Top American Literature Quizzes & Trivia

Thomas Paine, Edgar Alan Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain, Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, F. Scott Fitzgerald, etc. These are just a few of the great names of American Literature.

Who was the author of “The Catcher in the rye”? Who wrote “The Grapes of Wrath”? Which one of Mark Twain’s novels is called “The Great American” novel? Which one is F. Scott Fitzgerald’s most famous novel? Which genre is Edgar Alan Poe considered to have invented? All those reading assignments in high-school are about to pay off now with our American Literature trivia. Take the quiz, answer all of the questions and create another memorable work of art. Fame and fortune are very close. Can you deliver?

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A good definition of American Realism is:

An examination of life as it actually is.

A romantic portrayal of life.

An examination of the countryside versus the city.

A sad and depressing view of reality.

A type of writing that examines nothing but death.

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The American Renaissance overlapped the ____________ time period, in which American writers were trying to ______________.

Postmodern; end slavery.

Colonial; end patriotism for England.

Modernism; end individualism.

Renaissance; end sexism.

Romanticism; define themselves and their writing style as independent from England.

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Some of the movements that took place in the modernist time period include:

The Harlem Renaissance, The Lost Generation, and Confessional Poetry.

There were no movements during the modernist time period.

Symbolism, Naturalism, and Postmodernism.

Realism, Romanticism, and the American Renaissance.

Transcendentalism, Symbolism, and Dark Romanticism.

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The first people to migrate to North America were

the Norse by way of Iceland and Greenland

Ice Age hunters via the Bering land bridge

English Puritans who traveled across the Atlantic Ocean

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Which of the following statements about the Puritans is not true?

They were Protestants who sought to purify the Church of England and return to a simpler form of worship.

They believed that the clergy and government should act as intermediaries between the individual and God.

Some thought the Church of England was too corrupt to reform and called for a complete separation from it.

They wanted to establish a new society patterned after God’s word and self-sustaining, profitable colony.

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The Mayflower Compact paved the way for

a national church

a constitutional democracy

the Salem witch trials

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Who wrote the book "Lamb in His Bosom"?

Alex Comfort

Suze Orman

Miriam Michelson

Caroline Miller

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Who authored the book "Life Begins at Forty"?

Herman Wouk

Walter B. Pitkin

Ernie Pyle

Louis Adamic

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Who wrote the book "Green Light"?

Bill Mauldin

Juliet Lowell

Lloyd C. Douglas

James Clavell

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Who wrote Mending wall?

Carl Sanburg

T.S. Eliot

e.e cummings

Countee cullen

Robert Lee Forst

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Who wrote "The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock"?

Cumings

Robert Lee Frost

T.S. Eliot

Edgar lee masters

Sherwood anderson

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Who wrote "Barn burning"?

Rober Lee frost

Eugene O' Neil's

Tennesse Williams

William Faulkner's

Alice walker

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