american literature Mcqs
51. Themes in modern literature are_____________?
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A. All the above

B. national identity

C. pretension

D. nostalgia

52. Who wrote Mending wall ?
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A. T.S. Eliot

B. E.e cummings

C. Robert Lee Forst

D. Carl Sanburg

53. About the Delaware_______________?
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A. Used pictographs to explain nature

B. Told the story of Wolam Olum

C. Settled in Northeast US

D. All the above
54. Berrymans The Ball Poem can be categorized as a_______________?
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A. Confessional poem

B. Metaphorical poem

C. Fragmental poem

D. Delusional poem

55. Thoreau places a sense of Upon the ants ?
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A. responsibility

B. revenge and betrayal

C. meticulous faction

D. honor and glory
56. What story tells how Squanto taught the settler to grow corn, procure commodities and fish ?
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A. General History of Virginia

B. Puritan Sermons

C. The story of Plymouth Plantation

D. Pride and Prejudice

57. A diary of someones day by day account of events_______________?
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A. Legend

B. Journal

C. History

D. Article

58. A factual account of the development of a people, nation, institution or culture_____________?
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A. Constitution

B. Tradition

C. History

D. Myth

59. This term refers to the feeling of a word______________?
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A. Connection

B. Description

C. Constitution

D. Connotation
60. Usher can only stand types of noises in his acutely uncomfortable state. The narrator describes a number of impromptus that Usher plays for him on which instrument ?
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A. The violin

B. The harp

C. The guitar

D. The ukulele

61. Which of the following is a true statement about Romanticism ?
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A. Interest in the common man

B. Celebration of the individual

C. Age of reason

D. Both A and B
62. Where does Senator Bird take Eliza and Harry ?
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A. To a Quaker settlement

B. To Philadelphia

C. To a Congregationalist community

D. To a Methodist community

63. Who is the narrator in Melvilles Moby Dick ?
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A. Elijah

B. Captain Ahab

C. Gabrial

D. Ishmael
64. Which American writer won the Nobel Prize in 1930 ?
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A. Upton Sinclair

B. John Steinbeck

C. Sinclair Lewis

D. Raymond Chandler

65. Which definition below best defines Transcendentalism ?
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A. Political thinking, philosophical, and social movement

B. Reason

C. Individualism

D. Deism, skepticism

66. What did the family do to protect the children from the uncle ?
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A. They locked the uncle away until the children were old enough to protect themselves

B. They formed a mob and chased the uncle out of the village

C. They dressed the girls like boys and told them to behave as boys do

D. They dressed the boys like girls and told them to behave as girls do
67. We associate John Winthrop with what colonial Settlement ?
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A. Plymouth

B. Mayflower compact

C. Rhode Island

D. Massachusetts Bay Colony
68. What does the narrator find at the end of the journey ?
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A. Hills and highways

B. all are sleeping

C. Field and works

D. Crusted snow and dead leaves
69. He will give the gloom of gloom, and the sunshine of sunshine. The pronoun He refers to_______________?
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A. Author

B. God

C. Painter

D. Sculptor

70. Apess concludes his piece by____________?
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A. Exhorting his allies and advocates to continue working to end prejudice

B. Declaring his intention to run for public office

C. Predicting the Apocalypse

D. Calling for Native Americans to declare themselves independent of the U.S. government

71. Thoreau scales humans down to the size of ants in order to____________________?
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A. portray humans allegorically

B. create a very vivid and impressive picture

C. examine the aggressive, dominating and stupid nature of human warfare

D. shows his real intentions in writing

72. Which of these is NOT a rhetorical purpose of the Spiritual Diary Genre ?
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A. finding spiritual meaning

B. Critic slavery

C. Defend Slavery

D. Both B and C
73. Abraham Lincoln: the war Years________________?
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A. Carl Sandburg

B. T.S. Elliot

C. William Faulkner

D. Wallace Stevene

74. 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________________?
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A. A detective story

B. An autobiography

C. A fairy tale

D. A Gothic tale
75. Monadnock on his forehead hoar Doth seal the sacred trust, Your mountains build their monument, Though ye destroy their dust. What is the meaning of the word hoar ?
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A. Grey or white with age

B. Scarred

C. Ancient or venerable

D. Wrinkled with age

76. is the end of fame_______________?
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A. Love

B. Misfortune

C. Pity

D. Death

77. Along the way, goodman Brown and the character who seems to be the devil meet three people______________?
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A. Goody Cloyse, deacon Gookin, and the minister.

