This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Regions > American Literature > American Literature – Quiz 10 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books American Literature Quiz 10 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The ..... shown him by his neighbors after the robbery touched him dearly. A) Acquiesce. B) Inordinate. C) Infinitesimal. D) Solicitude. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Solicitude. 2. An example of this includes iambic pentameter A) Mood. B) Rhythm. C) Metaphor. D) Setting. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhythm. 3. Suddenly reject or abandon (a lover) A) Audacity. B) Hypodermic. C) Repose. D) Jilt. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Jilt. 4. Which era of American literature is characterized by a focus on individualism, intuition, and the belief in the inherent goodness of people and nature? A) Transcendentalism. B) Native American. C) Colonial literature. D) Realism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Transcendentalism. 5. Put this medicine on your arm and rub it into your skin until it's invisible. It will inhibit the infection's attempt tospread.What does "inhibit" mean? A) Live in a certain place. B) Help to do something important. C) Itch or burn. D) Block or slow down. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Block or slow down. 6. The predicate of a sentence tells us what the subject is or does. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 7. Pertaining to under the skin A) Ineffable. B) Hypodermic. C) Scantling. D) Gestate. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hypodermic. 8. A Long Day's Journey into Night A) Flannery O'Connor. B) J.D. Salinger. C) Henry Roth. D) Eugene O'Neill. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Eugene O'Neill. 9. Which of these statements best describes Dos Passos' attitudes towards American cities? A) Despite their architectural and cultural innovation they dehumanised and disenfranchised many inhabitants. B) Despite the decision to proceed with prohibition they were hotbeds of crime. C) They were environments which hampered financial progress on account of the way the buildings were tall. D) They were extraordinary places where spiritual happiness could be achieved. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Despite their architectural and cultural innovation they dehumanised and disenfranchised many inhabitants. 10. Miseries are things that are A) Difficult. B) Uncomfortable. C) Unpleasant. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 11. The opposite of a scintillating performance is a ..... performance A) Unprecedented. B) Brilliant. C) Vapid. D) Educational. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Vapid. 12. It is an object, character or idea used to represent something else. A) Classic. B) Tone. C) Dialogue. D) Symbol. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Symbol. 13. What type of poem is "Because I Could Not Stop for Death" ? A) Sonnet. B) Limerick. C) Ballad. D) Lyric. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lyric. 14. What did Krakauer realize about Beck Weathers? A) He was an outspoken Democrat. B) He was anxious and arrogant. C) He was tough and exuberant. D) He was having a midlife crisis. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He was tough and exuberant. 15. The collection of poems titled, Leaves of Grass was written by ..... A) Emily Dickinson. B) Mark Twain. C) Walt Whitmn. D) Edith Wharton. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Walt Whitmn. 16. Strife resulting from lack of agreement; dissension A) Manifest. B) Cogent. C) Embroil. D) Discord. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Discord. 17. Unpleasantly damp and sticky or slimy to touch A) Supplant. B) Hypodermic. C) Sovereignty. D) Clammy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Clammy. 18. In 3rd person limited, you get to know the thoughts and feelings of ..... A) 1 character. B) 2 characters. C) None of the characters. D) All of the characters. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1 character. 19. Which logical fallacy's definition is "an attempt to support a statement by simply repeating the statement in a different way?" A) Red Herring. B) Loaded Question. C) Circular Reasoning. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Circular Reasoning. 20. Which novel expressed romantic ideas about the relationship between men and nature? A) The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. B) The Sketchbook. C) Last of the Mohicans. D) To a Waterfowl. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Last of the Mohicans. 21. What purpose does a thesis serve? A) Is a "road map" to the rest of the essay; tells the reader what to expect. B) Gains the reader's attention with a question, statistic, or anecdote. C) Gives examples from the text. D) Cites the sources. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Is a "road map" to the rest of the essay; tells the reader what to expect. 22. (adj.) rising (adj.) dominant, important or influent (n.) position or state of being dominant or in control A) Dignitary. B) Ascendant. C) Aspirated. D) Perilously. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ascendant. 23. True or false:Sarah Kemble Knight's journal is studied because her experiences and behavior were unusual for a woman of her class and time? A) True. B) False. C) Definitely neither . D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 24. Traditional verse in poetry that usually rhymes A) Prose. B) Free form. C) Fix form. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fix form. 25. What is the predicate nominative in this sentence?:Lauryn is a dancer. A) Lauryn. B) A. C) Dancer. D) Is. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dancer. 26. Who died at the end of "The Open Boat" A) The cook. B) The oiler. C) The captain. D) The correspondent. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The oiler. 27. A place of residence A) Domicile. B) Pittance. C) Gamut. D) Acquiesce. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Domicile. 28. What provided the model for Puritan writing? A) The Bible. B) "Some Lines Upon the Burning of Our House". C) Poor Richard's Almanac. D) The Declaration of Independence. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Bible. 29. Displaying passionate intensity or enthusiasm; very hot:GLOWING (adj) She felt the ..... heat of the mid-morning sun sting the skin of her arms when she got to the beach. A) Banter. B) Corroborated. C) Effeminate. D) Fervent. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Fervent. 30. To abstain; shun; avoid A) Outline. B) Juxtapose. C) Ambiguity. D) Eschew. