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1 - I hear my being dance from ear to ear. Here ear to ear refers to_____________?
a complete experience
2 - "A Boy's Will" is Robert Frost's------------..volume of poems.
First
3 - "A Boy's Will" was published in------------.by Robert Frost.
1913
4 - "A Further Range" by Frost was published in
1937
5 - "A Witness Tree" a poetic collection was published in
1942
6 - "Acquainted with the Night"and "Bereft" by Frost are the poems in the poetic collection
West-Running Brooke
7 - "Ah, wilderness!" and "Days without End" are plays by Eugene O'Neill written in
1933
8 - "Allons!" is the repeated word in the poem, "Song of the Open Road". What does 'Allons!' mean?
Let's go
9 - "As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life" is set on a
Beach
10 - "Birches" by Frost subtly blends
All of these
11 - "Desert Places" and "A Lone Striker" are poems in the Frost's collection
A Further Range
12 - "Dynamo" (1928) is a play by
Eugene O'Neill
13 - "Fire and Ice" and "Misgiving" are poems by Frost included in
New Hampshire
14 - "Fire and Ice" and "Road Not Taken" are poems by
Robert Frost
15 - "Ghost", "Into My Own" and "A Late Walk" are poems in------------ by Robert Frost.
A Boy's Will
16 - "Gold" and "The Personal Equation" are the plays by
Eugene O'Neill
17 - "In the Clearing" (1962) is a poetic collection by
Robert Frost
18 - "It's a great game - the pursuit of happiness." is quoted by
Eugene O'Neill
19 - "Kitty Hawk" and "A Wishing Well" are the poems by Frost from the poetic collection
In the Clearing
20 - "Long Day's Journey into Night" by Eugene O'Neill was written in
1941
21 - "Man's loneliness is but his fear of life." is said by
Eugene O'Neill
22 - "Mending Wall" and "Birches" are the poems by
Robert Frost
23 - "Mending Wall" combines the elements of reflective and dramatic lyric with
Both A & B
24 - "Mending Wall", "Bluberries" and "The Pasture" are the poems included in Frost's
North of Boston
25 - "Mountain Interval" by Frost was published in
1916
26 - "Mountain Interval" is third volume of poems by
Robert Frost
27 - "Mourning Becomes Electra is set in New England at the time of
The American Civil War
28 - "Mourning Becomes Electra" (1931) was written by
Eugene O'Neill
29 - "New Hampshire" by Frost published in
1923
30 - "North of Bostan" is Frost's------------.volume of poems.
Second
31 - "North of Boston" by Frost was published in
1914
32 - "Nothing Gold Can Stay" is the poem by Frost from his poetic collection
New Hampshire
33 - "Song of Myself" has a mystical and ------------tone.
Joyous
34 - "Song of Myself" is in------------.verse.
Both C & D
35 - "Song of Myself" is included in
Leaves of Grass
36 - "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" is a poem by
Robert Frost
37 - "The Death of the Hired Man" by Frost is included in his poetic collection
North of Boston
38 - "The Hairy Ape" and "The First Man" were published in 1922 by
Eugene O'Neill
39 - "The Mowing" is a poem by Frost. What is its poetic form?
Sonnet
40 - "The Onset" by Frost is written in the background of
Seasonal Cycle
41 - "The Oven Bird" is a poem by Frost included in
Mountain Interval
42 - "The past is the present, isn't it? It's the future, too. We all try to lie out of that but life won't let us." is said by
Eugene O'Neill
43 - "The Road Not Taken" is included in
Mountai Interval
44 - "The Scarlet Letter" is set in
Boston
45 - "The Siken Tent" and "The Gift Outright" are the poems by Frost in the collection
A Witness Tree
46 - "The Tuft of Flowers" by Frost is written in
Heroic couplet
47 - "There is no present or future-only the past, happening over and over again." is said by
Eugene O'Neill
48 - "Two Look at Two" by Robert Frost deals with the contrast between
Man and nature
49 - "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed" is a/an------------by Whitman.
Elegy
50 - (Your) uses an upper case because ?
he places his beloved in an upper place
51 - ________________is known as the 'friendly innkeeper of the town' ?
Goodman Parker
52 - _____________the eyes of all people are upon us; soe that if wee shall deale falsely with our god in this worke wee have undertaken and soe cause him to withdrawe his preent help from us, wee shall be made a story and a by-word through the world, wee shal
John Winthrop
53 - A crowd of sombre, dreary-looking people have gathered outside the door of a ……..in 17th century Boston.
Prison
54 - A diary of someone's day by day account of events_______________?
Journal
55 - A factual account of the development of a people, nation, institution or culture_____________?
History
56 - A good definition of American Realism is________________?
An examination of life as it actually is.
57 - A language come into existence when_____________?
there is brutal necessity
58 - A natural phenomenon comes to symbolize Hester's sin and Winthrope's virtue. What is that?
A meteor
59 - 'A Wife for a Life' (1913) and 'Recklessness' (1913) are On-Act Plays by
Eugene O'Neill
60 - …..is deligated to ask Hester about his sinner.
Dimmesdale
61 - ……..emerges from the prison door in The Scarlet Letter.
Hester Prynne
62 - ……..tells Whitman the story of Indian woman in "The Sleepers".
His mother
63 - …….…emphasized to reopen the case of Hester's lover.
Chillingworth
64 - …….fascinates Pearl at governor's mansion.
The armour
65 - ………. found Orin's dead body.
Peter
66 - ………..does not wear a mask-like face.
Ames
67 - ………was the life time punishment given to Hester for her adultery.
Wearing Scarlet Letter
68 - ……calls Hester to witches' gathering at governor's mansion.
Mistress Hibbins
69 - Abortion', 'Fog' and 'The Movie Man: A Comedy' all were written in------------by Eugene O'Neill.
1914
70 - About Christopher Columbus_______________?
B and C
71 - About Cotton Mather _______________?
B and C
72 - About John Smith_______________?
A and B
73 - About Johnathan Edwards____________?
B and C
74 - About the Delaware_______________?
All the above
75 - About the Iroquois_______________?
All the above
76 - About the Navajo____________?
B and C
77 - About the Pima_______________?
B and C
78 - About William Bradford__________________?
A and C
79 - Abraham Lincoln: the war Years________________?
Carl Sandburg
80 - Abslom, Absalom is a novel written by______________?
Faulkner
81 - According to "Hare's Adventure", how does he get his "burnt buttocks" ?
His buttocks was scorched by the sun which he had caught in a trap
82 - According to Hare, what work did the Earthmaker send him to do ?
To trample upon evil beings that were abusing his aunts and uncles
83 - According to Robert Frost what is the importance of form in poetry?
Important
84 - According to the myth, how did frogs loose their teeth ?
Hare hit a frog with a club and burned the frog and cursed it by declaring it would never be able to harm anyone because it threatedned to hunt the hare down with dogs.
