This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Regions > American > American Literature – Quiz 8 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books American Literature Quiz 8 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. About the Delaware A) Used pictographs to explain nature. B) Told the story of Wolam Olum. C) Settled in Northeast US. D) All the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All the above. 2. William Bradford's Of Plymouth Plantation exemplifies what genre of early American writing? A) Slave narrative. B) Free verse poem. C) Journal. D) Spiritual diary. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Spiritual diary. 3. This mode of discourse attempts to convince someone A) Persuasion. B) Prejudice. C) Promise. D) Promotion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Persuasion. 4. Who wrote The sound and the furry? A) Eugene O' Neil's. B) William Faulkner. C) Robert Lee frost. D) Countee Cullen. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) William Faulkner. 5. On this explorer's quest for gold, the guide mislead them to Texas A) Columbus. B) Magellan. C) Coronado. D) Houston. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Coronado. 6. Berryman's The Ball Poem can be categorised as a A) Confessional poem. B) Metaphorical poem. C) Fragmental poem. D) Delusional poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Confessional poem. 7. What writing describes the death of two settlers at the hands of 300 bowmen? A) General History of Virginia. B) Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves. C) Walum Olum. D) Beowulf. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) General History of Virginia. 8. This Puritan author wrote about the Salem witch trials A) Cotton Mather. B) Owen Edwards. C) Annie Bradford. D) Terry Pratchett. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cotton Mather. 9. Which of the following best defines the Enlightenment movement? A) Age of reason. B) Political thinking. C) Celebration of individual. D) Philosophical movment. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Age of reason. 10. Frost's poem The Road Not Taken is included in his poetical collection- A) A Boy's Will. B) A Witness Tree. C) North of Boston. D) Mountain Interval. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mountain Interval. 11. The black language holds great importance for the ..... A) Black community in America. B) Identity of Blacks in The United States. C) Survival and continuation of the Black community. D) Restoration of a language. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Survival and continuation of the Black community. 12. How does Eliza cross the Ohio river? A) By ferry. B) On a makeshift raft. C) In a stolen canoe. D) Hopping rafts of ice. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hopping rafts of ice. 13. Which of these is NOT a rhetorical purpose of the Spiritual Diary Genre? A) Finding spiritual meaning. B) Critic slavery. C) Defend Slavery. D) Both B and C. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Both B and C. 14. When did william Faulkner get nobel prize for literature? A) A-1941. B) B-1949. C) C-1945. D) D-1938. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) B-1949. 15. To which country do George and Eliza plan to immigrate? A) Liberia. B) Nigeria. C) France. D) Algeria. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Liberia. 16. Who was Fuseli? A) Swiss-bom painter. B) French guitarist. C) An Italian-born doctor. D) British painter. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) British painter. 17. The first stanza of the poem provides an idea that it is A) A revenge story. B) Not a happy story. C) A metaphysical poem. D) A deterministic poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Not a happy story. 18. Pre-colonial theme: A) Religious stories. B) Creation stories. C) A and B. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A and B. 19. During the Revolutionary time period, what great document was written? A) The first romance novel. B) The Declaration of Independence. C) Confessional poetry. D) The Heiner Papers. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Declaration of Independence. 20. This person wrote about a island that he called Colba, now known as Cuba A) John Smith. B) Coronado. C) Columbus. D) De Vaca. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Columbus. ← 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 9American Literature Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books