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This section includes 332 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your English Literature knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
| 1. |
Which of the following themes or ideas are closely associated with the Native American way of life ? |
| A. | Waste and abuse of natural resources |
| B. | Immoral behavior |
| C. | Love and respect for family and its elders |
| D. | Uncivilized society |
| Answer» D. Uncivilized society | |
| 2. |
Which of these is NOT a rhetorical purpose of the Spiritual Diary Genre ? |
| A. | finding spiritual meaning |
| B. | Critic slavery |
| C. | Defend Slavery |
| D. | Both B and C |
| Answer» E. | |
| 3. |
Which of these statements does NOT apply to Hawthorne as a moralist ________________? |
| A. | Awareness of the importance of living a life without error and sin |
| B. | Awareness of the dangers of setting yourself up as the judge of others or of isolating yourself from humanity |
| C. | Awareness of the ethical problems of sin, punishment and atonement |
| D. | Awareness of the mysteries and frailties of human nature |
| Answer» B. Awareness of the dangers of setting yourself up as the judge of others or of isolating yourself from humanity | |
| 4. |
Which of Uncle Tom’s personal characteristics guided his interactions with others and his responses to his circumstances ? |
| A. | His gentle and soft-spoken nature |
| B. | His honesty and deep devotion to God |
| C. | His overwhelming fear of violence |
| D. | His ability to hide his rebellious nature. |
| Answer» C. His overwhelming fear of violence | |
| 5. |
Which of Upton Sinclair’s books is about the meat-packing industry ? |
| A. | Main Street |
| B. | Arrowsmith |
| C. | Elmer Gantry |
| D. | The Jungle |
| Answer» E. | |
| 6. |
Which ofWashington Irving’s characters falls asleep for twenty years ? |
| A. | Tom Buchanan |
| B. | Tom Joad |
| C. | Philip Marlowe |
| D. | Rip van Winkle |
| Answer» E. | |
| 7. |
Which one is a great patriotic poem by Frost ? |
| A. | Mending Wall |
| B. | Birches |
| C. | The Gift Outright |
| D. | Directive |
| Answer» D. Directive | |
| 8. |
Which statement below best defined Dickinson’s idea of circumference ? |
| A. | Above and beyond |
| B. | limitations |
| C. | no limitations |
| D. | Eqaulity |
| Answer» C. no limitations | |
| 9. |
Which statement below best defines the genre of Indian autobiography ? |
| A. | Genre that details life exerpeinces of white americans in early america and critiques american society to native americans. |
| B. | Genre that details life experiences of native Americas in early America and critiques American society to native Americans. |
| C. | Both A and B |
| D. | None of the above |
| Answer» C. Both A and B | |
| 10. |
Which statement below best defined Whitman’s idea of Oversoul ? |
| A. | Death |
| B. | Relationships |
| C. | American landscape |
| D. | Hope |
| Answer» D. Hope | |
| 11. |
Which statement below best paraphrases what John Winthrop meant when he declared that the MBC would be as a “city upon a hill” ? |
| A. | Religious freedom |
| B. | Everyone has a role in society |
| C. | Only men should work |
| D. | Woman have no role in society |
| Answer» C. Only men should work | |
| 12. |
Which statement best describes literary significance of William APess ? |
| A. | Indian Autobiography |
| B. | Father of free verse |
| C. | Father of American poetry |
| D. | Both A and B |
| Answer» E. | |
| 13. |
Whitman uses line length and word choice to represent________________? |
| A. | a wide range of emotion from joy to sorrow |
| B. | His style of writing |
| C. | the joyous moment |
| D. | a feeling of excitement |
| Answer» B. His style of writing | |
| 14. |
Who coined the phrase ‘Lost Generation’ ? |
| A. | Hemingway |
| B. | Gertude Stein |
| C. | F. Scott Fitzserald |
| D. | Sherwood Anderson |
| Answer» C. F. Scott Fitzserald | |
