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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 Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.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

3541. Mary Shelley wrote the novel Frankenstein in the form of a frame story that starts one character wring letters to his sister. Who is that character ?
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A. Sergent Thomas Vincent

B. Captain Cooper

C. Victor Frankenstein

D. Captain Robert Walton

3542. In which work Samuel Taylor Coleridge introduced the term willing suspension of disbelief in 1817 ?
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A. Christabel

B. Kubla Khan

C. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

D. Biographia Literaria

3543. Who is till wandring oer the earth ?
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A. Adam

B. Satan

C. Eve

D. Satans associates

3544. When was Samuel Taylor Coleridge born ?
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A. September 8, 1764

B. January 10, 1789

C. November 12, 1762

D. October 21, 1772

3545. Which of the following is the first novel of D. H. Lawrence ?
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A. The Trespasser

B. Sons and Lovers

C. The White Peacock

D. Women in Love

3546. From which year to which year that William Wordsworth served as the Poet Laureate of Britain ?
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A. 1843-1850

B. 1842-1851

C. 1833-1848

D. 1840-1855

3547. The epigraph of The Waste Land is borrowed from ?
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A. Seneca

B. Fetronius

C. Virgil

D. Homer

3548. What important event(s) occur(s) in John Miltons Paradise Lost immediately after Eve first eats of the Tree of Knowledge ?
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A. Raphael is immediately wounded by Eves transgression.

B. Nature is immediately wounded by Eves transgression.

C. Abdiel immediately flees the Council of Rebel Angels.

D. Satan is immediately wounded by Eves transgression.

3549. Who called Shelley a beautiful and ineffectual angel beating in the void his luminous wings in vain ?
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A. A. C. Swinburne

B. Matthew Arnold

C. T. S. Eliot

D. Walter Pater

3550. Throughout the poem, Satan transforms himself into many creatures. Which creature does Satan not turn into ?
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A. a serpent

B. a cherub

C. a toad

D. a mouse

3551. In Books I-II, the rebels of Satan build the Pandemonium. What is it ?
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A. A beautiful garden

B. The forbidden fruit

C. The capital of Heaven

D. The capital of Hell

3552. According to Constitution of 1962, ____________ was the highest Court of the country?
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A. Federal Shariat Court

B. None of these

C. Supreme Court

D. Federal Court

3553. Which of the following monarchs was restored to the British throne during the Restoration ?
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A. Henry VIII

B. Charles III

C. Charles II

D. Charles I

3554. Section ________ to __________, of the Sale of Goods Act deals with performance of the contract ?
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A. 31 to 44

B. 25 to 40

C. Both A and B

D. None of above

3555. At what famous university is Faustus a scholar ?
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A. Cambridge

B. Heidelberg

C. Wittenburg

D. Sorbonne

3556. In what country is Dr Faustus based ?
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A. Germany

B. England

C. Italy

D. France

3557. After graduating from university, John Milton toured the continent of Europe and likely met with which of the following individuals ?
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A. Charles II

B. Galileo

C. Michelangelo

D. A and B

3558. In Book One of Paradise Lost, the narrator identifies the fallen angels or devils by what names ?
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A. The names of foreign countries

B. Their surnames

C. The names of pagan gods

D. The names of the angels they will become

3559. In Samson Agonistes, the Chorus describes the approaching Dalila as beautifully and lavishly dressed to better seduce Samson. This is interesting because ?
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A. Samson is blind.

B. Samson hates this kind of lavish, external beauty.

C. the Chorus has just stated it hates this kind of lavish, external beauty.

D. Dalila usually dresses in a more understated Puritan manner.

3560. Renaissance first came to the ?
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A. England

B. Italy

C. Rome

D. France

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