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1. Which of the following is a character from Grapes of Wrath?
Tom Joad
George Wilton
Hester Prynne
Ishmael
Natty Bumpo

2. What is being compared in lines 2 & 3 of the poem?

Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherized upon a table; (3)
Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets,
The muttering retreats
Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels (6)
And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells:
Streets that follow like a tedious argument
Of insidious intent (9)
To lead you to an overwhelming question…
Oh, do not ask, "What is it?"
Let us go and make our visit. (12)
A half-deserted city / an etherized patient
The speaker / the audience
Sunset / the speaker
An etherized patient / the speaker\’s view of life
Evening / an etherized patient

3. Which of the following was NOT influenced by Darwinism and Realism?
Jack London
John Steinbeck
Mark Twain
Stephen Crane
Frank Norris

4. Certain it is, that, some fifteen or twenty years after the settlement of the town, (1) the wooden jail was already marked with weather-stains and other indications of age, which gave a yet darker aspect to its beetle-browed and gloomy front. (3) The rust on the ponderous iron-work of its oaken door looked more antique than any thing else in the new world. Like all that pertains to crime, it seemed (6) never to have known a youthful era.

The phrase “beetle-browed and gloomy front” is an example of:
Alliteration
Metaphor
Simile
Personification
Hyperbole

5. Which of the following is a book by Edith Wharton that involves an invalid wife, a man who falls in love with his wife\’s caregiver and a failed suicide attempt that consisted of sledding into a tree?
House of Mirth
Ethan Frome
House of the Seven Gables
Charley and Me
The Yellow Wallpaper

6. Which of the following authors explores the role of black women in a white and male dominant society?
Zora Neale Hurston
Maya Angelou
Toni Morrison
Phyllis Wheatley
Border Ruffians

7. The subject of this poem is what?

A NARROW fellow in the grass
Occasionally rides;
You may have met him,—did you not?
His notice sudden is.
The grass divides as with a comb,
A spotted shaft is seen;
And then it closes at your feet
And opens further on.
A snake
A stream
A grasshopper
A bird
A cat

8. Which of the following was written by Henry David Thoreau?
Leaves of Grass
Common Sense
Moby Dick
The Rights of Man
Civil Disobedience

9. The poem below describes what?

In silent night when rest I took,
For sorrow near I did not look,
I waken'd was with thundring nois
And Piteous shreiks of dreadfull voice.
That fearfull sound of fire and fire,
Let no man know is my Desire.
I, starting up, the light did spye,
And to my God my heart did cry
To strengthen me in my Distresse
And not to leave me succourlesse.
Then coming out beheld a space,
The flame consume my dwelling place.
Watching a friend’s house burn down
The plight of souls in Hell
A plague
A prayer for deliverance
The author’s reaction to her house burning down

10. Which of the following was a 20th century playwright?
John Updike
J.D. Salinger
Sarah Orne Jewett
Arthur Miller
William Faulkner