american literature MCQs – Page 4

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

american literature Mcqs
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