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 Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.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

461. What is the principal subject of Marianne Moores poem An Octopus ?
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A. The ocean

B. An octopus

C. Mt. Rainier

D. Death

462. In his first lecture onWilliam Butler Yeats, Professor Hammer says that the young Yeats identified with King Goll. What does he mean by this ?
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A. Yeatss poetry was autobiographical, but he understood his life through the prism of myths and symbols; symbolism was therefore present in both Yeatss life and in his poetry.

B. Yeats believed that each person was an instance of a general cultural type or symbol.

C. The young Yeats wished to emphasize his identity as an English poet and draw attention away from his Irish heritage.

D. Both A and B

463. A poem of fourteen lines is called________________?
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A. Ode

B. Sonnet

C. Elege

D. Epic

464. Who was more under the influence of Godwins philosophy of life ?
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A. Keats

B. Shelley

C. Browning

D. Byron

465. Jane Austen is the writer of__________________?
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A. Rebecca

B. Ramona

C. Jane Eyre

D. Emma

466. The literary work Kubla khan is_______________?
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A. a verse by Coleridge

B. a drama by Oscar Wilde

C. a short story by Somerset Maugham

D. a history by Vincent Smith

467. Murder in the Cathedral is a play written by___________?
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A. Oscar Wilde

B. Marlowe

C. Shakespeare

D. T.S. Eliot

468. Find the Odd man out ?
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A. All for Love: John Milton

B. Roxana: Daniel Defoe

C. The Good-nature man: Oliver Goldsmith

D. Tom Jones : Henry Fielding

469. WorldWar I drastically changed the political and cultural climate in Europe. Which of the following was NOT among the changes brought about by World War I ?
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A. Successful parliamentary democracies were established throughout the continent and remained stable until the outbreak of World War II in 1939.

B. In the course of World War I, the Bolsheviks came to power in Russia.

C. By the end of the 1920s, almost every state that had participated in World War I faced an economic depression and political upheavals.

D. Germany was defeated and blamed for causing the war.

470. The literary work of Kubla Khan is_________________?
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A. a verse by Coleridge

B. a drama by Oscar Wilde

C. a history by Vincent Smith

D. a short story by Somerset Maugham

471. What the term Blank Verse refers_____________?
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A. having no blanks in the verse

B. having no rhyming end

C. having no rhythmic flow

D. having no significance

472. Which of the following phrases best describes the central goal of Imagist poets ?
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A. Clarity of expression through the use of precise visual images

B. Exploration of philosophical paradoxes through visual images

C. Emotional power achieved through suggestive visual images

D. Inclusion of natural objects as symbols

473. What was the primary significance of The Book of American Negro Poetry (1922), edited by James Weldon Johnson ?
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A. It provided literary criticism on African American poetry.

B. It established an authoritative and unquestionable canon of African American poetry.

C. It inspired Harlem Renaissance writers to establish a tradition of African American poetry.

D. It presented African American writers to a previously indifferent white audience.

474. Which of the following was NOT a prominent theme of American and English modernist poetry ?
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A. The quest to describe objects with precision and without emotion

B. The search for a new poetic language and the idea that language can be reinvented by poets

C. The approval of the norms and values of bourgeois culture

D. The idea that the self is neither unitary nor permanently stable

475. Complete the following sentence. Professor Hammer argues that Ezra Pounds interest in fascism and his anti-Semitic views were likely an outcome of his______________?
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A. interest in Fouriers utopian socialist thought.

B. anti-capitalism.

C. interest in ancient Rome.

D. endorsement of Marxism.

476. Shaws Man and Superman is an example of___________?
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A. Romantic Comedy

B. Comedy of Errors

C. Comedy of Manners

D. Comedy of Ideas

477. Which year Geoffrey Chaucer was born ?
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A. 1341 AD

B. 1340 AD

C. 1342 AD

D. 1343 AD

478. But Gods eternal Laws are kind And break the heart of stone. In which poem do these lines appear ?
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A. Ballad of Reading Goal (Oscar Wilde)

B. We Are Seven (Wordsworth)

C. None of these

D. Prisoner of Chillon (Byron)

479. Hero and Hero worship was written by______________?
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A. Carlyle

B. Mill

C. None of these

D. Ruskin

480. HYMN TO ADVERSITY is a poem by_______________?
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A. Edward gibbon

B. Thomas gray

C. William Blake

D. Alexander Pope

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