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 Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.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

6601. Who wrote Emperor Ice cream ?
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A. Langston Hughes

B. Wallace stevens

C. William Faulkner

D. Countee cullen

6602. Which statement below best defined Dickinsons idea of circumference ?
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A. limitations

B. no limitations

C. Eqaulity

D. Above and beyond

6603. The first part of American History dwells of the_________________?
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A. Discovery and settlement of the Western continent

B. missionaries settled in America

C. early English settlers

D. Discovery of America by Columbus

6604. As I lay die_________________?
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A. Langston Hugues

B. Robert Lee Frost

C. Sherwood Anderson

D. William Faulkner

6605. Which of the following describes the precolonial eras literature styles ?
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A. Novels, poetry, dramas, histories

B. Narratives and poetry

C. Pamphlets, poetry, novels, short stories

D. Literary magazines, poetry, novels, short stories

6606. How does St. Clare die ?
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A. He suffers a heart attack

B. He drowns

C. He is poisoned

D. He is stabbed

6607. This quote comes from what writing: God holds you over the pit of Hell much as one holds a spider over the fire________________?
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A. Spiders of the World

B. Hell and Salem

C. Sinners in the Hand

D. Hands of Satan

6608. Black Boy is an autobiographical account of whose Southern boyhood ?
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A. Saul Bellow

B. Thomas

C. John Dos Passos

D. Pynchon

6609. What does George Harris master demand of him that prompts him to plan his escape ?
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A. Marry another woman

B. Abandon his faith

C. Punish another slave

D. Relocate to Louisiana

6610. In the enthusiasm of my confidence, I brought chairs into the room, and desired them here to rest from their fatigues; while I myself, in the wild audacity of my perfect triumph, placed my own seat upon the very spot beneath which reposed the corpse of the victim. What is the meaning of the word audacity ?
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A. Authority

B. Auditory city

C. Fearless daring or aggressive boldness

D. Insanity or dementia

6611. Who is Elizas mother ?
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A. Aunt Chole

B. Mrs.Legree

C. Mrs.Shelby

D. Cassy

6612. This checkmark diagram represents the plot structure for what genre of early American writing ?
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A. Slave narrative

B. Trancendentalism

C. Sermon

D. Indian autobiography

6613. The first stanza of the poem provides an idea that it is______________?
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A. a revenge story

B. not a happy story

C. a deterministic poem

D. a metaphysical poem

6614. Thoreau was part of the Transcend lists, which were founded by________________?
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A. Mark Twain.

B. Walt Whitman.

C. Herman Melville.

D. Ralph Waldo Emerson.

6615. The process of passing on sayings, songs and tales ?
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A. Narration

B. History

C. Oral Tradition

D. Persuasion

6616. The now ghastly pallor of the skin, and the now miraculous luster of the eye, above all things startled and even awed me. The silken hair, too, had been suffered to grow all unheeded, and as, in its wild gossamer texture, it floated rather than fell about the face, I could not, even with effort, connect its arabesque expression with any idea of simple humanity. The character described in this passage ?
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A. Buries someone alive

B. Devours a heart

C. Commits suicide

D. Meets the devil

6617. Who inherits ownership of Tom when St. Clare dies ?
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A. Marie

B. Eva

C. George Shelby

D. Haley

6618. What statement below best sums up the literary significance of Samuel Sewall ?
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A. Father of american poetry

B. Pro Slavery

C. Father of American Liteature

D. Anti-Slavery

6619. I have said that the sole effect of my somewhat childish experimentthat of looking down within the tarnhad been to deepen the first singular impression. There can be no doubt that the consciousness of the rapid increase of my superstition for why should I not so term it?served mainly to accelerate the increase itself. Such, I have long known, is the paradoxical law of all sentiments having terror as a basis. This work exemplifies ?
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A. Ratiocinactive effect

B. Cataleptic effect

C. Unity of effect

D. Didactic effect

6620. _____________the eyes of all people are upon us; soe that if wee shall deale falsely with our god in this worke wee have undertaken and soe cause him to withdrawe his preent help from us, wee shall be made a story and a by-word through the world, wee shall open the mouthes of enemies to speake evill of the ways of god and all professours for Gods sake; wee shall shame the faces of many of gods worthy servants, and cause theire prayers to be turned into Cursses upon us till we be consumed out of the good land whether wee are going ?
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A. Fredrick Douglass

B. John Winthrop

C. Benjamin Franklin

D. William Apess

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