poor Richard's Almanack
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
78. What is the setting of “The Scarlet Letter”?
19th-century New York
17th-century Puritan Massachusetts
79. Which work made Upton Sinclair famous?
The Jungle
Oil!
80. What is the genre of Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman”?
Comedy
Tragedy play dramа
81. Who is considered the father of American poetry?
Robert Frost
Walt Whitman
82. Who wrote the novel “Beloved,” dealing with slavery and memory?
Zora Neale Hurston
Toni Morrison
83. Which writer was known for the use of stream of consciousness?
Mark Twain
James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and William Faulkner
84. Who wrote the satirical story “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”?
Mark Twain
O. Henry
85. What was a central theme in the works of William Faulkner?
Decay of the Old South
Urban life
decline of the Southern American and tradition
86. Who is considered the first major American novelist?
James Fenimore Cooper
Nathaniel Hawthorne
87. Which literary work was central to the Transcendentalist movement?
"Self-Reliance" by Emerson
Nature
88. Who was the editor of The Dial, a Transcendentalist journal?
Margaret Fuller
Harriet Beecher Stowe
89. What genre is The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe?
Science fiction
Gothic fiction or horror
90. What is the central theme in The Scarlet Letter?
Sin and redemption
American politics
the impact of sin and guilt on the individual and society
91. Which novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe fueled anti-slavery sentiment in the U.S.?
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Native Son
92. What is the profession of the narrator in Bartleby, the Scrivener?
Journalist
Lawyer
93. What literary technique did Ernest Hemingway popularize?
Irony
The Iceberg Theory
94. Who is the author of Song of Myself?
Walt Whitman
T. S. Eliot
95. What major event influenced the emergence of Realism in American literature?
The American Civil War
The Revolutionary War
96. Who wrote the novel Sister Carrie?
Theodore Dreiser
John Steinbeck
97. Which novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne explores the consequences of sin and guilt?
The Scarlet Letter
The House of the Seven Gables
98. Who was the first African American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature?
Maya Angelou
Toni Morrison
99. Which work is associated with the Lost Generation?
The Great Gatsby
The Sun Also Rises
100. Which novel established Louisa May Alcott as a major American writer?
Little Women
The Awakening
101. Who is the author of The Road Not Taken?
Robert Frost
Walt Whitman
102. What is the main subject of Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible?
The Great Depression
Salem witch trials
103. Who wrote Self-Reliance, an essay central to American individualism?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau
104. Which novel features the character Hester Prynne?
The Scarlet Letter
Little Women
105. What genre is the work of Stephen King most commonly associated with?
Romance
Horror
106. What movement was Langston Hughes associated with?
Transcendentalism
Harlem Renaissance
107. Which American author created the fictional Yoknapatawpha County?
William Faulkner
F. Scott Fitzgerald
108. Who is the author of The Awakening, an early feminist novel?
Toni Morrison
Kate Chopin
109. What novel by John Steinbeck depicts the plight of tenant farmers during the Great Depression?
The Grapes of Wrath
Of Mice and Men
110. Which novel by Sylvia Plath is considered semi-autobiographical?
The Bell Jar
To the Lighthouse
111. What theme is dominant in the work of Emily Dickinson?
War
Death and immortality
112. Which author was best known for sharp wit and surprise endings?
O. Henry
Ernest Hemingway
113. Who is the main character in Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison?
Jay Gatsby
Unnamed narrator
114. What genre best describes The Call of the Wild by Jack London?
Adventure novel
Historical fiction
115. What American novel begins with the line “Call me Ishmael”?
Moby-Dick
The Old Man and the Sea
116. What is the primary setting of To Kill a Mockingbird?
New Orleans, Louisiana
Maycomb, Alabama
117. Which American author is known for writing dystopian fiction like Fahrenheit 451?
Ray Bradbury
Stephen King
118. What kind of story is A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Connor?
Southern Gothic
Science fiction
119. Which of the following is a play by Tennessee Williams?
The Crucible
A Streetcar Named Desire
The Glass Menagerie
120. Which author is famous for I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings?
Maya Angelou
Toni Morrison
