This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Regions > American Literature > American Literature – Quiz 4 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books American Literature Quiz 4 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. True/False:Writers of the time wrote about how Native Americans and Europeans viewed one another. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 2. The notoriously harsh theatre critic rarely hesitated to ..... even the most famous and respected actors. A) Pallid. B) Pallor. C) Denigrate. D) Verdant. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Denigrate. 3. The opposite of enhancing value is A) Increase. B) Diminish. C) Determine. D) Appraise. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Diminish. 4. True/False:With oral tradition, stories can become distorted and lead to multiple versions A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 5. Extremely poisonous or harmful. A) Futile. B) Virulent. C) Irk. D) Hostile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Virulent. 6. Approval; commendation A) Adamant. B) Aphorism. C) Approbation. D) Digression. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Approbation. 7. Which of the following is NOT one of the reasons people came to America? A) Work. B) Money. C) The Food. D) Religious Freedom. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Food. 8. The first people came across the Bering Straight onto the American continent from the continent of ..... A) Africa. B) Antarctica. C) Europe. D) Asia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Asia. 9. The style and structure of Sylvia Plath's early works are primarily characterized by what? A) Relatively conventional forms, structures, and rhyming. B) Purely confessional in mode, tone, and structure. C) Short and very formal writings. D) Long and relatively formal writings. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Relatively conventional forms, structures, and rhyming. 10. Putting an end to or precluding a right of action, debate, or delay specifically:not providing an opportunity to show cause why one should not comply (adj) You could tell he wanted everyone to stop what they were doing and obey his orders based on the ..... tone of his voice. A) Supercilious. B) Peremptorily. C) Interpose. D) Corroborated. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Peremptorily. 11. What was the name given to Jon Dos Passos' written style? A) Camera Eye. B) Stream of conciousness. C) Human Gaze. D) Free Indirect Style. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Camera Eye. 12. Point of view is defined as the perspective or vantage point in which a story is being told. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 13. What was the main reason Columbus kept his journal A) To describe the expedition to his patrons. B) In order to aid future mapmakers. C) To verify Spain's claims in the New World. D) To convince others he found Asia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To describe the expedition to his patrons. 14. Intended to teach a moral lesson A) Didactic. B) Nostalgic. C) Allegory. D) Vernacular. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Didactic. 15. Which author is known as the "Father of Free Verse" ? A) Walt Whitman. B) Benjamin Franklin. C) Herman Melville. D) Edgar Allan Poe. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Walt Whitman. 16. What elements of human nature are explained by The World on the Turtle's Back? A) Birds and the bees. B) Motivation for action. C) Good and bad. D) Sun and moon. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Good and bad. 17. Shocked by their cupidity is to be shocked by ..... A) Greed. B) Courage. C) Laziness. D) Treachery. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Greed. 18. Capable of being felt; easily seen, heard, or recognized A) Discursive. B) Palpable. C) Salient. D) Florid. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Palpable. 19. Identify the item that indicates the part of speech of the word "ostentatious." A) Verb. B) Noun. C) Adjective. D) Adverb. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Adjective. 20. Which era of American literature emphasized the importance of individualism, self-reliance, and the connection between nature and the divine? A) Colonial literature. B) Realism. C) Transcendentalism. D) Native American. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Transcendentalism. 21. In The History of Plymouth Plantation, the settlers consider the natives ..... A) Secret. B) Content. C) Beautiful. D) Barbarians. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Barbarians. 22. If the greek root word "pre" means before, what does a "pre-existing condition" mean? A) A medical condition that was there after diagnosis. B) A medical condition that was there before diagnosis. C) A medical condition that was created without cause. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A medical condition that was there before diagnosis. 23. Controlling idea or insight into life which the author seeks to impart through characters, plot, and all the elements working together A) Characters. B) Plot. C) Theme. D) Setting. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Theme. 24. Chaucer's rhyme scheme is famously called as A) Royal rhyme. B) Sonnet royale. C) Ode Royale. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Royal rhyme. 25. Other than Autobiography Benjamin Franklin is known for writing ..... A) Poor Richard's Almanack. B) "To the Memory of the Brave Americans". C) The American Crisis. D) "On a Honey Bee". Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Poor Richard's Almanack. 26. Identify the item that indicates the part of speech of the word "foment." A) Adjective. B) Conjunction. C) Noun. D) Verb. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Verb. 27. Who will win the Super Bowl this year? A) Vikings. B) Huron Tigers. C) Washington Warriors. D) Watertown Arrows. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Vikings. 28. A type of folk tale that features an animal or human character who typically engages in deceit, violence, and magic is a ..... A) Fable. B) Trickster tale. C) People talk. D) Myth. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Trickster tale. 29. Emotional release A) Catharsis. B) Verisimilitude. C) Existentialism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Catharsis. 30. Feeling or showing hatred. A) Hostile. B) Vivid. C) Intrigue. D) Vindictive. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hostile. 