American Lit Exam Review

Edward Taylor's poem, "Huswifery" uses what to get his point across?

Benjamin Franklin's dedicated his autobiography to his son.

Who declared America as a "City on a Hill?"

Thoreau wrote Walden to:

Who said: "He'd have killed me if I hadn't told him who owned the car?"

On what basis did the Puritans flee England?

Who penned the Declaration of Independence?

Thomas Paine enlisted in the American army at a time of victory.

Transcendentalism refers to ....

What kind of source is required for a research paper?

What is Ben Franklin's nickname?

What was the source of Hurston and Hughes’s conflict?

R.W. Emerson believed we can "build, therefore, your own world" as utopia.

What does it mean that Flannery O’Connor wrote “Christian Realism?”

The Declaration of Independence contains a list of grievances to the king of Britain.

Mrs. Sommers, in “A Pair of Silk Stockings,” purchases items she cannot afford. What is the message Chopin sends here?

Chillingworth was Roger's real name.

"Manifest Destiny" is the belief that American settlers were destined to expand across North America.

What kind of poetry did Whitman introduce?

“Storm Ending” by Jean Toomer promotes what theme?

Who wrote "Of Plymouth Plantation?"

Thomas Sowell began as a committed ______________ but reached the conclusion that it didn’t work.

Which items are required for an MLA Works Cited?

Which reclusive author introduced enjambment to poetry?

In Hurston’s short story “Sweat,” what is the purpose of the opening scene of the bullwhip?

Henry David Thoreau resided in...

The famous first line of "Crisis #1" is:

For what is Zora Neale Hurston’s writing famous?

In the end of the story, what does Hester do?

Who compelled Lincoln to make Thanksgiving a fixed and national date?

What was BTW’s nickname?

What is the famous line from BTW’s “Atlanta Exposition Address?”

Who said: “I won’t be able to get away for the funeral, but will you please send my tennis shoes?”

Transcendentalism was introduced by:

For whom was Walt Whitman’s poem, “O Captain! My Captain!” written?

What phrase does Edwards repeat for emphasis in his sermon?

Although labelled a Deist, Franklin offered a prayer to God every day.

What makes W.E.B. DuBois the antagonist of BTW?

How many times does Hester take off the 'A?'

Which is the famous ending of The Great Gatsby?

What is “stage one thinking?”

Where do Hester and Pearl feel most free?

The first part of a Puritan sermon is called the __________.

To obtain humility, Franklin notes he ought to follow...

Which elements describe the Southern Gothic?

At what college did BTW instill Christian values and vocational training to value hard work and upward mobility?

William Cullen Bryant is a Romatic author who wrote about nature.

The Great Gatsby is told as a –

The green light at the end of Daisy’s dock symbolizes –

What unfortunate truth do we know about Thoreau?

Who wrote The Scarlet Letter?

Poe is known for his use of suspense with repetition.

Kate Chopin wrote stories that exposed the limits placed on women’s lives and desires in a _____

Wheatley supported Washington and the Revolution.

Phillis Wheatley wrote angrily about her experience as a slave.

Anne Bradstreet was one of the first prominent American female poets because she wrote about strictly Puritan issues?

In Poe's "Tell Tale Heart," the narrator murders the man because of his

In “The Story of an Hour,” Mrs. Mallard gets news that her husband was killed. She thinks life without her husband is

"The Crisis #1" by Thomas Paine was read to whom?

"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" is written by