20Th century

159. The setting in William Golding’s novel ‘Lord of the Flies’ is on/in a/an

distant desert;

tropical island;

big industrial city;

Scottish village

160. Graham Green wrote enjoyable novels with

political themes;

religious themes;

cultural themes;

feminist themes

161. Which of these writers is often credited with inventing the genre of the "detective story"?

Dashiell Hammett;

Lydia Maria Child;

Kate Chopin;

Edgar Allan Poe;

O. Henry

162. Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs are best known as

Naturalists;

Romantics;

Symbolists;

Beat writers

163. Nathaniel Hawthorne's Blithedale Romance satirizes which literary and cultural movement?

Transcendentalism;

Regionalism;

Imagism;

Progressivism

164. A good definition of American realism is

A romantic portrayal of life;

An examination of life as it actually is;

A sad and depressing view of reality;

A type of writing that examines nothing but death

165. The American Renaissance overlapped the ____________ time period, in which American writers were trying to ______________.

Postmodern; end slavery;

Colonial; end patriotism for England;

Romanticism; define themselves and their writing style as independent from England;

Renaissance; end individualism

166. Some of the movements that took place in the modernist time period include:

Transcendentalism, Symbolism, and Dark Romanticism;

The Harlem Renaissance, The Lost Generation, and Confessional Poetry;

Symbolism, Naturalism, and Postmodernism;

Realism, Romanticism, and the American Renaissance

167. During the Colonial Time Period, the writing was influenced most by what religious persuasion?

The Catholics;

The Pilgrims;

Pagan Rituals;

The Puritans

168. During the Revolutionary time period, what great document was written?

The first romance novel;

The great American novel;

The Declaration of Independence;

Confessional poetry

169. 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;

Love and romance;

The future;

The philosophy of how to run a new country

170. Postmodern writing often uses ___________ and __________ as literary devices.

Symbolism; Imagery;

Biblical Allusion; Mythical Allusion;

Black humor; metafiction;

Metaphors; verbal irony

171. Which of the following works provides a Loyalist interpretation of the Revolution?

Thomas Jefferson’s “A Summary View of the Rights of British America”;

Patrick Henry’s “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death”;

John Woolman’s “Serious Considerations on Various Subjects of Importance”;

Joseph Galloway’s “Historical and Political Reflections on the Rise and Progress of the American Rebellion”

172. How can Edward Taylor’s “Upon a Wasp Chilled with Cold” best be described?

A seasonally descriptive poem;

A poem of detailed natural observation;

A romantic poem about love;

A pastoral depiction of nature

173. Which of the following poems is one of the earliest examples of disillusionment, reflecting the author’s own impressions of the barbarous colonial frontier?

Philip Freneau’s “On Mr. Paine’s Rights of Man”;

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s “Blind Bartimeus”;

Ebenezer Cooke’s “The Sot-Weed Factor”;

William Cullen Bryant’s “Thanatopsis”

174. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Scarlett Letter” depicts a belief in individual choice and consequence. This ideal is a characteristic of which of the following?

Realism;

Transcendentalism;

Puritanism;

Naturalism

175. Which of the following is NOT a character in Mark Twain’s “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”?

Widow Douglas;

Pap;

Tom Canty;

Judge Thatcher

176. “The Philosophy of Composition” was Edgar Allan Poe’s follow-up essay detailing the creation of which of his works?

“Annabel Lee”;

“The Raven”;

“The Fall of the House of Usher”;

“The Masque of the Red Death”

177. Romanticism in literature can best be defined as which of the following?

A movement that seeks to replicate a believable everyday reality;

Literature that is either utilitarian, very personal, or religious;

The exaltation of senses and emotions over reason and intellect;

The presentation of details that are actually part of life

178. Which of the following is NOT a theme of Herman Melville's "Moby Dick"?

Man against nature;

Betrayal of a friend;

Revenge;

A mysterious power or force

179. _________ is known as the father of the American short story.

