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1. Which of the following was NOT common in

early Puritan literature?

(A) Poetry

(B) Sermons

(C) Theological tracts

(D) Short stories

(E) Histories

2. Which Boston preacher was known in part for

his narratives of the Salem witch trials?

(A) Cotton Mather

(B) William Bradford

(C) Anne Bradstreet

(D) Roger Williams

(E) Michael Wigglesworth

3. The writings of Jonathan Edwards are most

closely associated with which one of the following?

(A) The Harlem Renaissance

(B) Romanticism

(C) Realism and Naturalism

(D) The Great Awakening

(E) Abolitionism

4. Which of the following is NOT a literary device

typical of Native American literature?

(A) Repetition

(B) Sarcasm

(C) Incremental development

(D) Ritual beginnings and endings

(E) Enumeration

5. To whom was William Bradford referring to

when he used the term “Saint” to describe some

of his fellow voyagers at sea?

(A) The first sailors to join the voyage

(B) Those who died before reaching America

(C) His fellow Puritans

(D) The clergymen aboard ship

(E) The ship’s crew

6. The author of Common Sense was

(A) James Madison

(B) Langston Hughes

(C) Alexander Hamilton

(D) Thomas Jefferson

(E) Thomas Paine

 

7. Ichabod Crane is the main character in which of

the following works?

(A) Leaves of Grass

(B) The Guilded Age

(C) “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”

(D) “Rip Van Winkle”

(E) Last of the Mohicans

8. Who has earned the nickname “The Father of the

American Novel”?

(A) Washington Irving

(B) Edgar Allan Poe

(C) Ralph Waldo Emerson

(D) Charles Brockden Brown

(E) Henry David Thoreau

9. Who wrote the first American slave autobiography

after obtaining his freedom?

(A) Josiah Henson

(B) Frederick Douglass

(C) Nat Turner

(D) William Wells Brown

(E) Olaudah Equiano

11. May not and ought not the children of these fathers rightly say: “Our fathers were Englishmen which came over this great ocean, and were ready to perish in this wilderness; but they cried unto the Lord, and he heard their voice, and ooked on their adversity, etc. Let them therefore raise the Lord, because he is good, and his ercies endure forever. Yea, let them which have been redeemed of the Lord, show how he hath delivered them from the hand of the oppressor. When they wandered in the desert wilderness out

of the way, and found no city to dwell in, both hungry, and thirsty, their soul was overwhelmed in them. Let them confess before the Lord his loving kindness, and his wonderful works before the sons of men.”

The above passage was written by

11/ A) William Bradford

(B) Jonathan Edwards

(C) Hannah Webster Foster

(D) Jupiter Hammon

(E) William Hill Brown

 

10. May not and ought not the children of these fathers rightly say: “Our fathers were Englishmen which came over this great ocean, and were ready to perish in this wilderness; but they cried unto the Lord, and he heard their voice, and looked on their adversity, etc. Let them therefore praise the Lord, because he is good, and his mercies endure forever. Yea, let them which have been redeemed of the Lord, show how he hath delivered them from the hand of the oppressor. When they wandered in the desert wilderness out of the way, and found no city to dwell in, both hungry, and thirsty, their soul was overwhelmed in them. Let them confess before the Lord his loving kindness, and his wonderful works before the sons of men.”

In the passage above, what form of oppression is the author writing about?

 10/ (A) Economic

(B) Religious

(C) Racial

(D) Environmental

(E) Gender

12. The Bear that breathes the northern blast Did numb, torpedo-like, a wasp Whose stiffened limbs encramped, lay bathing In Sol’s warm breath and shine as saving, Which with her hands she chafes and stands Rubbing her legs, shanks, thighs, and hands. Her petty toes, and fingers’ ends Nipped with this breath, she out extends Unto the sun, in great desire To warm her digits at that fire.Which of the following best describes the activity of the wasp in the passage above?

