This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Regions > American Literature > American Literature – Quiz 31 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books American Literature Quiz 31 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A verb that connects a word back to the subject A) Transitive. B) Intransitive. C) Linking. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Linking. 2. True or False:A passive voice verb is generally intransitive A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 3. Capable of affecting or influencing everything A) Wane. B) Pervasive. C) Surmount. D) Sardonic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pervasive. 4. What famous political leader wrote an autobiography? A) George Washington. B) Thomas Jefferson. C) Benjamin Franklin. D) John Adams. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Benjamin Franklin. 5. Who wrote Nature? A) Henry David Thoreau. B) Ralph Waldo Emerson. C) Herman Melville. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ralph Waldo Emerson. 6. If your car is damaged when someone backs into it in the parking lot, fair recompense would be for the drive who hit your car to A) Sing the "I'm Sorry" song 122 times. B) Pay to have your car fixed with their insurance. C) Bake you a pie. D) Do nothing at all. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pay to have your car fixed with their insurance. 7. Which type of essay requires you to provide requested information? A) Argumentative. B) Informative. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Informative. 8. Bless Me, Ultima A) Jack Kerouac. B) John Hersey. C) Rodolfo Anaya. D) Stephen Crane. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rodolfo Anaya. 9. Which group believed writing should be a tool to help readers understand the Bible and guide their lives? A) The Enlightenists. B) Puritans. C) Native Americans. D) The Revolutionists. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Puritans. 10. Description using the five senses A) Imagery. B) Loaded language. C) Charged words. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imagery. 11. The Catcher in the Rye A) J.D. Salinger. B) Thomas Pynchon. C) Harriet Beecher Stowe. D) Mark Twain. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) J.D. Salinger. 12. Figure of speech in which a thing or concept is referred to by the name of something closely associated with it A) Synecdoche. B) Metonymy. C) Idiom. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metonymy. 13. Define MODALITY A) Figure of speech in which a word or phrase is used other than in a literal manner. B) Indicated the degree to which an observation is possible, probable, likely, certain, permitted, or prohibited. C) An imitation of a particular writer, artist or a genre, exaggerating it for humor. D) An expression which inveighs or rails against a person. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Indicated the degree to which an observation is possible, probable, likely, certain, permitted, or prohibited. 14. Scott Fischer's climbing clients are much more experienced mountain climbers than Rob Hall's climbing clients. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 15. To contrive a plan means all of the following EXCEPT: A) Think-up a plan. B) Concoct a plan. C) Fabricate a plan. D) Change a plan. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Change a plan. 16. Patrick knew that Juliette was sick when he saw the young girl's ..... face. A) Pallid. B) Pallor. C) Candid. D) Candor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pallid. 17. What is the tone of the speaker in "Because I Could Not Stop for Death" ? A) Fearful. B) Nostalgic. C) Bored. D) Angry. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fearful. 18. Use of informal words or slang A) Colloquialism. B) Persona. C) Conceit. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Colloquialism. 19. Histories, journals, personal poems, and sermons were popular during this literary period. A) Native American Period. B) Puritan/Early Colonial Period. C) Neoclassical period. D) Enlightenment Period. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Puritan/Early Colonial Period. 20. Farewell means A) Goodbye. B) Mighty. C) Welcome. D) Hello. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Goodbye. ← 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