Test on American literature
10 1 1 When was America
discovered by Ch.
Columbus
*In 1492
In 1462
In 1592
In 1442
11 2 2 Who was the leader
of Transcendental
movement?
*Ralph
Waldo
Emerson
Henry
David
Thoreau
Margaret
Fuller
Nathaniel
Hawthorn
e
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11 2 2 What is the chief
inspiration of
transcendental
writers?
*Nature
Love
Life
Beauty
11 2 3 Which line includes
the works by Henry
David Thoreau?
*Walden; or,
Life in the
Woods,
Civil
Disobedienc
e
Nature,
The
America
n
Scholar,
Self-
Reliance
The Dial,
Woman
in the
Nineteent
h Century
Scarlet
Letter,
The
Blithedale
Romance
11 1 3 Who of the following
writers are American
Romanticists?
*
Washington
Irving, J.F.
Cooper E.A.
Poe,
Nathaniel
Hawthorne,
Herman
Melville,
Ralph
Waldo
Emerson
, Henry
David
Thoreau,
Margare
t Fuller
John
Milton,
John
Dryden,
Sir Walter
Scott
G.G.
Byron,
Percy
Bysshe
Shelley,
Nathaniel
Hawthorn
e,
11 1 2 Who is the author of
Nathaniel Bammpo-
Leather Stocking
Tales?
*J.F. Cooper Nathanie
l
Hawthor
ne
Herman
Melville
Ralph
Waldo
Emerson
11 2 2 What does the letter
“A” in the novel
“Scarlet Letter”
written by N.
Hawthorne mean?
*Adultery
Adolesc
ence
Abuse
Animal
11 3 2 What is the first work
written by African
American woman?
Take it out!
*Our Nig I Know
Why the
Caged
Bird
Sings
Nobody
Knows
My Name
Kindred
11 1 1 To whom did
Melville dedicate his
novel “Moby Dick”?
*Hawthorne His wife His father President
11 1 2 What novel of
Nathaniel Hawthorne
tells of the
passionate, forbidden
love between a young
clergyman and a
*“The
Scarlet
Letter”
“The
Spy”
“The
Pioneers”
“The
House of
the Seven
Gables”
354
beautiful woman?
11 1 2 The poem “The
Raven” is written
by…
*Edgar
Allan Poe
Washing
ton
Irving
Benjamin
Franklin
James
Cooper
11 1 2 Which line includes
the works by Edgar
Alan Poe?
*The
Murders in
the Rue
Morgue, The
Gold Bug
Our Nig,
Not
Without
Laughter
I Know
Why the
Caged
Bird
Sings,
Not
Without
Laughter
Nobody
Knows
My Name,
Moby
Dick
11 1 1 Who is the author of
the novel “Moby
Dick”?
*Herman
Melville
Nathanie
l
Hawthor
ne
Washingt
on Irving
Benjamin
Franklin
11 1 2 Who are the principal
characters of the
novel “Moby Dick”?
*Ahab,
Ishmael
Hester
and
Arthur
Bummpo
and
Hester
Richard
and Ahab
11 3 2 What movement was
against slavery in the
Southern states of the
USA?
*Abolitionis
m
Romanti
cism
Realism
Enlighten
ment?
11 3 2 Whom President
Abraham Lincoln
called “the little
woman who wrote
the book that made
the great war”?
*Harriet
Beecher-
Stowe
Harriet
E.
Wilson
Maya
Angelou
Alice
Walker
11 3 1 Who is the author of
the novel “Uncle
Tom’s Cabin ”
*Harriet
Beecher-
Stowe
Herman
Melville
Nathaniel
Hawthorn
e
Washingto
n Irving
11 3 2 What work was
published by Harriet
Beecher- Stowe in
answer to the
criticism of her novel
“Uncle Tom’s
Cabin”?
