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WorksheetsMIDTERM- AMERICAN LITERATURE
Total questions: 42
Worksheet time: 32mins
In A Respectable Woman, who is spending a week at the Baroda plantation?
Gaston's friend
Kate
His mom
Her mom
In A Respectable Woman, Mrs. Baroda is ________ about Gouvernail spending time there.
Excited
Happy
Disappointed
Proud
In A Respectable Woman, Mrs. Baroda was hoping for some unbroken rest with______?
Her Dog
Her Aunt
Her Husband
Her Sister
In A Respectable Woman, where did Gouvernail and Gaston meet?
Party
College
Park
Market
In A Respectable Woman, Gaston thought his wife still______ his friend at the end of the story.
Loved
Disliked
Envied
Misunderstood
In Love Story, Where did Jenny study?
Harvard
Radcliffe
Yale
Standford
In Love Story, where did the main characters talk for the first time?
in the library
at a hockey match
in a restaurant
at home
In Love Story, who lent Oliver five thousand dollars?
Phil
Jenny
Oliver's friends
Oliver's father
In Love Story, where did Jenny get a scholarship to?
Paris
London
New England
Harvard
In Love Story, what does Jenny's father do?
Banker
Baker
Football player
Teacher
In Love Story, which university did Oliver go to?
Harvard
Radcliffe
UCLA
Oxford
In Love Story, what did Jenny die from?
ebola
natural death
depression
leukaemia
In A Respectable Woman, what impulse was Mrs Baroda having next to Gouvernail?
She wanted to punch him
She wanted him to kiss her
She wanted to touch his face
She wanted to run away
Which of the following sentences best states the theme of "Soldier's Home"?
Family and friends want returning soldiers to find good jobs.
Most civilians don't appreciate the heroism of soldiers.
Wartime combat can be so devastating that it changes one completely.
Most soldiers return home with little respect for their neighbors.
In Soldier's Home, Krebs can best be described as a person who...
deeply mistrusts everyone around him
looks forward to rejoining his boyhood friends
has lost his goals and the energy to pursue them
has suffered injuries that leave him physically disabled
In Soldier's Home, when he returns home, Krebs finds that he...
an talk about the war only to his sister
must lie to be listened to
wants to read adventure books
does not want a girlfriend
In Soldier's Home, Krebs has returned home too late to...
find a comfortable apartment
feel any interest in wartime events
receive news of the whereabouts of his fellow soldiers
receive an elaborate welcome from his hometown
In Soldier's Home, what does Krebs seem to need most when he returns home from the war?
An executive job at his father's office
Solitude and understanding
Further military training
Stimulation and excitement
In Soldier's Home Hemingway succeeded by writing one of the first realistic descriptions of...
war
postwar disillusionment
the Midwest
family life
In Soldier's Home, which detail of his past is Krebs most nostalgic about?
The Rhine River Valley
The library
Being in Europe
Being in Asia
In Soldier's Home, after the conversation with his mother, Krebs decides to go away because he...
wants to avoid any kind of conflict
hears of a good job waiting for him in Kansas City
realizes that his parents no longer love him
yearns to find a rural area and settle down
In A Rose for Emily, what caused the smell around Emily's house?
a dead animal
the trash piled outside and around the home
Emily's dead body
Homer's rotting corpse
In A Rose for Emily, which line below best tells the reader that Miss Emily was a great, noble and a impressive person?
"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."
"But garages and cotton gins had encroached and obliterated even the august names of that neighborhood: only Miss Emily's house was left."
"Not that miss Emily would have accepted charity."
When "Miss Emily Grierson died, our whole town went to her funeral."
In A Rose for Emily, which sentence best supports the idea that Miss Emily was in love with Homer?
“...Miss Emily had been to the jeweler's and ordered a man’s toilet set, in silver, with the letters H.B.”
“People in our town...believed that the Griersons held themselves a little too high for what they really were.”
“At last they could pity Miss Emily.”
“And that was the last we saw of Homer Barron. And of Miss Emily for sometime.”
In A Rose for Emily, the image of the gray hair on the pillow is significant because -
It proves that Miss Emily was getting old.
It suggests that Emily slept next to Homer’s dead body.
It shows that Emily is losing her hair due to the stress in her life.
It draws the reader closer to the mystery of Miss Emily’s servant.
Where does the story A Rose for Emily take place?
Boston, Massachusettes
Washington D.C.
Atlanta, Georgia
Jefferson, Mississippi
What is the historical era of the story A Rose for Emily?
Reconstruction (after the Civil War)
Colonial Period
Jim Crow South
The Roaring Twenties
In A Rose for Emily, what does Miss Emily purchase from the druggist?
Ajax
Borax
Bleach
Arsenic
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?
scared
angry
hopeful
sad
What was Martin Luther King, Jr.'s job?
teacher
speech writer
minister
producer
__________ for all people is what Martin Luther King, Jr. was fighting for.
Civil rights
Revenge
Hatred
Discrimination
Martin Luther King won this award when he was 35
Grammy Award
Nobel Peace Prize
Books For Breakfast
Tony Award
The separation of people based upon race or some other characteristic is referred to as?
Assimilation
Civil Rights
Segregation
Desegregation
Where was Martin Luther King, Jr. when he was shot?
Montgomery, Alabama
Atlanta, Georgia
Nashville, Tennessee
Memphis, Tennessee
African Americans were treated unfairly. What evidence from the the speech I Have a Dream best supports this conclusion?
African Americans were forced to sit in the back of buses.
Martin Luther King Jr. led marches and gave speeches.
Americans honor Martin Luther King Jr. with a holiday.
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?
Martin Luther King Jr. led marches and gave speeches.
Equal rights laws were passed, so Americans are treated fairly.
African Americans and whites went to separate schools.
In The Last Leaf, what was Mr Behrman's dream?
get married
buy a new car
go on a long vacation
paint a masterpiece
In The Last Leaf, what is pnuemonia compared to?
a dragon
a stranger
a fire
a lion
In The Last Leaf, what did Johnsy realise when she looked at the last leaf for a long time?
She was wrong.
She was foolish.
She wanted to live.
All of the above
In The Last Leaf, what happened to Mr Behrman?
He went to jail.
He moved out of the apartment
He married Sue
He died of pneumonia
In The Last Leaf, what did Johnsy dream about painting?
the last leaf
Sue
a bay in Italy
her boyfriend
In The Last leaf, where did Sue and Johnsy live?
Greenwich Park
Greenwich Village
Greenwich Tavern
Greenwich Green Park