(A) Sunbathing

(B) Cleaning

(C) Praying

(D) Eating

(E) Stretching

13. Censorship by which of the following helped to determine the content of early American literature?

(A) Protestants

(B) Catholics

(C) Unitarians

(D) Evangelicals

(E) Agnostics

 

14. Which of the following authors is NOT classified as a member of the Romantic period in American fiction?

(A) Walt Whitman

(B) James Fenimore Cooper

(C) Nathaniel Hawthorne

(D) Edgar Allan Poe

(E) Emily Dickinson

15. The main characters in the poems and short stories of Edgar Allen Poe can best be described as

(A) reckless tricksters

(B) streetwise hustlers

(C) pious clergymen

(D) clever businessmen

(E) madmen

16. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story “The Birthmark,” Aylmer commits a fatal error when his

(A) faith in science causes him to try to improve on nature

(B) disapproval of church leaders weakens his faith in God

(C) hand shakes during surgery

(D) greed causes him to lose his business

(E) trust in his assistant brings about failure

17. An interpretation of the characters Hester Prynne, Reverend Dimmesdale, and Roger Chillingworth as representing Eve, Adam, and Satan, respectively, is an example of

(A) irony

(B) allegory

(C) paradox

(D) simile

(E) pathos

18. Keeping time, time, time,

In a sort of Runic rhyme,

To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells

In the above passage, the author is describing the

(A) ticking of grandfather clock

(B) chanting of the faithful

(C) cries of wild geese

(D) ringing of bells

(E) the hoof beats of horses

19. Keeping time, time, time,

In a sort of Runic rhyme,

To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells

Who is the author of the above passage?

(A) Gerard Manley Hopkins

(B) Edgar Allan Poe

(C) Harriet Beecher Stowe

(D) Charles Brockden Brown

(E) Ralph Waldo Emerson

20. How was the envelope in the story “The Purloined Letter” hidden?

(A) In plain sight

(B) In a safe

(C) In a book

(D) Behind a painting

(E) Beneath a floor board

21. Which American author created detective

fiction?

(A) Herman Melville

(B) Harriet Beecher Stowe

(C) Raymond Chandler

(D) Edgar Allan Poe

(E) Dashiell Hammett

 

22. The former viewed nature as comprehensible and a source of divine inspiration and a new spirit of

American individualism, while the later saw it as a savage force—beautiful but alien and perilous.

The above text most likely refers to which two authors?

(A) Nathaniel Hawthorne and John Greenleaf Whittier

(B) Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman

(C) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Henry David Thoreau

(D) Ralph Waldo Emerson and Herman Melville

(E) Oliver Wendell Holmes and William Cullen Bryant

Questions 23–26 refer to the following poem.

Nature, the gentlest mother,

Impatient of no child,

The feeblest or the waywardest,—

Her admonition mild

In forest and the hill

By traveller is heard,

Restraining rampant squirrel

Or too impetuous bird.

How fair her conversation,

A summer afternoon,—

Her household, her assembly;

And when the sun goes down

Her voice among the aisles

Incites the timid prayer

Of the minutest cricket,

The most unworthy flower.

When all the children sleep

She turns as long away

As will suffice to light her lamps;

Then, bending from the sky,

With infinite affection

And infiniter care,

Her golden finger on her lip,

Wills silence everywhere

23. The word “child” in line 2 probably refers to

(A) the author’s child

(B) all children

(C) the squirrel in line 7

(D) all living things

(E) the elements

24. The use of the word “aisles” in line 13 brings in the imagery of a

(A) church

(B) railroad car

(C) cornfield

(D) supermarket

(E) sea

25. The “lamps” mentioned in line 20 are probably

(A) fireflies

(B) street lamps

(C) stars

(D) house lights

(E) campfires

26. “Her golden finger on her lip” (line 24) is an

example of

(A) rhyme

(B) ellipsis

(C) alliteration

(D) personification

(E) metonymy

27. I am a rather elderly man. The nature of my

avocations for the last thirty years has brought

me into more than ordinary contact with what

would seem an interesting and somewhat singular

set of men of whom as yet nothing that I

know of has ever been written:—mean the lawcopyists

or scriveners.

The sentence above was written by

(A) Herman Melville

(B) Margaret Fuller

(C) Rebecca Harding Davis

(D) Walt Whitman

(E) George Washington Harris

28. Which author’s polemical anti-slavery novel was

first published as episodes in the weekly The

National Era?

(A) Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

(B) Harriet Beecher Stowe

(C) Booker T. Washington

(D) Charlotte Perkins Gilman

(E) W.E.B. DuBois

29. All of the following are known primarily as

poets active during the American Romantic

period EXCEPT

(A) Lowell

(B) Longfellow

(C) Emerson

(D) Whitman

(E) Dickinson

30. Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres

of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories,

and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld

God and nature face to face; we, through their

eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original

relation to the universe? Why should not we

have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not

of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us,

and not the history of theirs?

The passage above is from the work of

(A) Ralph Waldo Emerson

(B) Mark Twain

(C) Edith Wharton

(D) Louisa May Alcott

(E) Kate Chopin

31. Which Boston Brahmin poet published The

Courtship of Miles Standish in 1858?

