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Category: American Literature
In the enthusiasm of my confidence, I brought chairs into the room, and desired them here to rest from their fatigues; while I myself, in the wild audacity of my perfect triumph, placed my own seat upon the very spot beneath which reposed the corpse of the victim. What is the meaning of the word audacity ?
A. Fearless daring or aggressive boldness
B. Auditory city
C. Authority
D. Insanity or dementia
Why was the book “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” written ?
A. as a pro- slavery argument
B. the author was a runaway slave
C. as a view point from Canada
D. as propaganda against slavery
This term is an elaborate comparison between two different subjects___________?
A. Simile
B. Conceit
C. Sermon
D. Anomoly
“Left the house of the subscriber, bounden servant, Hezekiah Mudge—had on when he went away, grey coat, leather breeches, master’s third best hat. One pound currency reward to whoever shall lodge him in any jail in the province.” Hezekiah Mudge is a “bounden servant,” meaning that he is bound by contract to be a servant (essentially a willing slave) for seven years in repayment for____________?
A. Freedom
B. Escape from enslavement
C. Transportation to the colonies
D. Dropping charges for murder
According to the tale, what horrible crime did the ucle commit ?
A. He killed all of the old people
B. He killed all of the female children
C. He killed all of the male children
D. He killed all of the women
This is the implied comparison between two dissimilar things_______________?
A. Myth
B. History
C. Tradition
D. Metaphor
About Christopher Columbus_______________?
A. Arrived on the Mayflower
B. Mistook Bahama Islands for India
C. Kept a journal of the First Voyage to America
D. B and C
The ‘fearful trip’ is a recall of________________?
A. The Civil war
B. Voyage
C. Abraham Lincoln
D. Trip form England to the United States
This is the title of a famous Puritan sermon______________?
A. A Bird in the Hand
B. Hands of Satan
C. Sinners in the Hand…
D. Sins of the World
The pervading metaphor in the story is___________________?
A. a clean well-lighted place
B. the old waiter
C. the old man
D. liquor
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