This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Regions > American Literature > American Literature – Quiz 57 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books American Literature Quiz 57 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. In "Joy Luck Club, " what do both the swan and Coca-Cola symbolize? A) The Chinese Culture. B) Promises and Love. C) The American Culture. D) Sadness and Fear. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The American Culture. 2. Tom and Huck's mischief towards Jim caused..... A) Jim keep quiet about this one. B) Jim tells it as a supernatural encounter. C) Children be punished immediately. D) Huck's father may have to intervene. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Jim tells it as a supernatural encounter. 3. An agreement, or contract, among a group of people A) Evade. B) Prodigious. C) Compact. D) Disassemble. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Compact. 4. Which of the following is NOT an element of FREE VERSE poetry? A) Irregular punctuation. B) Irregular capitalization. C) No set structure. D) Rhyming pattern. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhyming pattern. 5. Who is the trickster in Coyote and Buffalo? A) Coyote. B) Buffalo. C) Young Buffalo. D) The old lady. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Coyote. 6. A pithy saying or remark expressing an idea in a clever and amusing way (n) The writer's witty ..... was often quoted by his fans. A) Epigram. B) Imperatively. C) Contiguous. D) Banter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Epigram. 7. Speaking rudely to the judges was rash behavior. You really hurt your chances of winning!In the above context, what does "rash" mean? A) An itchy skin condition. B) Funny. C) Trying to hide or disguise a piece of evidence. D) With little thought or consideration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) With little thought or consideration. 8. In "The Leap, " after the mother marries for the second time, what seems to be her attitude toward her early years as a circus performer? A) She enjoys recalling her days as a famous acrobat. B) She seems to have put her past behind her. C) She longs for the romance of those years. D) She deeply regrets her early career. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) She seems to have put her past behind her. 9. In The Gift of the Magi, the audience knows that the wife has cut and sold her hair to buy her husband a chain for his watch, and the husband has sold his chain to buy his wife some hair accessories for her long hair. A) Verbal irony. B) Dramatic irony. C) Situational irony. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dramatic irony. 10. We walked slowly down the trail with great trepidation. No one who had gone this way had ever been heard fromagain. Had they simply found a better place to settle on this dark planet? We doubted that.Which word is a synonym of "trepidation" ? A) Movement. B) Worry. C) Enjoyment. D) Limping. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Worry. 11. A rebirth or revival A) Audacity. B) Renaissance. C) Dignitary. D) Cunningly. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Renaissance. 12. For DuBois, African American identity itself is sustained by: A) Obtaining achievements and rights. B) Knowing one's own family tree. C) The conquest by arms. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Obtaining achievements and rights. 13. Although finals week can be stressful, students can look forward to 2 weeks to relax and be with friends and family! A) Sentence Fragment. B) Run-On Sentence. C) Comma Splice. D) Complete Sentence. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Complete Sentence. 14. "Through the Woods" makes use of which of the following ..... A) Close ups on creepy teeth and eyes. B) Variations on text size and color. C) Variations on number of panels per page. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these. 15. Not shortened A) Unabridged. B) Pliable. C) Obviate. D) Incipient. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Unabridged. 16. Decide what the tone of the following sentence is:The apple cider spilled to the kitchen floor, leaving a thick, sticky mess. A) Postive. B) Negative. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Negative. 17. Two unaccented, short syllables A) Lyric. B) Iamb. C) Pyrrhic. D) Pentameter. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pyrrhic. 18. ARITS:Who said this quote?"But Lord, child, you should know all the dreams I had 'bout buying that house and fixing it up and making me a little garden in the back-and didn't none of it happen." A) Walter. B) Ruth. C) Mama. D) Beneatha. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mama. 19. Found a piece of granite instead of the Great Carbuncle A) Seeker. B) Matthew/Hannah. C) Dr. Cacaphodel. D) Ichabod Pigsnort. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dr. Cacaphodel. 20. Define PENTAMETER. A) Repetitive use of consonants. B) Unstressed syllable, then stressed syllable. C) Two unaccented, short syllables. D) Line with five strong metrical feet. 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