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“M ‘Fingal” is a brilliant mock-epic play

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false (poem)

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“ The Columbiad” was written by Joel Barlow

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true

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“ The Columbiad” is written in a neo-classical vein

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The political essay “ Advice to the Privileged Orders” was written
by Shakespeare.

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false (Joel Barlow)

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“ The Hasty Pudding” was written by Joel Barlow

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Barlow believed that the equality of rights is the leading principle on which their constitution should be founded

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true

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Barlow, during his own times, enjoyed international renown for
his vision of a republican future

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true

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Franklin is best known for his epistolary

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false (autobiography)

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Franklin produced dark satirical essays.

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true

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Franklin’s writings were elusive and double-edged

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true

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Jefferson, like Franklin, spent time working as a diplomat in Rome.

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false (Paris)

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Cabanis described how sensibility lay at the heart of all things

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true

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Jefferson was influenced by the general culture of sensibility .

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true

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Early N.Davidson associated culture of sentiment specifically with
the early American plays

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false (novels)

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N.Davidson identified in the early American novel a

predominantly male discourse.

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false (female)

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The conception of early American novel was gender-natured

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“Charlotte Temple” was written and published in England.

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The Dudley family crosses the Atlantic over several generations in
search for wealth and freedom .

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true

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The circulation of sentiment across a transatlantic axis was also
facilitated by the regular movements of theatrical companies.

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true

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Rowson herself was a monologist.

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false (dramatist)

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21
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Tyler’s play “ The Contrast” achieved a great success when it was
performed in New York.

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true

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English literature is a packaged and commodified phenomenon.

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false (American)

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“ The Widow Ranter” is a novel.

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false (play)

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The Widow Ranter” comically portrays the colony Virginia as a
heaven for dozy officials

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true

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America in the 17th and 18th centuries entered into Britain colonial
consciousness

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true

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Lennox was born as charlotte Ramsey in Gibraltar

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true

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Lennox first novel “The Life of Heriot Stuart” is clearly based on
her own experience

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true

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28
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Edmund Burke and Tom Paine agreed on the meaning of

democracy and revolution.

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false (clashed over)

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“ The Female Review” is narrated in the 2nd person.

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false (1st)

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“ The Female Review” detailed attention to the history and

geography of the war.

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true

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One of the side effect of the war’s outcome was to divide the 18th century novel into 2 discrete national traditions

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true

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Emma Corbett can be read as a British colonial novel

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true

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33
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American post-revolutionary novelists portrayed France as an

unnaturally cruel parent

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false (Britain)

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The early American novel usually fell into one of two categories

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true

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“Melville and Phalez” is a novel published in serial form .

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true

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36
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“ The Asylum ” remained popular in the US throughout the 19th
century

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true

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The language of “ The Asylum ” has disorder and interruption.

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false (connexion and regularity)

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38
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William Hill Brown’s “The Power of Sympathy” is credited the

second American novel

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false (first)

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39
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The American novels in its early years was shaped more by both
slaves and sentiment.

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true

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The 18th century American novel developed across a transatlantic
axis

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true

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41
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Noah Webster asserted that “ America must be independent in

literature as she is in politics”

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true

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42
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Paine’s “Common Sense” is said to have converted George

Washington to the cause of independence.

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true

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Paine’s “The Contrast” was a direct reply to Burke’s “Reflection
on the Revolution in France”

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false (the right of man)

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Paine was imprisoned as a traitor to France

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true

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45
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If Paine’s characters were less generous, he would have been

more famous.

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true

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46
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Paine’s writing remains valuable as it advances the prospect of
America not just as a new nation but as a world

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true

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47
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Paine argues that there can be national flourishing alone in

commerce.

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false (can’t)

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According to Paine, if commerce spread globally , it would end the
system of war

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true

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In “The Age of Reason”, Paine discussed the solar system and the
spherical rotation of the planets.

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true

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Paine was an atheist believing “in one God, and no more”

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false (deist)

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51
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Paine was disowned by politicians of his own time such as

Jefferson and Rush

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true

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52
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Many of Paine’s novels and travel narratives introduced

transitional perspectives.

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true

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53
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The major American writer in the 19th century dealt with Indian
affairs is … … … … ..
a)William W ells Brown
b)John Dryden
c)James Fenimore Cooper
d)Charles Dickens
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c)James Fenimore Cooper

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54
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“The Spy” was published by … … … … … … .

a) James Fenimore Cooper
b) John Dryden
c) Samuel Johnson
d) John Donne

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a)James Fenimore Cooper

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Other volumes of “Gleanings in Europe” deal with … … … … .. .

a) France
b) Switzerland
c) Italy
d) All of the above.