(A) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

(B) Oliver Wendell Holmes

(C) John Greenleaf Whittier

(D) Emily Dickinson

(E) Henry David Thoreau

 

32. What is the setting for the protagonist’s walk

with the devil in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Young

Goodman Brown?

(A) The gardens of a country estate

(B) A path in the forest

(C) The streets of a slum community

(D) A church graveyard

(E) The halls of a courthouse

33. Which American president was the inspiration

for Walt Whitman’s O Captain! My Captain!

(A) Andrew Jackson

(B) George Washington

(C) Ulysses S. Grant

(D) Thomas Jefferson

(E) Abraham Lincoln

34. Which of the following was the preeminent

female essayist of the Transcendentalist period in

American literature?

(A) Edith Wharton

(B) Phillis Wheatley

(C) Margaret Fuller

(D) Emily Dickinson

(E) Ellen Glasgow

 

35. Which of the following is set among a cannibalistic

tribe in the Marquesas Islands of the South

Pacific?

(A) Typee

(B) Moby Dick

(C) The Marble Faun

(D) A Paumanok Picture

(E) Thanatopsis

Questions 36 and 37 refer to the following passage.

 

The Prairie States

A NEWER garden of creation, no primal solitude,

Dense, joyous, modern, populous millions, cities

and farms,

With iron interlaced, composite, tied, many in one,

By all the world contributed—freedom’s and law’s

and thrift’s society,

The crown and teeming paradise, so far, of time’s

accumulations,

To justify the past

36. “iron interlaced” in line 3 refers to

(A) the steel industry

(B) slaves

(C) railroads

(D) telephone system

(E) the Internet

 

37. Which of the following best describes the

author’s opinion of the prairie states?

(A) They are rich and prosperous.

(B) They are full of industry and agriculture.

(C) They are faint copies of a lost paradise.

(D) They are sustained by the institution of

slavery.

(E) They represent America’s diversity, union,

and strength.

38. Which poem describes the narrator’s “sorrow for the lost Lenore”?

(A) To One in Paradise

(B) The Raven

(C) A Clear Midnight

(D) I Thought I was not Alone

(E) The Conqueror Worm

39. Stephen Crane, Jack London, and Theodore

Dreiser are best categorized as

(A) Romantics

(B) Transcendentalists

(C) Naturalists

(D) Realists

(E) Modernists

 

40. The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and

the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out

on the hills, resting. As the landscape changed

from brown to green, the army awakened, and

began to tremble with eagerness at the noise of

rumors. It cast its eyes upon the roads, which

were growing from long troughs of liquid mud to

proper thoroughfares. A river, amber-tinted in the

shadow of its banks, purled at the army’s feet;

and at night, when the stream had become of a

sorrowful blackness, one could see across it the

red, eyelike gleam of hostile camp-fires set in the

low brows of distant hills.

The passage above opens

(A) James Fenimore Cooper’s The Pioneers

(B) John Dos Passos’s 1919

(C) Earnest Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell

Tolls

(D) Stephen Crane’s The Red Badge of Courage

(E) William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury

 

41. Which of the following novels tells the story of a young man’s social and financial failure and

ends with his execution?

(A) An American Tragedy

(B) The Great Gatsby

(C) Absalom Absalom

(D) The Financier

(E) As I Lay Dying

42. Aunt Polly, Becky Thatcher, and Injun Joe are

characters in the writing of

(A) Wallace Stevens

(B) Robert Penn Warren

(C) Langston Hughes

(D) Mark Twain

(E) Thomas Wolfe

 

43. In Mark Twain’s novels, what role does Judge

Thatcher play in Huck Finn’s life?

(A) He controls Huck’s money.

(B) He is Huck’s adopted father.

(C) He enters the conviction at Huck’s trial.

(D) He rules that Huck is to live with Tom

Sawyer.

(E) He does not know Huck

44. Which of the following is NOT a recognizable

theme in Henry James’s Daisy Miller?

(A) Reality may differ from appearance

(B) Knowledge as evil versus inexperience as

innocence

(C) Natural impulse versus cultured behavior

(D) Problems of communication

(E) American materialism versus European

spirituality

 

45. Well, it was touching to see the queen blush and smile, and look embarrassed and happy, and fling furtive glances at Sir Launcelot that would have got him shot in Arkansas, to a dead certainty.

