Captivity Narratives were a favorite genre of

the time span of 1607-1776/1783

The Sedcution Novel is a genre

of the time span of 1776/1783-ca. 1830

War poets are poets who

were soldiers and wrote in the trenches

Post-Modernism in America can be subdivided into

alternative and affirmative Post-Modernism

Jane Eyre was published under a male pen name because

it was inappropriate to write novels as a woman

Slave Narratives were mostly published during

American Romanticism/ American Renaissance

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English and American Literary History II

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1
Ulysses was written by
Jospeh Conrad
James Joyce
Virginia Woolf
D.H. Lawrence
2
The Harlem Renaissance focuses on
African American culture
New York
classical models
nature
3
John Keats is
a Renaissance poet
a Restoration poet
a Romantic poet
a Victorian poet
4
Jane Eyre was first published in
1847
1877
1897
1837
5
English Modernism covers the time span from
1910-1936
1901-1914
1914-1945
1837-1901
6
Today, Literary Criticism is very often using
context-based theories
author-based theories
reader-based theories
text-based theories
7
Name some of the major themes of Romanticism:
emotion, nature, the sublime
society, religion, politics
love, marriage, hope
rationality, technical innovation, industrialisation
8
Name a novel by Charlotte Brontë
Agnes Grey
Wuthering Heights
Shirley
Emma
9
Jane Eyre is a
Contemporary Novel
Modernist Novel
Victorian novel
Romantic novel
10
Ernest Hemingway is an author of
naturalistic literature
contemporary literature
realistic literature
modern(ist) literature
11
New Criticism is
a text-based literary theory
an author-based literary theory
a context-based literary theory
a reader-based literary theory
12
Captivity Narratives were a favorite genre of
English Literature
the Early National Period
Sentimentalism
the time span of 1607-1776/1783
13
E. M. Forster is a
Modernist writer
Edwardian writer
Victorian writer
Romantic writer
14
The Sedcution Novel is a genre
of the Colonial Period
of the time span of 1776/1783-ca. 1830
of Dark Romanticism
dealing with the abduction of white colonial women
15
War poets are poets who
wrote after the war about their experiences
who died in the war
were soldiers and wrote in the trenches
who criticized war from the home front
16
Charles Dickens wrote
children's novels
social comedies
dystopias
social problem novels
17
The Early National Period is known for
James Fenimore Cooper
Ralph Waldo Emerson
John Winthrop
Edgar Allan Poe
18
Post-Modernism in America can be subdivided into
positive and negative Post-Modernism
opposing and supporting Post-Modernism
alternative and affirmative Post-Modernism
emotional and rational Post-Modernism
19
Mark Twain is an author of the
Age of Transcendentalism
Romantic Period
Naturalistic Period
Realistic Period
20
Jane Eyre was published under a male pen name because
Charlotte Brontë dedicated the novel to her brother
Jane Eyre is a real person - Charlotte Brontë only edited it
Charlotte Brontë didn't think highly of women writers
it was inappropriate to write novels as a woman
21
Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species was published during
the reign of Edward VII.
the reign of Queen Elizabeth I.
the reign of Queen Victoria
the reign of Queen Elizabeth II.
22
Slave Narratives were mostly published during
American Romanticism/ American Renaissance
Early National Period/Early Republic
the Colonial Period/Puritanism
the Realistic Period
23
Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Rupert Brooke are
Modernist poets
War poets
Romantic poets
Victorian poets
24
Lewis Carroll is an author of the time span of
1914-1945
1789-1837
1901-1910
1837-1901
25
The Harlem Renaissance is a movement of
Abolitionism
Modern Literature/Modernism
Realism
Naturalism

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