Test 9

Question 1

America’s most beloved popular song composer

Answer 1

Stephen Foster

Question 2

Most beloved hymn writer of the nineteenth century

Answer 2

Fanny Crosby

Question 3

Founded Tuskegee Institute

Answer 3

Booker T. Washington

Question 4

The leading local color writer of his day

Answer 4

Bret Harte

Question 5

Known for uncle Remus stories

Answer 5

Joel Chandler Harris

Question 6

America’s first modern poet

Answer 6

Walt Whitman

Question 7

In The Hoosier School-Master, whose actions did Ralph try to emulate?

Answer 7

Bull

Question 8

What did Bill Means pit in Ralph’s desk?

Answer 8

a puppy

Question 9

Hat event was helped in Hoopole County?

Answer 9

Spelling-school

Question 10

Who did Mirandy have a crush on?

Answer 10

Ralph

Question 11

Whose friendship did Ralph most want to win?

Answer 11

Bud

Question 12

Who “spelled down” the master?

Answer 12

Hannah

Question 13

In “A Village Singer”, why did Candace dislike Alma?

Answer 13

Alma had replaced her as church soloist

Question 14

In “Under the Lions Paw”, who helped the Haskins family?

Answer 14

Steve council

Question 15

What misfortune had befallen the Haskins family?

Answer 15

Grasshoppers

Question 16

Who took unfair advantage of Mr. Haskins success?

Answer 16

Jim Butler

Question 17

Who wrote Ben-Hur?

Answer 17

Lew Wallace

Question 18

Who was Ben- Hur attracted to?

Answer 18

Esther

Question 19

Who was a false friend to a Ben-Hur and the object of his revenge?

Answer 19

Messala

Question 20

Who took control of Ben-Hur’s holdings after the demis of the family?

Answer 20

Simonides

Question 21

Who was sent to learn about Ben-Hur and report his findings?

Answer 21

Malluch

Question 22

Who owned horses which Ben-Hur wanted to use for the chariot race?

Answer 22

Ilderim

Question 23

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Answer 23

“Self-Reliance”

Question 24

Henry David Thoreau

Answer 24

Walden

Question 25

James Whitcomb Riley

Answer 25

“When the First Frost Is on The Pumpkin”

Question 26

Sidney Lanier

Answer 26

“Song of the Chattahoochee”

Question 27

Emily Dickinson

Answer 27

“I Never Saw a Moor”

Question 28

Billy Sunday

Answer 28

“Nuts for Skeptics to Crack”

Question 29

Jonathan Edwards

Answer 29

“Sinners In The Hands of an Angry God”

Question 30

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Answer 30

“A World Split Apart”

Question 31

William Jennings Bryan

Answer 31

“Is the Bible True?”

Question 32

“I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there.”

Answer 32

Walden

Question 33

“None of us were prepared for such a sudden and complete wreck of our Arcadian scheme.”

Answer 33

“The Experiences of the A.C.”

Question 34

“To Mr. M. J. Dimmidge,—- Hope you’re still on R. B.’s tracks. Keep there! —E. J. D.”

Answer 34

“The Boom in the Calaveras Clarion”

Question 35

“I can not say, and I will not say That he is dead,— He is just away!”

Answer 35

“Away”

Question 36

“Here once the embattled farmers stood And fired the shot heard round the world.”

Answer 36

“Concord Hymns”

Question 37

“Can you tell me why it is that a black cow can eat green grass and give white milk?”

Answer 37

“Nuts for Skeptics to Crack”

Question 38

What movement believes that man is divine, that he must rely on himself, and that he must not be bound by biblical principles or human conventions?

Answer 38

Transcendentalism

Question 39

What view of life emphasizes a detached scientific and photographic accuracy which includes everything and selects nothing?

Answer 39

Naturalism

Question 40

What literary device is a compact statement expressing a truth?

Answer 40

Aphorism

Question 41

What literary device is shed in the following quote: “A church within a church, a republic, a world within a world, is spelled by four letters—- home!”?

Answer 41

Metaphor

Question 42

What literary device is used in the following line: “Where drowsy poppies nod,/ Where ill thoughts die and good are born—“?

Answer 42

Personification

Question 43

What poem’s theme is that everyone and everything has a purpose?

Answer 43

“Fable”

Question 44

What poem’s theme is that God has a plan for our lives?

Answer 44

“Long and Long Ago”

Question 45

What poem gives a description of Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane?

Answer 45

“A Ballad of Trees and the Master”

Question 46

What author wrote the following quote:”You flatted a little on —soul”?

Answer 46

Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

Question 47

Who is the author of the following quote:”Ef Bull once takes a holt, heaven and yarth can’t make him let go”?

Answer 47

Edward Eggleston

Question 48

Who is the author of the following quote: “The twig was bent, the tree inclined,/ And so his heart and soul and mind/ Found it too hard a thing to do....”?

Answer 48

Martha Snell Nicholson

Question 49

Wha sermon by T. Dwight Talmage emphasizes the importance of a happy home?

Answer 49

“Conjugal Harmony”

Question 50

What sermon by A. W. Tower teaches that why something is done is more important than what is done?

Answer 50

“The All-Importance of Motive”