This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Regions > American Literature > American Literature – Quiz 16 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books American Literature Quiz 16 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. In "Everyday Use, " what do the details indicate was the cause of Maggie's scars? A) She was injured in a car accident. B) She was burned in a house fire. C) She was badly scratched in a childhood fight with Dee. D) She cut herself badly while making quilts. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) She was burned in a house fire. 2. What characteristics do the novels Sister Carrie and The Job share? A) They depict the changing social conditions facing women at the beginning of the c20th. B) They present failures in family relationships. C) They reveal the tough working conditions facing migrants to America in the early c20th. D) They keep it real, y'all. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They depict the changing social conditions facing women at the beginning of the c20th. 3. Liberty without unity promotes self-interest A) "America Was Schoolmasters". B) "The Flag Goes By". C) "A Jingle of Words. D) "Liberty and Union". Show Answer Correct Answer: D) "Liberty and Union". 4. Toni Morrison's "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge broke ground for being the first revolutionary war-age poem written by a woman. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 5. Define CHARACTERIZATION. A) A literary device used in plays and novels to introduce light entertainment between tragic scenes. B) A long narrative poem that is elevated and dignified in theme, tone, and style. C) A literary device that is used step-by-step in literature to highlight and explain the details of a character in a story. D) A literary device featuring a "speech" made by a single character in a work of literature or dramatic work (for theater or film). Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A literary device that is used step-by-step in literature to highlight and explain the details of a character in a story. 6. In "Experience, " Ralph Waldo Emerson writes that "Divinity is behind our: A) Dependence and devotion. B) Failures and follies". C) Mistakes and misjudgements". D) Peace and prosperity". Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Failures and follies". 7. Unyielding; impenetrable; unbreakable A) Adamant. B) Aesthetic. C) Affable. D) Authoritative. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Adamant. 8. The quality or state of being marked by high spirits (n) Winning the championship filled the team with a sense of ..... A) Elation. B) Spectacles. C) Sauntered. D) Peremptorily. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Elation. 9. What are the dates for Colonialism in America? A) 1800-1850. B) 1607-1750. C) 1900-1920. D) 1750-1850. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1607-1750. 10. Placing the elements of a sentence out of order A) Inversion. B) Puritan Plain Style. C) Archetype. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Inversion. 11. When did the European Romantic movement reach America? A) 19th century. B) Early 19th century. C) 20th century. D) Late 19th century. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Early 19th century. 12. Helicopters can rescue stranded hikers at the summit of Mt. Everest. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 13. Was stricken blind after finding the Great Carbuncle A) Cynic. B) Poet. C) Lord de Very. D) Seeker. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cynic. 14. What is a dependent clause? A) It cannot stand alone as a sentence, and needs to be attached to an independent clause. B) Expresses a complete thought and can stand alone as a sentence. C) A word that describes a noun. D) A person, place, thing, or idea. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It cannot stand alone as a sentence, and needs to be attached to an independent clause. 15. Examples of this term include mysterious or cheerful. A) Mood. B) Rhythm. C) End rhyme. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mood. 16. Repetition of consonant sounds before and after vowels A) Alliteration. B) Consonance. C) Assonance. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Consonance. 17. Define COMPULSORY A) Unintentional. B) The entire range. C) An inhabitant; resident. D) Required; mandatory. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Required; mandatory. 18. A desolate place has a lot of people and many signs of life A) MAYBE. B) TRUE. C) FALSE. D) WHO KNOWS. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) FALSE. 19. In "Nature, " Ralph Waldo Emerson says that "Beauty is the mark God sets upon: A) Nature. B) Truth. C) Faith. D) Virtue. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Virtue. 20. How many people arrived in the US between 1900-1910? A) 6.8 million. B) 8.2 million. C) 11.2 million. D) 10 million. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 8.2 million. 21. "I have a dream" speech is a famous speech that uses what literary device? A) Perpendicularism. B) Visualization of dreams. C) Metrical device. D) Parallelism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Parallelism. 22. The study of word origins A) Etymology. B) Symbolism. C) Allegory. D) Stream-of-consciousness. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Etymology. 23. An obdurate pessimist is A) Spiteful. B) Obstinate. C) Elderly. D) Stoical. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Obstinate. 24. Saying the opposite of what is meant A) Dramatic irony. B) Verbal irony. C) Satire. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Verbal irony. 25. A story told within a story A) Epistolary Novel. B) In medias res. C) Frame story. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Frame story. 26. True or False:Wheatley was only 12 when she published her first collection of poems. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 27. An imitation of a particular writer, artist or a genre, exaggerating it for humor A) Parody. B) Pathos. C) Parable. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Parody. 28. The General History of Virginia and Of Plymouth Plantation are both examples of this A) Slave Narratives. B) Journals. C) Myths. D) Historical Narratives. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Historical Narratives. 29. At a time when people began to worry that Puritan values were being lost; Jonathon Edwards called for people to rededicate themselves to the original Puritan vision-NAME THAT TIME! A) Enlightenment. B) Great Awake. C) Great Awakening. D) Renaissance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Great Awakening. 30. To make oneself accept. A) Snickers. B) Exalt. C) Resign. D) Brazenness. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Resign. 31. We wear the mask that grins and lies, It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes, This debt we pay to human guile;With torn and bleeding hearts we smile What does the mask symbolize? A) A disguise. B) Hidden emotion. C) Grins and lies. D) A covering for all or part of the face,. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hidden emotion. 32. Who wrote the novel The Sound and The Fury? A) Edward Albee. B) Eugene O'Neill. C) William Wordsworth. D) William Faulkner. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) William Faulkner. 