Ultimate Quiz On American Literature

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1.

In Walden, who urges people to simplify their lives and look to nature for meaning?
- A.
  
  Robert Frost
- B.
  
  Walt Whitman
- C.
  
  Henry David Thoreau
- D.
  
  Herman Melville
2.

Black Boy is an autobiographical account of whose Southern boyhood?
- A.
  
  Thomas
- B.
  
  Pynchon
- C.
  
  John Dos Passos
- D.
  
  Saul Bellow
3.

Which American writer won the Nobel Prize in 1930?
- A.
  
  Sinclair Lewis
- B.
  
  Upton Sinclair
- C.
  
  John Steinbeck
- D.
  
  Raymond Chandler
4.

Which of Washington Irving's characters falls asleep for twenty years?
- A.
  
  Tom Buchanan
- B.
  
  Tom Joad
- C.
  
  Philip Marlowe
- D.
  
  Rip van Winkle
5.

Which of Upton Sinclair's books is about the meat-packing industry?
- A.
  
  Main Street
- B.
  
  Arrowsmith
- C.
  
  Elmer Gantry
- D.
  
  The Jungle
6.

In general, before 1830 American painting was less obviously imitative of European styles than was American literature.
- A.
  
  True
- B.
  
  False
7.

Henry David Thoreau believed that the Mexican War was immoral because it advanced the cause of slavery.
- A.
  
  True
- B.
  
  False
8.

Nathanial Hawthorne was America's leading transcendentalist thinker.
- A.
  
  True
- B.
  
  False
9.

"The Scarlet Letter" perfectly reflected transcendentalist themes of mystery,fright, and the occult.
- A.
  
  True
- B.
  
  False
10.

The romantic movement in early nineteenth-century literature was a reaction against the Age of Reason.
- A.
  
  True
- B.
  
  False