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The morning was one peculiar to that coast. Everything was mute and calm;
everything gray. The sea, though undulated into long roods of swells, seemed
fixed, and was sleeked at the surface like waved lead that has cooled and set in
the smelter's mould. The sky seemed a gray surtout. Flights of troubled gray
fowl, kith and kin with flights of troubled gray vapors among which they were
mixed, skimmed low and fitfully over the waters, as swallows over meadows
before storms. Shadows present, foreshadowing deeper shadows to come.
In the passage, the word "gray" is an example of
(A) a metaphor
(B) a motif
(C) an allusion
(D) understatement
(E) onomatopoeia - ANSWER-B
The morning was one peculiar to that coast. Everything was mute and calm;
everything gray. The sea, though undulated into long roods of swells, seemed
fixed, and was sleeked at the surface like waved lead that has cooled and set in
the smelter's mould. The sky seemed a gray surtout. Flights of troubled gray
fowl, kith and kin with flights of troubled gray vapors among which they were
mixed, skimmed low and fitfully over the waters, as swallows over meadows
before storms. Shadows present, foreshadowing deeper shadows to come.
The tone of the passage would best be described as
(A) optimistic
,(B) sarcastic
(C) portentous
(D) distraught
(E) resentful - ANSWER-C
Which of the following does NOT appear in a poem by Emily Dickinson?
(A) A fly in a still room making an "uncertain stumbling buzz"
(B) A slanted ray of late-afternoon winter sunlight
(C) A rain-filled red wheelbarrow "beside the white chickens"
(D) A train metaphorically described in terms of a horse
(E) A saddened person who "never lost as much but twice" - ANSWER-C
Mark Twain, William Dean Howells, and Henry James are commonly described
by literary historians as
(A) transcendentalists
(B) symbolists
(C) realists
(D) romantics
(E) naturalists - ANSWER-C
Which of the following writers was particularly important in the development of
the short story as a literary form?
(A) James Fenimore Cooper
(B) Harriet Beecher Stowe
(C) Frederick Douglass
(D) Edgar Allan Poe
(E) Edith Wharton - ANSWER-D
,Which of the following authors wrote extensively about her experiences
attending a government-run boarding school?
(A) Sui Sin Far
(B) Joy Harjo
(C) Willa Cather
(D) Diane Glancy
(E) Zitkala-Sa - ANSWER-E
Which of the following was a writer of feminist essays and Utopian novels who
achieved widespread recognition with the publication of her fictionalized
account of depression and mental breakdown?
(A) Edith Wharton
(B) Sojourner Truth
(C) Lydia Maria Child
(D) Mary Wilkins Freeman
(E) Charlotte Perkins Gilman - ANSWER-E
Place the name of each of the following authors beside the city with which he is
most closely identified.
-Theodore Dreiser
-George Washington Cable
-Bret Harte
-New Orleans
-San Francisco
-Chicago - ANSWER-GWC = New Orleans
BH = San Fran
TD = Chicago
Emma Lazarus' poem "The New Colossus" refers to
, (A) The Statue of Liberty
(B) The Lincoln Memorial
(C) Mount Rushmore
(D) The Brooklyn Bridge
(E) The Washington Monument - ANSWER-A
The House Behind the Cedars and The Marrow of Tradition, two novels
addressing difficulties faced by upwardly mobile African Americans in the
South during the late nineteenth century, were both written by
(A) Mark Twain
(B) Frederick Douglass
(C) Theodore Dreiser
(D) Charles W. Chesnutt
(E) Paul Laurence Dunbar - ANSWER-D
Which of the following best describes people as they are portrayed in the fiction
of Stephen Crane, Theodore Dreiser, and Frank Norris?
