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 Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.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

6621. Maria Steward believe that black woman are crucial to the uplift of black Americans. Why ?
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A. They have the power to fix things themselves

B. Men are more powerful

C. Both are correct

D. None of the above

6622. I took my visitors all over the house. I bade them search search well. I led them, at length, to his chamber. I showed them his treasures, secure, undisturbed. The narrator is________________?
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A. Leading the police to the scene of a crime

B. Helping the police to look for a letter

C. A detective

D. Helping Robin to search for his uncle

6623. Who is addressed as you in the poem ?
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A. an accomplished royal

B. a romantic achiever

C. an under achiever

D. a frustrated romantic idealist

6624. Of the two, reverend Sir, said the voice like the deacons, I had rather miss an ordination-dinner than to-nights meeting. They tell me that some of our community are to be here from Falmouth and beyond, and others from Connecticut and Rhode-Island; besides several of the Indian powows, who, after their fashion, know almost as much deviltry as the best of us. A powow in this context is___________?
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A. An apples-salesman

B. A boxer

C. A devil-worshipper

D. A medicine man

6625. About Cotton Mather _______________?
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A. Wrote about the trial of Martha Carrier

B. B and C

C. Belonged to the Delaware tribe

D. Fasted 450 times for sins he committed

6626. A good definition of American Realism is________________?
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A. A romantic portrayal of life.

B. An examination of the countryside versus the city.

C. An examination of life as it actually is.

D. A sad and depressing view of reality.

6627. About Christopher Columbus_______________?
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A. Kept a journal of the First Voyage to America

B. Arrived on the Mayflower

C. B and C

D. Mistook Bahama Islands for India

6628. Who was Fuseli ?
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A. British painter

B. French guitarist

C. An Italian-born doctor

D. Swiss-bom painter

6629. What animal is personified as the trickster in the Winnebago tale ?
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A. Hare

B. Coyote

C. Bear

D. Snake

6630. What statement below best sums up the literary significance of William Bradford ?
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A. Created spiritual Diary

B. Non-Separating puritan

C. Separating puritan

D. both A and C

6631. Why do we call Ralph Waldo Emerson the Father of American Literature ?
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A. Mentor to other writers

B. None of the above

C. First native american to publish life writing

D. Literary Maverick

6632. How does Hare outsmart Sharp-elbow to retrieve his stolen arrow ?
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A. He sends a young man to retrieve it

B. He takes a whetstone with him to retrieve the arrow and when Sharp-elbow attacks he uses the whetstone for protection against the attack

C. He lights four prayersticks and asks the gods to retrieve it for him

D. He sends his grandmother to cast a spell on him that causes Sharp-elbow to consent to anything asked of him

6633. This is a system of fundamental laws governing a society______________?
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A. Discourse

B. Constitution

C. Language

D. Connotation

6634. Who is the representative figure of the Jazz Age ?
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A. Wallace Stevens

B. Saul Bellow

C. F. Scott Fitzgerald

D. Sherwood Anderson

6635. What lesson does Hares adventure involving a tall man with a cane attempt to teach the Winnebago people ?
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A. Dont put of for tomorrow what you can do today

B. Boasting shows weakness and will lead to bad things

C. Flattery will get you no where

D. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you

6636. The Cycle of American Literature was written by ?
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A. Gustave Falubert

B. Robert E. Spiller

C. Thoruau

D. Ralph Waldo Emerson

6637. The two main characters in The Pearl are______________?
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A. Juan Tomas and his wife.

B. The doctor and the priest.

C. Kino and his wife Juana.

D. None of the above

6638. About Johnathan Edwards____________?
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A. Wrote the Mayflower Contract

B. Was a Puritan preacher and writer

C. When he spoke, audiences rose to their feet and cheered

D. B and C

6639. Whitman uses line length and word choice to represent________________?
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A. His style of writing

B. a feeling of excitement

C. a wide range of emotion from joy to sorrow

D. the joyous moment

6640. He had heard this destruction of the original possessors of the soil described, as we find it in the history of the times, where, we are told, the number destroyed was about four hundred; and it was a fearful sight to see them thus frying in the fire, and the streams of blood quenching the same, and the horrible scent thereof; but the victory seemed a sweet sacrifice, and they gave the praise thereof to God. This work is___________?
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A. A historial novel

B. Gothic fiction

C. A hortatory sermon

D. A narrative frame

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