INVESTICE DO ROZVOJE VZDĚLÁVÁNÍ
Podpora rozvoje cizích jazyků pro Evropu
21. stol.
Tento projekt je spolufinancován Evropským sociálním fondem a
státním rozpočtem České republiky.
AMERICAN LITERATURE
QUIZ
QUESTION 1
WHO IS CONSIDERED TO BE
THE FIRST AMERICAN AUTHOR?
A) Captain John Smith
B) Thomas Jefferson
C) Benjamin Franklin
ANSWER 1
Captain John Smith
EXTRA QUESTION 1
Which colony did he lead?
Jamestown colony
QUESTION 2
What was Mary Rowlandson's
most famous book about?
ANSWER 2
About her own
experience
of an Indian hostage
EXTRA QUESTION 2
During which war did this happen?
King Philip's war
QUESTION 3
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Name at least one of early
American authors of political
writings
ANSWER 3
Samuel Adams
Benjamin Franklin
Thomas Paine
EXTRA QUESTION 3
WHAT INFLUENTIAL PAMPHLET WAS
WRITTEN BY THOMAS PAINE?
The Common Sense
QUESTION 4
Who was the main author of
The Declaration of Independence?
ANSWER 4
THOMAS JEFFERSON
EXTRA QUESTION 4
What happened to him in 1801?
He became the third president
of the United States.
QUESTION 5
Who is the author of ´THE LEGEND OF
SLEEPY HOLLOW´ and 'RIP VAN
WINKLE'?
ANSWER 5
WASHINGTON IRVING
EXTRA QUESTION 5
What literary form were these two
books?
SHORT STORIES
QUESTION 6
The novel for which Nathaniel Hawthorne
is best known is
a) The Scarlet Letter
b) The Deerslayer
c) Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
d) Sister Carrie
ANSWER 6
SCARLET
LETTER
EXTRA QUESTION 6
WHERE DOES THE STORY TAKE
PLACE?
17 th century Puritan
village in Boston
QUESTION 7
Who are Ishmael and captain
Ahab?
ANSWER 7
THE MAIN CHARACTERS
OF THE NOVEL ,MOBY-DICK'
EXTRA QUESTION 7
WHO IS THE AUTHOR OF THE BOOK?
HERMAN MELVILLE
QUESTION 8
A nineteenth-century writer known for his
Romantic poetry and macabre stories is
A) Washington Irving
B) James Fenimore Cooper
C) Edgar Allan Poe
D) Bret Harte
ANSWER 8
EDGAR ALLAN POE
EXTRA QUESTION 8
WHICH WAS POE'S FIRST
SUCCESSFUL POEM INSPIRED BY
HIS LOVE FOR HIS DYING WIFE?
THE RAVEN
QUESTION 9
Winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the
Nobel Prize, John Steinbeck wrote
a) Ragtime and Loon Lake
b) The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and
Men
c) A Death in the Family and Let Us Now
Praise Famous Men
ANSWER 9
The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men
EXTRA QUESTION 9
In what historical era is the novel
Grapes of Wrath set?
The Great Depression
QUESTION 10
Who was the creator of the characters
Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer, and
Pudd'nhead Wilson?
A) Herman Melville
B) Hart Crane
C) Thomas Wolfe
D) Samuel Clemens
ANSWER 10
Samuel Clemens –
Mark Twain's real name
EXTRA QUESTION 10
Name at least one job Twain had before
he became a writer
typesetter, steamboat pilot
QUESTION 11
Who were abolitionists?
ANSWER 11
a political movement that supported
ending of the slave trade and
th
emancipating slaves (19 century)
EXTRA QUESTION 11
Name at least one American abolitionist
author?
W.L. Garrison
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Frederick Douglass
QUESTION 12
Who is the author of the
collection of poems 'THE
LEAVES OF GRASS' ?
ANSWER 12
WALT WHITMAN
EXTRA QUESTION 12
WHO WAS THE FAMOUS AMERICAN
FEMALE POET OF THE 19th CENTURY?
EMILY DICKINSON
INVESTICE DO ROZVOJE VZDĚLÁVÁNÍ
Tato výuková prezentace byla pořízena z finančních
prostředků hrazených Evropským sociálním fondem
a rozpočtem České republiky.
Tento projekt je spolufinancován Evropským sociálním fondem a
státním rozpočtem České republiky.