The above quotation is from the work of

(A) Henry James(B) Willa Cather (C) Mark Twain

(D) Carl Sandburg (E) Stephen Crane

 

46. The main character of Chopin’s The Awakening is

(A) Edna Pontellier

(B) Ántonia Shimerda

(C) Constance Ogden

(D) Rosa Coldfield

(E) Milly Jones

 

47. Which of the following stories portrays a

woman’s descent into insanity while being given

a “rest cure” after the birth of her child?

(A) “The Yellow Wallpaper”

(B) “The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky”

(C) “Paul’s Case”

(D) “A White Heron”

(E) “A Night in Acadie

48. Which of the following is NOT an essential

element in American Realistic fiction?

(A) An emphasis on real experiences

(B) Characters who are more important than

plots

(C) Attacks on Romanticism and Romantic

writers

(D) An examination of idealism and the foundations of morality

(E) Gender and race relations

 

49. A novel is in its broadest definition a personal

impression of life; that, to begin with, constitutes

its value, which is greater or less according to the

intensity of the impression. But there will be no

intensity at all, and therefore no value, unless

there is freedom to feel and say.

As presented above, which of the following best

describes the author’s theory of the novel?

(A) Novels must deal with impressive subjects

that move the reader.

(B) Without form a novel may be entertaining,

but it is not literature.

(C) Characters and plots must be impressive and

larger than life.

(D) Free expression and personal insight matter

more than form.

(E) A novel should describe the events of an

individual life.

 

50. The passage was most likely written by

(A) Upton Sinclair

(B) Emily Dickinson

(C) Mark Twain

(D) Henry James

(E) F. Scott Fitzgerald

 

51. Which American author wrote about the Alaskan Gold Rush in the Yukon?

(A) Jack London

(B) Stephen Crane

(C) Frank Norris

(D) Anne Bradstreet

(E) Willa Cather

 

52. What literary device does Mark Twain use to

attack slavery and religion in The Adventures of

Huckleberry Finn?

(A) Sarcasm

(B) Metonymy

(C) Simile

(D) Metaphor

(E) Foreshadowing

53. Which of the following stories concerns an

execution carried out during civil war?

(A) “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”

(B) ”A Good Man is Hard to Find”

(C) ”The Story Teller”

(D) “The Luck of Roaring Camp”

(E) “The Killers”

 

54. The autobiography of Booker T. Washington is

(A) The Souls of Black Folk

(B) Invisible Man

(C) Up from Slavery

(D) Uncle Tom’s Cabin

(E) Native Son

 

55. Which novelist and critic wrote the successful

play The Mouse Trap in 1889 that was set in the

Boston Back Bay neighborhood?

(A) William Dean Howells

(B) William Faulkner

(C) Henry James

(D) Mark Twain

(E) Frederick Douglass

 

56. The increased regional nature of American

fiction in the 1800s was caused by all of the

following EXCEPT

(A) a desire to realistically expose the problems

caused by modern living

(B) a reaction to the homogenizing effect of

industrialization

(C) wider magazine circulation

(D) greater female readership

(E) a lack of good transportation options

57. The fictional village of Starkfield, setting of

Edith Wharton’s Ethan Frome, is located in

which state?

(A) Louisiana

(B) California

(C) Massachusetts

(D) New York

(E) Florida

 

58. Which of the following was a political radical

who argued for women’s rights and against

capitalism?

(A) Flannery O’Connor

(B) Pearl S. Buck

(C) Dorothy Parker

(D) Eudora Welty

(E) Emma Goldman

59. Which author associated manhood and maturity

with nonconformity?

(A) Henry David Longfellow

(B) Willa Cather

(C) Mark Twain

(D) Carl Sandburg

(E) Ralph Waldo Emerson

60. All of the following wrote of heroes wandering

the open roads of America EXCEPT

(A) James Fenimore Cooper

(B) Henry James

(C) Walt Whitman

(D) Jack Kerouac

(E) John Steinbeck

Questions 61 and 62 refer to the following passage.

And now he died. Perhaps it was the smoked

sausage he had eaten that morning – which may

have been made out of some of the tubercular

pork that was condemned as unfit for export. At

any rate, an hour after eating it, the child had

begun to cry with pain, and in another hour he was

rolling about on the floor in convulsions. Little

Kotrina, who was all alone with him, ran out

screaming for help, and after a while a doctor

came, but not until Kristoforas had howled his last

howl. No one was really sorry about this except

poor Elzbieta, who was inconsolable. Jurgis

announced that so far as he was concerned the

child would have to be buried by the city, since

they had no money for a funeral; and at this the

poor woman almost went out of her senses,

wringing her hands and screaming with grief and

despair. Her child to be buried in a pauper’s grave

61. The passage above is most representative of

what American literary movement?

