AP Quotes



AP Quotes and Literature

Mr. Brush

Units 1-19

Multiple Choice

1. John Winthrop wrote this aboard the Arrabella during which he mentions a “Ciity vpon a Hill”:

[A] Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

[B] A Modell of Christian Charity

[C] The Starving Time

[D] The Mayflower Compact

[E] The Blue Laws of Connecticut

2. Which person preached the famous sermon called “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”?

[A] John Winthrop

[B] George Whitefield

[C] Anne Hutchinson

[D Captain John Smith

[E] Jonathan Edwards

3. What is the source of this document?

“…a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia, do by these presents solemnly and mutually, in the presence of God and one another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic, for our better ordering and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid ; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.”

[A] A Starving Time

[B] Blue Laws of Connecticut

[C] Mayflower Compact

[D] Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

[E] A Modell of Christian Charity

4. Edward Bellamy’s book Looking Backward was

[A] a fictional expose of the meatpacking industry

[B] a detailed program for social reform

[C] the catalyst of the social gospel movement

[D] a denunciation of machine politics in big-city government

[E] a futuristic utopian fantasy

5. Who is the author of The Starving Time (1609)?

[A] Governor William Berkeley

[B] John Rolfe

[C] Captain John Smith

[D] Pocahontas

[E] Sir Walter Raleigh

6. Who was a historian, governor of the Plymouth Colony for thirty-one years and one of the signers of the Mayflower Compact?

[A] Peter Brown

[B] Samuel Fuller

[C] Jonathan Edwards

[D] William Bradford

[E] Roger Williams

7. Who is the General Court cross-examining?

“…Mr. Nowell: How do you know that it was God that did reveal these things to you, and not Satan? __________: How did Abraham know that it was God that [sacrificed] his son, being a breach of the sixth commandment? Deputy-Governor Dudley: By an immediate voice. ___________; So to me by an immediate revelation. Deputy-Governor Dudley: How! An immediate revelation? _______: By the voice of his own spirit to my soul.”

[A] Roger Williams

[B] John Winthrop

[C] Anne Hutchinson

[D] William Bradford

[E] Jonathan Edwards

8. “We cannot be happy without being free; we cannot be free without being secure in our property; we cannot be secure in our property if, without our consent, others may, as a right, take it away; taxes imposed on us by Parliament do thus take it away.”

The above quotation comes from which author and work?

[A] Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography

[B] Adam Smith’s Balance Sheet

[C] John Dickinson’s Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer

[D] Jonathan Edwards’ Sinners in the hands of an Angry God

[E] The Proclamation of 1763

9. Where does the following document derive from?

Q: Do you not think the people of America would submit to pay the stamp duty, if it were moderated?

A: No never, unless compelled by force of arms.

Q: What was the temper of America towards Great Britain before the year 1763?

A: The best in the world. They submitted willingly to the government of the Crown, and paid, in all their courts, obedience to acts of Parliament…”

[A] Philadelphia Threatens Tea Men

[B] Dean Josiah Tucker Advises a Divorce

[C] Connecticut Decries the Boston Port Act

[D] Benjamin Franklin Testifies Against the Stamp Act

[E] Virginia Resents Restrictions

10. Who is the author of the following work?

“He that lies down with dogs, shall rise up with fleas.

Take this from Richard poor and lame, Whate’er begun in anger ends in shame.

He that waits upon a Fortune, is never sure of a Dinner.”

[A] Richard Henry Lee

[B] Abraham Lincoln

[C] Thomas Jefferson

[D] Benjamin Franklin

[E] John Adams

11. Who is the source of the following?

“To conclude, I have done what is possible both to friend and enemy; have granted Mr. Bacon three pardons, which he hath scornfully rejected, supposing himself stronger to subvert than I and you to maintain laws, by which only, and God’s assisting grace and mercy, all men must hope for peace and safety.”

