<question> In what direction American literature originated?

<variant> Journalism

<question> America gave first prominent names of its writers in the…

<variant> XVIII century

<question> The first period in American literature called…

<variant> Enlightenment

<question> The first greatest American Enlightener

<variant> Benjamin Franklin

<question> What periodical Benjamin Franklin start?

<variant> Poor Richard’s Almanac

<question> Differences of American and English literature of the XIX century

<variant> Americans wrote short stories

<question> Romanticism in America gives three great names:

<variant> Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe

<question> How many periods are divided in the development of American

Romanticism?
<variant> Three periods

<question> The first early period began with romances and short stories of…
<variant> Washington Irving

<question> What American writer started to create with the historical novel?
<variant> James Fenimore Cooper

<question> In what period comprises the second period of Romanticism?

<variant> The 1840s and the first half of the 1850s

<question> In the third period of Romanticism appeared the early poems by…
<variant> Walt Whitman

<question> What is the most characteristic feature of American Romanticism?

<variant> It played an important role in the cultural life of America

<question> Edgar Allan Poe was born in…

<variant> Boston, 1809

<question> What style of writing is famous Edgar Allan Poe for?

<variant> Dark gothic style of writing
<question> What occupation were Edgar Allan Poe’s parents?
<variant> actors

<question> What university did attend Edgar Allan Poe?

<variant> University of Virginia

<question> The significant period of 1830 year for Edgar Allan Poe
<variant> He appointed to the US Military Academy in West Point

<question> In 1833 Edgar Allan Poe won the prize. For what the short story?
<variant> MS Found in a Bottle

<question> What kind of effect does Poe want to create in his short story “The Fall
of the House of Usher”?
<variant> Poe creates the single effect of terror through the settings, characters,
and elements of the story

<question> The real name of Mark Twain

<variant> Samuel Langhorne Clemens

<question> Mark Twain was a son of…

<variant> a small-town lawyer

<question> Mark Twain went to New York, then to Philadelphia where he worked
as a…
<variant> Printer

<question> In what way Samuel Langhorne Clemens got his pen-name “Mark
Twain”?
<variant> A call used for depth sounding by Mississippi pilots

<question> How many children have Mark twain had?

<variant> One son and three daughters

<question> In what Mark Twain published “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”?

<variant> 1876

<question> In what Mark Twain published “The Adventures of Huckleberry

Finn”?
<variant> 1884

<question> Who wrote “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”?

<variant> Mark Twain
<question> Who wrote “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”?
<variant> Mark Twain

<question> What did Mark Twain represent in his famous novel about Tom and
Huck?
<variant> Best friendship and peer

<question> The name of a Negro in the novel “The Adventures of Huckleberry

Finn”
<variant> Jim

<question> Who wrote once: “All modern American literature comes from one
book by Mark Twain called “Huckleberry Finn”?
<variant> Ernest Hemingway

<question> What American writer gave lectures on literature and read his stories to
the public?
<variant> Mark Twain

<question> What kind of University gave Mark Twain an honorary doctorate of

letters, in 1907?
<variant> University of Virginia Oxford University

<question> Who joined the Communist Party of America, in July 1945?

<variant> Theodore Dreiser

<question> What novel by Theodore Dreiser was pronounced “immoral”?

<variant> Sister Carrie

<question> What three famous works by Theodore Dreiser were published only
after his death?
<variant> The Financier, The Titan, The Stoic

<question> In what year Theodore Dreiser described his visit to the USSR in
“Dreiser Looks At Russia”?
<variant> 1928

<question> A chief character of all the three novels “The Financier”, “The Titan”,
“The Stoic”
<variant> Frank Cowperwood

<question> One of the novels by Theodore Dreiser remained unfinished

<variant> The Stoic
<question> What novel by Theodore Dreiser was pronounced “a masterpiece”?
<variant> An American Tragedy
<question> Who wrote “This Side of Paradise”?
<variant> Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald

<question> Who wrote “The Beautiful and Damned”?

<variant> Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald

<question> Who wrote “Tender is the Night”?

<variant> Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald

<question> The first American author to portray the lost generation

<variant> Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald

<question> Who said to Hemingway: “The very rich are different from you and
me”?
<variant> Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald

<question> Who attended Princeton, a university for well-do Americans?

<variant> Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald

<question> In what best work of Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald the son of a poor
farmer fell in love with a rich and beautiful girl?
<variant> The Great Gatsby

<question> What is Gatsby’s dream life?

