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 Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.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

121. In Octavia Butlers Bloodchild, The Tlick keep the humans happy by_______________?
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A. Paying them very well.

B. Freeing the males after they are hosts.

C. Letting them choose their own mates.

D. Supplying them with narcotic eggs.

122. In Charles Chesnutts The Goophered Grape Vine, why does Uncle Julius tell the Northern visitors the story of the spell put on the grapes ?
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A. To describe the horrors of life on the Post-bellum plantation.

B. To explain his religious views.

C. To amuse the narrators sickly wife.

D. So they wont interrupt his income from the neglected grape harvest.

123. Hyperion is a/an poem_________________?
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A. Epic

B. None of these

C. Lyric

D. Elegy

124. According to Henry Louis Gates, Jr., reconstructing black people into the New Negro has been a matter of_______________?
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A. A struggle ongoing since 1619.

B. All of the above

C. Working against the existing racist stereotypes.

D. Redefining black people in terms of a presence, not an absence.

125. Why did Marcus Garvey spearhead the Back to Africa Movement ?
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A. He was asked by African countries to bring African Americans to Africa.

B. He had to leave the country.

C. Because in was cheaper to live in Africa.

D. Because he did not feel African Americans would ever achieve equality in America.

126. The Day Duke Raised by Quincy Troupe is a jazz poem because______________?
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A. The poem can be set to music.

B. There is repetition.

C. The references to jazz songs and musicians.

D. The poems rhythmic lines.

127. Harriet Jacobs wrote Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl to show______________?
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A. How slavery was worse for men.

B. How females were affected by slavery.

C. That female slaves were more valuable than male slaves.

D. That female slaves were escaping more frequently than men.

128. In Paul Laurence Dunbars When Malindy Sings, what kind of music is Malindy singing ?
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A. Cakewalk tunes.

B. Jazz.

C. Gospel.

D. Blues.

129. Lucy Gray is a poem written by_______________?
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A. All of these

B. Keats

C. None of these

D. Wordsworth

130. According to Larry Neal, the primary goal of the Black Arts Movement is_______________?
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A. To speak to the spiritual and cultural needs of African Americans.

B. To raise awareness of violence in African American youth.

C. To support the Back to Africa Movement.

D. To raise money for Sickle Cell Anemia research.

131. What is Epistolary Novel ?
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A. a Novella

B. a novel personal feelings

C. a novel of short length

D. a novel of correspondence among the characters

132. Dickens first novel which focused on the specific social ills was______________?
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A. oliver twist

B. the Christmas carol

C. a tale of two cities

D. Great Expectations

133. What is the term Utopia ?
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A. an ideal state which does not exist in real

B. a day dreamer

C. a lotus eater

D. a hat of a king

134. Undo this Button is a line from Shakespeares________________?
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A. Othello

B. Julius Caeser

C. Hamlet

D. King Lear

135. The most important tenet of the Black Arts Movements is________________?
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A. African American art should exclude women.

B. African American literature should replicate educated White language.

C. African American art should subvert the art of Europeans and White Americans.

D. African American images should inspire African Americans.

136. In which city the play of Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet is set in_________________?
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A. none of these

B. Turin

C. Verona

D. Milan

137. Gunter Grass got Nobel Prize in________?
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A. 2000

B. 1997

C. 1998

D. 1999

138. Who is the author of Man and Superman ?
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A. George Bernard Shaw

B. Leo Tolstoy

C. W. Shakespeare

D. Charles Dickens

139. Tennyson was_____________?
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A. a romantic

B. a Victorian

C. a PreRaphaelite

D. none of these

140. Paradise Lost was written by________________?
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A. Milton

B. Shakespeare

C. Coleridge

D. Keats

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