James Fenimore Cooper;

Edgar Allan Poe;

Ralph Waldo Emerson;

Washington Irving

180. This realist is famous for his stories about factory workers:

Henry James;

Mark Twain;

Upton Sinclair;

Stephen Crane

181. A mentally retarded boy’s perspective is included in which 1929 novel?

The Sound and the Fury;

The Grapes of Wrath;

The Red Badge of Courage;

Catcher in the Rye

182. Which American author wrote about the Alaskan gold Rush in the Yukon?

Jack London;

Stephen Crane;

Frank Norris;

Anne Bradstreet

183. What literary device does Mark Twain use to attack slavery and religion in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?

Sarcasm;

Metonymy;

Simile;

Metaphor

184. What is symbolized by “the valley of ashes” in Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gastby?

The phoenix-like rebirth of a new America;

The moral and social decay caused by the mindless pursuit of wealth;

The rich soil of the American imagination;

The environmental conscience of American capitalism

185. Which Eugene O’Neill play is an autobiographical account of his Irish-American family?

Beyond the Horizon;

Long Day’s Journey into Night;

Strange Interlude;

Anna Christie

186. What New York neighborhood became the center of African-American culture during the 1920s?

Harlem;

Brooklyn;

Queens;

The Lower East Side

187. Sinclair Lewis’s tale of a middle class businessman’s discontent is entitled

Arrowsmith;

Babbitt;

Main Street;

The Jungle

188. Vladimir Nabokov moved to the United States from where?

Poland;

Hungary;

Russia;

Cuba

189. Which of the following writers was a leading member of the Harlem Renaissance?

Allen Ginsberg;

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow;

Langston Hughes;

Louisa May Alcott

190. Who wrote “Cat's Cradle” and “Slaughterhouse-Five”?

Kurt Vonnegut;

Norman Mailer;

James Baldwin;

Ralph Ellison

191. Which of Washington Irving's characters falls asleep for twenty years?

Tom Buchanan;

Tom Joad;

Philip Marlowe;

Rip van Winkle

192. Which American writer won the Nobel Prize in 1930?

Sinclair Lewis;

Upton Sinclair;

John Steinbeck;

Raymond Chandler

193. Who is the narrator in “The Great Gatsby”?

Elmer Gantry;

Nick Carraway;

Ethan Frome;

Mick Smith

194. What is the setting of The Scarlet Letter?

England during World War II;

Paris during the French Revolution;

the Middle Ages in Italy;

Puritan America

195. In what way is Daisy Buchanan in 'The Great Gatsby' related to the narrator Nick Carraway ?

She is his niece;

She is cousin;

She is his ex-girlfriend;

She is his secret mistress

196. Who was at the steering-wheel of the car that killed Myrtle Wilson?

Daisy Buchanan;

Jay Gatsby;

her own husband George;

Zelda Sayre

197. One of the major themes of “The Great Gatsby” is

the corruption of American innocence through the pursuit of wealth;

the prejudices and injustices of Americans toward American Indians;

the acceptance of death as a part of nature;

the loss of faith and the triumph of science

198. The author of the play "Long Day's Journey into Night".

Tennessee Williams;

John Steinbeck;

Arthur Miller;

Eugene O'Neill

199. Modernist in style, traditionalist in content, this writer placed a lot of his novels in Yoknapatawpha County: "Absalom, Absalom!"; "As I Lay Dying" and "The Sound and the Fury".

Sinclair Lewis;

William Faulkner;

Sherwood Anderson;

Thomas Wolfe

200. One of the most important American novelists before World War I and the author of the novels “Call of the Wild”, “The SeaWolf” and others.

Jack London;

Mark Twain;

Ernest Hemingway;

Henry James

201. The first African American women to win the Nobel Prize for literature. Two of her most famous novels are "Jazz" and "Beloved”.

Alice Walker;

Toni Morrison;

Gloria Anzaldua;

Mary J. Blige

202. In the first half of the 20th century, there was woman who wrote imagist poetry. She signed her poems with the initials H.D. What was her real name?

