American Literature   Romanticism

Match the authors and their works

1. Washington Irving                         a) “The Song of Hiawatha”
2. Edgar Allan Poe                              b) “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”
3. Fenimore Cooper                            c) “Rip Van Winkle “
4. Harriet Beecher Stowe                  d) “I’m Nobody”
5. Emily Dickinson                             e) ” Stolen Letter”
6. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow    f) “The Last of the Mohicans” 

Which of the authors  created these  characters ?

1. Washington Irving;                       a) NattyBumppo 
2. Fenimore Cooper;                          b) Knickerbockere 
3. Edgar Allan Poe;                            c) Paul Reveref  
4. Harriet Beecher Stowe;               d) Eliza and her little son Harry
5. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; e) Dupin
6. Emily Dickinson                            f) The year’s sad daughter    

Choose the write ending and finish the sentence

1. During her lifetime, Emily Dickinson published only about… of her poems.                      a)100       b) 30     c) 10   d) 1775
2. H. W. Longfellow died at the age of 75, and he became the only American poet whose bust occupies a niche in …. a) Harvard      b)  Westminster Abbey   c)  Boston   d) Bowdoin  College
3. Harriet Beecher Stowe’s elder sister Catherine  opened the school and Harriet began to … there when she was only 13. a)go     b)study       c) teach      d) learn
4. In 1821 F. Cooper published ” The Spy”, a novel about … a)Indians    b) the American Revolution    c) his sea voyages      d) his travels to Europe
5. Irving Washington was the first among the American writers of that time to write history as..  a)literary entertainment; b) literary investigation; c)scientific work;  d) textbook
6. E.A. Poe’s poem “Annabel Lee” is about…   a)the gold bug   b) mother   c)  murder   d) love

Fill in the  blanks with the words which suit best

1. The first volume of poems of E. Dickinson was published  in 1890, after her -_____.
2. “The Song of Hiawatha” is based on ______ .
3. A. Lincoln said that H. B. Stowe was the little lady that provoked the great_____ .
4. J. F. Cooper was the first well-known American ____ .
5. E. A. Poe’s tales and romances may be divided into three types: tales of horror, detectives