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1 trivia quiz  Oklahoma Literature icon
Oklahoma has certainly had its share of great literary minds. In fact, almost every genre and style has visited, at least, once. Still, Oklahoma being what it is, Oklahoma literature carries a flavor and a flare unlike that written anywhere else.
Average 10Q
135 plays
May 31 06
thaver
2 trivia quiz  An American Literature Syllabus coolicon
While writing the syllabus for my American Lit summer school class, I realized that all of these works would make an interesting Quizzyland quiz! Most information comes from "Literature and the Language Arts: The American Tradition." Enjoy!
Average 10Q
528 plays
Jul 12 07
MALibrarian gold
3 trivia quiz  American Authors icon
A quiz about famous twentieth century American novelists, dramatists and poets. I provide biographical information and some titles and you have to identify the author. Have fun.
Average 15Q
1653 plays
Jan 04 04
marienbart
4 trivia quiz  Southern Literature Classics icon
Test your knowledge of novels, poems, and authors from the American South, focusing primarily on the 20th Century.
Difficult 15Q
681 plays
Jul 03 03
rjchief
5 trivia quiz  Great American (Anti-) War Novels icon
"I sing of arms and the man..."
Tough 10Q
456 plays
Oct 12 03
misshuxley
6 trivia quiz  Serious African American Literature I icon
This quiz will take more than High School English. See how far from the reading list you've gone.
Difficult 10Q
252 plays
Dec 30 06
brandiwyne77
7 trivia quiz  American Romanticism icon
American Romanticism was as much a spiritual movement as it was a literary one. Test your knowledge of Emerson, Whitman, and Hawthorne with this tasty little quiz!
Difficult 10Q
633 plays
Dec 18 01
gypsyqueen
8 trivia quiz  Southern Literature Classics 2 icon
A second quiz on poetry and prose by great Southern authors.
Difficult 15Q
297 plays
Aug 03 03
rjchief
9 trivia quiz  Classic American Novels icon
This quiz deals with such classic American novelists as Herman Melville, Scott Fitzgerald, John Steinbeck.
Tough 10Q
1863 plays
Mar 22 02
flem-ish
10 trivia quiz  Minnesota Authors, Illustrators and Cartoonists icon
This quiz highlights some of Minnesota's famous authors, illustrators and a tribute to a very special cartoonist. Some questions may prove a little difficult.(You should know who gave us Charlie Brown, Lucy, Linus, Schroeder, Snoopy and the Peanuts Gang.
Difficult 10Q
309 plays
Jun 01 00
YOMD39

Some sample questions from this category:

* What play by the Minnesota playwright, August Wilson, won the Pulitzer Prize for his Drama in 1987 and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for an outstanding play?
* What resident of St. Paul, Minnesota was the author of the book, 'Caddie Woodlawn', which won the Newberry Medal for best children's book of the year?
* What famous Minnesota-born sculptor created the design for the Buffalo Head nickel coin which remained in production from 1913 to 1938?
* What Minnesota-born author was the first American to win the Nobel Prize for literature?
* What young author whose family farmed near Walnut Grove, Minnesota wrote a series of 'Little House' books. Her books gained additional recognition as a result of Michael Landon's TV series called, 'Little House on the Paire'?
* What author and illustrator born in New Ulm, Minnesota received the Caldecot Honor Award for two of her written and illustrated books?
* What Minnesota-born author wrote 'This Side of Paradise'?
* What Minnesota-born author won the Margaret A. Edwards Award for 'Outstanding Literature for Young Adults'?
* Modernist in style, traditionalist in content, this native Mississippian, born in 1897, situated a lot of his novels in Yoknapatawpha County. Some titels: "Absolom, Absolom!"; "As I Lay Dying" and "The Sound and the Fury". Who is this man?
* Which of these is NOT a section in Walt Whitman's 'Leaves of Grass'?
* Which of these stories did Herman Melville NOT write?
* Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote 'The Scarlet Letter'. Which is NOT usually cited as a reason that he did so?
* This former slave wrote a novel about his or her early life and was used (and misused) by abolitionists as an example of an intelligent black person.
* Where did Emily Dickinson spent almost all of her adult life?
* Not always considered writers in the American Romantic style, which two authors shared tales of supernatural phenomena and storytelling prowess that surpassed the other Romantics?
* Which was NOT a main focus of the American Romantic movement in general?
* Which of the following American Romantics made a public display of not accepting Christ?
* Whitman's poetry was received poorly by the masses, who found it sexually deviant and crude. However, one very influential man thought it brilliant, and called Whitman the poet America was waiting for. Who was it?
* What is in 'Moby Dick' the name of the tattooed cannibal whom Ishmael meets at the Spouter Inn in New Bedford and who later turns out to be an excellent friend during the quest for the white whale ?
* In Melville's Moby Dick story there is a prophecy that Captain Ahab must see two hearses at sea before he can be killed.The first 'not made by mortal man', the second 'grown in America'. Moreover it is said he can only be killed by _______________?

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