American Timeline

Question 1

Age of faith Context

Answer 1

Puritans and pilgrims

Question 2

Who were puritans and pilgrims

Answer 2

Separated from Anglican church of England;

Religion dominated their lives and writings

Question 3

Puritan work ethic

Answer 3

Believed in hard work and simple lving

Question 4

Age of faith genre

Answer 4

A) sermons, diaries, narratives
B) instructive
C) plain style

Question 5

3 age of faith authors

Answer 5

A) Anne Bradstreet
B) Edward Taylor
C) Jonathan Edwards

Question 6

Anne Bradstreet

Answer 6

A) first published American poet

B) “To My Dear and Loving Husband”

Question 7

Edward Taylor

Answer 7

A) minister; considered finest Puritan poet

B) “Huswifery”

Question 8

Jonathan Edwards

Answer 8

A) minister

B) “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”

Question 9

Age of Reason historical context

Answer 9

A) American revolution; patriotism grows
B) development of American character
B) Use of reason as opposed to faith alone

Question 10

Age of reason genre

Answer 10

A) political pamphlets

B) instructive values

Question 11

Age of reason major writers

Answer 11

A) Ben Franklin
B) Thomas Jefferson
C) Thomas Paine

Question 12

Benjamin Franklin

Answer 12

A) autobiography and almanac

B) symbol of success gained by hard work and common sense

Question 13

Thomas Jefferson

Answer 13

A) Declaration of Independence

B) considered the finest writer of the era

Question 14

Thomas Paine

Answer 14

A) Pamphleteer
B) “The American Crisis helped propel us into war
C) remains a model of effective propaganda
D) “these are the times that try men’s souls.”

Question 15

Romanticism historical context

Answer 15

A) expansion of book publishing, magazines, and newspapers
B) industrial Revolution
C) abolitionist movement

Question 16

Romanticism genre/style

Answer 16

A) Short stories, novels, poetry
B) imagination over reason
C) focused on the fantastic human experience
E) focus on inner feelings

Question 17

2 ways romanticism can be interpreted

Answer 17

Surface and in depth

Question 18

Gothic literature

Answer 18

A) use of the supernatural
B) characters with both evil and good characteristics
C) dark landscapes; depressed characters

Question 19

Major writers of romanticism

Answer 19

Washington Irving;
Nathaniel Hawthorne;
Edgar Allen Poe;
Herman Melville

Question 20

Washington Irving

Answer 20

1) first famous American writer
2) called “father of American lit”
3) wrote short stories, travel books
4) “Legend of Sleepy Hollow”
5) “Rip Van Winkle”

Question 21

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Answer 21

1) wrote about sin and guilt; consequences of pride, selfishness etc.
2) Scarlet Letter
3) Short Stories

Question 22

Edgar Allen Poe

Answer 22

1) Lousy Childhood

2) Created the modern short story and detective story

Question 23

Herman Melville

Answer 23

1) ranked as one of America’s top novelists, but recognized by few in his own time
2) Moby Dick
a) didn’t sell, not reprinted for 60 years

Question 24

Transcendentalism

Answer 24

Stressed individualism, intuition, nature, self-reliance

Question 25

Transcendentalist writers

Answer 25

Ralph Waldo Emerson;

Henry David Thoreau

Question 26

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Answer 26

1) His writings established the philosophy of individualism, an idea deeply imbedded in American culture
2) nature

Question 27

Henry David Thoreau

Answer 27

1) resisted materialism; chose simplicity, individualism
2) “Walden”
A) a guidebook for life

Question 28

Civil war authors

Answer 28

Harriet Beecher Stowe;

Frederick Douglas

Question 29

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Answer 29

1) the most famous women of her day
2) “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”
A) most influential book of the 19th century
B) one of the most effective documents of propaganda
C) helped fuel the Civil War

Question 30

Frederick Douglas

Answer 30

1) an escaped slave
2) influential newspaper writer; military abolitionist; diplomat
3) Autobiography was an instant and ensuing classic of courage

Question 31

The frontier authors

Answer 31

Mark Twain;

Jack London

Question 32

Mark Twain

Answer 32

1) real name; Samuel Clemens
2) Widely thought to be the American Humorist and one of our greatest novelists
3) used vernacular and exaggeration to create humor
4) “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”

Question 33

Jack London

Answer 33

1) Pushed naturalism to its limits

2) “To Build a Fire”