85 - According to the myth, which of the following are likely hunting preparation rituals that the Winnebago perform ?
All of the above
86 - According to the myth, why must all things have an end ?
Mankind would suffer because of a lack of food if there were more people than resources to care for them
87 - According to the narrator------------..has saved Hester from Satan's temptations.
Pearl
88 - According to the poet in "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" generations commincate through
Common experiences
89 - According to the poet in "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" the identity is received through
The body
90 - According to the sign in the Kentucky Inn, what is branded to George's right hand ?
The number 314
91 - According to the tale, what horrible crime did the ucle commit ?
He killed all of the male children
92 - Adam and Christine thought that Ezra's death will be considered due to his
Heart disease
93 - Adam Brant and Louisa Ames are the characters in the play------------.by Eugene O'Neill.
Mourning Becomes Electra
94 - Adam Brant has love affair with Christine. He also functions as the suitor to
Lavinia
95 - Adam Brant is the son of Mary Brantome and
David
96 - Adam Brant sworns------------Mannons.
Revenge on
97 - After condemnation sermon, Hester Prynne was taken to
Prison
98 - After Hare had destroyed all the bad animals what did he decide to do next ?
He decided to prepare some animals for humans to eat
99 - All of the following are traits demonstrated by the hero except ?
Jealousy
100 - All works of the highest art are meant to______________?
stir our intellect
101 - Along the way, goodman Brown and the character who seems to be the devil meet three people______________?
Goody Cloyse, deacon Gookin, and the minister.
102 - American Civil War was fought in_______________?
1861-1865
103 - Amos Ames is a------------in his fifties in he play "Mourning Becomes Electra".
Fat carpenter
104 - Amos Ames is a charcter in the play
Mourning Becomes Electra
105 - And then hopped sidewise to the Wall. Here the poet personifies the bird as a______________?
Gentleman
106 - 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 ?
They are legally denied the right to engage in commerce.
107 - Apess concludes his piece by____________?
Exhorting his allies and advocates to continue working to end prejudice
108 - Arthur Miller's Death of A Salesman was appeared in _______________?
1949
109 - 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 ?
Watching his aunt get whipped
110 - As I lay die_________________?
William Faulkner
111 - At Dimmesdale, Chillingworth's room contains
A laboratory
112 - At the end of Hare's adventure with the headless bodies how does he turned them into "fast-fish." ?
The headless bodies tried to abuse people so they were turned into 'fast-fish' as a punishment.
113 - At what time the story begins?
Late spring afternoon
114 - At which place does the action of the play take place?
Mannon House
115 - Bartolome de Las Casas wrote_____________?
The devastation of the indies
116 - Bear is supposed to be brave, so how does Hare trick him into being afraid ?
Hare took out his quiver and showed him four arrows.
117 - Beecher Stowe wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin" to illustrate the evils of_________________?
Slavery
118 - Before advocating on behalf of the enslaved in colonial Massachusetts, Samuel Sewall participated in what early American crisis event ?
Salem Witch Trails
119 - Before humans were sold as commodities, what item was highly sought after in West Africa ?
Gold
120 - Berryman's The Ball Poem can be categorized as a_______________?
Confessional poem
121 - Besides mother and son, there was ……between them.
Oedipus complex
122 - Black Boy is an autobiographical account of whose Southern boyhood ?
Pynchon
123 - Black English is the creation of the____________________?
Black Diaspora
124 - Brant's clipper appeared
The night after Ezra's funeral
125 - Brant's Clipper appearsÂ
At a wharf in East Boston
126 - Bret Harte's "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" took place in_______________?
The Sierra Nevada Mountains.
127 - Brig. Gen. Ezra Mannon is a character in the play …….by O'Neill.
Mourning Becomes Electra
128 - But for many minutes the heart beat on with a muffled sound. This, however, did not vex me; it would not be heard through the wall. At length it ceased. The old man was dead. I removed the bed and examined the corpse. Yes, he was stone, stone dead. This v
His clouded eye
129 - 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 boy
130 - But when to their feminine rage the indignation of the people is added, when the ignorant and the poor are aroused, when the unintelligent brute force that lies at the bottom of society is made to growl and mow, it needs the habit of magnanimity and relig
To grimace
131 - By 1600 Holland had____________________?
many scholars and sceptics
132 - 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 w
Man of ordinary status
133 - Chillingworth and Hester lived in------------before coming to Boston.
Amsterdam
134 - Chillingworth comes to the Boston to
Take revenge
135 - Chillingworth could not hold a beautiful wife like Hester Prynne because he was
A book worm
136 - Chillingworth dies ……..year/years after Dimmesdale's death.
One
137 - Chillingworth suspects that------------is the sinner of Hester.
Dimmesdale
138 - Chistine Mannon and Orin Mannon are the charactersin the play
None of these
139 - Christine and Brant plan to sail away to which country?
China
140 - Christine and Lavinia plans to
Flee east
141 - Christine hates
Her husband
142 - Christine is an attractive woman of------------years.
40
143 - Christine kills herself in
The study
144 - Christine proposes Adam to------------.Ezra.
Poison
145 - Christine wears …….dress.
Green
146 - Chrsitine's counterpart in The Oresteia is
Clytemnesra
147 - Dark and unfathomable mystery of life is symbolized by------------…in, "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening".
Dark woods
148 - Define trickster tale ?
A story about a mischievous, supernatural being
149 - Dimmesdale punished himself for his sin by
All of these
150 - Dimmesdale seems to have a disease. Name it.
Heart pain
151 - Dimmesdale was convinced to pronounce her sin when Pearl was ……..years old.
Seven
152 - Dr. Blake knew Ezra's heart condition. However, he thought that Ezra really died of
Love
153 - 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 h
A person who has one white parent and one parent who is a Mulatto
154 - During the Colonial Time Period, the writing was influenced most by what religious persuasion ?
The Puritans
155 - During the Revolutionary time period, what great document was written ?
The Declaration of Independence.
156 - Eugene O'Neill died in 1953 due to
Pneumonia
157 - Eugene O'Neill wrote more than------------plays.
50
158 - Ezra Mannon's counterpart in 'The Oresteia' is
Agamenon
159 - Ezra told the reason of his death to
Lavinia
160 - For a time the narrator comforts Roderick by reading and painting with him; one of Roderick's 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, a
The narrator and Roderick bury Madeline alive in a stone tomb beneath the mansion.
161 - For what the metaphors of the blossoms of Rosebush are used?
Both A & B
162 - From where does Christine get the name of poison that she use to kill her husband?
Her father's books
163 - From where does Eliza cross into Cananda ?
Lake Erie
164 - From where Gen. Mannon is returning in the play?
War
165 - Frost co-founded------------…in 1920.
Bread Loaf School and Conference of English
166 - Frost conveys deep……… in a simple style and language in his poem, "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening".
