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This section includes 54 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your Bachelor of Arts (BA) knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
| 1. |
"All My Sons" was published in_______. |
| A. | 1947 |
| B. | 1949 |
| C. | 1943 |
| D. | 1946 |
| Answer» B. 1949 | |
| 2. |
In__________ year "The American Scholar" was published. |
| A. | 1847 |
| B. | 1837 |
| C. | 1850 |
| D. | 1844 |
| Answer» C. 1850 | |
| 3. |
________ is Happy's real name. |
| A. | Harold |
| B. | Bernard |
| C. | Ben |
| D. | Chris |
| Answer» B. Bernard | |
| 4. |
______ character states"nobody dast blamet his man". |
| A. | Willy Loman |
| B. | Bernard |
| C. | Charley |
| D. | Happy |
| Answer» D. Happy | |
| 5. |
In _______ year Arthur Miller won the "Pulitzer Prize for Drama". |
| A. | 1949 |
| B. | 1956 |
| C. | 1954 |
| D. | 1945 |
| Answer» B. 1956 | |
| 6. |
"A Farewell to Arms" published on _____. |
| A. | 1926 |
| B. | 1929 |
| C. | 1937 |
| D. | 1940 |
| Answer» C. 1937 | |
| 7. |
_____ is the protagonist of the play "Death of a Salesman". |
| A. | Charley |
| B. | Happy |
| C. | Bernard |
| D. | Willy Loman |
| Answer» E. | |
| 8. |
__________ adventures nare narrated in "Mobi-Dick". |
| A. | Ahab |
| B. | Ibrahim |
| C. | Edward |
| D. | Ishmael |
| Answer» E. | |
| 9. |
_________ introduces Henry to Catherine. |
| A. | Mrs. Gage |
| B. | Helan |
| C. | Rinaldi |
| D. | Velantini |
| Answer» D. Velantini | |
| 10. |
_________play was first performed in New York city in 1962. |
| A. | All My Sons |
| B. | Death of Salesmen |
| C. | Who's Afriad of Virginia Woolf? |
| D. | Men Without Women |
| Answer» D. Men Without Women | |
| 11. |
Ben end up __________when he went looking for his father. |
| A. | Africa |
| B. | America |
| C. | Australia |
| D. | England |
| Answer» B. America | |
| 12. |
At the beginning of the novel, Henry reports that seven thousand soldiers have died due to _____. |
| A. | Cuff |
| B. | Cholera |
| C. | Fever |
| D. | Phenumonia |
| Answer» C. Fever | |
| 13. |
Hernry's job in the Army is_______. |
| A. | Ambulance driver |
| B. | Soldier |
| C. | Lieutenant |
| D. | Doctor |
| Answer» B. Soldier | |
| 14. |
________ is the "father of free verse". |
| A. | Walt Whitman |
| B. | Arthur Miller |
| C. | Wallace Stevens |
| D. | William Faulkner |
| Answer» B. Arthur Miller | |
| 15. |
______is the refferred as the captain of the ship in the poem"O Captain!My Captain". |
| A. | Chaucer |
| B. | Lincoln |
| C. | Washington |
| D. | Martin Luther |
| Answer» C. Washington | |
| 16. |
The poem O Captain ! My Captain is a/an ____. |
| A. | Lampoo |
| B. | Lyric |
| C. | Sonnet |
| D. | Elegy |
| Answer» E. | |
| 17. |
_______was the father of Sylvia Plath. |
| A. | Harold Plath |
| B. | Steve Plath |
| C. | Otto Plath |
| D. | Ted Huges |
| Answer» D. Ted Huges | |
| 18. |
The poetess compares "Daddy" to ____. |
| A. | A Nazi |
| B. | A Hitler |
| C. | A Vampire |
| D. | All the above |
| Answer» E. | |
| 19. |
Wallace Stevens' poem "The Emperor of Ice-cream" occur in___________. |
| A. | Chariot |
| B. | Harmonium |
| C. | Mountain Interval |
| D. | The Princess |
| Answer» C. Mountain Interval | |
| 20. |
Sylvia Plath was _______when her father died. |
| A. | 8 years |
| B. | 7 years |
| C. | 6 years |
| D. | 10 years |
| Answer» B. 7 years | |
| 21. |
__________ is embodied on the sheet bused to cover the body. |
| A. | Bird |
| B. | Anmial |
| C. | God |
| D. | Men |
| Answer» B. Anmial | |
| 22. |
Emily Dickinson had written about ___ poems. |
| A. | 1300 |
| B. | 1400 |
| C. | 1600 |
| D. | 1700 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 23. |
The poet meant by "our fearful trip is done" is________. |
| A. | The end of the first world war |
| B. | The end of second world war |
| C. | The end of civil war |
| D. | The end of French revolution |
| Answer» D. The end of French revolution | |
| 24. |
The swelling ground represent__________. |
| A. | Grave |
| B. | House |
| C. | Heaven |
| D. | Hell |
| Answer» B. House | |
| 25. |
____________was the first title of the poem "Because I Could Not Stop for Death". |
| A. | The Way of Death |
| B. | The Chariot |
| C. | Stopping the Death |
| D. | Life to Death |
| Answer» C. Stopping the Death | |
