English American Literature

1. It is a literature in the English Language from the United Kingdom, Isle of Man, and
Channel Islands.
A. Spaniards literature C. British literature
B. English literature D. Latin literature
2. Who was the major figure in the development of British history and the popular for
the tales of the king Arthur?
A. Geoffrey Monmouth C. Wace
B. Alfred the Great D. Sir Edmund Spencer

3. Who was the poet and dramatist that led the literary figure of the Jacobean era?
A. Thomas Decker C. Arthur Clough
B. Ben Johnson D. William Blake

4. Who was the one of the first English Romantic poet?

A. Charles Dickens C. Arthur Clough
B. Thomas Hardy D. William Blake

5. Who was the most important British novelist in the 19th century?
A. William Shakespeare C. Lord Byron
B. John Keats D. Sir Walter Scott

6. Who was the Victorian realist that influenced both his novels and poetry by
Romanticism?
A. Charles Dickens C. Arthur Clough
B. Thomas Hardy D. William Blake

7. Who was the poet laureate of the United Kingdom during Queen Victoria’s reign?
A. William Shakespeare C. Lord Byron
B. John Keats D. Sir Walter Scott
8. Who was the one that popularized the English Sonnet, which made significant
changes to Petrarch’s model?
A. William Shakespeare C. John Dryden
B. John Keats D. John Donne
9. Who was the English poet, translator, playwright that dominated the literary life
restoration in England?
A. John Evelyn C. John Dryden
B. John Keats D. John Donne
10. What was the name of publication which was established by the Puritan preacher,
John Bunyan?
A. The Pilgrim’s Voice C. The Pilgrim’s Chronicles
B. The Pilgrim’s Vision D. The Pilgrim’s Progress
11. Who was the minor figure of Victorian Literature, and was described as “fine poet
whose experiments in extending the range of literary language?
A. Charles Dickens C. Arthur Clough
B. Thomas Hardy D. William Blake
12. Who was the earliest poet in Jersey and developed Arthurian legend?
A. Geoffrey of Monmouth C. Wace
B. Alfred the great D. Sir Edmund Spencer
13. What was the popular style of theater during Jacobean times that was popularized
earlier in the Elizabeth era by Thomas Kyd?
A. Revenge Play C. Comedy Play
B. Drama Play D. Sci-Fi Play
14. Who was the linguist and lexicographer with a father was a royal language tutor at
the Court of James?
A. John Evelyn C. John Dryden
B. John Keats D. John Florio
15. Who inspired many vernacular writers across Britain and Ireland?
A. Samuel Johnson C. John Webster
B. Francis Beaumont D. Robert Burn
16. Who was the highly successful writer of historical novels winning the Booker Prize
twice, for Wolf Hall 2009, and Bring Up the Bodies?
A. Julian Barnes C. James Kelman
B. Hugh Lofting D. Dame Hilary Mantel
17. Who was the prominent author of children’s fantasy novel, like Charlie and the
Chocolate Factory in 1964?
A. Michael Longley C. Roald Dahl
B. James Fenton D. Paul Muldoon
18. It is considered the most famous work in Old English and has achieved national epic
status in England, despite being set in Scandivania.
A. Battle of Maldon C. Y Gododdin
B. Beowulf D. Mabinogion
19. It is a story written during the late 14 century in the middle English alliterative
th

romance?
A. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight C. Canterbury Tales
B. Piers Plowman D. Le Morte d’ Arthur
20. Who was considered as the father of English literature?
A. William Langland C. John Gower
B. Geoffrey Chaucer D. Margery Kempe
21. It is a term applied to the English speaking inhabitants of Britain from around the
middle of the 5th century until the time of the Norman Conquest.
A. Anglo-Saxon C. Victorian
B. Medieval D. Elizabethan
22. She is considered the most regal monarch at the age of monarchy and she was the
key figure in influencing the life of her constituents.
A. Queen Elizabeth C. Queen Beth
B. Queen Victoria D. Queen Faerie
23. They have accorded to have one of the highest of the society and often a member
of a king’s court.
A. Knights C. Prince
B. Armies D. Policemen
24. He is the King of England who famously married six times and played critical role in
the English reformation turning his country into a Protestant nation.
A. King Henry VII C. King Henry IX
B. King Henry VIII D. King Henry X

