Time of the American literaturę cxam: 3 hrs.
American Literaturę - Quu
Answer tire following questions. You will be givcn Iwo points for cach correctly answered question:
1. What is the name of the captain of the Pequod? Was it mentioned in another work of literaturę? If yes - in which?
2. What is the name of the best known town in Ihe Yoknapatawpha County? Who is the creator of the whole region?
3. Givea briefcharactcristicsofTranscendcntalism and the na mes of its major writers.
4. Which of the American writers conąuered Europę without visiting it? Give two tities of tire works by this author.
5. W ho was tire inain figurę of the Great Awakening Why did this happen? When?
6. Who coined tire phrase "We shall be as a city upon a luli"? Where was this phrase used first?
7. Who was the author of "The Declaration of Irulependence”? When was it signcd?
8. Who is the fictitious author of "Rip Van Winkle" and other many other short stories written by Washington Irving? Why was he invented?
9. Give two names of tire rcpresentatives of American rcalism
10. Give the titles of two novels by Mark Twain, other than "Huck Finn". What was the real name of this author?