american literature MCQs – Page 10

Practise focused american literature questions with marked answers for exam preparation and subject revision.

american literature Mcqs
181. 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 ?
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A. Watching his dad beat his mother

B. Watching a slave get beaten to death

C. Watching his aunt get whipped

D. Seeing his mother die

182. This is the implied comparison between two dissimilar things_______________?
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A. History

B. Myth

C. Tradition

D. Metaphor
183. This Puritan author wrote about the Salem witch trials_____________?
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A. Annie Bradford

B. Terry Pratchett

C. Owen Edwards

D. Cotton Mather
184. The poem ends on a_____________?
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A. courageous and hopeful note

B. tragic and painful note

C. happy and meaningful note

D. philosophical note
185. This group of Native Americans left behind a legend about creation using pictographs_____________?
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A. Sioux

B. Delaware

C. Apache

D. Inuit

186. Who wrote The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock ?
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A. Edgar lee masters

B. Robert Lee Frost

C. Cumings

D. T.S. Eliot
187. This Puritan author wrote a persuasive speech ?
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A. William Bradstreet

B. Johnathan Edwards

C. Mather Edwards

D. John Williams

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

B. Scientific exploration.

C. Nature as a source of secular and spiritual knowledge, emotion as truth, and exploration of the self.

D. Love and romance.

189. In Walden, who urges people to simplify their lives and look to nature for meaning ?
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A. Walt Whitman

B. Henry David Thoreau

C. Herman Melville

D. Robert Frost

190. Jack Londons To Build a Fire contained foreshadowing, which means_____________?
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A. It was a moody and spooky story.

B. It had descriptions of shadows in the woods.

C. It contained clues to events yet to happen.

D. It took place at nightfall.

191. It was about this time that I conceivd the bold and arduous Project of arriving at moral Perfection. I wishd 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 occurrd to me as necessary or desirable, and annexd to each a short Precept, which fully expressd the Extent I gave to its Meaning ?
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A. Samson Occcum

B. Benjamin Franklin

C. Mayflower Compact

D. John Winthrop

192. Which of the following is NOT considered a write for the Transcendentalism Movement ?
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A. Emerson

B. Stewart

C. Thoreau

D. Hawthrone
193. The hairy wild-bee that murmurs and hankers up and down, that gripes the fullgrown lady-flower, curves upon her with amorous firm legs, takes his will of her, and holds himself tremulous and tight till he is satisfied. What does tremulous mean ?
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A. Afraid

B. Contemplating and deciding

C. Trembling and timid

D. Stiff

194. Black English is the creation of the____________________?
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A. Linguistics Society

B. Black Diaspora Association

C. Black Diaspora

D. Unites States of American -English

195. When did Hemingway receive the Nobel Prize for Literature ?
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A. 1956

B. 1954

C. 1952

D. 1958

196. 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 bleat like sheep

B. To cut grass

C. To lift heavy things

D. To grimace
197. Who wrote Emperor Ice cream ?
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A. Langston Hughes

B. Wallace stevens

C. William Faulkner

D. Countee cullen

198. Which statement below best defined Dickinsons idea of circumference ?
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A. limitations

B. no limitations

C. Eqaulity

D. Above and beyond

199. The first part of American History dwells of the_________________?
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A. Discovery and settlement of the Western continent

B. missionaries settled in America

C. early English settlers

D. Discovery of America by Columbus

200. As I lay die_________________?
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A. Langston Hugues

B. Robert Lee Frost

C. Sherwood Anderson

D. William Faulkner