WorksheetsAmerican Literature Quiz
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 50mins
Who is considered the first major American novelist?
James Fenimore Cooper
Mark Twain
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Which novel by James Fenimore Cooper is set during the French and Indian War?
The Prairie
The Pathfinder
The Last of the Mohicans
The Deerslayer
What is the name of the frontiersman featured in The Leatherstocking Tales?
Uncle Tom
Natty Bumppo
Christopher Crowfield
Tom Sawyer
Which novel was the first published in The Leatherstocking Tales series?
The Pioneers
The Prairie
The Pathfinder
The Deerslayer
What was James Fenimore Cooper expelled from Yale University for?
Pranks
Poor grades
Plagiarism
Political activism
Which novel by Mark Twain is often called the 'Great American Novel'?
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
The Prince and the Pauper
What is the setting of Mark Twain's novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer?
The American West
Tudor England
Europe
Hannibal, Missouri
Which short story was Mark Twain's first great success?
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
The Innocents Abroad
Roughing It
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
What pseudonym did Harriet Beecher Stowe use for some of her writings?
Natty Bumppo
Hawkeye
Samuel Clemens
Christopher Crowfield
Which novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe helped galvanize Northern sentiment before the Civil War?
Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp
A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin
The Minister's Wooing
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Which novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe critiques Calvinist theology?
The Minister's Wooing
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp
A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin
Which trilogy by James Fenimore Cooper defends landowners in the Anti-Rent War?
The Pilot
The Littlepage Manuscripts
The Leatherstocking Tales
The Spy
Which novel by Mark Twain involves time travel and social satire?
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
The Prince and the Pauper
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
What did Mark Twain famously criticize in his essay 'Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses'?
James Fenimore Cooper's writing
Harriet Beecher Stowe's abolitionist views
The French and Indian War
Calvinist theology
What did Abraham Lincoln reportedly call Harriet Beecher Stowe?
The pioneer of American literature
The defender of Calvinist theology
The little lady who started this great war
The mother of abolitionism
Which of the following was associated with transcendentalism, civil -disobedience, and Walden
Gandhi
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau
Andrew Jackson
What did Greek Philosopher Plato write to propose a Utopian society that he imagined to be the ideal Greek city-state?
The Democracy
The Greek Utopia
The Protestant
The Republic
The Rappites were also known as . . .
The Shakers
The Harmony Society
Butler County
Amana Colonies
What was the Brook Farm focused on?
Protestantism
Christianity
Transcendentalism
Pacifism
When did the great expansion of Utopian societies take place in America?
The 17th Century
The 18th Century
19th Century
20th Century
Which of the following is the definition of a Utopia
"The idea that the truth exists beyond what people can perceive using their senses"
"Any place, state or situation of ideal perfection."
Control of an organization or group by its members
An increasingly industrialized world
Who founded the Oneida Community?
Ann Lee
Plato
John Noyes
Germans
Which of the following did The Shakers believe in?
Abolitionism
Equality of men and women
Productive Labor
All of the above
When was the Protestant Reformation
The 15th Century
The 16th Century
The 17th Century
The 18th Century
Which famous African American abolitionist is pictured here?
Sojourner Truth
Margaretta Forten
Harriet Tubman
Sarah Grimke
Which former slave, turned abolitionist is pictured here?
David Walker
Nat Turner
Frederick Douglass
Robert Smalls