| 15. |
Who has been teaching Uncle Tom to read ? |
| A. | Eliza |
| B. | George |
| C. | Haley |
| D. | Mr.Symmes |
| Answer» C. Haley | |
| 16. |
Who “haunts” the evil Simon Legree when he is drunk ? |
| A. | Cassy |
| B. | Eliza |
| C. | George |
| D. | Uncle Tom |
| Answer» B. Eliza | |
| 17. |
Who inherits ownership of Tom when St. Clare dies ? |
| A. | Eva |
| B. | Marie |
| C. | George Shelby |
| D. | Haley |
| Answer» C. George Shelby | |
| 18. |
Who is addressed as “you” in the poem ? |
| A. | a romantic achiever |
| B. | a frustrated romantic idealist |
| C. | an under achiever |
| D. | an accomplished royal |
| Answer» C. an under achiever | |
| 19. |
Who is Eliza’s mother ? |
| A. | Cassy |
| B. | Mrs.Shelby |
| C. | Mrs.Legree |
| D. | Aunt Chole |
| Answer» B. Mrs.Shelby | |
| 20. |
Who is NOT considered to be a representative of the Southern Renaissance ? |
| A. | William Faulkner |
| B. | Tennessee Williams |
| C. | Robert Penn Warren |
| D. | T.S.Eliot |
| Answer» E. | |
| 21. |
Who is Sharp-elbow ? |
| A. | A genrous village chief who is known for his kindness |
| B. | Hare’s grandfather |
| C. | A god who protects and guides Hare on his many adventures |
| D. | A tyrannical village chief who is known for his elbow blades |
| Answer» E. | |
| 22. |
Who is the central character in Hemingway’s novel The Old Man and the Sea ? |
| A. | Santiago |
| B. | Marlin |
| C. | Marlin |
| D. | None of the above |
| Answer» B. Marlin | |
| 23. |
Who is the central Figure in O Nell’s The Hairy Ape_____________? |
| A. | Mildred |
| B. | Yank |
| C. | The Secretary of I.W.W. |
| D. | None of the above |
| Answer» C. The Secretary of I.W.W. | |
| 24. |
Who is the narrator in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby (1925) ? |
| A. | Gatsby |
| B. | Nick |
| C. | Buchannan |
| D. | None of the above |
| Answer» C. Buchannan | |
| 25. |
Who is the narrator in Melville’s Moby Dick ? |
| A. | Captain Ahab |
| B. | Elijah |
| C. | Ishmael |
| D. | Gabrial |
| Answer» D. Gabrial | |
| 26. |
Who is the representative figure of the “Jazz Age” ? |
| A. | Sherwood Anderson |
| B. | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| C. | Saul Bellow |
| D. | Wallace Stevens |
| Answer» C. Saul Bellow | |
| 27. |
Who says “Earth is the right place for love” ? |
| A. | Silvia plath |
| B. | Langston Hughes |
| C. | Wallace Stevens |
| D. | Robert Frost |
| Answer» E. | |
| 28. |
Who was Fuseli ? |
| A. | Swiss-bom painter |
| B. | French guitarist |
| C. | An Italian-born doctor |
| D. | British painter |
| Answer» E. | |
| 29. |
Who was the first black woman who win the Nobel Prize for Literature ? |
| A. | Toni Morrison |
| B. | Jane Austin |
| C. | Ann Petry |
| D. | Frances Harper |
| Answer» B. Jane Austin | |
| 30. |
Who wrote “Barn burning” ? |
| A. | Rober Lee frost |
| B. | Eugene O’ Neil’s |
| C. | Tennesse Williams |
| D. | William Faulkner’s |
| Answer» E. | |
| 31. |
Who wrote “Emperor Ice cream” ? |
| A. | Langston Hughes |
| B. | William Faulkner |
| C. | Wallace stevens |
| D. | Countee cullen |
| Answer» D. Countee cullen | |
| 32. |
Who wrote Heritage ? |
| A. | Countiee cullen |
| B. | William Faulkner |
| C. | T.S. Eliot |
| D. | Wallace stevens |
| Answer» B. William Faulkner | |
| 33. |
Who wrote Mending wall ? |
| A. | Carl Sanburg |
| B. | T.S. Eliot |
| C. | E.e cummings |
| D. | Robert Lee Forst |
| Answer» E. | |
| 34. |
Who wrote “The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock” ? |
| A. | Cumings |
| B. | Robert Lee Frost |
| C. | T.S. Eliot |
| D. | Edgar lee masters |
| Answer» D. Edgar lee masters | |
| 35. |
Who wrote The sound and the furry ? |
| A. | Eugene O’ Neil’s |
| B. | William Faulkner |
| C. | Robert Lee frost |
| D. | Countee Cullen |
| Answer» C. Robert Lee frost | |
| 36. |
Who wrote “The waste land” ? |
| A. | Langston Hues |
| B. | William Faulkner |
| C. | Wallace Stevens |
| D. | T.S. Elliot |