Both A & B
167 - Frost received a degree from Dartmouth College in
Never
168 - Frost spent most of his teenage years in
Lawrence, Massachsetts
169 - Frost's essay dealing his conception of poetry
The Figure Poem Makes
170 - Frost's poem The Road Not Taken is included in his poetical collection______________________?
Mountain Interval
171 - Frost's poem with different and original use of the couplet
After Apple Picking
172 - gave a hint of the rich culture that was forgotten________________?
Reported speech poems
173 - Governor Bellingham is a/an------------man.
Old
174 - Governor Bellingham spends most of his time in consulting with
The other town fathers
175 - Gradually light returns to the street means_______________?
life resumes to normal routine
176 - Hanging Johny is the------------song that Chantyman sings to Brant.
Second
177 - Having emerg'd from the Poverty and Obscurity in which I was born and bred, to a State of Affluence and some Degree of Reputation in the World, and having gone so far thro' Life with a considerable Share of Felicity, the conducing Means I made use of, whi
Benjamin Franklin
178 - Hawthorne draws strong parallels between
The red rose, Scarlet letter, Pearl
179 - Hawthorne's ancestors are associated with what historical American event ?
History of puritans
180 - Hawthorne's works belong to
Both of these
181 - Hazel Niles is 19 years old
Friend of Mannon children
182 - He glanced with rapid eyes_____________ they looked like frightened beads. The figure of speech used here is ?
Simile
183 - He had heard this destruction of the original possessors of the soil described, as we find it in the history of the times, where, we are told, "the number destroyed was about four hundred;" and "it was a fearful sight to see them thus frying in the fire,
A historial novel
184 - He was famed for great skill in horsemanship; he was foremost at all races and cockfights; and, with the ascendancy which bodily strength acquires in rustic life, was the umpire in all disputes. He was always ready for either a fight or a frolic, but had
Brom Bones
185 - He will give the gloom of gloom, and the sunshine of sunshine. The pronoun "He" refers to_______________?
Painter
186 - He wrote a journal about his expedition in northern Florida _____________?
De Vaca
187 - Henry David Thoreau lived for a while_______________?
At Walden Pond.
188 - Hester always wears ……..clothes.
Gray
189 - Hester and Dimmesdale plan to escape their suffering by boarding a ship bound for
Europe
190 - Hester and Dimmesdale plan to leave Boston after
Four days
191 - Hester had embroidered------------on her dress.
A scarlet letter A
192 - Hester' husband is a/an
Scholar
193 - Hester makes ……..for Governor Winthrope.
A pair of gloves
194 - Hester planned to meet Dimmesdale in the
Jungle
195 - Hester Prynne and her daughter Pearl lived in an abandoned------------on the outskirts of Boston.
Cottage
196 - Hester Prynne believes herself a
Widow
197 - Hester Prynne had an affair with
Dimmesdale
198 - Hester Prynne has committed crime of
Adultery
199 - Hester Prynne squeezed her baby. Why?
To make her weep
200 - Hester Prynne was taken out of the prison to ……..her publiclly.
Condemn
201 - Hester recognized her husbnad's dress due to
Slightly deformed shoulders
202 - Hester spotted ……in the crowd.
Her husband
203 - Hester supports herself financially by working as a
Seamstress
204 - Hester was buried next to
Dimmesdale
205 - Hester's letter "A" eventually becomes to represent ……..to the town's people.
Able
206 - His son Rip, an urchin begotten in his own likeness, promised to inherit the habits, with thåe old clothes of his father. He was generally seen trooping like a colt at his mother's heels, equipped in a pair of his father's cast-off galligaskins, which he
Loose, wide breeches
207 - How did Chillingworth find out the reality of Pearl's father?
By becoming Dimmsedale's doctor
208 - How did Mistress Hibbins die?
She was hanged publically as a witch
209 - How do the Shelby's treat their slaves ?
Kindly but firmly
210 - How does Eliza cross the Ohio river ____________?
Hopping rafts of ice
211 - How does Frost treat nature?
Both A & B
212 - How does Hare outsmart Sharp-elbow to retrieve his stolen arrow ?
He takes a whetstone with him to retrieve the arrow and when Sharp-elbow attacks he uses the whetstone for protection against the attack
213 - How does Sam secretly alert Eliza to Mr.Haley's presence outside the inn ?
Shouts about his hat
214 - How does St. Clare die ?
He is stabbed
215 - How long is Rip asleep in the woods ?
Twenty years
216 - How many children does Uncle Tom have ?
three
217 - How old is Emmeline ?
Fifteen
218 - How was the priest's son's prayer answered ?
The dead uncle sent an earthquake to punish the corn clan for their wrongdoings
219 - Human body is described as sacred in the poem------------..by Walt Whitman.
I Sing the Body Electric
220 - 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 heath
Hortatory sermon
221 - 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
Dupin
222 - I know that many say that they are willing, perhaps the majority of the people, that we should enjoy our rights and privileges as they do. If so, I would ask why are not we protected in our persons and property throughout the Union? Is it not because ther
William Apess
223 - I took my visitors all over the house. I bade them search — search well. I led them, at length, to his chamber. I showed them his treasures, secure, undisturbed. The narrator is________________?
Leading the police to the scene of a crime
224 - I was somewhat unmanageable when I first went [to Master Covey's], but a few months of this discipline tamed me. … I was broken in body, soul, and spirit. My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed, the
Fredrick Douglass
225 - I would not have it imagined, however, that he was one of those cruel potentates of the school, who joy in the smart of their subjects; on the contrary, he administered justice with discrimination rather than severity; taking the burthen off the backs of
Pain
226 - In "Mending Wall" what thing does suggest the man made barriers and divisions at all levels?
Wall
227 - In "Out of the Cradle" what is the word the sea gives to the poet?
Death
228 - In "Song of Myself" 'myself' represents Walt Whitman. However identity of the speaker is
Mythic
229 - In "The Scarlet Letter" forest stands for
All of these
230 - In "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed",------------.'s death was commemrated.
Lincoln
231 - In addition to driving the family coach, what other responsibility do the St. Clare assign Uncle Tom ?
Managing finances
232 - In killing Brant, Orin fantasizes that he has killed
Both A & B
233 - In Saul Bellow's novel Herzog (1964), Moses Herzog is a________________?
Jew
234 - In Talbot county, Eastern Shore, Maryland, near Easton, the county town of that country, there is a small district of country, thily populated, and remarkable for nothing that I know of more than for the worn-out, sandy, deserts-like appearance of its soi
Neglect or decray
235 - 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 th
Fearless daring or aggressive boldness
236 - In the poem, "By Blue Antario's Shore" who speaks to the poet?
A Phantom
237 - In 'The Scarlet Letter', the prison house's building's heavy oak door is studded with iron spikes, and the prison appears to have been constructed to hold….
Dangerous criminals
238 - In this technological world the child should build up_____________?
inner strength
239 - In Walden, who urges people to simplify their lives and look to nature for meaning ?
