American Lit II Test 2025

Hamlin garland - -Under the lions Paw Mary Wilkins - -The Revolt of Mother What forced the Haskins to leave their home? - -Correct! grasshoppers Who takes the Haskins in? - -Correct! the Councils How many living children do the Haskins have? - -3 Who owns the farm the Haskins rent? - -Mr. Butler What weapon does Haskins almost use on his landlord? - -A pitchfork What is Father building? - -A barn Who else knows what is being built? - -Sammy Penn Why does the new building make Mother angry? - -She was promised a new house. Who is getting married? - -Nanny Penn To where does Mother move at the end of the story? - -the new barn The Adventures of huckleberry finn - -Mark twain 1. What kind of weather is the ploughman experiencing? - -Cold, snow not melting, windy, muddy. 7. How did Jim Butler become rich? - -He sold land for more than four times what he had paid for it, and he began buying farms about to go under. Then, he would retain the previous owner as a tenant. 11. What does Mr. Haskins offer to pay for the farm? - -500 to $3000, what Mr. Butler offered to sell it to him before. 12. What does Mr. Butler say the farm is worth? - -5500 Who wrote "How It Feels To Be Colored Me"? - -Zora Neale Hurston Lit Lit Lit Who wrote Long Day's Journey Into Night - -Eugene O'Neill Who wrote "I Too"? - -Langston Hughes Who wrote "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening"? - -Robert Frost Who wrote "Barn Burning"? - -William Faulkner Who wrote "Home Burial"? - -Robert Frost Who wrote "The Road Not Taken"? - -Robert Frost Who wrote "Freedom"? - -Langston Hughes Who wrote "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"? - -T. S. Eliot Who wrote "Petrified Man"? - -Eudora Welty Who wrote Death of a Salesman - -Arthur Miller Who wrote "Recitatif"? - -Toni Morrison Who wrote "Good Country People"? - -Flannery O'Connor When I see a man down, an' things all on top of 'im, I jest like t' kick 'em of an' help 'im up. That's the kind of religion I got, an' it's about the only kind." - -"Under the Lion's Paw" In what work does this passage appear? "And I about made up my mind to pray; and see if I couldn't try to quit being the kind of a boy I was, and be better. So I kneeled down. But the words wouldn't come. Why wouldn't they? It warn't no use to try and hid it from Him. Nor from me, neither. I knowed very well why they wouldn't come. It was because my heart warn't right; it was because I warn't square; it was because I was playing double. I was letting on to give up sin, but away inside of me I was holding on to the biggest one of all...You can't pray a lie-I found that out." - -The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn In what work does this passage appear? I hadn't had a bite to eat since yesterday; so Jim he got out some corn- dodgers and buttermilk, and pork and cabbage, and greens - there ain't nothing in the world so good, when it's cooked right - and whilst I eat my supper we talked, and had a good time. - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Lit Lit In what work does this passage appear? "But we've come here to live, an' we're goin to live here. We've got jest as good a right here as a new horses an' cows. The house wa'n't it for us to live in any longer, an' I made up my mind I wa'n't goin' to stay there. I've done my duty by you forty year, an' I'm goin' to do it now; but I'm goin' to live here." - -"The Revolt of '"Mother'" In what work does this passage appear? There is no despair so deep as the despair of a homeless man or woman. To roam the roads of the country or the streets of the city, to feel there is no rood of ground on which the feet can rest, to halt weary and hungry outside lighted windows and hear laughter and song within...It was the memory of this homelessness, and the fear of its coming again, that spurred Timothy Haskins and Nettie, his wife, to such ferocious labor during that first year. - -"Under the Lion's Paw" In what work does this passage appear? "It was a close place. I took it up, and held it in my hand. I was a trembling because I'd got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it. I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then says to myself: 'All right, then, I'll go to hell' - and tore it up. It was awful thoughts, and awful words, but they was said. And I let them stay said; and never thought no more about reforming." - -The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn In what work does this passage appear? Mrs. Penn's face...changed...her eyes were steady, her lips irmly set. She formed a maxim for herself..."Unsolicited opportunities are the guide- posts of the Lord to the new roads of life,"...and she made up her mind to her course of action. - -"The Revolt of '"Mother'" In what work does this passage appear? "You got to learn to stick to your own blood or you ain't going to have any to stick to you. Do you think either of them, any man there this morning, would? Don't you know all they wanted was a chance to get at me because they knew I had them beat?..." Later, twenty years later, he was to tell himself, "If I had said they wanted only truth, justice, he would have hit me again. - -"Barn Burning" In what work does this passage appear? In the room the women come and go Talking of Michelangelo. - -"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" In what work does this passage appear? Lit Lit Besides, They'll see how beautiful I am And be ashamed - I, too, am America. - -"I Too" In what work does this passage appear? The woods are lovely, dark, and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep And miles to go before I sleep. - -"Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening" In what work does this passage appear? I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. - -"Freedom" In what work does this passage appear? "If you had any feelings, you that dug, With your own hand - how could you? - his little grave; I saw you from that very window there, Making the gravel leap and leap in air, Leap up, like that, like that, and land so lightly And roll back down the mound beside the hole." - -"Home Burial" In what work does this passage appear? The terrible struggle that made me an American out of a potential slave said "On the line!" The Reconstruction said "Get set!" and the generation before said "Go!"...Slavery is the price I paid for civilization, and the choice was not with me. It is a bully adventure and worth all that I have paid through my ancestors for it. - -"How It Feels To Be Colored Me" In what work does this passage appear? Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. - -"The Road Not Taken" In what work does this passage appear? "I blame only myself. I swore after Eugene died that I would never have another baby. I was to blame for his death. If I hadn't left him with my mother to join you on the road, because you wrote telling me you missed me and were so lonely, Jamie would never have been allowed, when he still had measles, to go in the baby's room...I've always believed Jamie did it on purpose. He was