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american literature Mcqs

201. Which of the following describes the precolonial eras literature styles ?
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A. Novels, poetry, dramas, histories

B. Narratives and poetry

C. Pamphlets, poetry, novels, short stories

D. Literary magazines, poetry, novels, short stories

202. How does St. Clare die ?
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A. He suffers a heart attack

B. He drowns

C. He is poisoned

D. He is stabbed

203. This quote comes from what writing: God holds you over the pit of Hell much as one holds a spider over the fire________________?
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A. Spiders of the World

B. Hell and Salem

C. Sinners in the Hand

D. Hands of Satan

204. Black Boy is an autobiographical account of whose Southern boyhood ?
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A. Saul Bellow

B. Thomas

C. John Dos Passos

D. Pynchon

205. What does George Harris master demand of him that prompts him to plan his escape ?
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A. Marry another woman

B. Abandon his faith

C. Punish another slave

D. Relocate to Louisiana

206. In the enthusiasm of my confidence, I brought chairs into the room, and desired them here to rest from their fatigues; while I myself, in the wild audacity of my perfect triumph, placed my own seat upon the very spot beneath which reposed the corpse of the victim. What is the meaning of the word audacity ?
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A. Authority

B. Auditory city

C. Fearless daring or aggressive boldness

D. Insanity or dementia

207. Who is Elizas mother ?
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A. Aunt Chole

B. Mrs.Legree

C. Mrs.Shelby

D. Cassy

208. This checkmark diagram represents the plot structure for what genre of early American writing ?
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A. Slave narrative

B. Trancendentalism

C. Sermon

D. Indian autobiography

209. The first stanza of the poem provides an idea that it is______________?
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A. a revenge story

B. not a happy story

C. a deterministic poem

D. a metaphysical poem

210. Thoreau was part of the Transcend lists, which were founded by________________?
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A. Mark Twain.

B. Walt Whitman.

C. Herman Melville.

D. Ralph Waldo Emerson.

211. The process of passing on sayings, songs and tales ?
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A. Narration

B. History

C. Oral Tradition

D. Persuasion

212. The now ghastly pallor of the skin, and the now miraculous luster of the eye, above all things startled and even awed me. The silken hair, too, had been suffered to grow all unheeded, and as, in its wild gossamer texture, it floated rather than fell about the face, I could not, even with effort, connect its arabesque expression with any idea of simple humanity. The character described in this passage ?
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A. Buries someone alive

B. Devours a heart

C. Commits suicide

D. Meets the devil

213. Who inherits ownership of Tom when St. Clare dies ?
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A. Marie

B. Eva

C. George Shelby

D. Haley

214. What statement below best sums up the literary significance of Samuel Sewall ?
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A. Father of american poetry

B. Pro Slavery

C. Father of American Liteature

D. Anti-Slavery

215. I have said that the sole effect of my somewhat childish experimentthat of looking down within the tarnhad been to deepen the first singular impression. There can be no doubt that the consciousness of the rapid increase of my superstition for why should I not so term it?served mainly to accelerate the increase itself. Such, I have long known, is the paradoxical law of all sentiments having terror as a basis. This work exemplifies ?
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A. Ratiocinactive effect

B. Cataleptic effect

C. Unity of effect

D. Didactic effect

216. _____________the eyes of all people are upon us; soe that if wee shall deale falsely with our god in this worke wee have undertaken and soe cause him to withdrawe his preent help from us, wee shall be made a story and a by-word through the world, wee shall open the mouthes of enemies to speake evill of the ways of god and all professours for Gods sake; wee shall shame the faces of many of gods worthy servants, and cause theire prayers to be turned into Cursses upon us till we be consumed out of the good land whether wee are going ?
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A. Fredrick Douglass

B. John Winthrop

C. Benjamin Franklin

D. William Apess

217. Maria Steward believe that black woman are crucial to the uplift of black Americans. Why ?
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A. They have the power to fix things themselves

B. Men are more powerful

C. Both are correct

D. None of the above

218. 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________________?
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A. Leading the police to the scene of a crime

B. Helping the police to look for a letter

C. A detective

D. Helping Robin to search for his uncle

219. Who is addressed as you in the poem ?
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A. an accomplished royal

B. a romantic achiever

C. an under achiever

D. a frustrated romantic idealist

220. 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. An apples-salesman

B. A boxer

C. A devil-worshipper

D. A medicine man

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