A. Discovery of America by Columbus
B. Discovery and settlement of the Western continent
C. early English settlers
D. missionaries settled in America
Related Mcqs:
- What Pope poem begins, “In these deep solitudes and awful cells, / Where heav’nly-pensive contemplation dwells, / And ever-musing melancholy reigns; / What means this tumult in a vestal’s veins ?”
A. The Rape of the Lock
B. Solitude: An Ode
C. The Dunciad
D. Eloisa to Abelard - The American Renaissance overlapped the time period, in which American writers were trying to____________?
A. Postmodern; end slavery.
B. Colonial; end patriotism for England.
C. Modernism; end individualism.
D. Romanticism; define themselves and their writing style as independent from England. - He had heard this destruction of the original possessors of the soil described, as we find it in the history of the times, where, we are told, “the number destroyed was about four hundred;” and “it was a fearful sight to see them thus frying in the fire, and the streams of blood quenching the same, and the horrible scent thereof; but the victory seemed a sweet sacrifice, and they gave the praise thereof to God.” This work is___________?
A. A hortatory sermon
B. A historial novel
C. Gothic fiction
D. A narrative frame - Ralph Waldo Emerson was a mentor for a number of early American writers, including_______________?
A. Hawthrone
B. Stewart
C. Thoreau
D. A and B - Before advocating on behalf of the enslaved in colonial Massachusetts, Samuel Sewall participated in what early American crisis event ?
A. Mayflower compact
B. Salem Witch Trails
C. No involvement
D. All the above - American Civil War was fought in_______________?
A. 1815-1820
B. 1830-1840
C. 1861-1865
D. 1825-1833 - William Bradford’s Of Plymouth Plantation exemplifies what genre of early American writing ?
A. Slave narrative
B. Free verse poem
C. Journal
D. Spiritual diary - Maria Stewart is associated with what major American literary movement ?
A. Idealism
B. Slavery
C. Romanticism
D. Nationalism - Which American writer won the Nobel Prize in 1930 ?
A. Sinclair Lewis
B. Upton Sinclair
C. John Steinbeck
D. Raymond Chandler - Which of the following themes or ideas are closely associated with the Native American way of life ?
A. Waste and abuse of natural resources
B. Immoral behavior
C. Love and respect for family and its elders
D. Uncivilized society