33. What is a thesis in literature? A) A thesis is a statement or theory that is put forward as a main or central idea of the text. B) A thesis is a statement in a non-fiction or a fiction work that a writer intends to support and prove. They provide clear indicators as to which direction the writer will follow in their work. C) A thesis is body of ideas and methods we use in the practical reading of literature. D) The thesis serves as the subject of a paragraph, essay, report, or speech. It may be expressed as a topic sentence in a paragraph or a thesis statement in an essay, report, speech, or research paper. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A thesis is a statement in a non-fiction or a fiction work that a writer intends to support and prove. They provide clear indicators as to which direction the writer will follow in their work. 34. Pre-Colonial writing that focuses on nature, origin myths, and spirituality A) American Indian Writing. B) Explore and settler narratives. C) The Puritans. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) American Indian Writing. 35. "The American is a new man, who acts upon new principles; he must therefore entertain new ideas and form new opinions" A) What is an American?. B) An Escape from Alligators. C) Rip Van Winkle. D) The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) What is an American?. 36. William Bradford is responsible for writing what text? A) Bay Psalm book. B) Of Plymouth Rock. C) The Scarlet Letter. D) The Crucible. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Of Plymouth Rock. 37. Amenable to the proposal is A) Responsive to. B) Related to. C) Suspicious of. D) Hostile to. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Responsive to. 38. One way we sustain ourselves, or support our bodies and give us the nourishment we need is ..... A) We eat healthy food. B) We drink water. C) We get rest. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 39. Most slaves had been taken from their homes in West Africa by slave traders. After enduring the horrors of the " ..... " the long sea voyage across the Atlantic, they reached the slave markets of the Americas. A) Bering Strait. B) Middle Passage. C) Southern Hemisphere. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Middle Passage. 40. True or False:On an argumentative essay, it's fine to agree with both sides A) True:that's the way life is, right?. B) False:choose a side you can support. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False:choose a side you can support. 41. Who wrote Letters from an American Farmer Letter III" ? A) Thomas Paine. B) J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur. C) Benjamin Franklin. D) Thomas Jefferson. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur. 42. Carrie's trip showed that: A) He is innocent and very simply dressed. B) It has little appeal to strangers. C) He knows how to be influential in his words. D) It can be completely autonomous of itself. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He is innocent and very simply dressed. 43. Define EPISTROPHE. A) Terminology that relates to a specific activity, profession or group. B) The repetition of the same word or words at the end of successive phrases, clauses or sentences. C) An irrelevant topic introduced in an argument to divert the attention of listeners or readers from the original use. D) Credibility or an ethical appeal which involves persuasion by the character involved. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The repetition of the same word or words at the end of successive phrases, clauses or sentences. 44. What focus of regionalism made it different from other realist writers? A) Regional dialect/speech. B) Regional customs, beliefs. C) Regional landscape. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 45. To elicit a response means to: A) Explain. B) Reject. C) Draw out. D) Deny. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Draw out. 46. Which of the following is written correctly? A) "To My Dear and Loving Husband". B) To My Dear and Loving Husband. C) To My Dear and Loving Husband. D) "to my dear and loving husband". Show Answer Correct Answer: A) "To My Dear and Loving Husband". 47. In "The Origin of Plumage, " the turkey buzzard originally chooses the more ..... feathers. A) Content. B) Lazy. C) Secret. D) Beautiful. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Beautiful. 48. Poetry without a set rhyme scheme or rhythm A) Quatrain. B) Couplet. C) Free Verse. D) Ballad. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Free Verse. 49. That horse is so ..... that even expert riders cannot control him, no matter how hard they try. A) Fractious. B) Mitigate. C) Sedentary. D) Remonstrate. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fractious. 50. The ..... traveler stopped at the inn for the night. A) Scrupulous. B) Remiss. C) Wary. D) Tenacious. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Wary. 51. Who wrote "A Model of Christian Charity" ? A) John Smith. B) Thomas Paine. C) John Winthrop. D) William Bradford. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) John Winthrop. 52. A source without a direct connection to the person or event being studied ..... newspaper report biography encyclopedia textbook A) Primary source. B) Secondary source. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Secondary source. 53. Define LITIGATION. A) Having varied uses or many functions. B) A fearful state; a state of hesitation or concern. C) Appealing to the intellect or powers of reasoning. D) The conduct of a lawsuit. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The conduct of a lawsuit. 54. In Kate Chopin's "The Storm", Bibi was: A) Calixta's husband. B) Calixta's son. C) Calixta's old boyfriend. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Calixta's son. 55. Writing characterized by short words and direct statements A) Puritan plain style. B) Slave narrative. C) Historical narrative. D) Myth. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Puritan plain style. 56. One who does not understand the full significance of the events he/she describes or comments on A) Static character. B) Tragic hero. C) Unreliable narrator. D) Dynamic character. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Unreliable narrator. 57. In punishing the grizzlies, the Chief of the Sky Spirit shows A) Compassion. B) Human qualities. C) Godlike wisdom. D) Fairness and objectivity. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Human qualities. 58. The United States has a vast amount of newly discovered clean geothermal (natural heat from the Earth's crust) energy.Tapping into this energy source could provide at least 10 times the energy that can be obtained from the nation's knowncoal reserves.17. What does "vast" mean? A) A large amount. B) Not enough. C) Dangerous. D) Having no known use. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A large amount. 59. An all-knowing narrator tells the story, using third person pronouns andfocusing on many or all characters rather than just one A) Omniscient POV. B) Objective POV. C) First Person. D) Speaker. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Omniscient POV. 60. To clear from blame or responsibility A) Incisive. B) Winsome. C) Absolve. D) Implicit. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Absolve. ← 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