Henry David Thoreau
240 - In what year was the Fugitive Slave Act passed ?
1850
241 - In which city does the St.Clare live ?
New Orleans
242 - In which state is Legree's plantation located ?
Louisiana
243 - In which state is the Shelby farm located ?
Kentucky
244 - In which state was "Uncle Tom's Cabin" written ?
Maine
245 - is the end of fame_______________?
Pity
246 - Isolation and loneliness are the themes of------------…by Frost.
Desert Places
247 - It was about this time that I conceiv'd the bold and arduous Project of arriving at moral Perfection. I wish'd to live without committing any Fault at any time; I would conquer all that either Natural Inclination, Custom, or Company might lead me into. As
Benjamin Franklin
248 - It was assumed that Hester's husband had lost in
The sea
249 - It was possible, I reflected, that a mere different arrangement of the particulars of the scene, of the details of this picture, would be sufficient to modify, or perhaps to annihilate its capacity for sorrowful impression; and, acting upon this idea, I r
A small mountain lake
250 - It was the very witching time of night that he, heavyhearted and crestfallen, pursued his travel homeward. Far below, the Tappan Zee spread its dusky waters. In the dead hush of midnight he could hear the faint barking of a watchdog from the opposite shor
A Gothic tale
251 - Jack London's "To Build a Fire" contained foreshadowing, which means_____________?
It contained clues to events yet to happen.
252 - Jed and Dr. Blake are the charcters in
Mourning Becomes Electra
253 - Lavinia and Orin goes to------------for trip.
East
254 - Lavinia and Orin travelled to
China
255 - Lavinia cries------------.' name in her final declarations of love to Peter.
Adam
256 - Lavinia follows her mother to------------..to spy on her.
Both A & B
257 - Lavinia has recently returned from
New York
258 - Lavinia has seen------------between Adam Brant and her mother.
Kissing
259 - Lavinia Mannon is a character in
Mourning Becomes Electra
260 - Lavinia put her mother's pillbox on
On Ezra's corpse
261 - Lavinia wears ……..dress.
Black
262 - Lavinia's nickname in the play is
Vinnie
263 - Lavinia's suitor is
Peter
264 - learn by going where I have to go. The poet learns of______________?
the final destination where he has to reach
265 - 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 "boun
Transportation to the colonies
266 - Let me for a few moments turn your attention to the reservations in the different states of New England, and, with but few exceptions, we shall find them as follows: the most mean, abject, miserable race of beings in the world – a complete place of prod
Wasteful extravagance
267 - Maria Steward believe that black woman are crucial to the uplift of black Americans. Why ?
They have the power to fix things themselves
268 - Maria Stewart is associated with what major American literary movement ?
Nationalism
269 - Marlowe's play 'Tamburlaine the Great' was based loosely on the life of which Asian ruler ?
Timur
270 - Mary Brantome was
Adam Brant's mother
271 - Miniver Cheevy's name satirically hints at his_________________?
a minimalist achievements in life
272 - Miniver scorned the gold he sought. Here gold refers to______________?
the pot of luck
273 - Mistress Hibbins is ……..of Governor Bellingham.
Sister
274 - Mistress Hibbins is the
Governor's sister
275 - Monadnock on his forehead hoar Doth seal the sacred trust, Your mountains build their monument, Though ye destroy their dust. What is the meaning of the word "hoar" ?
Grey or white with age
276 - Mourning Becomes Electra (Drama) by Eugene O'Neill has ……..acts.
13
277 - Mr. Covey entered the stable with a long rope; and just as I was half out of the loft, he caught hold of my legs, and was about tying me. As soon as I found what he was up to, I gave a sudden spring, and as I did so, he holding to my legs, I was brought s
Fredrick Douglass
278 - Name of Mannon's maid is
Hannah
279 - Name of Robert Frost's wife
Elinor White
280 - Name the religious group that preached to live a simple and straightforward life_________________?
Puritans
281 - Name the ship that brought the first Pilgrims to the New World______________?
Mayflower
282 - Nathaniel Hawthorne uses a term "The Leech" for
Roger Chillingworth
283 - Native Son (1940) is written by_____________?
Richard Wright
284 - Occom says he was discriminated against as a missionary and minister. What proof does he present to illustrate the unfair treatment of Native American ministers ?
Establishment of Indian praying towns
285 - Of the two, reverend Sir," said the voice like the deacon's, "I had rather miss an ordination-dinner than to-night's meeting. They tell me that some of our community are to be here from Falmouth and beyond, and others from Connecticut and Rhode-Island; be
An apples-salesman
286 - Of what does Goodman Brown become guilty after his midnight meeting in the woods ?
Hubris
287 - One of the following do not figure as 'island' in the play. Mention.
Lavinia
288 - O'Neill was the first American writer to win
Nobel Prize
289 - Orin is Mannon's
Son
290 - Orin Mannon is a character in
Mourning Becomes Electra
291 - Orin's counterpart in Oresteia is
Orestes
292 - Over which river does Eliza make her miraculous crossing ?
The Ohio
293 - Parker's report to Margaret is_________________?
simple and heartwarming
294 - Pearl acknowledged Dimmesdale at his death by
Kissing him
295 - Pearl became wealthy because of
Both A & B
296 - Pearl does not recognise Hester Prynne when she sees her with Dimmesdale in the forest. Why?
Hester had removed the scarlet letter
297 - Pearl has a------------.spirit.
Moody and mischievous
298 - Pearl is totally antagonist to------------..in society.
Puritan reforms
299 - Peter Niles and Hazel Niles are the characters in the play
Mourning Becomes Electra
300 - Postmodern writing often uses and as literary devices ?
Black humor; metafiction.
301 - Pre-colonial theme ?
A and B
302 - Rabbit Angstrom Novels are written by ____________?
John Updike
303 - Robert Frost died in 1963 in
Bostan, Masscusetts
304 - Robert Frost was a conservator and------------.at the same time.
Experimenter
305 - Robert Frost's------------..children died.
Four
306 - Roger Chillingworth sent Hester Prynne ahead of him to ……..to live.
America
307 - Roger Chillinworth disguised himself as a
Doctor
308 - Rosebush near the prison suggest
Kindness of nature
309 - Seth Beckwith is …….of the Mannon Household.
Gardener
310 - She was a blooming lass of fresh eighteen, plump as a partridge, ripe and melting and rosy-cheeked as one of her father's peaches, and universally famed, not merely for her beauty, but her vast expectations. . . . She wore ornaments of pure yellow gold to
Katrina
311 - Some of the movements that took place in the modernist time period include___________?
The Harlem Renaissance, The Lost Generation, and Confessional Poetry.
312 - Story of the play, "Mourning Becomes Electra" is based on
Greek myth of Orestes
313 - The "Cycle of American Literature" was written by ?