<variant> He wanted to become rich

<question> Who was born in New York, 1919?

<variant> Jerome David Salinger

<question> Who did not well at school, so his parents enrolled him in a military
academy?
<variant> Jerome David Salinger

<question> Who graduated from the Valley Forge Academy?

<variant> Jerome David Salinger

<question> Who was sent to Poland to learn the ham business by step of his
father?
<variant> Jerome David Salinger

<question> In what year the American magazine “Saturday Evening post”

published the story “The Varioni Brothers”, by Jerome David Salinger?
<variant> 1943
<question> What the writer told to Jerome David Salinger “a hell of a talent”?
<variant> Ernest Hemingway

<question> In what year appeared “The Catcher in the Rye” by Jerome David
Salinger?
<variant> 1951

<question> Whose story is told by a teen-year in funny schoolboy slang?

<variant> Jerome David Salinger

<question> Holden Caulfield, what literary work is the main character?

<variant> The Catcher in the Rye

<question> Clyde Griffiths, what literary work is the main character?

<variant> An American Tragedy

<question> Nick Carraway, what literary work is the main character?

<variant> The Great Gatsby

<question> Who was born in Oak Park, Illinois?

<variant> Ernest Hemingway

<question> Whose father was fond of hunting and fishing?

<variant> Ernest Hemingway

<question> Who was an excellent sportsman and successful pupil?

<variant> Ernest Hemingway

<question> Who joined the army when in 1917 the US entered the First World
War?
<variant> Ernest Hemingway

<question> Who was driving American Red Cross ambulance during the war?
<variant> Ernest Hemingway

<question> Who was badly wounded in the leg?

<variant> Ernest Hemingway

<question> Who was taken to a hospital in Milan where he had 12 operations?

<variant> Ernest Hemingway

<question> Who was awarded a silver medal by the Italian Government?

<variant> Ernest Hemingway
<question> When did Hemingway returned to the US and began to work a foreign
correspondent of a newspaper?
<variant> 1920

<question> “Three Stories and Ten Poems”, who is the author of the first work?
<variant> Ernest Hemingway

<question> The first novel of Ernest Hemingway published in 1929 is…

<variant> The Sun Also Rises

<question> The best of Ernest Hemingway, a protest against war

<variant> A Farewell to Arms

<question> What famous work was published in 1929 and made Hemingway
famous?
<variant> A Farewell to Arms

<question> How many dollars did Hemingway collect for an ambulance service in
the Spanish Republic and went to Spain?
<variant> 140.000 dollars

<question> What literary work did Hemingway create after the end of the Civil
war in Spain?
<variant> For Whom the Bell Tolls

<question> Where did Hemingway spend the last years of his life?
<variant> In Cuba

<question> Look for the Hemingway’s last work:

<variant> The Old Man and the Sea

<question> For what best work was Hemingway awarded the Nobel prize in 1954?
<variant> The Old Man and the Sea

<question> When did Hemingway return to the United States?

<variant> 1960

<question> The poet of the widest sympathies, the greatest interpreter of human
nature
<variant> William Shakespeare

<question> Who was born at the town of Stratford-on-Avon in April, 1564?

<variant> William Shakespeare

<question> At what age William Shakespeare did marry?

<variant> 18

<question> How many children had Shakespeare?

<variant> One son and two daughters

<question> Who played in the theatre?

<variant> William Shakespeare

<question> Who wrote the tragedy “Macbeth”?

<variant> William Shakespeare

<question> What kind of genre is “Romeo and Juliet”?

<variant> Tragedy

<question> What kind of genre is “King Lear” by Shakespeare?

<variant> Tragedy

<question> What kind of genre is “The Winter’s Tale” by Shakespeare?

<variant> Romantic drama

<question> What kind of genre is “As you like it” by Shakespeare?

<variant> Romantic drama

<question> Who was as much a writer of the age of Reason of Romanticism?

<variant> Washington Irving

<question> Who was the first American writer recognized in Europe?

<variant> Washington Irving

<question> What writer was well read in Chaucer and Spencer in the 18 th century
English literature?
<variant> Washington Irving

<question> Who wrote “The Adventure of My Aunt”?

<variant> Washington Irving

<question> Who wrote “The Last of the Mohicans”?

