WorksheetsTest 7 Review
Total questions: 41
Worksheet time: 21mins
Which author wrote "A Father's Prayer"?
Booker T. Washington
Douglas MacArthur
Stephen Foster
Fanny Crosby
Which author wrote "Close to Thee"?
Fanny Crosby
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Walt Whitman
Stephen Foster
Which author wrote "A World Split Apart"?
Fanny Crosby
Douglas MacArthur
Alexander Solzenhenitsyn
Walt Whitman
Which author wrote "I Hear America Singing"?
Stephen Foster
Walt Whitman
Fanny Crosby
Booker T. Washington
Which author wrote "Concord Hymn"?
Stephen Foster
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Booker T. Washington
Fanny Crosby
Which author wrote "Oh! Susanna"?
Douglas MacArthur
Walt Whitman
Stephen Foster
Fanny Crosby
Which author wrote "The Secret of Progress"
Fanny Crosby
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Walt Whitman
Booker T. Washington
What is America's unique contribution to the world's folk music?
spirituals
ballads
hymns
rhythmic poetry
Which poem commemorates the first shots fired in the War for Independence?
"A Nation's Strength"
"O Captain! My Captain!"
"Concord Hymn"
"I Hear America Singing"
What poem by Whitman mourns the death of Abraham Lincoln?
"A Nation's Strength"
"O Captain! My Captain!"
"Concord Hymn"
"I Hear America Singing"
What poem's theme is that things are only beautiful in the right surroundings?
"Fable"
"Each and All"
"Is the Bible True?"
"A Father's Prayer"
What poem's theme is everyone and everything has a purpose?
"Fable"
"Each and All"
"Is the Bible True?"
"A Father's Prayer"
What was William Jennings Bryan's argument against evolution called?
"Fable"
"Each and All"
"Is the Bible True?"
"A Father's Prayer"
In "A World Split Apart," the West was warned about the threat of what?
overpopulation
humanism
evironmentalism
Unitarianism
Who challenges future writers not to forget "the problems of the human heart" in his Nobel Prize Speech?
William Faulkner
William Jennings Bryan
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Who is the founder of Transcendentalism?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Walt Whitman
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
William Faulkner
What work became the bible of the Transcendentalists?
Fable
Each and All
Nature
Walden
What literary device is used in the following quote: "Then Beauty is its own excuse for being"?
allusion
aphorism
satire
irony
Who is America' most beloved popular-song (folk song) composer?
Fanny Crosby
Walt Whitman
Stephen Foster
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Who was America's first modern poet?
Fanny Crosby
Stephen Foster
Walt Whitman
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
What song tells of a dying cowboy with one last request?
"Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie"
"The Old Chisholm Trail"
"Oh! Susanna"
"My Old Kentucky Home"
What song's theme is that of a sentimental look at rural life?
"Oh! Susanna"
"My Old Kentucky Home"
"Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie"
Nature
Who is America' most beloved hymn writer of the nineteenth century?
Stephen Foster
Walt Whitman
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fanny Crosby
Any word, phrase, or clause that functions as a noun or noun equivalent is a(n) ______________.
substantive
independent element
expletive
parenthetical expression
The two ways to correct excessive coordination are division and ______.
variety
division
subordination
conciseness
Making an independent clause into a dependent clause to form a complex sentence is called _______.
subordination
variety
coordination
division
A sentence with one independent clause is a ______ sentence.
simple
compound
complex
compound-complex
A sentence with two or more independent clauses is called a _______ sentence.
simple
compound
complex
compound-complex
A sentence with one independent clause and one or more dependent clauses is called a ________ sentence.
Simple
Compound
complex
compound-complex
A sentence with two or more independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses is called a _________ sentence.
simple
compound
complex
compound-complex
a word or phrase to be defined
entry word
guide word
idiom
run-on entries
(..) broad vowel
breve
schwa
macron
dieresis
usage label
etymology
Slang
idiom
macron
short vowel
breve
schwa
macron
dieresis
additional forms of the entry word
guide words
etymology
run-on entries
usage label
unaccented vowel
breve
schwa
macron
dieresis
history of the word
run-on entries
etymology
usage label
restrictive label
long vowel
breve
schwa
idiom
macron
expression whose meaning cannot be derived from the individual words in the expression
etymology
run-on entries
idiom
slang
expression containing technical language that may not be clear to a general audience
restrictive label
usage label
idiom
jargon
time label
run-on entries
slang
macron
Archaic
