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american literature Mcqs

261. Which statement below best defined Whitmans idea of Oversoul ?
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A. Relationships

B. Hope

C. Death

D. American landscape

262. The tone of the third stanza of the poem embodies a sense of_____________?
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A. Pain

B. content

C. Panic

D. Calmness

263. The Puritans who settled Massachusetts Bay were non-separating Puritans, which meant ?
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A. Create seperation

B. They did not want to disassociate from the Church of England

C. Separate from church of England

D. Start their own beliefs

264. The poem Chicago is written by________________?
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A. Carlos William

B. E.E. Cummings

C. Ezra Pound

D. Carl Sandburg

265. In which city does the St.Clare live ?
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A. Memphis

B. Atlanta

C. New Orleans

D. Louisville

266. This term is an elaborate comparison between two different subjects___________?
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A. Simile

B. Anomoly

C. Conceit

D. Sermon

267. Bartolome de Las Casas wrote_____________?
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A. A Very Old Man with Enormous wings

B. Flor Y Canto

C. The devastation of the indies

D. Hopskotch

268. This mode of discourse relates a story________________?
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A. Exposition

B. Fiction

C. Narration

D. Persuasion

269. Before advocating on behalf of the enslaved in colonial Massachusetts, Samuel Sewall participated in what early American crisis event ?
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A. All the above

B. No involvement

C. Salem Witch Trails

D. Mayflower compact

270. Miniver scorned the gold he sought. Here gold refers to______________?
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A. paycheck or money

B. materialism

C. the yellow metal

D. the pot of luck

271. Arthur Millers Death of A Salesman was appeared in _______________?
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A. 1945

B. 1947

C. 1949

D. 1950

272. Your goodness must have some edge to itelse it is none. The doctrine of hatred must be preached as the counteraction of the doctrine of love when that pules and whines. In this work the author argues in favour of____________?
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A. Communism

B. Revolution

C. An independent nation of independent individuals

D. Abolition

273. This is the name of the report by Cotton Mather about the trial accusing Martha Carrier of witchcraft_______________?
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A. Sinners in the Hand

B. The Wonders of the Invisible World

C. The Burning of Our House

D. The Story of Plymouth Plantation

274. Wines Burg Ohio______________?
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A. William Faulkner

B. Robert Lee Frost

C. Sherwood Anderson

D. Carl Sanburg

275. This group united 5 tribes_____________?
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A. Iroquois

B. Hopi

C. Navajo

D. Sioux

276. The purpose of placing fallen cold and dead at the end of each section is to_____________?
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A. keep the readers aware of what is to come

B. clarify his idea

C. repeat the lines for the rhyming

D. remind the leader of the tragedy

277. Who is the central Figure in O Nells The Hairy Ape_____________?
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A. None of the above

B. The Secretary of I.W.W.

C. Yank

D. Mildred

278. What statement below best sums up the literary significance of Benjamin Franklin ?
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A. Mentor to other writers

B. Rewrote the autobiography

C. Self-made and

D. Both B and C

279. 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

280. Your uses an upper case because ?
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A. he wanted to emphasize the Y

B. he wanted it to create logic to the capitalization of the final E.

C. the poem demanded an upper case

D. he places his beloved in an upper place

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