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American Literature Quiz

"All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since." - Ernest Hemingway

Namost, a felhasználást illetően egy ilyen kvíz esetében érthető a kétkedés, ha kicsiny hazánkat, és az abban dúló oktatást vesszük alapul. Véleményem szerint azonban egy kvíz nem annyira tudás felmérésére, mint inkább játékra, tanulásra való. Ennek szellemében én a tanulóimat például hagyom, hogy ezt a kvízsort az internet segítségével oldják meg. Úgy sem gyerekjáték, hiszen comprehension + key words + computer skills + references + filtering + akármi. Ha azonban így legalább annyit elértünk, hogy a tanulók 15 percet foglalkoznak angol nyelvű, irodalommal kacsolatos kutatással, már többet tettünk, mint velünk tettek anno orosz tagozaton.


Amikor pedig mindenki végzett, jöhet a lightning rounds, hogy kiben mi maradt meg! Idevágó kérdés: Who majored in lightning rounds? ;)

Tehát a kvíz:

1. In Walden, who urges people to simplify their lives and look to nature for meaning?
a. Robert Frost
b. Walt Whitman
c. Henry David Thoreau
d. Herman Melville

2. Maggie: A Girl of the Streets is an example of naturalist fiction. Who wrote it?
a. Stephen Crane
b. Edith Wharton
c. Edgar Allan Poe
d. Eugene Debs

3. Black Boy is an autobiographical account of whose Southern boyhood?
a. Thomas Pynchon
b. Richard Wright
c. John Dos Passos
d. Saul Bellow 4.

Who wrote Spoon River Anthology?
a. Edgar Lee Masters
b. Robert Lowell
c. Anne Sexton
d. Langston Hughes

5. Which of Upton Sinclairs books is about the meat-packing industry?
a. Main Street
b. Arrowsmith
c. Elmer Gantry
d. The Jungle

6. Vladimir Nabokov moved to the United States from where?
a. Poland
b. Hungary
c. Russia
d. Cuba

7. The writer of Common Sense died in poverty. Who was he?
a. Thomas Paine
b. Thomas Jefferson
c. Jack London
d. Henry James

8. Which of the following writers was a leading member of the Harlem Renaissance?
a. Allen Ginsberg
b. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
c. Langston Hughes
d. Louisa May Alcott

9. The Scarlet Letter is set where?
a. England during World War II
b. Paris during the French Revolution
c. the Middle Ages in Italy
d. Puritan America

10. Who is the narrator in The Great Gatsby?
a. Elmer Gantry
b. Nick Carraway
c. Ethan Frome
d. Mick Smith

11. Which American writer won the Nobel Prize in 1930?
a. Sinclair Lewis
b. Upton Sinclair
c. John Steinbeck
d. Raymond Chandler

12. Who used lowercase letters in his poetry?
a. Robert Frost
b. Walt Whitman
c. E. E. Cummings
d. Bret Harte

13. Which of Washington Irvings characters falls asleep for twenty years?
a. Tom Buchanan
b. Tom Joad
c. Philip Marlowe
d. Rip van Winkle

14. Who wrote the short story "The Snows of Kilimanjaro"?
a. Thomas Wolfe
b. Robert Penn Warren
c. Mickey Spillane
d. Ernest Hemingway

15. Who wrote Cats Cradle and Slaughterhouse-Five?
a. Kurt Vonnegut
b. Norman Mailer
c. James Baldwin
d. Ralph Ellison

Answers: 1-c, 2-a, 3-b, 4-a, 5-d, 6-c, 7-a, 8-c, 9-d, 10-b, 11-a, 12-c, 13-d, 14-d, 15-a