Robert E. Spiller
314 - The ambitious spirits of his brother chieftain Sassacus, had ever aspired to dominion over the allied tribes – and immediately after the appearance of the English, the same temper was manifest in a jealousy of their encroachments. He employed all his ar
Extermination
315 - The American Renaissance overlapped the time period, in which American writers were trying to____________?
Romanticism; define themselves and their writing style as independent from England.
316 - 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,
An of revolting against civil authority
317 - The Battle of the Ants is an excerpt from______________?
Walden
318 - The behaviour of other children with Pearl was
Cruel
319 - The black language holds great importance for the_____________?
Survival and continuation of the Black community
320 - 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, th
Narrative frame
321 - The change TV brought into the society can be summed up as_________________?
creating indifference to realities of life
322 - The children of the village, too, would shout with joy whenever he approached. He assisted at their sports, made their playthings, taught them to fly kites and shoot marbles, and told them long stories of ghosts, witches, and Indians. This work draws upon
A European fairy tale
323 - The cloud-spirits peeped from their silvery islands, as the congregated mirth went roaring up the sky! The Man in the Moon heard the far bellow. "Oho," quoth he, "the old earth is frolicsome to-night!" This is_______________?
Gothic fiction
324 - The emagery in the poem is_________________?
Naturalistics
325 - The fact that this scaffold scene is illiuminated symbolizes
Divine intervention
326 - The farmer drove his plough-share deep "Whose bones are these?" said he, "I find them where my browsing sheep Roam o'er the upland lea." What does "lea" mean? Veldu eitt ?
Meadow or pastureland
327 - The 'fearful trip' is a recall of________________?
The Civil war
328 - The first part of American History dwells of the_________________?
Discovery and settlement of the Western continent
329 - The first stanza of the poem provides an idea that it is______________?
not a happy story
330 - The founder of Jamestown____________?
John Smith
331 - The gester Dimmesdale made throughout the book is
Places his hand over his heart
332 - The hairy wild-bee that murmurs and hankers up and down, that gripes the fullgrown lady-flower, curves upon her with amorous firm legs, takes his will of her, and holds himself tremulous and tight till he is satisfied. What does tremulous mean ?
Trembling and timid
333 - The house of this Puritan poet burned down_____________?
Anne Bradstreet
334 - 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______________?
Transcendentalism
335 - The lesson the young man teaches Dorothy is_________________?
to live and enjoy her life
336 - The letter 'A' is a patch of cloth ……..in colour.
Scarlet
337 - The main theme of the poem, "Two Tramps in the Mud Time" by Frost is clash between
Opinion and conviction
338 - The major symbol of Whitman in "Song of Myself" is
Grass
339 - The Manitou is a great god in this legend ?
Walum Olum
340 - The most important criminal in the Mannon's family is
Lavinia
341 - The name of Brant's ship is
The Flying Trades
342 - The name of the first part of the trilogy "Mourning Becomes Electra" is
The Homecoming
343 - The name of the second part of the trilogy "Mourning Becomes Electra" is
The Hunted
344 - The name of the third part of the trilogy "Mourning Becomes Electra" is
The Haunted
345 - The narrator first encountered Hester Prynne's story in the
Attic of Salem Custom-House
346 - The narrator had the------------.trees in "Mending Wall"?
Apple
347 - The narrator loses his job in the Custome House because of
A new Custome House president
348 - The narrator of the story is a/an
Surveyor of the Custom House
349 - The narrator returns home during the_______________?
Winter
350 - The narrator said, "The founders of new colonies may be, they invariably provide ……."
Both A & B
351 - The novel "The Scarlet Letter" is set in a village in
Puritan New England
352 - The novel "The Scarlet Letter" starts in
June 1642
353 - The novel is set in
1600s
354 - The now ghastly pallor of the skin, and the now miraculous luster of the eye, above all things startled and even awed me. The silken hair, too, had been suffered to grow all unheeded, and as, in its wild gossamer texture, it floated rather than fell about
Buries someone alive
355 - The pervading metaphor in the story is___________________?
a clean well-lighted place
356 - The poem "The Most of It" is included in Frost's poetic collection
A Witness Tree
357 - The poem by Berryman has a sad and depressed tone about it and it foreshadows the_____________?
fate and the mindest of the boy
358 - The poem ends on a_____________?
philosophical note
359 - The poetic collection "West-Running Brooke" was published in
1928
360 - The populace think that your rejection of popular standards is a rejection of all standard, and mere antinomianism – and the bold sensualist will use the name of philosophy to gild his crimes. But the law of consciousness abides. There are two confessio
Doctrine of salvation by faith alone
361 - The portrait of ……..was/were hanging in the Mannon's household.
All of these
362 - The portrayel of the Puritanical society by Hawthorne is
Both A & B
363 - The process of passing on sayings, songs and tales ?
Oral Tradition
364 - The Puritans who settled Plymouth Colony were separating Puritans which meant ?
Separate from the Church of England
365 - The purpose of placing 'fallen cold and dead' at the end of each section is to_____________?
remind the leader of the tragedy
366 - The rank of Ezra Mannon in the army
Brigadier General
367 - The rosebush outside the prison door is the symbol of
All of these
368 - The Scarlet Letter (1850) was written by
Nathaniel Hawthorne
369 - The Scarlet Letter was completed by Hawthorne in
1850
370 - The scythe is personified as------------.in the "Mowing".
Whispering
371 - The speaker describes his neighbour as------------.in his poem, "Mending Walls".
Old stone Savage
372 - The story is told from the point of view of________________?
a third person
373 - The suspicion of Chillingworth about Dimmesdale comes true with the revelation of
Mark on Dimmesdale's breast
374 - The sweetest music is not in the oratorio, but in____________?
Human voice
375 - The term Beat Generation comes from______________?
Beat to his socks
376 - The term leach means to
Use leeches to drain blood from the patients
377 - The theme of Frost's poem "An Old Man's Winter Night" is
Recreation of old age
378 - The title of the poem, "Out, Out" is from Shakespear's play
Macbeth
379 - The tone of the third stanza of the poem embodies a sense of_____________?
Panic
380 - The two main characters in The Pearl are______________?
Kino and his wife Juana.
381 - The vivid imagery of the season is shown to_____________?
reinforce the thoughts of the narrator
382 - The Weary Blues______________?
Langston Hues
383 - Themes in colonial time period ?
All the above
384 - Themes in modern literature are_____________?
All the above
385 - This author wrote of the Pilgrims' voyage to the New World ?
William Bradford
386 - This character survived a massacre______________?
Hope
387 - This checkmark diagram represents the plot structure for what genre of early American writing ?
Slave narrative
388 - This governor was re-elected 30 times_________________?
William Bradford
389 - This group of Native Americans believed that corn was crucial to creation ?
Navajo
390 - This group of Native Americans left behind a legend about creation using pictographs_____________?
Delaware
391 - This group united 5 tribes_____________?
