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American Literature Assignment, this assignment must be done on the spot with in a time period of 2 hours sometime next week.  Let me know your time zone.  There are 10 multiple-choice questions and 4 essay question prompts (each number offers options) in a minimum of one full paragraph each (most will require more).
Questions will be on stories and information found in “The Norton Anthology: American Lierature, Shorter Eighth Edition.”

The assigned reading (which the questions will be based off of includes the following:

Read “Beginnings to 1700” pp. 3-19, for background on both Europeans and Native Americans during the Age of Discovery

• “Native American Oral Literature”; “The Iroquois Creation Story,” pp. 20-23; “Pima Stories of the Beginning of the World,” available online with a google search (try: http://againstamericangrain.wordpress.com/2012/02/02/pima-stories-of-the-beginning-of-the-world-the-story-of-creation/ ).
• Christopher Columbus: Bio, pp. 24, and “Letter to Luis de Santangel,” pp. 25-26, and “Letter to Ferdinand and Isabella Regarding the Fourth Voyage,” pp. 26-28
• William Bradford: Bio, pp. 72-73, and selections from “Of Plymouth Plantation,” pp. 74-90
• Read “American Literature, 1700-1820,” pp. 157-169, for background about the shift from the Age of Faith to the Age of Reason
• Jonathan Edwards: Bio, pp. 177-178, and “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” pp. 209-222
• Benjamin Franklin: Bio, pp. 236-236, and selections from pp. 244-308: “The Way to Wealth,” “Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America,” and “The Autobiography”

Read “American Literature: 1820-1865,” pp. 445-465, and note the timeline, “Texts and Contexts”

o        Washington Irving: Bio: pp. 467-468, and “Rip Van Winkle,” pp. 470-482

o        Ralph Waldo Emerson: Bio, pp. 505-508, and “Self-Reliance,” pp. 549-566

o        Nathaniel Hawthorne: Bio, pp. 603-606, and either “Young Goodman Brown,” pp. 619-628 or “The Birth-Mark,” pp. 645-656

o        Edgar Allan Poe: Bio, pp. 683-687, and “The Tell-Tale Heart,” pp. 714-718

o        Walt Whitman: Bio, pp. 1005-1009, and selections from “Inscriptions” and “Song of Myself,” pp. 1024-1067, “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer” and “Beat! Beat! Drums!” pp. 1078-1080

o        Emily Dickinson: Bio, pp. 1189-1193, and selections from Poems

o        Read “American Literature: 1865-1914,” pp. 1265-1281, and note the Timeline, “Texts and Contexts,”

o        Kate Chopin: Bio, pp. 1604-1605 and “Desiree’s Baby” pp.1605-1609

o        Charles Chesnutt: Bio, pp. 1641-1642 and “The Wife of His Youth” pp. 1649-1657

o        Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Bio, pp. 1668-1669 and “The Yellow Wallpaper,” pp. 1669-1681

o        W. E. B. Du Bois: Bio, pp. 1715-1716, and “Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others,” pp. 1722-1731

o        Jack London: Bio, pp. 1811-1812, and “To Build a Fire,” pp. 1812-1823

• Read “Realism and Naturalism,” pp. 1732-1733, for Darwin’s influence on American letters in the late

o        Robert Frost: Bio, pp. 1911-1912, and  “The Road Not Taken,” p. 1919-1920,  and “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” p. 1923

o        Susan Glaspell: Bio, p. 1926-1927, and “Trifles,” pp. 1927-1936

o        Carl Sandburg: Bio, pp. 1947-1948, and “Chicago,” “Fog,” and “Grass,” pp. 1948-1950

o        T.S. Eliot: Bio, pp.2003-2006 and “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” pp. 2006-2009

o        Zora Neale Hurston: Bio, 2123-2124 and “The Gilded Six Bits,” pp. 2127-2135

o        F. Scott Fitzgerald: Bio, pp. 2147-2149 and “Babylon Revisited,” pp. 2164-2178

o        William Faulkner: Bio, pp. 2178-2181, and “Barn Burning,” pp. 2188-2200

o        Ernest Hemingway: Bio, pp. 2203-2205, and “The Snows of Kilimanjaro,” pp. 2205-2221

• Langston Hughes: Bio, pp. 2221-2222, and selections from his poetry, pp. 2222-2229

Read “American Literature since 1945,” pp. 2255-2269, and note the timeline, “Texts and Contexts,”

• James Baldwin: Bio, pp. 2511, and “Going to Meet the Man,” pp. 2512-2523
• Flannery O’ Connor: Bio, pp. 2523-2524, and “Good Country People,” pp. 2523-2537
• Toni Morrison: Bio, pp. 2585-2587, and “Recitatif,” pp. 2587-2600
• Sylvia Plath: Bio, pp. 2600-2602, and “Lady Lazarus,” pp. 2602-2604, and “Daddy,” pp. 2605-2607
• Louise Erdrich: Bio, pp. 2779-2780, and “Fleur,” pp. 2783-2792
• Julia Alvarez: Bio: p.2753, and “Yo!,” pp. 2754-2761
• Sherman Alexie: Bio, 2829-2830, and selected readings, pp.2830-2833
• Jhumpa Lahiri: Bio, pp. 2833-2834, and “Sexy,” pp. 2834-2849

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