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unit one quiz
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Iroquois (Pre- Columbian / Oral Tradition) | "The Earth on Turtle's Back" |
| Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672) | "Here Follow Some Verses Upon the Burning of Our House" |
| Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) | The Autobiography & Poor Richard's Almanack |
| Philips Wheatley (c. 1753-1784) | "On Being Brought to America from Africa" |
| Robert Burns (1759-1796) SCottish | "Ballad of John Barleycorn" |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) | "Nature" & "Self-Reliance" |
| Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) | Walden & "Civil Disobedience" |
| Walt WHitman (1819-1892) | "Song of Myself," "I Hear America SInging," & "O, Captain, My Captain" |
| Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) | "Hope is the thing with Feathers" "Success is counted sweetest" "Because I could not stop for death" "I heard a fly buzz when I died" |
| Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) | "sympathy" |
| Robert Frost (1874-1963) | "The road not taken" "nothing gold can stay" |
| Langston Hughes(1901-1967) | "I, too" "'harlem" |
| Dudley Randall (1914-2000) | "Ballad of Birmingham" |
| Dylan Thomas(1914-1953) (Not American) | "Do not go gentle into that good night" |
| Maya Angelou (1928-2014) | "I know why the caged bird sings" |
| John Updike (1932-2009) | _Ex-basketball player" |
| Mary Oliver )1935-2019) | "wild geese" & "The summer day" |
| Joy Harjo (1951-present) | "New Orleans" |