(A) Modernism

(B) Muckraking

(C) Romanticism

(D) Puritanism

(E) Transcendentalism

62. The passage was written by

(A) Upton Sinclair

(B) John Steinbeck

(C) Sinclair Lewis

(D) Theodore Dreiser

(E) Robert Penn Warren

63. “So far as Mr. Washington apologizes for

injustice, North and South, does not rightly value

the privilege and duty of voting, belittles the

emasculating effects of caste distinctions and

opposes the higher training and ambition of our

brighter minds . . . we must unceasingly and

firmly oppose [him].”

Who is the author of the above passage critiquing

Booker T. Washington’s position on African-

American rights?

(A) Malcolm X

(B) W. E. B. DuBois

(C) Ida B. Wells

(D) Benjamin W. Arnett

(E) Langston Hughes

64. Why can’t Black Elk Speaks be viewed as an

authoritative text of Sioux culture?

(A) Black Elk’s revelations were tainted by the

errors of translators, transcribers, and the

author.

(B) Black Elk was not a Sioux.

(C) The surviving text is incomplete and

portions impossible to read.

(D) Black Elk’s own knowledge of Sioux

culture was limited.

(E) Black Elk’s own views changed dramatically

once he lived apart from his own culture and

adapted to living in an urban setting

65. Which influential epic poem symbolizes Western civilization as a dry desert needing the rain of spiritual renewal?

(A) Gertrude Stein’s “Tender Buttons”

(B) Ezra Pound’s “The Cantos”

(C) Robert Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a

Snowy Evening”

(D) Wallace Stevens’s “Harmonium”

(E) T.S. Elliot’s “The Waste Land”

66. Which writer who described his poetic style as

objectivist aimed to bring an almost photographic

clarity to his work with concrete images?

(A) William Carlos Williams

(B) Wallace Stevens

(C) Ezra Pound

(D) T.S. Elliot

(E) E.E. Cummings

Questions 67–69 refer to the following

poem.

For I have known them all already, known them

all:—

Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons;

I know the voices dying with a dying fall

Beneath the music from a farther room.

So how should I presume?

And I have known the eyes already, known them

all—

(56)The eyes that fix you in a formulated phrase,

And when I am formulated, sprawling on a pin,

When I am pinned and wriggling on the wall, Then

how should I begin

To spit out all the butt-ends of my days and ways?

And how should I presume?

 

67. The mood of the passage above is best described as

(A) regretful and resigned

(B) somber but optimistic

(C) apologetic but proud

(D) ecstatic and vivacious

(E) tired and unknowing

68. What does the narrator mean when he says, “I

have measured out my life with coffee spoons”?

(line 51)

(A) He has taken several spoonfuls of poison

and awaits his death.

(B) He is a waiter and the coffee spoons represent

the profession he hates.

(C) He uses the symbol of coffee spoons to

represent his dull existence.

(D) He is obsessed with his weight and worries

about every spoonful he eats.

(E) He regrets that he cannot drink alcohol,

unlike the others at the party.

69. The imagery of lines 57–58 is borrowed from

what hobby?

(A) Sewing

(B) Insect collecting

(C) Wrestling

(D) Pennant collecting

(E) Flower arranging

 

70. Which modern poet wrote poetry while working

as an insurance executive?

(A) Ezra Pound

(B) Wallace Stevens

(C) Langston Hughes

(D) E.E. Cummings

(E) Hart Crane

71. In a Station of the Metro

The apparition of these faces in the crowd;

Petals on a wet, black bough.

Which poetic form does the above poem most

closely match in subject and rhythm?

(A) Haiku

(B) Free verse

(C) Limerick

(D) Rondel

(E) Epic

72. Which poet wrote the epic poem “Paterson”

about his hometown of Paterson, N.J.?

(A) William Carlos Williams

(B) Edgar Allen Poe

(C) Langston Hughes

(D) Emily Dickinson

(E) Anne Bradstreet

73. in Justspring

when the world is mudluscious

the little

lame balloonman

whistles far and wee and eddyandbill

come

running from marbles and

piracies and it’s

spring

The above passage is the work of

(A) E.E. Cummings

(B) Robinson Jeffers

(C) Hart Crane

(D) Marianne Moore

(E) F. Scott Fitzgerald

 

74. What is symbolized by “the valley of ashes” in

Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gastby?

