english literature MCQs – Page 264

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 Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.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

5261. T.S. Eliots TheWaste Land begins with which of the following well-known opening lines ?
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A. Was it for this-

B. And the worst friend and enemy is but Death.

C. April is the cruellest month

D. Riverrun, past Eve and Adams, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.

5262. Which of the following best describes James Joyces Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ?
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A. It begins with the famous line: Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo?

B. It captures the conflict that Stephen Dedalus has with his Irish and Catholic heritage.

C. It is a semi-autobiographical account of Joyces coming of age as an artist.

D. All of the above

5263. Which of the following is NOT a modernist art movement ?
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A. Symbolism

B. Realism

C. Surrealism

D. Dadaism

5264. Fill in the blank. Written over the course of his life, Ezra Pounds .. is an examination of the human desire for knowledge and understanding in an inchoate modern landscape ?
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A. The Sun Also Rises

B. To the Lighthouse

C. Hugh Selwyn Mauberley

D. The Cantos

5265. Which of the following is NOT one of the general themes of concern in Derek Walcotts poemBecune Point ?
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A. Nature

B. Christianity

C. World War II

D. Pastoral landscapes

5266. The motto art for arts sake means that artists began to do which of the following ?
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A. Produce works of art that were meaningless

B. Make art profitable above all else

C. Avoid all forms of prose

D. Reject artistic production that was obligatorily moral in character

5267. Which of the following statements concerning Vorticism is false ?
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A. Practitioners of Vorticism often saw themselves just as much as educators as artists as they taught the public a new, more graphic language.

B. The practice of Vorticism in artistic circles grew after World War I.

C. The term Vorticism was coined in 1914 by the avant-gardist Ezra Pound.

D. The periodical and manifesto named BLAST attempted to expound Vorticisms principal tenets.

5268. The French novelist J.K. Huysmans, in his work Against the Grain, is intended to convey which of the following ideas ?
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A. It ends with the famous line the horror, the horror.

B. It explores Jeans decision to become a recluse and a social drop-out.

C. The work celebrates the young Jean and his Jesuit school education as a model for the best possible education of the young.

D. All of the above

5269. Which of the following sentences is the famous first line of Nabokovs Lolita ?
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A. Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul.

B. Lolita, look at this tangle of thorns.

C. Lolita, all at once we were madly, clumsily, shamelessly, agonizingly in love with each other.

D. Lolita, a cluster of stars palely glowed above us.

5270. Important contemporary reviews of Virginia Woolfs To the Lighthouse tend to focus on which of the following aspects of the novel ?
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A. The novels radically unique narrative voice

B. The novels experimental structure

C. The profound and often troubling relationships among characters

D. All of the above

5271. Who painted The Accommodations of Desire ?
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A. Salvador Dal

B. Man Ray

C. Pablo Picasso

D. Juan Mir

5272. Salman Rushdies Midnights Children is a novel characterized by which of the following descriptions ?
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A. It is an excellent example of Magical Realism.

B. All of the above

C. It is concerned with the post-colonial situation of India before and after its partitioning into India and Pakistan.

D. It is a book that tells the story of the Sinai family.

5273. What famous modernist short story compares the universe to an infinite library of hexagonal galleries ?
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A. Joyces The Dead

B. Borges The Library of Babel

C. Hemingways My Old Man

D. Woolfs A Haunted House

5274. Which of the following best describes stream of consciousness narrative in the modern period ?
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A. Stream of consciousness attempts to accurately capture the external dialogue of various characters in a realistic setting by an objective observer.

B. A and B only

C. Stream of consciousness is the capturing of the interior monologue of the narrator.

D. Stream of consciousness often relies upon free association of ideas.

5275. According to Dr. Michael Webster in his essay, Poetic Modes in the late 19th and early 20th Century, which of the following is NOT a poetic mode of this time period ?
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A. Impressionist

B. Symbolist

C. Genteel

D. Decadent

5276. Which of the following statements regarding Oscar Wilde is false ?
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A. His career ended when he was jailed for criminal gross indecency.

B. He was notorious for his use of paradox.

C. He believed that art should be something more than the reproduction and appreciation of the natural world.