Iroquois
392 - This is a system of fundamental laws governing a society______________?
Constitution
393 - This is the implied comparison between two dissimilar things_______________?
Metaphor
394 - This is the name of the report by Cotton Mather about the trial accusing Martha Carrier of witchcraft_______________?
The Wonders of the Invisible World
395 - This is the title of a famous Puritan sermon______________?
Sinners in the Hand…
396 - This mode of discourse attempts to convince someone______________?
Persuasion
397 - This mode of discourse is used to explain. (Example: repair manuals) ?
Exposition
398 - This mode of discourse presents details that appeal to the senses______________?
Description
399 - This mode of discourse relates a story________________?
Narration
400 - This person wrote about a island that he called Colba, now known as Cuba______________?
Columbus
401 - This Puritan author wrote a persuasive speech ?
Johnathan Edwards
402 - This Puritan author wrote about the Salem witch trials_____________?
Cotton Mather
403 - This quote comes from what writing: "God holds you over the pit of Hell much as one holds a spider over the fire________________"?
Sinners in the Hand…
404 - This term is an elaborate comparison between two different subjects___________?
Conceit
405 - This term refers to the "feeling" of a word______________?
Connotation
406 - Thoreau places a sense of Upon the ants ?
honor and glory
407 - Thoreau scales humans down to the size of ants in order to____________________?
examine the aggressive, dominating and stupid nature of human warfare
408 - Thoreau through this essay tries to portray_______________?
Imperialism
409 - Thoreau was part of the Transcend lists, which were founded by________________?
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
410 - Throughout the novel, Pearl best represents
Embodiment of Hester's sin
411 - To make her publically shameful, Hester was taken to the
Scaffold
412 - To which country do George and Eliza plan to immigrate ?
Liberia
413 - To Whom does Franklin say he is addressing his autobiography part 1 ?
His son, William
414 - Towards the end of the novel, Pearl starts to punish
Dimmesdale
415 - Town people thought that Pearl was the child of a
Demon
416 - Townspeople say Chillingworth as a
Leach
417 - Uncle Tom's Cabin as a literary work exposed the evils of________________?
slavery
418 - Uncle Tom's Cabin was written by______________?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
419 - Unmoved – she notes the Chariots – pausing – At her low Gate – Unmoved – an Emperor be kneeling Upon her Mat – I've known her – from an ample nation – Then – close the Valves of her attention – Like Stone – What does ample mean ?
Large or abundant
420 - Usher can only stand types of noises in his acutely uncomfortable state. The narrator describes a number of impromptus that Usher plays for him on which instrument ?
The guitar
421 - Walt Whitman communes with------------in "Out of the Cradle".
A bird
422 - Walt Whitman's style of writing is known as______________?
Experimental
423 - Wanders in that happy valley Through two luminous windows saw Spirits moving musically To a lute's well-tunéd law, Round about a throne, where sitting (Porphyrogene!) In state his glory well befitting, The sovereign of the realm was seen. What does Porph
Of royal birth
424 - 'Warnings' and 'The Web' are One-Act Plays by
Eugene O'Neill
425 - We are such things as rubbish is made of, so let's drink up and forget it." is quoted by
Eugene O'Neill
426 - We associate John Winthrop with what colonial Settlement ?
Massachusetts Bay Colony
427 - We associate Nathaniel Hawthrone with what literary movement ?
Romanticism
428 - We associate William Bradford with what colonial settlement ?
Plymouth
429 - We paused before a House that seemed A Swelling of the Ground – The Roof was scarcely visible – The Cornice – in the Ground – What is Cornice ?
Decorative molding beneath a roof
430 - 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
To steal
431 - What animal is personified as Hare's grandfather ?
Bear
432 - What animal is personified as the trickster in the Winnebago tale ?
Hare
433 - What did Hester Prynne ask Dimmesdale to do when they were walking in the woods?
To run away
434 - What did John Smith write ?
General History of Virginia
435 - What did Seth promise to give to Abner Small for staying in Mannon's house apart from ten dollars?
A gallon of whisky
436 - What did the family do to protect the children from the uncle ?
They dressed the boys like girls and told them to behave as girls do
437 - What does an important section of "Song of Myself" describe?
Twenty-nine bathers
438 - What does Eva's father promise her before she dies ?
That he will free Uncle Tom
439 - What does George Harris' master demand of him that prompts him to plan his escape ?
Marry another woman
440 - What does George Shelby give Uncle Tom to wear on a string around his neck before Tom is taken away ?
A dollar
441 - What does letter 'A' in "The Scarlet Letter" signify?
Adulterer
442 - What does Orin do when Lavinia rebukes him for asking to develop incestuous relation?
He commits suicide
443 - What does the narrator find at the end of the journey ?
Crusted snow and dead leaves
444 - What does the narrator of the story about Rip describe as the great error in Rip's composition ?
His unwillingness to work
445 - What does the priest's son's prayers for the punishment of the tribe's iniquities tell us about the Zuni tribe ?
The Zunis are spiritual and have a strong moral code that they live by and teach to their children
446 - What does the snow symbolize in Frost's poem generally?
Death
447 - What event provides the motivation for Shelby to release all the slaves ?
Tom's death
448 - What invention won George Harris the respect of his factory's proprietor ?
A hemp cleaning machine
449 - What is Augustine St. Clare's selfish wife's name ?
Marie
450 - What is Mrs. Shelby's first name ?
Emily
451 - What is the author's purpose in the Zuni origin tale "The Flood" ?
To warn its youth about the consequences of promiscutiy and other inquities
452 - What is the colour of the letter 'A' in the scarlet letter?
Scarlet and gold
453 - What is the efflux (flow) of the soul according to the poet in the poem, "Song of the Open Road"?
Happiness
454 - What is the foremost conflict in the poem, "Mowing" by Frost?
Between imagination and practical hard work
455 - What is the idea behind writing "Song of Myself"?
Both A & B
456 - What is the mother's name in "Home Burial"?
Amy
457 - What is the name of a fat and boisterous Portugese fishing captain in the play Mourning Becomes Electra?
Joe Silva
458 - What is the name of the introductory section of the novel?
Custom House
459 - What is the name of the village in New England where "Mourning Becomes Electra" is set?
Not mentioned in the play
460 - What is the relationship of Brant and Ezra?
Cousins
461 - What is the role of a poet as Whitman says in his poem, "Blue Ontario"?
Judge
462 - What is TULIP ?
Total depravity
463 - What item in governor's mansion shows Hester a distorted reflection of herself?
A suit of armour
464 - What job does Uncle Tom perform at the St. Clare plantation ?
Head Coachman
465 - What kind of sound does the poet want to make towards the end of , "Song of Myself"?
A barbaric yawp
466 - What lesson does Hare's adventure involving a tall man with a cane attempt to teach the Winnebago people ?
