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 Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.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

5941. Which of the following writers was among the founders of the Imagist movement ?
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A. Salvador Dali

B. Horace Greeley

C. Ezra Pound

D. Rupert Brooke

5942. Which of the following images in Arthur Rimbauds poem Eternity undermines the idea that eternity is something fixed and permanent ?
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A. The image of a sentinel

B. The image of the sun reflected on the sea

C. The image of a quest for knowledge

D. The image of satiny embers

5943. Which of the following statements best characterizes Ezra Pounds poem Hugh Selwyn Mauberley ?
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A. It is primarily a narrative poem.

B. It uses iambic pentameter to achieve tonal fluidity.

C. Its intensity derives from the combination of modern subject matter and alexandrine couplets.

D. It undermines the idea of a single lyrical voice by using diverse cultural symbols and numerous phrases in various languages.

5944. Which of the following figures is the author of the 1909 Futurist Manifesto ?
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A. Filippo Marinetti

B. Umberto Boccioni

C. Vladimir Mayakovsky

D. Aleksander Wat

5945. Siegfried Sassoons The Dragon and the Undying includes the following lines: Yet, though the slain are homeless as the breeze,/Vocal are they, like stormbewilderd seas. Which of the following literary devices does Sassoon use in these lines and to what effect ?
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A. Metaphor to suggest a connection between soldiers and nature

B. Simile to suggest a connection between soldiers and nature

C. Metonymy to describe the brutality of modern warfare

D. Onomatopoeia to describe the brutality of modern warfare

5946. Which of the following statements best characterizes the contrast between T.S. Eliots The Waste Land and the futurist aesthetic project ?
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A. The Waste Land confronts the fragmentation of modernity by exploring a variety of modes and voices, whereas the futurists do not focus on the fragmentation of modern experience, praising speed and industrial progress instead.

B. The Waste Land is primarily concerned with nature, whereas the futurists are most interested in industrial and urban landscapes.

C. The Waste Land is an ironic exploration of Romantic themes, whereas the futurists incorporate ironic evocations of the classical tradition in their poetry.

D. The Waste Land focuses on the personal connection between poet and speaker, whereas the futurists focus on an impersonal connection between humans and industry.

5947. Which of the following political themes was explored by American Objectivist poets ?
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A. American attitudes toward Jews and Israel

B. Slavery

C. Capitalism and social inequalities

D. All of these answers

5948. Which of the following statements does NOT characterize the poet e. e. cummings ?
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A. Ivy League educated

B. Active pacifist during both world wars

C. Popularized the use of free verse

D. A private and self-effacing person

5949. Which of the following poets would most likely be categorized as a modernist poet ?
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A. George Herbert

B. John Greenleaf Whittier

C. William Carlos Williams

D. Robert Browning

5950. How can we live in this fear says one./From day to day says another. ?
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A. Fear of the failure of a segregated educational system

B. Fear of global nuclear war

C. Fear of the AIDs crisis

D. Fear of the economic Great Depression

5951. What was the primary significance of The Book of American Negro Poetry (1922), edited by James Weldon Johnson ?
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A. It established an authoritative and unquestionable canon of African American poetry.

B. It provided literary criticism on African American poetry.

C. It presented African American writers to a previously indifferent white audience.

D. It inspired Harlem Renaissance writers to establish a tradition of African American poetry.

5952. Which of the following was NOT a prominent theme of American and English modernist poetry ?
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A. The approval of the norms and values of bourgeois culture

B. The search for a new poetic language and the idea that language can be reinvented by poets

C. The quest to describe objects with precision and without emotion

D. The idea that the self is neither unitary nor permanently stable

5953. According to Professor Hammer, which of the following is the central question explored by T.S. Eliot in The Waste Land ?
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A. How can a shared world be created out of the fundamentally different and private experiences of individual people?

B. Given the diversity of the worlds poetic traditions, can there be a universal language of poetic symbolism?

C. Is authentic poetry possible in the aftermath of the carnage of World War I?

D. Given that each person experiences trauma differently, is it possible for all to understand the modern world as a shared waste land?

5954. Which of the following traditions was an important influence on Louis Zukofskys poetry ?
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A. Kabalistic Judaism

B. British Neo-Classicism

C. Taoism

D. American Romanticism

5955. Ezra Pounds Cantos may be called a modernist epic, though its form ultimately defies classification. Pounds poem alludes to which of the following epic poems ?
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A. The Aeneid

B. The Odyssey

C. The Mahabharata

D. Paradise Lost

5956. Rupert Brookes The Soldier opens with the following lines: If I should die, think only this of me:/That theres some corner of a foreign field/That is for ever England. Which of the following statements best describes these lines and Brookes poem as a whole ?
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A. These lines and the poem as a whole use both the political concept of a nation and the spiritual concept of eternity to give meaning to soldiers deaths on the battlefield.

B. These lines and the poem as a whole are primarily concerned with the extension of Britains imperial power.

C. These lines and the poem as a whole seek to directly express the horrors of war.

D. These lines and the poem as a whole rely on assonance to magnify the critique of war expressed in the poem.

5957. WorldWar I drastically changed the political and cultural climate in Europe. Which of the following was NOT among the changes brought about by World War I ?
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A. In the course of World War I, the Bolsheviks came to power in Russia.

B. Germany was defeated and blamed for causing the war.

C. Successful parliamentary democracies were established throughout the continent and remained stable until the outbreak of World War II in 1939.

D. By the end of the 1920s, almost every state that had participated in World War I faced an economic depression and political upheavals.

5958. In T.S. Eliots essay called Tradition and Individual Talent, he argues that the progress of an artist consists of which of the following ?
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A. Continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality

B. Continual transformation of the personality

C. Continual identification with the past

D. Continual expansion of the personality and its diverse elements

5959. Ezra Pounds Canto XIV opens with the line Io venni in luogo dogni luce muto [I came to a place devoid of light]. This creates a connection between the Canto and which of the following works ?
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A. Goethes Faust

B. Miltons Paradise Lost

C. Dantes Divine Comedy

D. Thomas Manns Doctor Faustus

5960. Which of the following events increased the appeal of communism among American intellectuals both black and white in the years between 1918 and 1939 ?
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A. Hitlers invasion of Poland in 1939

B. The Great Depression

C. World War I

D. The Russian Civil War

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