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American Literature Quiz 1 (60 MCQs)

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1. In which city does the St.Clare live?
2. What is Augustine St. Clare's selfish wife's name?
3. What was the original title of Hemingway's novel The Old Man and the Sea?
4. Henry David Thoreau lived for a while.....
5. Miniver scorned the gold he sought. Here gold refers to
6. What does the narrator of the story about Rip describe as the great error in Rip's composition?
7. How does St. Clare die?
8. Abslom, Absalom is a novel written by
9. Which of the following is NOT a feature of the Enlightenment?
10. Apess concludes his piece by:
11. What statement below best sums up the literary significance of John Saffin?
12. In which state is the Shelby farm located?
13. This checkmark diagram represents the plot structure for what genre of early American writing?
14. Who wrote "The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock" ?
15. About John Smith
16. What statement below best sums up the literary significance of Thoreau?
17. Who has been teaching Uncle Tom to read?
18. About Cotton Mather
19. What does Topsy steal?
20. In addition to driving the family coach, what other responsibility do the St. Clare assign Uncle Tom?
21. What statement below best sums up the literary significance of John Winthrop?
22. When did Hemingway receive the Nobel Prize for Literature?
23. "Uncle Tom's Cabin" as a literary work exposed the evils of.....
24. Who wrote Mending wall?
25. All of the following are traits demonstrated by the hero except?
26. What is Mrs. Shelby's first name?
27. A diary of someone's day by day account of events
28. Thoreau places a sense of..... Upon the ants
29. From where does Eliza cross into Cananda?
30. Whitman uses line length and word choice to represent
31. How do the Shelby's treat their slaves?
32. "An Indian's Looking Glass for the White Man" illustrates what genre of early American writing?
33. What type of myth is the tale "The Jealous Uncle" ?
34. What story tells how Squanto taught the settler to grow corn, procure commodities and fish?
35. American Civil War was fought in
36. Miniver Cheevy's name satirically hints at his
37. Which statement best describes literary significance of William APess?
38. Which of Upton Sinclair's books is about the meat-packing industry?
39. This person was captured by Native Americans but saved by Pocahontas
40. The tone of the third stanza of the poem embodies a sense of
41. Why was the book "Uncle Tom's Cabin" written?
42. The process of passing on sayings, songs and tales.
43. About William Bradford
44. Which statement below best paraphrases what John Winthrop meant when he declared that the MBC would be as a "city upon a hill" ?
45. The cloud-spirits peeped from their silvery islands, as the congregated mirth went roaring up the sky! The Man in the Moon heard the far bellow. "Oho, " quoth he, "the old earth is frolicsome to-night!" This is:
46. Name the ship that brought the first Pilgrims to the New World
47. Native Son (1940) is written by
48. HOWhich of the following themes or ideas are closely associated with the Native American way of life?
49. Whom does St. Clare give to Ophelia to educate?
50. What was the purpose of the Mayflower Compact?
51. Which statement below best defined Whitman's idea of Oversoul?
52. Why does Henry David Thoreau write his book "Walden" ?
53. Which of the following describes the pre-colonial era's literature styles?
54. Themes in colonial time period:
55. A factual account of the development of a people, nation, institution or culture
56. Usher can only stand types of noises in his acutely uncomfortable state. The narrator describes a number of impromptus that Usher plays for him on which instrument?
57. The first part of American History dwells of the .....
58. Where does Tom first meet Eva?
59. What statement below best sums up the literary significance of William Bradford?
60. This mode of discourse relates a story
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