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d)All of the above

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56
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Headsman was set in the eighteenth century …………..

a) Switzerland
b) England
c) Italy
d) Germany

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a)Switzerland

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"The Marble Faun" and "The Scarlet Letter" were written by
… … … … .
a)Hawthorne
b)Shakespeare
c)Coleridge
d)John Donne
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a)Hawthorne

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… … … … ..is a novel by “ Nathaniel Hawthorne” which embodied
world of ordinary human jealousy and passion.
a)Robinson Crusoe
b)The Blithedale Romance
c) Hamlet
d)The Old Man and the Sea

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b)The Blithedale Romance

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Douglass’s “North Star” is a … … … … … … ..

a) novel
b) play
c) journal
d) pamphlet

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c)journal

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60
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Douglass’s “My Bondage and My Freedom “ is his second … … … ..

a) epistolary
b) autobiography
c) picaresque
d) Gothic

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b)autobiography

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Douglass…… his line of argument throughout his career.

a) Shifted
b) Kept
c) Refused
d) contained

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a)shifted

62
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During Douglass’s trip to Ireland, he expressed.... with Daniel
O ’Connell and the Fenians.
a)Sympathy
b)Disagreement
c)Happiness
d)Sadness
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a)sympathy

63
Q

In his final autobiography “Life and Times”, Douglass insists on
dissociating civil equality from … … equality .
a)Social
b)Economic
c)Political
d)Religious

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a)social

64
Q 
In his final autobiography “Life and Tim es”, Douglass … … civil
equality .
a)Supported
b)Refused
c)Attacked
d)Stopped
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a)supported

65
Q

Assing was an American … … for the German newspaper.

a. Correspondent
b. Doctor
c. Surgeon
d. Teacher

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a)correspondent

66
Q

Brown’s “Clotel” bring together … … … … … in equal measure.

a) lecture
b) fiction
c) history
d) all of the above

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d)All of the above

67
Q

American Literature is understood as an ancient Subject

A

false (modern)

68
Q

American Literature’s historical reach often does not go back
earlier than “The Great Gatsby”.

A

true

69
Q

American Literature started gaining popularity after World War
One.

A

false (two)

70
Q

Matthiessen’s ideological predilection included women, African
American writers and southerners

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false (excluded)

71
Q

William Gilmore Simms’s “The Cassique of Kiawah” emphasizes

words such as region, locality and territory

A

true

72
Q

Lincoln began his own career as a lawyer of national boundaries
during the Black Hawk War

A

false (policer)

73
Q

“When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed” is written by

Whitman.

A

true

74
Q

Catherine Sedgwick’s “ Hope Leslie” seeks to bring Native

Americans and white settlers together

A

true

75
Q

Cooper in his novels probes the places where identity becomes a
more complex , hybrid construction

A

true

76
Q

Cooper’s work fed into the intense debates about national

identity in USA .

A

true

77
Q

Cooper’s work involves a com parative analysis of American

culture.

A

true

78
Q

Cooper’s sea fiction was in his own lifetime often considered his
minor literary achievement

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false (major)

79
Q

Coop er’s “The Crater” revolves around the discovery of a new
island in the Pacific and its sudden disappearance after a volcanic
eruption on the ocean

A

true

80
Q

Emerson recommended that American intellectuals remake the

world according to their own designs

A

true

81
Q

“The Scarlet Letter” was appropriated as a utopian Vehicle

A

true

82
Q

All of Hawthorne’s work involves dialogues

A

true

83
Q

In “Our Old Home”, Hawthorne wrote account of his travels in

Germany

A

false (England)

84
Q

“Moby-Dick” was written by Herman Melville

A

true

85
Q

“Moby-Dick” was Melville’s first novel

A

'’Typee’’

86
Q

“Moby-Dick” traverses the ocean in a way that parallels Melville’s
aspiration

A

true

87
Q

Melville’s texts engage in various ways with race and slavery

A

true

88
Q

Melville avoided reducing psychological and social questions to
issues deriving merely from local politics

A

true

89
Q

Melville’s novella “Billy Budd” was published after his death

A

true

90
Q

Frederick Douglass’s first biographical narrative was his account of
his “escape from slavery”.

A

false (autobiographical)

91
Q

Tom Taylor’s “Our American Cousin” is a tragic drama.

A

false (farcical)

92
Q

Stowe’s “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” was a best-selling novel in both

America and Britain

A

true

93
Q

Stowe treated “Tom Gordon” in her novel “Dred” as harshly as he
himself treats his own slaves

A

true

94
Q

Stowe couldn’t enter the spirit of her various characters

A

false (could)

95
Q

(AASS) stands for American Anti-Slavery Society

A

true

96
Q

Douglass went on a tour to Britain

A

true

97
Q

Europe was the first to give Douglass a taste of a different kind of
freedom .

