Top 250+ Solved American Literature MCQ Questions Answer
Q. What desert does Lowell reference in the first stanza in “For the Union Dead?”
a. sonoran
b. mojave
c. sahara
d. gobi
Q. What is St. Gauden's relief made of in “For the Union Dead?”?
a. stone
b. copper
c. marble
d. bronze
Q. Allen Ginsberg is traditionally associated with what literary movement?
a. the hippie poets
b. the beat poets
c. the flower children
d. the romantic poets
Q. Which industrial tycoon does Ginsberg cite in "America?"
a. larry miles
b. henry ford
c. warren buffett
d. cornelius vanderbilt
Q. Ginsberg had an ambition to become which of the following in “America”?
a. sailor.
b. president.
c. rabbi.
d. cartoonist.
Q. Ginsberg’s vision of America in “America” is inspired from?
a. walt whitman
b. ralph waldo emerson
c. robert frost
d. edgar alan poe
Q. Sylvia Plath's poetry is considered part of which movement?
a. modernism
b. confessional poetry
c. realism
d. romanticism
Q. The only novel written by Sylvia Plath is?
a. ariel
b. the colossus
c. life studies
d. the bell jar
Q. What is the literary device used throughout the poem “Edge?”
a. enjambment
b. alliteration
c. assonance
d. internal rhyme
Q. Which character from Greek mythology is used by Plath in her poem “Edge?”
a. medusa
b. medea
c. aerope
d. canace
Q. In his essay, "Self-Reliance" Emerson likens self-esteem with what?
a. the ego
b. nature
c. a child
d. a psalm
Q. In "Self-Reliance," Emerson talks about how individuals should not conform to what?
a. the church\s morals
b. societal norms
c. the ego
d. their intuition
Q. What is the name of the journal launched by the Transcendentalists?
a. the eye
b. transcend
c. the dial
d. nature
Q. What is NOT one of the influences upon Emerson's thinking?
a. idealism
b. epicureanism
c. stoicism
d. romanticism
Q. What is society compared to in “Self Reliance?”
a. chaos
b. joint-stock company
c. conspiracy
d. nothing