This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Regions > American Literature > American Literature – Quiz 59 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books American Literature Quiz 59 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A specific type of writing or literature with a particular style, form, and content A) Genre. B) Poem. C) Novel. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Genre. 2. Takes the place of a noun A) They tend. B) Adjective. C) Interjection. D) Conjunction. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They tend. 3. Two opposite ideas are joined A) Ambiguity. B) Oxymoron. C) Hyperbole. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Oxymoron. 4. Believed in individuality rather than society A) Puritanism. B) Transcendentalism. C) Realism. D) Modernism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Transcendentalism. 5. This review is so fun, I wish we could do this every day! A) Sentence Fragment. B) Comma Splice. C) Run-on Sentence. D) Complete Sentence. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Comma Splice. 6. When they achieved freedom, the slaves: A) They left the plantation quickly. B) They celebrated, but then they worried. C) They stayed for a few years. D) They chose to leave the youngest ones on the plantation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They stayed for a few years. 7. Slaughterhouse Five A) Sylvia Plath. B) Henry Roth. C) Kurt Vonnegut. D) Mark Twain. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Kurt Vonnegut. 8. Which statement best expresses the attitudes of a number of Olaudah Equiano's countrymen in "Aboard a Slave Ship" ? A) They prefer death to slavery. B) They prefer Europe to America. C) They prefer slavery to death. D) They prefer America to Africa. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They prefer death to slavery. 9. Which of the following poems were written by Anne Bradstreet? A) To my Dear and Loving Son. B) Upon the Burning of Our House. C) Because I Could Not Stop For Death. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Upon the Burning of Our House. 10. Language that appeals to all senses A) Imagery. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Allegory. D) Pathos. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imagery. 11. In a manner indicating disbelief A) Contentious. B) Cleave. C) Immaculate. D) Incredulously. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Incredulously. 12. According to modernism, what was the purpose of literature? A) To teach and to "delight". B) To maintain a nature in which stories and poems were written to teach particular things. C) To teach chronology and to have more to do with perspective. D) "To maintain an acceptable culture in America". Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To teach and to "delight". 13. Washington was applauded by...... and criticized by..... A) Black/white leaders. B) The whites/the black leaders. C) Black leaders/African American community. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The whites/the black leaders. 14. "I shook my head. 'I have no idea.' He stared at me, and I realized that I had not answered him in the proper manner. 'Sir, ' I added." Is this an example of A) Historical Setting. B) Social/ Cultural setting. C) Proper Manners. D) Metaplasmus. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Historical Setting. 15. What was Ellis Island? A) A place where immigrants arriving in the US were processed. B) A place where immigrants first settled. C) A place where immigrants often worked. D) A place where immigrants developed a lofty step. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A place where immigrants arriving in the US were processed. 16. What is the name of the Iroquois creation myth that explains how the earth is formed? A) The World on the Hippo's Back. B) The World on the Snail's Back. C) The World on the Whale's Back. D) The World on the Turtle's Back. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The World on the Turtle's Back. 17. To make oneself agreeable and thus again acceptance A) Novice. B) Repudiate. C) Ingratiate. D) Profligate. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ingratiate. 18. Deleterious consequences is also a..... consequence A) Beneficial. B) Injurious. C) Unexpected. D) Predictable. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Injurious. 19. What was going on during the American Renaissance? A) The Revolutionary War. B) The Civil War. C) The Industrial Revolution. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Industrial Revolution. 20. Jim ran away because: A) He was accused of a crime. B) I needed to see a family member. C) They were going to sell it. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They were going to sell it. ← 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