english literature MCQs – Page 334

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 Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.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

6661. The annals of Massachusetts Bay will inform us, that of six governors, in the space of about forty years from the surrender of the old charter, under James II., two were imprisoned by a popular insurrection a third, as Hutchinson inclines to believe, was driven from the province by the whizzing of a musket ball a fourth, in the opinion of the same historian, was hastened to his grave by continual bickerings with the house of representatives and the remaining two, as well as their successors, till the Revolution, were favored with few and brief intervals of peaceful sway. What is an insurrection ?
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A. An act or instance of beginning

B. The condition of being stopped

C. The state of one risen from the dead

D. An of revolting against civil authority

6662. What event provides the motivation for Shelby to release all the slaves ?
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A. Toms daughters wedding

B. Tom saving Eva

C. Toms death

D. Elizas escape

6663. Who haunts the evil Simon Legree when he is drunk ?
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A. Cassy

B. George

C. Eliza

D. Uncle Tom

6664. ________________is known as the friendly innkeeper of the town ?
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A. Parker J

B. Stephen J Parker

C. Stephen

D. Goodman Parker

6665. Which statement below best defined Whitmans idea of Oversoul ?
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A. Relationships

B. Hope

C. Death

D. American landscape

6666. The tone of the third stanza of the poem embodies a sense of_____________?
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A. Pain

B. content

C. Panic

D. Calmness

6667. The Puritans who settled Massachusetts Bay were non-separating Puritans, which meant ?
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A. Create seperation

B. They did not want to disassociate from the Church of England

C. Separate from church of England

D. Start their own beliefs

6668. The poem Chicago is written by________________?
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A. Carlos William

B. E.E. Cummings

C. Ezra Pound

D. Carl Sandburg

6669. In which city does the St.Clare live ?
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A. Memphis

B. Atlanta

C. New Orleans

D. Louisville

6670. This term is an elaborate comparison between two different subjects___________?
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A. Simile

B. Anomoly

C. Conceit

D. Sermon

6671. Bartolome de Las Casas wrote_____________?
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A. A Very Old Man with Enormous wings

B. Flor Y Canto

C. The devastation of the indies

D. Hopskotch

6672. This mode of discourse relates a story________________?
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A. Exposition

B. Fiction

C. Narration

D. Persuasion

6673. Before advocating on behalf of the enslaved in colonial Massachusetts, Samuel Sewall participated in what early American crisis event ?
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A. All the above

B. No involvement

C. Salem Witch Trails

D. Mayflower compact

6674. Miniver scorned the gold he sought. Here gold refers to______________?
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A. paycheck or money

B. materialism

C. the yellow metal

D. the pot of luck

6675. Arthur Millers Death of A Salesman was appeared in _______________?
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A. 1945

B. 1947

C. 1949

D. 1950

6676. Your goodness must have some edge to itelse it is none. The doctrine of hatred must be preached as the counteraction of the doctrine of love when that pules and whines. In this work the author argues in favour of____________?
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A. Communism

B. Revolution

C. An independent nation of independent individuals

D. Abolition

6677. This is the name of the report by Cotton Mather about the trial accusing Martha Carrier of witchcraft_______________?
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A. Sinners in the Hand

B. The Wonders of the Invisible World

C. The Burning of Our House

D. The Story of Plymouth Plantation

6678. Wines Burg Ohio______________?
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A. William Faulkner

B. Robert Lee Frost

C. Sherwood Anderson

D. Carl Sanburg

6679. This group united 5 tribes_____________?
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A. Iroquois

B. Hopi

C. Navajo

D. Sioux

6680. The purpose of placing fallen cold and dead at the end of each section is to_____________?
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A. keep the readers aware of what is to come

B. clarify his idea

C. repeat the lines for the rhyming

D. remind the leader of the tragedy

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