Que- He wrote a journal about his expedition in northern Florida _____________?
a. De Vaca
b. Johnathan Edwards
c. Cortez
d. Vasco de Gama
Answer- De Vaca
Que- Maria Stewart is associated with what major American literary movement ?
a. Idealism
b. Slavery
c. Romanticism
d. Nationalism
Answer- Nationalism
Que- Over which river does Eliza make her miraculous crossing ?
a. The Mississippi
b. The Colorado
c. The Ohio
d. The Danube
Answer- The Ohio
Que- Which of the following is NOT a feature or characteristics of Emily Dickinson's poetry ?
a. Mysterious
b. Slant Rhymes
c. True Rhymes
d. No titles
Answer- True Rhymes
Que- The 'fearful trip' is a recall of________________?
a. The Civil war
b. Voyage
c. Abraham Lincoln
d. Trip form England to the United States
Answer- The Civil war
Que- The first part of American History dwells of the_________________?
a. Discovery of America by Columbus
b. Discovery and settlement of the Western continent
c. early English settlers
d. missionaries settled in America
Answer- Discovery and settlement of the Western continent
Que- The house of this Puritan poet burned down_____________?
a. Elizabeth Browning
b. Eliza Snow
c. George Elliot
d. Anne Bradstreet
Answer- Anne Bradstreet
Que- About the Iroquois_______________?
a. Dekonawidah planted the Tree of Great Peace
b. Powerful enemy of the Delaware tribe
c. The tribe drafted a constitution to define the governance of their society
d. All the above
Answer- All the above
Que- 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
Answer- General History of Virginia
Que- Which statement best describes literary significance of William APess ?
a. Indian Autobiography
b. Father of free verse
c. Father of American poetry
d. Both A and B
Answer- Both A and B
Que- What job does Uncle Tom perform at the St. Clare plantation ?
a. Cook
b. Groomsman
c. Head Coachman
d. Valet
Answer- Head Coachman
Que- 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
Answer- Survival and continuation of the Black community
Que- Define trickster tale ?
a. A recurrent thematic element in an artistic or literary work.
b. The struggle found in fiction
c. Giving human qualities to animals or objects
d. A story about a mischievous, supernatural being
Answer- A story about a mischievous, supernatural being
Que- 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
Answer- The Wonders of the Invisible World
Que- 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.
Answer- An examination of life as it actually is.
Que- How do the Shelby's treat their slaves ?
a. Kindly but firmly
b. Set them all free
c. Beat them everyday
d. They do not have slaves
Answer- Kindly but firmly
Que- This quote comes from what writing: "God holds you over the pit of Hell much as one holds a spider over the fire________________"?
a. Spiders of the World
b. Hands of Satan
c. Hell and Salem
d. Sinners in the Hand…
Answer- Sinners in the Hand…
Que- Who wrote "The waste land" ?
a. Langston Hues
b. William Faulkner
c. Wallace Stevens
d. T.S. Elliot
Answer- T.S. Elliot
Que- Which of the following is NOT considered a write for the Transcendentalism Movement ?
a. Emerson
b. Hawthrone
c. Thoreau
d. Stewart
Answer- Hawthrone
Que- Whitman uses line length and word choice to represent________________?
a. a wide range of emotion from joy to sorrow
b. His style of writing
c. the joyous moment
d. a feeling of excitement
Answer- a wide range of emotion from joy to sorrow
Que- As a boy, Frederick Douglass witnesses a scene that mortifies him and brings him face to face for the first time with the horrors of slavery. What is it ?
a. Seeing his mother die
b. Watching a slave get beaten to death
c. Watching his aunt get whipped
d. Watching his dad beat his mother
Answer- Watching his aunt get whipped
Que- Bret Harte's "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" took place in_______________?
a. The Rocky Mountains.
b. The Appalachian Mountains.
c. The Sierra Nevada Mountains.
d. The Sierra Madre Mountains.
Answer- The Sierra Nevada Mountains.
Que- Gradually light returns to the street means_______________?
a. life resumes to normal routine
b. it is day break
c. streets are bright
d. life is unpredictable
Answer- life resumes to normal routine
Que- What event provides the motivation for Shelby to release all the slaves ?
a. Tom's death
b. Eliza's escape
c. Tom's daughter's wedding
d. Tom saving Eva
Answer- Tom's death
Que- Who "haunts" the evil Simon Legree when he is drunk ?
a. Cassy
b. Eliza
c. George
d. Uncle Tom
Answer- Cassy
Que- The pervading metaphor in the story is___________________?
a. a clean well-lighted place
b. the old waiter
c. the old man
d. liquor
Answer- a clean well-lighted place
Que- This mode of discourse relates a story________________?
a. Fiction
b. Narration
c. Exposition
d. Persuasion
Answer- Narration
Que- After Hare had destroyed all the bad animals what did he decide to do next ?
a. He decided to prepare some animals for humans to eat
b. He decided to go on his way and start a family of his own
c. He decided that there were more bad animals and set out to destroy the rest of them
d. The tale ended and the reader is not certain about what happened to bear
Answer- He decided to prepare some animals for humans to eat
Que- As I lay die_________________?
a. Sherwood Anderson
b. Langston Hugues
c. William Faulkner
d. Robert Lee Frost
Answer- William Faulkner
Que- Which statement below best defines the genre of Indian autobiography ?
a. Genre that details life exerpeinces of white americans in early america and critiques american society to native americans.
b. Genre that details life experiences of native Americas in early America and critiques American society to native Americans.
c. Both A and B
d. None of the above
Answer- Genre that details life experiences of native Americas in early America and critiques American society to native Americans.
