This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Regions > American Literature > American Literature – Quiz 49 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books American Literature Quiz 49 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. When did the European Romantic movement reach America? A) Early 19th century. B) 19th century. C) Late 19th century. D) 20th century. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Early 19th century. 2. Helicopters can rescue stranded hikers at the summit of Mt. Everest. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 3. Was stricken blind after finding the Great Carbuncle A) Seeker. B) Cynic. C) Poet. D) Lord de Very. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cynic. 4. What is a dependent clause? A) It cannot stand alone as a sentence, and needs to be attached to an independent clause. B) Expresses a complete thought and can stand alone as a sentence. C) A word that describes a noun. D) A person, place, thing, or idea. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It cannot stand alone as a sentence, and needs to be attached to an independent clause. 5. Examples of this term include mysterious or cheerful. A) Mood. B) Metaphor. C) Rhythm. D) End rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mood. 6. Repetition of consonant sounds before and after vowels A) Alliteration. B) Consonance. C) Assonance. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Consonance. 7. Define COMPULSORY A) Unintentional. B) The entire range. C) An inhabitant; resident. D) Required; mandatory. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Required; mandatory. 8. A desolate place has a lot of people and many signs of life A) TRUE. B) FALSE. C) MAYBE. D) WHO KNOWS. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) FALSE. 9. In "Nature, " Ralph Waldo Emerson says that "Beauty is the mark God sets upon: A) Virtue. B) Nature. C) Truth. D) Faith. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Virtue. 10. How many people arrived in the US between 1900-1910? A) 8.2 million. B) 10 million. C) 6.8 million. D) 11.2 million. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 8.2 million. 11. "I have a dream" speech is a famous speech that uses what literary device? A) Perpendicularism. B) Visualization of dreams. C) Metrical device. D) Parallelism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Parallelism. 12. The study of word origins A) Etymology. B) Symbolism. C) Allegory. D) Stream-of-consciousness. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Etymology. 13. An obdurate pessimist is A) Elderly. B) Obstinate. C) Stoical. D) Spiteful. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Obstinate. 14. Saying the opposite of what is meant A) Dramatic irony. B) Verbal irony. C) Satire. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Verbal irony. 15. A story told within a story A) Epistolary Novel. B) In medias res. C) Frame story. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Frame story. 16. True or False:Wheatley was only 12 when she published her first collection of poems. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 17. An imitation of a particular writer, artist or a genre, exaggerating it for humor A) Parody. B) Pathos. C) Parable. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Parody. 18. The General History of Virginia and Of Plymouth Plantation are both examples of this A) Slave Narratives. B) Myths. C) Journals. D) Historical Narratives. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Historical Narratives. 19. At a time when people began to worry that Puritan values were being lost; Jonathon Edwards called for people to rededicate themselves to the original Puritan vision-NAME THAT TIME! A) Great Awakening. B) Enlightenment. C) Great Awake. D) Renaissance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Great Awakening. 20. To make oneself accept. A) Resign. B) Brazenness. C) Exalt. D) Snickers. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Resign. ← 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