This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Movements > War > War Literature – Quiz 3 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books War Literature Quiz 3 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Wrote numerous short stories based on his experiences as a soldier in battle. A) Stephen Crane. B) Walt Whitman. C) Solomon Northup. D) Ambrose Bierce. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ambrose Bierce. 2. A type of metaphor in which non-human things or ideas possess human qualities or actions is called ..... A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 3. What is a "score" as used in the Gettysburg Address? A) Twenty years. B) A debt to pay. C) The points a team earns. D) A deep cut in wood or metal. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Twenty years. 4. Loud and persistent outcry from many people A) Clamor. B) Gesticulating. C) Prostrate. D) Smitten. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Clamor. 5. Physically or mentally painful A) Ludicrous. B) Poignant. C) Smitten. D) Times. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Poignant. 6. True or False:At the start of his presidency, Lincoln was an abolitionist. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 7. What did the men do to pass the time? A) Music (sing, play guitar, etc). B) Play football. C) Play cards. D) All the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All the above. 8. What time of day would the soldiers ambush the trails to the jungle? A) Night. B) Day. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Night. 9. Laughter showing contempt and derision A) Times. B) Onslaught. C) Ineffable. D) Smitten. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Times. 10. "Day by day, after the December snows wereover, a blazing blue sky poured down torrentsof light and air on the white landscape, whichgave them back in an intenser glitter." Identify the alliteration in the passage. A) Day by day, after the December snows. B) Light and air on the white landscape. C) Intense glitter. D) Poured down torrents. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Day by day, after the December snows. 11. How long is four score and seven years? A) 47. B) 227. C) 87. D) 17. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 87. 12. "Her mother's pride in the girl's appearanceled her to step back, like a painter from hiseasel, and survey her work as a whole." Identify the simile in this passage. A) Her mother's pride. B) Like a painter from his easel. C) Led her to step back. D) Survey her work as a whole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Like a painter from his easel. 13. Continuing without interruption A) Gesticulating. B) Interminable. C) Incessant. D) Clamor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Incessant. 14. "How dreary-to be-Somebody!How public-like a Frog ..... " These lines of poetry contain ..... A) A metaphor. B) A simile. C) Personification. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A simile. 15. Affected as if by being hit (especially by love) A) Formidable. B) Malign. C) Times. D) Smitten. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Smitten. 16. Incapable of being explained or accounted for A) Interminable. B) Incomprehensible. C) Summarily. D) Ludicrous. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Incomprehensible. 17. Act of swinging back and forth A) Oscillation. B) Skirmish. C) Formidable. D) Times. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Oscillation. 18. Words that look like they rhyme (similar in spelling) but do not actually rhyme is called ..... A) Internal rhyme. B) Pure rhyme. C) Near rhyme. D) Eye rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Eye rhyme. 19. Who wrote the following? "If I should die, think only this of me:That there's some corner of a foreign fieldThat is for ever England." A) Edmund Blunden. B) Rupert Brooke. C) Robert Graves. D) Wilfred OWen. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rupert Brooke. 20. Who was beaten close to death by his boss as a slave? A) Fred Collins. B) Frederick Douglass. C) Peyton Farquar. D) Walt Whitman. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Frederick Douglass. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesMovements QuizzesWar Literature Quiz 1War Literature Quiz 2War Literature Quiz 4 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books