Test 12

Question 1

Henry wadsworth longfellow

Answer 1

“Paul Reveres Ride”

Question 2

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Answer 2

“Concord Hymns”

Question 3

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Answer 3

“A World Split Apart”

Question 4

Sidney Lanier

Answer 4

“Song of the Chattaboochee”

Question 5

Jesse Stuart

Answer 5

The Thread That Runs so True

Question 6

Paul Laurence Dunbar

Answer 6

“We Wear the Mask”

Question 7

Anne Bradstreet

Answer 7

“The Author to Her Book”

Question 8

Phillis Wheatley

Answer 8

“On Being Brought from Africa to America”

Question 9

James fenimore cooper

Answer 9

“A Rescue”

Question 10

William Cullen Bryant

Answer 10

“Thanatopsis”

Question 11

Jonathan Edwards

Answer 11

“Sinners In The Hands of an Angry God”

Question 12

Billy Sunday

Answer 12

“Nuts for Skeptics to Crack”

Question 13

Daniel Webster

Answer 13

“Liberty and Union”

Question 14

Who wrote the following line; “ In words you have a weapon,/More weighty than a gun—‘?

Answer 14

Elizabeth Scott Stan

Question 15

Eons Billings

Answer 15

“The Experience of the A.C.”

Question 16

Nokomis

Answer 16

“Hiawathas Wooing”

Question 17

Belinda Watson

Answer 17

“The Unerring Instinct”

Question 18

Matthew and Hannah

Answer 18

“The Great Carbuncle”

Question 19

Simon wheeler

Answer 19

“The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”

Question 20

Selina Peake

Answer 20

“Cabbages Is Beautiful!”

Question 21

Emily Sparks

Answer 21

Spoon River Anathology

Question 22

Jim Elliot

Answer 22

“Mission Accomplished”

Question 23

Guy Hawkins

Answer 23

The Thread That Runs So True

Question 24

Simonides

Answer 24

Ben-Hur

Question 25

Ralph Hartsook

Answer 25

The Hoosier School Master

Question 26

Who wrote The Scarlet Letter?

Answer 26

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Question 27

What was the name of Hester’s daughter?

Answer 27

Pearl

Question 28

Who was Hester’s husband?

Answer 28

Chillingworth

Question 29

Whom did the physician want revenge on?

Answer 29

Dimmesdale

Question 30

Who said,”Thou hast escaped me”?

Answer 30

Chillingworth

Question 31

What is the theme of The Scarlet Letter?

Answer 31

Sin has consequences

Question 32

“Ive never heard anybody so rude and c-common in my life.”

Answer 32

“The Baby Party”

Question 33

“Daintiness,...should be the key note of her supper box.”

Answer 33

“Cabbage Is Beautiful”

Question 34

“And to live even a few seconds longer, he felt, even out here on his ledge in the night, was infinitely better than to die a moment earlier than he had to.”

Answer 34

“Contents of the Dead Man’s Pocket”

Question 35

“There is something about him that looks American”

Answer 35

“The Enemy”

Question 36

“Human should not be like Enimals! They should be Thinking!”

Answer 36

“Mr. K*A*P*L*A*N Cuts a Gordian Knot”

Question 37

“The fact that cats know how too look after themselves was all the good luck that old man would ever. Have.”

Answer 37

“Old Man at the Bridge”

Question 38

“When John Andros felt odd he found solace in the thought of life continuing through his child.”

Answer 38

“The Party Baby”

Question 39

“Almost,” she said wearily,”almost did I get down the hall.”

Answer 39

‘Mama and the Hospital”

Question 40

Who wrote “O Captain! My Captain!”?

Answer 40

Walt Whitman

Question 41

Who was the most outstanding hymn writer of the nineteenth century?

Answer 41

Fanny Crosby

Question 42

Who wrote “When the Frost Is on the Punkin”?

Answer 42

James Whitcomb Riley

Question 43

Who wrote Ben-Hur?

Answer 43

Lew Wallace

Question 44

Who wrote “The Pedestrian”?

Answer 44

Roy Bradbury

Question 45

What was Mr. Mead doing when he was arrested?

Answer 45

Walking

Question 46

What is America’s only epic?

Answer 46

Moby Dick

Question 47

Who wrote “The Mule”?

Answer 47

Josh Billings

Question 48

Who wrote “Mrs. Williams and the lightening”?

Answer 48

Mark Twain

Question 49

What author is famous for his Uncle Remus stories?

Answer 49

Joel Chandler Harris

Question 50

Who wrote “My Fathers Prayer”?

Answer 50

Douglas MacArthur

Question 51

Who was America’s most beloved song composer?

Answer 51

Stephen Foster

Question 52

What selections theme is the importance of a happy home?

Answer 52

“Conjugal Harmony”

Question 53

What selections theme is that everyone and everything has a purpose?

Answer 53

“Fable”

Question 54

What poem gives a description of Jesus in the garden of gethsemane?

Answer 54

“A Ballad of Trees and the Master”

Question 55

What story is a journal of Marian Anderson’s life?

Answer 55

“Philadelphia Childhood”

Question 56

“Her sandwiches were cubic blocks;... her pies vast plateaus.”

Answer 56

Metaphor

Question 57

“Take from our souls the strain and stress”

Answer 57

Alliteration

Question 58

“Sho’ nuff, Brer fox lif’ up his foot en holler wahoo!”

Answer 58

Dialect

Question 59

‘Swift autumn, like a bonfire of leaves”

Answer 59

Simile

Question 60

“And Death began to ride again.”

Answer 60

Personification

Question 61

“Crash, and clash, and cleaning”

Answer 61

Assonance

Question 62

“Clatter, pop, and bang”

Answer 62

Onomatopoeia

Question 63

What term refers to the attitude or emotion of the author toward his subject?

Answer 63

Tone

Question 64

What term refers to something that has meaning in itself which also represents another thing as well?

Answer 64

Symbol

Question 65

What term is a compact statement expressing a truth?

Answer 65

Aphorism

Question 66

What group of poets wrote the kind of poems that people enjoyed sharing with their family and friends?

Answer 66

Fireside poets

Question 67

What group of journalists and novelists shared the naturalistic belief that people are victims of their environment?

Answer 67

Muckrakers