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1. Anne Bradstreet was a
Puritan poet. When her poems were published in
England, she became know as the
“______” who appeared in America.
A
Ninth Muse
B
Tenth Muse
C
Best Muse
D
First Muse
[1].
2. ______ is
the sometimes exaggerated use of local language,
characters and customs in regional
literature.
A
Purple
prose
B
Paste-land
imagery
C
Local
color
D
Symbolism
[2].
3.
The first great flourishing of African American
literature that
appealed to a
relatively large literate Black readership was
known
as_____.
A
the
Holocaust
B
the Harlem
Renaissance
C
abolitionism
D
the
Civil Rights Movement
[3].
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4. _______ was a leading
19
th
century feminist and
one of the core
members of the
Transcendentalist movement.
A
Margaret Fuller
B
Sylvia Plath
C
Hilda Doolittle
D
Gloria Stein
[4].
5. Which of the
following is not typical of modern
poetry?
A
gushing
sentimentalism
and
comfortable images
B
abandonment of earlier verse
forms
C
use of free
verse
D
an effort to
find and/or explore a new role for the poet
in a changing world
[5].
6.
Who was perhaps the most popular of all
20
th
century American
poets?
A
Ezra Pound
B
Walt Whitman
C
Robert Frost
D
Allen Ginsburg
[6].
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7. The Fitzgeralds lived so
extravagantly that they frequently spent
more money than F. Scoot Fitzgerald
earned for parties, liquor,
entertaining their friends and
traveling. It was this living style that
nicknamed the decade of the 1920s as
_______.
A
The Jazz
Age
B
The Gilded Age
C
The Roaring Age
D
The
Beat Age
[7].
8. Which is true of the
“Fireside Poets”?
A
They were generally strongly in favor
of abolishing
slavery.
B
They were deeply involved in the
Transcendentalist
movement.
C
They were a group of
19
th
century New England
poets
who were tremendously popular and
respected at the time
they
wrote.
D
They opposed to
tradition and were in favor of radical
change.
[8].
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9. Ernest Hemingway was
badly wounded in Italy and sent to a
hospital where he fell in love with a
nurse. These two persons later
became
the characters of his novel ________.
A
The Old Man and the
Sea
B
For Whom the
Bell Tolls
C
The
Sun Also Rises
D
A Farewell to
Arms
[9].
10. The Brahmists or Boston
Brahmi, in American literature, refers to
_______.
A
The
highest ranking of the Hindu castes.
B
A movement that emerged from rebellion
against
Puritan religious ideas
and
systems.
C
A group of New
England writers known for their
scholarship and/or conservative
philosophy.
D
A school of
imaginative writing.
[10].
11. Which of
the following is one of Ben Franklin’s famous
proverbs?
A
“A
stitch in time saves
nine”
B
“God helps those who help
themselves”
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C
“A Friend in need is a
friend indeed”
D
“Ask not who
the bell tolls, the bell tolls for
thee”
[11].
12. ___________ was a
reaction to the ideas of the Age of Reason and
the Enlightenment.
A
Romanticism
B
Realism
C
Naturalism
D
Modernism
[12].
13. Although
few of her poems were published in her lifetime
and a
complete collection of them
didn’t appear until the 1950’s,
_____
had a major
impact on 20
th
century
poetry.
A
Anne
Bradstreet
B
Gertrude
Stein
C
Emily
Dickinson
D
Amy
Lowell
[13].
14. Which of the following
writers died a natural death in his old
age?
A
Jack
London
B
Ernest
Hemingway
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C
Stephen Crane
D
Mark Twain
[14].
15. Who of the following is NOT a
20
th
century American
poet?
A
Henry
Wordsworth Longfellow
B
Amy
Lowell
C
Ezra
Pound
D
Robert
Frost
[15].
16. English literature in the America
is only about more than ________
years
old.
A. 500
B. 400
C. 200
D.
100
[16].
17.
The
establisher
of
Jamestown
was
the
famous
explorer
and
colonist ___________ .
A. John
Winthrop
B. John Smith
C. William Bradford
D. John Goodwin
[17].
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18.
The
early
history
of___________
Colony
was
the
history
of
Bradford's
leadership.
A. Plymouth
B.
Jamestown
C. New England
D. Mayflower
[18].
19. __________
usually was regarded as the first American
writer.
