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american literature Mcqs
251. Dumas, whose father was a General in the French Army, is a Mulatto; Soulie, a Quadroon. He went from New-Orleans, where, though to the eye a white man, yet, as known to have African blood in his veins, he could never have enjoyed the privileges due to a human being. A Mulatto is a person who has one white parent and one black parent; what, then, is a Quadroon ?
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A. A person who has two black parents.

B. A person who has one Meranto parent and one black.

C. A person who has one white parent and one parent who is a Mulatto

D. A person who has two Delfigo parents.

252. Which of these statements does NOT apply to Hawthorne as a moralist ________________?
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A. Awareness of the mysteries and frailties of human nature

B. Awareness of the importance of living a life without error and sin

C. Awareness of the dangers of setting yourself up as the judge of others or of isolating yourself from humanity

D. Awareness of the ethical problems of sin, punishment and atonement

253. Apess claims that Native Americans in New England are the most mean, abject, miserable race of beings in the world. Which of the following is NOT a reason he offers as an explanation for their misery ?
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A. Native American women have been seduced and abandoned by white men.

B. They are not provided with adequate education.

C. They are legally denied the right to engage in commerce.

D. They are victimized by corrupt Indian Agents appointed by the government.

254. The cautious old gentleman knit his brows tenfold closer after this explanation, being sorely puzzled by the ratiocination of the syllogism; while methought the one in pepper and salt eyed him with something of a triumphant leer. At length he observed, that all this was very well, but still he thought the story a little extravagant there were one or two points on which he had his doubts. Faith, sir, replied the story-teller, as to that matter, I dont believe one half of it myself. This passage exemplifies_____________?
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A. Narrative frame

B. Snaring

C. Jamming

D. Hortatory sermon

255. This is the title of a famous Puritan sermon______________?
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A. Sinners in the Hand

B. Sins of the World

C. Hands of Satan

D. A Bird in the Hand

256. He wrote a journal about his expedition in northern Florida _____________?
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A. De Vaca

B. Johnathan Edwards

C. Cortez

D. Vasco de Gama

257. The annals of Massachusetts Bay will inform us, that of six governors, in the space of about forty years from the surrender of the old charter, under James II., two were imprisoned by a popular insurrection a third, as Hutchinson inclines to believe, was driven from the province by the whizzing of a musket ball a fourth, in the opinion of the same historian, was hastened to his grave by continual bickerings with the house of representatives and the remaining two, as well as their successors, till the Revolution, were favored with few and brief intervals of peaceful sway. What is an insurrection ?
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A. An act or instance of beginning

B. The condition of being stopped

C. The state of one risen from the dead

D. An of revolting against civil authority
258. What event provides the motivation for Shelby to release all the slaves ?
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A. Toms daughters wedding

B. Tom saving Eva

C. Toms death

D. Elizas escape

259. Who haunts the evil Simon Legree when he is drunk ?
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A. Cassy

B. George

C. Eliza

D. Uncle Tom

260. ________________is known as the friendly innkeeper of the town ?
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A. Parker J

B. Stephen J Parker

C. Stephen

D. Goodman Parker
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
281. learn by going where I have to go. The poet learns of______________?
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A. going back to the state of depression

B. his errors and starts correcting them

C. Going back to his hometown

D. the final destination where he has to reach
282. The sweetest music is not in the oratorio, but in____________?
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A. Human voice

B. Soulful lyrics

C. Epic

D. Lyric

283. I ask: Is it not the case that everybody that is not white is treated with contempt and counted as barbarians? And I ask if the word of God justifies the white man in so doing. When the prophets prophesied, of whom did they speak? When they spoke of heathens, was it not the whites and others who were counted Gentiles? And I ask if all nations with the exception of the Jews were not counted heathens. This passage exemplifies________________?
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A. Framing

B. Snaring

C. Hortatory sermon

D. Jamming

284. When I was 16 years of age, we heard a Strange Rumor among the English, that there were Extraordinary Ministers preaching from Place to Place and Strange Concern among the White People. This was in the Spring of the Year. After I was awakened & converted, I went to all the meetings, I could come at; & Continued under Trouble of Mind about 6 months; at which time I began to Learn the English letters; got me a Primer, and used to go to my English Neighbours frequently for Assistant in reading?
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A. John Winthrop

