Guess the Era

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Guess the Era: American Literature Quiz

Test your knowledge of American literature across various eras with our engaging quiz! This quiz features 10 thought-provoking questions that will challenge your understanding of literary excerpts and their historical contexts.

Are you ready to dive into the world of literature? Check out these features:

  • Multiple choice questions
  • Exploration of significant literary movements
  • Fun and educational for all ages
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What era of American Literature is the following excerpt from, based on its literary characteristics? "After a long time, his little body floated up to the surface of the ocean, a tiny crumb of earth clutched in his paw. He seemed to be dead. They pulled him up on the turtle's back and they sang and prayed over him and breathed air into his mouth, and finally, he stirred. Thus it was the muskrat, the Earth-Diver, who brought from the bottom of the ocean the soil from which the earth was to grow."
Romanticism
Realism
Creation Stories
What era of American Literature is the following excerpt from, based on its literary characteristics? "I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past. And judging by the past, I wish to know what there has been in the conduct of the British ministry for the last ten years to justify those hopes with which gentlemen have been pleased to solace themselves and the House. Is it that insidious smile with which our petition has been lately received? Trust it not, sir; it will prove a snare to your feet. Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed with a kiss. Ask yourselves how this gracious reception of our petition comports with those warlike preparations which cover our waters and darken our land. Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation?"
Revolutionary Rhetoric
Religious Rhetoric
Transcendentalism
What era of American Literature is this excerpt from, based on its literary characteristics? "When that pale rider reaches down / His hand to me. He'll beat a crown / From all the aches my shoulders bore, / And I shall lord one regal hour, / Illumined in all things, before / His sickle spears another flower"
Harlem Renaissance
Religious Rhetoric
Creation Stories
What era of American literature is the following excerpt from, based on its literary characteristics? “ I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world.... For most men, it appears to me, are in a strange uncertainty about it, whether it is of the devil or of God, and have somewhat hastily concluded that is the chief end of man here to “glorify God and enjoy him forever.””
Colonial America
Transcendentalism
Harlem Renaissance
This piece was written by Frederick Douglass. "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,/ Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore— / While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, /As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door./ “’Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door— / Only this and nothing more.”"
True
False
What era of American literature is the following excerpt from? "Your wickedness makes you as it were heavy as lead, and to tend downwards with great weight and pressure towards hell; and if God should let you go, you would immediately sink and swiftly descend and plunge into the bottomless gulf, and your healthy constitution, and your own care and prudence, and best contrivance, and all your righteousness, would have no more influence to uphold you and keep you out of hell, than a spider's web would have to stop a falling rock. . ."
Revolutionary Rhetoric
Religious Rhetoric
Colonial America
The Scarlet Letter is a romantic novel written by Nathaniel Hawthrone about an adulteress named Hester Prynne.
True
False
Arthur Miller wrote The Crucible as a play about the early pilgrims who were struggling for survival during their first winter.
True
False
Which era of American literature is the following excerpt from? "There you have it, Montag. It didn't come from the government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure carried the trick, thank God. Today, thanks to them, you can stay happy all the time, you are allowed to read comics, the good old confessions, or trade journals."
Modernism
Colonial America
Revolutionary Rhetoric
Which of the following is a metafictional novel by Tim O'Brien that explores the effects of the Vietnam War on veterans?
The Crucible
Fahrenheit 451
The Things They Carried
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