1. Which was not a reason the American Civil War was fought?
access to the railway system
states' rights
economics
slavery
2. Who were the authors of the novels The Scarlet Letter and Moby Dick?
Dickinson and Whitman
Poe and Whitman
Emerson and Thoreau
Hawthorne and Melville
3. What European literary movement emphasized individual expression in art and individual rights in politics and directly influenced the flowering of the first significant American literature?
Stoicism
Calvinism
Empiricism
Romanticism
4. What period of time refers to the span of American literary history referred to as the American Renaissance?
1492-1550
1825-1865
1900-1950
1777-1810
5. Who is considered the father of the modern-day short story?
Herman Melville
Walt Whitman
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Edgar Allan Poe
6. What early American literary and philosophical movement emphasized the power of the individual and a personal connection with nature?
Transcendentalism
Realism
Agrarianism
Pessimism
7. The denouement comes:
after the falling action
before the climax
just after the exposition
in the sequel
8. What rapidly developing industry flourishing in America helped produce the great generation of writers in the period following the Civil War?
Journalism
Textiles
Agriculture
Automobiles
9. Irony is:
a scheme by one character to trap another
a contrast between appearance and reality
language soothing to the ear
writing that transcends reality
10. What great American poet saw fewer than 20 poems published in his/her lifetime but is recognized today for using short, passionate, symbolic verse?
Walt Whitman
Emily Dickinson
Kate Chopin
Ralph Waldo Emerson.