This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Regions > American Literature > American Literature – Quiz 14 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books American Literature Quiz 14 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. While the work is praised, another of Roosevelt's interests is: A) The closure of borders. B) The international projection of the United States. C) The increase of mercantilism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The international projection of the United States. 2. Hard to please; characterized by excessive care or delicacy A) Fastidious. B) Conceit. C) Fallacious. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fastidious. 3. Able to bend or move easily. A) Scuffle. B) Ceremonial. C) Limber. D) Thicket. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Limber. 4. A character in a story who is complex and fully developed A) Flat. B) Round. C) Anti-Hero. D) Static. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Round. 5. Which era of American literature is associated with the writings and speeches about equality and freedom? A) Transcendentalism. B) Revolutionary literature. C) Native American. D) Realism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Revolutionary literature. 6. Beyond dispute, unquestionable A) Nonplussed. B) Foment. C) Encumber. D) Incontrovertible. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Incontrovertible. 7. Emerson used this literary device to allow for readers to feel, taste, smell, see, and touch the story's plot. A) Imagery. B) Diction. C) Symbolism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imagery. 8. To delay, put off until later A) Vapid. B) Hatred. C) Procrastinate. D) Abet. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Procrastinate. 9. The type of narrator addresses the reader directly using the word "you" A) Third person. B) First Person. C) Second Person. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Second Person. 10. Romanticsrejected rational thought because they believed: A) Logical thought was not possible. B) Science was not fully developed. C) No respected writers were rationalists. D) Imagination and emotion yielded higher truths. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Imagination and emotion yielded higher truths. 11. To persuade through the use of emotion A) Pathos. B) Logos. C) Ethos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pathos. 12. What American democracy means A) "A Creed for Americans". B) "The Flag Goes By". C) "America for Me". D) "What is An American?". Show Answer Correct Answer: A) "A Creed for Americans". 13. Which type of writing is NOT fabricated and tells a story about REAL people and events? A) Novel. B) Drama. C) Nonfiction. D) Fantasy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nonfiction. 14. A slippery slope fallacy ..... A) Occurs when someone takes another person's argument or point, distorts it or exaggerates it in some kind of extreme way, and then attacks the extreme distortion,. B) Occurs when someone makes a claim about a series of events that would lead to one major event, usually a bad event. C) Is also sometimes called the appeal to common belief or appeal to the masses because it's all about getting people to do or think something because "everyone else is doing it" or "everything else thinks this.". D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Occurs when someone makes a claim about a series of events that would lead to one major event, usually a bad event. 15. What is a predicate nominative? A) An adjective that describes the subject. B) A noun, pronoun, or group of words that tells who or what receives the action of the verb. C) A noun or pronoun that identifies the subject. D) A group of words with a subject and a predicate. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A noun or pronoun that identifies the subject. 16. The book "Rise from Slavery" belongs to: A) Booker T. Washington. B) W.E.B. DuBois. C) Charles W. Chesnutt. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Booker T. Washington. 17. Consider this scenario:You get the argumentative prompt and can't decide which side to take. What should you do? A) Eenie meenie minie moe. B) Just pick one. Really, who cares?. C) Pick the one that seems easiest to support with the articles. D) Write about something entirely off topic. Who cares about Mrs. Hogan's psychological wellbeing?. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pick the one that seems easiest to support with the articles. 18. Of all the creatures that inhabit the oceans, whales are by far the mightiest ..... of the deep. A) Pernicious. B) Denizen. C) Dowdy. D) Palpable. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Denizen. 19. Written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure. A) Anecdote. B) Abject. C) Aspirated. D) Prose. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Prose. 20. Extremely delicate and light in a way that seems too perfect for this world A) Ethereal. B) Foreshadowing. C) Metaphor. D) Paradox. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ethereal. 21. Asian immigrants A) Northeast. B) West. C) South. D) Midwest. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) West. 22. What is an independent clause? A) A person, place, thing, or idea. B) A word that shows direction or location. C) Cannot stand alone as a sentence, is missing a subject or verb. D) Can stand alone as a sentence, expresses a complete thought. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Can stand alone as a sentence, expresses a complete thought. 23. Highly colored, reddish A) Florid. B) Discursive. C) Salient. D) Sear. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Florid. 24. Quentin's ..... was a sure sign that he had led a very sheltered life. A) Pallid. B) Viridity. C) Candor. D) Livid. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Viridity. 25. Who was the lazy husband who slept for 20 years? A) Francis Hopkinson. B) Judah Gardener. C) Rip Van Winkle. D) Washington Irving. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rip Van Winkle. 26. ..... is another word for feathers. A) Buzzard. B) Plumage. C) Turkey. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Plumage. 27. Children sometimes exhibit a(n) ..... aptitude for chess and even become recognized masters before they reach their teens. A) Infirmity. B) Criterion. C) Expatiate. D) Precocious. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Precocious. 28. The actress' ..... gold gown was the talk of all the celebrities at the awards ceremony last night. A) Verdure. B) Incandescent. C) Candid. D) Livid. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Incandescent. 29. Prudent, shrewdly conceived; expedient A) Politic. B) Bulwark. C) Vapid. D) Procrastinate. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Politic. 