| 26. |
"Flag is flung" identify the figure of speech. |
| A. | Alliteration |
| B. | Simile |
| C. | Metaphor |
| D. | Hyperbole |
| Answer» B. Simile | |
| 27. |
__________alphabet is used as in "The Scarlet Letter". |
| A. | N |
| B. | A |
| C. | S |
| D. | D |
| Answer» C. S | |
| 28. |
The narrator comes upon a fork in the road while walking through _____. |
| A. | Green Wood |
| B. | Red Wood |
| C. | Yellow Wood |
| D. | White Wood |
| Answer» D. White Wood | |
| 29. |
____ is the heroine of the novel "The Scarlet Letter". |
| A. | Pearl |
| B. | Laura |
| C. | Ammy |
| D. | Heater Prynne |
| Answer» E. | |
| 30. |
______ is the main character in the novel "Herzog". |
| A. | Kate |
| B. | Benjay |
| C. | Moses |
| D. | James |
| Answer» D. James | |
| 31. |
_________symbols are used by Henry David Thoreau in his essay "Walden". |
| A. | Animals |
| B. | ice |
| C. | Walden pond |
| D. | All the above |
| Answer» E. | |
| 32. |
_________ acts in the play "The Zoo Story". |
| A. | 1 |
| B. | 3 |
| C. | 4 |
| D. | 5 |
| Answer» B. 3 | |
| 33. |
______ wrote the play "The Zoo Story". |
| A. | John Steinback |
| B. | William Faulkner |
| C. | Edward Albee |
| D. | Heman Melville |
| Answer» D. Heman Melville | |
| 34. |
The play "Desire Under the Elms" is divided into ___ parts. |
| A. | two |
| B. | three |
| C. | four |
| D. | five |
| Answer» C. four | |
| 35. |
________ was the autor of "Light in August". |
| A. | John Steinback |
| B. | Heman Melville |
| C. | Edward Albee |
| D. | William Faulkner |
| Answer» E. | |
| 36. |
________ is the genre of "Desire Under the Elms". |
| A. | Novel |
| B. | Absurd Play |
| C. | Poetry |
| D. | Essay |
| Answer» C. Poetry | |
| 37. |
Genre of "Walden" is ____. |
| A. | Essay |
| B. | Novel |
| C. | Play |
| D. | Allegory |
| Answer» B. Novel | |
| 38. |
"The America Scholar" is written by ____. |
| A. | William Faulkner |
| B. | William Tennessee |
| C. | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| D. | Arthur Miller |
| Answer» D. Arthur Miller | |
| 39. |
In ________novel major theme is the honour in struggle, defeath and pride. |
| A. | The Old Man and the Sea |
| B. | The Sound and the Fury |
| C. | Herzog |
| D. | The Zoo Story |
| Answer» B. The Sound and the Fury | |
| 40. |
_______is the name of the fish Santiago caught. |
| A. | Whale |
| B. | Marlin |
| C. | Dolphin |
| D. | Flounder |
| Answer» C. Dolphin | |
| 41. |
_____________ days Santiago struggle with the Marlin (Whale). |
| A. | 82 days |
| B. | 78 days |
| C. | 80 days |
| D. | 84 days |
| Answer» E. | |
| 42. |
__________ is the protagonist nofnthe novel " The Great Gatsby". |
| A. | Nick Carraway |
| B. | Benjay |
| C. | Jay Gatsby |
| D. | Sanjay |
| Answer» B. Benjay | |
| 43. |
The novel "The Sound and Fury" is written by _____. |
| A. | John Steinback |
| B. | Pearl S.Buck |
| C. | William Faulkner |
| D. | Tennessee Williams |
| Answer» D. Tennessee Williams | |
| 44. |
_________ is the other title of the novel "Moby- Dick". |
| A. | The Black Whale |
| B. | The story of Ishmael |
| C. | The White Whale |
| D. | Dolphin |
| Answer» D. Dolphin | |
| 45. |
_____________ wrote the novel "Herzog". |
| A. | William Faulkner |
| B. | Arthur Miller |
| C. | William Tennessee |
| D. | Saul Bellow |
| Answer» E. | |
| 46. |
___________ novel describes the corruption of Southern aristocratic values. |
| A. | Grapes of Wrath |
| B. | The glass Menagerie |
| C. | The Sound and the Fury |
| D. | The Scarlet Letter |
| Answer» D. The Scarlet Letter | |
| 47. |
The Marlin, Manolin and Santiago are the characters of ________ novel. |
| A. | The Sound and Fury |
| B. | The Old Man and the Sea |
| C. | Mobi-Dick |
| D. | All My Sons |
| Answer» C. Mobi-Dick | |
| 48. |
The Novel ____ is a story of the interior struggle of Moses to find truth. |
| A. | The Good Earth |
| B. | The Zoo Story |
| C. | The Great Gatsby |
| D. | Herzog |
| Answer» E. | |
| 49. |
The novel "The Good Earth " contains the details about daily life in ____ country at the end of the 19th century. |
| A. | America |
| B. | China |
| C. | England |
| D. | Australia |
| Answer» C. England | |
| 50. |
The novel "The Great Gatsby" published in___ ____. |
| A. | 1925 |
| B. | 1929 |
| C. | 1922 |
| D. | 1937 |
| Answer» B. 1929 | |