[A] Nathanial Bacon

[B] Governor Berkeley

[C] Mary Rowlandson

[D] William Bradford

[E] Cotton Mather

12. Susana Haswell Rowson’s book Charlotte Temple illustrated

[A] the rise of feminist views in the Revolution of 1800

[B] the rise in demand for books appealing to women

[C] the rise of the American novel as an art form

[D] the ideas of “republican motherhood”

[E] federalist viewpoints embedded in novels

13. Which humanitarian below worked to win public support for a more just treatment of Native Americans, as the author of A Century of Dishonor and Ramona?

[A] Susan B. Anthony

[B] Lucretia Mott

[C] Ida Tarbell

[D] Upton Sinclair

[E] Helen Hunt Jackson

14. Who stated the following about ordinary people serving in government?

“One great error is that we suppose mankind more honest than they are…I have an indifferent [low] opinion of the honesty of this country, and ill forebodings as to its future system…”

[A] Jonathan Edwards

[B] Thomas Jefferson

[C] Captain John Smith

[D] Alexander Hamilton

[E] Governor William Berkeley

15. Henry George’s most famous book was

[A] Looking Backward

[B] Progress and Poverty

[C] The Jungle

[D] The Shame of the Cities

[E] Sister Carrie

16. The two names associated with yellow journalism are

[A] William Randolph Hearst and Henry Clay Frick

[B] Joseph Pulitzer and Andrew Carnegie

[C] Lucretia Mott and Eugene V. Debs

[D] William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer

[E] Samuel Gompers and J.P. Morgan

17. What events does this quote refer to?

“Thus the sense of this oppression and the dread of a common approaching calamity made the…multitude mad, and precipitated them upon that rash overture of running out upon the Indians themselves, at their own voluntary charge and hazard….Only they first by petition humbly craved…commission to be led by any commander… as the Governor should please to appoint…. But instead of granting this petition, the Governor by proclamation, under great penalty, forbade the petitioning for the future.”

[A] Whiskey Rebellion

[B] Stono Rebellion

[C] Pinckney’s treaty

[D] The Mayflower Compact

[E] Bacon’s Rebellion

18. Which of the following statements concerning the Federalist Papers is true?

[A] Jefferson, Madison and Hamilton drafted them

[B] They contained essays that both defended and criticized the Constitution

[C] They were written as propaganda to support the ratification of the Constitution

[D] They were banned in the New York newspapers

[E] They outlined the dangers of “Republicanism” in the new nation

19. Defense of Freedom of the Press was written by

[A] James Otis

[B] Andrew Hamilton

[C] John Peter Zenger

[D] Benjamin Franklin

[E] Thomas Jefferson

20. Who argued in court, in 1761, that Parliaments use of “writs of assistance” trampled on the liberty of people?

[A] John Adams

[B] Andrew Hamilton

[C] James Otis

[D] Governor Berkeley

[E] John Peter Zenger

21. According to Alexis de Toqueville in Democracy in America, American individualism arose as a result of

[A] the absence of aristocracy

[B] limited geographic mobility

[C] the uneven distribution of wealth

[D] urbanization

[E] the Enlightenment

22. Michael Harrington’s The Other America (1962) had a significant impact on public policy because it

[A] vividly described the plight of Native Americans on the reservations

[B] addressed the problems of environmental pollution

[C] drew attention to the persistence of poverty in the United States

[D] dealt with the effectiveness of the Jim Crow laws in the South that denied African-Americans voting rights

[E] highlighted the difficulties faced by migrant workers

23. “Let Southern oppressors tremble…I shall strenuously contend for immediate enfranchisement…I will be as harsh as truth and uncompromising as justice.”

