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Category: American Literature
What does the narrator of the story about Rip describe as the great error in Rip’s composition ?
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A. His weakness for spirits
B. That he is henpecked by his wife
C. His love of town gossip
D. His unwillingness to work
About William Bradford__________________?
A. Wrote the Mayflower Compact agreement
B. Founded Jamestown
C. Wrote about the Plymouth Plantation
D. A and C
William Bradford’s Of Plymouth Plantation exemplifies what genre of early American writing ?
A. Slave narrative
B. Free verse poem
C. Journal
D. Spiritual diary
What was the original title of Hemingway’s novel The Old Man and the Sea ?
A. Fiesta
B. The Assistant
C. The Sea in Being
D. Farewell to Arms
This term refers to the “feeling” of a word______________?
A. Connotation
B. Connection
C. Constitution
D. Description
The intellectual movement that believed that the observation of nature elevates the nature of humans, that deep truths can be grasped through intuition, and that God, Nature and humanity are united in a shared universe is______________?
A. Transcendentalism
B. Communism
C. Totalitarianism
D. Feudalism
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 man’s heart. This is______________?
A. Historical fiction
B. A fairy tale
C. An autobiography
D. A detective story
Well, then; I have received personal information, from a very high quarter, that a certain document of the last importance, has been purloined from the royal apartments. The individual who purloined it is known; this beyond a doubt; he was seen to take it. It is known, also, that it still remains in his possession. What is the meaning of the verb to purloin ?
A. To borrow
B. To steal
C. To ruin
D. To return
What vice does Tom attempt to convince Augustine Clare to renounce ?
A. gambling
B. drinking
C. bribery
D. lying
The term Beat Generation comes from______________?
A. Beat to his size
B. Beat to his stomach
C. Beat to his socks
D. Beat to his Shoe
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