American Literature Quiz 12 (20 MCQs)

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1. Before advocating on behalf of the enslaved in colonial Massachusetts, Samuel Sewall participated in what early American crisis event?

Correct Answer: B) Salem Witch Trails.

2. Who is Eliza's mother?

Correct Answer: A) Cassy.

3. The poem by Berryman has a sad and depressed tone about it and it foreshadows the

Correct Answer: B) Fate and the mindest of the boy.

4. The two main characters in The Pearl are.....

Correct Answer: C) Kino and his wife Juana.

5. Which character in "Uncle Tom's Cabin" directly opposes the Fugitive Slave Law?

Correct Answer: B) Mrs. Bird.

6. About Anne Bradstreet

Correct Answer: D) A and C.

7. What does George Harris' master demand of him that prompts him to plan his escape?

Correct Answer: D) Marry another woman.

8. Who is the representative figure of the "Jazz Age"

Correct Answer: B) F. Scott Fitzgerald.

9. Ralph Waldo Emerson was a mentor for a number of early American writers, including:

Correct Answer: C) Thoreau.

10. What job does Uncle Tom perform at the St. Clare plantation?

Correct Answer: C) Head Coachman.

11. This is a system of fundamental laws governing a society

Correct Answer: B) Constitution.

12. Who is the narrator in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby (1925)

Correct Answer: B) Nick.

13. Which statement below best defined Dickinson's idea of circumference?

Correct Answer: B) Limitations.

14. Walt Whitman's style of writing is known as

Correct Answer: A) Experimental.

15. Who is the narrator in Melville's Moby Dick

Correct Answer: C) Ishmael.

16. Who wrote "Emperor Ice cream" ?

Correct Answer: C) Wallace stevens.

17. 'Picture must not be too picturesque'. Emerson here means pictures must

Correct Answer: D) Not dazzle.

18. What statement below best sums up the literary significance of Emily Dickinson?

Correct Answer: B) Slant Rhyme.

19. Who is addressed as "you" in the poem?

Correct Answer: B) A frustrated romantic idealist.

20. 'Your' uses an upper case because

Correct Answer: D) He places his beloved in an upper place.