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 Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.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

6461. A diary of someones day by day account of events_______________?
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A. Legend

B. Journal

C. History

D. Article

6462. A factual account of the development of a people, nation, institution or culture_____________?
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A. Constitution

B. Tradition

C. History

D. Myth

6463. This term refers to the feeling of a word______________?
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A. Connection

B. Description

C. Constitution

D. Connotation

6464. Usher can only stand types of noises in his acutely uncomfortable state. The narrator describes a number of impromptus that Usher plays for him on which instrument ?
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A. The violin

B. The harp

C. The guitar

D. The ukulele

6465. Which of the following is a true statement about Romanticism ?
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A. Interest in the common man

B. Celebration of the individual

C. Age of reason

D. Both A and B

6466. Where does Senator Bird take Eliza and Harry ?
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A. To a Quaker settlement

B. To Philadelphia

C. To a Congregationalist community

D. To a Methodist community

6467. Who is the narrator in Melvilles Moby Dick ?
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A. Elijah

B. Captain Ahab

C. Gabrial

D. Ishmael

6468. Which American writer won the Nobel Prize in 1930 ?
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A. Upton Sinclair

B. John Steinbeck

C. Sinclair Lewis

D. Raymond Chandler

6469. Which definition below best defines Transcendentalism ?
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A. Political thinking, philosophical, and social movement

B. Reason

C. Individualism

D. Deism, skepticism

6470. What did the family do to protect the children from the uncle ?
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A. They locked the uncle away until the children were old enough to protect themselves

B. They formed a mob and chased the uncle out of the village

C. They dressed the girls like boys and told them to behave as boys do

D. They dressed the boys like girls and told them to behave as girls do

6471. We associate John Winthrop with what colonial Settlement ?
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A. Plymouth

B. Mayflower compact

C. Rhode Island

D. Massachusetts Bay Colony

6472. What does the narrator find at the end of the journey ?
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A. Hills and highways

B. all are sleeping

C. Field and works

D. Crusted snow and dead leaves

6473. He will give the gloom of gloom, and the sunshine of sunshine. The pronoun He refers to_______________?
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A. Author

B. God

C. Painter

D. Sculptor

6474. Apess concludes his piece by____________?
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A. Exhorting his allies and advocates to continue working to end prejudice

B. Declaring his intention to run for public office

C. Predicting the Apocalypse

D. Calling for Native Americans to declare themselves independent of the U.S. government

6475. Thoreau scales humans down to the size of ants in order to____________________?
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A. portray humans allegorically

B. create a very vivid and impressive picture

C. examine the aggressive, dominating and stupid nature of human warfare

D. shows his real intentions in writing

6476. Which of these is NOT a rhetorical purpose of the Spiritual Diary Genre ?
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A. finding spiritual meaning

B. Critic slavery

C. Defend Slavery

D. Both B and C

6477. Abraham Lincoln: the war Years________________?
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A. Carl Sandburg

B. T.S. Elliot

C. William Faulkner

D. Wallace Stevene

6478. It was the very witching time of night that he, heavyhearted and crestfallen, pursued his travel homeward. Far below, the Tappan Zee spread its dusky waters. In the dead hush of midnight he could hear the faint barking of a watchdog from the opposite shore. The night grew darker and darker; the stars seemed to sink deeper in the sky, and driving clouds occasionally hid them from his sight. This passage is from________________?
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A. A detective story

B. An autobiography

C. A fairy tale

D. A Gothic tale

6479. Monadnock on his forehead hoar Doth seal the sacred trust, Your mountains build their monument, Though ye destroy their dust. What is the meaning of the word hoar ?
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A. Grey or white with age

B. Scarred

C. Ancient or venerable

D. Wrinkled with age

6480. is the end of fame_______________?
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A. Love

B. Misfortune

C. Pity

D. Death

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