This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Regions > American Literature > American Literature – Quiz 26 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books American Literature Quiz 26 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Offense, resentment A) Efficacious. B) Umbrage. C) Reprove. D) Querulous. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Umbrage. 2. To gradually decrease in value or intensity A) Motif. B) Wane. C) Venerate. D) Obsolete. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Wane. 3. A novel or story beginning with a significant moment. the rest of the novel fills in the events leading up to the significant moment. A) Epistolary Novel. B) Frame Narrative. C) In medias res. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) In medias res. 4. A strawman fallacy..... A) Occurs when someone takes another person's argument or point, distorts it or exaggerates it in some kind of extreme way, and then attacks the extreme distortion,. B) Occurs when someone makes a claim about a series of events that would lead to one major event, usually a bad event. C) Is also sometimes called the appeal to common belief or appeal to the masses because it's all about getting people to do or think something because "everyone else is doing it" or "everything else thinks this.". D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Occurs when someone takes another person's argument or point, distorts it or exaggerates it in some kind of extreme way, and then attacks the extreme distortion,. 5. To put (oneself) between:INTRUDE (v) The mom tried to ..... herself between her two fueding sons. A) Interpose. B) Spectacles. C) Facet. D) Peremptorily. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Interpose. 6. ..... thinkers emphasized reason and individualism over tradition and believed that natural laws applied to social, political, and economic relationships. A) Enlightenment. B) Awakening. C) Early Puritan. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Enlightenment. 7. The Crucible is an allegory for which of the following? A) Puritanism. B) McCarthyism. C) Capitalism. D) Socialism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) McCarthyism. 8. The influence of the Gospel on a nation's society A) "Portland Declaration". B) "'The Nation and the Gospel". C) "A Jingle of Words. D) "Liberty and Union". Show Answer Correct Answer: B) "'The Nation and the Gospel". 9. In Common Sense, Thomas claims that "England is the parent country of America." A) No. B) Yes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) No. 10. Identify the correctly accented word. A) Corroborate. B) Corroborate'. C) Corroborate. D) Corroborate. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Corroborate. 11. Mighty means A) Very. B) Weak. C) Few. D) Victor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Very. 12. Speech given from a pulpit in a house of worship A) Sermon. B) Myth. C) Lecture. D) Oratory. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sermon. 13. A folk tale about an animal or a person who engages in trickery to try to get what he wants A) Myth. B) Trickster tale. C) Poem. D) Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Trickster tale. 14. You could affirm yes to a questions asked of you by A) Nodding your head up and down. B) Saying yes. C) Giving a thumbs up. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 15. What is the theme topic of "To My Dear and Loving Husband" ? A) War. B) Death. C) Grief. D) Love. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Love. 16. Whatevent had the biggest effect on Realist writers? A) Invention of the telegraph. B) Growth of the newspaper. C) The Civil War. D) Invention of the steamship. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Civil War. 17. What is a compound subject? A) The action of the sentence. B) When two subjects are pushed together. C) Two or more subjects with the same verb. D) Words that join words or word pairs together. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Two or more subjects with the same verb. 18. Very skilled; proficient A) Adamant. B) Adept. C) Analogous. D) Averse. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Adept. 19. Non-human thing given human attributes A) Alliteration. B) Archetype. C) Personification. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 20. The point in a poem or speech or writing when the speaker changes from bad to offering the solution or good news A) Turn. B) Sermon. C) Persuasion. D) Myth. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Turn. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesRegions QuizzesAmerican Literature Quiz 1American Literature Quiz 2American Literature Quiz 3American Literature Quiz 4American Literature Quiz 5American Literature Quiz 6American Literature Quiz 7American Literature Quiz 8American Literature Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books