A

true

98
Q

Douglass’s “Narrative” was not so well written

A

false (well)

99
Q

Douglass was aware of the complex nature of social and economic
power that makes it hard to reduce slavery

A

true

100
Q

Douglass associated slavery with the poverty he witnessed

A

true

101
Q

Douglass was an African American writer

A

true

102
Q

for Douglass, the end tended to oppose the means

A

false (justify)

103
Q

Most of African American prose writers shifted from 1st-person to
3rd-person narrators

A

true

104
Q

Douglass was a visible leader of the African American community

A

true

105
Q

Some of the power of Douglass derives from parody and irony

A

true

106
Q

Douglass was famous for his realistic imitations of slave master
and pro-slavery preachers

A

false (parodic)

107
Q

Douglass’s autobiography presented freedom more as a self-evident

A

true

108
Q

“The Heroic Slave” might be understood as a typical Douglass

form of ironic paradox

A

true

109
Q

American Slaves’ right to freedom was forbidden by the Word of
the Owner according to their condition of Christianity

A

false (God)

110
Q

The country was divided into two parts: North against slavery and
South with slavery

A

true

111
Q

A ll of the following are from Steinbeck’s writings ex cep t for:

a) Of Mice and M en
b) The Grapes of Wrath
c) East of Eden
d) The Contrast

A

d) The contrast

112
Q

… … … was Steinbeck’s first novel.

a) Cup of Gold
b) The Grapes of wrath
c) Of Mice and Men
d) The Escape

A

a) cup of gold

113
Q

Steinbeck’s writings were… …

a) Realistic
b) Imaginative
c) Realistic and Imaginative
d) None of the above

A

c) Realistic and Imaginative

114
Q

Steinbeck was interested in… …

a) Marine biology
b) Politics
c) Religion
d) All of the above

A

d) All of the above

115
Q

In “ The Grapes of Wrath” the themes of… … play a great role.

a) Conversion
b) Self-sacrifice
c) All of the above
d) None of the above

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c) All of the above

116
Q

“ Of Mice and Men” represents the themes of

a) Racism
b) Loneliness
c) Prejudice
d) All of the above

A

d) All of the above

117
Q

John Steinbeck was born in America.

A

true

118
Q

John Steinbeck was a novelist and short story writer

A

true

119
Q

Steinbeck won the Nobel Prize in Culture

A

false (Literature)

120
Q

Steinbeck has been called “a giant of American letters”.

A

true

121
Q

Many of Steinbeck’s works are considered classics of Eastern

literature.

A

false (Western)

122
Q

Steinbeck won The Pulitzer Prize for his novel “The Grapes of
Wrath”.

A

true

123
Q

“ The Grapes of Wrath” is considered Steinbeck’s masterpiece and
part of the American literary canon

A

true

124
Q

Steinbeck’s works frequently explored the themes of love and

death

A

false (fate and injustice)

125
Q

Monterey and the San Joaquin Valley were the setting for many of
his stories.

A

true

126
Q

In his works of fiction, Steinbeck didn’t care about religion

A

false (did)

127
Q

Steinbeck’s beliefs remained a powerful influence within his

fiction and non-fiction work

A

true

128
Q

Steinbeck joined the League of American Writers

A

true

129
Q

“ Of Mice and Men” is a comic play .

A

false (tragedy)

130
Q

Of Mice and Men” is a tragedy novel

A

false (play)

131
Q

“East of Eden” was made into a movie

A

true

132
Q

“East of Eden” deals with the nature of good and evil

A

true

133
Q

“ The Grapes of Wrath” won… …

a) The National Book Award
b) Pulitzer Prize
c) The Nobel Prize
d) All of the above

A

d)All of the above

134
Q

The “Joads” set out for California because of… …

a) Drought
b) Economic hardship
c) Agricultural industry changes
d) All of the above

A

d)All of the above

135
Q

The main male character in “The Grapes of Wrath” is called… …

a) Noah
b) Jonathan
c) Tom
d) Casy

A

c)Tom

136
Q 
In the final chapter of the book, the family takes shelter from the
flood in… …
a)Farm
b)Old barn
c)Castle
d)Church
A

b)old barn

137
Q

Tom is the Joad family’s … … son

a) First
b) Second
c) Elder
d) Adopted

A

b)Second

138
Q

“The Grapes of Wrath” is a realist novel

A

true

139
Q

“ The Grapes of Wrath” is a British novel

A

false (American)

140
Q

“ The Grapes of Wrath” is an American novel published in 1939.

A

true

141
Q

The Grapes of Wrath” is set during Great Depression

A

true

142
Q

“ The Grapes of Wrath” is read in American high school and

college literature classes.

A

true

143
Q

The “Joads” traveled from California to Oklahoma.

A

false (Oklahoma to California)

144
Q

Grandpa and Grandma die after arriving in California.

A

false (Before)

145
Q

Noah and Connie Rivers leave the family .

A

true

146
Q

Casy becomes a labor organizer and tries to recruit for a labor
union

A

true

147
Q

The remaining Joads find work as strikebreakers

A

true

148
Q

Tom takes leadership of the family , even though he is young

A

true

149
Q

Tom is a Christ-like figure.

A

false (Casy)

150
Q

Noah is the first to leave the family .

A

true

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