2301. I would not have it imagined, however, that he was one of those cruel potentates of the school, who joy in the smart of their subjects; on the contrary, he administered justice with discrimination rather than severity; taking the burthen off the backs of the weak, and laying it on those of the strong. What is the meaning of the word smart in this context ?
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A. Stupidity

B. Pain

C. Silliness

D. Intelligence

2302. Having emergd from the Poverty and Obscurity in which I was born and bred, to a State of Affluence and some Degree of Reputation in the World, and having gone so far thro Life with a considerable Share of Felicity, the conducing Means I made use of, which, with the Blessing of God, so well succeeded, my Posterity may like to know, as they may find some of them suitable to their own Situations, and therefore fit to be imitated ?
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A. John Winthrop

B. Benjamin Franklin

C. Fredrick Douglass

D. William Apess

2303. The clear /l/ and the dark /l/ may be considered to be the ______________________of the same phoneme /l/?
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A. Minimal pairs

B. Allomorphs

C. Allophones

D. Morpheme variants

2304. Which one is a great patriotic poem by Frost ?
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A. The Gift Outright

B. Birches

C. Mending Wall

D. Directive

2305. 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 ?
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A. To cut grass

B. To bleat like sheep

C. To lift heavy things

D. To grimace
2306. I hear my being dance from ear to ear. Here ear to ear refers to_____________?
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A. a heart warming smile

B. a round about way of telling things

C. a complete experience

D. listening through an ear and pass it off through the other

2307. Of the two, reverend Sir, said the voice like the deacons, I had rather miss an ordination-dinner than to-nights meeting. They tell me that some of our community are to be here from Falmouth and beyond, and others from Connecticut and Rhode-Island; besides several of the Indian powows, who, after their fashion, know almost as much deviltry as the best of us. A powow in this context is___________?
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A. A medicine man

B. A boxer

C. An apples-salesman

D. A devil-worshipper

2308. She was a blooming lass of fresh eighteen, plump as a partridge, ripe and melting and rosy-cheeked as one of her fathers peaches, and universally famed, not merely for her beauty, but her vast expectations. . . . She wore ornaments of pure yellow gold to set off her charms, and a provokingly short petticoat to display the prettiest foot and ankle in the country round. This is_______________?
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A. Magawisca

B. Faith

C. Madeline

D. Katrina
2309. Writers in the Romantic time period were concerned with____________?
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A. The philosophy of how to run a new country.

B. Love and romance.

C. Scientific exploration.

D. Nature as a source of secular and spiritual knowledge, emotion as truth, and exploration of the self.
2310. Which of the following is NOT a feature of the Enlightenment ?
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A. Reason

B. Skepticism

C. Deism

D. Political
2311. ______________is the scientific study of language ?
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A. Phonology

B. Phonetics

C. Philology

D. linguistics
2312. Which of the following is not an animal Hare prepared for humans to eat ?
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A. Bear

B. Elk

C. Horse

D. Both A and B

2313. About Edward Taylor_____________?
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A. Wrote a poem about his house burning down

B. Wrote Huswifery in an ornate style that wouldnt have been accepted by the Puritans

C. A and C

D. Was exiled to the New World because he wouldnt talk to the Church of England

2314. What did John Smith write ?
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A. Declaration of Independence

B. Jason and Isolde

C. General History of Virginia

D. Journal of an Expedition

2315. The r in red is articulated as a______________?
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A. Frictionless continuant

B. Lateral

C. Trill

D. Semi__vowel

2316. Name the ship that brought the first Pilgrims to the New World______________?
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A. Titanic

B. Mayflower

C. HMS Bounty

D. Santa Maria

2317. When the child finds that issues cannot be resolved in 30 minutes he______________?
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A. will find sources elsewhere

B. becomes adamant and disillusioned

C. will adjust with reality

D. resigns to reality

2318. When I was 16 years of age, we heard a Strange Rumor among the English, that there were Extraordinary Ministers preaching from Place to Place and Strange Concern among the White People. This was in the Spring of the Year. After I was awakened & converted, I went to all the meetings, I could come at; & Continued under Trouble of Mind about 6 months; at which time I began to Learn the English letters; got me a Primer, and used to go to my English Neighbours frequently for Assistant in reading?
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A. Samson Occcum

B. John Winthrop

C. Mayflower Compact

D. Benjamin Franklin

2319. What statement below best sums up the literary significance of Samuel Sewall ?
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A. Pro Slavery

B. Father of american poetry

C. Father of American Liteature

D. Anti-Slavery
2320. What does George Shelby give Uncle Tom to wear on a string around his neck before Tom is taken away ?
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A. A crucifix

B. A dollar

C. A ring

D. A locket

2321. The classification of vowels into half__close vowels and half__open vowels is based on ________________?
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A. The position of the lips

B. The height to which the tongue is raised

C. All the abovE.

D. The part of the tongue that is raised

2322. Which of the following patterns of intonation is used in polite requests________________?
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A. The falling

