A. Predicting the Apocalypse
B. Declaring his intention to run for public office
C. Calling for Native Americans to declare themselves independent of the U.S. government
D. Exhorting his allies and advocates to continue working to end prejudice
Related Mcqs:
- Apess claims that Native Americans in New England are the “most mean, abject, miserable race of beings in the world.” Which of the following is NOT a reason he offers as an explanation for their misery ?
A. They are victimized by corrupt Indian Agents appointed by the government.
B. They are not provided with adequate education.
C. They are legally denied the right to engage in commerce.
D. Native American women have been seduced and abandoned by white men. - Which statement best describes literary significance of William APess ?
A. Indian Autobiography
B. Father of free verse
C. Father of American poetry
D. Both A and B - His son Rip, an urchin begotten in his own likeness, promised to inherit the habits, with thåe old clothes of his father. He was generally seen trooping like a colt at his mother’s heels, equipped in a pair of his father’s cast-off galligaskins, which he had much ado to hold up with one hand, as a fine lady does her train in bad weather. What are “galligaskins” ?
A. Long, wide petticoats
B. A trench-coat
C. Loose, wide breeches
D. Underpants - Which of Uncle Tom’s personal characteristics guided his interactions with others and his responses to his circumstances ?
A. His gentle and soft-spoken nature
B. His honesty and deep devotion to God
C. His overwhelming fear of violence
D. His ability to hide his rebellious nature. - After ____________ years of his marriage he left his native town and try his fortune in the great city of London?
A. two
B. three
C. four
D. five - The 20th century has been less kind to his memory. TS Eliot found his imagery distracting, and considered his work “not serious poetry”, but it was another critic who accused him of “callousness to the intrinsic nature of English”. Who ?
A. FR Leavis
B. Harold Bloom
C. William Empson
D. Mariella Frostrup - Which Romantic poet would be the least likely to write a piece of literary criticism ?
A. Lord Byron
B. Percy Shelley
C. William Hazlitt
D. Samuel Taylor Coleridge - A writer can establish ethos in a piece of writing by doing which of the following ?
A. Using informal language
B. Demonstrating a mastery of the topic
C. Appealing to the reader’s emotions
D. Using logic and reason - The name “Ars Poetica” (Art of Poetry) was given to Horace’s Epistle to the Pisos by____________?
A. Horace
B. Quintillion
C. Cicero
D. Virgil - The Song of the Lotus is a poem by____________?
A. Coleridge
B. Eliot
C. Tennyson
D. Keats
