english literature MCQs – Page 330

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 Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.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

6581. His son Rip, an urchin begotten in his own likeness, promised to inherit the habits, with the old clothes of his father. He was generally seen trooping like a colt at his mothers heels, equipped in a pair of his fathers cast-off galligaskins, which he had much ado to hold up with one hand, as a fine lady does her train in bad weather. What are galligaskins ?
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A. Underpants

B. Loose, wide breeches

C. A trench-coat

D. Long, wide petticoats

6582. About John Smith_______________?
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A. A and B

B. In the General History of Virginia, attempted an objective, journalistic style

C. Exaggerated and embellish events and depicted Native Americans as barbaric

D. Was saved by Squanto

6583. The Battle of the Ants is an excerpt from______________?
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A. Herald of Freedom

B. Civil Disobedience

C. Life without principle

D. Walden

6584. How does Sam secretly alert Eliza to Mr.Haleys presence outside the inn ?
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A. Throws a rock

B. Sneezes loudly

C. Bucks his horse

D. Shouts about his hat

6585. As a boy, Frederick Douglass witnesses a scene that mortifies him and brings him face to face for the first time with the horrors of slavery. What is it ?
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A. Watching his dad beat his mother

B. Watching a slave get beaten to death

C. Watching his aunt get whipped

D. Seeing his mother die

6586. This is the implied comparison between two dissimilar things_______________?
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A. History

B. Myth

C. Tradition

D. Metaphor

6587. This Puritan author wrote about the Salem witch trials_____________?
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A. Annie Bradford

B. Terry Pratchett

C. Owen Edwards

D. Cotton Mather

6588. The poem ends on a_____________?
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A. courageous and hopeful note

B. tragic and painful note

C. happy and meaningful note

D. philosophical note

6589. This group of Native Americans left behind a legend about creation using pictographs_____________?
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A. Sioux

B. Delaware

C. Apache

D. Inuit

6590. Who wrote The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock ?
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A. Edgar lee masters

B. Robert Lee Frost

C. Cumings

D. T.S. Eliot

6591. This Puritan author wrote a persuasive speech ?
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A. William Bradstreet

B. Johnathan Edwards

C. Mather Edwards

D. John Williams

6592. Writers in the Romantic time period were concerned with____________?
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A. The philosophy of how to run a new country.

B. Scientific exploration.

C. Nature as a source of secular and spiritual knowledge, emotion as truth, and exploration of the self.

D. Love and romance.

6593. In Walden, who urges people to simplify their lives and look to nature for meaning ?
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A. Walt Whitman

B. Henry David Thoreau

C. Herman Melville

D. Robert Frost

6594. Jack Londons To Build a Fire contained foreshadowing, which means_____________?
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A. It was a moody and spooky story.

B. It had descriptions of shadows in the woods.

C. It contained clues to events yet to happen.

D. It took place at nightfall.

6595. It was about this time that I conceivd the bold and arduous Project of arriving at moral Perfection. I wishd to live without committing any Fault at any time; I would conquer all that either Natural Inclination, Custom, or Company might lead me into. As I knew, or thought I knew, what was right and wrong, I did not see why I might not always do the one and avoid the other. But I soon found I had undertaken a Task of more difficulty than I had imagined. I included under Thirteen names of Virtues all that at that time occurrd to me as necessary or desirable, and annexd to each a short Precept, which fully expressd the Extent I gave to its Meaning ?
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A. Samson Occcum

B. Benjamin Franklin

C. Mayflower Compact

D. John Winthrop

6596. Which of the following is NOT considered a write for the Transcendentalism Movement ?
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A. Emerson

B. Stewart

C. Thoreau

D. Hawthrone

6597. The hairy wild-bee that murmurs and hankers up and down, that gripes the fullgrown lady-flower, curves upon her with amorous firm legs, takes his will of her, and holds himself tremulous and tight till he is satisfied. What does tremulous mean ?
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A. Afraid

B. Contemplating and deciding

C. Trembling and timid

D. Stiff

6598. Black English is the creation of the____________________?
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A. Linguistics Society

B. Black Diaspora Association

C. Black Diaspora

D. Unites States of American -English

6599. When did Hemingway receive the Nobel Prize for Literature ?
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A. 1956

B. 1954

C. 1952

D. 1958

6600. But when to their feminine rage the indignation of the people is added, when the ignorant and the poor are aroused, when the unintelligent brute force that lies at the bottom of society is made to growl and mow, it needs the habit of magnanimity and religion to treat it godlike as a trifle of no concernment. What does mow mean in this context ?
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A. To bleat like sheep

B. To cut grass

C. To lift heavy things

D. To grimace

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