english literature MCQs – Page 263

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 Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.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

5241. Who wrote the following statement: When you asked me to speak about women and fiction I sat down on the banks of a river and began to wonder what the words meant ?
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A. Amy Lowell

B. Virginia Woolf

C. Alice Walker

D. Gertrude Stein

5242. Fill in the blank. According to Sigmund Freud, psychological transference helps to understand the nature of ________________?
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A. Taboo

B. Trauma

C. Incest

D. Love

5243. Jorge Luis Borges is a native of which country ?
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A. Argentina

B. Britain

C. Brazil

D. Mexico

5244. According to T.S. Eliot in his essay on Tradition and the Individual Talent, which of the following is true of tradition ?
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A. Tradition is the great conversation which links all English literature and is a coherent and stable cannon.

B. A and B only

C. All of the above

D. In English literature, we cannot refer to the tradition or to a tradition; at most, we employ the adjective in saying that the poetry of so-and-so is traditional or even too traditional.

5245. Surrealism became an official aesthetic movement of the modern period with the publication of which work ?
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A. T.S. Eliots The Wasteland

B. Andre Bretons Surrealist Manifesto

C. Ernest Hemingways The Sun Also Rises

D. James Joyces Ulysses

5246. Which of the following is true of symbolism ?
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A. Symbolism began as a French literary movement in the late 19th century.

B. Paul Gauguin is an example of symbolism in painting.

C. Symbolism adheres to an objective view of reality and a rational and realistic depiction of the natural world.

D. Both A and B

5247. Which of the following is true of Ezra Pounds Canto XIV ?
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A. It deeply identifies with Dantes Inferno in terms of tone and thick description.

B. All of the above

C. It contains almost hellish imagery, such as: Melting like dirty wax,/decayed candles, the bums sinking lower,/faces submerged under hams.

D. It explores the theme of the perversion of language.

5248. Which of the following best describes James Joyces Araby ?
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A. It is a dramatization of the relationship between Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden.

B. It speaks of the authors illicit relationship with a young girl.

C. It is an analysis of Exodus from The Holy Bible.

D. It begins with the famous line: North Richmond Street being blind, was a quiet street except at the hour when the Christian Brothers School set the boys free.

5249. Which of the following descriptions accurately describes Joseph Conrads Heart of Darkness ?
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A. The end of the novella depicts Marlows conversation with the Kurtzs Intended.

B. The work considers the dark side of European colonialism.

C. Marlow comes to understand the necessity of European leadership in Africa.

D. Both A and B

5250. How may W.B. Yeats poem, The Second Coming, be interpreted ?
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A. As an interpretation of the Biblical Second Coming of Christ

B. As an attempt to support European colonialism in Africa

C. As a howl of despair concerning the current state of the world

D. Both A and C

5251. Theodor Adornos Culture Industry Reconsidered further examines the notion of the culture industry and suggests which of the following about the culture industry ?
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A. It destroys notions of high and low culture and replaces it with mass culture.

B. It is an industry in the sense that its aim is to standardize aesthetic taste and value.

C. It is a radical rethinking of mass culture in that it promotes the values of high culture and attempts to eradicate more popular forms of expression.

D. Both A and B

5252. What is meant by the Haussmannization of Paris ?
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A. It was a religious movement intended to celebrate the values of Christianity.

B. It was a political movement intended to overthrow Napoleon III.

C. It was an urban modernization project that reorganized Parisian city streets so that the bourgeoisie could flaunt their new wealth.

D. It was an urban renovation project which offered social services in city slums.

5253. Which of the following are well-known Post-Modern theoreticians ?
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A. Linda Hutcheon

B. Jean Baudrillard

C. Thomas Hobbes

D. Both A and B

5254. Which of the following statements best describes the Bloomsbury Group ?
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