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Quiz L1) What is the name of the period from the 1400s-1775 in America?
Ans: Native American and Colonial.
Quiz (L1) What were the main reading materials for colonists' entertainment in that
period?
Ans: classical European texts.
Quiz (L1) In the period of the Revolutionary Age or Rationalism, what idea and type
of writing were the major focus?
Ans: Writing focused on independence and forming a new government (nonfiction).
Quiz (L1) Select the novel, its author, and date published of the first American novel.
What idea does it deal with?
Ans: The Power of Sympathy was written by William Hill Brown in 1789 and dealt
with morality issues.
Quiz (L1) Who wrote the short stories of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip
Van Winkle"? What words characterized these stories?
Ans: Washington Irving wrote these frightful and imaginative short stories.
Quiz (L1) What were topics for the Romanticism and Transcendentalism periods and
what themes did authors present? What was the time span for this period?
Ans: Authors presented themes of idealism and humanism; 1829-1865.
Topics were cultural concerns, spirituality, and exciting adventures.
,Quiz (L1) The first African-American novel, _____, by William Wells Brown was
written in 1853 and dealt with the struggles of mixed-race women.
Ans: Clotel
Quiz (L1) What quality did the Realism and Naturalism Periods of 1865 to 1914
reject from the Romanticism and Transcendentalism Periods and describe their
subject matter.
Ans: They rejected idealism and spirituality; their stories are more commonplace.
Quiz (L1) Why do you think the Industrial Revolution and the world wars, events of
the Modernism period of 1914 to 1945, conveyed ideas of pessimism, feelings of
loss, and self-consciousness in the works of that time?
Ans: The Industrial Revolution caused the opening of factories where people worked
long hours in difficult and dangerous conditions. In the world wars, many American
men died and women had to support their families. These situations caused feelings
of hopelessness, a characteristic of the Modernism period.
Quiz (L1) Describe three characteristics of the expressions of the Harlem
Renaissance.
Ans: energetic expression
rhythm
pride
Quiz (L1) Select the names of three authors of the Harlem Renaissance movement.
Ans: Langston Hughes
Zora Neale Hurston
Nella Larsen
Quiz (L1) Who are two authors of the Beat Generation, 1945-1962?
Ans: Allen Ginsberg
Jack Kerouac
Quiz (L1) What subjects did the two authors of the Beat Generation, 1945-1962,
focus on in their novels?
Ans: self
sensory experiences
Quiz (L1) What is the name of the futuristic novel written by George Orwell, and what
is it about?
Ans: The novel is called 1984. It is about communism and tyrannical government
control.
, Quiz (L1) Match the descriptions with the genres.
fantasy or science fiction
adventure
drama
historical fiction
mystery and detective
ethnic/multicultural
thrillers—psychological or horror
Ans: Match the descriptions with the genres.
contains supernatural or futuristic elements
contains exciting travels or dangerous exploits
has realistic conflicts
authentic stories from the past
involves crimes that need to be solved
has different cultures or races
suspenseful or frightening tales, often supernatural
Quiz (L2) Who was a major author of Romanticism?
Ans: Edgar Allan Poe
Quiz (L2) Select the name and publish date of Poe's first detective short story.
Ans: Poe wrote "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" in 1841.
Quiz (L2) How would you describe Edgar Allan Poe's detective genre as it relates to
qualities in Romanticism?
Ans: Poe's detective stories show idealism and portray the supernatural.
Quiz (L2) Which author wrote the Sherlock Holmes detective series after Poe's
style? What was his nationality?
Ans: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; Scottish