Que- According to the myth, why must all things have an end ?
a. The Earthmaker wanted the opportunity to creat a new race of people
b. Mankind would suffer because of a lack of food if there were more people than resources to care for them
c. Hare wished it to be so and that was how it was
d. Grandmother wished it to be so and that was how it was
Answer- Mankind would suffer because of a lack of food if there were more people than resources to care for them
Que- What statement below best sums up the literary significance of John Saffin ?
a. Anti-Slavery
b. Father of american poetry
c. Pro Slavery
d. Father of American Liteature
Answer- Pro Slavery
Que- Dumas, whose father was a General in the French Army, is a Mulatto; Soulie, a Quadroon. He went from New-Orleans, where, though to the eye a white man, yet, as known to have African blood in his veins, he could never have enjoyed the privileges due to a human being. A Mulatto is a person who has one white parent and one black parent; what, then, is a Quadroon ?
a. A person who has two black parents.
b. A person who has one Meranto parent and one black.
c. A person who has two Delfigo parents.
d. A person who has one white parent and one parent who is a Mulatto
Answer- A person who has one white parent and one parent who is a Mulatto
Que- Who inherits ownership of Tom when St. Clare dies ?
a. Eva
b. Marie
c. George Shelby
d. Haley
Answer- Marie
Que- 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
Answer- A tyrannical village chief who is known for his elbow blades
Que- Which statement below best defined Dickinson's idea of circumference ?
a. Above and beyond
b. limitations
c. no limitations
d. Eqaulity
Answer- limitations
Que- The two main characters in The Pearl are______________?
a. Juan Tomas and his wife.
b. The doctor and the priest.
c. Kino and his wife Juana.
d. None of the above
Answer- Kino and his wife Juana.
Que- The cautious old gentleman knit his brows tenfold closer after this explanation, being sorely puzzled by the ratiocination of the syllogism; while methought the one in pepper and salt eyed him with something of a triumphant leer. At length he observed, that all this was very well, but still he thought the story a little extravagant – there were one or two points on which he had his doubts. "Faith, sir," replied the story-teller, "as to that matter, I don't believe one half of it myself." This passage exemplifies_____________?
a. Narrative frame
b. Hortatory sermon
c. Snaring
d. Jamming
Answer- Narrative frame
Que- 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
Answer- A pointed, projected part of something
Que- What was the purpose of the Mayflower Compact ?
a. Establish a new government
b. first agreement on self governing
c. Religious freedom
d. Sovereignty
Answer- first agreement on self governing
Que- The tone of the third stanza of the poem embodies a sense of_____________?
a. Panic
b. Pain
c. Calmness
d. content
Answer- Panic
Que- What statement below best sums up the literary significance of John Winthrop ?
a. American myths
b. non separating puritan
c. City upon a hill
d. All are correct
Answer- All are correct
Que- What animal is personified as the trickster in the Winnebago tale ?
a. Bear
b. Coyote
c. Snake
d. Hare
Answer- Hare
Que- But when to their feminine rage the indignation of the people is added, when the ignorant and the poor are aroused, when the unintelligent brute force that lies at the bottom of society is made to growl and mow, it needs the habit of magnanimity and religion to treat it godlike as a trifle of no concernment. What does "mow" mean in this context ?
a. To grimace
b. To bleat like sheep
c. To lift heavy things
d. To cut grass
Answer- To grimace
Que- The children of the village, too, would shout with joy whenever he approached. He assisted at their sports, made their playthings, taught them to fly kites and shoot marbles, and told them long stories of ghosts, witches, and Indians. This work draws upon_____________?
a. A European fairy tale
b. A local ghost story
c. An Indian legend
d. A European ghost story
Answer- A European fairy tale
Que- This person wrote about a island that he called Colba, now known as Cuba______________?
a. John Smith
b. Coronado
c. Columbus
d. De Vaca
Answer- Columbus
Que- Who is the representative figure of the "Jazz Age" ?
a. Sherwood Anderson
b. F. Scott Fitzgerald
c. Saul Bellow
d. Wallace Stevens
Answer- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Que- 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
Answer- a complete experience
Que- In which state was "Uncle Tom's Cabin" written ?
a. Maine
b. Massachusetts
c. Georgia
d. Ohio
Answer- Maine
Que- 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
Answer- They have the power to fix things themselves
Que- 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
Answer- Hopping rafts of ice
Que- This is the title of a famous Puritan sermon______________?
a. A Bird in the Hand
b. Hands of Satan
c. Sinners in the Hand…
d. Sins of the World
Answer- Sinners in the Hand…
Que- This checkmark diagram represents the plot structure for what genre of early American writing ?
a. Slave narrative
b. Indian autobiography
c. Sermon
d. Trancendentalism
Answer- Slave narrative
Que- In which state is the Shelby farm located ?
a. Tennessee
b. Kentucky
c. Alabama
d. Mississipi
Answer- Kentucky
Que- Bartolome de Las Casas wrote_____________?
