This person wrote about a island that he called Colba, now known as Cuba______________?

Related Mcqs:

1. This famous neoclassical poet wrote on profound themes such as death, but he also had a lighter side. He once wrote an ode to a cat drowned in a tub of gold fishes ?

   A. Alexander Pope
   B. William Collins
   C. Thomas Gray
   D. Ben Jonson

2. Of the two, reverend Sir,” said the voice like the deacon’s, “I had rather miss an ordination-dinner than to-night’s meeting. They tell me that some of our community are to be here from Falmouth and beyond, and others from Connecticut and Rhode-Island; besides several of the Indian powows, who, after their fashion, know almost as much deviltry as the best of us. A “powow” in this context is___________?

   A. A devil-worshipper
   B. A boxer
   C. An apples-salesman
   D. A medicine man

3. Which influential American poet was born in Long Island in 1819 ?

   A. Emily Dickinson
   B. Paul Dunbar
   C. John Greenleaf Whittier
   D. Walt Whitman

4. Fill in the blank. In 1585, _______________ sponsored the first English colony in America on Roanoke Island (now North Carolina)?

   A. Sir Thomas More
   B. Sir Walter Raleigh
   C. John Foxe
   D. John Lyly

5. Robinson Crusoe’s isolation on a deserted island allows Defoe to explore his development in which of the following ways ?

   A. His relationship to God and Christianity
   B. His understanding of the basis of economics
   C. His ability to identify with the slaves he has sold
   D. Both A and B

6. Dumas, whose father was a General in the French Army, is a Mulatto; Soulie, a Quadroon. He went from New-Orleans, where, though to the eye a white man, yet, as known to have African blood in his veins, he could never have enjoyed the privileges due to a human being. A Mulatto is a person who has one white parent and one black parent; what, then, is a Quadroon ?

   A. A person who has two black parents.
   B. A person who has one Meranto parent and one black.
   C. A person who has two Delfigo parents.
   D. A person who has one white parent and one parent who is a Mulatto

7. Who wrote “The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock” ?

   A. Cumings
   B. Robert Lee Frost
   C. T.S. Eliot
   D. Edgar lee masters

8. Who wrote Heritage ?

   A. Countiee cullen
   B. William Faulkner
   C. T.S. Eliot
   D. Wallace stevens

9. Who wrote “Barn burning” ?

   A. Rober Lee frost
   B. Eugene O’ Neil’s
   C. Tennesse Williams
   D. William Faulkner’s

10. This author wrote of the Pilgrims’ voyage to the New World ?

    A. Bradford Nelson
    B. William Holden
    C. Nelson Holden
    D. William Bradford