Test 1 Units 1 and 2

Question 1

Author of a biography about Abraham Lincoln

Answer 1

Carl Sandburg

Question 2

Romantic poet, essayist and literary critic

Answer 2

James Russell Lowell

Question 3

Christian statesman and orator

Answer 3

Daniel Webster

Question 4

Poetry, novels and essays about the sea and fields of Maine

Answer 4

Robert P. Tristram coffin

Question 5

Minister, writer, professor and diplomat

Answer 5

Henry van dyke

Question 6

Frenchman who wrote about colonial America

Answer 6

Hector St. John de crevecoeur

Question 7

Pen name of Charles farrar Browne

Answer 7

Artemus ward

Question 8

Pen name of Henry W. Shaw

Answer 8

Josh Billings

Question 9

Famous oral humorist; part Indian

Answer 9

Will Rogers, Jr.

Question 10

“…statues of the kings-…antiquated things”

Answer 10

End rhyme

Question 11

“A blare of bugles”

Answer 11

Alliteration

Question 12

“Clatter, pop, and bang”

Answer 12

Onomatopoeia

Question 13

The arrangements of incidents or events divided into a beginning, middle and end”

Answer 13

Plot

Question 14

The story “the notorious jumping frog of calaveras county” is told by…

Answer 14

Simon wheeler

Question 15

Artemus ward and josh Billings were both successful at using….

Answer 15

Dialect

Question 16

Poetry which has no metrical pattern is called…

Answer 16

Free verse

Question 17

Lithographs of 19th century America were painted by…

Answer 17

Currier and Ives

Question 18

“A creed for Americans”

Answer 18

Stephen Vincent benet

Question 19

“Liberty and union”

Answer 19

Daniel Webster

Question 20

“The Bumblebee”

Answer 20

Josh Billings

Question 21

“The fall of the cowboy”

Answer 21

Frederick Remington

Question 22

“Reflections on American life: A collection of saying”

Answer 22

Will Rogers, Jr.

Question 23

“Hoosick Falls in winter”

Answer 23

Grandma Moses

Question 24

“They have Yarns”

Answer 24

Carl Sandburg

Question 25

“My life story”

Answer 25

Artemus Ward

Question 26

“Freedom of speech”

Answer 26

Norman Rockwell

Question 27

“Innocents abroad”

Answer 27

Samuel Clemens

Question 28

What is the pen name of Samuel Clemens

Answer 28

Mark Twain

Question 29

Who wrote John browns body?

Answer 29

Stephen Vincent benet

Question 30

What is an American?

Answer 30

The American is a new man, who acts upon new principles; he must, therefore, entertain new ideas and form new opinions”