American Literature Test
11th form
1.
What countries competed with each
other in exploring and exploiting the natural resources of the USA?
2.
Who were the native Americans?
3.
What are Americanisms?
4.
Name a figure of universal
dimensions, being printer, writer, philosopher, scientist, economist and
statesman.
5.
Name his famous periodical, a sort
of calendar.
6.
What is Jefferson’s best book?
7.
What were Paine’s famous works
written before and during the Revolution? What were they about?
8.
Who was Philip Freneau?
9.
Why can Freneau be considered
the father of American poetry?
10. When did the literary trend of Romanticism appear in
America?
11. What was the most characteristic feature of
Romanticism?
12. What period of Romanticism did Longfellow’s works
belong to?
13. Who was the founder of the genre of historical novel
in the USA?
14. Who represented romantic poetry?
15. Name Herman Melville’s masterpiece.
16. Who wrote romantic poems during the 3rd
period of Romanticism in America?
17. With what story did Washington Irving start
the American tradition of short-story writing?
18. What was Cooper’s contribution to American national
literature?
19. Who were the abolitionists?
20. Who was the representative of the abolition
literature?
21. What is her famous novel?
22. What was the new attitude of realistic writers
towards the various aspects of American life?
23. What was the real name of Mark Twain?
24. What was one of his first stories?
25. Name some of his greatest works.
26. What was O.Henry’s real name?
27. What was his first collection of short stories?
28. What was his credo?
29. What was O.Henry famous for?
30. Finish the sentence:”O.Henry can be called a
biographer of…”
31. Where was Jack London born?
32. Name all his jobs.
33. How many books did he publish?
34. What was he the founder of?
35. Name his most famous works.
Answers to the test (11th form)
1. Spain,
Holland, France, England.
2. The
Red Indians.
3. The
new words and combinations of words which have appeared in American English and
have not been accepted in Britain.
4. Benjamin
Franklin.
5. “Poor
Richard’s Almanac”
6. “Notes
on the State of Virginia”.
7. “The
American Crisis”, pamphlets, about religion, relations between Britain and
colonies.
8. The
leading poet.
9. Thanks
to him American poetry remained true to democratic ideas.
10. In the years of social
unrest which followed the Revolution of 1775-1783.
11. This is the great gap
between reality and the ideal – the dream of the poet, artist or writer.
12. 2nd period.
13. Fenimore Cooper.
14. Edgar Allan Poe.
15. “Moby Dick”
16. Walt Whitman.
17. “Rip Van Winkle”
18. He had created a man who had
the heart of a dove in the body of a lion.
19. People who struggle for the
abolition of slavery.
20. Harriet Beecher-Stowe.
21. “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”
22. The realists saw man on the
background of social conflicts of the day and analysed human nature and human
emotions in relation to this background. They draw life truthfully.
23. Samuel Langhorne Clemens
24. “The Celebrated Jumping Frog
of Calaveras County”
25. “Tom Sawyer and
Huckleberry Finn”, “The Prince and the Pauper”, “The Gilded Age”.
26. William Sydney Porter.
27. “Cabbages and Kings”
28. Art should be true and
democratic.
29. His short stories of city
life.
30. New York.
31. San Francisco.
32. Newspaper salesperson; at a
factory; a sailor; at a laundry; writing for magazines; gold rusher.
33. Nearly 50.
34. Of the American socialist
literature.
35. “Love of Life”, ”Martin
Eden”, “White Fang”.
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