This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Regions > American Literature > American Literature – Quiz 42 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books American Literature Quiz 42 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What kind of strategies are you using BEFORE you start writing (brainstorm, freewrite, etc.)? A) Writing. B) Postwriting. C) Prewriting. D) Write. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Prewriting. 2. While the work is praised, another of Roosevelt's interests is: A) The closure of borders. B) The international projection of the United States. C) The increase of mercantilism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The international projection of the United States. 3. Hard to please; characterized by excessive care or delicacy A) Fastidious. B) Conceit. C) Fallacious. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fastidious. 4. Able to bend or move easily. A) Limber. B) Thicket. C) Ceremonial. D) Scuffle. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Limber. 5. A character in a story who is complex and fully developed A) Flat. B) Static. C) Round. D) Anti-Hero. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Round. 6. Which era of American literature is associated with the writings and speeches about equality and freedom? A) Revolutionary literature. B) Transcendentalism. C) Realism. D) Native American. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Revolutionary literature. 7. Beyond dispute, unquestionable A) Encumber. B) Foment. C) Incontrovertible. D) Nonplussed. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Incontrovertible. 8. Emerson used this literary device to allow for readers to feel, taste, smell, see, and touch the story's plot. A) Imagery. B) Diction. C) Symbolism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imagery. 9. To delay, put off until later A) Abet. B) Hatred. C) Procrastinate. D) Vapid. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Procrastinate. 10. The type of narrator addresses the reader directly using the word "you" A) Third person. B) First Person. C) Second Person. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Second Person. 11. Romanticsrejected rational thought because they believed: A) Logical thought was not possible. B) Science was not fully developed. C) No respected writers were rationalists. D) Imagination and emotion yielded higher truths. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Imagination and emotion yielded higher truths. 12. To persuade through the use of emotion A) Pathos. B) Logos. C) Ethos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pathos. 13. What American democracy means A) "America for Me". B) "The Flag Goes By". C) "A Creed for Americans". D) "What is An American?". Show Answer Correct Answer: C) "A Creed for Americans". 14. Repetition of consonant sounds within words A) Idiom. B) Diction. C) Consonance. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Consonance. 15. Bias A) A tendency that prevents unprejudiced consideration of a question. B) A type of story with a symbolic or double meaning. C) A non-literal expression whose meaning is not predictable from the usual meaning of the word or phrase. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A tendency that prevents unprejudiced consideration of a question. 16. Which type of writing is NOT fabricated and tells a story about REAL people and events? A) Nonfiction. B) Fantasy. C) Novel. D) Drama. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nonfiction. 17. A slippery slope fallacy ..... A) Occurs when someone takes another person's argument or point, distorts it or exaggerates it in some kind of extreme way, and then attacks the extreme distortion,. B) Occurs when someone makes a claim about a series of events that would lead to one major event, usually a bad event. C) Is also sometimes called the appeal to common belief or appeal to the masses because it's all about getting people to do or think something because "everyone else is doing it" or "everything else thinks this.". D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Occurs when someone makes a claim about a series of events that would lead to one major event, usually a bad event. 18. What is a predicate nominative? A) An adjective that describes the subject. B) A noun, pronoun, or group of words that tells who or what receives the action of the verb. C) A noun or pronoun that identifies the subject. D) A group of words with a subject and a predicate. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A noun or pronoun that identifies the subject. 19. The book "Rise from Slavery" belongs to: A) Booker T. Washington. B) W.E.B. DuBois. C) Charles W. Chesnutt. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Booker T. Washington. 20. Consider this scenario:You get the argumentative prompt and can't decide which side to take. What should you do? A) Eenie meenie minie moe. B) Just pick one. Really, who cares?. C) Pick the one that seems easiest to support with the articles. D) Write about something entirely off topic. Who cares about Mrs. Hogan's psychological wellbeing?. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pick the one that seems easiest to support with the articles. ← 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