American Literature Mcqs - Set 3

1)   This mode of discourse is used to explain. (Example: repair manuals) ?

a. Connotation
b. Constitution
c. Convocation
d. Exposition
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Exposition

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2)   Hawthorne’s ancestors are associated with what historical American event ?

a. History of puritans
b. History of slavery
c. Transcendentalism
d. None of the above
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: History of puritans

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3)   Walt Whitman’s style of writing is known as______________?

a. Experimental
b. Expressionistic
c. Lethargic
d. Modernistic
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Experimental

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4)   We associate William Bradford with what colonial settlement ?

a. Plymouth
b. Mayflower compact
c. Massachusetts Bay Colony
d. Rhode Island
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Plymouth

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5)   “Left the house of the subscriber, bounden servant, Hezekiah Mudge—had on when he went away, grey coat, leather breeches, master’s third best hat. One pound currency reward to whoever shall lodge him in any jail in the province.” Hezekiah Mudge is a “bounden servant,” meaning that he is bound by contract to be a servant (essentially a willing slave) for seven years in repayment for____________?

a. Freedom
b. Escape from enslavement
c. Transportation to the colonies
d. Dropping charges for murder
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Transportation to the colonies

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6)   We paused before a House that seemed A Swelling of the Ground – The Roof was scarcely visible – The Cornice – in the Ground – What is Cornice ?

a. Cracks in the ground
b. Decorative molding beneath a roof
c. Dust
d. Stolen goods
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Decorative molding beneath a roof

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7)   This mode of discourse presents details that appeal to the senses______________?

a. Description
b. Metaphor
c. Persuation
d. Narration
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Description

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8)   Who is the narrator in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby (1925) ?

a. Gatsby
b. Nick
c. Buchannan
d. None of the above
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Nick

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9)   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
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Indian autobiography

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10)   Themes in modern literature are_____________?

a. pretension
b. nostalgia
c. national identity
d. All the above
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: All the above

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11)   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.
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Hare took out his quiver and showed him four arrows.

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12)   About William Bradford__________________?

a. Wrote the Mayflower Compact agreement
b. Founded Jamestown
c. Wrote about the Plymouth Plantation
d. A and C
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: A and C

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13)   Which of the following is NOT a feature of the Indian autobiography genre ?

a. Birth
b. Assimilation
c. Sovereignty
d. Religious in nature
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Sovereignty

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14)   What statement below best sums up the literary significance of Emily Dickinson ?

a. oversoul
b. Slant Rhyme
c. True Rhyme
d. All of the above
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Slant Rhyme

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15)   It was the very witching time of night that he, heavyhearted and crestfallen, pursued his travel homeward. Far below, the Tappan Zee spread its dusky waters. In the dead hush of midnight he could hear the faint barking of a watchdog from the opposite shore. The night grew darker and darker; the stars seemed to sink deeper in the sky, and driving clouds occasionally hid them from his sight. This passage is from________________?

a. A fairy tale
b. An autobiography
c. A detective story
d. A Gothic tale
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: A Gothic tale

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16)   This author wrote of the Pilgrims’ voyage to the New World ?

a. Bradford Nelson
b. William Holden
c. Nelson Holden
d. William Bradford
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: William Bradford

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17)   In what year was the Fugitive Slave Act passed ?

a. 1784
b. 1841
c. 1850
d. 1857
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: 1850

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18)   Who is the narrator in Melville’s Moby Dick ?

a. Captain Ahab
b. Elijah
c. Ishmael
d. Gabrial
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Ishmael

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19)   According to “Hare’s Adventure”, how does he get his “burnt buttocks” ?

a. His buttocks was scorched by the sun which he had caught in a trap
b. Grandmother burned him with a hot poker for being so mischievous
c. Hare caught his own tale on fire trying to cook himself some dinner
d. He was born that way
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: His buttocks was scorched by the sun which he had caught in a trap

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20)   “He will give the gloom of gloom, and the sunshine of sunshine”. The pronoun “He” refers to_______________?

a. God
b. Painter
c. Sculptor
d. Author
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Painter

Explanation:
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