31. Dr. Joseph Morgan can be compared to a slave master because- A) He asks students if they have recited their bible verses. B) He expects the students to not be successful in learning. C) He inspects the children as if they are animals. D) He says the students need to practice having better hygiene. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He inspects the children as if they are animals. 32. Which era of American literature is known for its accurate and detailed portrayal of everyday life, often focusing on the middle class? A) Native American. B) Realism. C) Transcendentalism. D) Colonial literature. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Realism. 33. What is it called when reality is different than what appears to be true? A) Symbol. B) Dramatic Irony. C) Situational Irony. D) Verbal Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Situational Irony. 34. Essay or speech in which any topic is discussed in detail A) Epigraph. B) Exposition. C) Metonymy. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Exposition. 35. Who wrote "An Author to Her Book?" A) Phillis Wheatley. B) Anne Bradstreet. C) Judith Sargent Murray. D) Mary Rowlandson. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Anne Bradstreet. 36. Words that describe a character A) Character traits. B) Main idea. C) Mood. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Character traits. 37. Events that make the conflict worse A) Falling action. B) Rising action. C) Conflict. D) Setting. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rising action. 38. People began to rededicate themselves to the Puritan vision and a wave of religious enthusiasm arose during the ..... A) First Great Awakening. B) The Englightenment. C) The American Revolution. D) None are correct. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) First Great Awakening. 39. The Leather stocking Tales of James Fennimore Cooper was published in A) 1819. B) 1823. C) 1840. D) 1820. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1823. 40. In Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper", the Main characters husband was of what profession? A) Police Officer. B) Politician. C) Lawyer. D) Doctor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Doctor. 41. Stanza of poetry consisting of 2 lines A) Simile. B) Colloquialism. C) Couplet. D) Quatrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Couplet. 42. Expressions that do not mean literally what they say A) Understatement. B) Figurative language. C) Archetype. D) Consonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Figurative language. 43. We went to Pizza Hut last night to eat, and they were out of pizza. A) Verbal irony. B) Dramatic irony. C) Situational irony. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Situational irony. 44. The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson A) Emily Dickinson. B) Herman Melville. C) Arthur Miller. D) Jack London. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Emily Dickinson. 45. One of the main difference between Romantic tradition literature and modern short stories is A) The short stories focuses on breakups. B) The short stories focus on the thoughts and problems of real people. C) Romantic literature is not symbolic. D) Romantic literature is a real portrayal of personal lives. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The short stories focus on the thoughts and problems of real people. 46. What did the Americans establish during their stay here in the Philippines? A) Companies. B) Businesses. C) Schools. D) Hospitals. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Schools. 47. "Three months on the island is what his soul craved." A) The pit and the pendulum. B) The cop and the anthem. C) The open boat. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The cop and the anthem. 48. What chief emotions does the speaker in Bradstreet's poem express? A) Respect and admiration for her husband. B) Concern and anxiety about her marriage. C) Love for and happiness with her husband. D) Fear of death. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Love for and happiness with her husband. 49. How does Olaudah Equiano convey the horror of his journey on the slave ship? A) He criticizes the British government. B) He argues for a moral law. C) He appeals to religious faith. D) He uses sensory details. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) He uses sensory details. 50. Romantic poetry can be seen as early as 1818 with ..... 's "To a Waterfowl" . A) Edgar Allen Poe. B) William Cullen Bryant. C) Nathaniel Hawthrone. D) Herman Melville. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) William Cullen Bryant. 51. Words side-by-side that are seemingly contradictory A) Oxymoron. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Irony. D) Symbol. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Oxymoron. 52. Dull, uninteresting; tiresome; lacking sharpness and flavor A) Procrastinate. B) Bulwark. C) Politic. D) Vapid. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Vapid. 53. Comparing two things that are not alike, using words such as "like", "as", or "than" A) Metaphor. B) Allusion. C) Personification. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 54. Primary sources are written ..... A) First hand. B) Second hand. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) First hand. 55. A feature of a poem in which the last words or two lines rhyme with one another A) Mood. B) Setting. C) End rhyme. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) End rhyme. 56. A traditional story that explains how life began A) Narrative. B) Origin Myth. C) Exploration Narrative. D) Chronological Order. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Origin Myth. 57. Writing about real persons, places, and events; concerned with factual information A) Nonfiction. B) Fiction. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nonfiction. 58. Lumber industry, fishing A) West. B) Midwest. C) Northeast. D) South. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) West. 59. To make a raucous noise:to yell A) Yawp. B) Carpe diem. C) Didactic. D) Hubris. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Yawp. 60. Writing that ridicules or scorns people and things, showing their failures A) Sarcasm. B) Irony. C) Satire. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Satire. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesRegions QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesAmerican Literature Quiz 1American Literature Quiz 2American Literature Quiz 3American Literature Quiz 5American Literature Quiz 6American Literature Quiz 7American Literature Quiz 8American Literature Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books