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 Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.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

81. Who is the Author of the Book As u Like it?
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A. Karl Marx

B. Coleridge

C. Thomas Hardy

D. William Shakespear

82. The narrator of Langston Hughess Weary Blues is describing__________________?
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A. African American toasting on a city street corner.

B. Blues being played in a Harlem bar.

C. Negro spirituals being sung in the cotton fields.

D. The call and response of an African American church congregation.

83. What do you mean by Diction ?
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A. choice of characters

B. choice of rhythms

C. choice of words for writing

D. choice of simile and metaphor

84. The University Wits were_______________?
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A. Novelists

B. Playwrights

C. Poets

D. None of these

85. Native Son was written by___________________?
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A. Ralph Ellison.

B. Richard Wright.

C. James Baldwin.

D. Jean Toomer.

86. David Walkers Appeal in Four Articles argues that_________________?
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A. The races should not intermarry.

B. Blacks should return to Africa.

C. Christians the only ones not to blame for the existence of slavery.

D. Blacks have the duty to resist slavery.

87. Race relations in the North are attacked in_______________?
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A. Toni Morrisons Beloved.

B. Harriet Wilsons Our Nig.

C. William Wells Browns Clotel.

D. Harriet Jacobs Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.

88. African American dialects grew out of_______________?
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A. The 1960s protest movements

B. Slaves attempts to keep their conversations secret

C. The attempts of African slaves to communicate with each other

D. Slave owners teaching slaves Elizabethan English

89. Novel which is not written by D. H Lawrence ?
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A. Ullysses

B. Sons and Lovers

C. Lady Chatterleys Lover

D. The Rainbow

90. In 125th Street and Abomey, Audre Lorde references images from ________________?
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A. African mythology.

B. African American folktale.

C. Contemporary female artists.

D. Greek mythology.

91. The Novel of Lawrence banned by the government was_________________?
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A. Lady Chatterleys Lover

B. The Rainbow

C. Women in Love

D. Sons and Lovers

92. Who is the author of Animal Farm ?
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A. Thomas More

B. George Orwell

C. Charles Dickens

D. Boris Pasternak

93. Byrons journey to Spain, Malta, Albania and Greece resulted in the production of the first two cantos of his poem_______________?
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A. Don Juan

B. the prisoner of Chillon

C. Childe Heralds Pilgrimage

D. cain

94. Who wrote Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl ?
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A. Lucy Terry

B. William Wells Brown

C. Harriet Wilson

D. Harriet Jacobs

95. Who is the writer of the poem Andrea Del Sarto ?
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A. Robert Browning

B. Wordsworth

C. Shelley

D. William Shakespeare

96. Lapis Lazuli is __________________?
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A. None of these

B. A Poem

C. Drama

D. A Poem

97. Who is of the following both a poet and a novelist?
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A. Thomas Hardy

B. Karl Mark

C. R. L. Stevenson

D. George Eliot

98. Hamlet and Oedipus was written by_______________?
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A. Earnest Jones

B. Dover Wilson

C. Freud

D. Bradley

99. Who wrote the poem Solitary Reaper ?
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A. Lord Byron

B. John Keats

C. William Wordsworth

D. P. B Shelley

100. Martin Luther King, Jr.s Letter from Birmingham Jail, King advocates_______________?
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A. Waiting for times to get better.

B. Using violence when necessary.

C. Disobeying unjust laws.

D. Breaking the law.

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