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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.
| 151. |
This is the name of the report by Cotton Mather about the trial accusing Martha Carrier of witchcraft_______________? |
| A. | The Burning of Our House |
| B. | The Story of Plymouth Plantation |
| C. | Sinners in the Hand |
| D. | The Wonders of the Invisible World |
| Answer» E. | |
| 152. |
This is the title of a famous Puritan sermon______________? |
| A. | A Bird in the Hand |
| B. | Hands of Satan |
| C. | Sinners in the Hand… |
| D. | Sins of the World |
| Answer» D. Sins of the World | |
| 153. |
This is a system of fundamental laws governing a society______________? |
| A. | Discourse |
| B. | Constitution |
| C. | Language |
| D. | Connotation |
| Answer» C. Language | |
| 154. |
This is the implied comparison between two dissimilar things_______________? |
| A. | Myth |
| B. | History |
| C. | Tradition |
| D. | Metaphor |
| Answer» E. | |
| 155. |
This group of Native Americans believed that corn was crucial to creation ? |
| A. | Teton |
| B. | Cherokee |
| C. | Utes |
| D. | Navajo |
| Answer» E. | |
| 156. |
This group of Native Americans left behind a legend about creation using pictographs_____________? |
| A. | Apache |
| B. | Delaware |
| C. | Sioux |
| D. | Inuit |
| Answer» C. Sioux | |
| 157. |
This governor was re-elected 30 times_________________? |
| A. | Anne Bradstreet |
| B. | Bradford Nelson |
| C. | Jonathan Edwards |
| D. | William Bradford |
| Answer» E. | |
| 158. |
This group united 5 tribes_____________? |
| A. | Iroquois |
| B. | Sioux |
| C. | Navajo |
| D. | Hopi |
| Answer» B. Sioux | |
| 159. |
This author wrote of the Pilgrims’ voyage to the New World ? |
| A. | Bradford Nelson |
| B. | William Holden |
| C. | Nelson Holden |
| D. | William Bradford |
| Answer» E. | |
| 160. |
This checkmark diagram represents the plot structure for what genre of early American writing ? |
| A. | Slave narrative |
| B. | Indian autobiography |
| C. | Sermon |
| D. | Trancendentalism |
| Answer» B. Indian autobiography | |
| 161. |
This character survived a massacre______________? |
| A. | Faith |
| B. | Hope |
| C. | Magawisca |
| D. | Madeline |
| Answer» C. Magawisca | |
| 162. |
Themes in modern literature are_____________? |
| A. | pretension |
| B. | nostalgia |
| C. | national identity |
| D. | All the above |
| Answer» E. | |
| 163. |
Themes in colonial time period ? |
| A. | resistance |
| B. | cultural independence |
| C. | Europe |
| D. | All the above |
| Answer» E. | |
| 164. |
The Weary Blues______________? |
| A. | William Faulkner |
| B. | Carl Sandburg |
| C. | Langston Hues |
| D. | Sherwood anderson |
| Answer» D. Sherwood anderson | |
| 165. |
The vivid imagery of the season is shown to_____________? |
| A. | reinforce the thoughts of the narrator |
| B. | reflect the happenings in the life of the narrator |
| C. | state the situation of the narrator |
| D. | emphasize the choice of the season |
| Answer» B. reflect the happenings in the life of the narrator | |
| 166. |
The use of a etcetera in the final line is_____________? |
| A. | euphemism |
| B. | empathy |
| C. | alliteration |
| D. | onomatopoeia |
| Answer» B. empathy | |
| 167. |
The two main characters in The Pearl are______________? |
| A. | Juan Tomas and his wife. |
| B. | The doctor and the priest. |
| C. | Kino and his wife Juana. |
| D. | None of the above |
| Answer» D. None of the above | |
| 168. |
The tone of the third stanza of the poem embodies a sense of_____________? |
| A. | Panic |
| B. | Pain |
| C. | Calmness |
| D. | content |
| Answer» B. Pain | |
| 169. |
The term Beat Generation comes from______________? |
| A. | Beat to his size |
| B. | Beat to his stomach |
| C. | Beat to his socks |
| D. | Beat to his Shoe |
| Answer» D. Beat to his Shoe | |
| 170. |
The sweetest music is not in the oratorio, but in____________? |
| A. | Soulful lyrics |
| B. | Human voice |
| C. | Epic |
| D. | Lyric |
| Answer» C. Epic | |
| 171. |
The story is told from the point of view of________________? |
| A. | Mrs. Mallard |
| B. | Mrs. Mallard’s sister Josephine |
| C. | Mr. Mallard |
| D. | a third person |
| Answer» E. | |
| 172. |
The purpose of placing ‘fallen cold and dead’ at the end of each section is to_____________? |
| A. | remind the leader of the tragedy |
