This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Regions > American Literature > American Literature – Quiz 40 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books American Literature Quiz 40 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Define CARICATURE. A) Likeness to the truth, such as the resemblance of a fictitious work to a real event, even if it is a far-fetched one. B) A device used in descriptive writing and visual arts, in which particular aspects of a subject are exaggerated, to create a silly or comic effect. C) An interruption of the chronological sequence (as of a film or literary work) of an event of earlier occurrence. D) A riddle, the answer to which involves a pun or play on words. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A device used in descriptive writing and visual arts, in which particular aspects of a subject are exaggerated, to create a silly or comic effect. 2. What is a series of related metaphors? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Extended Metaphor. D) Analogy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Extended Metaphor. 3. Which one is Thomas Paine's writing style? A) Plainness. B) Ceremonious expression. C) Classical rhetoric. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Plainness. 4. Fortunately, the explosion diverted the asteroid from a course that would have sent it hurdling into our planet.To divert is to ..... A) Look for the high point. B) Jump into a situation. C) Change the direction of. D) Look through a telescope. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Change the direction of. 5. Active voice verb A) Discovered. B) Was discovered. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Discovered. 6. An independent element that consists of a substantive and a participle A) Appositive. B) Preposition. C) Nominative absolute. D) Appositive. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nominative absolute. 7. American Indian poems showed a close link with ..... A) Nature. B) Politics. C) The white man. D) War. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nature. 8. A nervous feeling or fearful feeling A) Wane. B) Venerate. C) Rescind. D) Trepidation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Trepidation. 9. A comparison of America to Europe A) "America for Me". B) "The Flag Goes By". C) "A Creed for Americans". D) "What is An American?". Show Answer Correct Answer: A) "America for Me". 10. Everything in the story works together to communicate effectively A) Coherence. B) Unity. C) Symbolism. D) Imagination. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Unity. 11. What best describes the Sherpa A) A mountain people of Nepal. B) The native mountain climbers. C) Rob Hall's team. D) Scott Fischer's team. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A mountain people of Nepal. 12. Excessive pride A) Hubris. B) Nostalgia. C) Chiaroscuro. D) Paradox. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hubris. 13. What do we call the early American Teachers? A) Thomasites. B) Victorians. C) Professors. D) Gentle Warriors. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Thomasites. 14. A serious play that ends in sorrow or disaster A) Comedy. B) Romance. C) Tragedy. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tragedy. 15. A passage or section that deviates from the central theme in speech or writing. A) Digression. B) Abstract. C) Annotate. D) Flashback. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Digression. 16. Koskooch's last reaction was: A) Resist death. B) Struggle. C) Surrender to natural law. D) Drive away the wolves. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Surrender to natural law. 17. The opposite of surfeit of advice is A) Abundance. B) Dearth. C) Offer. D) Source. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dearth. 18. DuBois's position: A) It was similar to Washington. B) It influenced the miscegenation. C) He demanded the civil rights of blacks. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He demanded the civil rights of blacks. 19. Which of the following was NOT one of the virtues Franklin listed as part of his plan towards moral perfection? A) Silence. B) Obedience. C) Cleanliness. D) Moderation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Obedience. 20. People who ride a bicycle without a helmet are putting themselves in ..... A) Defiance. B) Dread. C) Peril. D) Lantern. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Peril. ← 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