This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Regions > American > American Literature – Quiz 2 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books American Literature Quiz 2 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Whom does Mr.Haley choose from among Shelby's slaves? A) Eliza and Harry. B) Uncle Tom and Cassy. C) Uncle Tom and Eliza. D) Uncle Tom and Harry. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Uncle Tom and Harry. 2. Bret Harte's "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" took place in..... A) The Sierra Madre Mountains. B) The Rocky Mountains. C) The Sierra Nevada Mountains. D) The Appalachian Mountains. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Sierra Nevada Mountains. 3. The Puritans who settled Plymouth Colony were separating Puritans which meant? A) Continue being apart of the Church of England. B) Reform. C) Separate from the Church of England. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Separate from the Church of England. 4. What was one theme in the period of independence? A) National identity. B) Political conflicts. C) Urban and european vs indigenous and rural. D) All the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All the above. 5. Which member of the corn clan could not overlook the wrondoings of the rest of the clan? A) The priest's son. B) The chief's son. C) The youngest member. D) The oldest member. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The priest's son. 6. What did John Smith write? A) Jason and Isolde. B) General History of Virginia. C) Declaration of Independence. D) Journal of an Expedition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) General History of Virginia. 7. What statement below best sums up the literary significance of Walt Whitman? A) Father of free verse. B) Father of American Poetry. C) Circumference. D) Both A and B. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Both A and B. 8. What statement below best sums up the literary significance of Nathaniel Hawthorne? A) Popular early nosiest. B) Romantisum. C) Scarlett letter. D) All are correct. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All are correct. 9. Who "haunts" the evil Simon Legree when he is drunk? A) George. B) Uncle Tom. C) Eliza. D) Cassy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cassy. 10. Which American President reportedly referred to Harriet Beecher Stowe as "the little lady who made this big war" ? A) John. F. Kennedy. B) John Adams. C) George Washington. D) Abraham Lincoln. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Abraham Lincoln. 11. About the Iroquois A) Dekonawidah planted the Tree of Great Peace. B) Powerful enemy of the Delaware tribe. C) The tribe drafted a constitution to define the governance of their society. D) All the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All the above. 12. The house of this Puritan poet burned down A) Eliza Snow. B) Elizabeth Browning. C) Anne Bradstreet. D) George Elliot. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Anne Bradstreet. 13. The lesson the young man teaches Dorothy is A) To hide here emotion. B) To live and enjoy her life. C) To fight with people. D) Not to lodge a complaint. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To live and enjoy her life. 14. This author wrote of the Pilgrims' voyage to the New World A) William Bradford. B) William Holden. C) Nelson Holden. D) Bradford Nelson. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) William Bradford. 15. To Whom does Franklin say he is addressing his autobiography part 1? A) His son, William. B) Indians. C) His son, john. D) Himself. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) His son, William. 16. What animal is personified as the trickster in the Winnebago tale? A) Snake. B) Hare. C) Coyote. D) Bear. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hare. 17. Which is one of the five tenants of Puritanism? A) Unconditional love. B) Total equality. C) Individualism. D) Irresistible grace. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Irresistible grace. 18. Which of Washington Irving's characters falls asleep for twenty years? A) Philip Marlowe. B) Tom Buchanan. C) Tom Joad. D) Rip van Winkle. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rip van Winkle. 19. "Gradually light returns to the street" means A) Life is unpredictable. B) Streets are bright. C) It is day break. D) Life resumes to normal routine. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Life resumes to normal routine. 20. Who wrote "Barn burning" ? A) Rober Lee frost. B) Eugene O' Neil's. C) Tennesse Williams. D) William Faulkner's. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) William Faulkner's. 21. This term refers to the "feeling" of a word A) Constitution. B) Connotation. C) Connection. D) Description. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Connotation. 22. During the Colonial Time Period, the writing was influenced most by what religious persuasion? A) The Anglo Saxons. B) The Catholics. C) The Pilgrims. D) The Puritans. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Puritans. 23. Which of the following is NOT a rhetorical purpose of "An Indian' Looking Glass for the White Man" ? A) Critic the way white people's society treats people of color wrong. B) Making peace. C) Working together. D) Both B and C. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Both B and C. 24. Thoreau scales humans down to the size of ants in order to..... A) Examine the aggressive, dominating and stupid nature of human warfare. B) Create a very vivid and impressive picture. C) Shows his real intentions in writing. D) Portray humans allegorically. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Examine the aggressive, dominating and stupid nature of human warfare. 25. Define trickster tale. A) Giving human qualities to animals or objects. B) The struggle found in fiction. C) A recurrent thematic element in an artistic or literary work. D) A story about a mischievous, supernatural being. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A story about a mischievous, supernatural being. 26. He wrote a journal about his expedition in northern Florida A) Vasco de Gama. B) Johnathan Edwards. C) Cortez. D) De Vaca. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) De Vaca. 27. The change TV brought into the society can be summed up as A) Condensed life to the screen. B) Creating indifference to realities of life. C) Bringing reality before them. D) Life turning more attractive. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Creating indifference to realities of life. 28. ..... gave a hint of the rich culture that was forgotten A) Narratives captivity. B) The influence of the missionaries in lives of the Indians. C) Reported speech poems. D) The life of the Indians. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Reported speech poems. 29. Which of the following is true about the target audience for John Saffin's pamphlet? A) White public of Plymouth. B) Native Americans. C) White public of Massachusetts. D) African Americans. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) White public of Massachusetts. 30. Which of the following animals seem to represent strength and courage for the Eskimos? A) Horse. B) Fox. C) Eagle. D) Deer. