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Final Review Fall 2019

Total questions: 67

Worksheet time: 34mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who wrote "American Names"

a)

Washington irving

b)

Carl Sandburg

c)

Stephen Vincent Benet

d)

Edgar Allen Poe

2.

Who wrote "A Republic of Prairie Dogs"

a)

Washington Irving

b)

Samuel Clemens

c)

Will Rogers, Jr.

d)

O. Henry

3.

Who wrote "Reflections on American Life: A Collection of Sayings"?

a)

Washington Irving

b)

Will Rogers, Jr.

c)

Sarah Orne Jewett

d)

John Greenleaf Whittier

4.

Who wrote Snow-Bound?

a)

John Greenleaf Whittier

b)

O. Henry

c)

Will Rogers, Jr.

d)

Stephen Vincent Benet

5.

Who wrote "The Cop and the Anthem"?

a)

Will Rogers, Jr.

b)

Sarah Orne Jewett

c)

Stephen Vincent Benet

d)

O. Henry

6.

Who wrote "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"?

a)

Edgar Allan Poe

b)

Will Rogers, Jr.

c)

John Greenleaf Whittier

d)

Mark Twain/Samuel Clemens

7.

Who wrote "The Pit and the Pendulum"?

a)

Samuel Clemens

b)

Stephen Vincent Benet

c)

Edgar Allan Poe

d)

O. Henry

8.

Who wrote The Scarlet Letter?

a)

Will Rogers, Jr.

b)

Washington Irving

c)

Nathaniel Hawthorne

d)

O. Henry

9.

Who wrote "The Sifting of Peter"?

a)

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

b)

Will Rogers, Jr.

c)

O. Henry

d)

Stephen Vincent Benet

10.

Who wrote "The Town Poor"?

a)

Carl Sandburg

b)

Washington Irving

c)

O. Henry

d)

Sarah Orne Jewett

11.

Who wrote "They Have Yarns"?

a)

Stephen Vincent Benet

b)

Carl Sandburg

c)

Washington Irving

d)

O. Henry

12.

In The Scarlet Letter, who said, "Thou shalt forgive me!"?

a)

Chillingworth

b)

Dimmesdale

c)

Hester

d)

Mistress Hibbins

13.

In The Scarlet Letter, who said, "Sooner or later, he must needs be mine!"?

a)

Chillingworth

b)

Governor Bellingham

c)

Pearl

d)

Hester

14.

In The Scarlet Letter, who said, "What does the scarlet letter mean?...and why does the minister keep his hand over his heart?"

a)

Governor Bellingham

b)

Pearl

c)

Chillingworth

d)

Dimmesdale

15.

In The Scarlet Letter, who said, "Wilt thou go with us to-night? There will be a merry company in the forest"?

a)

Hester

b)

Mistress Hibbins

c)

Pearl

d)

Chillingworth

16.

In The Scarlet Letter, who said, "I,...whom you so reverence and trust, am utterly a pollution and a lie!"?

a)

Pearl

b)

Chillingworth

c)

Hester

d)

Dimmesdale

17.

In The Scarlet Letter, who said, "Wilt thou stand here with mother and me tomorrow at noontide?"

a)

Dimmesdale

b)

Pearl

c)

Mistress Hibbins

d)

Chillingworth

18.

In The Scarlet Letter, who said, "Thou hast escaped me!"?

a)

Dimmesdale

b)

Chillingworth

c)

Pearl

d)

Hester

19.

Which character(s) is/are in "A Rescue"?

a)

Zekle

b)

the judge

c)

the correspondent

d)

Deerslayer

20.

Which character(s) is/are in "Hiawatha's Wooing"?

a)

Jim Smiley

b)

Priscilla Mullins

c)

Nokomis

d)

Fedallah

21.

Which character(s) is/are in "Maud Muller"?

a)

Jim Smiley

b)

the judge

c)

Bray sisters

d)

Zekle

22.

Which character(s) is/are in Moby Dick?

a)

the judge

b)

Jim Smiley

c)

the correspondent

d)

Fedallah

23.

Which character(s) is/are in "The Courtin'"?

a)

Zekle

b)

the judge

c)

Bray sisters

d)

Deerslayer

24.

Which character(s) is/are in "The Great Carbuncle"?

a)

Priscilla Mullins

b)

the correspondent

c)

Hannah and Matthew

d)

Belinda Watson

25.

Which character(s) is/are in "The Lover's Errand"?

a)

Belinda Watson

b)

the judge

c)

Zekle

d)

Priscilla Mullins

26.

Which character(s) is/are in "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"?

a)

the correspondent

b)

Deerslayer

c)

Jim Smiley

d)

Fedallah

27.

Which character(s) is/are in "The Open Boat"?

a)

Fedallah

b)

Belinda Watson

c)

the correspondent

d)

Priscilla Mullins

28.

Which character(s) is/are in "The Town Poor"?

a)

Zekle

b)

Bray sisters

c)

the correspondent

d)

Deerslayer

29.

Which character(s) is/are in "The Unerring Instinct"?

a)

Priscilla Mullins

b)

Nokomis

c)

Belinda Watson

d)

the correspondent

30.

What is "Clatter, pop, and bang" an example of?

a)

paradox

b)

alliteration

c)

dialect

d)

onomatopoeia

31.

What is "and waves were white below" an example of?

a)

alliteration

b)

metaphor

c)

paradox

d)

simile

32.

What is "Our noontide is thy gracious dawn" an example of?

a)

paradox

b)

alliteration

c)

metaphor

d)

simile

33.

What is "What a interestin study it is to see a zewological animal like a snaik under perfeck subjecshun!" and example of?

a)

onomatopoeia

b)

dialect

c)

simile

d)

alliteration

34.

