This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Regions > American Literature > American Literature – Quiz 5 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books American Literature Quiz 5 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Rejoinder is similar to A) Order. B) Uniform. C) Reply. D) Request. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Reply. 2. What period in literature focused on America gaining freedom from England and forming their own country A) Colonialism. B) Rationalism. C) Romanticism. D) Realism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rationalism. 3. The Delaware tribe created the Walum Olum, which is ..... A) A list of laws governing the tribe. B) A series of pictographs using symbols. C) A history of the Delaware in prose. D) A religious service honoring the gods. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A series of pictographs using symbols. 4. To challenge as false A) Inhibit. B) Impugn. C) Excise. D) Demote. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Impugn. 5. One of the most well known Realist authors was: A) Ralph Waldo Emerson. B) Benjamin Franklin. C) James Cooper. D) Mark Twain. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mark Twain. 6. Literary Period in America with beauty in unusual things, emotion over logic, focus on nature. A) Romanticism. B) Realism. C) Gothic. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Romanticism. 7. To get around or to avoid by clever maneuvering. A) Virulent. B) Irk. C) Futile. D) Surround. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Surround. 8. Short statement of truth A) Aphorism. B) Allegory. C) Vernacular. D) Maxim. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Maxim. 9. Values evident in early American literature include all of the following EXCEPT: A) Overcoming hardship through hard work. B) Creating a better society. C) Being an example to others. D) Taming the wilderness. E) Honoring kings and queens from the old country. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Honoring kings and queens from the old country. 10. "Trust thyself:Every heart vibrates to that iron string" means A) If you trust yourself, you will come up against a steel wall. B) Trust yourself, and you will be strong. C) If you trust yourself, you will be broken as easily as a string. D) Trust yourself, and you will become a musician. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Trust yourself, and you will be strong. 11. Giving human-like characteristics to non-human objects A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) New York. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 12. Which of these research topics would it be most helpful to conduct an interview? A) American Cuisine in the 1970's. B) The development of fonts. C) Dog's dreams. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) American Cuisine in the 1970's. 13. All knowing author is the narrator A) Limited POV. B) Objective POV. C) Omniscient POV. D) First person POV. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Omniscient POV. 14. When you start writing, you should consider 3 things: A) Purpose, audience, format. B) Introduction, body, conclusion. C) Plan, draft, revise. D) Draft, edit, revise. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Introduction, body, conclusion. 15. According to his writings, was Benjamin Franklin more focused on FAITH AND GOD or SCIENCE AND REASON? A) He was very focused on faith and God.(Puritanism). B) He was more focused on science and reason.(Rationalism). Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He was more focused on science and reason.(Rationalism). 16. A person who holds a high rank or position of honor A) Clammy. B) Dignitary. C) Dictum. D) Gesticulation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dignitary. 17. When the author drops clues along the plot to point at future events this is called ..... A) Flashback. B) Exposition. C) Foreshadowing. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Foreshadowing. 18. Most of the guides continued on to the summit on May 10, 1996, because A) They needed the money due to lack of employment opportunities in Nepal. B) They knew the climbers would continue even without their help. C) They'd survived numerous snowstorms in the past. D) Nothing indicated that a terrible storm was approaching. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Nothing indicated that a terrible storm was approaching. 19. Play, novel, poem, etc. that uses comedy, irony, or mockery to demonstrate the absurdity of someone or something A) Satire. B) Allegory. C) Bildungsroman. D) Fable. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Satire. 20. I helped Dad drive the fence post into the ground. Drive means ..... A) To steer. B) To stop. C) To force. D) To run. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To force. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesRegions QuizzesAmerican Literature Quiz 1American Literature Quiz 2American Literature Quiz 3American Literature Quiz 4American Literature Quiz 6American Literature Quiz 7American Literature Quiz 8American Literature Quiz 9American Literature Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books