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 Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.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

5201. The poem In Flanders Fields was written by John McCrae referring to which war ?
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A. World War II

B. World War I

C. The American Civil War

D. The Franco-Prussian War

5202. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of Realism as an artistic and literary movement ?
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A. Realism depicts the tension between harsh reality and ideals.

B. Realism strives to depict humans within a certain social context.

C. Realism gives up the search for truth and instead embraces moral relativism.

D. Realism explores ethical quandaries within a social context.

5203. Which of the following statements best describes Magical Realism ?
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A. Magical realism often accepts both a materialist and a supernatural view of the real.

B. Magical realism differs from fantasy and science fiction in that it considers the impossible as normal.

C. The term magical realism was first coined by Franz Roh, a German art critic.

D. All of the above

5204. The literary style of Virginia Woolfs novel To the Lighthouse is best described in which of the following ways ?
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A. As an omniscient narrative of love and loss

B. As a domestic stream of consciousness narrative

C. A and B only

D. As a third-person narrative of the Great Depression

5205. What are the differences between conservative modernism and progressive modernism ?
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A. All of the above

B. Conservative modernism supported the status quo, while progressive modernism was deeply engaged in political and social amelioration.

C. Conservative modernism came to look to the past for inspiration and hope, while progressive modernism looked to the future.

D. Conservative modernism celebrated aesthetic formalism, while progressive modernism celebrated innovation and attacked aesthetic formalism.

5206. Which of the following artists did NOT produce Surrealist photography ?
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A. Man Ray

B. Ansel Adams

C. Hans Bellmer

D. Maurice Tabard

5207. According to Dr. Dino Fellugas General Introduction to Postmodernism, Roland Barthes, in his work The Death of the Author, argues which of the following points ?
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A. The modern writer (scriptor) is born simultaneously with his text.

B. Once the Author is gone, the claim to decipher a text is quite simple.

C. A text never consists of multiple writings, it is always the product of a monolithic culture.

D. Both A and B

5208. Which of the following statements best describes the British East India Company ?
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A. The British East India Company was originally a group of London businessmen engaged in importing spices from South Asia.

B. The British East India Company first entered South Asia as importers of British Tea.

C. The British East India Company was essentially a covert British army.

D. Both A and B

5209. According to Dr. Dino Fellugas General Introduction to Postmodernism, what is the meaning of the term simulacra ?
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A. A stable referent to a knowable original cultural artifact

B. A basic affirmation of everyday reality

C. Something that replaces reality with its representation

D. An exact imitation of the material world

5210. The term Lost Generation can be applied to which of the following groups ?
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A. A and B only

B. A group of self-imposed American expatriates living in Paris that included Ernest Hemingway, Hart Crane, and Henry Miller

C. A group of artists and writers who were deeply marked by the traumas of World War I

D. Any American in self-exile in Europe to avoid fighting in World War I

5211. According to Max Simon Nordau in his work Degeneration, which of the following best describes the term Fin de Sicle ?
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A. A confession and a complaint

B. All of the above

C. The impotent despair of a sick man, who feels himself dying by inches in the midst of an eternally living nature blooming insolently forever

D. A term that means nothing except for the signification given to it by the user

5212. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of Modernism ?
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A. A radical project of experimentation with literary and artistic form

B. A belief in the power of the natural world to communicate transcendent truth

C. The use of irony and parody

D. Both A and B

5213. Which of the following literary terms is NOT commonly deployed in Post- Colonial theory ?
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A. Hybridity

B. Serendipity

C. Mimicry

D. Ambivalence

5214. Which novelist is NOT commonly thought of as producing Post-Colonial work ?
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A. Arundhati Roy

B. Seamus Heaney

C. Vladimir Nabokov

D. Salman Rushdie

5215. Which of the following are contemporary Indian artists who have begun to more critically examine Indias post-colonial situation ?
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A. Rummana Hussain

B. Ravinder Reddy

C. Dadabhai Naoroji

D. A and B only

5216. According to Dr. Dino Fellugas module on Freud, Sigmund Freuds work on transference and trauma argues which of the following points ?
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A. Most victims of trauma do not exhibit the compulsion of the human psyche to repeat traumatic events over and over again.

B. Talk therapy will not help cure ones psychological neuroses concerning past trauma.

C. There is an undeniable tension between the death-instinct and the sexual instincts.

D. Repetition-compulsion does not help to come to terms with ones own mortality.

5217. What is Post-Modernism ?
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A. A term used to describe contemporary cultural production

B. An attempt to break down the barriers between high and low culture

C. All of the above

D. A literary movement concerned with extreme self-reflexivity

5218. Fill in the blank. The novel Things Fall Apart explores ____________ society and its encounter with European colonialism?
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A. Russian

B. Ibo

C. Irish

D. Indian

5219. Which of the following artists was NOT influenced by Surrealism ?
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A. Salvador Dal

B. Marcel Duchamp

C. Paul Gauguin

D. Giorgio de Chirico

5220. As a result of the outbreak of World War I and anti-German sentiment which important British public figure had to adopt the family name of Windsor ?
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A. King George V

B. The Suffragette Emmeline Pankhust

C. King James II

D. King Edward VII

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