Страноведческие тесты. The USA. Literature

 The USA. Literature

1.        Who is considered to be “The Father of American Literature”?

2.        Who wrote the story “The Old Man and the Sea”?

3.        Who was “An American Tragedy” written by?

4.        What American writer went to the Klondike during the goldrush as a gold miner?

5.        Who is known in Europe as “the American Walter Scott”?

6.        Who was the first chronicler of the English colonies?

7.        To whom did Abraham Lincoln once remark, “So you are the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war”?

8.        Who is the founder of the modern detective story?

9.        Who is the author of “Poor Richard’s Almanach”?

10.    What is the real name of Mark Twain?

11.    What is the pen-name of William Sidney Porter?

12.    Who is the author of the story “The  Luck of the Roaring Camp”?

13.    Who is the author of the novel “The Martian Chronicles”?

14.    Who is the greatest pamphlet writer of the American Revolution?

(The answers to questions)

The USA. Literature

1.        Washington Irving.

2.        Ernest Hemingway.

3.        Theodore Driser.

4.        Jack London.

5.        James Fenimore Cooper.

6.        John Smith.

7.        To Harriet Beecher Stowe.

8.        Edgar Allan Poe.

9.        Benjamin Franklin.

10.    Samuel Langhorne Clemens.

11.    O’Henry.

12.    Francis Bret Harte.

13.    Ray Bradbury.

14.    Thomas Paine.