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Semester 1 Exam - English 3

Total questions: 94

Worksheet time: 48mins

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Class
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1.

Match the events, movements, writers, and other traits to the period in which it belongs or is first important:

Realism and naturalism

a)

Colonial Period

b)

Revolutionary Period

c)

Romantic Period

d)

Civil War Period

2.

Match the events, movements, writers, and other traits to the period in which it belongs or is first important:

Puritans

a)

Colonial Period

b)

Revolutionary Period

c)

Romantic Period

d)

Civil War Period

3.

Match the events, movements, writers, and other traits to the period in which it belongs or is first important:

Persuasion important

a)

Colonial Period

b)

Revolutionary Period

c)

Romantic Period

d)

Civil War Period

4.

Match the events, movements, writers, and other traits to the period in which it belongs or is first important:

Historical narratives

a)

Colonial Period

b)

Revolutionary Period

c)

Romantic Period

d)

Civil War Period

5.

Match the events, movements, writers, and other traits to the period in which it belongs or is first important:

Salem witch trials

a)

Colonial Period

b)

Revolutionary Period

c)

Romantic Period

d)

Civil War Period

6.

Match the events, movements, writers, and other traits to the period in which it belongs or is first important:

Transcendentalism

a)

Colonial Period

b)

Revolutionary Period

c)

Romantic Period

d)

Civil War Period

7.

Match the events, movements, writers, and other traits to the period in which it belongs or is first important:

Literature had a dark side

a)

Colonial Period

b)

Revolutionary Period

c)

Romantic Period

d)

Civil War Period

8.

Match the events, movements, writers, and other traits to the period in which it belongs or is first important:

Documents, journals

a)

Colonial Period

b)

Revolutionary Period

c)

Romantic Period

d)

Civil War Period

9.

Match the events, movements, writers, and other traits to the period in which it belongs or is first important:

Age of Reason

a)

Colonial Period

b)

Revolutionary Period

c)

Romantic Period

d)

Civil War Period

10.

Match the events, movements, writers, and other traits to the period in which it belongs or is first important:

About 1858-1864

a)

Colonial Period

b)

Revolutionary Period

c)

Romantic Period

d)

Civil War Period

11.

Match the events, movements, writers, and other traits to the period in which it belongs or is first important:

Literature to give glory to God

a)

Colonial Period

b)

Revolutionary Period

c)

Romantic Period

d)

Civil War Period

12.

Match the events, movements, writers, and other traits to the period in which it belongs or is first important:

The Great Awakening

a)

Colonial Period

b)

Revolutionary Period

c)

Romantic Period

d)

Civil War Period

13.

Match the events, movements, writers, and other traits to the period in which it belongs or is first important:

Oratory

a)

Colonial Period

b)

Revolutionary Period

c)

Romantic Period

d)

Civil War Period

14.

Match the events, movements, writers, and other traits to the period in which it belongs or is first important:

Edgar Allan Poe

a)

Colonial Period

b)

Revolutionary Period

c)

Romantic Period

d)

Civil War Period

15.

Match the events, movements, writers, and other traits to the period in which it belongs or is first important:

Patrick Henry

a)

Colonial Period

b)

Revolutionary Period

c)

Romantic Period

d)

Civil War Period

16.

Match the events, movements, writers, and other traits to the period in which it belongs or is first important:

Civil disobedience

a)

Colonial Period

b)

Revolutionary Period

c)

Romantic Period

d)

Civil War Period

17.

Match the events, movements, writers, and other traits to the period in which it belongs or is first important:

The Gettysburg Address

a)

Colonial Period

b)

Revolutionary Period

c)

Romantic Period

d)

Civil War Period

18.

Match the events, movements, writers, and other traits to the period in which it belongs or is first important:

The Declaration of Independence

a)

Colonial Period

b)

Revolutionary Period

c)

Romantic Period

d)

Civil War Period

19.

Match the events, movements, writers, and other traits to the period in which it belongs or is first important:

Poor Richard’s Almanak

a)

Colonial Period

b)

Revolutionary Period

c)

Romantic Period

d)

Civil War Period

20.

Match the events, movements, writers, and other traits to the period in which it belongs or is first important:

Ralph Waldo Emerson

a)

Colonial Period

b)

Revolutionary Period

c)

Romantic Period

d)

Civil War Period

21.