25. Who wrote the Sun Also Rises about an American expatriate journalist who travels
from Paris to Pamplona, Spain, to observe the running of the bulls?
A. F. Scott Fitzgerald C. Tennessee Williams
B. Ernest Hemingway D. Jake Barnes

26. What Shakespeare play is about a prince who contemplates suicide after the murder
of his father, the king?
A. Hamlet C. Macbeth
B. Othello D. Henry IV

27. What kind of literary form is this?

There was an Old Man with a beard,
Who said, 'It is just as I feared!
Two Owls and a Hen,
Four Larks and a Wren,
Have all built their nests in my beard!'
A. Limerick C. Stanza
B. Sonnet D. Sestina

28. What was the name of the slave whom Huck helps to escape in Mark Twain’s
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?
A. Tom C. Remus
B. Isiah D. Jim

29. Who wrote the phrase Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose?

A. William Shakespeare C. Emily Dickinson
B. Gertrude Stein D. William Wordsworth

30. Which of these women is not a poet?

A. Jane Austen C. Elizabeth Barret Browning
B. Emily Dickinson D. Maya Angelou

31. In what state is Tennessee Williams’ Cat on a Hot Tin Roof set?
A. Louisiana C. Tennessee
B. Georgia D. Mississippi

32. What do you call the main character of a literary narrative?

A. Antagonist C. Tritagonist
B. Protagonist D. Foil

33. In Charles Dickens’ Tale of Two Cities, which two words belong in the asterisks of
the following opening line It was the * of times, it was the * of times?
A. Best / worst C. Highest / lowest
B. Longest / shortest D. Least / most

34. Which of the following works has not won a Pulitzer Prize?
A. Harvey by Mary Chase
B. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
 C. To Kill a Mocking bird by Harper Lee
D. A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner

35. Which of the following is NOT a feature of the Enlightenment?

A. Reason C. Political
B. Deism D. Skepticism

36. Which of the following best defines the Enlightenment movement?

A. Age of reason
B. Political thinking
C. Celebration of individual
D. Philosophical movement

37. Which of the following is a true statement about Romanticism?

A. Interest in the common man C. Age of reason
B. Celebration of the individual D. Both A and B

38. Which of the following is not a true statement about Romanticism?

A. Interest in common man C. Ralph Emerson wrote in it
B. Celebration of the individual D. Dogma, blind faith
39. Which definition below best defines Transcendentalism?
A. Reason
B. Individualism
C. Political thinking, philosophical, and social movement
D. Deism, skepticism
40. Which of the following is NOT considered a write for the Transcendentalism
Movement?
A. Emerson C. Thoreau
B. Hawthrone D. Stewart

41. 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
42. Ralph Waldo Emerson was a mentor for a number of early American writers,
including:
A. Hawthrone C. Thoreau
B. Stewart D. A and B

43. Why does Henry David Thoreau write his book "Walden"?
A. To show ideas of transcendentalism are put into action
B. To critique slavery
C. Tell his entire life story
D. None of the above

44. Maria Stewart is associated with what major American literary movement?
A. Idealism C. Romanticism
B. Slavery D. Nationalism

45. Maria Steward believe that black woman are crucial to the uplift of black Americans.
Why?
A. They have the power to fix things themselves
 B. Men are more powerful
C. Both are correct
D. None of the above

46. What is TULIP?

A. Total depravity
B. Unconditional election
C. Limited atonement
D. Irresistible Grace
E. Perseverance of the Saints
F. All of the above

47. Which of the following is not one of the 4 parts of Puritan Sermon?
A. Text C. Bibliography
B. Doctrine D. None of the above

