1. West-Running Brook is a collection of poetry by Robert Frost, written in 1923 and published by Henry Holt and Co. in 1928, and containing woodcuts by ________ ?
A:) J. J. Lankes
B:) William Faulker
C:) E.W. Kemble
D:) Charles L.
springline- Correct option: A:) J. J. Lankes
2. West-Running Brook ; The title of the poem that the volume is named by is very significant. Where the poem takes place (Derry, New Hampshire), due to its location near the coast, all rivers flow towards the ocean except for West Running Brook (a real brook), which goes westward making itself unique. In the same way, the poet trusts himself to go by contraries. Because of this book, Robert Frost is called ‘_____?
A:) Home-preacher
B:) Home-town Philosopher
C:) Home-Spun Philosopher
D:) Home-Spun Poetry
springline- Correct option: C:) Home-Spun Philosopher
3. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn or as it is known in more recent editions, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, is a novel by American author Mark Twain, which was first published in the United Kingdom in December 1884 and in the United States in ______
A:) February 1885
B:) March 1884
C:) May 1885
D:) June 1886
springline- Correct option: A:) February 1885
4. The Adventure of Finn: Commonly named among the Great American Novels, the work is among the first in major American literature to be written throughout in vernacular English, characterized by local color regionalism. It is told in the first person by ___ ?
A:) Tom Saver
B:) Pap Finn
C:) Huckleberry
D:) Jim
springline- Correct option: C:) Huckleberry
5. The Adventure of Finn ;The book is noted for ‘changing the course of children's literature’ in America for the ‘deeply felt portrayal of boyhood’. It is also known for its colorful description of people and places along the _______
A:) River Thames
B:) Mississippi River
C:) River Trent
D:) River Tyne
springline- Correct option: B:) Mississippi River
6. The Adventure of Finn; Set in a Southern antebellum society that had ceased to exist over 20 years before the work was published, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is an often scathing satire on entrenched attitudes, particularly____
A:) racism
B:) feminism
C:) civilization
D:) colonialism
springline- Correct option: A:) racism
7. The Adventure of Finn ; Who is Huck's best friend and peer, the main character of other Twain novels and the leader of the town boys in adventures. He is mischievous, good hearted, and ‘the best fighter and the smartest kid in town?
A:) Jim
B:) Judith Loftus
C:) Tom Sawyer
D:) Pap
springline- Correct option: C:) Tom Sawyer
8. The Adventure of Finn; Who is the widow's sister, a tough old spinster who also lives with them and She is fairly hard on Huck, causing him to resent her a good deal also Mark Twain may have drawn inspiration for this character from several people he knew in his life ?
A:) Mary Jane
B:) Mary Jane
C:) Widow Douglas
D:) Susan
springline- Correct option: B:) Mary Jane
9. The Adventure of Finn; Huck explains how he is placed under the guardianship of the Widow Douglas, who, together with her stringent sister, Miss Watson, are attempting to ‘sivilize’ him and teach him religion. Huck finds civilized life confining. His spirits are raised when Tom Sawyer helps him to slip past Miss Watson's slave, Jim, so he can meet up with Tom's gang of self-proclaimed _______
A:) Thief
B:) Highwayman
C:) robbers
D:) Priest
springline- Correct option: C:) robbers
10. The Adventure of Finn ; Just as the gang's activities begin to bore Huck, his shiftless father, ‘Pap’, an abusive alcoholic, suddenly reappears. Huck, who knows his father will spend the money on alcohol, is successful at keeping his fortune out of his father's hands. While this time who kidnaps Huck and takes him out of town?
A:) Miss Watson
B:) Tom
C:) Pap
D:) Jim
springline- Correct option: C:) Pap
11. The Adventure of Finn; To find out the latest news in town, Huck dresses as a girl and enters the house of Judith Loftus, a woman new to the area. Huck learns from her about the news of his own supposed murder; Pap was initially blamed, but since Jim ran away he is also a suspect and a reward of 300 dollars for Jim's capture has initiated a manhunt. Who becomes increasingly suspicious that Huck is a boy, finally proving it by a series of tests?
