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 Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.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

5221. Literary critics who analyze the works of Salman Rushdie often engage which Post-Modern school of criticism ?
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A. Marxism

B. Post-Colonial Theory

C. Feminism

D. Deconstruction

5222. T.S. Eliot considered which of the following one of the greatest short stories ever written ?
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A. The Heart of Darkness

B. To the Lighthouse

C. The Dead

D. The Surrealist Manifesto

5223. Why does the Flneur begin to disappear as a Parisian phenomenon ?
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A. Because of the advent of arcade projects

B. Because of the increasing prominence of department stores in Paris

C. Because they began to purchase products as they walked the urbanscape

D. Because they were threatened by police with jail

5224. Which of the following Post-Modern theoreticians explores the contradictions of colonial discourse and the ambivalence that the colonizer feels towards the colonized other in works such as Nation and Narration ?
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A. Linda Hutcheon

B. Homi Bhabha

C. Jacques Derrida

D. Fredric Jameson

5225. E.M. Forster wrote which of the following novels ?
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A. Daniel Deronda

B. Pale Fire

C. A Passage to India

D. On the Road

5226. Which author writes a profound criticism of Joseph Conrads Heart of Darkness, accusing Conrad of reinforcing typical European stereotypes of Africa ?
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A. Edward Said

B. Chinua Achebe

C. Salman Rushdie

D. Arundhati Roy

5227. Siegfried Sassoons poem To Victory is concerned primarily with which of the following themes ?
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A. His death and escape from suffering.

B. His ability to finally kill an enemy soldier

C. His safe return home

D. The defeat of the Germans

5228. Who wrote the collection of poems entitled The Wind Among the Reeds ?
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A. W.B. Yeats

B. Charles Baudelaire

C. Jorge Luis Borges

D. Mario Vargas Llosa

5229. According to Walter Benjamin in The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, which of the following is true ?
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A. Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be.

B. The feeling of strangeness that overcomes the actor before the camera, as Pirandello describes it, is basically of the same kind as the estrangement felt before ones own image in the mirror.

C. All art work, even mass produced art, clearly links to an original referent that has a stable and knowable meaning.

D. Both A and B

5230. What is Mimesis ?
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A. It is a philosophical term which means imitation or mimicry.

B. A and C only

C. It is a critical term, which describes the act of expression and the presentation of self-identity, theorized by academics, such as Erich Auerbach.

D. It is a philosophical and critical term meaning otherness.

5231. Which of the following is true of Arthur Rimbauds poem Eternity ?
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A. It ends with the lines: Eternity./It is the sea run off/ With the sun.

B. The poem speaks of the necessity of seeking human approval and communal acceptance.

C. It begins with the lines: I kissed the dawn of summer.

D. It suggests that the quest for knowledge and enlightenment is deeply satisfying.

5232. Which of the following descriptions of the Avant-Garde Movement is false ?
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A. The avant-garde, a military term meaning advanced guard, was founded in France in the mid-19th century.

B. The term avant-garde itself means advanced guard, and the military role of the advanced guard and the role of the avantgarde art movement are much of the same.

C. The realist painter Gustave Courbet never considered himself a member of the avant-garde.

D. Both A and B

5233. Jorge Luis Borges was born the same year as what other famous modern author ?
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A. Vladimir Nabokov

B. Joseph Conrad

C. T.S. Eliot

D. James Joyce

5234. Flneur, according to Dr. Heather Marcelle Crickenberger in her essay The Flneur, is a term the French understand to mean which of the following ?
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A. Stroller, idler, walker

B. An inhabitant of a rural village

C. A religious believer

D. Both A and B

5235. Which of the following statements best describes the Great Depression ?
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A. B and C only

B. The Great Depression was the longest and most severe depression ever experienced by Western civilization since industrialization.

C. The Great Depression lasted for one hundred years.

D. The Great Depression was a severe economic downturn in the industrialized world that began in 1929 and lasted for approximately ten years.

5236. According to Theodor Adornos and Max Horkheimers The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception, which of the following is true of the culture industry ?
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A. The culture industry is the chief method by which technology brings true democracy to all.

B. The culture industry is chiefly intended to offer consumers the opportunity to classify wants and desires as well as corresponding production.

C. The culture industry is a fundamental way to promote individuality.

D. The culture industry is classified by ruthless uniformity of all ideas.

5237. According to Tristan Tzaras Manifesto on Dadaism, which of the following does NOT define Dadaism ?
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A. Every product of disgust capable of becoming a negation of the family

B. Absolute and unquestionable faith in every god that is the immediate product of spontaneity

C. A protest with the fists of its whole being engaged in destructive action

D. A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing

5238. Which of the following is NOT one of Pablo Picassos periods of artistic production ?
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A. Rose period

B. Synthetic cubism

C. Dadaist period

D. Blue period

5239. In Jorge Luis Borges The Library of Babel, which of the following is NOT a major concern of the work ?
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A. The short work speaks of the daunting search for truth and knowledge.

B. The library is analogous to the universe.

C. Borges takes great pains to show how the key to understanding the library is reason.

D. It is obsessed with the descriptions of an endless and ultimately incomprehensible library.

5240. Which of the following best describes Samuel Becketts play Waiting for Godot ?
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A. Becketts work captures an almost transcendent melancholy as it explores human

B. Becketts work expresses a certain frustration with the inability of language to fully capture the human condition.

C. Becketts play explores how language helps to form ones notion of self.

D. ires for a redemption that may or may not ever materialize.

E. All of the above

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