April Morning Test - Honors American Literature

Question 0

Adam soberly tells the newspaperman at the meeting house all about the battle

Answer 0

False

Question 1

The Reverend invites Sam Adams and John Hancock to his house for a meeting right before the British arrive

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Moses Cooper favors the Committee’s keeping minutes

Answer 2

True

Question 3

On the day before the battle, Adam Cooper appreciates his father’s positive counsel

Answer 3

False

Question 4

The Reverend agrees with Solomon Chandler that the colonists fight in God’s cause

Answer 4

False

Question 5

The village Committee is well supplied with the latest firearms and ammunition

Answer 5

False

Question 6

Solomon Chandler criticizes Adam for running away instead of firing his gun at the redcoats on the Common

Answer 6

False

Question 7

When Adam has question, he usually talks to his grandmother

Answer 7

True

Question 8

Moses Cooper does not encourage Adam to participate in the Committee meeting

Answer 8

True

Question 9

The redcoats do not find any of the colonists’ store of ammunition and firearms at Concord

Answer 9

True

Question 10

When he asks the blessing before meals, Moses Cooper reverently and politely blows his head and insists that his family do the same

Answer 10

False

Question 11

Adam is definitely leaving home to go to sea

Answer 11

False

Question 12

Michel-Guillaume Jean de Crevecoeur wrote about the transformation of Americans into Europeans

Answer 12

False

Question 13

Ben Franklin was self-educated and self-made, and as a printer, author, scientists, musician, philosopher, inventor, diplomat, and statesman, he was considered a “Renaissance Man”

Answer 13

True

Question 14

Both Ben Franklin and Thomas Jefferson helped to frame the Declaration of Independence and were also signers

Answer 14

True

Question 15

Thomas Jefferson founded the University of Miami

Answer 15

False

Question 16

Phyllis Wheatley was a literary phenomenon is that she was a female slave who published sophisticated poetry in her second language

Answer 16

True

Question 17

Thomas Paine wrote Common Sense in which he argued that Americans must fight for independence

Answer 17

True

Question 18

Patrick Henry was considered the worst orator of the American Revolution

Answer 18

False

Question 19

Patrick Henry could move his listeners to anger, fear, or laughter more easily than the most talented actor

Answer 19

True

Question 20

Thomas Paine was known for his rhetoric and persuasiveness

Answer 20

True

Question 21

Patrick Henry’s most famous line, “Give me liberty or give me death,” came from his “Speech in the Virginia Convention”

Answer 21

True

Question 22

Ben Franklin advocated moral mediocrity as can be seen in his “Autobiography”

Answer 22

False

Question 23

A cultural revolution occurred in the midst of the revolutionary period

Answer 23

True

Question 24

The core of American identity and expression is the Declaration of Independence, the single most significant literary and political work of the 18th century

Answer 24

True

Question 25

Writers of the Revolutionary Period (1760-1800) reflected The Age of Romanticism believing that by using reason, people could manage themselves and society without depending on authorities or past traditions

Answer 25

False

Question 26

The American Revolution was fought not only with weapons but with thousands of pamphlets, essays, songs, poems, and speeches

Answer 26

True

Question 27

The war of words began in 1763 with religious intolerance and finally led to the American Revolution

Answer 27

False

Question 28

When the Reverend begins speaking to the British officers, Major Pitcairn

Answer 28

drives his horse toward the Reverend and forces him to leap aside

Question 29

Moses Cooper believes that the rights of human beings derive from

Answer 29

their ability to reason

Question 30

The first member of the family to see Adam return from the fighting is

Answer 30

Levi

Question 31

The British do not surrender because

Answer 31

there is no one to whom they can surrender

Question 32

The first Committeemen to fall is

Answer 32

Moses Cooper

Question 33

Father believes that the proper way to defeat superstition is

Answer 33

a belief in materialism

Question 34

The men marching to Concord are unashamed to weep because they are

Answer 34

plain people, unaccustomed to war

Question 35

Adam tells his mother that another massacre cannot happen because the

Answer 35

Committeemen now know how they must fight, whether they want to or not

Question 36

Cousin Simmons is unsure whether to sign the muster book the second time because

Answer 36

he is Lexington’s only blacksmith

Question 37

At the dinner table, Mr. Cooper admonishes Adam for

Answer 37

being supersitious

Question 38

The village Reverend has to step in when the women have a great controversy over

Answer 38

the use of maize or flour in making boiled pudding

Question 39

The decision to muster the militia is made on the basis of ringing oratory delivered by

Answer 39

Moses Cooper

Question 40

Levi cleans Adam’s fowling pice in the beginning of the novel because he wants to

Answer 40

apologize for having gotten Adam into trouble

Question 41

Adam agrees with Samuel Hodley that the

Answer 41

whole affair is based on a rumor, and an attack by the British is unlikely

Question 42

The first express rider believes the British army is headed for

Answer 42

Concord

Question 43

In Levi’s nightmare, the sky is

Answer 43

red

Question 44

Mr Cooper is a man who

Answer 44

tolerates no one’s opinion except his own

Question 45

Shivering on the common shortly before dawn is a muster of

Answer 45

seventy men

Question 46

Solomon Chandler has learned what he knows of the British army and soldiers during

Answer 46

the French and Indian War

Question 47

Sarah Cooper’s grandfather Isaac has an unfavorable reputation for

Answer 47

bigamy

Question 48

The undertaker apologizes to Adam for

Answer 48

the poor workmanship on the coffin

Question 49

When the British open fire on the colonists, Adam screams and

Answer 49

runs away with everyone else

Question 50

Adam likes to visit his grandmother’s room because she

Answer 50

allows him to provoke her

Question 51

The Committeemen decide to break into groups of twos and threes rather than fight as a unit because

Answer 51

the British cannot chase down small groups of men

Question 52

Moses Cooper believes that when the British soldiers see the militia, the soldiers will

Answer 52

respect the colonists for standing up for principle

Question 53

Solomon Chandler believes the redcoats are

Answer 53

highly disciplines but ignorant

Question 54

Adam dislikes Isaiah Peterkin because of his

Answer 54

hypocrisy

Question 55

In the crowd at Buckman’s, Cousin Simmons asks Adam to

Answer 55

find Ruth and escort her home

Question 56

Solomon Chandler

Answer 56

elderly firebrand; befriends Adam and gives him food

Question 57

Ishmael Jamison

Answer 57

sea captain; Adam’s maternal uncle

Question 58

Jonathan Harrington

Answer 58

militia’s musician; killed in battle

Question 59

Joseph Simmons

Answer 59

Cooper cousin; Committeemen

Question 60

Levi

Answer 60

Adam’s younger brother

Question 61

Sarah Cooper

Answer 61

“A boy doesn’t turn into a man overnight. It takes learning and growing and hurting. And most of all, it takes time.”

Question 62

Moses Cooper

Answer 62

“The proof of a man is the will to work and the ability to use his mind and his judgement”

Question 63

Cousin Simmons

Answer 63

“We took up arms for our home place, and he died for it. That’s an old, old way, Adam, older than you or me, remember. There are worse ways for a man to die, I tell you

Question 64

Solomon Chandler

Answer 64

“It take no courage to fire a gun and to kill, merely a state of mind that makes killing possible”

Question 65

Granny

Answer 65

“Abraham Cooper had many fine qualities, something I will not deny, nut he was just so pegheaded and stubborn and enamored of the sound of his own voice as you are”