This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Regions > American > American Literature – Quiz 3 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books American Literature Quiz 3 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Who is the central character in Hemingway's novel The Old Man and the Sea? A) Santiago. B) Marlin. C) Mandolin. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Santiago. 2. How many children does Uncle Tom have? A) Five. B) Three. C) One. D) Seven. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Three. 3. Bartolome de Las Casas wrote A) The devastation of the indies. B) Flower and song. C) A Very Old Man with Enormous wings. D) Hopscotch. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The devastation of the indies. 4. Which of the following is a true statement about Romanticism? A) Interest in the common man. B) Celebration of the individual. C) Age of reason. D) Both A and B. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Both A and B. 5. This is the title of a famous Puritan sermon A) A Bird in the Hand. B) Hands of Satan. C) Sinners in the Hand . D) Sins of the World. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sinners in the Hand . 6. In which state was "Uncle Tom's Cabin" written? A) Ohio. B) Georgia. C) Massachusetts. D) Maine. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Maine. 7. Why do we call Ralph Waldo Emerson the "Father of American Literature" ? A) First native american to publish life writing. B) Mentor to other writers. C) Literary Maverick. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mentor to other writers. 8. Jack London's "To Build a Fire" contained foreshadowing, which means..... A) It took place at nightfall. B) It was a moody and spooky story. C) It contained clues to events yet to happen. D) It had descriptions of shadows in the woods. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It contained clues to events yet to happen. 9. What term describes Cassy's racial heritage? A) Mulatto. B) Octoroon. C) Hectoroon. D) Quadroon. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mulatto. 10. Which of the following is NOT a feature of the Indian autobiography genre? A) Birth. B) Religious in nature. C) Assimilation. D) Sovereignty. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sovereignty. 11. Which one is a great patriotic poem by Frost? A) Mending Wall. B) Birches. C) The Gift Outright. D) Directive. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Gift Outright. 12. The "Cycle of American Literature" was written by? A) Ralph Waldo Emerson. B) Gustave Falubert. C) Robert E. Spiller. D) Thoruau. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Robert E. Spiller. 13. The emagery in the poem is A) Mystical. B) Deterministic. C) Supernatural. D) Naturalistics. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Naturalistics. 14. ..... is the end of fame A) Death. B) Love. C) Misfortune. D) Pity. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pity. 15. The website address for our class is..... A) Www.gatecseit.in. B) [email protected]. C) [email protected]. D) [email protected]. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Www.gatecseit.in. 16. Thoreau believed that if a government was unjust, people need to resist the government. This is called..... A) Mutiny. B) Resisting arrest. C) Following orders. D) Civil disobedience. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Civil disobedience. 17. Which of the following is NOT among the 13 virtues Franklin struggles to master? A) Temperance. B) Silence. C) Order. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) None of the above. 18. This Puritan author wrote a persuasive speech A) Johnathan Edwards. B) William Bradstreet. C) John Williams. D) Mather Edwards. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Johnathan Edwards. 19. About the Delaware A) Used pictographs to explain nature. B) Told the story of Wolam Olum. C) Settled in Northeast US. D) All the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All the above. 20. William Bradford's Of Plymouth Plantation exemplifies what genre of early American writing? A) Free verse poem. B) Journal. C) Slave narrative. D) Spiritual diary. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Spiritual diary. 21. This mode of discourse attempts to convince someone A) Prejudice. B) Promotion. C) Persuasion. D) Promise. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Persuasion. 22. Who wrote The sound and the furry? A) Eugene O' Neil's. B) William Faulkner. C) Robert Lee frost. D) Countee Cullen. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) William Faulkner. 23. On this explorer's quest for gold, the guide mislead them to Texas A) Coronado. B) Columbus. C) Magellan. D) Houston. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Coronado. 24. Berryman's The Ball Poem can be categorised as a A) Fragmental poem. B) Metaphorical poem. C) Confessional poem. D) Delusional poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Confessional poem. 25. What writing describes the death of two settlers at the hands of 300 bowmen? A) Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves. B) Walum Olum. C) Beowulf. D) General History of Virginia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) General History of Virginia. 26. This Puritan author wrote about the Salem witch trials A) Cotton Mather. B) Annie Bradford. C) Terry Pratchett. D) Owen Edwards. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cotton Mather. 27. Which of the following best defines the Enlightenment movement? A) Celebration of individual. B) Political thinking. C) Age of reason. D) Philosophical movment. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Age of reason. 28. Frost's poem The Road Not Taken is included in his poetical collection- A) North of Boston. B) A Witness Tree. C) Mountain Interval. D) A Boy's Will. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mountain Interval. 29. The black language holds great importance for the ..... A) Black community in America. B) Identity of Blacks in The United States. C) Survival and continuation of the Black community. D) Restoration of a language. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Survival and continuation of the Black community. 30. How does Eliza cross the Ohio river? A) Hopping rafts of ice. B) On a makeshift raft. C) In a stolen canoe. D) By ferry. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hopping rafts of ice. 31. Which of these is NOT a rhetorical purpose of the Spiritual Diary Genre? A) Finding spiritual meaning. B) Critic slavery. C) Defend Slavery. D) Both B and C. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Both B and C. 32. When did william Faulkner get nobel prize for literature? A) D-1938. B) C-1945. C) A-1941. D) B-1949. