This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Regions > American Literature > American Literature – Quiz 45 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books American Literature Quiz 45 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The protagonist is the narrator A) Objective POV. B) Omniscient POV. C) Limited POV. D) First person POV. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) First person POV. 2. Which of these animals successfully brought up some dirt to place on the turtle's back A) The swan. B) The beaver. C) The muskrat. D) The fish. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The muskrat. 3. When did the American civil war end? A) 1865. B) 1861. C) 1870. D) 1879. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1865. 4. A natural or habitual inclination or tendency, especially of human character or behavior A) Amenable. B) Dilatory. C) Surmise. D) Proclivity. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Proclivity. 5. Who was the King accused in The Declaration of Independence? A) George III. B) Elizabeth II. C) Henry VIII. D) Charles III. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) George III. 6. Define traverse A) To make indirect reference; hint at or suggest. B) Wanting to do something. C) To travel across an extended area. D) Much discussed or disputed. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To travel across an extended area. 7. The line "At thy return my blushing was not small" is an example of what literary device? A) Metaphor. B) Enjambment. C) Litotes. D) Conceit. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Litotes. 8. Who coined the term "Lost Generation" ? A) Gertrude Stein. B) Matthew Arnold. C) Edward Said. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gertrude Stein. 9. Why does Columbus take specimens of the plants he finds A) He may need them on his return voyage. B) He needs them as proof he really visited the area. C) In order to determine their value. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) In order to determine their value. 10. A person who flees to safety, especially one who leaves home or a homeland because of persecution, war, or danger A) Capitulate. B) Audaciously. C) Refugee. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Refugee. 11. The power of Equiano's narrative comes from the fact that it is A) Filled with poetic imagery and figures of speech. B) A personal narrative. C) A logical well-reasoned argument. D) Similar in style to an African folk tale. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A personal narrative. 12. The speaker is credible and trustworthy A) Pathos. B) Logos. C) Ethos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ethos. 13. Which human right is not mentioned in The Declaration of Independence? A) Equity. B) Life. C) Liberty. D) Pursuit of happiness. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Equity. 14. Introduces the characters and setting of the story A) Genre. B) Resolution. C) Exposition. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Exposition. 15. An interruption in the present story to tell about past events in order to provide background information that will help the reader understand what is going on A) Flashback. B) Understatement. C) Irony. D) Foreshadowing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Flashback. 16. Average A) Mood. B) Moderately. C) Time. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Moderately. 17. What was the name of the revival throughout the colonies that emphasized an individual's relationship with God rather than the Community's spirituality? A) The Great Renaissance. B) The Great Revival. C) The Great Sleeping. D) The Great Awakening. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Great Awakening. 18. Given over to dissipation; recklessly extravagant A) Profligate. B) Novice. C) Abstemious. D) Repudiate. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Profligate. 19. Having feminine qualities untypical of a man:not manly in appreance or manner (adj) His elegant manner and soft-spoken voice were seen as ..... by some. A) Effeminate. B) Peremptorily. C) Spectacles. D) Fervent. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Effeminate. 20. ..... :Sentence structure; the way words are organized in a sentence. A) Inversion. B) Syntax. C) Theme. D) Narrative. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Syntax. ← 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