48. Why did Bradford and the Pilgrims create Plymouth Colony?
A. For the land
B. Sovereignty to establish godly kingdom as they saw fit
C. Religious practice of the Church of England
D. All of the above

49. What was the purpose of the Mayflower Compact?

A. Establish a new government
B. First agreement on self-governing
C. Religious freedom
D. Sovereignty

50. The Puritans who settled Massachusetts Bay were non-separating Puritans, which
meant?
A. They did not want to disassociate from the Church of England
B. Separate from church of England
C. Start their own beliefs
D. Create separation

51. The Puritans who settled Plymouth Colony were separating Puritans which meant?
A. Continue being a part of the Church of England
B. Reform
C. Separate from the Church of England
D. None of the above

52. Which of the following is not a cultural myth we attribute to those earliest
Massachusetts colonial settlements at Plymouth and Massachusetts?
A. Democracy
B. Brother love/charity
C. US Exceptionalism
D. None of the above

53. We associate John Winthrop with what colonial Settlement?

A. Plymouth
B. Mayflower compact
C. Massachusetts Bay Colony
D. Rhode Island
54. We associate William Bradford with what colonial settlement?
A. Plymouth
B. Mayflower compact
C. Massachusetts Bay Colony
D. Rhode Island

55. 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

56. John Winthrop's "A Model of Christian Charity" illustrates what genre of early
American writing?
A. Sermon
B. Romanticism
C. Transcendtalism
D. Both B and C

57. Which statement below best paraphrases what John Winthrop meant when he
declared that the MBC would be as a "city upon a hill"?
A. Religious freedom
B. Everyone has a role in society
C. Only men should work
D. Woman have no role in society

58. Which of these is NOT a rhetorical purpose of the Spiritual Diary Genre?
A. finding spiritual meaning
B. Critic slavery
C. Defend Slavery
D. Both B and C

59. We associate Nathaniel Hawthrone with what literary movement?

A. Nationalism
B. Transcendentalism
C. Romanticism
D. Indian Autobiography

60. Hawthorne's ancestors are associated with what historical American event?
A. History of puritans
B. History of slavery
C. Transcendentalism
D. None of the above

61. Which of the following is NOT a feature or characteristics of Emily Dickinson's

poetry?
A. Mysterious C. True Rhymes
B. Slant Rhymes D. No titles

62. Which of the following is NOT a feature of the Indian autobiography genre?
A. Birth C. Sovereignty
B. Assimilation D. Religious in nature

63. Which statement below best defines the genre of Indian autobiography?
 A. Genre that details life experiences of white Americans in early America and
critiques American society to Native Americans.
B. Genre that details life experiences of native Americas in early America and critiques
American society to Native Americans.
C. Both A and B
D. None of the above

64. 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?
A. Establishment of puritans
B. Establishment of autobiography
C. Establishment of Indian praying towns
D. Establishment of self- reliance

65. "An Indian's Looking Glass for the White Man" illustrates what genre of early
American writing?
A. Sermon C. Spiritual diary
B. Autobiography D. Biography

66. Which of the following is NOT a rhetorical purpose of "An Indian' Looking Glass for
the White Man"?
A. Critic the way white people's society treats people of color wrong.
B. Making peace
C. Working together
D. both B and C

66. What statement below best sums up the literary significance of Nathaniel
Hawthorne?
A. 1st Native American to publish life writing
B. Popular early nosiest
C. Romanticism
D. Scarlett letter
E. B,C,D are correct

67. What statement below best sums up the literary significant of Maria Stewart?
A. First African American woman to speak to a mixed audience
B. First African American to publish life writing
C Most popular Native American writer
D. Most popular slave narrative

68. What statement below best sums up the literary significance of Benjamin Franklin?
A. Self- reliance
B. Mentor to other writers
C. Rewrote the autobiography
D. Self-made and
E. Both C and D

