Let me for a few moments turn your attention to the reservations in the different states of New England, and, with but few exceptions, we shall find them as follows: the most mean, abject, miserable race of beings in the world – a complete place of prodigality and prostitution. What does “prodigality” mean ?

Related Mcqs:

1. 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.

2. “O my death mother! I am miserable, truly miserable! But yet, don’t be frightened, I am honest! God, of his goodness, keep me so!” These lines characterize Samuel Richardson’s Pamela in all of the following ways EXCEPT ______________?

   A. through the personal, direct appeal enabled by his epistolary form.
   B. by emphasizing the character’s fright.
   C. by emphasizing sexual morality.
   D. through the sentimental attempt to make readers strongly identify with the character’s feelings.

3. _____________the eyes of all people are upon us; soe that if wee shall deale falsely with our god in this worke wee have undertaken and soe cause him to withdrawe his preent help from us, wee shall be made a story and a by-word through the world, wee shall open the mouthes of enemies to speake evill of the ways of god and all professours for Gods sake; wee shall shame the faces of many of gods worthy servants, and cause theire prayers to be turned into Cursses upon us till we be consumed out of the good land whether wee are going ?

   A. Fredrick Douglass
   B. John Winthrop
   C. Benjamin Franklin
   D. William Apess

4. Unmoved – she notes the Chariots – pausing – At her low Gate – Unmoved – an Emperor be kneeling Upon her Mat – I’ve known her – from an ample nation – Then – close the Valves of her attention – Like Stone – What does ample mean ?

   A. Menacing
   B. Large or abundant
   C. Fearful and gracious
   D. Beautiful

5. Complete this Shakespearan line – Let me not to the marriage of true minds bring________________?

   A. Impediments
   B. Inconveniences
   C. Worries
   D. Troubles

6. In the Middle Ages, how did society treat prostitution ?

   A. prostitution was considered problematic but legal
   B. the Church opposed prostitution on moral grounds
   C. prostitution was considered a solution to epidemics of rape
   D. All of the Above

7. Which events in and after the 1960s contributed significantly to the decentralization of England from London to a more regional focus, ultimately also making way for a less homogenous vision of England and the popularity of postcolonial fiction ?

   A. Radio announcers were permitted to speak in regional dialects and multicultural accents.
   B. The Arts Council designated many of its resources to supporting regional arts councils.
   C. Regional radio and television stations appeared throughout the country.
   D. all of the above

8. What served as the inspiration for Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poems to the working classes A Song: \Men of England\and England in 1819 ?

   A. the organization of a working class men’s choral group in Southern England
   B. the Battle of Waterloo
   C. the Peterloo Massacre
   D. the storming of the Bastille

9. which famous Shakespeare play does the quote “The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers” come from ?

   A. The Merry Wives of Windsor
   B. Othello, the Moor of Venice
   C. Pericles, Prince of Tyre
   D. King Henry the Sixth, Part II

10. For a time the narrator comforts Roderick by reading and painting with him; one of Roderick’s paintings is described as follows: “A small picture presented the interior of an immensely long and rectangular vault or tunnel, with low walls, smooth, white, and without interruption or device. Certain accessory points of the design served well to convey the idea that this excavation lay at an exceeding depth below the surface of the earth.” What later event in the story does this picture foreshadow ?

    A. The narrator and Roderick bury Madeline alive in a stone tomb beneath the mansion.
    B. The narrator and Roderick drown Madeline in the tarn next to the mansion.
    C. Roderick and Madeline escape the house via an underground tunnel.
    D. The narrator and Roderick become trapped in catacombs beneath the mansion.