This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Regions > American Literature > American Literature – Quiz 32 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books American Literature Quiz 32 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is a two-way process where cultures meet and exchange ideas, beliefs, and cultural practices? A) Acculturation. B) Culture Appreciation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Acculturation. 2. What was the main for migration to the US in the c20th? A) The Dawes Act. B) House prices in New York and Chicago. C) High wages in the cities. D) The Jazz Age. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) High wages in the cities. 3. What was Elizabeth Ashbridge (1713-1755) most known for? A) She was one of the first female authors of the early eighteenth century. B) Her spiritual autobiography "Some Account of the Fore Part of the Life of Elizabeth Ashbridge". C) She was one of the first poets of the early eighteenth century. D) She was one of the first female poets of the late seventeenth century. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Her spiritual autobiography "Some Account of the Fore Part of the Life of Elizabeth Ashbridge". 4. A snide, partly suppressed laugh, often expressing disrespect. A) Tactful. B) Dutiful. C) Plague. D) Snickers. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Snickers. 5. Whichof these is not acharacteristic of Gothic Romanticism? A) Interest in the supernatural. B) People driven to madness. C) Interest in psychology. D) Interest in industrial advancements. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Interest in industrial advancements. 6. Who was the daughter of the man who slept for 20 years? A) Lady Van Winkle. B) Judith Gardener. C) Maria von Trapp. D) Angela Valica. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Judith Gardener. 7. A substantive that follows another substantive and explains or identifies it A) Substantive. B) Antecedent. C) Transitive. D) Appositive. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Appositive. 8. What is Thomas Paine's goal in writing The American Crisis? A) To inspire American soldiers in their fight for independence. B) To set himself apart from his countrymen. C) To please and persuade his opponents. D) To urge colonial leaders to write the Declaration of Independence. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To inspire American soldiers in their fight for independence. 9. Little Women A) Ernest Hemingway. B) Emily Dickinson. C) Louisa May Alcott. D) Mark Twain. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Louisa May Alcott. 10. A short statement that expresses a general truth or principle A) Prose. B) Dictum. C) Clammy. D) Disassemble. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dictum. 11. In his first essay, Alexander Hamilton tells the New Yorkers: A) "Liberty is to faction, what air is to fire, an aliment, without which it instantly expires. But it could not be a less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourish faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency.". B) "In a free government the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights.". C) "A nation, despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral.". D) "After an unequivocal experience of the inefficiency of the subsisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America.". Show Answer Correct Answer: D) "After an unequivocal experience of the inefficiency of the subsisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America.". 12. Which theme is MOST appropriate for "To My Dear and Loving Husband" ? A) Love is a powerful and unifying force. B) She loves her husband forever. C) The death of a loved one is traumatic. D) Rejection can cause bitterness. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Love is a powerful and unifying force. 13. Why does Benjamin Franklin make a plan to master 13 basic virtues? A) He wants to achieve moral perfection. B) He wants to prove to his brother that he can run a business. C) He believes it will help him sell more copies of Poor Richard's Almanac. D) He seeks primarily to please God. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He wants to achieve moral perfection. 14. Latin for 'in the middle of things' A) In media res. B) Alliteration. C) Diction. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) In media res. 15. To request or ask for something A) Solicit. B) Rescind. C) Venerate. D) Surmount. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Solicit. 16. The Transcendentalist believed in self-reliance and free thought. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 17. Edgar Allen Poe is associated with which group of literature A) Rationalism. B) Realism. C) Dark Romaniticism. D) Modernism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dark Romaniticism. 18. Perseverance A) "The Ballad of the Boll Weevil'. B) "'The Nation and the Gospel". C) "American Names". D) "Liberty and Union". Show Answer Correct Answer: A) "The Ballad of the Boll Weevil'. 19. ..... are wise and clever sayings. (Hint:Poor Richard's Almanack by Benjamin Franklin) A) Almanacks. B) Aphorisms. C) Excerpts. D) Pen names. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Aphorisms. 20. By 1750 there were more than 200, 000 enslaved Africans in Britain's North American possessions, most of them in the ..... colonies. A) Northern. B) Southern. C) Eastern. D) Western. 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