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 Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.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

141. What the term Renaissance refers ?
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A. revival or rebirth

B. presentation

C. representation

D. rebel

142. Earnest Hemingway got Nobel Prize for_________?
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A. Life of Pea (Ryan Martel)

B. A Farewell to Arms

C. Old Man and the Sea

D. Man and Superman

143. Alice Walkers novels often explore the abuse experienced by African American women. What is the only abuse Celie does not experience The Color Purple ?
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A. Betrayal by her community.

B. Betrayal by a family member.

C. Betrayal by the educational system.

D. Betrayal by her sister.

144. Who wrote the book Lord Jim: A Tale ?
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A. Rudyard Kipling

B. Oscar Wilde

C. Joseph Conrad

D. Thomas Hardy

145. T. Hardy is_______________?
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A. A social reformer

B. A fatalist

C. A satirist

D. A lover of nature

146. Childe Harold was written by_______________?
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A. Byron

B. None of these

C. Shelley

D. Tennyson

147. Which one is the worlds longest running play______________?
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A. Othello

B. The Mousetrap

C. Macbeth

D. Romeo and Juliet

148. The back to Africa movement was primarily about______________?
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A. Writers who took African themes for their work.

B. Completing an oppressed peoples quest for freedom, liberty and democracy.

C. Bringing African culture to the United States.

D. Leaving the African peoples alone.

149. Why was it important that slave narratives have a title page that claimed either that the narrative was written by the narrator himself (or his words were recorded by someone close to him, preferably white) ?
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A. In order for people to believe the events in the narratives.

B. So that slave owners could refute the events in the narratives.

C. So that the author could be assured he wouldnt be recaptured.

D. So the author could get paid.

150. Who introduced the character of the tragic mulatto ?
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A. William Wells Brown

B. Lydia Maria Child

C. Harriet Beecher Stowe

D. Harriet Jacobs

151. Who is known as an anti-romantic novelist in the Romantic Age ?
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A. Jane Austen

B. William Hazlitt

C. Oliver Goldsmith

D. Charles Lamb

152. I wandered Lonely as a cloud is an example of______________?
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A. Metonymy

B. Simile

C. Metaphor

D. symbol

153. Slave narratives were shaped by_____________?
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A. Captivity narratives.

B. Abolitionist newspaper accounts.

C. African mythology.

D. Folktales.

154. The line Beauty is truth, truth beauty occurs in which one of Keats following poems_______________?
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A. None of these

B. Ode to Nightingale

C. Ode to Psyche

D. Ode to Grecian Urn

155. Edmund Spenser is a_________________?
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A. artist

B. dramatist

C. scientist

D. poet

156. Who wrote poem about Lucy ?
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A. S. T. Coleridge

B. P. B. Shelley

C. Lord Byron

D. William Wordsworth

157. The novel The Jungle Book is written by_______________?
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A. R. K. Narayan

B. Edin Blyton

C. H. G. Wells

D. Rudyard Kipling

158. The treatise On Liberty was written by_____________?
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A. Lamb

B. Ruskin

C. Oscar Wilde

D. Mill

159. The prose of the Romantic period had a tendency to_______________?
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A. Be brooding and meditative. own personality

B. Advance a single system to the public

C. Allow the writer to draw on his

D. Objectify the issue in terms of a cause

160. Arna Bontempss A Summer Tragedy attacks the institution of________________?
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A. Segregation.

B. Prostitution.

C. Sharecropping.

D. Slavery.

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