Horatia Diannocosta;

Helga Dreyser;

Hilda Doolittle;

Hanna Denton

203. What Puritan wrote a poem to her husband that sheds a surprising light on their marriage?

Anne Bradstreet;

Rebecca Nurse;

Sarah Pierpont Edwards;

Mary Rowlandson

204. Ezra Pound was known for

his novels of social conscience;

his pro-Communist essays;

his deeply religious poems and short stories;

his poetry, criticism, and political views

205. Of what kind of poetry are these lines characteristic? "I arise from rest with movements swift / As the beat of the raven's wings."

Southern poetry;

American Indian poetry;

Haiku;

Romantic poetry

206. What belief did the Naturalist movement in America stress?

the importance of conservation of land and animal life;

the innocence and virtue of man in the state of nature;

the limitations of social conditions and heredity on man's capacity to change;

the free and spontaneous act of literary composition

207. Who was the creator of the characters Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer, and Pudd'nhead Wilson?

Herman Melville;

Hart Crane;

Thomas Wolfe;

Samuel Clemens

208. What do Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and Mickey Spillane have in common?

They are poets in the modernist tradition;

They are all writers of detective fiction;

They wrote novels of rural life in the Southeast;

They are biographers of famous literary figures

209. What is transcendentalism?

a movement led by Alfred Jarry that stressed the lack of reason in human existence;

a movement led by Jean-Paul Sartre that stated that existence precedes essence;

a movement led by Tristan Tzara that tried to negate all traditional values In the arts;

a movement led by Ralph Waldo Emerson that stressed the divinity of man

210. Winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize, John Steinbeck wrote

V and Gravity's Rainbow;

The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men;

A Death in the Family and Let Us Now Praise Famous Men;

Ragtime and Loon Lake

211. Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor, and Carson Mc­Cullers are all

poets who focused on the struggle for female inde­pendence;

novelists who wrote satires of midwestern life;

playwrights who explored the isolation of modern women;

novelists who wrote about the American South

212. The book that made Ralph Ellison famous is the story of

life in the Chicago stockyards;

a boy who is sent to reform school;

a black man's search for identity in the 1930s;

a drummer and drug addict in the slums of Chicago

213. Who was Emily Dickinson?

a nineteenth-century novelist who explored women's sexual and emotional dependence;

a nineteenth-century poet who used the imagery of nature to explore human consciousness;

a twentieth-century poet who experimented with unusual stanza forms;

a twentieth-century writer who explored the black Midwestern experience

214. What writer named the post-WWI generation "The Lost Generation?"

Ernest Hemingway;

Gertrude Stein;

Ezra Pound;

Kate Chopin

215. This writer was involved in WWI, WWII, the Spanish Civil War, the Cuban revolution, big game hunting, won a bunch of awards, had a bunch of wives, underwent electro-shock therapy, and committed suicide with a shotgun.

Ezra Pound;

John Dos Passos;

Ernest Hemingway;

Richard Wright

216. Why is it that Catherine dies in “A Farewell to Arms”?

to repay her earlier transgressions against the societal norms;

as a sacrifice to allow her husband and child escape death;

to show that despite courage and bravery, war and love inevitably lead to suffering;

the end of the war has left an emptiness, a void in her psyche

217. Which was Ernest Hemingway's earliest published work?

A Farwell to Arms;

To Have and Have Not;

In Our Time;

The Snows of Kilimanjaro

218. Who has been credited with "inventing" the short story?

Raymond Carver;

Flannery O’Connor;

Herman Melville;

Washington Irving

219. Which writer is NOT from the south?

Anne Bradstreet;

Eudora Welty;

Flannery O'Connor;

Carson McCullers

220. Which "man of letters" often did not use captital letters in his poems?

h.l. menkin;

e.b. white;

e.e. cumming;

t.s. eliot

221. George and Lennie are the co-protagonists of what famous American novel? Joseph Heller's Catch 22

John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men;

