This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Regions > American Literature > American Literature – Quiz 82 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books American Literature Quiz 82 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. To impress on the mind by repetition, teach persistently and earnestly A) Inculcate. B) Amenable. C) Dilatory. D) Amnesty. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Inculcate. 2. The Old Man and the Sea A) Ernest Hemingway. B) Emily Dickinson. C) Maya Angelou. D) James Baldwin. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ernest Hemingway. 3. A way an author uses language that expresses something more than the literal meaning of the words A) Imagery. B) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Symbolism. 4. In the last Federalist Paper, #85, what philosopher does Hamilton quote? "To balance a large state or society whether monarchical or republican, on general laws, is a work of so great difficulty, that no human genius, however comprehensive, is able by the mere dint of reason and reflection, to effect it." A) Locke. B) Montesquieu. C) Hume. D) Plato. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hume. 5. Author presents the characters without comment A) Objective POV. B) Omniscient POV. C) First Person POV. D) Limited POV. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Objective POV. 6. Which era of American literature is associated with slave trade and expansion of territories and colonies? A) Colonial literature. B) Transcendentalism. C) Realism. D) Native American. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Colonial literature. 7. What is a concept of a text? A) A concept is a supposition or a system of ideas intended to explain something, especially one based on general principles independent of the thing to be explained. B) A concept is an idea conceived in the mind. C) A concept is an an abstract idea or a general notion. D) A concept is based on a main idea or a theme. It is the generalized idea that holds a text together. For example, a collection of satirical poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A concept is based on a main idea or a theme. It is the generalized idea that holds a text together. For example, a collection of satirical poetry. 8. If Beale Street Could Talk A) Louisa May Alcott. B) Rodolfo Anaya. C) Willa Cather. D) James Baldwin. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) James Baldwin. 9. To soothe; calm A) Assuage. B) Deferential. C) Aww. D) Refrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Assuage. 10. Who wrote The Crucible? A) Joseph McCarthy. B) Arthur Miller. C) John Proctor. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Arthur Miller. 11. Modernist wanted to: A) Reflect Communist values. B) Set their stories in exotic locations. C) Find new themes and styles. D) Avoid outside influences. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Find new themes and styles. 12. To take the place of, supersede A) Supplant. B) Hypodermic. C) Gesticulation. D) Audacity. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Supplant. 13. Pre-Colonial Writing that has religious topics and instructive literature. A) American Indian Writing. B) Explore and Settler Narratives. C) The Puritans. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Puritans. 14. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly" is an example of what rhetorical device? A) Parallelism. B) Anaphora. C) Restatement. D) Aphorism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Aphorism. 15. In "The Law of Life" by Jack London it is said: A) The adventures of a scammer. B) The death of an old man in the snow. C) The hard learning about the life of a young man. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The death of an old man in the snow. 16. Which type of writing is divided into lines or stanzas and usually has rhythm? A) Novel. B) Poetry. C) Autobiography. D) Fable. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Poetry. 17. True or False:Wheatley was the first slave to be publish a book of poems? A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 18. ) The Great Gatsby was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 19. Stanza of poetry consisting of 4 lines A) Quatrain. B) Couplet. C) Pastoral. D) Narrative. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Quatrain. 20. A gesture, especially a dramatic one, used instead of speaking or to emphasize one's words. A) Hypodermic. B) Gesticulation. C) Scantling. D) Solemn. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gesticulation. ← 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