1. Podpora rozvoje cizích jazyků pro Evropu 21. stol. INVESTICE DO ROZVOJE VZDĚLÁVÁNÍ Tento projekt je spolufinancován Evropským sociálním fondem a státním rozpočtem České republiky.

2. AMERICAN LITERATURE QUIZ

3. QUESTION 1 WHO IS CONSIDERED TO BE THE FIRST AMERICAN AUTHOR? A) Captain John Smith B) Thomas Jefferson C) Benjamin Franklin

4. ANSWER 1 Captain John Smith

5. EXTRA QUESTION 1 Which colony did he lead? Jamestown colony

6. QUESTION 2 What was Mary Rowlandson's most famous book about?

7. ANSWER 2 About her own experience of an Indian hostage

8. EXTRA QUESTION 2 During which war did this happen? King Philip's war

9. QUESTION 3 Name at least one of early American authors of political writings

10. ANSWER 3 Samuel Adams Benjamin Franklin Thomas Paine

11. EXTRA QUESTION 3 WHAT INFLUENTIAL PAMPHLET WAS WRITTEN BY THOMAS PAINE? The Common Sense

12. QUESTION 4 Who was the main author of The Declaration of Independence?

13. ANSWER 4 THOMAS JEFFERSON

14. EXTRA QUESTION 4 What happened to him in 1801? He became the third president of the United States.

15. QUESTION 5 Who is the author of ´THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW´ and 'RIP VAN WINKLE'?

16. ANSWER 5 WASHINGTON IRVING

17. EXTRA QUESTION 5 What literary form were these two books? SHORT STORIES

18. 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

19. ANSWER 6 SCARLET LETTER

20. EXTRA QUESTION 6 WHERE DOES THE STORY TAKE PLACE? 17 th century Puritan village in Boston

21. QUESTION 7 Who are Ishmael and captain Ahab?

22. ANSWER 7 THE MAIN CHARACTERS OF THE NOVEL,MOBY-DICK'

23. EXTRA QUESTION 7 WHO IS THE AUTHOR OF THE BOOK? HERMAN MELVILLE

24. 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

25. ANSWER 8 EDGAR ALLAN POE

26. EXTRA QUESTION 8 WHICH WAS POE'S FIRST SUCCESSFUL POEM INSPIRED BY HIS LOVE FOR HIS DYING WIFE? THE RAVEN

27. 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

28. ANSWER 9 The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men

29. EXTRA QUESTION 9 In what historical era is the novel Grapes of Wrath set? The Great Depression

30. 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

31. ANSWER 10 Samuel Clemens – Mark Twain's real name

32. EXTRA QUESTION 10 Name at least one job Twain had before he became a writer typesetter, steamboat pilot

33. QUESTION 11 Who were abolitionists?

34. ANSWER 11 a political movement that supported ending of the slave trade and emancipating slaves (19 th century)

35. EXTRA QUESTION 11 Name at least one American abolitionist author? W.L. Garrison Harriet Beecher Stowe Frederick Douglass

36. QUESTION 12 Who is the author of the collection of poems 'THE LEAVES OF GRASS' ?

37. ANSWER 12 WALT WHITMAN

38. EXTRA QUESTION 12 WHO WAS THE FAMOUS AMERICAN FEMALE POET OF THE 19 th CENTURY? EMILY DICKINSON

39. INVESTICE DO ROZVOJE VZDĚLÁVÁNÍ Tento projekt je spolufinancován Evropským sociálním fondem a státním rozpočtem České republiky. Tato výuková prezentace byla pořízena z finančních prostředků hrazených Evropským sociálním fondem a rozpočtem České republiky.