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MIDTERM- AMERICAN LITERATURE

Total questions: 42

Worksheet time: 32mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

In A Respectable Woman, who is spending a week at the Baroda plantation?

a)

Gaston's friend

b)

Kate

c)

His mom

d)

Her mom

2.

In A Respectable Woman, Mrs. Baroda is ________ about Gouvernail spending time there.

a)

Excited

b)

Happy

c)

Disappointed

d)

Proud

3.

In A Respectable Woman, Mrs. Baroda was hoping for some unbroken rest with______?

a)

Her Dog

b)

Her Aunt

c)

Her Husband

d)

Her Sister

4.

In A Respectable Woman, where did Gouvernail and Gaston meet?

a)

Party

b)

College

c)

Park

d)

Market

5.

In A Respectable Woman, Gaston thought his wife still______ his friend at the end of the story.

a)

Loved

b)

Disliked

c)

Envied

d)

Misunderstood

6.

In Love Story, Where did Jenny study?

a)

Harvard

b)

Radcliffe

c)

Yale

d)

Standford

7.

In Love Story, where did the main characters talk for the first time?

a)

in the library

b)

at a hockey match

c)

in a restaurant

d)

at home

8.

In Love Story, who lent Oliver five thousand dollars?

a)

Phil

b)

Jenny

c)

Oliver's friends

d)

Oliver's father

9.

In Love Story, where did Jenny get a scholarship to?

a)

Paris

b)

London

c)

New England

d)

Harvard

10.

In Love Story, what does Jenny's father do?

a)

Banker

b)

Baker

c)

Football player

d)

Teacher

11.

In Love Story, which university did Oliver go to?

a)

Harvard

b)

Radcliffe

c)

UCLA

d)

Oxford

12.

In Love Story, what did Jenny die from?

a)

ebola

b)

natural death

c)

depression

d)

leukaemia

13.

In A Respectable Woman, what impulse was Mrs Baroda having next to Gouvernail?

a)

She wanted to punch him

b)

She wanted him to kiss her

c)

She wanted to touch his face

d)

She wanted to run away

14.

Which of the following sentences best states the theme of "Soldier's Home"?

a)

Family and friends want returning soldiers to find good jobs.

b)

Most civilians don't appreciate the heroism of soldiers.

c)

Wartime combat can be so devastating that it changes one completely.

d)

Most soldiers return home with little respect for their neighbors.

15.

In Soldier's Home, Krebs can best be described as a person who...

a)

deeply mistrusts everyone around him

b)

looks forward to rejoining his boyhood friends

c)

has lost his goals and the energy to pursue them

d)

has suffered injuries that leave him physically disabled

16.

In Soldier's Home, when he returns home, Krebs finds that he...

a)

an talk about the war only to his sister

b)

must lie to be listened to

c)

wants to read adventure books

d)

does not want a girlfriend

17.

In Soldier's Home, Krebs has returned home too late to...

a)

find a comfortable apartment

b)

feel any interest in wartime events

c)

receive news of the whereabouts of his fellow soldiers

d)

receive an elaborate welcome from his hometown

18.

In Soldier's Home, what does Krebs seem to need most when he returns home from the war?

a)

An executive job at his father's office

b)

Solitude and understanding

c)

Further military training

d)

Stimulation and excitement

19.

In Soldier's Home Hemingway succeeded by writing one of the first realistic descriptions of...

a)

war

b)

postwar disillusionment

c)

the Midwest

d)

family life

20.

In Soldier's Home, which detail of his past is Krebs most nostalgic about?

a)

The Rhine River Valley

b)

The library

c)

Being in Europe

d)

Being in Asia

21.

In Soldier's Home, after the conversation with his mother, Krebs decides to go away because he...

a)

wants to avoid any kind of conflict

b)

hears of a good job waiting for him in Kansas City

c)

realizes that his parents no longer love him

d)

yearns to find a rural area and settle down

22.

In A Rose for Emily, what caused the smell around Emily's house?

a)

a dead animal

b)

the trash piled outside and around the home

c)

Emily's dead body

d)

Homer's rotting corpse

23.

