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Category: American Literature
Before advocating on behalf of the enslaved in colonial Massachusetts, Samuel Sewall participated in what early American crisis event ?
A. Mayflower compact
B. Salem Witch Trails
C. No involvement
D. All the above
Which American poet is hailed as the representative poet of America ?
A. Robert Frost
B. R. W. Emerson
C. Walt Whitman
D. Edgar Allen Poe
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 ?
A. Seeing his mother die
B. Watching a slave get beaten to death
C. Watching his aunt get whipped
D. Watching his dad beat his mother
Which of the following is true about the target audience for John Saffin’s pamphlet ?
A. African Americans
B. White public of Plymouth
C. White public of Massachusetts
D. Native Americans
How does Eliza cross the Ohio river ____________?
A. By ferry
B. On a makeshift raft
C. In a stolen canoe
D. Hopping rafts of ice
About Edward Taylor_____________?
A. Wrote Huswifery in an ornate style that wouldn’t have been accepted by the Puritans
B. Wrote a poem about his house burning down
C. Was exiled to the New World because he wouldn’t talk to the Church of England
D. A and C
Why do we call Ralph Waldo Emerson the “Father of American Literature” ?
A. First native american to publish life writing
B. Mentor to other writers
C. Literary Maverick
D. None of the above
But when a Boy, and Barefoot I more than once at Noon Have passed, I thought, a Whip lash Unbraiding in the Sun The speaker of this poem is_____________?
A. A boy
B. An alien
C. A girl
D. A communist
Which of Upton Sinclair’s books is about the meat-packing industry ?
A. Main Street
B. Arrowsmith
C. Elmer Gantry
D. The Jungle
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