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) B-1949. 33. To which country do George and Eliza plan to immigrate? A) France. B) Liberia. C) Nigeria. D) Algeria. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Liberia. 34. The first stanza of the poem provides an idea that it is A) A deterministic poem. B) A metaphysical poem. C) Not a happy story. D) A revenge story. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Not a happy story. 35. Pre-colonial theme: A) Religious stories. B) Creation stories. C) A and B. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A and B. 36. During the Revolutionary time period, what great document was written? A) The first romance novel. B) Confessional poetry. C) The Heiner Papers. D) The Declaration of Independence. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Declaration of Independence. 37. This person wrote about a island that he called Colba, now known as Cuba A) De Vaca. B) Coronado. C) John Smith. D) Columbus. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Columbus. 38. The narrator returns home during the A) Spring. B) Winter. C) Fall. D) Summer. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Winter. 39. Black Boy is an autobiographical account of whose Southern boyhood? A) Thomas. B) Pynchon. C) John Dos Passos. D) Saul Bellow. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pynchon. 40. Maria Steward believe that black woman are crucial to the uplift of black Americans. Why? A) They have the power to fix things themselves. B) Men are more powerful. C) Both are correct. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They have the power to fix things themselves. 41. About the Navajo A) Settled in Northeastern US. B) Kept the Navajo Origin Legend through oral tradition. C) Believed that corn was crucial to creation. D) B and C. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) B and C. 42. " I hear my being dance from ear to ear" . Here ear to ear refers to A) A round about way of telling things. B) A heart warming smile. C) Listening through an ear and pass it off through the other. D) A complete experience. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A complete experience. 43. What statement below best sums up the literary significance of Frederick Douglass? A) Father of American poetry. B) Indian Autobiography. C) Father of free verse. D) Most popular slave narrative. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Most popular slave narrative. 44. John Winthrop's "A Model of Christian Charity" illustrates what genre of early American writing? A) Sermon. B) Romanticism. C) Transcendtalism. D) Both B and C. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sermon. 45. What ritual does the character resembling the devil attempt to perform in the woods, with goodman Brown as the object? A) A christening. B) A wedding. C) A conversion. D) A baptism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A baptism. 46. Why did Bradford and the Pilgrims create Plymouth Colony? A) For the land. B) Sovereignty to establish godly kingdom as they saw fit. C) Religious practice of the Church of England. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sovereignty to establish godly kingdom as they saw fit. 47. Abraham Lincoln: the war Years A) T.S. Elliot. B) Carl Sandburg. C) William Faulkner. D) Wallace Stevene. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Carl Sandburg. 48. "Light in August" A) T.S. elliot. B) William Faulkner. C) Langston Hughes. D) Sherwood anderson. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) William Faulkner. 49. We associate Nathaniel Hawthrone with what literary movement? A) Romanticism. B) Nationalism. C) Transcendentalism. D) Indian Autobiography. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Romanticism. 50. What statement below best sums up the literary significance of Samon Occum? A) Indian autobiography. B) Most popular slave narrative. C) First african american to speak to mixed audience. D) None of the aboveE. All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Indian autobiography. 51. In which state is Legree's plantation located? A) Georgia. B) Louisiana. C) Florida. D) Vermont. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Louisiana. 52. Who was the first black woman who win the Nobel Prize for Literature? A) Jane Austin. B) Ann Petry. C) Frances Harper. D) Toni Morrison. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Toni Morrison. 53. The term Beat Generation comes from A) Beat to his Shoe. B) Beat to his size. C) Beat to his socks. D) Beat to his stomach. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Beat to his socks. 54. Who coined the phrase 'Lost Generation'? A) Hemingway. B) Gertude Stein. C) F. Scott Fitzserald. D) Sherwood Anderson. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gertude Stein. 55. Which of the following is NOT considered a write for the Transcendentalism Movement? A) Thoreau. B) Stewart. C) Hawthrone. D) Emerson. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hawthrone. 56. This quote comes from what writing: "God holds you over the pit of Hell much as one holds a spider over the fire....." ? A) Spiders of the World. B) Hands of Satan. C) Hell and Salem. D) Sinners in the Hand . Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sinners in the Hand . 57. "learn by going where I have to go" . The poet learns of A) Going back to his hometown. B) His errors and starts correcting them. C) Going back to the state of depression. D) The final destination where he has to reach. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The final destination where he has to reach. 58. A language come into existence when..... A) There are speakers of the language. B) There is brutal necessity. C) A new language id discovered. D) Ancient elements force to become a language. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) There is brutal necessity. 59. Beecher Stowe wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin" to illustrate the evils of..... A) Imperialism. B) Alcohol. C) Foreign. D) Slavery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Slavery. 60. What statement below best sums up the literary significant of Maria Stewart? A) First African American woman to speak to a mixed audience. B) First African American to publish life writingC Most popular native american writer. C) Most popular slave narrative. D) All the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) First African American woman to speak to a mixed audience. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesRegions QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesAmerican Literature Quiz 1American Literature Quiz 2American Literature Quiz 4American Literature Quiz 5 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books