Can You Pass This American Literature Quiz from 1911?
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The following questions were compiled from a collection of New York Regents exams and published in book format in 1911 for teachers to use as review material with their students. This particular quiz draws on questions about American authors and literature. How many can you answer correctly?
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146 Comments
Pat Wells
8/9 Great quiz--thank you.
Alan Conyard
8/9. Quite good for a Brit. Thanks for answers.
cdowdy aks
100%! A challenging quiz to include Answers!🌹
mikeyparry
4 / 9. I don’t know much about American literature! I am British! Also, I was thrown by the questions referring to George Washington and Abraham Lincoln! Surely they were around before 1911 in the 18th and 19th centuries!
Gill Brown
3. All guesses didn’t know any - I’m in UK too !!!
Allison Aspden
25/9 Challenging quiz.
Allison Aspden
7/9. Challenging quiz. I am a Aussie!
lordnaylor
2 correct I am British
skclary
7/9! Not too bad for guessing!
lls
Dianna Hattori, I did the same!
mikeyparry
3 / 9. Obviously I know little about American literature! I might have learned something here!
Dianna Hattori
8/9. Missed William Cullen Bryant. I thought of William Jennings Bryant.