The Odyssey

1. For Sojourner Truth, deciding which parts of scripture came from those who wrote the Bible, and not
from God, depended on
A. her inner witness.
B. the authority of theologians.
C. her feelings about slavery.
D. her mother’s Bible lessons.
2. Regarding the difference between fiction and nonfiction, which statement is most accurate?
A. Nonfiction writers are free to embellish the facts.
B. Writers of nonfiction have no need to express passionate opinion.
C. Nonfiction writers are more often free to move about in time and space.
D. Literary fiction does little except inform and specify.
3. Tecumseh was chief of the
A. Choctaw.
B. Pequot.
C. Shawnee.
D. Pawnee.
4. According to the analyses of the stories you were asked to read, “A Pair of Silk Stockings” best
represents literary
A. allegory.
B. escapism.
C. symbolism.
D. realism.
5. Among early epic poems, _______ is the story of a man who searches out a beloved friend in the land of
the dead.
A. Gilgamesh
B. Beowulf
C. The Iliad
D. The Odyssey

6. When London writes about “what a puppet thing life is,” it reflects the theme summarized in which of
the following statements?
A. Every life is based on habit and instinct.
B. Our lives are lived in response to our predetermined fate.
C. Each life pits mercy against nature.
D. The course of a life is determined by pure chance.
7. Twain’s account of Colonel Rall’s speech (“full of gunpowder and glory”) is contrasted most vividly to
the Marion Ranger’s collective remorse over
A. the shooting of an unarmed rider.
B. the strange affair at “Camp Desolation.”
C. following Captain Lyman into a trap.
D. rebuffing Dunlap’s wise advice.
8. As in Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown,” the autobiographical story of Sojourner Truth is written
on all of these levels, except
A. exterior commentary.
B. interior narrative.
C. social commentary.
D. dramatic narrative.
9. Thoreau’s night in jail for tax delinquency resulted specifically from
A. a decision to act on his belief that least government was best government.
B. having moved his place of residence from Concord to Walden Pond.
C. his revulsion and disgust over the U.S. invasion of Mexico.
D. the publication of his work, Civil Disobedience.
10. An author of a detective novel is most likely to use figurative language to
A. entertain the reader.