30. A politic decision is also a..... decision A) Prudent. B) Recent. C) Rash. D) Disastrous. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Prudent. 31. The sullen, defeatist attitude displayed by a few of the players had a ..... effect on the whole team's morale. A) Dowdy. B) Foist. C) Satiate. D) Pernicious. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pernicious. 32. To engage in mining in the West, men made certain commitments: A) Bring their entire families. B) Leave your women and comforts. C) Install public services in mining camps. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Leave your women and comforts. 33. Define TETRAMETER. A) A line of poetry that includes four metrical feet. B) A line in verse or poetry that has five strong metrical feet or beats. C) Contains six feet and usually utilizes a combination of dactyls and spondees. D) Used to refer to a metrical foot that contains two unstressed syllables. The foot is less common today than it was in classical Greek poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A line of poetry that includes four metrical feet. 34. Part or to' ri us A) En' thrall. B) This same' i nate. C) Of fa' ble. D) An no' ta tion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) This same' i nate. 35. Wrote "The Unerring Instinct" A) O Henry. B) Thornton Wilder. C) Mark Twain. D) Sarah Orne Jewett. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Thornton Wilder. 36. Identify the item that indicates the part of speech of the word "specious." A) Noun. B) They tend. C) Conjunction. D) Adjective. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Adjective. 37. If you call someone a barbarian, it's not polite, and it also means you probably don't think that person if A) Hungry. B) Thirsty. C) Full. D) Civilized. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Civilized. 38. Unutterable, indescribable A) Ineffable. B) Gestation. C) Cunningly. D) Clammy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ineffable. 39. Twentieth century american literature is marked by A) Humanism and imagism. B) Humanism and formalism. C) Humanism and naturalism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Humanism and naturalism. 40. A man tries to get arrested for the winder A) The Pit and the Pendulum. B) The Unerring Instinct. C) The Cop and the Anthem. D) The Town Poor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Cop and the Anthem. 41. The first State where women could vote was: A) Utah. B) North Carolina. C) Wyoming. D) South Carolina. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Wyoming. 42. Once our natural reserves of oil and gas are ....., they can never be replenished. A) Tortured. B) Infirmed. C) Depleted. D) Expatiated. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Depleted. 43. Who wrote "What Is An American" ? A) William Bartram. B) Noah Webster. C) Washington Irving. D) Hector St. John de Crevecoeur. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hector St. John de Crevecoeur. 44. Expresses a person's thoughts and feelings in a poem. Elegies, odes, and sonnets. A) Narrative poems. B) Blank verse. C) Lyric poetry. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lyric poetry. 45. This literary period expressed a lack of emphasis and dependence on the Bible and more use of logic and science. A) Revolutionary/The Enlightenment Period. B) Neoclassical Period. C) Native American Period. D) Puritan/Early Colonial Period. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Revolutionary/The Enlightenment Period. 46. Wrote The Scarlet Letter A) Nathaniel Hawthorne. B) Stephen Crane. C) Thornton Wilder. D) Edgar Allen Poe. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nathaniel Hawthorne. 47. Which rhetorical device uses a comparison to something very different to help someone understand a larger idea? A) Parallelism. B) Repetition. C) Restatement. D) Analogy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Analogy. 48. Attendance:You arrived after the tardy bell, what should you do? A) Go straight to my seat and get ready to engage in learning. B) Sign the tardy log before picking up materials, sitting down, and engaging in learning. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sign the tardy log before picking up materials, sitting down, and engaging in learning. 49. Dismissal:Who or what dismisses the class? A) Ms. McElwee. B) The bell. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ms. McElwee. 50. Is the poem " ..... upon the Burning of Our House" more focused on FAITH AND GOD or SCIENCE AND REASON? A) It was focused on faith and God.(Puritanism). B) It was focused on science and reason.(Rationalism). Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It was focused on faith and God.(Puritanism). 51. ..... means:The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or phrases A) Anaphora. B) Epistrophe. C) Antithesis. D) Parallelism tagsliterary device. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anaphora. 52. A third person narrative that the narrator tells the events from the perspective of one specific character, focusing on this character's thought and feelings. A) Third Person Ominiscient. B) Third Person Limited. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Third Person Limited. 53. In "The American Ideal", the proposal is: A) Imitate European production models. B) Applaud the achievements of emerging countries. C) Develop strategic alliances with Europe. D) Highlight a spirit of nation in all areas. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Highlight a spirit of nation in all areas. 54. An appreciation for the flag A) "The Flag Goes By". B) "America for Me". C) "What is An American?". D) "A Creed for Americans". Show Answer Correct Answer: A) "The Flag Goes By". 55. In the story, the father allows himself to be abandoned voluntarily. A) Falso. B) TRUE. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) TRUE. 56. The "get rich quick" theme originated in the days of the A) Happiness. B) Dead. C) Gold-rush. D) Jazz Age. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Gold-rush. 57. I could see from the grim look on my boss's face that "never" would undoubtedly be the most opportune time to ..... the ticklish subject of a raise. A) Callow. B) Contingent. C) Broach. D) Gap. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Broach. 58. The protagonist is the narrator A) Limited POV. B) Omniscient POV. C) Objective POV. D) First person POV. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) First person POV. 59. Which of these animals successfully brought up some dirt to place on the turtle's back A) The muskrat. B) The fish. C) The beaver. D) The swan. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The muskrat. 60. When did the American civil war end? A) 1879. B) 1865. C) 1861. D) 1870. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1865. ← 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