B. Mayflower Compact

C. Samson Occcum

D. Benjamin Franklin

285. The following extract presents a suitable answer to the hacknied argument drawn by the defender of Slavery from the songs of the Slave, and is also a good specimen of the powers of observation and manly heart of the writer. The word hacknied is an old form of the word hackneyed. What does it mean ?
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A. Double meaning

B. Lacking in freshness and originality

C. Saddened

D. Blue-eyed

286. In which state is the Shelby farm located ?
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A. Kentucky

B. Mississipi

C. Tennessee

D. Alabama

287. Light in August ?
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A. Sherwood anderson

B. Langston Hughes

C. William Faulkner

D. T.S. elliot

288. What statement below best sums up the literary significance of Emerson ?
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A. Father of american poetry

B. Father of Free verse

C. Father of American Liteature

D. Pro Slavery

289. What statement below best sums up the literary significance of Walt Whitman ?
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A. Father of free verse

B. Father of American Poetry

C. Circumference

D. Both A and B
290. This group of Native Americans believed that corn was crucial to creation ?
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A. Teton

B. Cherokee

C. Utes

D. Navajo
291. Who is NOT considered to be a representative of the Southern Renaissance ?
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A. Tennessee Williams

B. T.S.Eliot

C. Robert Penn Warren

D. William Faulkner

292. This person wrote about a island that he called Colba, now known as Cuba______________?
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A. John Smith

B. Columbus

C. De Vaca

D. Coronado

293. For a time the narrator comforts Roderick by reading and painting with him; one of Rodericks paintings is described as follows: A small picture presented the interior of an immensely long and rectangular vault or tunnel, with low walls, smooth, white, and without interruption or device. Certain accessory points of the design served well to convey the idea that this excavation lay at an exceeding depth below the surface of the earth. What later event in the story does this picture foreshadow ?
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A. The narrator and Roderick drown Madeline in the tarn next to the mansion.

B. Roderick and Madeline escape the house via an underground tunnel.

C. The narrator and Roderick bury Madeline alive in a stone tomb beneath the mansion.

D. The narrator and Roderick become trapped in catacombs beneath the mansion.

294. What vice does Tom attempt to convince Augustine Clare to renounce ?
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A. drinking

B. bribery

C. lying

D. gambling

295. What promise did Augustines sudden death prevent him from fulfilling ?
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A. Reuniting Tom with Aunt Chole

B. Relearning to pray

C. Overcoming his alcoholism

D. Freeing his slaves
296. She was a blooming lass of fresh eighteen, plump as a partridge, ripe and melting and rosy-cheeked as one of her fathers peaches, and universally famed, not merely for her beauty, but her vast expectations. . . . She wore ornaments of pure yellow gold to set off her charms, and a provokingly short petticoat to display the prettiest foot and ankle in the country round. This is_______________?
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A. Katrina

B. Madeline

C. Faith

D. Magawisca

297. I knew him, however, as both mathematician and poet, and my measures were adapted to his capacity, with reference to the circumstances by which he was surrounded. I knew him as a courtier, too, and as a bold intriguant. Such a man, I considered, could not fail to be aware of the ordinary political modes of action. Who is speaking ?
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A. Rip

B. Brom Bones

C. Dupin

D. Brown

298. Can this be so! cried goodman Brown, with a stare of amazement at his undisturbed companion. Howbeit, I have nothing to do with the governor and council they have their own ways, and are no rule for a simple husbandman, like me. But, were I to go on with thee, how should I meet the eye of that good old man, our minister, at Salem village? Oh, his voice would make me tremble, both Sabbathday and lecture-day! The word husbandman usually means farmer, but in this context it means something else what ?
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A. Cowboy

B. Rancher

C. Man of ordinary status

D. Male partner in a marriage

299. When there was a momentary calm in that tempestuous sea of sound, the leader gave the sign, the procession resumed its march. On they went, like fiends that throng in mockery around some dead potentate, mighty no more, but majestic still in his agony. On they went, in counterfeited pomp, in senseless uproar, in frenzied merriment, trampling all on an old mans heart. This is______________?
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A. A fairy tale

B. Historical fiction

C. A detective story

D. An autobiography

300. My present business, continued he, speaking with lofty confidence, is merely to inquire my way to the dwelling of my [relative]. There was a sudden and general movement in the room, which Robin interpreted as expressing the eagerness of each individual to become his guide. This passage exemplifies____________?
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A. Foregrounding

B. Ambiguity

C. Snaring

D. Jamming