American Lit Review

Question 0

What is the first permanent English settlement

Answer 0

Jamestown Virginia

Question 1

When did Christopher Columbus sailed to America

Answer 1

1492

Question 2

When did the pilgrims sailed to America on the Mayflower

Answer 2

1620

Question 3

In 1636 what college was founded

Answer 3

Harvard

Question 4

The three types of early American literature include

Answer 4

Native American folklore, religious, and historical documents

Question 5

Who is the most well-known Puritan poet

Answer 5

Anne Bradstreet

Question 6

What is the title of an account of the pilgrims journey to America on the Mayflower and who is it by

Answer 6

Plymouth plantation, William Bradford

Question 7

The most well-known sermon from the colonial period is what

Answer 7

Sinners in the hands of an angry God by Jonathan Edwards

Question 8

When did the American revolution began

Answer 8

1775

Question 9

When was the Declaration of Independence adopted

Answer 9

1776

Question 10

What are the two main types of literature during the revolutionary period

Answer 10

Political and patriotic

Question 11

Who was the first American female poet

Answer 11

Phyllis Wheatley

Question 12

What did Benjamin Franklin write that became a popular bestseller

Answer 12

Poor Richard’s almanac

Question 13

Who wrote the first American short story

Answer 13

Washington Irving

Question 14

What are three short stories by Washington Irving

Answer 14

The Devil and Tom Walker, Rip van Winkle, the legend of sleepy Hollow

Question 15

What kind of character did Washington Irving generally write about

Answer 15

Lazy henpecked husbands

Question 16

Who was the father of the American short story

Answer 16

Edgar Allan Poe

Question 17

Name two short stories and two poems by Edgar Allan Poe

Answer 17

The black cat, the cask of amontillado, the fall the house of the house of usher, the telltale heart and Annabelle Lee, the Raven

Question 18

Name six characteristics of romanticism

Answer 18

1 imagination 2 supernatural 3 the common man 4 focus on the individual 5 mysterious 6 love of nature

Question 19

Who wrote Moby Dick

Answer 19

Herman Melville

Question 20

Who is the protagonist of Moby Dick and what is his goal throughout the novel

Answer 20

Capt. Ahab and to kill Moby Dick

Question 21

Who were the two predominant transcendental writers

Answer 21

Henry David Thoraeu and Ralph Waldo Emerson

Question 22

What are two works by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Answer 22

Nature and self-reliance

Question 23

What are two words that Henry David Thoreau

Answer 23

Walden and civil disobedience

Question 24

When does the Civil War began

Answer 24

1861

Question 25

When did the Civil War end

Answer 25

1865

Question 26

I was the most well-known poet from the Civil War period

Answer 26

Walt Whitman

Question 27

What is Walt Whitman’s collection of poetry called

Answer 27

Leaves of grass

Question 28

Where did African-American literature originate from

Answer 28

From the forms of folktales or songs