This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Regions > American Literature > American Literature – Quiz 39 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books American Literature Quiz 39 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. In the Bradstreet Poem, since his love is too great for her to repay, the speaker wishes that A) Her husband acquire mines of gold. B) Her husband experience the riches of the East. C) The heaves reward her husband. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The heaves reward her husband. 2. What is a compound verb? A) Two or more verbs with the same subject. B) A group of words with a subject and a predicate. C) Two or more subjects with the same verb. D) A group of words that describes a noun. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Two or more verbs with the same subject. 3. The early European settlers would not have been likely to survivie without ..... A) Help from the kings in their home countries. B) The information they got from letters and diaries of the early explorers. C) The knowledge they got from the Native Americans about the land. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The knowledge they got from the Native Americans about the land. 4. Equiano's main purpose in writing the narrative A) To entertain readers. B) To contrast life in Africa with England. C) To sway public opinion about slavery. D) To provide information about sea travel. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To sway public opinion about slavery. 5. "the policy or practice of acquiring full or partial control over another country" is the definition for A) Expansionism. B) Colonialism. C) Extirpation. D) Subjugation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Colonialism. 6. Columbus came to America in ..... and discovered native people that he and his fellow travelers mistakenly called "Indians." A) 1699. B) 1564. C) 1776. D) 1492. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1492. 7. What is third person omniscient? A) "he/she" -all-knowing. B) "he/she" -only knows one character's thoughts. C) "I" ; "We". D) "You". Show Answer Correct Answer: A) "he/she" -all-knowing. 8. The House of the Seven Gables A) John Steinbeck. B) Jack Kerouac. C) Nathaniel Hawthorne. D) Willa Cather. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nathaniel Hawthorne. 9. No matter where you go, the Internet is following you. Almost every portable device is being made with an Internetconnection. Most new TVs and many other appliances come with Internet connections as well. The Internet is trulyubiquitous.If something is ubiquitous, ..... A) It is fuzzy and will bite you. B) It is everywhere. C) It costs too much money. D) It causes rashes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It is everywhere. 10. How many virtues did Franklin say contributed to moral perfection? A) 5. B) 10. C) 20. D) 13. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 13. 11. Symbols, patterns, or character types that repeat across cultures A) Archetype. B) Metaphor. C) Repetend. D) Tater tot casserole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Archetype. 12. Showing warmth and friendliness A) Adulation. B) Refrain. C) Affable. D) Manifest. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Affable. 13. Clauses that may begin each phrase of a piece the same(ex:Alice ran into the room, into the garden, and into our hearts) A) Antithesis. B) Parallelism. C) Allusion. D) Rhetorical question. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Parallelism. 14. The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman A) Jane Pittman. B) Pearl S. Buck. C) Willa Cather. D) Ernest J. Gaines. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ernest J. Gaines. 15. What did Franklin want to attain? A) Moral perfection. B) Position as President. C) Position as clergy of a large church. D) Master of agriculture. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Moral perfection. 16. The direct opposite A) Dissonance. B) Analogous. C) Inept. D) Antithesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Antithesis. 17. What type of myth explains the creation of the world? A) Creation Myth. B) Great Myth. C) Origin Myth. D) Beginning Myth. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Creation Myth. 18. In "The Intense Life", Roosevelt mainly praises: A) To the conservatives. B) To the artists. C) To work. D) To the invention. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To work. 19. Which type of writing is a short story or poem that teaches a moral lesson? A) Biography. B) Fable. C) Nonfiction. D) Novel. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fable. 20. ARITS:Who said this quote? "For the happiness of all concerned ..... our Negro families are happier when they live in their own communities." A) Walter. B) Ruth. C) Mama. D) Mr. Lindner. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mr. Lindner. ← 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