Match the events, movements, writers, and other traits to the period in which it belongs or is first important:

Thomas Paine

a)

Colonial Period

b)

Revolutionary Period

c)

Romantic Period

d)

Civil War Period

22.

Match the events, movements, writers, and other traits to the period in which it belongs or is first important:

The Fireside Poets

a)

Colonial Period

b)

Revolutionary Period

c)

Romantic Period

d)

Civil War Period

23.

Match the events, movements, writers, and other traits to the period in which it belongs or is first important:

Stephan Crane

a)

Colonial Period

b)

Revolutionary Period

c)

Romantic Period

d)

Civil War Period

24.

Match the events, movements, writers, and other traits to the period in which it belongs or is first important:

William Bradford

a)

Colonial Period

b)

Revolutionary Period

c)

Romantic Period

d)

Civil War Period

25.

Match the events, movements, writers, and other traits to the period in which it belongs or is first important:

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

a)

Colonial Period

b)

Revolutionary Period

c)

Romantic Period

d)

Civil War Period

26.

Match the events, movements, writers, and other traits to the period in which it belongs or is first important:

Fiction explored the human mind

a)

Colonial Period

b)

Revolutionary Period

c)

Romantic Period

d)

Civil War Period

27.

Match the events, movements, writers, and other traits to the period in which it belongs or is first important:

The Red Badge of Courage

a)

Colonial Period

b)

Revolutionary Period

c)

Romantic Period

d)

Civil War Period

28.

Match the events, movements, writers, and other traits to the period in which it belongs or is first important:

The Crisis

a)

Colonial Period

b)

Revolutionary Period

c)

Romantic Period

d)

Civil War Period

29.

Match the events, movements, writers, and other traits to the period in which it belongs or is first important:

Oratory and pamphlets rallied people to fight

a)

Colonial Period

b)

Revolutionary Period

c)

Romantic Period

d)

Civil War Period

30.

Match the events, movements, writers, and other traits to the period in which it belongs or is first important:

1600’s

a)

Colonial Period

b)

Revolutionary Period

c)

Romantic Period

d)

Civil War Period

31.

Match the events, movements, writers, and other traits to the period in which it belongs or is first important:

America expanding rapidly

a)

Colonial Period

b)

Revolutionary Period

c)

Romantic Period

d)

Civil War Period

32.

Match the events, movements, writers, and other traits to the period in which it belongs or is first important:

1700’s

a)

Colonial Period

b)

Revolutionary Period

c)

Romantic Period

d)

Civil War Period

33.

Match the events, movements, writers, and other traits to the period in which it belongs or is first important:

The Scarlet Letter

a)

Colonial Period

b)

Revolutionary Period

c)

Romantic Period

d)

Civil War Period

34.

Match the events, movements, writers, and other traits to the period in which it belongs or is first important:

Most creative period

a)

Colonial Period

b)

Revolutionary Period

c)

Romantic Period

d)

Civil War Period

35.

Match the events, movements, writers, and other traits to the period in which it belongs or is first important:

Writing mainly for the mother country

a)

Colonial Period

b)

Revolutionary Period

c)

Romantic Period

d)

Civil War Period

36.

Match the events, movements, writers, and other traits to the period in which it belongs or is first important:

Sermons and tracts

a)

Colonial Period

b)

Revolutionary Period

c)

Romantic Period

d)

Civil War Period

37.

Match the events, movements, writers, and other traits to the period in which it belongs or is first important:

Emily Dickinson

a)

Colonial Period

b)

Revolutionary Period

c)

Romantic Period

d)

Civil War Period

38.

Match the events, movements, writers, and other traits to the period in which it belongs or is first important:

Industrial Revolution influenced writers

a)

Colonial Period

b)

Revolutionary Period

c)

Romantic Period

d)

Civil War Period

39.

Match the events, movements, writers, and other traits to the period in which it belongs or is first important:

Newspapers and periodicals

a)

Colonial Period

b)

Revolutionary Period

c)

Romantic Period

d)

Civil War Period

40.

Match the events, movements, writers, and other traits to the period in which it belongs or is first important:

Uniquely American literature established

a)

Colonial Period

b)

Revolutionary Period

c)

Romantic Period

d)

Civil War Period

41.

