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 Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.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

5181. What is the relationship between the practices of New Historicism and New Criticism ?
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A. New Historicism was a reaction against New Criticism, which was seen as too narrowly focused on text rather than context.

B. Both fields of literary study are American in origin.

C. New Historicism is simply an early form of Cultural Materialism.

D. Both fields of study are strictly focused on how readers interpret and invent meanings for literary texts.

5182. Who was Le Corbusier ?
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A. He was born Charles-Edouard Jeanneret.

B. He was an architect who designed The Chandigarh Legislative Assembly building in Punjab, India.

C. He was the architect who designed The Robie House in Chicago, Illinois.

D. Both A and B

5183. The development of cubism, with its geometric and abstract concerns, can be attributed largely to which of the following two artists ?
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A. George Braque and Pablo Picasso

B. Claude Monet and douard Manet

C. Pablo Picasso and Claude Monet

D. T.S. Eliot and Wyndham Lewis

5184. Jazz music is described by which of the following characteristics ?
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A. All of the above

B. A way of questioning Victorian moral conceptions

C. An example of subjective artistic expression

D. A musical invention of the modern age that allows for experimentation of form

5185. Which of the following authors is considered a major theorist of deconstruction ?
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A. Raymond Williams

B. Jacques Derrida

C. Fredric Jameson

D. Both A and B

5186. Fill in the blank. Walter Benjamin was most clearly a student of ____________s work?
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A. Darwin

B. Marx

C. Freud

D. Aristotle

5187. What is Imagism ?
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A. A and B only

B. An attempt to use the exact word instead of flowery, excessive descriptive language in poetry

C. B and C only

D. A poetic movement which hoped to offer clear expression of ideas and feelings through the use of specific visual images

5188. Which of the following best describes the novel The God of Small Things?
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A. It is a lyrical novel that explores cultural identity and decline of an Indian family.

B. It is a stream-of-consciousness narrative that explores cultural identity in nineteenth-century Ireland.

C. It is a Romantic novel that explores the decline of a Russian family.

D. It is a lyrical novel that explores the decline of a Caribbean family.

5189. Which of the following famous literary lines is contained in William Butler Yeats poem The Second Coming ?
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A. Hearing of harvests rotting in the valleys

B. And we rebuild our cities, not dream of islands

C. Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold

D. Mother died today

5190. Which of the following is NOT a tenet of F.T. Marinettis Futurist Manifesto ?
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A. We want to sing the man who holds the steering wheel, whose ideal stem pierces the Earth, itself launched on the circuit of its orbit.

B. We want never to glorify war, the scourge of the planet.

C. The essential elements of our poetry will be courage, daring, and revolt.

D. We want to sing the love of danger, the habit of danger and of temerity.

5191. Between 1890 and 1919, which of the following was a preoccupation of Western European literature ?
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A. Sexual mores

B. Bourgeois sensibility

C. All of the above

D. The importance of the irrational

5192. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of Naturalism as an artistic and literary movement ?
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A. Naturalism depicts the more animalistic tendencies of humans.

B. Naturalism considers the author or artist to be like a scientist.

C. Naturalism depicts humans as reasonable and objective.

D. Naturalism is a search for scientific certainty.

5193. The last decade of the nineteenth century saw the development of a number of literary and cultural movements which amounted to a rejection of the principles of Victorianism because of which social transformations ?
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A. The shift from agriculturally-based to industrial societies in the West

B. The decline of traditional religious beliefs in Europe

C. The rise of traditional social identities and the decline of personal identity

D. Both A and B

5194. Which of the following was one of the major health consequences for soldiers who survived the traumas of trench warfare in World War One ?
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A. Lyme disease

B. Shell shock

C. Staph infections

D. A and C only

5195. Georges Braques Woman with a Guitar is an example of which of the following artistic movements ?
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A. Vorticism

B. A and B only

C. Futurism

D. Cubism

5196. Which of the following statements does NOT reflect the general characteristics of T.S. Eliots The Wasteland ?
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A. The Wasteland is often used as an excellent example of poetic realism.

B. Eliots poem takes great pains to illustrate the breakdown of stable meaning in the modern world.

C. Some academic scholars suggest that TheWasteland is an extrapolation of the search for the Holy Grail.

D. The Wasteland is an excellent example of modernist symbolism.

5197. Which of the following is true of Charles Baudelaires Bndiction ?
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A. It was originally written in English.

B. It celebrates the almost divine power of the poet.

C. It suggests that poetry is demonic in nature.

D. Both A and B

5198. Which of the following statements is true of the Anglo-Irish War ?
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A. The Anglo-Irish war began with the resistance of the Irish Republican Army.

B. The Anglo-Irish war never involved a guerrilla campaign.

C. All of the above

D. In the course of the Anglo-Irish War, only a few hundred members of the Irish Republican Army were actively resisting British rule.

5199. Which of the following authors is NOT an important Irish writer ?
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A. E.M. Forster

B. William Butler Yeats

C. James Joyce

D. Seamus Heaney

5200. Post-Modernism is often characterized by which of the following attitudes ?
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A. A fascination with the past but a past that is used out of its original context as pastiche

B. A reinforcement of master narratives

C. A rejection of master narratives

D. Both A and C

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