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Test 7 Review

Total questions: 41

Worksheet time: 21mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which author wrote "A Father's Prayer"?

a)

Booker T. Washington

b)

Douglas MacArthur

c)

Stephen Foster

d)

Fanny Crosby

2.

Which author wrote "Close to Thee"?

a)

Fanny Crosby

b)

Ralph Waldo Emerson

c)

Walt Whitman

d)

Stephen Foster

3.

Which author wrote "A World Split Apart"?

a)

Fanny Crosby

b)

Douglas MacArthur

c)

Alexander Solzenhenitsyn

d)

Walt Whitman

4.

Which author wrote "I Hear America Singing"?

a)

Stephen Foster

b)

Walt Whitman

c)

Fanny Crosby

d)

Booker T. Washington

5.

Which author wrote "Concord Hymn"?

a)

Stephen Foster

b)

Ralph Waldo Emerson

c)

Booker T. Washington

d)

Fanny Crosby

6.

Which author wrote "Oh! Susanna"?

a)

Douglas MacArthur

b)

Walt Whitman

c)

Stephen Foster

d)

Fanny Crosby

7.

Which author wrote "The Secret of Progress"

a)

Fanny Crosby

b)

Ralph Waldo Emerson

c)

Walt Whitman

d)

Booker T. Washington

8.

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

a)

spirituals

b)

ballads

c)

hymns

d)

rhythmic poetry

9.

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

a)

"A Nation's Strength"

b)

"O Captain! My Captain!"

c)

"Concord Hymn"

d)

"I Hear America Singing"

10.

What poem by Whitman mourns the death of Abraham Lincoln?

a)

"A Nation's Strength"

b)

"O Captain! My Captain!"

c)

"Concord Hymn"

d)

"I Hear America Singing"

11.

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

a)

"Fable"

b)

"Each and All"

c)

"Is the Bible True?"

d)

"A Father's Prayer"

12.

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

a)

"Fable"

b)

"Each and All"

c)

"Is the Bible True?"

d)

"A Father's Prayer"

13.

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

a)

"Fable"

b)

"Each and All"

c)

"Is the Bible True?"

d)

"A Father's Prayer"

14.

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

a)

overpopulation

b)

humanism

c)

evironmentalism

d)

Unitarianism

15.

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

a)

William Faulkner

b)

William Jennings Bryan

c)

Ralph Waldo Emerson

d)

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

16.

Who is the founder of Transcendentalism?

a)

Ralph Waldo Emerson

b)

Walt Whitman

c)

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

d)

William Faulkner

17.

What work became the bible of the Transcendentalists?

a)

Fable

b)

Each and All

c)

Nature

d)

Walden

18.

What literary device is used in the following quote: "Then Beauty is its own excuse for being"?

a)

allusion

b)

aphorism

c)

satire

d)

irony

19.

Who is America' most beloved popular-song (folk song) composer?

a)

Fanny Crosby

b)

Walt Whitman

c)

Stephen Foster

d)

Oliver Wendell Holmes

20.

Who was America's first modern poet?

a)

Fanny Crosby

b)

Stephen Foster

c)

Walt Whitman

d)

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

21.

What song tells of a dying cowboy with one last request?

a)

"Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie"

b)

"The Old Chisholm Trail"

c)

"Oh! Susanna"

d)

"My Old Kentucky Home"

22.

What song's theme is that of a sentimental look at rural life?

a)

"Oh! Susanna"

b)

"My Old Kentucky Home"

c)

"Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie"

d)

Nature

23.

Who is America' most beloved hymn writer of the nineteenth century?

a)

Stephen Foster

b)

Walt Whitman

c)

Ralph Waldo Emerson

d)

Fanny Crosby

24.

Any word, phrase, or clause that functions as a noun or noun equivalent is a(n) ______________.

a)

substantive

b)

independent element

c)

expletive

d)

parenthetical expression

25.

The two ways to correct excessive coordination are division and ______.

a)

variety

b)

division

c)

subordination

d)

conciseness

26.

Making an independent clause into a dependent clause to form a complex sentence is called _______.

a)

subordination

b)

variety

c)

coordination

d)

division

27.

A sentence with one independent clause is a ______ sentence.

a)

simple

b)

compound

c)

complex

d)

compound-complex

28.

A sentence with two or more independent clauses is called a _______ sentence.

a)

simple

b)

compound

c)

complex

d)

compound-complex

29.

A sentence with one independent clause and one or more dependent clauses is called a ________ sentence.

a)

Simple

b)

Compound

c)

complex

d)

compound-complex

30.

A sentence with two or more independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses is called a _________ sentence.

a)

simple

b)

compound

c)

complex

d)

compound-complex

31.

a word or phrase to be defined

a)

entry word

b)

guide word

c)

idiom

d)

run-on entries

32.

(..) broad vowel

a)

breve

b)

schwa

c)

macron

d)

dieresis

33.

usage label

a)

etymology

b)

Slang

c)

idiom

d)

macron

34.

short vowel

a)

breve

b)

schwa

c)

macron

d)

dieresis

35.

additional forms of the entry word

a)

guide words

b)

etymology

c)

run-on entries

d)

usage label

36.

unaccented vowel

a)

breve

b)

schwa

c)

macron

d)

dieresis

37.

history of the word

a)

run-on entries

b)

etymology

c)

usage label

d)

restrictive label

38.

long vowel

a)

breve

b)

schwa

c)

idiom

d)

macron

39.

expression whose meaning cannot be derived from the individual words in the expression

a)

etymology

b)

run-on entries

c)

idiom

d)

slang

40.

expression containing technical language that may not be clear to a general audience

a)

restrictive label

b)

usage label

c)

idiom

d)

jargon

41.

time label

a)

run-on entries

b)

slang

c)

macron

d)

Archaic