This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Regions > American Literature > American Literature – Quiz 20 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books American Literature Quiz 20 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Identify the item that indicates the part of speech of the word "gist." A) Noun. B) Verb. C) Adverb. D) Interjection. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Noun. 2. In a careful or cautious manner A) Beguile. B) Effrontery. C) Gingerly. D) Anonymity. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Gingerly. 3. After following the "Couch to 10K" running program, she showed a strong proclivity for running. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 4. Whichof these events had the biggest effect on the Modernists? A) World War I. B) The Industrial Revolution. C) The Thirteenth Amandment. D) Manifest Destiny. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) World War I. 5. A Narrative poem often of folk origin meant to be sung A) Blank verse. B) Lyric poetry. C) Ballad. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ballad. 6. The proposal of this book includes aspects: A) Essays and literary. B) Biographical and ideas. C) Fictional and historical. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Biographical and ideas. 7. Being extremely fat/overweight. A) Obesity. B) Vindicate. C) Haughty. D) Surround. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Obesity. 8. The time and place in a story is called the ..... A) Plot. B) Mooc. C) Setting. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Setting. 9. To grow or accumulate in the course of time; to happen as a natural result A) Accrue. B) Reprove. C) Insurgent. D) Querulous. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Accrue. 10. A lighthearted play intended to amuse the audience, usually ending happily A) Comedy. B) Drama. C) Tragedy. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Comedy. 11. Who was Philip Payton? A) A black American song writer who inspired WEB DuBois. B) A black American real estate owner who inspired Richard Wright. C) A black American writer who Zora Neale Hurston fell out with. D) A black American gymnast who Mary Dalton fell in love with. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A black American real estate owner who inspired Richard Wright. 12. What is the subject of this sentence?:There is a test next period. A) There. B) Test. C) Next. D) Is. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Test. 13. Relating to the countryside, especially in an idealized form A) Allusion. B) Pastoral. C) Ethos. D) Foreshadowing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pastoral. 14. Poetry that follows no specific guidelines about rhyme, meter, or length A) Fixed Form. B) Free Form. C) Rhyming form. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Free Form. 15. The attitude of the story A) Setting. B) Character. C) Plot. D) Mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mood. 16. Babs is the daughter of: A) Mrs. Slade y Mr. Dolphin. B) Mrs. Ansley y Mr. Dolphin. C) Mrs. Slade y Mr. Horace. D) Mrs. Ansley y Mr. Horace. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mrs. Ansley y Mr. Dolphin. 17. The "Winter Dreams" can be classified as a A) Drama. B) Modern jazz genre. C) Modern long story. D) Modern short story. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Modern short story. 18. Author's attitude toward a subject/topic (examples:irritated, formal, objective, condescending, etc.) A) Mood. B) Tone. C) Antithesis. D) Pathos. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tone. 19. Which quote from the text best supports the idea that after the civil war, most Americans were disillusioned with previous literary movements and preferred Realism because it reflected their problems? A) "The South emerged from the war into a period known as Reconstruction. African American men had been granted the right to vote and began running for and serving in public office.". B) "Industrialization and urbanization had significant benefits, such as providing both mass transit and a massive boost to the Northern economy.". C) "American writers and artists rejected the idealism and lofty symbolism of the Romantic and Transcendentalist movements because they failed to address the realities of rapid socio-economic change in post-war American life.". D) "Investigative journalists during this period worked to expose social injustice, including the harsh labor practices, dangerous housing conditions, corporate greed, and political corruption.". Show Answer Correct Answer: C) "American writers and artists rejected the idealism and lofty symbolism of the Romantic and Transcendentalist movements because they failed to address the realities of rapid socio-economic change in post-war American life.". 20. Define IMPERATIVE A) Alternately ceasing and beginning again. B) Occasional. C) Lasting or remaining active throughout the year, or all the time. D) Essential. 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