How to Teach American Literature: Student Review Questions and Tests

By Elizabeth McCallum Marlow

To the Teacher

The following review questions and tests are designed to be used in conjunction with How to Teach American Literature: A Practical Teaching Guide. All review questions and tests are included in the teaching guide and reproduced in this booklet with answers omitted.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: Feb 19, 2018
• ISBN: 9781973614043

Elizabeth McCallum Marlow

Elizabeth McCallum Marlow (M.A., University of Houston) taught high school and college English for thirty-five years. Elizabeth has compiled this anthology because poetry, especially devotional poetry, is becoming outdated and enjoyed by few readers. Elizabeth compiled this collection of poems and hymn lyrics in order to keep Christian poetry alive for generations of readers. She has written of a series of textbooks for high school literature teachers that cover British, American, world, and introductory literature courses. She is co-author of The Book Tree: A Christian Reference for Children's Literature, a guide that helps young people find books they enjoy and that cultivates a life-long habit of reading. You may contact Elizabeth at www.teachclassiclit.com.

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Contents

Review questions on Puritan writers

Review questions on Enlightenment writers

Review questions on Bryant, Longfellow, Whittier, Holmes, Lowell, and Poe’s poetry

Review questions on Henry David Thoreau

Review questions on The Scarlet Letter

Review questions on Whitman and Dickinson’s poetry

Review questions on Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Review questions on Bierce, Jewett, London, and Crane’s fiction

Review questions on The Great Gatsby

Review questions on The Old Man and the Sea

Review questions on Frost’s poetry

Review questions on T. S. Eliot’s poetry

Review questions on The Glass Menagerie

Review questions on modern and contemporary short fiction

Review questions on modern and contemporary poetry excluding Frost and Eliot

Puritan Literature Test

Enlightenment Literature Test

Romantic Poetry Test

Whitman and Dickinson Poetry Test

Regional and Naturalist Short Fiction Test

The Great Gatsby Test

Test on the poetry of Robert Frost and T. S. Eliot

Modern and Contemporary Short Fiction Test

Modern and Contemporary Poetry Test (excluding Frost and Eliot)

To the Teacher

The following review questions and tests are designed to be used in conjunction with How to Teach American Literature: A Practical Teaching Guide. All review questions and tests are included in the teaching guide and reproduced in this booklet with answers omitted.

Review questions

Copy and distribute a set of review questions to your class. Students break into small groups and refer to their