Boasting shows weakness and will lead to bad things
467 - What ritual does the character resembling the devil attempt to perform in the woods, with goodman Brown as the object ?
A baptism
468 - What statement below best sums up the literary significance of Benjamin Franklin ?
Both B and C
469 - What statement below best sums up the literary significance of Emily Dickinson ?
Slant Rhyme
470 - What statement below best sums up the literary significance of Frederick Douglass ?
Most popular slave narrative
471 - What statement below best sums up the literary significance of John Saffin ?
Pro Slavery
472 - What statement below best sums up the literary significance of John Winthrop ?
All are correct
473 - What statement below best sums up the literary significance of Nathaniel Hawthorne ?
All are correct
474 - What statement below best sums up the literary significance of Samon Occum ?
Indian autobiography
475 - What statement below best sums up the literary significance of Thoreau ?
Self-reliance
476 - What statement below best sums up the literary significance of Walt Whitman ?
Both A and B
477 - What statement below best sums up the literary significance of William Bradford ?
both A and C
478 - What statement below best sums up the literary significant of Maria Stewart ?
First African American woman to speak to a mixed audience
479 - What story tells how Squanto taught the settler to grow corn, procure commodities and fish ?
The story of Plymouth Plantation
480 - What term describes Cassy's racial heritage ?
Mulatto
481 - What thing does Pearl sees first as a baby?
Her mother's scarlet letter
482 - What thing fell from the sky to illuminate the scaffold scene?
Meteor
483 - What type of romance is the story "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathanial Hawthorne?
Gothic
484 - What type of tapestries were there in minister's room?
With biblical scenes of adultery and punishment
485 - What vice does Tom attempt to convince Augustine Clare to renounce ?
bribery
486 - What was in the hand of the woman when she came out of the prison, in "The Scarlet Letter"
A baby
487 - What was Mary Brantome's profession?
Nurse
488 - What was one theme in the period of independence ____________?
All the above
489 - What was similar between Lavinia and her mother?
Both of these
490 - What was the original title of Hemingway's novel The Old Man and the Sea ?
The Sea in Being
491 - What was the purpose of the Mayflower Compact ?
first agreement on self governing
492 - What was written on the tombstone of Hester Prynne?
On a field, Sable, the letter A, Gules
493 - What writing describes the death of two settlers at the hands of 300 bowmen ?
General History of Virginia
494 - When and why does Chillingworth come into contact with his wife in Boston?
To provide her medical assistance
495 - When did Hemingway receive the Nobel Prize for Literature ?
1954
496 - When did Nathaniel Hawthorne join Boston Custom House Measurer?
In 1839
497 - When did the Boston people build their prison?
20 years ago
498 - when did william Faulkner get nobel prize for literature ?
B-1949
499 - When Dimmesdale confesses and falls dead, what does Pearl do?
Kisses him
500 - When Hester and Pearl goes to see the governor they fling ……on them.
Mud
501 - When Hester knows that the Puritan Council might allow her to remove her scarlet letter, what was her reaction?
She said that only God could remove it
502 - When Hester Prynne goes to the governor's mansion the age of pearl is
Three years
503 - When Hester Prynne tries to teach her daughter about God, she says I have
No heavenly father
504 - 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 & conver
Samson Occcum
505 - When Orin accuses Lavinia of sleeping with one of them like Brant and Peter, what attitude she adopts?
Like her mother
506 - When Pearl was asked by John Wilson,"Who your maker is?", she replied
She was plucked off of a rosebush
507 - 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. The author of this passage wa
An indentured servant
508 - 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
Historical fiction
509 - When they tried to separate the mother and the daughter in governor's house, who helped them?
Both A & B
510 - When was Nathaniel Hawthorne died?
In 1864
511 - Where did Arthur Dimmesdale get fame before coming to America?
England
512 - Where did Hester begin to live after her release from prison?
On the outskirts of Boston
513 - Where does Christine kill himself?
In the study
514 - Where does Senator Bird take Eliza and Harry ?
To a Quaker settlement
515 - Where does Tom first meet Eva ?
On a river boat
516 - Where was Roger Chillingworth for a long time?
In the custody of native Americans
517 - Which American poet is hailed as the representative poet of America ?
Walt Whitman
518 - Which American President reportedly referred to Harriet Beecher Stowe as "the little lady who made this big war" ?
Abraham Lincoln
519 - Which American writer won the Nobel Prize in 1930 ?
Sinclair Lewis
520 - Which character in "Uncle Tom's Cabin" directly opposes the Fugitive Slave Law ?
Mrs. Bird
521 - Which definition below best defines Transcendentalism ?
Political thinking, philosophical, and social movement
522 - Which dress does Lavinia wear that her mother also wore during her lifetime?
Green
523 - Which historical figure appears in "The Sleepers"?
Washington
524 - Which is one of the five tenants of Puritanism ?
Irresistible grace
525 - Which is the longest poem in "Leaves of Grass"?
Song of Myself
526 - Which member of the corn clan could not overlook the wrondoings of the rest of the clan ?
The priest's son
527 - Which of the following animals seem to represent strength and courage for the Eskimos ?
Eagle
528 - Which of the following best defines the Enlightenment movement ?
Age of reason
529 - Which of the following describes the precolonial era's literature styles ?
Narratives and poetry
530 - Which of the following is a true statement about Romanticism ?
Both A and B
531 - Which of the following is NOT a feature of the Enlightenment ?
Political
532 - Which of the following is NOT a feature of the Indian autobiography genre ?
Sovereignty
533 - Which of the following is NOT a feature or characteristics of Emily Dickinson's poetry ?
True Rhymes
534 - Which of the following is NOT a rhetorical purpose of "An Indian' Looking Glass for the White Man" ?
both B and C
535 - Which of the following is NOT among the 13 virtues Franklin struggles to master ?
None of the above
536 - Which of the following is not an animal Hare prepared for humans to eat ?
Horse
537 - Which of the following is NOT considered a write for the Transcendentalism Movement ?
Hawthrone
538 - Which of the following is not one of the 4 part of Puritan Sermon ?
Bibliography
539 - Which of the following is true about the target audience for John Saffin's pamphlet ?
White public of Massachusetts
540 - Which of the following themes or ideas are closely associated with the Native American way of life ?
Love and respect for family and its elders
541 - Which of these is NOT a rhetorical purpose of the Spiritual Diary Genre ?
Both B and C
542 - Which of these statements does NOT apply to Hawthorne as a moralist ________________?
Awareness of the importance of living a life without error and sin
543 - Which of Uncle Tom's personal characteristics guided his interactions with others and his responses to his circumstances ?
His honesty and deep devotion to God
544 - Which of Upton Sinclair's books is about the meat-packing industry ?
The Jungle
545 - Which ofWashington Irving's characters falls asleep for twenty years ?
Rip van Winkle
546 - Which one is a great patriotic poem by Frost ?