A. William Bradford
B. Anne
Bradstreet
C. Emily Dickinson
D. Captain John
Smith
[19].
20. Which
statement about Cotton Mather is not
true?
A. He was a great
Puritan historian.
B. He was
an inexhaustible writer.
C.
He was a skillful preacher and an eminent
theologian.
D. He was a
graduate of Oxford College
.
[20].
21.
Jonathan
Edwards'
best
and
most
representative
sermon
was
____ .
A.
A True Sight of
Sin
B.
Sinners in
the Hands of an Angry God
C.
A Model of Christian Charity
D.
God's
Determinations
[21].
22. Which writer is not a
poet?
A. Michael
Wigglesworth
B. Anne
Bradstreet
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C. Edward Taylor
D. Thomas
Hooker
[22].
23. The common
thread throughout American literature has been the
emphasis on the__________ .
A. Revolutionism
B.
Reason
C. Individualism
D.
Rationalism
[23].
24. In American literature,
the eighteenth century was the age of the
Enlightenment. _________ was the
dominant spirit.
A. Humanism
B. Rationalism
C.
Revolution
D.
Evolution
[24].
25. The English
colonies in North America rose in arms against
their
parent country and
the
Continental Congress adopted____________ in
1776.
A. the
Declaration of Independence
B. the Sugar Act
C. the Stamp Act
D. the Mayflower Compact
[25].
26.
Which statement about Benjamin Franklin is not
true?
A. He instructed his
countrymen as a printer.
B.
He was a scientist.
C. He
was a master of diplomacy.
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D. He was a Puritan.
[26].
27.
The
secular
ideals
of
the
American
Enlightenment
were
exemplified in the life
and career of___________.
A.
Thomas Hood
B. Benjamin
Franklin
C. Thomas Jefferson
D. George
Washington
[27].
28.
Benjamin Franklin was the epitome of
the____________ .
A.
American Enlightenment
B. Sugar
Act
C. Chartist movement
D.
Romanticist
[28].
29.
From 1732
to
1758,
Benjamin
Franklin
wrote and
published
his
famous __________, an annual collection
of proverbs.
A.
The Autobiography
B.
Poor Richard's Almanac
C.
Common Sense
D.
The General
Magazine
[29].
30. Which is not connected
with Thomas Paine?
A.
Common Sense
B.
The American Crisis
C.
Pennsylvania Magazine
D.
The
Autobiography
[30].
31.
In
1837,
the
first
college-level
institution
for
women,
Mount
Holyoke Female Seminary, was
established in____________ to serve the
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A. New England
B.
Virginia
C. Massachusetts
D.
New York
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32. As a
philosophical and literary movement, ____________
flourished
in New England from the
1830s to the Civil War.
A.
modernism
B.
rationalism
C.
sentimentalism
D. transcendentalism
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33.
Transcendentalist
doctrines
found
their
greatest
literary
advocates in___________ and Henry David
Thoreau.
A. Thomas Jefferson
B. Ralph Waldo
Emerson
C. Philip Freneau
D. Oversoul
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34. _________
was the most leading spirit of the Transcendental
Club.
A. Henry David Thoreau
B. Ralph Waldo Emerson
C. Nathaniel Hawthorne
D.
Walt Whitman
[34].
35. Transcendentalists
recognized__________ as the
the
soul.
A.
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intuition
.
B.
logic
C. data of the senses
D.
thinking
[35].
36.
Led
by
Nathaniel
Hawthorne,
Ralph
Waldo
Emerson
and
_______________ , there arose a kind of
teachings of transcendentalism
in the
early nineteenth century.
A.
Herman Melville
B.
Henry David Thoreau
C. Mark
Twain
D. Theodore
Dreiser
[36].
37.
Transcendentalism
appealed
to
those
who
disdained
the
harsh
God of the Puritan
ancestors, and it appealed to those who scorned
the pale deity of New
England
A. Transcendentalism
B.
Humanism
C. Naturalism
D. Unitarianism
[37].
38.
Mark
Twain
created,
in____________,
a
masterpiece
of
American
realism that is
also one of the great books of world
literature.
A.
Huckleberry Finn
B.
Tom Sawyer
C.
The Man That Corrupted
Hadleyburg
D.
The
Gilded Age
[38].
39.
American
literature
produced
only
one
female
poet
during
the
nineteenth century. This was
_____.
A. Anne Bradstreet
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