Top 250+ Solved American Literature MCQ Questions Answer
Q. Who is the blue-eyed boy in E.E. Cummings' poem 'Buffalo Bill's/defunct'?
a. buffalo bill
b. mr. death
c. e.e. cummings
d. e.e. cummings\ son
Q. What is the original name of ‘Buffalo Bill’?
a. william scout
b. william cody
c. william bill
d. william west
Q. The poem “I, Too” references which dark portion of America's past?
a. the civil war
b. slavery
c. the civil rights movement
d. prohibition
Q. What is the point of view in the poem, "I, Too"?
a. 1st person
b. 2nd person
c. 3rd person
d. 4th person
Q. What is the speaker referring to when he says "I am the darker brother" in “I, Too?”
a. his family role
b. his troubled past
c. his skin colour
d. his angry mood
Q. In "I, Too," the speaker says that tomorrow, no one will dare to
a. insult him
b. throw him out
c. hurt him
d. tell him to eat in the kitchen
Q. An advertisement for what insensitively uses an image of Hiroshima in “For the Union Dead?”
a. a movie
b. a brand of safes
c. a brand of watch
d. a skin care product
Q. Colonel Shaw served in which war in “For the Union Dead?”
a. world war i
b. world war ii
c. the vietnam war
d. the civil war
Q. What animal does the final stanza compare cars to in “For the Union Dead?”
a. zebras
b. fish
c. snakes
d. cats
Q. The waists on the stone statues of soldiers are compared to what in “For the Union Dead?”
a. mosquitos
b. swans
c. herons
d. wasps
Q. What does Colonel Shaw's father want in “For the Union Dead?”
a. a better monument
b. the ditch
c. nothing
d. his son\s weapon
Q. What does Colonel Shaw wait for at the end of the poem “For the Union Dead?”
a. a greyhound\s gentle tautness
b. a parking spot
c. an end to violence
d. the blessed break