In A Rose for Emily, which line below best tells the reader that Miss Emily was a great, noble and a impressive person?

a)

"We really must do something about it judge. I'd be the last one in the world to bother Miss Emily, but we've got to do something."

b)

"But garages and cotton gins had encroached and obliterated even the august names of that neighborhood: only Miss Emily's house was left."

c)

"Not that miss Emily would have accepted charity."

d)

When "Miss Emily Grierson died, our whole town went to her funeral."

24.

In A Rose for Emily, which sentence best supports the idea that Miss Emily was in love with Homer?

a)

“...Miss Emily had been to the jeweler's and ordered a man’s toilet set, in silver, with the letters H.B.”

b)

“People in our town...believed that the Griersons held themselves a little too high for what they really were.”

c)

“At last they could pity Miss Emily.”

d)

“And that was the last we saw of Homer Barron. And of Miss Emily for sometime.”

25.

In A Rose for Emily, the image of the gray hair on the pillow is significant because -

a)

It proves that Miss Emily was getting old.

b)

It suggests that Emily slept next to Homer’s dead body.

c)

It shows that Emily is losing her hair due to the stress in her life.

d)

It draws the reader closer to the mystery of Miss Emily’s servant.

26.

Where does the story A Rose for Emily take place?

a)

Boston, Massachusettes

b)

Washington D.C.

c)

Atlanta, Georgia

d)

Jefferson, Mississippi

27.

What is the historical era of the story A Rose for Emily?

a)

Reconstruction (after the Civil War)

b)

Colonial Period

c)

Jim Crow South

d)

The Roaring Twenties

28.

In A Rose for Emily, what does Miss Emily purchase from the druggist?

a)

Ajax

b)

Borax

c)

Bleach

d)

Arsenic

29.

Read the following sentence from King’s speech: “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” How did Martin Luther King Jr. feel about the future of America?

a)

scared

b)

angry

c)

hopeful

d)

sad

30.

What was Martin Luther King, Jr.'s job?

a)

teacher

b)

speech writer

c)

minister

d)

producer

31.

__________ for all people is what Martin Luther King, Jr. was fighting for.

a)

Civil rights

b)

Revenge

c)

Hatred

d)

Discrimination

32.

Martin Luther King won this award when he was 35

a)

Grammy Award

b)

Nobel Peace Prize

c)

Books For Breakfast

d)

Tony Award

33.

The separation of people based upon race or some other characteristic is referred to as?

a)

Assimilation

b)

Civil Rights

c)

Segregation

d)

Desegregation

34.

Where was Martin Luther King, Jr. when he was shot?

a)

Montgomery, Alabama

b)

Atlanta, Georgia

c)

Nashville, Tennessee

d)

Memphis, Tennessee

35.

African Americans were treated unfairly. What evidence from the the speech I Have a Dream best supports this conclusion?

a)

African Americans were forced to sit in the back of buses.

b)

Martin Luther King Jr. led marches and gave speeches.

c)

Americans honor Martin Luther King Jr. with a holiday.

36.

Martin Luther King Jr.’s work to change unfair laws was caused by a desire for people to be treated fairly. What was an effect of King’s work?

a)

Martin Luther King Jr. led marches and gave speeches.

b)

Equal rights laws were passed, so Americans are treated fairly.

c)

African Americans and whites went to separate schools.

37.

In The Last Leaf, what was Mr Behrman's dream?

a)

get married

b)

buy a new car

c)

go on a long vacation

d)

paint a masterpiece

38.

In The Last Leaf, what is pnuemonia compared to?

a)

a dragon

b)

a stranger

c)

a fire

d)

a lion

39.

In The Last Leaf, what did Johnsy realise when she looked at the last leaf for a long time?

a)

She was wrong.

b)

She was foolish.

c)

She wanted to live.

d)

All of the above

40.

In The Last Leaf, what happened to Mr Behrman?

a)

He went to jail.

b)

He moved out of the apartment

c)

He married Sue

d)

He died of pneumonia

41.

In The Last Leaf, what did Johnsy dream about painting?

a)

the last leaf

b)

Sue

c)

a bay in Italy

d)

her boyfriend

42.

In The Last leaf, where did Sue and Johnsy live?

a)

Greenwich Park

b)

Greenwich Village

c)

Greenwich Tavern

d)

Greenwich Green Park