Early American Literature
Who published Poor Richard's Almanack, founded the University of Pennsylvania, and invented bifocals?
Benjamin Franklin
Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" tells a story. What type of poem is this?
Narrative poem
Who wrote, "Because I could not stop for Death-- / He kindly stopped for me--"
Emily Dickinson
Which of these three types of writing focuses on main characters who are trapped in a powerful system and have no control over their destiny?
Naturalism
Who is the narrator of The Great Gatsby?
Nick Carraway
Who is the first African American author ever to be published?
Phillis Wheatley
Which Dark Romantic author wrote the first detective stories?
Edgar Allan Poe
What famous speech did Abraham Lincoln give on November 19, 1863?
The Gettysburg Address
How does Kate Chopin's early feminist short story "The Story of an Hour" end?
Mrs. Mallard dies of a heart attack from the shock of finding out that her husband is still alive. The story heavily implies that the loss of her freedom again is what actually kills her.
Possible answers include Dr. T.J. Eckleburg's billboard, the valley of ashes, and Gatsby's car.
Who is the primary author of the Declaration of Independence?
Thomas Jefferson
Who wrote The Scarlet Letter and "The Minister's Black Veil"?
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Who gave the speech "And Ain't I a Woman?"
Sojourner Truth
What 19th-century celebrity is widely considered America's most groundbreaking Regionalist author?
Mark Twain
Name one poet of the Harlem Renaissance.
Correct answers include Langston Hughes, James Weldon Johnson, Claude McKay, and Countee Cullen
Who said, "Give me liberty, or give me death"?
Patrick Henry
Which Transcendentalist author originated the concept of civil disobedience?
Henry David Thoreau
Who wrote the short story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"?
Ambrose Bierce
Realist authors were rebelling against what earlier type of American authors?
Romantics.
Langston Hughes seemed to echo Walt Whitman when he wrote, "I, too, sing _____."
America
What did Dekanawida write, hundreds of years before the United States was founded?
The Iroquois Constitution
Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, "To speak truly, few adult persons can see _____."
Walt Whitman wrote a poem called "I Hear America _____."
Singing
Maya Angelou admired poet Paul Laurence Dunbar so much that she borrowed from his work to name her memoir "I Know Why the _____ Bird Sings."
Caged
The American Imagist poets were inspired by the French Symbolists, who were originally inspired by what American poet?
Edgar Allan Poe