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 Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.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

6721. Which of Uncle Toms personal characteristics guided his interactions with others and his responses to his circumstances ?
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A. His overwhelming fear of violence

B. His ability to hide his rebellious nature.

C. His honesty and deep devotion to God

D. His gentle and soft-spoken nature

6722. How long is Rip asleep in the woods ?
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A. Eighty years

B. Fifty years

C. Twenty years

D. One hundred years

6723. when did william Faulkner get nobel prize for literature ?
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A. A-1941

B. C-1945

C. D-1938

D. B-1949

6724. Who says Earth is the right place for love ?
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A. Silvia plath

B. Langston Hughes

C. Robert Frost

D. Wallace Stevens

6725. This person was captured by Native Americans but saved by Pocahontas _______________?
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A. Jerry Smith

B. Joseph Smith, Jr

C. John Smith

D. Hiram Smith

6726. What does the priests sons prayers for the punishment of the tribes iniquities tell us about the Zuni tribe ?
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A. They are nosey and stays busy tending to other peoples business

B. That the Zunis are afraid of earthquakes and floods

C. The Zunis are spiritual and have a strong moral code that they live by and teach to their children

D. That the Zunis like to make up stories for pure entertainment

6727. Who has been teaching Uncle Tom to read ?
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A. Haley

B. George

C. Mr.Symmes

D. Eliza

6728. How does Eliza cross the Ohio river ____________?
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A. Hopping rafts of ice

B. In a stolen canoe

C. By ferry

D. On a makeshift raft

6729. The use of a etcetera in the final line is_____________?
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A. alliteration

B. empathy

C. onomatopoeia

D. euphemism

6730. Thoreau through this essay tries to portray_______________?
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A. Socialism

B. Naturalism

C. Transcendentalism

D. Imperialism

6731. Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Toms Cabin to illustrate the evils of_________________?
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A. Alcohol

B. Foreign

C. Imperialism

D. Slavery

6732. I was somewhat unmanageable when I first went [to Master Coveys], but a few months of this discipline tamed me. I was broken in body, soul, and spirit. My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed, the cheerful spark that lingered about my eye died; the dark night of slavery closed in upon men, and behold a man transformed into a brute! ?
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A. Benjamin Franklin

B. John Winthrop

C. Fredrick Douglass

D. William Apess

6733. Who wrote The waste land ?
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A. Wallace Stevens

B. William Faulkner

C. T.S. Elliot

D. Langston Hues

6734. Which of the following best defines the Enlightenment movement ?
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A. Political thinking

B. Celebration of individual

C. Age of reason

D. Philosophical movment

6735. Which statement best describes literary significance of William APess ?
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A. Indian Autobiography

B. Father of free verse

C. Father of American poetry

D. Both A and B

6736. The house of this Puritan poet burned down_____________?
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A. Anne Bradstreet

B. Eliza Snow

C. Elizabeth Browning

D. George Elliot

6737. An Indians Looking Glass for the White Man illustrates what genre of early American writing ?
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A. Biography

B. Spiritual diary

C. Sermon

D. Autobiography

6738. About Edward Taylor_____________?
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A. A and C

B. Was exiled to the New World because he wouldnt talk to the Church of England

C. Wrote Huswifery in an ornate style that wouldnt have been accepted by the Puritans

D. Wrote a poem about his house burning down

6739. The /k/ sound in actand picture is a____________?
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A. Incomplete plosion.

B. Bilabial plosion

C. Nasal plosion

D. Alveolar plosion

6740. __________________is the accent on certain words within the a sentence?
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A. None of the above

B. Syntax

C. Semantics

D. Sentence__stress

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