Saul Bellow's Ravelstein;

W. Faulkner’s Light in August

222. What was the name of the slave whom Huck helps to escape in Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?

Tom;

Isiah;

Remus;

Jim

223. Name the writer who refined the short story genre and invented detective fiction:

H.B.Stow;

E.A.Poe;

H.James;

G. Stein

224. The following story isn’t written by E.A.Poe:

The Portrait of a Lady;

The Fall of the House of Usher;

The Raven;

N

225. A literary current of the 19th century based on exclusive interest on a given location with the use of realistic technique:

Naturalism;

Frontier humour;

Local color, or “regionalism”;

Aestheticism

226. The school of experimental poetry based on Eastern philosophy and religion, as well as Japanese and Chinese poetry:

The Black Mountain School;

The San Francisco School;

The New York School;

The Washington D.C. School

227. Free will for the characters in naturalist stories:

is an allusion;

is a necessity;

is central to their beliefs;

doesn’t matter at all.

228. How did English come to the dominant language of classic American literature?

The English settlers drove out the French, Spanish, and Dutch by military strength;

Boston’s religious college at Harvard, and its printing press gave New England an edge;

Most colonists in North America were of English descent and spoke that language;

The English may not have been the most numerous colonists, but they had arrived in North America first

229. What event does this poem translated in 1528 describe: “Broken spears lie in the roads; / we have torn our hair in our grief. / The houses are roofless now, and their walls / are red with blood.”

Columbus’s landing in Hispaniola;

The deaths of millions of Natives from European diseases;

The war between the Mayas and the Olmecs in the 1510s;

The conquest of Mexico by Cortes

230. At the end of the 1600s, Samuel Sewall’s book “The Seling of Joseph” became the first printed text to argue against what?

Slavery;

Immigration;

Anti-Semitism;

Persecution of Native Americans

231. What is “orature,” a term pertaining to Native American cultural narratives?

written accounts transcribed from the memories of Natives about ancient spoken narratives;

admiring narrative descriptions of competitive oral performances written by their Native contemporaries;

oral culture relying exclusively on memory and the spoken word to hand down narratives;

memorized recitations of standard texts performed during cyclical rituals

232. Pennsylvania’s founder, William Penn, had welcomed many European Protestants into his colony. In which language did the first printed his work?

English;

Dutch;

German;

French

233. Which colonial author accounted for three dozen of the 250 works published in America before the end of the seventeenth century?

Jonathan Edwards;

John Winthrop;

Cotton Mather;

Increase Mather

234. What common feature of European exploration links John Smith and Christopher Columbus?

Both were targets of mutinies and infighting;

Both married Native wives;

Both contracted smallpox in the Caribbean;

Both were slave owners once they got to the New World

235. By what alliterative name were the Pilgrims known while still in England?

The Inverness Itinerants;

The Scrooby Separatists;

The Naseby Nonconformists;

The Peebles Papists

236. Newspaper publications by John Jay, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison written in 1787 and 1788 to support the proposed Constitution were known as:

The Federalist Papers;

The American Crisis;

The Contrast;

Common Sense

237. Which author’s shift from anti-British, satirical poetry to anti-Federalist periodical essays helps illustrate the political bent of the late 1700s?

Phyllis Wheatley;

Phillip Freneau;

Susannah Rowson;

Alexander Hamilton

238. Which American statesman best represents the ideals of the Enlightenment and its belief in the ultimate “perfectibility of man”?