*“A Key to
Uncle Tom’s
Cabin”
Answer
to
“Uncle
Tom’s
Cabin
True facts
in “Uncle
Tom’s
Cabin”
Real
documents
of “Uncle
Tom’s
Cabin”
11 1 1 The book “The life
and voyages of
Christopher
Columbus” is written
*Washingto
n Irving
Benjami
n
Franklin
Herman
Melville
Nathaniel
Hawthorn
e
355
by…
11 3 1 What poem written
by Henry Longfellow
is about the culture of
old American Indians
and the impact on
them by first
European settlers?
*”The Song
of
Hiawatha”
“Voices
of the
night”
“The
Bridge”
“Evangeli
ne”
11 3 1 How were the first
poems written by
Henry Longfellow
entitled?
*“Voices of
the Night”
”The
Song of
Hiawath
a”
“The
Bridge”
“Evangeli
ne”
11 4 2 What are the works
written by Walt
Whitman?
* “The
Leaves of
Grass”, “The
Song of
Myself”,
“The Song
of the Broad
Axe”
“Voices
of the
Night”,
“The
Leaves
of
Grass”
“The
Bridge”,
“The
Song of
the Broad
Axe”
“The Song
of
Myself”,
“Evangeli
ne”
11 1 1 Who is the founder of
a short story genre in
American literature?
*Washingto
n Irving
O.
Henry
Frank
Norris
Walt
Whitman
11 4 2 The novel “The
Adventures of Tom
Sawyer” is written
by…
* Mark
Twain
O.
Henry
Frank
Norris
Walt
Whitman
11 4 1 The works written by
Mark Twain are …
*“The
Adventures
of Tom
Sawyer”,
“The
Adventures
of
Huckleberry
Finn ”, “The
Prince and
the Pauper ”
“The
Adventu
res of
Tom
Sawyer”
, ”The
Spy”,
“The
Prince
and
Pauper ”
“The
Adventur
es of Tom
Sawyer”,
“The Last
Leaf”, ”A
Tramp
abroad”
“The
House of
Seven
Gables”
“The
Adventure
s of
Huckleber
ry Finn ”
11 4 1 What are Mark
Twain’s two
historical works?
*“The Prince
and the
Pauper ”,”A
Connecticut
Yankee in
King
“The
Last
Leaf”,
“The
Adventu
res of
“The
Adventur
es of Tom
Sawyer”,
“The
Adventur
”A
Connectic
ut Yankee
in King
Arthur’s
Court”,
356
Arthur’s
Court”
Tom
Sawyer”
es of
Hucklebe
rry Finn ”
“The
Adventure
s of
Huckleber
ry Finn ”,
11 4 2 What is the pen name
of William Sydney
Porter?
*O. Henry
Mark
Twain
Franck
Norris
Walt
Whitman
11 4 1 The two great
novelists of American
Realism after the US
Civil War are …
*Mark
Twain and
Henry James
Martin
Eden
and
Henry
James
Benjamin
Franklin
and Mark
Twain
Martin
Eden and
Benjamin
Franklin
11 4 3 What is the main
work written by
Frank Norris?
*“The
Octopus”
“Double
day”
“Cabbage
s and
Kings”
“The Last
Leaf”
11 4 1 “Martin Eden” is
partially
autobiographical
novel written by…
*Jack
London
Mark
Twain
O. Henry
Frank
Norris
12 2 1 Who wrote that “All
modern American
literature comes from
one book by Mark
Twain, called
“Huckleberry Finn”?
*Ernest
Hemingway
Theodor
e Dreiser
O. Henry
Jack
London
11 4 2 What novel did Jack
London write after he
had visited the slums
of London?
*”The
People of the
Abyss”
Martin
Eden
“The Iron
Hill”
“The War
of the
Classes”
11 4 3 What are the novels
written by Henry
James?
*“Daisy
Miller” and
“The Portrait
of a Lady”
”The
People
of the
Abyss”
and
“Double
Day”
“Sister
Carrie”
and “The
Portrait of
a Lady”
“The
Titan” and
“Double
Day”
11 4 1 Find out the author of
the pamphlets such as
“We are
Americanizing
Europe”, “The United
States of Lynchdom”
and “Running for
*Mark
Twain
Theodor
e Dreiser
O. Henry
Jack
London
357
Governor”.
