American Literature Periods Review

Question 1

Which period emphasizes nature and emotion?

Accepted Answer

Romanticism

Question 2

Which period celebrates diversity?

Accepted Answer

Contemporary

Question 3

True or false: Rationalism values emotion over reason

Accepted Answer

False

Question 4

True or false: Realism is an outgrowth of Romanticism

Accepted Answer

False

Question 5

True or false: Realism was influenced by the Civil War

Accepted Answer

True

Question 6

What did the Harlem Renaissance bring about?

Accepted Answer

Gospel music

Question 7

Which period emphasized self-knowledge?

Accepted Answer

Rationalism

Question 8

What is the Puritan view of humanity?

Accepted Answer

Inherently evil

Question 9

Which period focused on social problems?

Accepted Answer

Naturalism

Question 10

Who believed in predetermined salvation?

Accepted Answer

Puritans

Question 11

True or false: Naturalism emphasizes free will

Accepted Answer

False

Question 12

True or false: Transcendentalists valued intuition

Accepted Answer

True

Question 13

True or false: Gothic literature is optimistic

Accepted Answer

False

Question 14

True or false: Puritans glorified God in writing

Accepted Answer

True

Question 15

Which period had a sense of disillusionment?

Accepted Answer

Modernism

Question 16

True or false: Modernism was optimistic

Accepted Answer

False

Question 17

True or false: Transcendentalists lived in Concord

Accepted Answer

True

Question 18

Which period saw humanity as divine?

Accepted Answer

Transcendentalism

Question 19

What did Rationalists reject?

Accepted Answer

Faith

Questions 19