The author of the statement above was

[A] John C. Calhoun

[B] Stephen Douglass

[C] Henry Clay

[D] Abraham Lincoln

[E] William Lloyd Garrison

24. Who stated the following?

“This then is the duty of the man of wealth: first set an example of modest, unostentatious living, shunning display of extravagance; to provide moderately for the legitimate wants of those dependent on him; and after doing so to consider all surplus revenues which come to him simply as trust funds, which he is called upon to administer…in the manner which, in his judgment, is best calculated to produce the most beneficial results for the community-the man of wealth thus becoming the mere agent and trustee for his poorer brethren…doing for them better than they would or could do for themselves…”

[A] John D. Rockefeller

[B] Boss Tweed

[C] Thomas Nast

[D] Andrew Carnegie

[E] J.P. Morgan

25. The statement that “all men and women are created equal” and that “the history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her….” was issued by

[A] organizers of the National Organization of Women (NOW)

[B] United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in support of women’s suffrage

[C] Seneca Falls women’s rights convention in its “Declaration of Sentiments and Resolution”

[D] supporters of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)

[E] National Women’s Suffrage Association and the American Women’s Suffrage Association in a joint unity resolution

26. Horatio Alger, a novelist in the late nineteenth century, reflected a positive reaction to capitalism and Darwinism by

[A] encouraging young people to become anarchists

[B] frightening society with stories of futuristic consequences of immoral behavior

[C] labeling community leaders as greedy politicians

[D] inspiring boys to struggle for success through effort and sacrifice

[E] encouraging the common man to abandon America and flee to Europe

27. “…the policy of the government of the United States is to seek a solution which may bring about permanent safety and peace to China, preserve Chinese territorial and administrative entity, protect all rights guaranteed to friendly powers by treaty and international law, and safeguard for the world the principle of equal and impartial trade with all parts of the Chinese empire.”

This quotation is part of the

[A] Burlingame Treaty

[B] Boxer Protocol

[C] Kellogg-Briand Pact

[D] Open Door Notes

[E] Stimson Doctrine

28. Phyllis Wheatley became the first

[A] woman elected to Congress in 1848, thus being the person that initiated the

19th Amendment

[B] Black woman to speak up for women’s rights at the Seneca Falls Convention.

[C] American aviatrix, a woman pilot.

[D] woman presidential candidate in 1796 and almost defeated John Adams.

[E] Black poet to publish her writings which led to the new genre of African-American Literature

29. “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for the redress of grievances.”

This is taken directly from which Amendment?

[A] 27

[B] 15

[C] 5

[D] 19

[E] 1

30. Georgia O’Keeffe, Thomas Hart Benton, and Edward Hopper were all

[A] American painters in the 1920’s

[B] pioneers in the field of a distinctly American music

[C] known for their abstract paintings of flowers and other objects

[D] pioneers in the building of skyscrapers

[E] American literary figures of the first decade of the twentieth century

31. Which of the following muckrakers is NOT correctly matched with their work?

[A] Upton Sinclair…The Jungle

[B] Ida Tarbell…A History of the Standard Oil Company

[C] Lincoln Steffens…Shame of the Cities

[D] Frank Norris…The Tarantula

[E] Joseph Spargo…The Bitter Cry of the Children

32. What book and its author helped to popularize the environment in her sensational 1962 expose about the far-reaching effects of pesticides on birds, plants, animals and humans?

[A] A Century of Dishonor…Helen Hunt Jackson

[B] The Grapes of Wrath…John Steinbeck

[C] Silent Spring…Rachel Carson

[D] The Feminine Mystique…Betty Freidan

[E] A History of the Standard Oil Company…Ida Tarbell

33. Leaves of Grass was written by

[A] Thomas Paine

[B] Walt Whitman

[C] John Humphrey Noyes

[D] Louisa May Alcott

[E] Emily Dickinson

34. In 1849 this author published On the Duty of Civil Disobedience, asserting

“I heartily accept the motto, ‘That government is best which governs least’; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically…Government is at best and expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient.”