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Eschew. 31. Technique of narrating an event that occurred before the point in the story to which the narrator has advanced A) Flashback. B) Foreshadowing. C) Archetype. D) Bildungsroman. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Flashback. 32. How many books did James Fenimore Cooper publish in his entire lifetime? A) 40. B) 48. C) 58. D) 25. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 40. 33. Who was the protagonist of "Pursuit of Happyness" ? A) Chris Gardner. B) Will Smith. C) Dean Witter. D) Richard Gardner. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Chris Gardner. 34. Defiant behavior; boldness. A) Snickers. B) Tactful. C) Brazzeness. D) Exalt. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Brazzeness. 35. A SENTIENT has the power of ..... A) Perception of the sciences. B) Perception of the energy. C) Perception of the senses. D) Perception of the heart. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Perception of the senses. 36. Story where the main character goes through a series of trials leading to a final catastrophe which is cause by the character's own flaw or flaws A) Satire. B) Crucible. C) Tragedy. D) Paradox. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tragedy. 37. To enlarge; to make something appear greater A) Apathy. B) Aggrandize. C) Assuage. D) To man. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Aggrandize. 38. A verb that connects a word back to the subject A) Transitive. B) Intransitive. C) Linking. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Linking. 39. True or False:A passive voice verb is generally intransitive A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 40. Capable of affecting or influencing everything A) Wane. B) Pervasive. C) Sardonic. D) Surmount. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pervasive. 41. What famous political leader wrote an autobiography? A) George Washington. B) Benjamin Franklin. C) John Adams. D) Thomas Jefferson. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Benjamin Franklin. 42. Who wrote Nature? A) Henry David Thoreau. B) Ralph Waldo Emerson. C) Herman Melville. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ralph Waldo Emerson. 43. If your car is damaged when someone backs into it in the parking lot, fair recompense would be for the drive who hit your car to A) Sing the "I'm Sorry" song 122 times. B) Pay to have your car fixed with their insurance. C) Bake you a pie. D) Do nothing at all. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pay to have your car fixed with their insurance. 44. Which type of essay requires you to provide requested information? A) Informative. B) Argumentative. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Informative. 45. Bless Me, Ultima A) Stephen Crane. B) John Hersey. C) Jack Kerouac. D) Rodolfo Anaya. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rodolfo Anaya. 46. Which group believed writing should be a tool to help readers understand the Bible and guide their lives? A) Native Americans. B) The Enlightenists. C) The Revolutionists. D) Puritans. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Puritans. 47. The Catcher in the Rye A) Mark Twain. B) Thomas Pynchon. C) J.D. Salinger. D) Harriet Beecher Stowe. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) J.D. Salinger. 48. Scott Fischer's climbing clients are much more experienced mountain climbers than Rob Hall's climbing clients. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 49. To contrive a plan means all of the following EXCEPT: A) Concoct a plan. B) Think-up a plan. C) Change a plan. D) Fabricate a plan. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Change a plan. 50. Patrick knew that Juliette was sick when he saw the young girl's ..... face. A) Pallid. B) Pallor. C) Candid. D) Candor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pallid. 51. What is the tone of the speaker in "Because I Could Not Stop for Death" ? A) Fearful. B) Bored. C) Angry. D) Nostalgic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fearful. 52. Use of informal words or slang A) Colloquialism. B) Persona. C) Conceit. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Colloquialism. 53. Histories, journals, personal poems, and sermons were popular during this literary period. A) Puritan/Early Colonial Period. B) Enlightenment Period. C) Neoclassical period. D) Native American Period. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Puritan/Early Colonial Period. 54. What is a two-way process where cultures meet and exchange ideas, beliefs, and cultural practices? A) Acculturation. B) Culture Appreciation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Acculturation. 55. What was the main for migration to the US in the c20th? A) The Dawes Act. B) House prices in New York and Chicago. C) High wages in the cities. D) The Jazz Age. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) High wages in the cities. 56. What was Elizabeth Ashbridge (1713-1755) most known for? A) She was one of the first female poets of the late seventeenth century. B) She was one of the first female authors of the early eighteenth century. C) Her spiritual autobiography "Some Account of the Fore Part of the Life of Elizabeth Ashbridge". D) She was one of the first poets of the early eighteenth century. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Her spiritual autobiography "Some Account of the Fore Part of the Life of Elizabeth Ashbridge". 57. A snide, partly suppressed laugh, often expressing disrespect. A) Snickers. B) Dutiful. C) Plague. D) Tactful. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Snickers. 58. Whichof these is not acharacteristic of Gothic Romanticism? A) Interest in the supernatural. B) Interest in psychology. C) People driven to madness. D) Interest in industrial advancements. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Interest in industrial advancements. 59. Who was the daughter of the man who slept for 20 years? A) Lady Van Winkle. B) Maria von Trapp. C) Angela Valica. D) Judith Gardener. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Judith Gardener. 60. A substantive that follows another substantive and explains or identifies it A) Antecedent. B) Appositive. C) Transitive. D) Substantive. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Appositive. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesRegions QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesAmerican Literature Quiz 1American Literature Quiz 2American Literature Quiz 3American Literature Quiz 4American Literature Quiz 5American Literature Quiz 6American Literature Quiz 7American Literature Quiz 8 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books