B. The minister, old goodman Brown, and deacon Gookin.

C. Goody Cloyse, Faith, and old goodman Brown.

D. Faith, old goodman Brown and deacon Gookin.

78. What is TULIP ?
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A. Irresistible GraceE. Perseverance of the SaintsF. All of the above

B. Total depravity

C. Unconditional election

D. Limited atonement

79. By 1600 Holland had____________________?
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A. the wisest men of the time

B. Emerged as a supreme power among the European countries

C. a huge collection of paintings and sculptures

D. many scholars and sceptics
80. Walt Whitmans style of writing is known as______________?
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A. Lethargic

B. Experimental

C. Expressionistic

D. Modernistic

81. The poem by Berryman has a sad and depressed tone about it and it foreshadows the_____________?
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A. fate and the mindest of the boy

B. happenings in the poem

C. fate of the author or how depressed be was

D. turn of events of the ball

82. Who coined the phrase Lost Generation ?
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A. Sherwood Anderson

B. Gertude Stein

C. Hemingway

D. F. Scott Fitzserald

83. Wanders in that happy valley Through two luminous windows saw Spirits moving musically To a lutes well-tund law, Round about a throne, where sitting (Porphyrogene!) In state his glory well befitting, The sovereign of the realm was seen. What does Porphyrogene mean ?
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A. Of royal birth

B. Born to be free

C. Inflicted with the disease Porphyria

D. Wearing purple robes

84. Which of the following themes or ideas are closely associated with the Native American way of life ?
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A. Waste and abuse of natural resources

B. Immoral behavior

C. Uncivilized society

D. Love and respect for family and its elders
85. The cloud-spirits peeped from their silvery islands, as the congregated mirth went roaring up the sky! The Man in the Moon heard the far bellow. Oho, quoth he, the old earth is frolicsome to-night! This is_______________?
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A. A novel

B. Gothic fiction

C. A fairy tale

D. An autobiography

86. According to the myth, how did frogs loose their teeth ?
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A. Frogs never had any teeth.

B. Grandmother wanted to eat frog leg stew so she captured a frog and extracted its teeth one by one while chanting a Winnebago song, and since then frogs were without teeth.

C. Hare hit a frog with a club and burned the frog and cursed it by declaring it would never be able to harm anyone because it threatedned to hunt the hare down with dogs.

D. Frogs used to eat rocks and one day a frog ate a rock that was too hard and smashed its teeth.

87. Which ofWashington Irvings characters falls asleep for twenty years ?
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A. Tom Buchanan

B. Rip van Winkle

C. Philip Marlowe

D. Tom Joad

88. What statement below best sums up the literary significance of Thoreau ?
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A. Self-reliance

B. Father of Free verse

C. Father of american poetry

D. Father of American Liteature

89. He was famed for great skill in horsemanship; he was foremost at all races and cockfights; and, with the ascendancy which bodily strength acquires in rustic life, was the umpire in all disputes. He was always ready for either a fight or a frolic, but had more mischief and good humor than ill will in his composition. Who is this ?
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A. Cotton Mather

B. Brom Bones

C. Geoffrey Crayon

D. Diedrich Knickerbocker

90. This governor was re-elected 30 times_________________?
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A. Bradford Nelson

B. Anne Bradstreet

C. Jonathan Edwards

D. William Bradford
91. In Saul Bellows novel Herzog (1964), Moses Herzog is a________________?
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A. Christian

B. Jew

C. Hindu

D. Afro-American

92. Name the religious group that preached to live a simple and straightforward life_________________?
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A. Druids

B. Puritans

C. Mormons

D. Catholics

93. But when a Boy, and Barefoot I more than once at Noon Have passed, I thought, a Whip lash Unbraiding in the Sun The speaker of this poem is_____________?
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A. A communist

B. An alien

C. A boy

D. A girl

94. At the end of Hares adventure with the headless bodies how does he turned them into fast-fish. ?
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A. The headless bodies liked to eat fish.

B. The headless bodies tried to abuse people so they were turned into fast-fish as a punishment.

C. The headless bodies were actually creatures who evolved from fish so they were simply returned to their primordial state

D. The headless bodies served Hare fish.

95. Occom says he was discriminated against as a missionary and minister. What proof does he present to illustrate the unfair treatment of Native American ministers ?
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A. Establishment of Indian praying towns

B. Establishment of puritans

C. Establishment of self- reliance

D. Establishment of autobiography

96. About William Bradford__________________?
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A. A and C

B. Wrote the Mayflower Compact agreement

C. Wrote about the Plymouth Plantation

D. Founded Jamestown

97. Why did Bradford and the Pilgrims create Plymouth Colony ?
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A. Religious practice of the Church of England

B. All of the above

C. For the land

D. Sovereignty to establish godly kingdom as they saw fit
98. The Manitou is a great god in this legend ?
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A. Odysseus

B. Gilgamesh

C. Colba

D. Walum Olum
99. The term Beat Generation comes from______________?
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A. Beat to his stomach

B. Beat to his socks

C. Beat to his Shoe

D. Beat to his size

100. Which member of the corn clan could not overlook the wrondoings of the rest of the clan ?
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A. The youngest member

B. The chiefs son

C. The oldest member

D. The priests son