(A) The phoenix-like rebirth of a new America

(B) The moral and social decay caused by the

mindless pursuit of wealth

(C) The rich soil of the American imagination

(D) The environmental conscience of American

capitalism

(E) The wildfires of American consumerism

75. Yoknapatawpha County appears in the works of

(A) Black Elk

(B) William Faulkner

(C) Ernest Hemingway

(D) Wallace Stevens

(E) Gertrude Stein

76. Which African-American poet integrated the

rhythms of blues and jazz into his/her poetry?

(A) Margaret Walker

(B) Jupiter Hammon

(C) Claude McKay

(D) Phillis Wheatley

(E) Langston Hughes

 

77. Which of the following novels traces the rise and fall of a Southern politician?

(A) All the King’s Men

(B) Innocents Abroad

(C) Invisible Man

(D) As I Lay Dying

(E) Henderson the Rain King

78. John Dos Passos, Dashiell Hammett, Ernest

Hemingway, and others campaigned against the

growth of fascism in Europe by volunteering to help

(A) England during World War I

(B) Italy during World War I

(C) France during World War I

(D) the Red Army during the Russian Revolution

(E) the Republicans during the Spanish Civil War

 

79. Conflicts between characters with traditional

Southern values and the aggressive, rapidly changing world of modern America forms one of

the major themes in

(A) Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named

Desire

(B) Richard Wright’s Native Son

(C) Thomas Wolfe’s Look Homeward, Angel

(D) Zora Neale Hurston’s Mules and Men

(E) Katherine Anne Porter’s Pale Horse, Pale

Rider

80. Which Eugene O’Neill play is an autobiographical

account of his Irish-American family?

(A) Beyond the Horizon

(B) Long Day’s Journey into Night

(C) Strange Interlude

(D) Anna Christie

(E) Bound East for Cardiff

81. What New York neighborhood became the center

of African-American culture during the 1920s?

(A) Harlem

(B) Brooklyn

(C) Queens

(D) The Lower East Side

(E) Greenwich Village

82. Sinclair Lewis’s tale of a middle class

businessman’s discontent is entitled

(A) Our Mr. Wrenn

(B) Arrowsmith

(C) Babbitt

(D) Main Street

(E) The Jungle

 

Questions 83–87 refer to the following

passage.

There was no God in his heart, he knew; his

ideas were still in riot; there was ever the pain of

memory; the regret for his lost youth yet the

waters of disillusion had left a deposit on his

soul, responsibility and a love of life, the faint

stirring of old ambitions and unrealized dreams.

But oh, Rosalind! Rosalind!...

“It’s all a poor substitute at best,” he said sadly.

And he could not tell why the struggle was worth

while, why he had determined to use to the

utmost himself and his heritage from the personalities

he had passed.... He stretched out his arms

to the crystalline, radiant sky. “I know myself,”

he cried, “but that is all.”

83. What does the author mean by the word “riot”

(line 2)?

(A) He was confused.

(B) He had humorous thoughts.

(C) He had violent thoughts.

(D) He had thoughts of protest.

(E) He remembered the riot

84. The phrase “had left a deposit on his soul” is

best paraphrased as

(A) concealed his true personality

(B) lifted his spirit

(C) washed away his troubles

(D) given him important lessons

(E) made him cynical

86. This passage is most likely the conclusion of a(n)

(A) historical novel

(B) novel of education

(C) science fiction novel

(D) detective novel

(E) western novel

85. What does the speaker mean when he says, “It’s

all a poor substitute at best”? (line 8)

(A) The character understands that losing

Rosalind was a poor substitute for the

understanding of himself he has gained.

(B) Rosalind is left with only a poor substitute

of what she might have had with him.

(C) The “crystalline sky” is a poor substitute for

the loss of Rosalind.

(D) He was a poor substitute for a better man in

the struggle he has just undergone.

(E) He has learned from his experience but he

feels a greater sense of loss.

87. Who is the author of this passage?

(A) F. Scott Fitzgerald

(B) William Faulkner

(C) Ernest Hemingway

(D) John Dos Passos

(E) Henry James

 

88. Which of the following novels traces the development

of a young Jewish boy growing up in

Chicago during the Great Depression?

(A) Portnoy’s Complaint

(B) The Adventures of Augie March

(C) Fear of Flying

(D) Humboldt’s Gift

(E) Mr. Sammler’s Planet

89. In which novel are African-American boys

cruelly tormented in the “Battle Royal”?

