This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Regions > American Literature > American Literature – Quiz 47 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books American Literature Quiz 47 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The relationship with other mining camps is: A) Of solidarity. B) Of distrust. C) Strategic alliance. D) Of commercial exchange. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Of distrust. 2. Where did O. Henry flee to avoid trial? A) Canada. B) Brazil. C) Honduras. D) England. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Honduras. 3. The conclusions that one thing caused another simply because one happened before the other. A) False dichotomy. B) False cause. C) Circular reasoning. D) Guilt by association. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False cause. 4. Which statement would the author of "Through the Woods" most likely agree with? A) We can overcome our fears. B) Women often work together to find greater freedom. C) There is no escaping the monsters of the world. D) Sacrificing yourself for your loved ones is the greatest gift you can give. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) There is no escaping the monsters of the world. 5. Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau are associated with which group of literature authors A) Transcendentalist. B) Fireside Poets. C) Realist. D) Puritans. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Transcendentalist. 6. A novel written in letter or diary format A) Frame Narrative. B) In Medias res. C) Epistolary novel. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Epistolary novel. 7. Specific meaning or idea that a word brings to mind A) Connotation. B) Definition. C) Denotation. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Connotation. 8. This author was a printer who eventually became a statesman. A) William Bradford. B) Thomas Paine. C) Benjamin Franklin. D) John Smith. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Benjamin Franklin. 9. Who wrote "Battle of the Kegs" ? A) William Bartram. B) Francis Hopkinson. C) Benjamin Franklin. D) William Cullen Bryant. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Francis Hopkinson. 10. The phrase "Hit the road." is an example of an ..... A) Idiom. B) Allusion. C) Allegory. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Idiom. 11. Rhyme that occurs when words are similar but not identical sounds A) Slant rhyme. B) Near rhyme. C) Half rhyme. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Slant rhyme. 12. How did Native Americans pass on their stories? A) Orally. B) Twitter. C) With ink and paper. D) Smoke signals. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Orally. 13. A bandwagon 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: 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.". 14. Spectators A) People who take part. B) Plot. C) People who watch. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) People who watch. 15. Pre-Colonial writing that is nonfiction and Propaganda A) American Indian Writing. B) Explorer and Settler Narratives. C) The Puritans. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Explorer and Settler Narratives. 16. Ordinary form of spoken and written language-that is, it is language that lacks the special features of poetry A) Poetry. B) Prose. C) Essay. D) Drama. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Prose. 17. A word or expression used in casual language by common people A) Narrative. B) Diction. C) Colloquialism. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Colloquialism. 18. The pattern of BEATS, STRESSES, or SYLLABLES in a poem is ..... A) Rhythm. B) Rhyme. C) Imagery. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhythm. 19. What was the sole function of The Federalist Papers? A) To convince New Yorkers to vote for a proposed new Constitution. B) To advocate that a strong central government and the freedom of individual rights were mutually exclusive. C) They were against the "inefficiency of the subsisting federal government". D) They were against a strong central government and the freedom of individual rights. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To convince New Yorkers to vote for a proposed new Constitution. 20. What comes first when citing a reference in MLA format on a Works Cited page? A) Author's name. B) City of Publication. C) Date of Publication. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Author's name. ← 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