12 1 2 What Theodore
Dreiser’s novel is a
story of a tragic fate
of a woman?
*“Sister
Carrie”
“Dreiser
Looks at
Russia”
“The
Financier
”
“The
Titan”
12 1 3 When and why did
Theodore Dreiser
write his book
“Dreiser Looks at
Russia”?
*He wrote it
in 1927 after
his visit to
the former
Soviet
Union
He
wrote it
in 1932
when he
publishe
d
“Jennie
Gerhardt
”
He wrote
it in 1932
when he
moved to
Europe
He wrote
it in 1927
after the
end of the
WWI
12 1 1 What is the first
truthful book of John
Reed?
*“Ten Days
that Shook
the World”
“Sister
Carrie”
“Jennie
Gerhardt”
“The
Financier”
12 1 2 Which novel written
by Theodore Dreiser
shows his concern
about young
generation?
*“An
American
Tragedy”
“The
Titan”
“The
Stoic”
“Jennie
Gerhardt”
11 1 2 Short stories “Rip
Van Winkle,” and
“The Legend of
Sleepy Hollow,” are
written by
*Washingto
n Irving
Theodor
e Dreiser
Jack
London
John Reed
12 1 2 What novel of Upton
Sinclair is about the
ideal sides of political
life during the WWI?
*”Between
Two
Worlds”
“The
Jungle”
“Oil”
“King
Coal”
12 1 2 What novels written
by Sinclair Lewis
were devoted to the
chronicles of the
“American way of
life”?
*“Main
street”,
“Babbitt”,
“Arrowsmith
”, ”Kings
Blood
Royal”
“Saturda
y
Evening
Post”
“Arrows
mith”
“The
Jungle”
12 1 2 The first American
writer who got the
Noble Prize in 1930?
*Sinclair
Lewis
Theodor
e Dreiser
Jack
London
John Reed
11 4 2 “The Octopus”
written by Frank
*the conflict
between
the
conflict
the
conflict
the
conflict
358
Norris in 1901
depicts…
farmers and
the railroad
owners over
the land and
power in
California.
in
families
in
Californi
a.
between
farthers
and sons.
between
two
friends.
11 4 2 William Dean
Howell’s best-known
novel, about a self-
made businessman
who is ultimately
ruined financially by
his determination not
to compromise his
integrity.
*“The Rise
of Silas
Lapham”
“The
Octopus
”
“Main
street”,
“The
Sound and
the Fury”,
12 2 3 Who are the
representatives of the
“Lost Generation” in
American Literature?
*E.
Hemingway,
Sh.
Anderson
and
F. S.
Fitzgerald
W.
Faulkner
, Frank
Norris
and F.
S.
Fitzgeral
d
F. S.
Fitzgerald
, W.D.
Howells
and W.
Faulkner
J. London,
E.
Hemingwa
y,
and H.
James
12 1 2 What are the two
main modernist
works of William
Faulkner
* “The
Sound and
the Fury”,
“As I Lay
Dying”
“Main
street”,
“The
Town”,
“Babbitt
”
”Mosquit
oes”“It
cannot
happen
here”,
“The
Sound
and the
Fury”
“The
Mansion”,
“The
Sound and
the Fury”,
“The God
Seeker”
12 1 2 What is the theme of
the novel “Absalom,
Absalom!” by
William
Faulkner?
*The theme
of South
America
The war
problem
s
The
problem
of
education
The social
problems
12 2 1 Which novel is NOT
written by E.
Hemingway?
*This Side
of Paradise
The Old
Man and
the Sea
The Sun
Also
Rises
A
Farewell
to Arms
11 4 1 Who called his own
country “The United
States of
Lynchdom”?
*Mark
Twain
Theodor
e Dreiser
O. Henry
Jack
London
359
12 2 1 What novel of
Francis Scott
Fitzgerald is the first
novel?