69. What statement below best sums up the literary significance of Samon Occum?
A. Indian autobiography
B. Most popular slave narrative
C. First African American to speak to mixed audience
D. None of the above
E. All of the above
70. Which statement best describes literary significance of William APess?
A. Indian Autobiography
B. Father of free verse
C. Father of American poetry
D. Pro slavery
E. 1st Native American popular writer
F. Both A and B

71. What statement below best sums up the literary significance of Frederick Douglass?
A. Indian Autobiography C. Father of American poetry
B. Father of free verse D. Most popular slave narrative

72. What statement below best sums up the literary significance of William Bradford?
A. Created spiritual Diary
B. Non-Separating puritan
C. Founded MA Bay colony
D. Separating puritan
E. both A and D

73. What statement below best sums up the literary significance of Walt Whitman?
A. Father of free verse C. Circumference
B. Father of American Poetry D. Both A and B

74. What statement below best sums up the literary significance of Emily Dickinson?
A. oversoul C. True Rhyme
B. Slant Rhyme D. All of the above

75. What statement below best sums up the literary significance of Emerson?
A. Father of Free verse C. Pro Slavery
B. Father of American poetry D. Father of American Literature

76. What statement below best sums up the literary significance of Thoreau?
A. Father of Free verse C. Self-reliance
B. Father of American poetry D. Father of American Liteature

77. What statement below best sums up the literary significance of John Winthrop?
A. American myths
B. non separating puritan
D. Us Exceptionalism and democracy
E. All are correct

78. What statement below best sums up the literary significance of Samuel Sewall?
A. Anti-Slavery C. Pro Slavery
B. Father of American poetry D. Father of American Literature

79. What statement below best sums up the literary significance of John Saffin?
A. Anti-Slavery C. Pro Slavery
B. Father of American poetry D. Father of American Literature

80. To whom does Franklin say he is addressing his autobiography part 1?

A. Himself C. His son, john
B. Indians D. His son, William
81. Which of the following is true about the target audience for John Saffin's pamphlet?
A. African Americans C. White public of Massachusetts
B. White public of Plymouth D. Native Americans

82. Before humans were sold as commodities, what item was highly sought after in
West Africa?
A. Diamonds C. Gold
B. Land D. Gasoline
83. Which of the following is NOT among the 13 virtues Franklin struggles to master?
A. Temperance C. Order
B. Silence D. None of the above
84. Which statement below best defined Dickinson's idea of circumference?
A. Above and beyond C. no limitations
B limitations D. Equality

85. Which statement below best defined Whitman's idea of Oversoul?

A. Death C. American landscape
B. Relationships D. Hope
86. Which is one of the five tenants of Puritanism?
A. Total equality C. Individualism
B. Unconditional love D. Irresistible grace

87. 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. Unconditional love
88. Samuel Sewall was a leading supporter of slavery in colonial Massachusetts.
A. True
B. False

89. John Saffin supported the institution of slavery in colonial Massachusetts

A. True
B. False

90. 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

91. This checkmark diagram represents the plot structure for what genre of early
American writing?
A. Slave narrative
B. Indian autobiography
C. Sermon
D. Transcendentalism

92. But, reader, I acknowledge that this is a confused world, and I am not seeking for
office; but merely placing before you the black inconsistency that you place before me
—which is ten times blacker than any skin that you will find in the Universe. And now
let me exhort you to do away that principle, as it appears ten times worse in the sight
of God and candid men, than skins of color—more disgraceful than all the skins that
Jehovah ever made. If black or red skins, or any other skin of color is disgraceful to
God, it appears that he has disgrace himself a great deal—for he has made fifteen
colored people to one white, and placed them here upon the earth (1462).
A. John Saffin C. Samuel Sewall
B. John Winthrop D. William Apess