(A) Invisible Man

(B) Wise Blood

(C) The Dean’s December

(D) The Tenants

(E) The End of the Road

90. The Beat poet who revolutionized American

poetry with Howl was

(A) Jack Kerouac

(B) William Burroughs

(C) Gregory Corso

(D) Michael McClure

(E) Allen Ginsberg

91. In his work Fire Next Time, James Baldwin

argues for

(A) an end to separation between the races

(B) the right of workers to organize

(C) reform of the American educational system

(D) peace in Southeast Asia

(E) an end to political corruption in Washington

 

92. In which of the following novels does the

protagonist Tyrone Slothrop undergo physiological

conditioning to be able to detect things others

cannot?

(A) Gravity’s Rainbow

(B) The Crucible

(C) Nobody Knows My Name

(D) I Am Joaquin

(E) Pictures of Fidelman

93. Which author is known as “the Chekhov of the

Suburbs” for his writings about the social mores

and emotional yearnings of upper-middle class

suburban families?

(A) John Cheever

(B) Norman Mailer

(C) Vladimir Nabokov

(D) J.D. Salinger

(E) Philip Roth

94. Holden Caulfield is the creation of which

author?

(A) Sam Shepard

(B) Louise Erdrich

(C) Sylvia Plath

(D) Joyce Carol Oates

(E) J.D. Salinger

 

95. Betty Friedan’s work—which inspired the

woman’s movement in the 1960s—is entitled

(A) Sexual Politics

(B) Vindication of the Rights of Women

(C) The Feminine Mystique

(D) A Room of One’s Own

(E) The Laugh of the Medusa

 

96. Which Toni Morrison novel tells of Milkman

Dead’s search for identity?

(A) The Color Purple

(B) Song of Solomon

(C) Beloved

(D) Black Boy

(E) Another Country

 

97. Which author wrote Grendel, a retelling of the

Old English epic Beowulf from the monster’s

point of view?

(A) John Gardner

(B) Bernard Malamud

(C) Anne Tyler

(D) Truman Capote

(E) Carson McCullers

98. Harry Angstrom is the protagonist of which of

the following works?

(A) Rabbit Run

(B) Raise High the Roof-Beam, Carpenters

(C) Lonesome Dove

(D) The Housebreaker of Shady Hill

(E) A Love Story

99. Which author wrote the semi-autobiographical

Pnin about an ineffectual professor?

(A) Vladimir Nabokov

(B) Jamaica Kincaid

(C) Elie Wiesel

(D) Stephen King

(E) Amy Tan

 

100. All of the following are poets known for their

work after World War II EXCEPT

(A) John Berryman

(B) Anne Sexton

(C) Sylvia Plath

(D) Theodore Roethke

(E) Carl Sandburg

 

Well done !!!!!

 

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CLEP-EL-P1.pmd 14 11/5/2004, 11:39 AM


Practice Questions

1. Which of the following Hemingway novels is set during the Spanish Civil War? A: The Sun Also Rises
B: Islands in the Stream
C: The Old Man and the Sea
D: For Whom the Bell Tolls
E: To Have and Have Not

2. Which statement best describes the theme of The House of Mirth, by Edith Wharton? A: The United States has a superior economic system.
B: Slavery can not endure where other people are free.
C: Moral decay lies beneath the flashy veneer of New York high society.
D: Women deserve the right to vote.
E: The expansion of American influence creates moral dilemmas.

3. Who is the narrator of The Great Gatsby?

A: Nick Carraway
B: Daisy Buchanan
C: F. Scott Fitzgerald
D: Jay Gatsby
E: Dean Moriarty

4. Which of the following American poets produced most of his work in England?

A: W.H. Auden
B: T.S. Eliot
C: John Berryman
D: Robert Lowell
E: H.W. Longfellow

5. Which early twentieth-century novelist scored his first hit with Winesburg, Ohio?

A: H.L. Mencken
B: Lionel Trilling
C: Thomas Wolfe
D: Sherwood Anderson
E: Ring Lardner

6. Who wrote the novel Beloved, in which a former slave struggles to raise her children?

A: William Faulkner
B: Maya Angelou
C: James Baldwin
D: Thomas Pynchon
E: Toni Morrison

 

Read the following poem by Anne Bradstreet (1612?-1672) and answer the questions that follow.

On My Dear Grandchild Simon Bradstreet, Who Died on 16 November, 1669, being but a Month, and One Day Old

No sooner came, but gone, and fall'n asleep,
Acquaintance short, yet parting caused us weep;
Three flowers, two scarcely blown, the last i' th' bud,
Cropt by th' Almighty's hand; yet is He good.
With dreadful awe before Him let's be mute,
Such was His will, but why, let's not dispute,
With humble hearts and mouths put in the dust,
Let's say He's merciful as well as just.
He will return and make up all our losses,
And smile again after our bitter crosses
Go pretty babe, go rest with sisters twain;
Among the blest in endless joys remain.

