English 11 American Literature
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- 1.Political pamplets are a main genre of the following literary time period:
- A.
Puritan
- B.
Colonial
- C.
Revolutionary/Age of Enlightenment
- 2.Anne Bradstreet was a poet during:
- A.
The Puritan Period.
- B.
The Revolutionary Period.
- C.
The twentieth century.
- 3.In Phyllis Wheatley's letter to Rev. Ocum, she opposes:
- A.
Freedom
- B.
Slavery
- C.
Adultery
- 4.In Abigail Adams' letter to her husband, John Adams, she implores him to recognize and encourage:
- A.
Women's rights
- B.
Slavery
- C.
Compulsory education
- 5.Who is the author and orator of "Speech in the VIrginia Convention"?
- A.
Thomas Edison
- B.
Thomas Jefferson
- C.
Jefferson Thomas
- 6.What was the purpose of "Speech in the Virgina Convention"?
- A.
To incite an uprising against Britain
- B.
To incite an uprising against women's rights
- C.
To incite belief in the Christian God
- 7.What is allusion?
- A.
Something that can't be seen at first
- B.
An indirect, yet familiar, reference to person, event, or literary work
- C.
A direct comparision of two dissimilar things
- 8.Select the literary work that contains the famous quote, "Give me liberty, or give me death!"
- A.
The Declaration of Independence
- B.
What is an American?
- C.
Speech in the Virginia Convention
- 9.Select the sentence type that fits quote "Give me liberty, or give me death"
- A.
Compound sentence
- B.
Simple sentence
- C.
Neither
- 10.An acronym for coordinating conjunctions is
- A.
FANBELTS
- B.
FUNBOYS
- C.
FANBOYS
- 11.If "I" is the subject, and "me" is an object, which of the following is correct
- A.
"It's between you and me."
- B.
"It's between you and I."
- C.
Neither
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