| B. | repeat the lines for the rhyming |
| C. | keep the readers aware of what is to come |
| D. | clarify his idea |
| Answer» B. repeat the lines for the rhyming | |
| 173. |
The Puritans who settled Plymouth Colony were separating Puritans which meant ? |
| A. | Continue being apart of the Church of England |
| B. | Reform |
| C. | Separate from the Church of England |
| D. | None of the above |
| Answer» D. None of the above | |
| 174. |
The Puritans who settled Massachusetts Bay were non-separating Puritans, which meant ? |
| A. | They did not want to disassociate from the Church of England |
| B. | Separate from church of England |
| C. | Start their own beliefs |
| D. | Create seperation |
| Answer» B. Separate from church of England | |
| 175. |
The process of passing on sayings, songs and tales ? |
| A. | Narration |
| B. | History |
| C. | Persuasion |
| D. | Oral Tradition |
| Answer» E. | |
| 176. |
The populace think that your rejection of popular standards is a rejection of all standard, and mere antinomianism – and the bold sensualist will use the name of philosophy to gild his crimes. But the law of consciousness abides. There are two confessionals, in one or the other of which we must be shriven. What is “antinomianism” ? |
| A. | Doctrine of Stoicism |
| B. | Doctrine of Gnosticism |
| C. | Doctrine of Materialism |
| D. | Doctrine of salvation by faith alone |
| Answer» E. | |
| 177. |
The poem ‘Chicago’ is written by________________? |
| A. | Ezra Pound |
| B. | E.E. Cummings |
| C. | Carl Sandburg |
| D. | Carlos William |
| Answer» D. Carlos William | |
| 178. |
The poem ends on a_____________? |
| A. | happy and meaningful note |
| B. | courageous and hopeful note |
| C. | tragic and painful note |
| D. | philosophical note |
| Answer» E. | |
| 179. |
The poem by Berryman has a sad and depressed tone about it and it foreshadows the_____________? |
| A. | fate of the author or how depressed be was |
| B. | fate and the mindest of the boy |
| C. | turn of events of the ball |
| D. | happenings in the poem |
| Answer» C. turn of events of the ball | |
| 180. |
The pervading metaphor in the story is___________________? |
| A. | a clean well-lighted place |
| B. | the old waiter |
| C. | the old man |
| D. | liquor |
| Answer» B. the old waiter | |
| 181. |
The now ghastly pallor of the skin, and the now miraculous luster of the eye, above all things startled and even awed me. The silken hair, too, had been suffered to grow all unheeded, and as, in its wild gossamer texture, it floated rather than fell about the face, I could not, even with effort, connect its arabesque expression with any idea of simple humanity. The character described in this passage ? |
| A. | Commits suicide |
| B. | Devours a heart |
| C. | Meets the devil |
| D. | Buries someone alive |
| Answer» E. | |
| 182. |
The narrator returns home during the_______________? |
| A. | spring |
| B. | Winter |
| C. | fall |
| D. | summer |
| Answer» C. fall | |
| 183. |
The Manitou is a great god in this legend ? |
| A. | Gilgamesh |
| B. | Colba |
| C. | Odysseus |
| D. | Walum Olum |
| Answer» E. | |
| 184. |
The lesson the young man teaches Dorothy is_________________? |
| A. | to hide here emotion |
| B. | to live and enjoy her life |
| C. | to fight with people |
| D. | not to lodge a complaint |
| Answer» C. to fight with people | |
| 185. |
The intellectual movement that believed that the observation of nature elevates the nature of humans, that deep truths can be grasped through intuition, and that God, Nature and humanity are united in a shared universe is______________? |
| A. | Transcendentalism |
| B. | Communism |
| C. | Totalitarianism |
| D. | Feudalism |
| Answer» B. Communism | |
| 186. |
The house of this Puritan poet burned down_____________? |
| A. | Elizabeth Browning |
| B. | Eliza Snow |
| C. | George Elliot |
| D. | Anne Bradstreet |
| Answer» E. | |
| 187. |
The hairy wild-bee that murmurs and hankers up and down, that gripes the fullgrown lady-flower, curves upon her with amorous firm legs, takes his will of her, and holds himself tremulous and tight till he is satisfied. What does tremulous mean ? |
| A. | Trembling and timid |
| B. | Stiff |
| C. | Afraid |
| D. | Contemplating and deciding |
| Answer» B. Stiff | |
| 188. |
The founder of Jamestown____________? |
| A. | Johnathon Edwards |