The first notable woman poet in America and Europe is

a)

Sarah Goode

b)

Anne Bradstreet

c)

Emily Dickinson

d)

Abagail Adams

42.

“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” uses

a)

loaded language

b)

imagery

c)

reason and logic

43.

Emily Dickinson’s poetry is characterized by

a)

strange punctuation and capitals

b)

personal insights

c)

short abrupt poems

d)

all of these

44.

An oratory uses

a)

elevated language

b)

loose organization

c)

lack of reason

d)

all of these

45.

An oratory also uses

a)

rhetorical questions

b)

repetition

c)

parallelism

d)

all of these

46.

A work that uses much parallelism is

a)

Song of Myself

b)

The Raven

c)

Walden

d)

The Declaration of Independence

47.

“Tyranny like hell is not easily conquered” refers to the injustices before the

a)

Civil War

b)

Revolutionary War

c)

Industrial Revolution

d)

war with the Indians

48.

Much of this writers works were published after his/her death.

a)

Emily Dickinson

b)

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

c)

Anne Bradstreet

d)

Stephen Crane

49.

“The Speech at the Virginia Convention” uses

a)

rhetorical questions

b)

meter

c)

gothic images

d)

a and b

50.

A device that states a common truth in a concise way is called a/an

a)

allusion

b)

aphorism

c)

anecdote

d)

metaphor

51.

Romantic literature emphasized

a)

idealism

b)

individualism

c)

persuasion

52.

The most popular and famous Fireside Poet was

a)

Thoreau

b)

Poe

c)

Lowell

d)

Longfellow

53.

The poet that most revolutionized poetry is

a)

Longfellow

b)

Whitman

c)

Whittier

d)

Poe

54.

Who married his teenage cousin when he was 30 years old?

a)

Emerson

b)

Poe

c)

Bryant

d)

Whitman

55.

The first American writer to be esteemed abroad was

a)

Irving

b)

Poe

c)

Hawthorne

d)

Dickinson

56.

Which writer was an eccentric recluse?

a)

Melville

b)

Emerson

c)

Bradstreet

d)

Dickinson

57.

Which writer’s works had characteristics of romanticism and realism?

a)

Poe

b)

Whitman

c)

Bradstreet

d)

Longfellow

58.

The poem that uses free verse is

a)

“The Raven”

b)

“To My Dear and Loving Husband” 

c)

 “Song of Myself”

d)

“After Great Pain”

59.

Which writer did not give poems a title?

a)

Emerson

b)

Thoreau

c)

Poe

d)

Dickinson

60.

The Transcendentalism philosophy believed in

a)

going beyond the ordinary

b)

individualism

c)

cooperation

d)

a and b

61.

Which writer is a Transcendentalist?

a)

Emerson

b)

Whitman

c)

Poe

d)

Dickinson

62.

Which other writer is a Transcendentalist?

a)

Irving

b)

Thoreau

c)

Longfellow

d)

Bryant

63.

Romanticism was a reaction against

a)

The Age of Reason

b)

the 18th century rationalism

c)

the strict doctrine of the Puritans

d)

all of these

64.

The first really distinctive American literature came from

a)

the Gothic Romantics

b)

the Transcendentalists

c)

the Puritans

d)

18th century oratory

65.

Who wrote Leaves of Grass?

a)

Whitman

b)

Emerson

c)

Thoreau

d)

Longfellow

66.

Which writer’s pamphlets influenced people to fight a war?

a)

Henry

b)

Jefferson

c)

Franklin

d)

Paine

67.

Which element was often seen in Romantic writing?

a)

the supernatural

b)

scientific language

c)

reason

d)

a and b

68.

Which device seems contradictory but is actually true?

a)

aphorism

b)

paradox

c)

allusion

d)

antithesis

69.

Using similar close together grammatical structures creates

a)

parallelism

b)

repetition

c)

restatement

d)

free verse

70.

Which work expresses the writer’s philosophy of individualism?

a)

 “The Speech at the Virginia Convention”

b)

 “The Devil and Tom Walker”

c)

“Self Reliance”

d)

“The Crisis”

71.

