American Literature Test 7

What is America's unique contribution to the world's folk music?

• rhythmic poetry

• spirituals

• hymns

• ballads

What poem by Whitman mourns the death of Abraham Lincoln?

• Leaves of Grass
• Concord Hymn

• O Captain! My Captain!
• Song of Myself

What poem's theme is everyone and everything has a purpose?

• A Father's Prayer

• Each and All

• Fable

• Is the Bible True?

 In "A World Split Apart," the West was warned about the threat of what?

• Unitarianism

• overpopulation

• environmentalism

• humanism

What poem's theme is that things are only beautiful in the right surroundings?

• "A Father's Prayer"

• "Each and All"

• "Is the Bible True?"

• "Fable"

Which poem commemorates the first shots fired in the War for Independence?

•  "I Hear America Singing"

• "O Captain! My Captain!"

•  "Concord Hymn"

• "A Nation's Strength"

What was William Jennings Bryan's argument against evolution called?

• "A Father's Prayer"

•  "Each and All"

• "Is the Bible True?"

• "Fable"

Who challenges future writers not to forget "the problems of the human hear in his Nobel Prize Speech?

• William Jennings Bryan

• William Faulkner

• Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

• Ralph Waldo Emerson

Who is the founder of Transcendentalism?

 What literary device is used in the following quote: "Then

Beauty is its own excuse for being"?