93. 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
sprawling on the stable floor. Mr. Covey seemed now to think he had me, and could do
what he pleased; but at this moment—from whence came the spirit I don't know—I
resolved to fight; and, suiting my action the resolution, I seized Covey hard by the
throat, and as I did so, I rose. He held on to me, and I to him. ... He trembled like a
leaf. ...We were at it for nearly two hours. Covey at length let me go, puffing and
blowing at a great rate, saying that if I had not resisted, he would not have whipped
me half so much. The truth was, that he had not whipped me at all. I considered him
as getting entirely the worst end of the bargain; for he had drawn no blood from me,
but I had from him
A. Fredrick Douglass C. Benjamin Frankin
B. John Winthrop D. William Apess

94. Having emerged 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,
which, with the Blessing of God, so well succeeded, my Posterity may like to know, as
they may find some of them suitable to their own Situations, and therefore fit to be
imitated.
A. Fredrick Douglass C. Benjamin Franklin
B. John Winthrop D. William Apess

95...the eyes of all people are upon us; so that if we shall deal falsely with our god in
this worked we have undertaken and so cause him to withdraw his preen help from us,
we shall be made a story and a by-word through the world, we shall open the mouth of
enemies to speak evil of the ways of god and all professors for God’s sake; we shall
shame the faces of many of gods worthy servants, and cause their prayers to be turned
into Curses upon us till we be consumed out of the good land whether we are going...
A. Fredrick Douglass C. Benjamin Franklin
B. John Winthrop D. William Apess

96. 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
cheerful spark that lingered about my eye died; the dark night of slavery closed in upon
men, and behold a man transformed into a brute!"
A. Fredrick Douglass C. Benjamin Franklin
B. John Winthrop D. William Apess

97. 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 there
reigns in the breast of many who are leaders, a most unrighteous, unbecoming and
impure black principle, and as corrupt and unholy as it can be--while these very same
unfeeling, self-esteemed characters pretend to take the skin as a pretext to keep us
from our unalienable and lawful rights? I would ask you if you would like to be
disfranchised from all your rights, merely because your skin is white, and for no other
crime? I'll venture to say, these very characters who hold the skin to be such a barrier
in the way, would be the first to cry out, injustice! awful injustice!
A. Fredrick Douglass C. Benjamin Franklin
B. John Winthrop D. William Apess

98. Having undertaken, for the Glory of God and advancement of the Christian Faith
and Honour of our King and Country ... do by these presents solemnly and mutually in
the presence of God and one of another, Covenant and Combine ourselves together
into a Civil Body Politic, for our better ordering and preservation and furtherance of the
ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute and frame such just and equal
Laws, Ordinances, Acts, Constitutions and Offices, from time to time, as shall be
thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the Colony, unto which we
promise all due submission and obedience. In witness whereof we have hereunder
subscribed our names at Cape Cod, the 11th of November, in the year of reigne of our
Sovereign Lord King James.... Anno Domini 1620.
A. Fredrick Douglass C. Benjamin Franklin
B. John Winthrop D. Mayflower Compact

99. "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 &
converted, I went to all the meetings, I could come at; & Continued under Trouble of
Mind about 6 months; at which time I began to Learn the English letters; got me a
Primer, and used to go to my English Neighbours frequently for Assistant in reading..."
A. Samson Occcum C. Benjamin Franklin
B. John Winthrop D. Mayflower Compact

100. 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
I knew, or thought I knew, what was right and wrong, I did not see why I might not
always do the one and avoid the other. But I soon found I had undertaken a Task of
more difficulty than I had imagined. ... I included under Thirteen names of Virtues all
that at that time occurr'd to me as necessary or desirable, and annex'd to each a short
Precept, which fully express'd the Extent I gave to its Meaning.

A. Samson Occcum C. Benjamin Franklin

B. John Winthrop D. Mayflower Compact

ANSWER KEY
51. C 1. C
52. D 2. A
53. C 3. B
54. A 4. D
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Prepared by: SHAYNE Q. ARUGAY

(BSED-IV)

Submitted to: ROSE MARIE C. CANGGAS

(ENGLISH INSTRUCTOR)