The Gift Outright
547 - Which poem did Frost read in inauguration ceremony of President Kennedy?
The Gift Outright
548 - Which poem is powerful and sometimes shocking as poem of physical identity?
Song of Myself
549 - Which poem of Frost deals with the crucial moments in choice making?
The Road Not Taken
550 - Which statement below best defined Dickinson's idea of circumference ?
limitations
551 - Which statement below best defined Whitman's idea of Oversoul ?
American landscape
552 - Which statement below best defines the genre of Indian autobiography ?
Genre that details life experiences of native Americas in early America and critiques American society to native Americans.
553 - Which statement below best paraphrases what John Winthrop meant when he declared that the MBC would be as a "city upon a hill" ?
Everyone has a role in society
554 - Which statement best describes literary significance of William APess ?
Both A and B
555 - Which thing represents the Puritanical severity of law and authority of the regime in "The Scarlet Letter"?
The prison door
556 - Whitman did several jobs during the Civil War like poet, nurse and
Journalist
557 - Whitman published------------.editions of "Leaves of Grass".
Eight
558 - Whitman says, he will make poems from his mortality, his body and------------..in his poem, "Starting from Paumanock".
Material things
559 - Whitman uses line length and word choice to represent________________?
a wide range of emotion from joy to sorrow
560 - Whitman's collection of war poetry
Drum Taps
561 - Who "haunts" the evil Simon Legree when he is drunk ?
Cassy
562 - Who acts as chorus in the play "Mourning Becomes Electra"?
A group of town's people
563 - Who appointed Nathaniel Hawthorne as the Surveyor of the Boston custom House?
James Polk
564 - Who called Frost "the great American poet of our time"?
John F. Kennedy
565 - Who coined the phrase 'Lost Generation' ?
Gertude Stein
566 - Who easily sways Reverend Mr. John Wilson?
Reverend Dimmesdale
567 - Who functions as Orin's would be sweetheart?
Hazel Niles
568 - Who influenced Walt Whitman the most?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
569 - Who inherits ownership of Tom when St. Clare dies ?
Marie
570 - Who is addressed as "you" in the poem ?
a frustrated romantic idealist
571 - Who is Boston's elder clergyman?
Reverend John Wilson
572 - Who is commonly known as a 'witch' in the novel "The Scarlet Letter"?
Mistress Hibbins
573 - Who is described by Whitman in his poem, "Body Electric"?
A farmer
574 - Who is Eliza's mother ?
Cassy
575 - Who is NOT considered to be a representative of the Southern Renaissance ?
T.S.Eliot
576 - Who is Pearl in the novel "The Scarlet Letter"?
Hester's illegitimate daughter
577 - Who is Sharp-elbow ?
A tyrannical village chief who is known for his elbow blades
578 - Who is stiff-shouldered, thin and flat chested lady in Mourning Becomes Electra?
Lavinia Mannon
579 - Who is the central character in Hemingway's novel The Old Man and the Sea ?
Santiago
580 - Who is the central Figure in O Nell's The Hairy Ape_____________?
Yank
581 - Who is the most malevolent character in "The Scarlet Letter"?
Roger Chillingworth
582 - Who is the narrator in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby (1925) ?
Nick
583 - Who is the narrator in Melville's Moby Dick ?
Ishmael
584 - Who is the narrator of the story in 'The Scarlet Letter'?
An unnamed surveyor of the Custom House
585 - Who is the protagonist of the novel The Scarlet Letter?
Hester Prynne
586 - Who is the representative figure of the "Jazz Age" ?
F. Scott Fitzgerald
587 - Who of the following adressed Ezra's portrait at some point in the play?
All of these
588 - Who said this, "Curiosity killed the cat, and satisfaction brought it back."
Eugene O'Neill
589 - Who said this, "Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors."
Eugene O'Neill
590 - Who says "Earth is the right place for love" ?
Robert Frost
591 - Who sent Hester Prynne to America in "The Scarlet Letter"?
Hester's husband
592 - Who shot Brant and showed it to be robbery?
Orin
593 - Who was a possible raper of Hester Prynne?
The devil…black man
594 - Who was Fuseli ?
British painter
595 - Who was the first black woman who win the Nobel Prize for Literature ?
Toni Morrison
596 - Who was the husband of Hester Prynne?
Roger Chillingworth
597 - Who was the real father of Pearl?
Arthur Dimmesdale
598 - Who wears scarlet letter in "The Scarlet Letter"?
Hester Prynne
599 - Who wote the short story "Major Molineux"?
Nathaniel Hawthorne
600 - Who wrote "Barn burning" ?
William Faulkner's
601 - Who wrote "Emperor Ice cream" ?
Wallace stevens
602 - Who wrote "The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock" ?
T.S. Eliot
603 - Who wrote "The Tuft of Flowers"?
Robert Frost
604 - Who wrote "The waste land" ?
T.S. Elliot
605 - Who wrote Heritage ?
Countiee cullen
606 - Who wrote Mending wall ?
Robert Lee Forst
607 - Who wrote the history of Mannon Family crimes?
Orin
608 - Who wrote The sound and the furry ?
William Faulkner
609 - Whom did the corn clan member pray to for help ?
His dead uncle
610 - Whom does Mr.Haley choose from among Shelby's slaves ?
Uncle Tom and Harry
611 - Whom does St. Clare give to Ophelia to educate ?
Topsy
612 - Why did Bradford and the Pilgrims create Plymouth Colony ?
Sovereignty to establish godly kingdom as they saw fit
613 - Why did Captain Brant come to Mannon House?
To take revenge
614 - Why did Peter leave Lavinia?
She told him that she was a native's fancy woman.
615 - Why do people evolve a language_______________?
To articulate their circumstances
616 - Why do we call Ralph Waldo Emerson the "Father of American Literature" ?
Mentor to other writers
617 - Why do you think the uncle was named the "Unnatural Uncle" ?
The Eskimo's felt that family was important and to try to harm a family member was not normal or natural
618 - Why does Henry David Thoreau write his book "Walden" ?
To show ideas of transcendentalism are put into action
619 - Why does Hester named her daughter Pearl?
Because she is her mother's only treasure
620 - William Bradford's Of Plymouth Plantation exemplifies what genre of early American writing ?
Spiritual diary
621 - Wines Burg Ohio______________?
Sherwood Anderson
622 - With which the poetry of Robert Frost largely deals?
Country life
623 - With whom does Seth bet to stay in Mannon's house overnight?
Abner Small
624 - Writers in the Romantic time period were concerned with____________?
Nature as a source of secular and spiritual knowledge, emotion as truth, and exploration of the self.
625 - Yes, when the stars glisten'd, All night long on the prong of a moss-scallop'd stake, Down almost amid the slapping waves, Sat the lone singer wonderful causing tears. What is a prong ?
A pointed, projected part of something
626 - Your goodness must have some edge to it--else 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____________?
An independent nation of independent individuals
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