| B. | John Stillwell |
| C. | John Smith |
| D. | John Stelzer |
| Answer» D. John Stelzer | |
| 189. |
The following extract presents a suitable answer to the hacknied argument drawn by the defender of Slavery from the songs of the Slave, and is also a good specimen of the powers of observation and manly heart of the writer. The word hacknied is an old form of the word hackneyed. What does it mean ? |
| A. | Lacking in freshness and originality |
| B. | Saddened |
| C. | Double meaning |
| D. | Blue-eyed |
| Answer» B. Saddened | |
| 190. |
The first stanza of the poem provides an idea that it is______________? |
| A. | a revenge story |
| B. | not a happy story |
| C. | a metaphysical poem |
| D. | a deterministic poem |
| Answer» C. a metaphysical poem | |
| 191. |
The first part of American History dwells of the_________________? |
| A. | Discovery of America by Columbus |
| B. | Discovery and settlement of the Western continent |
| C. | early English settlers |
| D. | missionaries settled in America |
| Answer» C. early English settlers | |
| 192. |
The ‘fearful trip’ is a recall of________________? |
| A. | The Civil war |
| B. | Voyage |
| C. | Abraham Lincoln |
| D. | Trip form England to the United States |
| Answer» B. Voyage | |
| 193. |
The farmer drove his plough-share deep “Whose bones are these?” said he, “I find them where my browsing sheep Roam o’er the upland lea.” What does “lea” mean? Veldu eitt ? |
| A. | Rocky land |
| B. | Bridge |
| C. | Plain or plateau |
| D. | Meadow or pastureland |
| Answer» E. | |
| 194. |
_____________the eyes of all people are upon us; soe that if wee shall deale falsely with our god in this worke wee have undertaken and soe cause him to withdrawe his preent help from us, wee shall be made a story and a by-word through the world, wee shall open the mouthes of enemies to speake evill of the ways of god and all professours for Gods sake; wee shall shame the faces of many of gods worthy servants, and cause theire prayers to be turned into Cursses upon us till we be consumed out of the good land whether wee are going ? |
| A. | Fredrick Douglass |
| B. | John Winthrop |
| C. | Benjamin Franklin |
| D. | William Apess |
| Answer» C. Benjamin Franklin | |
| 195. |
The emagery in the poem is_________________? |
| A. | Mystical |
| B. | Naturalistics |
| C. | Deterministic |
| D. | Supernatural |
| Answer» C. Deterministic | |
| 196. |
The “Cycle of American Literature” was written by ? |
| A. | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| B. | Thoruau |
| C. | Robert E. Spiller |
| D. | Gustave Falubert |
| Answer» D. Gustave Falubert | |
| 197. |
The cloud-spirits peeped from their silvery islands, as the congregated mirth went roaring up the sky! The Man in the Moon heard the far bellow. “Oho,” quoth he, “the old earth is frolicsome to-night!” This is_______________? |
| A. | An autobiography |
| B. | A fairy tale |
| C. | Gothic fiction |
| D. | A novel |
| Answer» D. A novel | |
| 198. |
The children of the village, too, would shout with joy whenever he approached. He assisted at their sports, made their playthings, taught them to fly kites and shoot marbles, and told them long stories of ghosts, witches, and Indians. This work draws upon_____________? |
| A. | A European fairy tale |
| B. | A local ghost story |
| C. | An Indian legend |
| D. | A European ghost story |
| Answer» B. A local ghost story | |
| 199. |
The change TV brought into the society can be summed up as_________________? |
| A. | condensed life to the screen |
| B. | life turning more attractive |
| C. | bringing reality before them |
| D. | creating indifference to realities of life |
| Answer» E. | |
| 200. |
The cautious old gentleman knit his brows tenfold closer after this explanation, being sorely puzzled by the ratiocination of the syllogism; while methought the one in pepper and salt eyed him with something of a triumphant leer. At length he observed, that all this was very well, but still he thought the story a little extravagant – there were one or two points on which he had his doubts. “Faith, sir,” replied the story-teller, “as to that matter, I don’t believe one half of it myself.” This passage exemplifies_____________? |
| A. | Narrative frame |
| B. | Hortatory sermon |
| C. | Snaring |
| D. | Jamming |
| Answer» B. Hortatory sermon | |