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Eagle. 31. This mode of discourse is used to explain. (Example: repair manuals) A) Connotation. B) Exposition. C) Constitution. D) Convocation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Exposition. 32. Who is NOT considered to be a representative of the Southern Renaissance? A) T.S.Eliot. B) Robert Penn Warren. C) William Faulkner. D) Tennessee Williams. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) T.S.Eliot. 33. Themes in modern literature are: A) Pretension. B) Nostalgia. C) National identity. D) All the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All the above. 34. What does the narrator find at the end of the journey? A) Field and works. B) Crusted snow and dead leaves. C) Hills and highways. D) All are sleeping. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Crusted snow and dead leaves. 35. How old is Emmeline? A) Thirteen. B) Fifteen. C) Ten. D) Seventeen. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fifteen. 36. According to the myth, which of the following are likely hunting preparation rituals that the Winnebago perform? A) Burning tobacco as an offering. B) Singing songs. C) Entering into a trance to commune with the spirits of the natural world. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 37. The founder of Jamestown A) John Smith. B) Johnathon Edwards. C) John Stillwell. D) John Stelzer. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) John Smith. 38. Who says "Earth is the right place for love" A) Silvia plath. B) Langston Hughes. C) Wallace Stevens. D) Robert Frost. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Robert Frost. 39. Parker's report to Margaret is A) Straightforward and simple. B) Complex and heart wrenching. C) Simple and heartwarming. D) Painful and disgustingly low. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simple and heartwarming. 40. According to the tale, what horrible crime did the ucle commit? A) He killed all of the old people. B) He killed all of the female children. C) He killed all of the male children. D) He killed all of the women. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He killed all of the male children. 41. All works of the highest art are meant to..... A) Instill in us the sense of the art. B) Tingle our senses. C) Stir our intellect. D) Restore our skills for the art. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stir our intellect. 42. Before humans were sold as commodities, what item was highly sought after in West Africa? A) Diamonds. B) Land. C) Gold. D) Gasoline. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Gold. 43. What does George Shelby give Uncle Tom to wear on a string around his neck before Tom is taken away? A) A dollar. B) A locket. C) A crucifix. D) A ring. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A dollar. 44. But when a Boy, and Barefoot I more than once at Noon Have passed, I thought, a Whip lash Unbraiding in the Sun The speaker of this poem is..... A) A boy. B) A communist. C) An alien. D) A girl. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A boy. 45. This group of Native Americans left behind a legend about creation using pictographs A) Delaware. B) Apache. C) Sioux. D) Inuit. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Delaware. 46. This group of Native Americans believed that corn was crucial to creation. A) Utes. B) Cherokee. C) Navajo. D) Teton. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Navajo. 47. Who is Sharp-elbow? A) A genrous village chief who is known for his kindness. B) Hare's grandfather. C) A god who protects and guides Hare on his many adventures. D) A tyrannical village chief who is known for his elbow blades. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A tyrannical village chief who is known for his elbow blades. 48. What statement below best sums up the literary significance of Benjamin Franklin? A) Mentor to other writers. B) Rewrote the autobiography. C) Self-made and. D) Both B and C. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Both B and C. 49. In Saul Bellow's novel Herzog (1964), Moses Herzog is a A) Jew. B) Afro-American. C) Christian. D) Hindu. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Jew. 50. What does Eva's father promise her before she dies? A) That he will adopt Topsy. B) That he will remarry. C) That he will free Uncle Tom. D) That he will try to find Harry. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) That he will free Uncle Tom. 51. This is the implied comparison between two dissimilar things A) History. B) Myth. C) Tradition. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 52. Bear is supposed to be brave, so how does Hare trick him into being afraid? A) Hare told him of a large beast living near Bear's home. B) Hare took out his quiver and showed him four arrows. C) Hare told thim that the country is full of wars. D) Hare threated to kill him. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hare took out his quiver and showed him four arrows. 53. Thoreau was part of the Transcendalists, which were founded by..... A) Ralph Waldo Emerson. B) Walt Whitman. C) Mark Twain. D) Herman Melville. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ralph Waldo Emerson. 54. We associate William Bradford with what colonial settlement? A) Plymouth. B) Mayflower compact. C) Massachusetts Bay Colony. D) Rhode Island. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Plymouth. 55. What statement below best sums up the literary significance of Samuel Sewall? A) Anti-Slavery. B) Pro Slavery. C) Father of American Liteature. D) Father of american poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anti-Slavery. 56. What invention won George Harris the respect of his factory's proprietor? A) A hemp twines. B) A cotton ginning machine. C) A hemp cleaning machine. D) A bread slicing machine. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A hemp cleaning machine. 57. Which American poet is hailed as the representative poet of America? A) Robert Frost. B) R. W. Emerson. C) Walt Whitman. D) Edgar Allen Poe. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Walt Whitman. 58. Who wrote Heritage? A) Countiee cullen. B) William Faulkner. C) T.S. Eliot. D) Wallace stevens. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Countiee cullen. 59. Monadnock on his forehead hoar Doth seal the sacred trust, Your mountains build their monument, Though ye destroy their dust. What is the meaning of the word "hoar" ? A) Scarred. B) Ancient or venerable. C) Wrinkled with age. D) Grey or white with age. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Grey or white with age. 60. The farmer drove his plough-share deep "Whose bones are these? " said he, "I find them where my browsing sheep Roam o'er the upland lea." What does "lea" mean? Veldu eitt: A) Rocky land. B) Bridge. C) Plain or plateau. D) Meadow or pastureland. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Meadow or pastureland. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesRegions QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesAmerican Literature Quiz 1American Literature Quiz 3American Literature Quiz 4American Literature Quiz 5 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books