(A) Victims of original sin
(B) Self-determining entities
(C) Creatures shaped by biological, social, and economic factors
(D) Beings whose biological natures are fixed, but who are able to manipulate
their environments
(E) Individuals who must be awakened to the fact that their wills are free -
ANSWER-C
John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath depicts
(A) the plight of dispossessed farmers who migrate to California
(B) prison conditions in turn-of-the-century America
(C) a wounded soldier who tries in vain to escape the effects of war
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The morning was one peculiar to that coast. Everything was mute and calm;
everything gray. The sea, though undulated into long roods of swells, seemed
fixed, and was sleeked at the surface like waved lead that has cooled and set in
the smelter's mould. The sky seemed a gray surtout. Flights of troubled gray
fowl, kith and kin with flights of troubled gray vapors among which they were
mixed, skimmed low and fitfully over the waters, as swallows over meadows
before storms. Shadows present, foreshadowing deeper shadows to come.
In the passage, the word "gray" is an example of
(A) a metaphor
(B) a motif
(C) an allusion
(D) understatement
(E) onomatopoeia - ANSWER-B
The morning was one peculiar to that coast. Everything was mute and calm;
everything gray. The sea, though undulated into long roods of swells, seemed
fixed, and was sleeked at the surface like waved lead that has cooled and set in
the smelter's mould. The sky seemed a gray surtout. Flights of troubled gray
fowl, kith and kin with flights of troubled gray vapors among which they were
mixed, skimmed low and fitfully over the waters, as swallows over meadows
before storms. Shadows present, foreshadowing deeper shadows to come.
The tone of the passage would best be described as
(A) optimistic
,(B) sarcastic
(C) portentous
(D) distraught
(E) resentful - ANSWER-C
Which of the following does NOT appear in a poem by Emily Dickinson?
(A) A fly in a still room making an "uncertain stumbling buzz"
(B) A slanted ray of late-afternoon winter sunlight
(C) A rain-filled red wheelbarrow "beside the white chickens"
(D) A train metaphorically described in terms of a horse
(E) A saddened person who "never lost as much but twice" - ANSWER-C
Mark Twain, William Dean Howells, and Henry James are commonly described
by literary historians as
(A) transcendentalists
(B) symbolists
(C) realists
(D) romantics
(E) naturalists - ANSWER-C
Which of the following writers was particularly important in the development of
the short story as a literary form?
(A) James Fenimore Cooper
(B) Harriet Beecher Stowe
(C) Frederick Douglass
(D) Edgar Allan Poe
(E) Edith Wharton - ANSWER-D
,Which of the following authors wrote extensively about her experiences
attending a government-run boarding school?
(A) Sui Sin Far
(B) Joy Harjo
(C) Willa Cather
(D) Diane Glancy
(E) Zitkala-Sa - ANSWER-E
Which of the following was a writer of feminist essays and Utopian novels who
achieved widespread recognition with the publication of her fictionalized
account of depression and mental breakdown?
(A) Edith Wharton
(B) Sojourner Truth
(C) Lydia Maria Child
(D) Mary Wilkins Freeman
(E) Charlotte Perkins Gilman - ANSWER-E
Place the name of each of the following authors beside the city with which he is
most closely identified.
-Theodore Dreiser
-George Washington Cable
-Bret Harte
-New Orleans
-San Francisco
-Chicago - ANSWER-GWC = New Orleans
BH = San Fran
TD = Chicago
Emma Lazarus' poem "The New Colossus" refers to
, (A) The Statue of Liberty
(B) The Lincoln Memorial
(C) Mount Rushmore
(D) The Brooklyn Bridge
(E) The Washington Monument - ANSWER-A
The House Behind the Cedars and The Marrow of Tradition, two novels
addressing difficulties faced by upwardly mobile African Americans in the
South during the late nineteenth century, were both written by
(A) Mark Twain
(B) Frederick Douglass
(C) Theodore Dreiser
(D) Charles W. Chesnutt
(E) Paul Laurence Dunbar - ANSWER-D
Which of the following best describes people as they are portrayed in the fiction
of Stephen Crane, Theodore Dreiser, and Frank Norris?
(A) Victims of original sin
(B) Self-determining entities
(C) Creatures shaped by biological, social, and economic factors
(D) Beings whose biological natures are fixed, but who are able to manipulate
their environments
(E) Individuals who must be awakened to the fact that their wills are free -
ANSWER-C
John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath depicts
(A) the plight of dispossessed farmers who migrate to California
(B) prison conditions in turn-of-the-century America
(C) a wounded soldier who tries in vain to escape the effects of war