*”This Side
of Paradise”
“All the
Sad
Young
Men”
“The
Great
Gatsby”
“The
Beautiful
and the
Damned ”
12 2 1 What novel of
Francis Scott
Fitzgerald tells the
story about the
American dream of
self-made man?
*“The Great
Gatsby”
“This
Side of
Paradise
”
“All the
Sad
Young
Men”
“The
Beautiful
and the
Damned ”
12 2 1 What novel written
by E. Hemingway has
two themes – the
theme of love, which
dies and the theme of
war, which shows
sufferings?
*“A
Farewell to
Arms”
“The
Old Man
and the
Sea”
“For
Whom
the Bell
Tolls”
“To Have
and Have
Not”
12 3 2 What is the
autobiographical
novel of Langston
Hughes?
*”Not
without
Laughter”
“The
Weary
Blues”
“A New
Song”
“Home”
12 3 3 Find the novels
written by John
Steinbeck.
*“Cup of
Gold”,
“Pastures of
Heaven”,
“To a God
Unknown”
“Tortilla
flat”,
“The
Dream
Keeper”
“Cup of
Gold”,
“The
Fifth
Column”
“Pastures
of
Heaven”,
“Green
Hills of
Africa”
12 3 2 What John
Steinbeck’s novel
describes the process
of awakening and
becoming
collectivism among
small farmers?
*“The
Grapes of
Wrath”
“The
Red
Pony”
“The
Moon is
Down”
“The Long
Valley”
12 3 2 What Erskine
Caldwell’s novel
describes the history
of degradation of a
farmer’s family?
*“Tobacco
Road
“All
Night
Long
“The
American
Land”
“God’s
Little
Acre”
12 3 1 What Erskine
Caldwell’s novels are
about social
inequality and
racism?
*”Trouble in
July”,
“Tobacco
Road”,
“Tragic
“Close
to
“Home”,
“Jenny
by
“The Last
“Night”
“Kneel to
the
“Rising
Sun”
360
Ground”
Nature”
13 3 2 What play by Eugene
O’Neill is his literal
autobiography?
*”A Long
Day’s
Journey Into
Night”
“Thirst”
“In the
Zone”
“The
Moon of
the
Caribbees
”
13 3 3 What was Eugene
O’Neill’s statement
about drama?
*The one
subject for
drama is
man and his
struggle with
his own fate.
The one
subject
for
drama is
man and
his love
to
motherla
nd
The one
subject
for drama
is man
and his
respect to
his family
The one
subject for
drama is
man and
his live.
13 3 2 What is the first play
of Tennessee
Williams?
*”The Glass
Menagerie”
“The
Price”
“A
Streetcar
Named
Desire”
“Summer
and
Smoke”
13 3 1 Who is the author of
the following words?
“First of all, I don't
write science fiction.
I've only done one
science fiction book
and that's “Fahrenheit
451”, based on reality
* Ray
Bradbury
Tenness
ee
William
s
John
Updike
Carson
Mc-
Culler?
13 4 3 Find Eudora Alice
Welty’s stories
*“A Curtain
of Green and
Other
Stories” ,
“The Golden
Apples”
“The
Wide
Net and
Other
Stories”,
"A Good
Man Is
Hard to
Find"
“Wise
Blood”,
*“A
Curtain of
Green and
Other
Stories”
The Wide
Net and
Other
Stories,
“Wise
Blood”
13 4 2 Who is the author of
the following words?
"I am a writer who
came of a sheltered
life. A sheltered life
can be a daring life as
well.
For all serious daring
* Eudora
Alice
Welty
Kate
Chopin
Toni
Morrison
Alice
Waker
361
starts from within."
13 3 2 Find the name of the
first novel of John
Updike
*”The
Poorhouse
Fair”
“Rabbit
Run”
“The
Centaur”
“Pigeon
Feathers”
13 3 1 What novel of Saul
Bellow is about the
American life of the
30th?
