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    • American Literature Quiz

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    1. The author of the short story "A Sound of Thunder" is:

    1) Edgar Allan Poe
    2) Ray Bradbury
    3) Ernest Hemingway

    2. Mark Twain's pseudonym has to do with:

    1) the scar he got from the War of Independence
    2) his twin-brother
    3) his service as a pilot

    3. Jerome Salinger's most famous novel "Catcher in the Rye" was written in:

    1) 1st person narrative
    2) 2nd person narrative
    3) two types of narrative combined

    4. According to Hemingway, "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain …. "
    and that book tells us the story of a young boy named:

    1) Tom Sawyer
    2) Huckleberry Finn
    3) David Copperfield

    5. What happens to the main character of the novel "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald?

    1) Gatsby escapes justice and flees to Europe with Daisy
    2) Gatsby kills himself
    3) Gatsby is murdered

    6. "I shall be telling this with a sigh

    Somewhere ages and ages hence:
    Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -
    I took the one less traveled by,
    And that has made all the difference."

    It's a passage from a poem by:

    1) Robert Frost
    2) William Blake
    3) Walt Whitman

    7. Truman Capote was the author of the famous novel later turned into a movie:

    1) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
    2) The Godfather
    3) Breakfast at Tiffany's

    8. Humbert Humbert is the protagonist and narrator of which 1955 novel?

    1) In Cold Blood
    2) The Awakening
    3) Something Happened
    4) Lolita

    9. Who of the following is NOT remembered as a great American poet?

    1) Walt Whitman
    2) Emily Dickinson
    3) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    4) Willa Cather

    10. Everyone is familiar with Scarlett O'Hara, protagonist of Margaret Mitchell's epic
    "Gone With the Wind." What isn't so well-known is that 'Scarlett' was not Mitchell's
    first choice for her character's name. Which of the following flowers was that first choice?

    1) Iris
    2) Violet
    3) Pansy
    4) Lily

    11. Which of the following facts is true about Edgar Allan Poe (name ONE)?

    1. His marriage was long and happy
    2. He wrote some humorous stories such as "Never Bet the Devil Your Head"
    3. His stories made him immensely wealthy
    4. His foster father supported him and his family

    12. In 'Moby Dick', what is the name of the tattooed cannibal whom Ishmael meets
    in New Bedford and who later turns out to be an excellent friend during the quest for the white whale ?

    1) Fedallah
    2) Tashtego
    3) Queequeeg
    4) Daggoo

    13. Which of the following Hemingway novels is set during the Spanish Civil War?

    1. The Sun Also Rises
    2. Islands in the Stream
    3. The Old Man and the Sea
    4. For Whom the Bell Tolls

    14. Which of the following American poets produced most of his work in England?

    1. W.H. Auden
    2. T.S. Eliot
    3. John Berryman
    4. Robert Lowell

    15. Uncle Tom's Cabin was an important influence on

    1. the Abolitionist movement
    2. American isolationists
    3. the carpetbaggers
    4. the colonial militia

    16. Slaughterhouse-Five and Cat's Cradle are novels by

    1. Thomas Pynchon
    2. Kurt Vonnegut
    3. William Styron
    4. Joseph Heller

    17. Which of these writers are associated with the Beat movement ("битники")?

    1. John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, John Gould Fletcher
    2. Gregory Corso, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg
    3. Eugene Debs, Norman Thomas, Robert La Follette
    4. Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Eldridge Cleaver

    18. Which one of the listed American authors-immigrants is not of Russian origin?

    1) Isaac Singer
    2) Ayn Rand
    3) Vladimir Nabokov

    19. Which of the authors was buried by the Kremlin wall?

    1) Jack London
    2) John Reed
    3) Isaac Asimov

    20. Name the novel that earned its author a Noble Prize:

    1) "The Old Man and the Sea" by Ernest Hemingway
    2) "An American Tragedy" by Theodore Dreiser
    3) "Gone with the Wind" by Margaret Mitchel

    21. Match the portrait to the author:

    1 2 3 4
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    Mark Twain
    Walt Whitman
    David Thoreau

    22. Please, identify this portrait:



    1) Juliette Adam
    2) Emily Dickinson
    3) Charlotte Bronte
    4) Ezra Pound


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