Que- 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
Answer- stir our intellect
Que- In Talbot county, Eastern Shore, Maryland, near Easton, the county town of that country, there is a small district of country, thily populated, and remarkable for nothing that I know of more than for the worn-out, sandy, deserts-like appearance of its soil, the general dilapidation of its farms and fences, the indigent and spiritless character of its inhabitants, and the prevalence of ague and fever. What does dilapidation mean ?
a. Hunger or famine
b. Decrease
c. Derivation
d. Neglect or decray
Answer- Neglect or decray
Que- In which state is Legree's plantation located ?
a. Georgia
b. Florida
c. Louisiana
d. Vermont
Answer- Louisiana
Que- Thoreau through this essay tries to portray_______________?
a. Transcendentalism
b. Imperialism
c. Socialism
d. Naturalism
Answer- Imperialism
Que- Black English is the creation of the____________________?
a. Linguistics Society
b. Unites States of American -English
c. Black Diaspora Association
d. Black Diaspora
Answer- Black Diaspora
Que- Which American President reportedly referred to Harriet Beecher Stowe as "the little lady who made this big war" ?
a. George Washington
b. John Adams
c. Abraham Lincoln
d. John. F. Kennedy
Answer- Abraham Lincoln
Que- Thoreau was part of the Transcend lists, which were founded by________________?
a. Mark Twain.
b. Herman Melville.
c. Ralph Waldo Emerson.
d. Walt Whitman.
Answer- Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Que- This Puritan author wrote a persuasive speech ?
a. William Bradstreet
b. Mather Edwards
c. John Williams
d. Johnathan Edwards
Answer- Johnathan Edwards
Que- Arthur Miller's Death of A Salesman was appeared in _______________?
a. 1945
b. 1947
c. 1949
d. 1950
Answer- 1949
Que- Which character in "Uncle Tom's Cabin" directly opposes the Fugitive Slave Law ?
a. Senator Bird
b. Mrs. Bird
c. St. Clare
d. Haley
Answer- Mrs. Bird
Que- I took my visitors all over the house. I bade them search — search well. I led them, at length, to his chamber. I showed them his treasures, secure, undisturbed. The narrator is________________?
a. Helping Robin to search for his uncle
b. A detective
c. Leading the police to the scene of a crime
d. Helping the police to look for a letter
Answer- Leading the police to the scene of a crime
Que- The populace think that your rejection of popular standards is a rejection of all standard, and mere antinomianism – and the bold sensualist will use the name of philosophy to gild his crimes. But the law of consciousness abides. There are two confessionals, in one or the other of which we must be shriven. What is "antinomianism" ?
a. Doctrine of Stoicism
b. Doctrine of Gnosticism
c. Doctrine of Materialism
d. Doctrine of salvation by faith alone
Answer- Doctrine of salvation by faith alone
Que- When there was a momentary calm in that tempestuous sea of sound, the leader gave the sign, the procession resumed its march. On they went, like fiends that throng in mockery around some dead potentate, mighty no more, but majestic still in his agony. On they went, in counterfeited pomp, in senseless uproar, in frenzied merriment, trampling all on an old man's heart. This is______________?
a. Historical fiction
b. A fairy tale
c. An autobiography
d. A detective story
Answer- Historical fiction
Que- ________________is known as the 'friendly innkeeper of the town' ?
a. Stephen
b. Parker J
c. Goodman Parker
d. Stephen J Parker
Answer- Goodman Parker
Que- It was about this time that I conceiv'd the bold and arduous Project of arriving at moral Perfection. I wish'd to live without committing any Fault at any time; I would conquer all that either Natural Inclination, Custom, or Company might lead me into. As I knew, or thought I knew, what was right and wrong, I did not see why I might not always do the one and avoid the other. But I soon found I had undertaken a Task of more difficulty than I had imagined. … I included under Thirteen names of Virtues all that at that time occurr'd to me as necessary or desirable, and annex'd to each a short Precept, which fully express'd the Extent I gave to its Meaning ?
a. Samson Occcum
b. John Winthrop
c. Benjamin Franklin
d. Mayflower Compact
Answer- Benjamin Franklin
Que- For a time the narrator comforts Roderick by reading and painting with him; one of Roderick's paintings is described as follows: "A small picture presented the interior of an immensely long and rectangular vault or tunnel, with low walls, smooth, white, and without interruption or device. Certain accessory points of the design served well to convey the idea that this excavation lay at an exceeding depth below the surface of the earth." What later event in the story does this picture foreshadow ?
a. The narrator and Roderick bury Madeline alive in a stone tomb beneath the mansion.
b. The narrator and Roderick drown Madeline in the tarn next to the mansion.
c. Roderick and Madeline escape the house via an underground tunnel.
d. The narrator and Roderick become trapped in catacombs beneath the mansion.
Answer- The narrator and Roderick bury Madeline alive in a stone tomb beneath the mansion.
Que- The purpose of placing 'fallen cold and dead' at the end of each section is to_____________?
a. remind the leader of the tragedy
b. repeat the lines for the rhyming
c. keep the readers aware of what is to come
d. clarify his idea
Answer- remind the leader of the tragedy
Que- The Weary Blues______________?
a. William Faulkner
b. Carl Sandburg
c. Langston Hues
d. Sherwood anderson
Answer- Langston Hues
Que- Who is addressed as "you" in the poem ?
a. a romantic achiever
b. a frustrated romantic idealist
c. an under achiever
d. an accomplished royal
Answer- a frustrated romantic idealist
Que- I was somewhat unmanageable when I first went [to Master Covey's], but a few months of this discipline tamed me. … I was broken in body, soul, and spirit. My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed, the cheerful spark that lingered about my eye died; the dark night of slavery closed in upon men, and behold a man transformed into a brute!" ?
a. Fredrick Douglass
b. John Winthrop
c. Benjamin Franklin
d. William Apess
Answer- Fredrick Douglass