*”The
Adventures
of Augie
March”
“Hender
son, the
Rain
King”
“Herzog”
“Pigeon
Feathers”
13 5 3 African- American
writers of the XX
century are…
*Richard
Wright,
Ralph
Ellison,
James
Baldwin,
Maya
Angelou,
Toni
Morrison
Alice
Waker,
John
Updike,
Saul
Bellow
Tennesse
e
Williams,
Toni
Morrison,
Ralf
Ellison,
John
Updike,
Kate
Chopin,
Norman
Mailer
13 5 1 The novel “Invisible
Man” by Ralph
Ellison is about…
*a black
man
a
scientist
a
magician
a wizard
13 2 1 The famous novel by
Jack Kerouac that
belongs to the fiction
of Beatniks is…
* “On the
Road”
“Rabbit
Run”
“The
Centaur”
“Pigeon
Feathers”
13 2 2 Who were the leaders
of Beat generation
movement in US
literature?
*Allan
Ginsberg,
Jack
Kerouac and
William
Burroughs
Toni
Morriso
n,
Ralph
Ellison,
Maya
Angelou
Alice
Waker,
John
Updike,
Saul
Bellow
Tennessee
Williams,
Toni
Morrison,
Ralf
Ellison,
13 5 1 African American
cultural movement of
the late 1920s and
early 1930s that was
centered in the
Harlem neighborhood
of New York City
is…
*The Harlem
Renaissance
Abolitio
nism
Modernis
m
The
Harlem
Romantici
sm
13 1 1 Two of the most
impressive novels
From Here to
Eternity by James
*American
Army Forces
and the
beginning of
World
War I
Civil War
Afro-
Americans
362
Jones and The Naked
and the Dead by
Norman Mailer are
about
the World
War II
13 3 1 The novel that
portrays rebellious
adolescence is…
* “The
Catcher in
the Rye” by
J.D. Salinger
“From
Here to
Eternity
” by
Jack
Kerouac
“The
Naked
and the
Dead” by
Norman
Mailer
“On the
Road” by
Jack
Kerouac
13 3 2 Who is the author of
the novel “The Green
Mile”?
*Stephan
King
Norman
Mailer
Jack
Kerouac
Isaac
Asimov
13 3 1 A famous writer of
fantastic fiction of the
XX
Isaac Asimov belongs
to …
*American
Literature
English
Literatur
e
Uzbek
literature
Uzbek and
American
literature
13 3 2 Kurt Vonnegut’ novel
“Slaughterhouse-
Five” reflects…
*War
experience
The
relations
hip of
man and
society
Love and
hatred
Individuali
sm
13 3 2 “White Noise” is a
novel written by…
*Don
DeLillo
Isaac
Asimov
Kurt
Vonnegut
Jack
Kerouac
13 3 3 Which novel is not
written by John
Updike?
*“The
Catcher in
the Rye”
“Rabbit
is Rich”
“Rabbit
Run”
“The
Centaur”
13 3 3 The writer who
describes the
problems of Native
Americans today is…
*Sherman
Alexie
Jack
Kerouac
Toni
Morrison
Eugene
O’Neill
13 3 1 American
playwrights of the
XX century are …
*Arthur
Miller,
Tennessee
Williams,
Eugene
O’Neill
Toni
Morriso
n,
Ralph
Ellison,
Maya
Angelou
Alice
Waker,
John
Updike,
Saul
Bellow
Tennessee
Williams,
Toni
Morrison,
Ralf
Ellison,
13 3 2 “A Streetcar Named
Desire” is written
by…
*Tennessee
Williams
Eugene
O’Neill
Arthur
Miller
Saul
Bellow
13 3 3 Unfound Generation
*World War
World
The War
Civil War
363
writers reflected their
military experience of
the …
II
War I
in
Vietnam
13 3 3 “I, Robot” is a novel
that written by…
*Isaac
Asimov
Norman
Mailer
Stephan
King
Jack
Kerouac
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