This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Regions > American > American Literature – Quiz 13 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books American Literature Quiz 13 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Black English is the creation of the ..... A) Linguistics Society. B) Unites States of American -English. C) Black Diaspora Association. D) Black Diaspora. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Black Diaspora. 2. By 1600 Holland had ..... A) Emerged as a supreme power among the European countries. B) A huge collection of paintings and sculptures. C) The wisest men of the time. D) Many scholars and sceptics. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Many scholars and sceptics. 3. Writers in the Romantic time period were concerned with: A) Nature as a source of secular and spiritual knowledge, emotion as truth, and exploration of the self. B) Scientific exploration. C) Love and romance. D) The philosophy of how to run a new country. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nature as a source of secular and spiritual knowledge, emotion as truth, and exploration of the self. 4. About the Pima A) Introduced domestic animals to the Navajo. B) Made houses of saplings bent into domes. C) Legend From the Houses of Magic. D) B and C. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) B and C. 5. The poem ends on a A) Happy and meaningful note. B) Courageous and hopeful note. C) Tragic and painful note. D) Philosophical note. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Philosophical note. 6. The pervading metaphor in the story is A) A clean well-lighted place. B) The old waiter. C) The old man. D) Liquor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A clean well-lighted place. 7. How long is Rip asleep in the woods? A) Fifty years. B) Twenty years. C) One hundred years. D) Eighty years. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Twenty years. 8. The sweetest music is not in the oratorio, but in ..... A) Soulful lyrics. B) Human voice. C) Epic. D) Lyric. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Human voice. 9. A good definition of American Realism is: A) An examination of life as it actually is. B) A romantic portrayal of life. C) An examination of the countryside versus the city. D) A sad and depressing view of reality. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) An examination of life as it actually is. 10. "He will give the gloom of gloom, and the sunshine of sunshine" . The pronoun "He" refers to A) God. B) Painter. C) Sculptor. D) Author. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Painter. 11. Yes, when the stars glisten'd, All night long on the prong of a moss-scallop'd stake, Down almost amid the slapping waves, Sat the lone singer wonderful causing tears. What is a prong? A) An edgy platform. B) Other side. C) A pointed, projected part of something. D) An adumbration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A pointed, projected part of something. 12. This character survived a massacre: A) Faith. B) Hope. C) Magawisca. D) Madeline. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Magawisca. 13. This is the name of the report by Cotton Mather about the trial accusing Martha Carrier of witchcraft A) The Burning of Our House. B) The Story of Plymouth Plantation. C) Sinners in the Hand. D) The Wonders of the Invisible World. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Wonders of the Invisible World. 14. What statement below best sums up the literary significance of Emerson? A) Father of Free verse. B) Father of american poetry. C) Pro Slavery. D) Father of American Liteature. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Father of American Liteature. 15. The Battle of the Ants is an excerpt from..... A) Civil Disobedience. B) Walden. C) Herald of Freedom. D) Life without principle. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Walden. 16. Who is the central Figure in O Nell's The Hairy Ape A) Mildred. B) Yank. C) The Secretary of I.W.W. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Yank. 17. This group united 5 tribes A) Iroquois. B) Sioux. C) Navajo. D) Hopi. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Iroquois. 18. Which of Uncle Tom's personal characteristics guided his interactions with others and his responses to his circumstances? A) His gentle and soft-spoken nature. B) His honesty and deep devotion to God. C) His overwhelming fear of violence. D) His ability to hide his rebellious nature. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) His honesty and deep devotion to God. 19. Which of the following is not a cultural myth we attribute to those earliest Massachusetts colonial settlements at Plymouth and Massachusetts? A) Democracy. B) Brother love/charity. C) US Exceptionalism. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) None of the above. 20. Hawthorne's ancestors are associated with what historical American event? A) History of puritans. B) History of slavery. C) Transcendentalism. D) None of the above. 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