American Literature Quiz

Our online History of American Literature quizzes provide adult, college, school and homeschool students with the opportunity to test their knowledge and understanding of the development of American writing from the birth of a national literature to the influence of technological and social changes in the 20th century, and the life, times, and literary works of four of the greatest American writers: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, and Ernest Hemingway.

Each quiz provides 20 questions that change each time you take the quiz. See your quiz score upon completing each quiz, and then email your results to yourself. Review your wrong answers and learn and understand why they were wrong.

• Literature > The History Of American Literature 
• The Literature of the Colonies and The Revolution Quiz (3 topics)
• The Literature of a Nation Divided and The American Renaissance Quiz (3 topics)
• After The Great War and The Lost Generations Many Voices Quiz (2 topics)
• Power and Alienation and Into The Eighties Quiz (2 topics)
• The Time Life and Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne Quiz (1 topics)
• The Time Life and Works of Henry David Thoreau Quiz (2 topics)
• The Time Life and Works of Walt Whitman Quiz (2 topics)
• The Time Life and Works of Ernest Hemingway Quiz (1 topics)