A:) Mrs. Loftus
B:) Miss Watson
C:) Susan Wilks
D:) Mary Jane
springline- Correct option: A:) Mrs. Loftus
12. The Adventure of Finn; Who has run away after he overheard Miss Watson planning to sell him ‘down the river’ to presumably more brutal owners and Who plans to make his way to the town of Cairo in Illinois, a free state, so that he can later buy the rest of his enslaved family's freedom?
A:) Huck
B:) Mary Jane
C:) Tom
D:) Jim
springline- Correct option: D:) Jim
13. The Adventure of Finn; Huck tricks a watchman on a steamer into going to rescue the thieves stranded on the wreck to assuage his conscience. They are later separated in a fog, making Jim (on the raft) intensely anxious, and when they reunite, Huck tricks Jim into thinking he dreamed the entire incident. Huck becomes remorseful and apologizes to Jim, though his conscience troubles him about humbling himself to a_______
A:) Sick Arab
B:) Black man
C:) thief
D:) Saint
springline- Correct option: B:) Black man
14. The Adventure of Finn; Although Huck asks Buck why the feud started in the first place, he is told no-one knows anymore. The Grangerfords and Shepherdsons go to the same church, which ironically preaches brotherly love. The vendetta finally comes to a head when Buck's Who elopes with a member of the Shepherdson clan?
A:) younger brother
B:) older brother
C:) younger sister
D:) older sister
springline- Correct option: D:) older sister
15. The Adventure of Finn ; Near the Arkansas-Missouri-Tennessee border, Jim and Huck take two on-the-run grifters aboard the raft. The younger man, who is about thirty, introduces himself as the long-lost son of an English duke (the Duke of Bridgewater). The older one, about seventy, then trumps this outrageous claim by alleging that he himself is the Lost Dauphin, the son of Louis XVI and rightful King of ________?
A:) Italy
B:) France
C:) America
D:) Rome
springline- Correct option: B:) France
16. The Adventure of Finn ; The ‘duke’ and ‘king’ soon become permanent passengers on Jim and Huck's raft, committing a series of confidence schemes upon unsuspecting locals all along their journey. To divert public suspicion from Jim, they pretend he is a runaway slave who has been recaptured, but later paint him blue and call him the _________
A:) Blacky Sick
B:) Sick Jim
C:) Black Man
D:) Sick Arab
springline- Correct option: D:) Sick Arab
17. The Adventure of Finn; On one occasion, the swindlers advertise a three-night engagement of a play called ‘The Royal Nonesuch’. The play turns out to be only a couple of minutes' worth of an absurd, bawdy sham. On the afternoon of the first performance, a drunk called Boggs is shot dead by a gentleman named _________?
A:) Silas Phelps
B:) Colonel Sherburn
C:) Robinson
D:) Joanna
springline- Correct option: B:) Colonel Sherburn
18. The Adventure of Finn; To match accounts of Wilks's brothers, the king attempts an English accent and the duke pretends to be a deaf-mute while starting to collect Wilks's inheritance. Who decides that Wilks's three orphaned nieces, who treat Huck with kindness, do not deserve to be cheated thus ?
A:) Huck
B:) Jim
C:) Tom
D:) Susan
springline- Correct option: A:) Huck
19. The Adventure of Finn ; The family's nephew, Tom, is expected for a visit at the same time as Huck's arrival, so Huck is mistaken for Tom and welcomed into their home. He plays along, hoping to find Jim's location and free him; in a surprising plot twist, it is revealed that the expected nephew is, in fact, Tom Sawyer. When Huck intercepts the real Tom Sawyer on the road and tells him everything, Tom decides to join Huck's scheme, pretending to be his own younger half-brother______
A:) Joanna
B:) Tom
C:) Sid
D:) Jim
springline- Correct option: C:) Sid
20. The Adventure of Finn; Who has told the family about the two grifters and the new plan for ‘The Royal Nonesuch’, and so the townspeople capture the duke and king, who are then tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on a rail?
