american literature Mcqs
151. Native Son (1940) is written by_____________?
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A. Jean Toomer

B. Richard Wright

C. Ralph Ellison

D. Stephen Crane

152. Which one is a great patriotic poem by Frost ?
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A. Mending Wall

B. Directive

C. The Gift Outright

D. Birches

153. The ambitious spirits of his brother chieftain Sassacus, had ever aspired to dominion over the allied tribes and immediately after the appearance of the English, the same temper was manifest in a jealousy of their encroachments. He employed all his art and influence and authority, to unite the tribes for the extirpation of the dangerous invaders. Mononotto, on the contrary, averse to all hostility, and foreseeing no danger from them, was the advocate of a hospitable reception, and pacific conduct. What does extirpation mean ?
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A. Extermination

B. Execution

C. Expatriating

D. Going to extremes

154. And then hopped sidewise to the Wall. Here the poet personifies the bird as a______________?
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A. Protector

B. Gentleman

C. Hierarchical views of man

D. Predator

155. What ritual does the character resembling the devil attempt to perform in the woods, with goodman Brown as the object ?
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A. A christening

B. A conversion

C. A baptism

D. A wedding

156. Where does Tom first meet Eva ?
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A. In Memphis

B. In New Orleans

C. On a ferry

D. On a river boat
157. Which is one of the five tenants of Puritanism ?
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A. Unconditional love

B. Total equality

C. Irresistible grace

D. Individualism

158. Stopping on a snowy Evening_____________?
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A. Sherwood Anderson

B. Robert Frost

C. Countee Cullen

D. Langston Hugues

159. What statement below best sums up the literary significant of Maria Stewart ?
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A. All the above

B. First African American woman to speak to a mixed audience

C. Most popular slave narrative

D. First African American to publish life writing Most popular native American writer

160. The emagery in the poem is_________________?
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A. Mystical

B. Naturalistics

C. Supernatural

D. Deterministic

161. How old is Emmeline ?
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A. Fifteen

B. Thirteen

C. Seventeen

D. Ten

162. What statement below best sums up the literary significance of John Winthrop ?
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A. All are correct

B. non separating puritan

C. American myths

D. City upon a hill

163. What is the authors purpose in the Zuni origin tale The Flood ?
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A. To warn its youth about the consequences of promiscutiy and other inquities

B. To include the tribes favorite food, corn, into the myth

C. To explain how earthquakes came into existence

D. To explain how floods came into existence

164. Whom does Mr.Haley choose from among Shelbys slaves ?
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A. Eliza and Harry

B. Uncle Tom and Cassy

C. Uncle Tom and Eliza

D. Uncle Tom and Harry
165. In which state was Uncle Toms Cabin written ?
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A. Massachusetts

B. Ohio

C. Maine

D. Georgia

166. Let me for a few moments turn your attention to the reservations in the different states of New England, and, with but few exceptions, we shall find them as follows: the most mean, abject, miserable race of beings in the world a complete place of prodigality and prostitution. What does prodigality mean ?
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A. Wasteful extravagance

B. Redemption

C. Return from the dead

D. Promiscuity

167. Which of the following is not a cultural myth we attribute to those earliest Massachusetts colonial settlements at Plymouth and Massachusetts ?
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A. US Exceptionalism

B. Brother love/charity

C. None of the above

D. Democracy

168. Who wrote Heritage ?
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A. William Faulkner

B. Countiee cullen

C. T.S. Eliot

D. Wallace stevens

169. When the child finds that issues cannot be resolved in 30 minutes he______________?
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A. will adjust with reality

B. will find sources elsewhere

C. resigns to reality

D. becomes adamant and disillusioned
170. After Hare had destroyed all the bad animals what did he decide to do next ?
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A. He decided to go on his way and start a family of his own

B. The tale ended and the reader is not certain about what happened to bear

C. He decided to prepare some animals for humans to eat

D. He decided that there were more bad animals and set out to destroy the rest of them

171. The founder of Jamestown____________?
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A. John Stillwell

B. John Smith

C. John Stelzer

D. Johnathon Edwards

172. Which statement below best defines the genre of Indian autobiography ?
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A. Genre that details life exerpeinces of white americans in early america and critiques american society to native americans.

B. Genre that details life experiences of native Americas in early America and critiques American society to native Americans.

C. Both A and B

D. None of the above

173. About the Pima_______________?
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A. Legend From the Houses of Magic

B. Introduced domestic animals to the Navajo

C. Made houses of saplings bent into domes

D. B and C
174. The pervading metaphor in the story is___________________?
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A. a clean well-lighted place

B. the old man

C. the old waiter

D. liquor

175. What does the narrator of the story about Rip describe as the great error in Rips composition ?
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A. His unwillingness to work

B. His love of town gossip

C. His weakness for spirits

D. That he is henpecked by his wife

176. The children of the village, too, would shout with joy whenever he approached. He assisted at their sports, made their playthings, taught them to fly kites and shoot marbles, and told them long stories of ghosts, witches, and Indians. This work draws upon_____________?
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A. A European ghost story

B. A local ghost story

C. A European fairy tale

D. An Indian legend

177. His son Rip, an urchin begotten in his own likeness, promised to inherit the habits, with the old clothes of his father. He was generally seen trooping like a colt at his mothers heels, equipped in a pair of his fathers cast-off galligaskins, which he had much ado to hold up with one hand, as a fine lady does her train in bad weather. What are galligaskins ?
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A. Underpants

B. Loose, wide breeches

C. A trench-coat

D. Long, wide petticoats

178. About John Smith_______________?
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A. A and B

B. In the General History of Virginia, attempted an objective, journalistic style

C. Exaggerated and embellish events and depicted Native Americans as barbaric

D. Was saved by Squanto

179. The Battle of the Ants is an excerpt from______________?
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A. Herald of Freedom

B. Civil Disobedience

C. Life without principle

D. Walden
180. How does Sam secretly alert Eliza to Mr.Haleys presence outside the inn ?
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A. Throws a rock

B. Sneezes loudly

C. Bucks his horse

D. Shouts about his hat
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