This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Regions > American > American Literature – Quiz 6 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books American Literature Quiz 6 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. According to the tale, what horrible crime did the ucle commit? A) He killed all of the old people. B) He killed all of the female children. C) He killed all of the male children. D) He killed all of the women. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He killed all of the male children. 2. All works of the highest art are meant to..... A) Tingle our senses. B) Stir our intellect. C) Restore our skills for the art. D) Instill in us the sense of the art. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stir our intellect. 3. Before humans were sold as commodities, what item was highly sought after in West Africa? A) Diamonds. B) Land. C) Gold. D) Gasoline. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Gold. 4. What does George Shelby give Uncle Tom to wear on a string around his neck before Tom is taken away? A) A locket. B) A ring. C) A dollar. D) A crucifix. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A dollar. 5. But when a Boy, and Barefoot I more than once at Noon Have passed, I thought, a Whip lash Unbraiding in the Sun The speaker of this poem is..... A) A boy. B) An alien. C) A girl. D) A communist. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A boy. 6. This group of Native Americans left behind a legend about creation using pictographs A) Apache. B) Delaware. C) Sioux. D) Inuit. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Delaware. 7. This group of Native Americans believed that corn was crucial to creation. A) Teton. B) Cherokee. C) Utes. D) Navajo. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Navajo. 8. Who is Sharp-elbow? A) A genrous village chief who is known for his kindness. B) Hare's grandfather. C) A god who protects and guides Hare on his many adventures. D) A tyrannical village chief who is known for his elbow blades. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A tyrannical village chief who is known for his elbow blades. 9. What statement below best sums up the literary significance of Benjamin Franklin? A) Mentor to other writers. B) Rewrote the autobiography. C) Self-made and. D) Both B and C. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Both B and C. 10. In Saul Bellow's novel Herzog (1964), Moses Herzog is a A) Christian. B) Hindu. C) Jew. D) Afro-American. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Jew. 11. What does Eva's father promise her before she dies? A) That he will adopt Topsy. B) That he will free Uncle Tom. C) That he will remarry. D) That he will try to find Harry. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) That he will free Uncle Tom. 12. This is the implied comparison between two dissimilar things A) Myth. B) History. C) Tradition. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 13. Bear is supposed to be brave, so how does Hare trick him into being afraid? A) Hare told him of a large beast living near Bear's home. B) Hare took out his quiver and showed him four arrows. C) Hare told thim that the country is full of wars. D) Hare threated to kill him. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hare took out his quiver and showed him four arrows. 14. Thoreau was part of the Transcendalists, which were founded by..... A) Mark Twain. B) Herman Melville. C) Ralph Waldo Emerson. D) Walt Whitman. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ralph Waldo Emerson. 15. We associate William Bradford with what colonial settlement? A) Plymouth. B) Mayflower compact. C) Massachusetts Bay Colony. D) Rhode Island. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Plymouth. 16. What statement below best sums up the literary significance of Samuel Sewall? A) Anti-Slavery. B) Father of american poetry. C) Pro Slavery. D) Father of American Liteature. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anti-Slavery. 17. What invention won George Harris the respect of his factory's proprietor? A) A cotton ginning machine. B) A hemp cleaning machine. C) A hemp twines. D) A bread slicing machine. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A hemp cleaning machine. 18. Which American poet is hailed as the representative poet of America? A) Robert Frost. B) R. W. Emerson. C) Walt Whitman. D) Edgar Allen Poe. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Walt Whitman. 19. As I lay die A) Sherwood Anderson. B) Langston Hughes. C) William Faulkner. D) Robert Lee Frost. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) William Faulkner. 20. Who wrote Heritage? A) Countiee cullen. B) William Faulkner. C) T.S. Eliot. D) Wallace stevens. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Countiee cullen. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesRegions QuizzesAmerican Literature Quiz 1American Literature Quiz 2American Literature Quiz 3American Literature Quiz 4American Literature Quiz 5American Literature Quiz 7American Literature Quiz 8American Literature Quiz 9American Literature Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books