A:) Jim
B:) Tom
C:) Huck
D:) Miss Watson
springline- Correct option: A:) Jim
21. The Adventure of Finn; Rather than simply sneaking Jim out of the shed where he is being held, Tom develops an elaborate plan to free him, involving secret messages, a hidden tunnel, snakes in a shed, a rope ladder sent in Jim's food, and other elements from adventure books he has read, including an anonymous note to the Whom warning them of the whole scheme?
A:) Pap
B:) Blood Feud
C:) Miss Watson
D:) Phelps
springline- Correct option: D:) Phelps
22. The Adventure of Finn ; Jim tells Huck that Huck's father (Pap Finn) has been dead for some time (he was the dead man they found earlier in the floating house), and so Huck may now return safely to St. Petersburg. Huck declares that he is quite glad to be done writing his story, and despite Sally's plans to adopt and civilize him, he intends to flee west to ________
A:) European Territory
B:) Indian Territory
C:) American Territory
D:) Italic Territory
springline- Correct option: B:) Indian Territory
23. The Adventure of Finn ; Adventures of Huckleberry Finn explores themes of race and identity. A complexity exists concerning Jim's character. While some scholars point out that Jim is good-hearted and moral, and he is not unintelligent (in contrast to several of the more negatively depicted white characters), others have criticized the novel as racist, citing the use of the word _____
A:) gigger
B:) negro
C:) nigger
D:) higger
springline- Correct option: C:) nigger
24. The Adventure of Finn ; Who quotes Shelley Fisher Fishkin, who writes in her 1990s book Was Huck Black?: Mark Twain and African-American Voices, ‘by limiting their field of inquiry to the periphery,’ white scholars ‘have missed the ways in which African-American voices shaped Twain's creative imagination at its core?
A:) Charles L
B:) John Alberti
C:) Berlin
D:) Albert Bigelow
springline- Correct option: B:) John Alberti
25. Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. He was lauded as the ‘greatest humorist the United States has produced,’ and Who called him ‘the father of American literature ?
A:) Nikola Tesla
B:) Thomas Edison
C:) William Faulkner
D:) William M. Laffan
springline- Correct option: C:) William Faulkner
26. Twain patented three inventions, including an ‘Improvement in Adjustable and Detachable Straps for Garments’ (to replace suspenders) and a history trivia game. Most commercially successful was a self-pasting scrapbook; a dried adhesive on the pages needed only to be moistened before use. Twain was fascinated with science and scientific inquiry. He developed a close and lasting friendship with _____?
A:) Nikola Tesla
B:) John Marshall
C:) Dan Dequille
D:) Bret Harte
springline- Correct option: A:) Nikola Tesla
27. The West Running Brook; The poem also has certain implicit references about the white and black contrasts, the domination of the black by the white, which was at the time an issue behind the partition of the northern and southern states and the conflict between the Negro of the west and of the east. It may also be that the west-running brook is American originality that eschewed Which models in art and literature?
A:) French
B:) Italic
C:) Germanic
D:) the European
springline- Correct option: D:) the European
28. The West Running Brook; The man and his wife agree that they have had a joint insight into reality. By being contrary and asserting his independence, man like the brook becomes individual. The poem gains complexity by moving on two levels, the personal and the strictly ___?
A:) Spiritual
B:) philosophical
C:) Natural
D:) Identical
springline- Correct option: B:) philosophical
29. West Running Brook is the poem by Robert Frost in dialogue form between a spouse, which also hints and develops a thematic tension about a subject that is philosophically significant. Many allegorical interpretations have been made about the basic idea about the only one brook running west when all the others flow towards the _____?
A:) North
B:) Yorkshire
C:) East
D:) European
springline- Correct option: C:) East
30. Twain began his career writing light, humorous verse, but he became a chronicler of the vanities, hypocrisies, and murderous acts of mankind. At mid-career, he combined rich humor, sturdy narrative, and social criticism in Huckleberry Finn. He was a master of rendering ______?
A:) Political speech
B:) Colloquial speech
C:) Demonstrative speech
D:) Conventional speech
springline- Correct option: B:) Colloquial speech