Question: The cautious old gentleman knit his brows tenfold closer after this explanation, being sorely puzzled by the ratiocination of the syllogism; while methought the one in pepper and salt eyed him with something of a triumphant leer. At length he observed, th

• 1. Narrative frame
• 2. Hortatory sermon
• 3. Snaring
• 4. Jamming

Question: Yes, when the stars glisten’d, All night long on the prong of a moss-scallop’d stake, Down almost amid the slapping waves, Sat the lone singer wonderful causing tears. What is a prong ?

• 1. An edgy platform
• 2. Other side
• 3. A pointed, projected part of something
• 4. An adumbration

Question: What was the purpose of the Mayflower Compact ?

• 1. Establish a new government
• 2. first agreement on self governing
• 3. Religious freedom
• 4. Sovereignty

Question: The tone of the third stanza of the poem embodies a sense of_____________?

• 1. Panic
• 2. Pain
• 3. Calmness
• 4. content

Question: What statement below best sums up the literary significance of John Winthrop ?

• 1. American myths
• 2. non separating puritan
• 3. City upon a hill
• 4. All are correct

Question: What animal is personified as the trickster in the Winnebago tale ?

• 1. Bear
• 2. Coyote
• 3. Snake
• 4. Hare

Question: But when to their feminine rage the indignation of the people is added, when the ignorant and the poor are aroused, when the unintelligent brute force that lies at the bottom of society is made to growl and mow, it needs the habit of magnanimity and relig

• 1. To grimace
• 2. To bleat like sheep
• 3. To lift heavy things
• 4. To cut grass

Question: The children of the village, too, would shout with joy whenever he approached. He assisted at their sports, made their playthings, taught them to fly kites and shoot marbles, and told them long stories of ghosts, witches, and Indians. This work draws upon

• 1. A European fairy tale
• 2. A local ghost story
• 3. An Indian legend
• 4. A European ghost story

Question: This person wrote about a island that he called Colba, now known as Cuba______________?

• 1. John Smith
• 2. Coronado
• 3. Columbus
• 4. De Vaca

Question: Who is the representative figure of the “Jazz Age” ?

• 1. Sherwood Anderson
• 2. F. Scott Fitzgerald
• 3. Saul Bellow
• 4. Wallace Stevens