This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Regions > American Literature > American Literature – Quiz 77 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books American Literature Quiz 77 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. To lessen in value A) Demote. B) Impel. C) Depreciate. D) Countermand. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Depreciate. 2. Prominent, standing out, conspicuous A) Salient. B) Palpable. C) Corroborate. D) Florid. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Salient. 3. A Latin term that means "to reduce something to absurdity." It is a figure of speech that is defined as a manner of arguing something for one's own position by showing the absurdity of the position of his opponent A) Causal oversimplification. B) Reductio ad absurdum. C) Metonymy. D) Straw man. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Reductio ad absurdum. 4. Who wrote about his escaping from alligators? A) Washington Irving. B) Benjamin Franklin. C) William Bartram. D) William Cullen Bryant. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) William Bartram. 5. Showing no feeling or emotion A) Foment. B) Disconsolate. C) Impassive. D) Encumber. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Impassive. 6. ARITS:Who said this quote?" "It's all a matter of ideas, and God is just one idea I don't accept. It's not important." A) Walter. B) Ruth. C) Mama. D) Beneatha. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Beneatha. 7. The opposite of being inauspicious is A) Quick. B) Propitious. C) Delayed. D) Memorable. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Propitious. 8. To speak to or address in a witty and teasing manner (v) During the game, the teammates would ..... and tease each other in a playful manner. A) Banter. B) Commence. C) Interpose. D) Sauntered. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Banter. 9. After living out in the country for many years, Pip developed a ..... accent. A) Provincial. B) Contraband. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Provincial. 10. Formal public speaking A) Sermon. B) Oratory. C) Myth. D) Archetype. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Oratory. 11. Unwilling to admit or accept what is offered as true:not credulous:SKEPTICAL (adj) The detective gave her partner an ..... look when he suggested the suspect's innocence. A) Incredulous. B) Supercilious. C) Desolate. D) Spectacles. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Incredulous. 12. In his first voyage Christopher Columbus landed in ..... A) Florida. B) Puerto Rico. C) Bahamas. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bahamas. 13. When was Thomas Paine Born A) 1737. B) 1785. C) 1776. D) 1791. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1737. 14. Who wrote the first English dictionary in America? A) Daniel Webster. B) Noah Webster. C) Alfred Rutgers. D) Menno Simons. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Noah Webster. 15. How many virtues did Franklin feel we should perfect? A) 10. B) 11. C) 12. D) 13. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 13. 16. Define INCUMBENT A) Lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring. B) Being the current holder of an office. C) Disobedient; not submitting to authority. D) To organized incitement of rebellion or civil disorder against authority or the state. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Being the current holder of an office. 17. Define MOTIF. A) A type of feeling that readers get from a narrative, based on details such as setting, background, objects, and foreshadowing. B) A long narrative poem that is elevated and dignified in theme, tone, and style. C) Refers to the central, deeper meaning of a written work. D) An image, sound, action, or other figures that has a symbolic significance, and contributes toward the development of a theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) An image, sound, action, or other figures that has a symbolic significance, and contributes toward the development of a theme. 18. Figure of speech in which a part is used to represent the whole or the whole is used to represent a part A) Synecdoche. B) Idiom. C) Allusion. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Synecdoche. 19. Flout her expressed desires A) Obey. B) Back up. C) Dislike. D) Ignore. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ignore. 20. Whichof the following was not apart of the American Dream? A) Belief in the USA as a paradise. B) Trust in individualism and self-reliance. C) Faith in the country's progress. D) Disregard for personal effort. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Disregard for personal effort. ← 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