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American Literature Quiz

Total questions: 30

Worksheet time: 50mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who is considered the first major American novelist?

a)

James Fenimore Cooper

b)

Mark Twain

c)

Harriet Beecher Stowe

d)

Nathaniel Hawthorne

2.

Which novel by James Fenimore Cooper is set during the French and Indian War?

a)

The Prairie

b)

The Pathfinder

c)

The Last of the Mohicans

d)

The Deerslayer

3.

What is the name of the frontiersman featured in The Leatherstocking Tales?

a)

Uncle Tom

b)

Natty Bumppo

c)

Christopher Crowfield

d)

Tom Sawyer

4.

Which novel was the first published in The Leatherstocking Tales series?

a)

The Pioneers

b)

The Prairie

c)

The Pathfinder

d)

The Deerslayer

5.

What was James Fenimore Cooper expelled from Yale University for?

a)

Pranks

b)

Poor grades

c)

Plagiarism

d)

Political activism

6.

Which novel by Mark Twain is often called the 'Great American Novel'?

a)

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

b)

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

c)

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

d)

The Prince and the Pauper

7.

What is the setting of Mark Twain's novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer?

a)

The American West

b)

Tudor England

c)

Europe

d)

Hannibal, Missouri

8.

Which short story was Mark Twain's first great success?

a)

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

b)

The Innocents Abroad

c)

Roughing It

d)

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

9.

What pseudonym did Harriet Beecher Stowe use for some of her writings?

a)

Natty Bumppo

b)

Hawkeye

c)

Samuel Clemens

d)

Christopher Crowfield

10.

Which novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe helped galvanize Northern sentiment before the Civil War?

a)

Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp

b)

A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin

c)

The Minister's Wooing

d)

Uncle Tom's Cabin

11.

Which novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe critiques Calvinist theology?

a)

The Minister's Wooing

b)

Uncle Tom's Cabin

c)

Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp

d)

A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin

12.

Which trilogy by James Fenimore Cooper defends landowners in the Anti-Rent War?

a)

The Pilot

b)

The Littlepage Manuscripts

c)

The Leatherstocking Tales

d)

The Spy

13.

Which novel by Mark Twain involves time travel and social satire?

a)

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

b)

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

c)

The Prince and the Pauper

d)

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

14.

What did Mark Twain famously criticize in his essay 'Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses'?

a)

James Fenimore Cooper's writing

b)

Harriet Beecher Stowe's abolitionist views

c)

The French and Indian War

d)

Calvinist theology

15.

What did Abraham Lincoln reportedly call Harriet Beecher Stowe?

a)

The pioneer of American literature

b)

The defender of Calvinist theology

c)

The little lady who started this great war

d)

The mother of abolitionism

16.
Which novel was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe to expose the cruelty of slavery?
a)
Little House on the Prairie
b)
The Liberator
c)
Slavery must be stopped
d)
Uncle Tom's Cabin
17.
What amendment in the Constitution abolishes slavery?
a)
1st
b)
13th
c)
14th
d)
15th
18.
Transcendentalism
a)
Philosophy that emphasizes the spiritual world vs. the Physical World
b)
The act of overthrowing and replacing one government with another
c)
Americans who demanded war against Britain
19.
This word means, "relying on yourself, and your own resources."
a)
Naturalization
b)
Self-Reliance
c)
Trait
d)
Civic
20.

Which of the following was associated with transcendentalism, civil -disobedience, and Walden

a)

Gandhi

b)

Ralph Waldo Emerson

c)

Henry David Thoreau

d)

Andrew Jackson

21.

What did Greek Philosopher Plato write to propose a Utopian society that he imagined to be the ideal Greek city-state?

a)

The Democracy

b)

The Greek Utopia

c)

The Protestant

d)

The Republic

22.

The Rappites were also known as . . .

a)

The Shakers

b)

The Harmony Society

c)

Butler County

d)

Amana Colonies

23.

What was the Brook Farm focused on?

a)

Protestantism

b)

Christianity

c)

Transcendentalism

d)

Pacifism

24.

When did the great expansion of Utopian societies take place in America?

a)

The 17th Century

b)

The 18th Century

c)

19th Century

d)

20th Century

25.

Which of the following is the definition of a Utopia

a)

"The idea that the truth exists beyond what people can perceive using their senses"

b)

"Any place, state or situation of ideal perfection."

c)

Control of an organization or group by its members

d)

An increasingly industrialized world

26.

Who founded the Oneida Community?

a)

Ann Lee

b)

Plato

c)

John Noyes

d)

Germans

27.

Which of the following did The Shakers believe in?

a)

Abolitionism

b)

Equality of men and women

c)

Productive Labor

d)

All of the above

28.

When was the Protestant Reformation

a)

The 15th Century

b)

The 16th Century

c)

The 17th Century

d)

The 18th Century

29.

Which famous African American abolitionist is pictured here?

a)

Sojourner Truth

b)

Margaretta Forten

c)

Harriet Tubman

d)

Sarah Grimke

30.

Which former slave, turned abolitionist is pictured here?

a)

David Walker

b)

Nat Turner

c)

Frederick Douglass

d)

Robert Smalls