A. ahab
B. queequeg
C. ishmael
D. starbuck
✅ The correct answer is option C.
American Literature MCQs
In his essay, Self-Reliance Emerson likens self-esteem with what?
A. the ego
B. nature
C. a child
D. a psalm
✅ The correct answer is option C.
What is the name of Son’s hometown in Tar Baby?
A. tallahassee
B. tampa
C. elbow
D. eloe
✅ The correct answer is option D.
To which historical person does Ishmael compare Queequeg?
A. thomas jefferson
B. george washington
C. julius caesar
D. oliver cromwell
✅ The correct answer is option B.
Which character from Greek mythology is used by Plath in her poem “Edge?”
A. medusa
B. medea
C. aerope
D. canace
✅ The correct answer is option B.
The entire Quentin section in The Sound and the Fury is told over a period of
A. a christmas vacation from his studies at harvard
B. an unspecified block of years
C. one day
D. the year before caddy’s marriage
✅ The correct answer is option C.
What is Ishmael’s reason for signing up for a whaling voyage?
A. he wishes to study cetology.
B. he has debts that he must quickly repay.
C. he has lost his wife and has no reason to stay on land.
D. he thinks that going to sea provides fresh exercise.
✅ The correct answer is option D.
What is the literary device used throughout the poem “Edge?”
A. enjambment
B. alliteration
C. assonance
D. internal rhyme
✅ The correct answer is option A.
The character Damuddy in The Sound and the Fury is
A. caddy’s daughter
B. the compson’s cook
C. the family name for carolyn compson
D. the grandmother of the compson children
✅ The correct answer is option D.
What is the name of Ahab’s ship?
A. the town-ho
B. the rachel
C. the samuel enderby
D. the pequod
✅ The correct answer is option D.