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 Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.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

6541. Thoreau believed that if a government was unjust, people need to resist the government. This is called_____________?
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A. Mutiny.

B. Resisting arrest.

C. Following orders.

D. Civil disobedience.

6542. According to the myth, why must all things have an end ?
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A. Hare wished it to be so and that was how it was

B. Mankind would suffer because of a lack of food if there were more people than resources to care for them

C. Grandmother wished it to be so and that was how it was

D. The Earthmaker wanted the opportunity to creat a new race of people

6543. The farmer drove his plough-share deep Whose bones are these? said he, I find them where my browsing sheep Roam oer the upland lea. What does lea mean? Veldu eitt ?
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A. Bridge

B. Meadow or pastureland

C. Plain or plateau

D. Rocky land

6544. In addition to driving the family coach, what other responsibility do the St. Clare assign Uncle Tom ?
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A. Administering Maries medicine

B. Helping Dinah cook

C. Tutoring Eva

D. Managing finances

6545. William Bradfords Of Plymouth Plantation exemplifies what genre of early American writing ?
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A. Free verse poem

B. Journal

C. Spiritual diary

D. Slave narrative

6546. The Weary Blues______________?
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A. Langston Hues

B. William Faulkner

C. Carl Sandburg

D. Sherwood anderson

6547. The populace think that your rejection of popular standards is a rejection of all standard, and mere antinomianism and the bold sensualist will use the name of philosophy to gild his crimes. But the law of consciousness abides. There are two confessionals, in one or the other of which we must be shriven. What is antinomianism ?
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A. Doctrine of Stoicism

B. Doctrine of Materialism

C. Doctrine of salvation by faith alone

D. Doctrine of Gnosticism

6548. In Talbot county, Eastern Shore, Maryland, near Easton, the county town of that country, there is a small district of country, thily populated, and remarkable for nothing that I know of more than for the worn-out, sandy, deserts-like appearance of its soil, the general dilapidation of its farms and fences, the indigent and spiritless character of its inhabitants, and the prevalence of ague and fever. What does dilapidation mean ?
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A. Decrease

B. Hunger or famine

C. Derivation

D. Neglect or decray

6549. The black language holds great importance for the_____________?
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A. identity of Blacks in The United States

B. Black community in America

C. restoration of a language

D. Survival and continuation of the Black community

6550. Which of Upton Sinclairs books is about the meat-packing industry ?
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A. The Jungle

B. Arrowsmith

C. Elmer Gantry

D. Main Street

6551. Which statement below best paraphrases what John Winthrop meant when he declared that the MBC would be as a city upon a hill ?
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A. Woman have no role in society

B. Only men should work

C. Religious freedom

D. Everyone has a role in society

6552. About the Iroquois_______________?
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A. Powerful enemy of the Delaware tribe

B. The tribe drafted a constitution to define the governance of their society

C. All the above

D. Dekonawidah planted the Tree of Great Peace

6553. What does George Shelby give Uncle Tom to wear on a string around his neck before Tom is taken away ?
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A. A crucifix

B. A locket

C. A dollar

D. A ring

6554. Yes, when the stars glistend, All night long on the prong of a moss-scallopd stake, Down almost amid the slapping waves, Sat the lone singer wonderful causing tears. What is a prong ?
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A. An adumbration

B. An edgy platform

C. Other side

D. A pointed, projected part of something

6555. Native Son (1940) is written by_____________?
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A. Jean Toomer

B. Richard Wright

C. Ralph Ellison

D. Stephen Crane

6556. Which one is a great patriotic poem by Frost ?
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A. Mending Wall

B. Directive

C. The Gift Outright

D. Birches

6557. The ambitious spirits of his brother chieftain Sassacus, had ever aspired to dominion over the allied tribes and immediately after the appearance of the English, the same temper was manifest in a jealousy of their encroachments. He employed all his art and influence and authority, to unite the tribes for the extirpation of the dangerous invaders. Mononotto, on the contrary, averse to all hostility, and foreseeing no danger from them, was the advocate of a hospitable reception, and pacific conduct. What does extirpation mean ?
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A. Extermination

B. Execution

C. Expatriating

D. Going to extremes

6558. And then hopped sidewise to the Wall. Here the poet personifies the bird as a______________?
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A. Protector

B. Gentleman

C. Hierarchical views of man

D. Predator

6559. What ritual does the character resembling the devil attempt to perform in the woods, with goodman Brown as the object ?
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A. A christening

B. A conversion

C. A baptism

D. A wedding

6560. Where does Tom first meet Eva ?
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A. In Memphis

B. In New Orleans

C. On a ferry

D. On a river boat

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