This test will follow the same format as all other unit exams: multiple choice.

THE COLONIAL PERIOD

The Native Americans--------bullet # 1

John smith----------------------the last bullet

William Bradford-------------6^th bullet

John Wintrrop-----------------the last bullet

Anne Bradstreet---------------5^th bullet

Mary Rowlandson------------the last bullet

Samuel Sewall----------------4^th bullet

Mary Easty--------------------the second bullet

Edward Taylor----------------3^rd bullet

Cotton Mather----------------4^th bullet

St. Jean de Crevecoeur------8^th bullet

Know the five characteristics of this period (God is harsh and judgmental; we don’t need change; nature is wild and untamed; faith is the key to perfection; man is totally depraved

THE REVOLUTIONARY PERIOD

Jonathan Edwards-----------# 9

Benjamin Franklin-----------# 5

Thomas Paine----------------# 7

Thomas Jefferson------------# 1

Phillis Wheatley-------------# 6

Olaudah Equiano------------# 5

Philip Freneau---------------# 4

The five characteristics: God is good and gentle; change is inevitable; nature is bountiful and beautiful; reason is the key to perfection; man is capable of perfection

THE ROMANTIC PERIOD

Washington Irving----------bullet 2

James Fennimore Cooper—bullet1

William Cullen Bryant------bullet 5

Ralph Waldo Emerson------the first sentence after his name

Elizabeth Peabody-----------bullet 4

Elizabeth Cady Stanton-----bullet 1

Sojourner Truth--------------bullet 3

Henry David Thoreau-------bullet 3

Edgar Allen Poe-------------first sentences following his name

Nathaniel Hawthorne-------his themes consist of …(use those listed)

Herman Melville------------his themes consist of …(again, those listed)

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow---------the last bullet

John Greenleaf Whittier-----------------bullet 6

Oliver Wendell Holmes-----------------bullet 6

Harriet Beecher Stowe------------------bullet 5

James Russell Lowell-------------------bullet 7

Fireside Poets----------------------------first sentence

The characteristics: Love of nature; love of imagination; love of common man; love of national past; love of remote

What is distinctly American about American literature? Native Americans; Setting up democratic government; religious freedom; taming the wilderness; women’s rights, etc.