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Practise multiple-choice questions from english literature for competitive examinations and subject revision. Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.

english literature Mcqs

1. introduction to literary theory 2. miscellaneous literature 3. famous playwright poet and others 4. introduction to literary studies 5. cultural and literary in modernity 6. ages era period 7. cultural and literary english renaissance 8. modern poetry and poetics 9. medieval literature and culture 10. african american literature 11. the gothic novel 12. american literature 13. language and linguistics 14. english romantic poetry 15. literary theory and criticism 16. cultural and literary 18th 19th centuries

201. Who is the author of the novel The Golden Age ?
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A. Jane Austen

B. Tahmima Anam

C. Pearl S. Bark

D. Virginia Woolf

202. Sonia Sanchezs right on: white america is protesting________________?
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A. The extermination of Native Americans.

B. The fact that America still has a frontier mentality.

C. Black on black violence.

D. That there is a Black America and a White America.

203. Macbeth is a_____________?
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A. an essy

B. play

C. novel

D. poem

204. When Alfred Lord Tennyson was born ?
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A. 1811

B. 1810

C. 1812

D. 1809

205. In Jean Toomers Her Lips Are Copper Wires, a kiss is compared to_______________?
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A. A waterfall.

B. A war.

C. A factory.

D. Electricity.

206. Heard Melodies are sweet but those unheard are sweeter is a line from_______________?
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A. The Prelude

B. None of these

C. Ode on a Grecian Urn

D. Ode to Autumn

207. The Revolt of Islam was written by________________?
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A. None of these

B. Wordsworth

C. Coleridge

D. Shelley

208. The period between 1660 to 1750 is known as___________________?
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A. The age of Milton

B. None of these

C. The Age of Classicism

D. The Restoration

209. Who wrote one of the most famous African American poems that begins with what happens to a dream deferred ?
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A. Alice Walker

B. Etheridge Knight

C. Langston Hughes

D. Martin Luther King, Jr.

210. Elegy is______________________?
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A. figurative story

B. Historical poem

C. short story

D. song of lamentation

211. Gunter Grass got Nobel Prize in-xviii ?
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A. 1999

B. 2000

C. 1997

D. 1998

212. How many chapters are in the Quran ?
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A. 42

B. 98

C. 114

D. 67

213. ______________is the school of literary writings is a medical theory ?
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A. Comedy of Manners

B. Heroic Tragedy

C. Theater of the Absurd

D. Comedy of Humours

214. The importance of Lucy Terrys Bars Fight is______________?
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A. The poem is the first-known writing of an African American.

B. The poem is the first of many poems by Terry.

C. The poetry focuses on slave life in the 18th century.

D. The poem is better than the poems of the more famous Phillis Wheatley.

215. Until recent years it was thought that Harriet Jacobs Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl was____________?
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A. An anonymous narrative.

B. Based on a New England captivity narrative.

C. Fiction written by Lydia Maria Child.

D. Written by Jacobs son.

216. SARTOR RESARTUS is a prose work by________________?
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A. Carlyle

B. Lamb

C. Bacon

D. John Ruskin

217. Who wrote Uncle Toms Cabin, an indictment of slavery ?
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A. Harriet Beecher Stowe

B. Richard Wright

C. Phillis Wheatley

D. Frederick Douglass

218. What do you mean by Hyperbole ?
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A. an overstatement about something

B. a long verse

C. a long narrative poem

D. an overriding view

219. Who is the famous woman novelist in Victorian Age ________?
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A. E.B. Browning

B. Austen

C. George Eliot

D. T.S Eliot

220. Who wrote The Spanish Tragedy ?
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A. Thomas Kyd

B. Christopher Marlowe

C. John Lyly

D. Robert Green

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