| Answer» E. | |
| 37. |
Whom did the corn clan member pray to for help ? |
| A. | His dead uncle |
| B. | His dead father |
| C. | His dead grandmother |
| D. | His dead grandfather |
| Answer» B. His dead father | |
| 38. |
Whom does St. Clare give to Ophelia to educate ? |
| A. | Eva |
| B. | Prue |
| C. | Emmeline |
| D. | Topsy |
| Answer» E. | |
| 39. |
Whom does Mr.Haley choose from among Shelby’s slaves ? |
| A. | Eliza and Harry |
| B. | Uncle Tom and Cassy |
| C. | Uncle Tom and Eliza |
| D. | Uncle Tom and Harry |
| Answer» E. | |
| 40. |
Why did Bradford and the Pilgrims create Plymouth Colony ? |
| A. | For the land |
| B. | Sovereignty to establish godly kingdom as they saw fit |
| C. | Religious practice of the Church of England |
| D. | All of the above |
| Answer» C. Religious practice of the Church of England | |
| 41. |
Why do people evolve a language_______________? |
| A. | To communicate |
| B. | To articulate their circumstances |
| C. | For existence |
| D. | For identifying themselves |
| Answer» C. For existence | |
| 42. |
Why do we call Ralph Waldo Emerson the “Father of American Literature” ? |
| A. | First native american to publish life writing |
| B. | Mentor to other writers |
| C. | Literary Maverick |
| D. | None of the above |
| Answer» C. Literary Maverick | |
| 43. |
Why do you think the uncle was named the “Unnatural Uncle” ? |
| A. | The Eskimo’s felt that family was important and to try to harm a family member was not normal or natural |
| B. | The pronunciation of Eskimo names are impossible so the author decided that this was easy for the reader |
| C. | All Eskimo myths name the antagonist the “Unnatural Uncle” |
| D. | Since this tale is from the oral tradition, the characters had no names and when the myth was written down this is the name that was given |
| Answer» B. The pronunciation of Eskimo names are impossible so the author decided that this was easy for the reader | |
| 44. |
Why does Henry David Thoreau write his book “Walden” ? |
| A. | To show ideas of transcendentalism are put into action |
| B. | To critique slavery |
| C. | Tell his entire life story |
| D. | None of the above |
| Answer» B. To critique slavery | |
| 45. |
Why was the book “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” written ? |
| A. | as a pro- slavery argument |
| B. | the author was a runaway slave |
| C. | as a view point from Canada |
| D. | as propaganda against slavery |
| Answer» E. | |
| 46. |
William Bradford’s Of Plymouth Plantation exemplifies what genre of early American writing ? |
| A. | Slave narrative |
| B. | Free verse poem |
| C. | Journal |
| D. | Spiritual diary |
| Answer» E. | |
| 47. |
Wines Burg Ohio______________? |
| A. | Sherwood Anderson |
| B. | Robert Lee Frost |
| C. | William Faulkner |
| D. | Carl Sanburg |
| Answer» B. Robert Lee Frost | |
| 48. |
Writers in the Romantic time period were concerned with____________? |
| A. | Nature as a source of secular and spiritual knowledge, emotion as truth, and exploration of the self. |
| B. | Scientific exploration. |
| C. | Love and romance. |
| D. | The philosophy of how to run a new country. |
| Answer» B. Scientific exploration. | |
| 49. |
Yes, when the stars glisten’d, All night long on the prong of a moss-scallop’d stake, Down almost amid the slapping waves, Sat the lone singer wonderful causing tears. What is a prong ? |
| A. | An edgy platform |
| B. | Other side |
| C. | A pointed, projected part of something |
| D. | An adumbration |
| Answer» D. An adumbration | |
| 50. |
“Your goodness must have some edge to it—else it is none. The doctrine of hatred must be preached as the counteraction of the doctrine of love when that pules and whines.” In this work the author argues in favour of____________? |
| A. | Communism |
| B. | Revolution |
| C. | An independent nation of independent individuals |
| D. | Abolition |
| Answer» D. Abolition | |