english literature MCQs – Page 335

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 Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.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

6681. Who is the central Figure in O Nells The Hairy Ape_____________?
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A. None of the above

B. The Secretary of I.W.W.

C. Yank

D. Mildred

6682. What statement below best sums up the literary significance of Benjamin Franklin ?
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A. Mentor to other writers

B. Rewrote the autobiography

C. Self-made and

D. Both B and C

6683. Which of the following is not an animal Hare prepared for humans to eat ?
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A. Bear

B. Elk

C. Horse

D. Both A and B

6684. Your uses an upper case because ?
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A. he wanted to emphasize the Y

B. he wanted it to create logic to the capitalization of the final E.

C. the poem demanded an upper case

D. he places his beloved in an upper place

6685. learn by going where I have to go. The poet learns of______________?
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A. going back to the state of depression

B. his errors and starts correcting them

C. Going back to his hometown

D. the final destination where he has to reach

6686. The sweetest music is not in the oratorio, but in____________?
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A. Human voice

B. Soulful lyrics

C. Epic

D. Lyric

6687. I ask: Is it not the case that everybody that is not white is treated with contempt and counted as barbarians? And I ask if the word of God justifies the white man in so doing. When the prophets prophesied, of whom did they speak? When they spoke of heathens, was it not the whites and others who were counted Gentiles? And I ask if all nations with the exception of the Jews were not counted heathens. This passage exemplifies________________?
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A. Framing

B. Snaring

C. Hortatory sermon

D. Jamming

6688. When I was 16 years of age, we heard a Strange Rumor among the English, that there were Extraordinary Ministers preaching from Place to Place and Strange Concern among the White People. This was in the Spring of the Year. After I was awakened & converted, I went to all the meetings, I could come at; & Continued under Trouble of Mind about 6 months; at which time I began to Learn the English letters; got me a Primer, and used to go to my English Neighbours frequently for Assistant in reading?
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A. John Winthrop

B. Mayflower Compact

C. Samson Occcum

D. Benjamin Franklin

6689. The following extract presents a suitable answer to the hacknied argument drawn by the defender of Slavery from the songs of the Slave, and is also a good specimen of the powers of observation and manly heart of the writer. The word hacknied is an old form of the word hackneyed. What does it mean ?
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A. Double meaning

B. Lacking in freshness and originality

C. Saddened

D. Blue-eyed

6690. In which state is the Shelby farm located ?
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A. Kentucky

B. Mississipi

C. Tennessee

D. Alabama

6691. Light in August ?
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A. Sherwood anderson

B. Langston Hughes

C. William Faulkner

D. T.S. elliot

6692. What statement below best sums up the literary significance of Emerson ?
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A. Father of american poetry

B. Father of Free verse

C. Father of American Liteature

D. Pro Slavery

6693. What statement below best sums up the literary significance of Walt Whitman ?
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A. Father of free verse

B. Father of American Poetry

C. Circumference

D. Both A and B

6694. This group of Native Americans believed that corn was crucial to creation ?
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A. Teton

B. Cherokee

C. Utes

D. Navajo

6695. Who is NOT considered to be a representative of the Southern Renaissance ?
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A. Tennessee Williams

B. T.S.Eliot

C. Robert Penn Warren

D. William Faulkner

6696. This person wrote about a island that he called Colba, now known as Cuba______________?
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A. John Smith

B. Columbus

C. De Vaca

D. Coronado

6697. For a time the narrator comforts Roderick by reading and painting with him; one of Rodericks paintings is described as follows: A small picture presented the interior of an immensely long and rectangular vault or tunnel, with low walls, smooth, white, and without interruption or device. Certain accessory points of the design served well to convey the idea that this excavation lay at an exceeding depth below the surface of the earth. What later event in the story does this picture foreshadow ?
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A. The narrator and Roderick drown Madeline in the tarn next to the mansion.

B. Roderick and Madeline escape the house via an underground tunnel.

C. The narrator and Roderick bury Madeline alive in a stone tomb beneath the mansion.

D. The narrator and Roderick become trapped in catacombs beneath the mansion.

6698. What vice does Tom attempt to convince Augustine Clare to renounce ?
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A. drinking

B. bribery

C. lying

D. gambling

6699. What promise did Augustines sudden death prevent him from fulfilling ?
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A. Reuniting Tom with Aunt Chole

B. Relearning to pray

C. Overcoming his alcoholism

D. Freeing his slaves

6700. She was a blooming lass of fresh eighteen, plump as a partridge, ripe and melting and rosy-cheeked as one of her fathers peaches, and universally famed, not merely for her beauty, but her vast expectations. . . . She wore ornaments of pure yellow gold to set off her charms, and a provokingly short petticoat to display the prettiest foot and ankle in the country round. This is_______________?
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A. Katrina

B. Madeline

C. Faith

D. Magawisca

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