A. Fifty years
B. Twenty years
C. One hundred years
D. Eighty years
Related Mcqs:
- What does the narrator of the story about Rip describe as the great error in Rip’s composition ?
A. His weakness for spirits
B. That he is henpecked by his wife
C. His love of town gossip
D. His unwillingness to work - 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 ofWashington Irving’s characters falls asleep for twenty years ?
A. Tom Buchanan
B. Tom Joad
C. Philip Marlowe
D. Rip van Winkle - Of what does Goodman Brown become guilty after his midnight meeting in the woods ?
A. Atonement
B. Catharsis
C. Gullibility
D. Hubris - What ritual does the character resembling the devil attempt to perform in the woods, with goodman Brown as the object ?
A. A conversion
B. A christening
C. A wedding
D. A baptism - In Amy Lowell’s imagist poem, “This Green Bowl,” a handmade bowl is compared to a pond in the woods. Can one say that, as in Pound’s “Cantos,” this poem’s dominant tone is impersonal? Why, or why not ?
A. Yes, Lowell’s detailed description of nature draws attention away from human realities.
B. Yes, the lyrical voice in Lowell’s poem seeks to express universal rather than individual experience.
C. No, Lowell’s poem is not impersonal; it addresses the maker of the bowl directly and speculates about his state of mind.
D. No, even though Lowell strives for impersonal expression by borrowing poetic devices from Pound, she fails to accomplish this - How does Eliza cross the Ohio river ____________?
A. By ferry
B. On a makeshift raft
C. In a stolen canoe
D. Hopping rafts of ice - What does George Harris’ master demand of him that prompts him to plan his escape ?
A. Relocate to Louisiana
B. Punish another slave
C. Abandon his faith
D. Marry another woman - What vice does Tom attempt to convince Augustine Clare to renounce ?
A. gambling
B. drinking
C. bribery
D. lying - What statement below best sums up the literary significance of Walt Whitman ?
A. Father of free verse
B. Father of American Poetry
C. Circumference
D. Both A and B
