This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Regions > American Literature – Quiz 74 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books American Literature Quiz 74 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The flow of thoughts and feelings in the modern short story is called A) Stream of feelins. B) Stream of mentality. C) Stream of consciousness. D) Stream of realization. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stream of consciousness. 2. What is a person, place, thing or idea? A) Noun. B) Adjective. C) Adverb. D) They tend. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Noun. 3. Which of these elements found in the first lines of "Huswifery" is not an example of Puritan Plain Style? "Make me, O Lord, Thy spinning wheel, complete/Thy holy word my distaff make for me./Make mine affections Thy swift flyers neat/And make my soul Thy holy spoole to be." A) Direct statements. B) References to God. C) Reference to ordinary objects. D) Reference to emotions. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Reference to emotions. 4. Which out of the 3 is NOT one characteristic of Native American Literature? A) Diver Myth. B) Written Stories. C) Supreme Being. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Written Stories. 5. Which pair of words have similar denotations but very different connotations? A) Innocent vs guilty. B) Independent vs cocky. C) Criticize vs condemn. D) Relaxed vs alert. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Criticize vs condemn. 6. Identify the item that indicates the part of speech of the word "incontrovertible." A) Interjection. B) Verb. C) Adjective. D) Adverb. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Adjective. 7. "A nice Smith is still a SMITH" A) Mrs. McWilliams and the Lightning. B) Rip van Winkle. C) The Unerring Instinct. D) The Town Poor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Unerring Instinct. 8. Compared to the oratorical style of Benjamin Franklin, Patrick Henry's style was: A) Fiery, Dramatic, Emotional, Inspirational. B) Steady. C) Clear. D) Boring. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fiery, Dramatic, Emotional, Inspirational. 9. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn A) Harriet Beecher Stowe. B) Mark Twain. C) Leslie Marmon Silk. D) Toni Morrison. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mark Twain. 10. "Times grew worse and worse ..... as years of matrimony rolled on; a tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use." A) Psalm 137. B) Thanatopsis. C) Rip Van Winkle. D) To a Waterfowl. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rip Van Winkle. 11. "the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing" is the definition for A) Requirement. B) Purpose. C) The rhetorical situation. D) Rhetoric. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhetoric. 12. Which description best conveys Bradford's attitude in the selection from Plymouth Plantation A) Despair at the endless suffering of his people. B) Faith in the workings of the Divine Providence. C) Tolerance for the weaknesses of others. D) Suspicion of all those who are not pilgrims. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Faith in the workings of the Divine Providence. 13. Why does Proctor tear up the confession at the end of the play? A) To save his life. B) To spite Parris. C) To save Elizabeth's life. D) To protect and save his name. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To protect and save his name. 14. My neighbor was ..... when his dog disappeared an asked everyone to join in the search. A) Thwart. B) Disconsolate. C) Contiguous. D) Implicit. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Disconsolate. 15. Which significant landmark does John Steinbeck anthropomorphize as 'the mother of flight' in The Grapes of Wrath? A) The grand canyon. B) Highway 66. C) The Trans-continental railroad. D) The Mississippi. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Highway 66. 16. On the Road A) James Baldwin. B) Jack Kerouac. C) Harriet Jacobs. D) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Jack Kerouac. 17. T.A.G. stands for A) Title, author, genre. B) Title, author, guide. C) Thesis, author, genre. D) Title, action, genre. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Title, author, genre. 18. Define ESCHEW A) Avoid. B) Impute. C) Scarcity. D) Calm. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Avoid. 19. What is it called when there is inconsistency between what a character believes/says and what the reader knows to be true? A) Situational Irony. B) Verbal Irony. C) Dramatic Irony. D) Symbol. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dramatic Irony. 20. To support with evidence or authority:make more certain (v) The witness's testimony ..... the defendant's alibi. A) Corroborated. B) Elation. C) Bleak. D) Interpose. 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