George Washington;

Thomas Jefferson;

Benjamin Franklin;

Ezra Stiles

239. Which two intellectual beliefs best typified the Enlightenment as experienced in America?

Religion offered the truest lens to view reality, and God’s grace would provide the moral compass for all individuals;

People’s minds were capable of comprehending the world, and mutual sympathy between all people ought to be the basis for moral choices;

Science and technology have made religion obsolete, and human beings are cogs in a great natural machine without any real agency;

The infinite universe was impossible to understand, and people felt to be the masters of their own spiritual destinies

240. Whose pamphlet, Common Sense (1776), has been credited with influencing the colonies decisively toward revolt?

Royall Tyler;

Benjamin Franklin;

Joseph Addison;

Thomas Paine

241. What does the appearance of works by J. S. Murray, S. W. Morton, S. Rowson, and H. W. Foster illustrate about publishing in the late 1700s?

women readers could make bestsellers of novels that dealt with female characters and issues;

most authors during the this time period were women;

women claimed the right to express their opinions about independence and their part in the new republic;

readers were fully willing to accept explicit authorship by women writers.

242. Why did many Native tribes suffer after the Revolution?

British soldiers had infected them with a new bout of smallpox;

they were subject to vengeance after the war because they sided with the British;

they were expelled from their lands by the pitiless British army;

the colonists borrowed large sums of money from Native tribes which they never repaid

243. What name is given to thinkers who deduced the existence of God from the evidence of the observable universe rather than the Bible?

empiricists;

heretics;

deists;

sentimentalists

244. Whose death in 1728 symbolizes the passing of Puritanism as experienced by the earliest English colonists and thus the beginning of the Enlightenment?

Cotton Mather;

Mary Rowlandson;

Jonathan Edwards;

Benjamin Franklin

245. In what way was the Great Awakening a response to the philosophy of John Locke?

it called for the religious to accept the concept of tabula rasa (the blank slate);

it argued against everything Locke said;

it borrowed the cool calculation of Enlightenment reason to argue for religious fervor;

it embraced Locke’s call for fellow-feeling and sentiment, calling for an emotional commitment to God

246. Jefferson’s claims about natural rights-the idea that “all men are created equal”-are presented in the Declaration as

common-sense concepts that were already well established and widely accepted;

radical new ideas;

philosophies borrowed from the French;

divisive and controversial positions

247. Which of the following people joined Jefferson on the committee to draft the Declaration of Independence?

George Washington;

Benjamin Franklin;

James Monroe;

Judith Sargent Murray

248. Why did poetry in the 1950s and 60s deviate from cultural ideals of conformity, unlike prose?

poets' visibility increased due to poetry workshops, interviews, and public readings;

poetry as a genre was largely marginal in American culture;

poets had long been expected to start trends and lead social causes;

lyric poetry was far more personal and idiosyncratic than prose

249. Which branch of academic literary theory was devoted to the systematic questioning of the objective underpinnings of any statement?

the Death of the Novel;

reader-response theory;

deconstruction;

hermeneutics

250. Which decade is most commonly associated with social conformity and a complacent acceptance of material wealth as the basis of a good standard of living?

1950s;

1960s;

1970s;

1980s

251. Which two poets made the most significant forays into open, experimental form during the 1950s?

Sylvia Plath and Robert Lowell;

Elizabeth Bishop and Adrienne Rich;

John Berryman and Allen Ginsberg;

Robert Lowell and Allen Ginsberg

252. What label came to define poetry by Lowell, Plath, and Sexton, that focused on extreme autobiographical details about divorce, alcoholism, and insanity?

explicit lyrics;

confessional poetry;

the poetry of drouth;

experimental poetry

253. What was the standard genre for poetry in the 1950s?

the short lyric meditation;

the sweeping, ambitious epic;

the bucolic pastoral;

the public, occasional poem

254. What is the term for prose fiction arising after the Death of the Novel debates that always framed the information it presented as provisional signs rather than objective truth?

Minimalism;

Deconstruction;

Modernism;

science fiction

255. Which of the following most aptly represents the effect on literature made by intellectuals' growing skepticism about unity and coherence in language?

authors tried to rehabilitate realistic fiction and poetry to bolster these skeptics' faith;

authors railed against their feelings of loss concerning former confidence that these three concepts actually existed;

authors turned to cinema and television to record and represent life through a more credible lens;

authors tended to think of genres like poetry and fiction as increasingly unreliable and destabilized means of representing reality