ENGLISH 11A SEMESTER EXAM
Questions and Answers
1.Works in the same literary movement would most likely share...
Answer Concerns
2.Which literary movement began after the Civil War?
Answer American Realism
3.Thomas Paine's Common Sense was a major influence on the...
Answer American Revolution
4.Which of the following poets is best known for writing poetry in free verse?-
Answer Emily Dickinson or Walt Whitman
5.Which of these authors is best known for a narrative of his journey
to America?
Answer William Bradford
6.Which two authors share stylistic similarities, despite their work in
different literary movements?
Answer Ambrose Bierce and Edgar Allen Poe
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, 7.Which of the following terms refers to the arrangement of stressed
and unstressed syllables in a poem?
Answer Meter
8.In "Indians Are a People, Not Masots", which of the following assertions
does Fred Veilleux make about Native American mascots?
Answer They dishonor the traditions of Native Americans
9.The following quote from "Young Goodman Brown" reflects what type
of mood in the short story?
"He had taken a dreary road, darkened by all the gloomiest trees of the
forest, which barely stood aside to let the narrow path creep through and
closed immediately behind. It was all as lonely as could be, and there is
this peculiarity in such a solitude, that the traveler knows not who may be
concealed by the innumerable trunks and the thick boughs overhead..."
Answer dark and mysterious
10.Match literary movement or subgenre with the literature. Letters may
be used more than once.
Phillis Wheatley's poetry
Answer Realism
11.Match the literary movement or subgenre with the literature.
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Questions and Answers
1.Works in the same literary movement would most likely share...
Answer Concerns
2.Which literary movement began after the Civil War?
Answer American Realism
3.Thomas Paine's Common Sense was a major influence on the...
Answer American Revolution
4.Which of the following poets is best known for writing poetry in free verse?-
Answer Emily Dickinson or Walt Whitman
5.Which of these authors is best known for a narrative of his journey
to America?
Answer William Bradford
6.Which two authors share stylistic similarities, despite their work in
different literary movements?
Answer Ambrose Bierce and Edgar Allen Poe
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11
, 7.Which of the following terms refers to the arrangement of stressed
and unstressed syllables in a poem?
Answer Meter
8.In "Indians Are a People, Not Masots", which of the following assertions
does Fred Veilleux make about Native American mascots?
Answer They dishonor the traditions of Native Americans
9.The following quote from "Young Goodman Brown" reflects what type
of mood in the short story?
"He had taken a dreary road, darkened by all the gloomiest trees of the
forest, which barely stood aside to let the narrow path creep through and
closed immediately behind. It was all as lonely as could be, and there is
this peculiarity in such a solitude, that the traveler knows not who may be
concealed by the innumerable trunks and the thick boughs overhead..."
Answer dark and mysterious
10.Match literary movement or subgenre with the literature. Letters may
be used more than once.
Phillis Wheatley's poetry
Answer Realism
11.Match the literary movement or subgenre with the literature.
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