This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Regions > American Literature > American Literature – Quiz 36 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books American Literature Quiz 36 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A novel written by using a series of letters to tell the story A) Romantic novel. B) Epistolary novel. C) Documentary. D) Romance novel. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Epistolary novel. 2. Story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one A) Juxtaposition. B) Foreshadowing. C) Narrative. D) Allegory. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Allegory. 3. Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Paine write for different purposes, but both writers ..... A) Show that humans can improve themselves and society. B) Describe episodes in their early lives. C) Explain the importance of being financially frugal. D) Inspire people to stay committed to the cause of American freedom. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Show that humans can improve themselves and society. 4. That world of misery, that lake of burning brimstone, is extended abroad under you. A) "The Navajo Creation Story". B) Jonathan Edwards, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God. C) John Winthrop, "A Model of Christian Charity". D) Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, The Relationship of Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Jonathan Edwards, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God. 5. Character who makes a judgment error that inevitably leads to his/her own destruction A) Satire. B) Paradox. C) Blank verse. D) Tragic hero. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tragic hero. 6. Karl was ..... to learn that the beautiful old museum was going to be replaced by a shopping mall. A) Pallor. B) Appalled. C) Denigrated. D) Candor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Appalled. 7. What is a predicate adjective? A) An adjective that describes the subject. B) A noun or a pronoun that identifies the subject. C) A group of words that cannot stand alone as a sentence. D) A person, place, thing, or idea. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) An adjective that describes the subject. 8. Circuitous path A) Indirect. B) Lengthy. C) Straight. D) Unfamiliar. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Indirect. 9. Lily Dyer era: A) Joe's lover. B) Joe's mother's caregiver. C) Joe's old girlfriend. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Joe's mother's caregiver. 10. Willing to follow advice, tractable, submissive; responsive A) Dilatory. B) Amnesty. C) Amenable. D) Surmise. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Amenable. 11. The emotion that the writer puts into the story is called the ..... ? ..... A) Mood. B) Tone. C) Effect. D) Imagination. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tone. 12. Simon Schama describes the American frontier in the c19th as ..... A) A new world. B) A fresh start. C) A beacon to many. D) An eden. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) An eden. 13. Who is the Romantic author who is depicted as "The Gothic Great" ? A) Edgar Allan Poe. B) Henry David Thoreau. C) Nathaniel Hawthorne. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Edgar Allan Poe. 14. Thou ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain, / Who after birth didst by my side remain / Till snatched from thence by friends, less wise than true / Who thee abroad, exposed to public view, A) Mary Rowlandson, A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson. B) Cotton Mather, The Wonders of the Invisible World. C) Anne Bradstreet, "The Author to Her Book". D) William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Anne Bradstreet, "The Author to Her Book". 15. First American short story writer A) Thornton Wilder. B) Washington Irving. C) Edgar Allen Poe. D) Nathaniel Hawthorne. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Washington Irving. 16. Precise; thorough A) Tenacious. B) Infinitesimal. C) Formidable. D) Meticulous. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Meticulous. 17. Define DEFERENTIAL A) Prosperous. B) Misleading. C) Slander. D) Respectful. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Respectful. 18. Though the solution seemed simple, it had been arrived at through a(n) ..... process of trial and error. A) Callow. B) Contingent. C) Tortuous. D) Abominate. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tortuous. 19. "The Tortoise and the Hare" is an example of what type of literature? A) Fable. B) Novel. C) Biography. D) Autobiography. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fable. 20. This author wrote a diary about the Pilgrims who came to this country on the Mayflower. A) Thomas Paine. B) William Bradford. C) Washington Irving. D) Benjamin Franklin. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) William Bradford. ← 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