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American Literature Quiz 12 (60 MCQs)

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1. Infer the meaning of this quote, " I was not there, yet I was there.
2. Assessments:What should you do if you miss an assessment?
3. Define BENEFICIARY
4. When should you only cite ONE of the articles you are provided?
5. A novel written by using a series of letters to tell the story
6. Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Paine write for different purposes, but both writers .....
7. That world of misery, that lake of burning brimstone, is extended abroad under you.
8. Character who makes a judgment error that inevitably leads to his/her own destruction
9. Karl was ..... to learn that the beautiful old museum was going to be replaced by a shopping mall.
10. What is a predicate adjective?
11. Willing to follow advice, tractable, submissive; responsive
12. The emotion that the writer puts into the story is called the ..... ? .....
13. Simon Schama describes the American frontier in the c19th as .....
14. Who is the Romantic author who is depicted as "The Gothic Great" ?
15. Thou ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain, / Who after birth didst by my side remain / Till snatched from thence by friends, less wise than true / Who thee abroad, exposed to public view,
16. First American short story writer
17. Precise; thorough
18. Define DEFERENTIAL
19. Though the solution seemed simple, it had been arrived at through a(n) ..... process of trial and error.
20. "The Tortoise and the Hare" is an example of what type of literature?
21. This author wrote a diary about the Pilgrims who came to this country on the Mayflower.
22. Narrative, lyric, and free-verse poems as well as sonnets, odes, ballads, and epics.
23. The tensions leading to the Revolutionary War were caused by many factors, but one of the most concrete tipping points that finally spurred the colonists to take actions was .....
24. Famous for something bad
25. These explain how some groups felt about nature and their land.
26. Which literature movement was Jack London working in?
27. What is the direct object in this sentence?:Ms. Atkinson plays golf.
28. Repetition of entire lines of poetry
29. Identify the item that indicates the part of speech of the word "berate."
30. In the stories in the "Risk vs. Reward" unit, brothers were often used to show .....
31. What does the narrator of "Everyday Use" mean by saying that Dee would prefer her to have "skin like an uncooked barley pancake" ?
32. William Bradford (The History of Plymouth Plantation) was chosen as ..... of Plymouth Colony.
33. Desiring revenge.
34. Who was the governor of Plymouth for 31 years that also wrote Of Plymouth Plantation?
35. Convincing someone of the character or credibility of the persuade
36. A literary tone used to ridicule or make fun of human vice or weakness, with the intent of correcting, or changing the subject of the attack
37. The Georgia Milestones Test is also called an end of course test (EOC)
38. Cotton Mathers is well-known with his involvement in the Salem Witch Trials. Although he was not actually at the trials, he was (and is) accused of what?
39. Sermons, Speeches, Autobiographies
40. The opposite of sadistic practices is
41. The turtle myth shows the importance the Onondaga placed on
42. What is the name of the process that Krakauer and his group mates go through before moving higher up on the mountain?
43. Romanticism focused mostly on
44. The reader is TOLD what a character is like
45. Andres Jackson was:
46. Exposed and barren and often windswept; not hopeful or encourage:DEPRESSING (adj) The ..... landscape, with its barren fields and gray skies, gave me a feeling of hopelessness.
47. "A little later, he came back on and rasped in a slow, horribly ..... voice, "Hi sweetheart. I hope you're tucked up in a nice warm bed. How are you doing?""
48. Abnormal, unusual
49. What oratorical technique is not found in Franklin's speech?
50. Read the sentences. As an avid runner, I cannot imagine how I would successfully cope with life's challenges if I were not able to go running. Going running helps me to clear my mind of stressful thoughts. What is the BEST way to combine the sentences to maintain their detail while avoiding repetition?
51. From reading "The Earth on Turtle's Back, " you can tell that the Onondaga value certain things in culture. Which of these items to they value?
52. To weigh down or burden; to fill up, block, hinder
53. The opposite of a prosaic composition is a ..... composition
54. The opposite of heresy is
55. In which Washington Irving book does the short story "Rip Van Winkle" appear?
56. What is a word that modifies a noun?
57. Who wrote the "Common Sense" and "The American Crisis" ?
58. The reason why Washington agreed to "compromise" with the former bosses is that:
59. Which of the following is NOT a literary manifestation of the Literature of Exploration?
60. There was a proud and very profane young man, one of the seamen, of a lusty, able body, which made him the more haughty; he would always be contemning the poor people in their sickness, and cursing them daily with grievous execrations, and did not let to tell them, that he hoped to help cast half of them overboard before they came to their journey's end, ..... But it pleased God before they came half seas over, to smite this young man with a grievous disease, of which he died in a desperate manner, and so was himself the first that was thrown overboard.
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