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 Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.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

61. All of the following are characteristics of the African American tradition of the toast except_____________?
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A. Toasting is a male event

B. Toasting is oral

C. Toasting glorifies women

D. Toasting provides cultural identification

62. In Nella Larsens novel Passing, why is Clare afraid to have another child ?
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A. She almost died in childbirth with her first child.

B. She is afraid it may have dark skin.

C. She doesnt want to lose her figure.

D. Her husband has threatened to leave her.

63. Adonis is modeled on________________?
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A. None of these

B. Bions lament for Adonis

C. Lycidas

D. In Memoriam

64. In Gwendolyn Brooks poem, kitchenette building, what is most important to the buildings inhabitants ?
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A. Getting food on the table.

B. Having a bathroom with warm water.

C. Following ones dreams.

D. Finding a mate.

65. William Blakes /Songs of counterbalance his Songs of Experience ?
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A. childhood

B. Inexperience

C. Love

D. Innocence

66. Uncle Julius is a character developed by______________?
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A. Richard Wright

B. Joel Chandler Harris

C. Charles Chesnutt

D. Harriet Beecher Stowe

67. Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of will, is a statement by______________?
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A. Coleridge

B. Wordsworth

C. Arnold

D. Shelley

68. Who is the writer of Vision of Sin ?
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A. William Shakespeare

B. Christopher Marlowe

C. A. Lord Tennyson

D. George Bernard Shaw

69. Paradise Lost was written by__________________?
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A. Robert Browning

B. W B Yeats

C. Mathew

D. John Milton

70. Which University presented the Pulitzer Prize_______________?
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A. Columbia University

B. Harvard University

C. New York University

D. Yale University

71. The poet of Romantic Age is_______________?
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A. John Keats

B. John Milton

C. None of these

D. D.H. Lawrence

72. Catharsis refers to the term_______________?
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A. characters in play

B. animals in play

C. sympathy to others

D. arouse of pity and fear

73. A long poem is a combination of short poems. Who has held the above opinion ?
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A. Keats

B. Coleridge

C. Wordsworth

D. None of these

74. Which author relied on complex characters and dialect to overturn American stereotypes about Southern African Americans ?
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A. Booker T. Washington

B. William Wells Brown

C. Richard Wright

D. Charles Chesnutt

75. Why is the couple in Arna Bontempss A Summer Tragedy getting dressed up ?
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A. To go pay old man Stevenson.

B. To end their lives.

C. To go to church.

D. To go to a party.

76. Emile Zola is a famous__________________?
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A. French Novelist

B. American Novelist

C. Irish novelist

D. English novelist

77. Who is the writer of Lorna Doone ?
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A. Blackmore

B. T. S. Eliot

C. H.G. Wells

D. Jane Austen

78. Alice Walkers story, Everyday Use, includes which Womanist concern ?
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A. The importance of men to the African American family.

B. The importance of African American craftsmanship.

C. The negative consequences of feminism on the African American family.

D. The importance of African religious influence in America.

79. Who is the writer of Comedy of Errors ?
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A. Ben Jhonson

B. William Shakespeare

C. T S Eliot

D. G B Shaw

80. Simile is the direct comparison between two________________?
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A. contradictory things

B. elaborate comparison

C. dissimilar things

D. similar things

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