What is "These kegs, I'm told, the rebels bold, Packed up like pickling herring" an example of?

a)

metaphor

b)

dialect

c)

alliteration

d)

simile

35.

What is the theme of "A Jingle of Words"?

a)

picture of Judgement Day

b)

actions have far-reaching consequences

c)

power of words

d)

God's unconfined, overflowing love

36.

What is the theme of Day of Doom?

a)

picture of Judgment Day

b)

actions have far-reaching consequences

c)

do not dwell on past accomplishments

d)

power of words

37.

What is the theme of "Loss and Gain"?

a)

power of words

b)

picture of Judgment Day

c)

learning from failures

d)

God's unconfined, overflowing love

38.

What is the theme of "Meditation One"?

a)

picture of Judgment Day

b)

God's unconfined, overflowing love

c)

power of words

d)

do not dwell on past accomplishments

39.

What is the theme of "The Arrow and the Song"?

a)

power of words

b)

actions have far-reaching consequences

c)

picture of Judgment Day

d)

do not dwell on past accomplishments

40.

What is the theme of "The Present Crisis"?

a)

power of words

b)

do not dwell on past accomplishments

c)

picture of Judgment Day

d)

actions have far-reaching consequences

41.

What poetic device is used in the following quote: "Oh, London is a man's town, there's power in the air;/And Paris is a woman's town, with flowers in her hair."

a)

rhyme

b)

onomatopoeia

c)

alliteration

d)

rhythm

42.

What group of poets wrote poems that people enjoyed sharing with family and friends?

a)

Knickerbockers

b)

Carpet Baggers

c)

Fireside Poets

d)

Abolitionists

43.

Who wrote Poor Richard's Almanac?

a)

Thomas Jefferson

b)

Benjamin Franklin

c)

George Washington

d)

Samuel Clemens

44.

In "The Courtship of Madam Winthrop," who courted Madam Winthrop?

a)

John Eliot

b)

Captain Smith

c)

Samuel Sewall

d)

Andrew Jackson

45.

What poem describes a Civil War battle fought near a church?

a)

"Gettysburg"

b)

"Jefferson"

c)

"Shiloh"

d)

"Bethel"

46.

What story has been called America's only epic?

a)

The Open Boat

b)

Moby Dick

c)

The Great Carbuncle

d)

The Scarlet Letter

47.

What poem presents the paradox that the Word of God is priceless yet free?

a)

"The Book Our Mothers Read"

b)

"Loss and Gain"

c)

"The Value of the Bible"

d)

"Meditation One"

48.

What term refers to words which appeal to our senses?

a)

imagery

b)

climax

c)

setting

d)

novel

49.

What is the book in "The Book Our Mothers Read"?

a)

Poor Richard's Almanac

b)

the Bible

c)

the dictionary

d)

the encyclopedia

50.

What term refers to the physical background of a story?

a)

imagery

b)

climax

c)

setting

d)

novel

51.

What term refers to the highest point of interest of a story?

a)

imagery

b)

climax

c)

setting

d)

novel

52.

What term refers to a character that changes in the story?

a)

antagonist

b)

protagonist

c)

static

d)

dynamic

53.

A homeless man makes several attempts to get arrested

a)

Moby Dick

b)

"The Unerring Instinct"

c)

"Topsy"

d)

"The Cop and the Anthem"

54.

A prisoner endures the horrors of a torture chamber

a)

Mrs. McWilliams and the Lightning

b)

The Innocents Abroad

c)

The Pit and the Pendulum

d)

The Unerring Instinct

55.

A group of people search for a precious gem

a)

The Town Poor

b)

Topsy

c)

Rip Van Winkle

d)

The Great Carbuncle

56.

Two travelers act ignorant to their guide

a)

The Innocents Abroad

b)

Topsy

c)

Rip Van Winkle

d)

The Cop and the Anthem

57.

A man awakens from a 20-year nap.

a)

Moby Dick

b)

Topsy

c)

Rip Van Winkle

d)

The Town Poor

58.

A woman invents a story about the Smith family.

a)

The Unerring Instinct

b)

Topsy

c)

The Cop and the Anthem

d)

Moby Dick

59.

Four men on a lifeboat seek to get rescued

a)

The Open Boat

b)

The Town Poor

c)

Rip Van Winkle

d)

Topsy

60.

A man seeks to kill a white whale

a)

The Town Poor

b)

Topsy

c)

The Great Carbuncle

d)

Moby Dick

61.

A man and a wife take preventative measures against a storm.

a)

The Town Poor

b)

Mrs. McWilliams and the Lightning

c)

The Great Carbuncle

d)

Moby Dick

62.

A man buys a slave to have his cousin teach her.

a)

Topsy

b)

The Cop and the Anthem

c)

The Open Boat

d)

Rip Van Winkle

63.

Who wrote this quote: "They taught the nation fairness,

Thrift, and the golden tongue."

a)

Anne Bradstreet

b)

Robert P. Tristram Coffin

c)

Herman Melville

d)

Stephen Crane

64.

Who wrote this quote: "Thou ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain"

a)

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

b)

Stephen Crane

c)

Herman Melville

d)

Anne Bradstreet

65.

Who wrote this quote: "The drama's done. Why then here does any one step forth?--Because one did survive the wreck."

a)

James Russell Lowell

b)

Stephen Crane

c)

Herman Melville

d)

Anne Bradstreet

66.

Who wrote this quote: "...then only for a season/Our partings are, nor shall we wait in vain/Until we meet again!"

a)

James Russell Lowell

b)

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

c)

Stephen Crane

d)

Herman Melville

67.

Who wrote this quote: "Our Fathers fought for liberty...But ourselves must set us free."

a)

James Russell Lowell

b)

Stephen Crane

c)

Herman Melville

d)

Anne Bradstreet