a. The devastation of the indies
b. Flor Y Canto
c. A Very Old Man with Enormous wings
d. Hopskotch
Answer- The devastation of the indies
Que- Marlowe's play 'Tamburlaine the Great' was based loosely on the life of which Asian ruler ?
a. Zhu Yuanzhang
b. Genghis Khan
c. Timur
d. Kublai Khan
Answer- Timur
Que- In Marlowe's play, what was the name of the Jew of Malta ?
a. Lazarus
b. Solomon
c. Barabas
d. Shylock
Answer- Barabas
Que- Marlowe's poem 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love' begins with the line "Come live with me and be my love"; which other English author wrote a famous poem beginning with this line ?
a. William Shakespeare
b. Thomas Kyd
c. John Dryden
d. John Donne
Answer- John Donne
Que- Which of these Kings was the subject of a play by Marlowe ?
a. Henry V
b. Richard III
c. Edward II
d. John
Answer- Edward II
Que- One of Marlowe's most famous poems was an account of which lovers ?
a. Anthony and Cleopatra
b. Hero and Leander
c. Troilus and Cressida
d. Apollo and Hyacinth
Answer- Hero and Leander
Que- One of Marlowe's earliest published works was his translation of the epic poem 'Pharsalia', written by which Roman poet ?
a. Ovid
b. Lucan
c. Virgil
d. Horace
Answer- Lucan
Que- In the title of Marlowe's play, of where was Dido the Queen ?
a. Troy
b. Carthage
c. Sparta
d. Persia
Answer- Carthage
Que- What was the title of the play by Marlowe that portrayed the events surrounding the Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre in 1572 ?
a. The Massacre at Berlin
b. The Massacre at Rome
c. The Massacre at Copenhagen
d. The Massacre at Paris
Answer- The Massacre at Copenhagen
Que- How many years of happiness was Dr Faustus promised by the Devil ?
a. 16
b. 20
c. 24
d. 28
Answer- 24
Que- The northern Renaissance differed from the Italian Renaissance__________________?
a. growth of religious activity among common people
b. earlier occurrence
c. greater appreciation of pagan writers
d. decline in the use of Latin
Answer- growth of religious activity among common people
Que- An important feature of the Renaissance was an emphasis on________________?
a. alchemy and magic
b. the literature of Greece and Rome
c. chivalry of the Middle Ages
d. the teaching of St. Thomas Acquinas
Answer- the literature of Greece and Rome
Que- The "father of humanism" was_______________?
a. Petrarch
b. Dante
c. Boccaccio
d. Pico della Mirandola
Answer- Petrarch
Que- The Prince was written to gain favor of the_______________?
a. Pazzi
b. Republic
c. Medici
d. Inquisition
Answer- Inquisition
Que- who lost the most power during the renaissance ?
a. Italian merchants
b. catholic church
c. black people
d. king and queen of Spain
Answer- catholic church
Que- Which of the following techniques was NOT used in the Renaissance art ?
a. realism
b. perspective
c. individualism
d. abstractioin
Answer- abstractioin
Que- who is considered as the model of the people during the renaissance ?
a. greek and austrian
b. roman and french
c. roman and greek
d. french and greek
Answer- roman and greek
Que- Edward King, a minor poet and a contemporary of Milton's at Cambridge, was drowned at sea in 1637. Milton wrote an elegy for him. What was the title of this poem ?
a. lycidas
b. Paradise Lost
c. II penseroso
d. none of the above
Answer- lycidas
Que- The 20th century has been less kind to his memory. TS Eliot found his imagery distracting, and considered his work "not serious poetry", but it was another critic who accused him of "callousness to the intrinsic nature of English". Who ?
a. FR Leavis
b. Harold Bloom
c. William Empson
d. Mariella Frostrup
Answer- FR Leavis
Que- In 1634 Milton wrote a masque. What's the name of that masque ?
a. Il Penseroso
b. Lycidas'
c. Comus'
d. The Masque of Blackness'
Answer- Comus'
Que- Milton, thou should'st be living at this hour. England hath need of thee. Indeed. But who was it, summoning his ghost ?
a. Horatio Herbert Kitchener
b. William Blake
c. William Wordsworth
d. John Keats
Answer- William Wordsworth
Que- the word renaissance means______________?
a. the rebirth of learning or knowledge
b. reading of books
c. the time of astronauts
d. the study of art
Answer- the rebirth of learning or knowledge
Que- In what country did the Renaissance begin ?
a. Italy
b. France
c. England
d. Germany
Answer- Italy
Que- John Milton was 34 when he married Mary Powell. How old was she ?
a. 48
b. 34
c. 22
d. 17
Answer- 17
Que- When was John Milton born ?
a. 22 April 1600
b. 19 August 1604
c. 6 June 1606
d. 9 December 1608
Answer- 9 December 1608
Que- Which of these words or usages did Milton NOT coin ?
a. Space used to mean "outer space"
b. Unaccountable
c. Pandemonium
d. Blatant
Answer- Blatant