This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Regions > American > American Literature – Quiz 9 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books American Literature Quiz 9 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The Weary Blues A) William Faulkner. B) Carl Sandburg. C) Langston Hues. D) Sherwood anderson. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Langston Hues. 2. Wines Burg Ohio A) Sherwood Anderson. B) Robert Lee Frost. C) William Faulkner. D) Carl Sanburg. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sherwood Anderson. 3. The narrator returns home during the A) Spring. B) Winter. C) Fall. D) Summer. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Winter. 4. Black Boy is an autobiographical account of whose Southern boyhood? A) Thomas. B) Pynchon. C) John Dos Passos. D) Saul Bellow. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pynchon. 5. Maria Steward believe that black woman are crucial to the uplift of black Americans. Why? A) They have the power to fix things themselves. B) Men are more powerful. C) Both are correct. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They have the power to fix things themselves. 6. About the Navajo A) Settled in Northeastern US. B) Kept the Navajo Origin Legend through oral tradition. C) Believed that corn was crucial to creation. D) B and C. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) B and C. 7. " I hear my being dance from ear to ear" . Here ear to ear refers to A) A round about way of telling things. B) A heart warming smile. C) Listening through an ear and pass it off through the other. D) A complete experience. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A complete experience. 8. What statement below best sums up the literary significance of Frederick Douglass? A) Indian Autobiography. B) Father of free verse. C) Father of American poetry. D) Most popular slave narrative. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Most popular slave narrative. 9. John Winthrop's "A Model of Christian Charity" illustrates what genre of early American writing? A) Sermon. B) Romanticism. C) Transcendtalism. D) Both B and C. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sermon. 10. What ritual does the character resembling the devil attempt to perform in the woods, with goodman Brown as the object? A) A conversion. B) A christening. C) A wedding. D) A baptism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A baptism. 11. Why did Bradford and the Pilgrims create Plymouth Colony? A) For the land. B) Sovereignty to establish godly kingdom as they saw fit. C) Religious practice of the Church of England. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sovereignty to establish godly kingdom as they saw fit. 12. Abraham Lincoln: the war Years A) T.S. Elliot. B) Carl Sandburg. C) William Faulkner. D) Wallace Stevene. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Carl Sandburg. 13. "Light in August" A) T.S. elliot. B) William Faulkner. C) Langston Hughes. D) Sherwood anderson. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) William Faulkner. 14. We associate Nathaniel Hawthrone with what literary movement? A) Nationalism. B) Transcendentalism. C) Romanticism. D) Indian Autobiography. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Romanticism. 15. What statement below best sums up the literary significance of Samon Occum? A) Indian autobiography. B) Most popular slave narrative. C) First african american to speak to mixed audience. D) None of the aboveE. All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Indian autobiography. 16. In which state is Legree's plantation located? A) Georgia. B) Florida. C) Louisiana. D) Vermont. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Louisiana. 17. Who was the first black woman who win the Nobel Prize for Literature? A) Toni Morrison. B) Jane Austin. C) Ann Petry. D) Frances Harper. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Toni Morrison. 18. The term Beat Generation comes from A) Beat to his size. B) Beat to his stomach. C) Beat to his socks. D) Beat to his Shoe. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Beat to his socks. 19. Who coined the phrase 'Lost Generation'? A) Hemingway. B) Gertude Stein. C) F. Scott Fitzserald. D) Sherwood Anderson. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gertude Stein. 20. Which of the following is NOT considered a write for the Transcendentalism Movement? A) Emerson. B) Hawthrone. C) Thoreau. D) Stewart. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hawthrone. ← 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 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books