[A] John Audubon

[B] Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes

[C] Louisa May Alcott

[D] Henry David Thoreau

[E] Edgar Allan Poe

35. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is known to have written:

[A] Little Women

[B] Leaves of Grass

[C] The Song of Hiawatha

[D] The American Scholar

[E] Walden

36. John Audubon was a(n)

[A] optometrist

[B] mathematician

[C] suffragist

[D] school teacher

[E] ornithologist

37. “The problem of birth control has risen directly from the effort of the feminine spirit to free itself from bondage. Woman herself has wrought that bondage through her reproductive powers and while enslaving herself has enslaved herself….No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother…”

This is an excerpt from Woman and the New Race, written by

[A] Sojourner Truth

[B] Susan B. Anthony

[C] William Lloyd Garrison

[D] Margaret Sanger

[E] Rachel Carson

38. Jack Kerouac’s On the Road and Dharma Bums articulated the ideals of

[A] the silent majority

[B] the “lost generation”

[C] Middle America

[D] the beat generation

[E] conservative academics

39. Which book was a major impetus in the growth of the women’s movement in the 1960’s?

[A] Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring

[B] Pearl S. Buck’s The Good Earth

[C] Lorraine Hansbury’s A Raisin in the Sun

[D] Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin

[E] Betty Freidan’s The Feminine Mystique

40. “It is inconsistent with the spirit of neutrality for a neutral nation to make loans to belligerent nations, for money is worst of all contrabands—it commands all other things…as neutral government does all in its power to discourage its citizens from enlisting in the armies of other countries, it should discourage those who by loaning money would do more than they could by enlisting. The government withdraws its protection of citizenship from those who do enlist under other flags—why should it give protection to money when it enters foreign military service?”

This attitude by Secretary of state Bryan before the United States entered World war I was later echoed in the

[A] Marshall plan

[B] Fourteen Points

[C] Nye Commission investigations

[D] Atlantic Charter

[E] Lend-Lease Act

41. The novelist known for his critique of life in small-town America is

[A] Georgia O’Keefe

[B] William Faulkner

[C] Theodore Dreiser

[D] Sinclair Lewis

[E] Frank Lloyd Wright

42. American writers of the 1920’s have often been called the ‘lost generation’ because they

[A] were disillusioned with the course of American life

[B] found it difficult to publish their work

[C] failed to achieve fame in their lifetime

[D] were politically radical in a conservative era

[E] preferred to write for a European rather than American audience

43. This muckraking novel addressed the abuses that occurred in Chicago’s meatpacking industry?

[A] The Octopus

[B] How the Other Half Lives

[C] Shame of the Cities

[D] The Jungle

[E] The History of the Standard Oil Company

44. Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin, a novel about slavery, in response to the

[A] Nat Turner Insurrection (1831) in Southampton County, Virginia

[B] trial and execution of John Brown

[C] passage of the Fugitive Slave Law

[D] admission of Missouri into the Union as a slave state

[E] annexation of Texas

45. “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this…for the United States of America.”

This prologue comes from the

[A] Declaration of Independence

[B] Declaration of Rights

[C] Constitution of the United States

[D] Mayflower Compact

[E] A Modell of Christian Charity

46. The eclectic reader, published by William McGuffey is equivalent to a modern day

[A] novel

[B] newspaper

[C] textbook

[D] constitution

[E] comic book

47. Which of these authors are NOT correctly paired with their work?

[A] F. Scott Fitzgerald…The Great Gatsby

[B] Theodore Dreiser…A Universal Tragedy

[C] T.S. Eliot…The Wasteland

[D] William Faulkner…Soldier’s Pay

[E]Sherwood Anderson…Babbitt

48. The term Lost Generation was coined by this person and is used to describe American expatriate writers of the 1920’s:

[A] F. Scott Fitzgerald

[B] T.S. Eliot

[C] Gertrude Stein

[D] Ernest Hemingway

[E] Upton Sinclair

49. Which author and their book are credited with creating the consumer protection movement?

[A] Rachel Carson…Silent Spring

[B] Ralph Nader…Unsafe At Any Speed

[C] Betty Freidan…Feminine Mystique

[D] Henry David Thoreau…Walden

[E] Jack Kerouac…On the Road

50. Hinton’s R. Helper’s book The Impending Crisis of the South was intended as

[A] a refutation of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin

[B] an argument against slavery as an economic institution

[C] a rallying cry against abolitionism

[D] a condemnation of the violent acts of Preston Brooks

[E] a rational defense of the practice of slavery

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