American Literature

Question 1

Which American Literature author wrote General History of Virginia New England and the Summer Isles?

Answer 1

John Smith

Question 2

Which American Literature author wrote History of Plimmoth Plantation?

Answer 2

William Bradford

Question 3

Which American Literature author wrote History of New England?

Answer 3

John Winthrop

Question 4

Which American Literature author wrote An Essay for the Recording of Illustrious Providences?

Answer 4

Increase Mather

Question 5

Which American Literate author wrote Magnolia Christi Americana: The Ecclesiastical History of NE from its First Planting?

Answer 5

Cotton Mather

Question 6

Which American Literature wrote New English Canaan?

Answer 6

Thomas Morton

Question 7

Which American Literature author wrote Brief History of the Pequod War?

Answer 7

John Mason

Question 8

Which American Literature author wrote A Narrative of Captivity and Restoration?

Answer 8

Mary Rowlandson

Question 9

Which American Literature authors wrote Bay Psalm Book?

Answer 9

Thomas Wield, Richard Mather, John Eliot

Question 10

Which American Literature author wrote Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America? - [ A Dialogue between Old England and New, Four Elements, Four Constitutions, Four Ages of Man, Four Monarchies, and Contemplations]

Answer 10

Anne Bradstreet

Question 11

Which American Literature author wrote Poetical Works, God’s Determination Touching His Elect?

Answer 11

Edward Taylor

Question 12

Which American Literature author wrote Day of Doom?

Answer 12

Michael Wigglesworth

Question 13

Which American Literature author wrote A Character of the Province of Maryland?

Answer 13

George Alsop

Question 14

Which American Literature author wrote A Brief Description of New York?

Answer 14

Daniel Denton

Question 15

Which American Literature author wrote Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, A Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Work of God, Freedom of the Will?

Answer 15

Johnathan Edwards

Question 16

Which American Literature author wrote History of the Dividing Line, Secret Diary, Another Secret Diary?

Answer 16

William Byrd

Question 17

Which American Literature author wrote Bar’s Fight August 28, 1746?

Answer 17

Lucy Terry

Question 18

Which American Literature author wrote An Evening thought Salvation by Christ with Penitential Cries?

Answer 18

Jupiter Hammon

Question 19

Which American Literature author wrote The book of Poems?

Answer 19

Phillis Wheatley

Question 20

Which American Literature author wrote Public Occurences?

Answer 20

Benjamin Harris

Question 21

Which American Literature author wrote Boston News-Letter?

Answer 21

John Campbell

Question 22

Which American Literature author wrote American Magazine?

Answer 22

Andrew Bradford

Question 23

Which American Literature author wrote General Magazine and Historical Chronicle, Autobiography, Poor Richard’s Almanac?

Answer 23

Benjamin Franklin

Question 24

Which American Literature author wrote Letters from an American Farmer?

Answer 24

Crevecoeur (J. Hector St. John)

Question 25

Which American Literature authors wrote The Federalist?

Answer 25

John Jay, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison

Question 26

Which American Literature author wrote Common Sense, Crisis, Age of Reason, The Rights of Man, Hartford Wits?

Answer 26

Thomas Paine

Question 27

Which American Literature author wrote M’Fingal?

Answer 27

John Trumball

Question 28

Which American Literature author wrote The Conquest of Canaan, The Truimph of Infidelity, Greenfield Hill?

Answer 28

Timothy Dwight

Question 29

Which American Literature author wrote Hasty Pudding?

Answer 29

Joel Barlow

Question 30

Which American Literature author wrote House of Night?

Answer 30

Phillip Freneau

Question 31

The Interesting Narrative of the life of Gustavus Vassa the African was written by which American author?

Answer 31

Olaudah Equiano

Question 32

Power of Sympathy was written by what American author?

Answer 32

William Brown

Question 33

Modern Chivalry was written by what American author?

Answer 33

Hugh Henry Brackenridge

Question 34

Wieland or the Transformation, Arthur Mervyn, Edgar Huntly are all works of which American author?

Answer 34

Charles Brown

Question 35

A History of New York by Diedrich Knickerbocker, Sketch-Book of Geoffery Crayon (including Rip Van Winkle, Sleepy Hollow), The Alhambra, A Tour of the Pirates, biographies of Columbus and Washingtion are all works of which American author?

Answer 35

Washington Irving

Question 36

Thanatopsis, Inscription for the Entrance to a Wood was written by which American author who also was an editor at the New York Post?

Answer 36

William Cullen Bryant