<variant> James Fenimore Cooper

<question> Who entered Yale university at the age of 13?

<variant> James Fenimore Cooper

<question> Who became a country gentleman in Cooperstown?

<variant> James Fenimore Cooper
<question> Who wrote the novel “The Spy”, in 1821?
<variant> James Fenimore Cooper

<question> Who wrote his famous “Leather Stocking novels”?

<variant> James Fenimore Cooper

<question> Who wrote the stories about of settlers and American Indians?
<variant> James Fenimore Cooper

<question> What writer preferred to live in the woods far from cities?
<variant> James Fenimore Cooper

<question> Who died the day before his sixty-second birthday?

<variant> James Fenimore Cooper

<question> Whose story is told by a teen-year in funny schoolboy slang?

<variant> Jerome David Salinger

<question> Holden Caulfield, what literary work is the main character?

<variant> The Catcher in the Rye

<question> Clyde Griffiths, what literary work is the main character?

<variant> An American Tragedy

<question> Nick Carraway, what literary work is the main character?

<variant> The Great Gatsby

<question> Who was born in Oak Park, Illinois?

<variant> Ernest Hemingway

<question> In what direction American literature originated?

<variant> Journalism

<question> America gave first prominent names of its writers in the…

<variant> XVIII century

<question> The first period in American literature called…

<variant> Enlightenment

<question> The first greatest American Enlightener

<variant> Benjamin Franklin

<question> What periodical Benjamin Franklin start?

<variant> Poor Richard’s Almanac
<question> Differences of American and English literature of the XIX century
<variant> Americans wrote short stories

<question> Romanticism in America gives three great names:

<variant> Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe

<question> How many periods are divided in the development of American

Romanticism?
<variant> Three periods

<question> The first early period began with romances and short stories of…
<variant> Washington Irving

<question> What American writer started to create with the historical novel?
<variant> James Fenimore Cooper

<question> In what period comprises the second period of Romanticism?

<variant> The 1840s and the first half of the 1850s

<question> In the third period of Romanticism appeared the early poems by…
<variant> Walt Whitman

<question> What is the most characteristic feature of American Romanticism?

<variant> It played an important role in the cultural life of America

<question> Edgar Allan Poe was born in…

<variant> Boston, 1809

<question> What style of writing is famous Edgar Allan Poe for?

<variant> Dark gothic style of writing

<question> What occupation were Edgar Allan Poe’s parents?

<variant> actors

<question> What university did attend Edgar Allan Poe?

<variant> University of Virginia

<question> The significant period of 1830 year for Edgar Allan Poe
<variant> He appointed to the US Military Academy in West Point

<question> In 1833 Edgar Allan Poe won the prize. For what the short story?
<variant> MS Found in a Bottle

<question> What kind of effect does Poe want to create in his short story “The Fall
of the House of Usher”?
<variant> Poe creates the single effect of terror through the settings, characters,
and elements of the story

<question> How many children had Shakespeare?

<variant> One son and two daughters

<question> Who played in the theatre?

<variant> William Shakespeare

<question> Who wrote the tragedy “Macbeth”?

<variant> William Shakespeare

<question> What kind of genre is “Romeo and Juliet”?

<variant> Tragedy

<question> What kind of genre is “King Lear” by Shakespeare?

<variant> Tragedy

<question> What kind of genre is “The Winter’s Tale” by Shakespeare?

<variant> Romantic drama

<question> What kind of genre is “As you like it” by Shakespeare?

<variant> Romantic drama

<question> Who was as much a writer of the age of Reason of Romanticism?

<variant> Washington Irving

<question> Who was the first American writer recognized in Europe?

<variant> Washington Irving

<question> What writer was well read in Chaucer and Spencer in the 18 th century
English literature?
<variant> Washington Irving

<question> Who wrote “The Adventure of My Aunt”?

<variant> Washington Irving

<question> Who wrote “The Last of the Mohicans”?

<variant> James Fenimore Cooper

<question> Who entered Yale university at the age of 13?

<variant> James Fenimore Cooper

<question> Who became a country gentleman in Cooperstown?

<variant> James Fenimore Cooper
<question> Who wrote the novel “The Spy”, in 1821?
<variant> James Fenimore Cooper

<question> Who wrote his famous “Leather Stocking novels”?

<variant> James Fenimore Cooper

<question> Who wrote the stories about of settlers and American Indians?
<variant> James Fenimore Cooper