B. The fall__rise

C. The rising

D. None of the above

2323. What animal is personified as the trickster in the Winnebago tale ?
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A. Snake

B. Hare

C. Coyote

D. Bear

2324. The phonemes which do not occur in the same linguistic environment and which when occur so, do not bring about a change in meaning are said to be in __________?
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A. Complementary distribution

B. Contrastive distribution

C. None of the abovE.

D. Non__complementary distribution

2325. The classification of vowels into half__high vowels and half__low vowels is based on ________________?
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A. The part of the tongue that is raised

B. All the abovE.

C. The height to which the tongue is raised

D. The position of the lips

2326. This Puritan author wrote about the Salem witch trials_____________?
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A. Owen Edwards

B. Annie Bradford

C. Cotton Mather

D. Terry Pratchett

2327. How does St. Clare die ?
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A. He is stabbed

B. He drowns

C. He is poisoned

D. He suffers a heart attack

2328. What statement below best sums up the literary significant of Maria Stewart ?
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A. First African American to publish life writing Most popular native American writer

B. All the above

C. Most popular slave narrative

D. First African American woman to speak to a mixed audience
2329. The annals of Massachusetts Bay will inform us, that of six governors, in the space of about forty years from the surrender of the old charter, under James II., two were imprisoned by a popular insurrection a third, as Hutchinson inclines to believe, was driven from the province by the whizzing of a musket ball a fourth, in the opinion of the same historian, was hastened to his grave by continual bickerings with the house of representatives and the remaining two, as well as their successors, till the Revolution, were favored with few and brief intervals of peaceful sway. What is an insurrection ?
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A. The state of one risen from the dead

B. An act or instance of beginning

C. An of revolting against civil authority

D. The condition of being stopped

2330. The special features which affect speech sounds such as stress, pitch intonation and juncture are called ______________?
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A. All the above.

B. Supra__segmental phonemes

C. Secondary phonemes

D. Prosodic features

2331. Which of the following patterns of intonation is used in declarative sentences uttered as ordinary statements ?
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A. The rising

B. The falling

C. The fall__rise

D. None of the above

2332. The Battle of the Ants is an excerpt from______________?
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A. Civil Disobedience

B. Life without principle

C. Walden

D. Herald of Freedom

2333. Which of the following statement is correct ?
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A. Shakespeares first child Susanna was born in 1583.

B. In 1585 twins were born and named Hamnet and Judith.

C. both a and b

D. None of above.

2334. The initial sounds in the words ship, church and judge; are examples for__________?
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A. Bilabial

B. Velar

C. Palato__alveolar

D. Palatal

2335. Bartolome de Las Casas wrote_____________?
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A. Hopskotch

B. Flor Y Canto

C. The devastation of the indies

D. A Very Old Man with Enormous wings

2336. 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 ?
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A. Doctrine of Stoicism

B. Doctrine of salvation by faith alone

C. Doctrine of Gnosticism

D. Doctrine of Materialism

2337. Words with more than three syllables are called __________words?
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A. Polysyllabic

B. Multisyllabic

C. Disyllabic

D. Try syllabic

2338. Which American President reportedly referred to Harriet Beecher Stowe as the little lady who made this big war ?
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A. George Washington

B. Abraham Lincoln

C. John Adams

D. John. F. Kennedy

2339. What invention won George Harris the respect of his factorys proprietor ?
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A. A bread slicing machine

B. A cotton ginning machine

C. A hemp twines

D. A hemp cleaning machine
2340. What statement below best sums up the literary significance of John Saffin ?
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A. Father of American Liteature

B. Anti-Slavery

C. Pro Slavery

D. Father of american poetry

2341. How many stressed are generally marked_____________?
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A. Two

B. Three

C. Four

D. Only one

2342. ______________are sounds articulated in the glottis ?
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A. None of the above

B. Velar

C. Palatal

D. Glottal
2343. The classification of vowels into front vowels and back vowels is based on ________________ ?
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A. The part of the tongue that is raised

B. All the abovE.

C. The height to which the tongue is raised

D. The position of the lips

2344. The /p/ in top__most is a ______________?
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A. Incomplete plosion.

B. Alveolar plosion

C. Bilabial plosion

D. Nasal plosion
2345. Who wrote Heritage ?
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A. William Faulkner

B. Countiee cullen

C. Wallace stevens

D. T.S. Eliot

2346. Which of the following patterns of intonation is used in commands_____________?
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A. None of the above

B. The rising

C. The fall__rise

D. The falling
2347. Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Toms Cabin to illustrate the evils of_________________?
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A. Foreign

B. Slavery

C. Alcohol

D. Imperialism

2348. In which state was Uncle Toms Cabin written ?
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A. Georgia

B. Massachusetts

C. Maine

D. Ohio

2349. In which state is Legrees plantation located ?
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A. Louisiana

B. Vermont

C. Florida

D. Georgia

2350. The theory of Transformational Generative Grammar is contained in ____________?
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A. Chomskys Syntactic Structures

B. Chomskys Aspects of the theory of Syntax

C. Leonard Bloomfields Language

D. Both a & b