7. "Three flowers, two scarcely blown" is an example of which literary device?

A: alliteration
B: synecdoche
C: simile
D: metaphor
E: personification

8. How many grandchildren has the poet lost?

A: One
B: Two
C: At least three
D: No more than two
E: It is impossible to determine

9. What is the rhyme scheme of this poem?

A: ABABABC
B: ABBA CDDE
C: ABCDEF
D: AABBCCDDEEFF
E: ABBCCDDEEF

10. What kind of verse does this poem exemplify?

A: epitaph
B: elegy
C: ode
D: paean
E: sonnet

 

Answer Key

1. D. This novel tells the story of an idealistic American who comes to fight with the Republican army.
2. C. This satirical novel exposed the scandalous private lives of the ultra-rich during America's Gilded Age.
3. A. Carraway narrates the high life and bitter fall of Gatsby in Fitzgerald's classic novel.
4. B. Eliot moved to England in 1914 and eventually became a British citizen.
5. D. Anderson's breakthrough novel satirized small-town life in the American Midwest.
6. E. Many critics contend that Beloved is the best novel of the past twenty years.
7. D. The author describes her deceased grandchildren as flowers prematurely cut by God.
8. C. The poet describes how her grandson will be buried between his two sisters.
9. D. The poem has twelve lines, with each pair of lines comprising a unique rhyme.
10. B. An elegy is a poem written in remembrance or mourning of something departed.


Choose the answer you think is correct.

Начало формы1. Which of the following is a character from Grapes of Wrath?
Tom Joad
George Wilton
Hester Prynne
Ishmael
Natty Bumpo

2. What is being compared in lines 2 & 3 of the poem?


Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherized upon a table; (3)
Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets,
The muttering retreats
Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels (6)
And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells:
Streets that follow like a tedious argument
Of insidious intent (9)
To lead you to an overwhelming question…
Oh, do not ask, "What is it?"
Let us go and make our visit. (12)
A half-deserted city / an etherized patient
The speaker / the audience
Sunset / the speaker
An etherized patient / the speaker\’s view of life
Evening / an etherized patient

 

3. Which of the following was NOT influenced by Darwinism and Realism?
Jack London
John Steinbeck
Mark Twain
Stephen Crane
Frank Norris

 

4. Certain it is, that, some fifteen or twenty years after the settlement of the town, (1) the wooden jail was already marked with weather-stains and other indications of age, which gave a yet darker aspect to its beetle-browed and gloomy front. (3) The rust on the ponderous iron-work of its oaken door looked more antique than any thing else in the new world. Like all that pertains to crime, it seemed (6) never to have known a youthful era.

The phrase “beetle-browed and gloomy front” is an example of:
Alliteration
Metaphor
Simile
Personification
Hyperbole

 

5. Which of the following is a book by Edith Wharton that involves an invalid wife, a man who falls in love with his wife\’s caregiver and a failed suicide attempt that consisted of sledding into a tree?
House of Mirth
Ethan Frome
House of the Seven Gables
Charley and Me
The Yellow Wallpaper

 

6. Which of the following authors explores the role of black women in a white and male dominant society?
Zora Neale Hurston
Maya Angelou
Toni Morrison
Phyllis Wheatley
Border Ruffians

 

7. The subject of this poem is what?

A NARROW fellow in the grass
Occasionally rides;
You may have met him,—did you not?
His notice sudden is.
The grass divides as with a comb,
A spotted shaft is seen;
And then it closes at your feet
And opens further on.
A snake
A stream
A grasshopper
A bird
A cat

 

8. Which of the following was written by Henry David Thoreau?
Leaves of Grass
Common Sense
Moby Dick
The Rights of Man
Civil Disobedience

 

9. The poem below describes what?

In silent night when rest I took,
For sorrow near I did not look,
I waken'd was with thundring nois
And Piteous shreiks of dreadfull voice.
That fearfull sound of fire and fire,
Let no man know is my Desire.
I, starting up, the light did spye,
And to my God my heart did cry
To strengthen me in my Distresse
And not to leave me succourlesse.
Then coming out beheld a space,
The flame consume my dwelling place.
Watching a friend’s house burn down
The plight of souls in Hell
A plague
A prayer for deliverance
The author’s reaction to her house burning down

 

10. Which of the following was a 20th century playwright?
John Updike
J.D. Salinger
Sarah Orne Jewett
Arthur Miller
William Faulkner

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