Poetry that does not use a consistent rhyme scheme or no rhyme is called

a)

blank verse

b)

heroic couplets

c)

free verse

d)

prose

72.

What author is most remembered for his civil disobedience?

a)

Thoreau

b)

Bradford

c)

Paine

d)

Whitman

73.

The same word or phrase repeated at the beginning of 2 or more lines is called

a)

chiasmus

b)

anaphora

c)

personification

d)

alliteration

74.

Referring to famous works, people, or events is called

a)

apostrophe

b)

simile

c)

restatement

d)

allusion

75.

A poem that encompasses all of American life is  

a)

“The Raven”

b)

“Song of Myself”

c)

“Self Reliance”

d)

“Psalm of Life”.

76.

When the Gothic Romantics looked at the individual they saw

a)

evil

b)

hope

c)

potential

d)

individuality

77.

The Gothic Romantics include

a)

Poe

b)

Hawthorne

c)

Melville

d)

all of these

78.

Many of Poe’s male characters are

a)

heroic

b)

insane

c)

misunderstood

d)

all of these

79.

What literary movement emphasizes external environmental forces and internal stress over which a character has no control?

a)

Romanticism

b)

Realism

c)

Transcendentalism

d)

Naturalism

80.

In this literary movement, a character’s choices directly relate to the story’s outcome.

a)

Romanticism

b)

Transcendentalism

c)

Realism

d)

Naturalism

81.

Which writer is a Naturalist?

a)

Crane

b)

Poe

c)

Emerson

d)

Irving

82.

Which work contained aphorisms?

a)

“The Declaration of Independence"

b)

“The Speech at the Virginia Convention"

c)

Poor Richard’s Almanak

d)

a and b

83.

“We hold these truths to be self evident-That all men are created equal.”

a)

“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”

b)

“The Declaration of Independence”

c)

“The Speech in the Virginia Convention”

d)

Poor Richard’s Almanak

e)

Walden

84.

“I know what course others may take, but give me liberty or give me death!”

a)

“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”

b)

“The Declaration of Independence”

c)

“The Speech in the Virginia Convention”

d)

Poor Richard’s Almanak

e)

Walden

85.

“The pit is prepared, the fire is made ready, the furnace is now hot.”

a)

“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”

b)

“The Declaration of Independence”

c)

“The Speech in the Virginia Convention”

d)

Poor Richard’s Almanak

e)

Walden

86.

“We must fight! I repeat, sir, we must fight!”

a)

“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”

b)

“The Declaration of Independence”

c)

“The Speech in the Virginia Convention”

d)

Poor Richard’s Almanak

e)

Walden

87.

“God holds you over the pit of hell much as one holds a spider.”

a)

“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”

b)

“The Declaration of Independence”

c)

“The Speech in the Virginia Convention”

d)

Poor Richard’s Almanak

e)

Walden

88.

“Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.”

a)

“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”

b)

“The Declaration of Independence”

c)

“The Speech in the Virginia Convention”

d)

Poor Richard’s Almanak

e)

Walden

89.

“You hang by a slender thread with the flames of divine wrath flashing about it.”

a)

“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”

b)

“The Declaration of Independence”

c)

“The Speech in the Virginia Convention”

d)

Poor Richard’s Almanak

e)

Walden

90.

“With a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.”

a)

“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”

b)

“The Declaration of Independence”

c)

“The Speech in the Virginia Convention”

d)

Poor Richard’s Almanak

e)

Walden

91.

“A penny saved is a penny earned.”

a)

“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”

b)

“The Declaration of Independence”

c)

“The Speech in the Virginia Convention”

d)

Poor Richard’s Almanak

e)

Walden

92.

“Simplify, simplify, simplify! Let your affairs be as two or three.”

a)

“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”

b)

“The Declaration of Independence”

c)

“The Speech in the Virginia Convention”

d)

Poor Richard’s Almanak

e)

Walden

93.

“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.”

a)

“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”

b)

“The Declaration of Independence”

c)

“The Speech in the Virginia Convention”

d)

Poor Richard’s Almanak

e)

Walden

94.

“An apple a day keeps the doctor away.”

a)

“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”

b)

“The Declaration of Independence”

c)

“The Speech in the Virginia Convention”

d)

Poor Richard’s Almanak

e)

Walden