Early 1800s American Lit - Part 1

Question 1

Satire of historians by the fictional author “Dietrich Knickerbocker” but really by Washington Irving

Answer 1

A History of New York

Question 2

Famous short story and essay collection by Washington Irving, containing his two best known works

Answer 2

The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon

Question 3

Washington Irving story where the title character drinks from a dwarf’s keg with his dog Wolf and then falls asleep in the Catskill Mountains for 20 years - Inspired by German folk story of Peter Klaus

Answer 3

Rip Van Winkle

Question 4

Washington Irving story where schoolmaster Ichabod Crane is scared away from his lover Katrina Van Tassel by rival Brom Bones dressed up as a headless horseman

Answer 4

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Question 5

Collection of essays, sketches, and stories by Washington Irving made during a trip to a certain Spanish area

Answer 5

Tales of the Alhambra

Question 6

Washington Irving work cataloging his experiences adventuring in the frontier for 30 days

Answer 6

A Tour of the Prairies

Question 7

Long-time editor of the New York Evening Post who wrote the poem considering death, Thanatopsis

Answer 7

William Cullen Bryant

Question 8

Book in Cooper’s Leatherstocking Series set in Templeton New York, Natty Bumppo is punished of killing dear while Elizabeth Temple marries Edward Effingham, settling the question of Judge Temple’s lands

Answer 8

The Pioneers

Question 9

Most famous work in Cooper’s Leatherstocking Series, Alice and Cora Munro try to reunite with their father at Fort William Henry. They are opposed by Magua and the Hurons, but they are aided by Delaware tribe leader Chingachgook, his son Uncas, and Hawkeye (who is Natty Bumppo).

Answer 9

Last of the Mohicans

Question 10

Work in Cooper’s Leatherstocking Series where an old Natty Bumppo dies, mostly following the rugged immigrant squatter Ishamel Bush and his wife Esther

Answer 10

The Prairie

Question 11

Work in Cooper’s Leatherstocking Series where Natty Bumppo (called the title sobriquet in this novel) dumps Mabel Dunham after learning she loves Jasper Western. One of the rare times Natty is shown in love.

Answer 11

The Pathfinder

Question 12

Pretty famous work in Cooper’s Leatherstocking Series set in Lake Otsego - Natty Bumppo and Hurry Harry March fight Hurons, while Judith Hunter fails to attract Natty.

Answer 12

The Deerslayer

Question 13

Historical novel about American Revolutionary hero John Paul Jones, by James Fenimore Cooper. One of the earliest works of Nautical fiction in America.

Answer 13

The Pilot: A Tale of the Sea

Question 14

Historical novel partially inspired by John Jay, subtitled “ A Tale of the Neutral Ground,” by Cooper

Answer 14

The Spy

Question 15

Collection of manuscripts narrated by the title person, dramatizing the rent crisis in New York, by Cooper

Answer 15

Littlepage Manuscripts

Question 16

Famous epic poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow about the title Acadian girl’s quest to reunite with her long lost love Gabriel, set during the historical Expulsion of the Acadians. Deep story of love, heartbreak, and hope.

Gabriel and the title character reunite finally in Philadelphia, where the title character is a nurse.

Answer 16

Evangeline

Question 17

Most famous epic poem by Longfellow, about the title Ojibwe Indian’s raising by his grandmother Nokomis (daughter of the moon), his mother Wenonah’s seduction by the West-Wind, and the tragedy of his love for the woman Minnehaha.

Answer 17

The Song of Hiawatha

Question 18

Perhaps partially true story by Longfellow about the title shy Mayflower passenger who tells John Alden to woo Priscilla Mullins for him, but with Priscilla ending up marrying John with the title character’s blessing.

Answer 18

The Courtship of Miles Standish

Question 19

Poem by Longfellow about his childhood in Portland Maine

Answer 19

My Lost Youth

Question 20

Poem by Longfellow about “a mighty man” working “under the chestnut tree”

Answer 20

The Village Blacksmith

Question 21

Poem by Longfellow about kids playing at dusk, including “Grave Alice, and laughing Allegra, And Edith with golden hair.”

Answer 21

The Children’s Hour

Question 22

Collection of poems by Longfellow depicting people at the title location in Sudbury MA, includes the famed Paul Revere’s Ride and the Saga of King Olaf, a story about the building of a large ship for a Norwegian king

Answer 22

Tales of a Wayside Inn