American Romanticism The Who's and What's of American Romanticism Quiz

Q. Which genre is a big part of American Romanticism?

The epic

The novel

The ode

Tragedy

Q. Who wrote the essay "Nature"?

Henry David Thoreau

Walt Whitman

Ralph Waldo Emerson

James Fenimore Cooper

Q. Who wrote Leaves of Grass?

Emily Dickinson

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Walt Whitman

Edgar Allan Poe

Q. What does the scarlet letter in Nathanial Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter stand for?

Adulteress

Atheist

Agnostic

Apple

Q. Who lived in the woods of Massachusetts and wrote a book called Walden about the experience?

Herman Melville

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Henry David Thoreau

Ralph Waldo Emerson