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This section includes 99 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your Master of Arts in English (M.A. English) knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
| 51. |
Who says, "Only as Caesar’s slave have I found real freedom." |
| A. | apollodorus |
| B. | rufio |
| C. | brtiannus |
| D. | ponthius |
| Answer» E. | |
| 52. |
Caesar says "I will send you a beautiful present from Rome". Whom does he refer to? |
| A. | octavius |
| B. | antony |
| C. | musical instrument |
| D. | wine |
| Answer» C. musical instrument | |
| 53. |
"Caesar; I come to warn you of a danger, and to make you an offer." Who says so? |
| A. | apollodorus |
| B. | belzanor |
| C. | pothinus |
| D. | rufio |
| Answer» D. rufio | |
| 54. |
Who is described as "an effective sergeant, an incompetent general, a deplorable dictator" in the play Caesar and Cleopatra? |
| A. | caesar |
| B. | belzanor |
| C. | pothinus |
| D. | rufio |
| Answer» C. pothinus | |
| 55. |
What war does Owen write about? |
| A. | the vietnam war |
| B. | the civil war |
| C. | wwi |
| D. | wwii |
| Answer» D. wwii | |
| 56. |
What does the dead man in "Strange Meeting" want to do at the very end? |
| A. | return to earth |
| B. | kill the soldier |
| C. | talk more |
| D. | sleep |
| Answer» E. | |
| 57. |
The dead man in "Strange Meeting" says he used to possess |
| A. | courage and wisdom |
| B. | money |
| C. | good looks |
| D. | religion |
| Answer» B. money | |
| 58. |
Where does the soldier in "Strange Meeting" find himself? |
| A. | in hell |
| B. | in heaven |
| C. | in purgatory |
| D. | at home |
| Answer» B. in heaven | |
| 59. |
What is the last word of this poem? |
| A. | nothing |
| B. | good |
| C. | dead |
| D. | blues |
| Answer» C. dead | |
| 60. |
What does Auden want done with the sun? |
| A. | packed up |
| B. | silenced |
| C. | scribbled out |
| D. | dismantled |
| Answer» E. | |
| 61. |
In "Strange Meeting", what does the soldier see that leads him to believe he is in hell? |
| A. | the dead man\s arms |
| B. | the dead man\s legs |
| C. | the dead man\s smile |
| D. | the dead man\s eyes |
| Answer» D. the dead man\s eyes | |
| 62. |
What color gloves were the traffic policemen to wear? |
| A. | white satin gloves |
| B. | red satin gloves |
| C. | gray wool gloves |
| D. | black cotton gloves |
| Answer» E. | |
| 63. |
What message were the airplanes (or aeroplanes) going to write in the air? |
| A. | directions to the funeral |
| B. | he is dead |
| C. | the deceased\s name |
| D. | he was my north |
| Answer» C. the deceased\s name | |
| 64. |
How was the dog supposed to be prevented from barking? |
| A. | by putting him outside |
| B. | a juicy bone |
| C. | with a muzzle |
| D. | by giving him away |
| Answer» C. with a muzzle | |
| 65. |
What is the first line of the poem "Funeral Blues"? |
| A. | stop all the clocks |
| B. | he was my north |
| C. | cut off the telephone |
| D. | pour away the ocean |
| Answer» B. he was my north | |
| 66. |
“Hieronymo’s mad again.†What is the source of this quote? |
| A. | hamlet |
| B. | measure for measure |
| C. | spanish tragedy |
| D. | dward ii |
| Answer» D. dward ii | |
| 67. |
Which Upanishad is part of the reference in the last section? |
| A. | brhadaranyaka upanishad |
| B. | chandogya upanishad. |
| C. | taittiriya upanishad. |
| D. | aitereya upanishad |
| Answer» B. chandogya upanishad. | |
| 68. |
Eliot stated that his references to certain vegetation ceremonies were influences that came from which book? |
| A. | the tain |
| B. | from ritual to romance |
| C. | the golden bough |
| D. | the mabinogeon |
| Answer» D. the mabinogeon | |
| 69. |
Before it was deleted, the line "Get me a woman, I said; you're too drunk, she said" was part of which section of the poem? |
| A. | what the thunder said |
| B. | a game of chess |
| C. | burial of the dead |
| D. | the fire sermon |
| Answer» D. the fire sermon | |
| 70. |
Where was the original (first intended) epigraph that Eliot had chosen for the poem from? |
| A. | baudelaire\s "fleurs du mal" |
| B. | pound\s "cantos" |
| C. | conrad\s "heart of darkness" |
| D. | milton\s "paradise lost" |
| Answer» D. milton\s "paradise lost" | |
| 71. |
Which of these works did Eliot NOT make a reference to in "The Waste Land"? |
| A. | shakespeare\s "measure for measure" |
| B. | goldsmith\s "the vicar of wakefield" |
| C. | kyd\s "spanish tragedy" |
| D. | spenser\s "prothalamion" |
| Answer» B. goldsmith\s "the vicar of wakefield" | |
| 72. |
Who helped Eliot edit the poem, and, in the process, suggested the deletion of large portions of the poem? |
| A. | pound |
| B. | yeats |
| C. | frost |
| D. | owen |
| Answer» B. yeats | |
| 73. |
What was Eliot's first working title for "The Waste Land"? |
| A. | unreal city |
| B. | he do the police in different voices |
| C. | the land of the dead |
| D. | voices in the desert |
| Answer» C. the land of the dead | |
| 74. |
What does the Narrator know when confronted with the hyacinth girl? |
| A. | the way to restore fruitfulness to the wasteland |
| B. | nothing |
| C. | the meaning of life |
| D. | the reason he is in love |
| Answer» C. the meaning of life | |
| 75. |
In what city is Queen Victoria Street (in the poem)? |
| A. | new york |
| B. | london |
| C. | boston |
| D. | gloucester |
| Answer» C. boston | |
| 76. |
Who rapes Philomela? |
| A. | tereus |
| B. | odysseus |
| C. | the typist |
| D. | zeus |
| Answer» B. odysseus | |
| 77. |
"When lovely woman stoops to folly" is an allusion to: |
| A. | spanish tragedy |
| B. | ovid\s metamorphoses |
| C. | hamlet |
| D. | oliver goldsmith\s the vicar of wakefield |
| Answer» E. | |
| 78. |
The narrator is told that he should fear death by: |
| A. | fire |
| B. | water |
| C. | starvation |
| D. | disease |
| Answer» C. starvation | |
| 79. |
Magnus Martyr is a: |
| A. | ocean |
| B. | church |
| C. | epic poem |
| D. | football stadium |
| Answer» C. epic poem | |
| 80. |
Translate "Oed' und leer das Meer" |
| A. | "the ship has arrived, appearing on the horizon" |
| B. | "a kiss is just a kiss" |
| C. | "isolde is lost forever" |
| D. | "desolate and empty is the sea" |
| Answer» E. | |
| 81. |
Which of the following cities is mentioned in "The Waste Land"? |
| A. | timbuktu |
| B. | marseilles |
| C. | novgorod |
| D. | vienna |
| Answer» E. | |
| 82. |
"By the waters of ____ I sat down and wept..." |
| A. | the seine |
| B. | the nile |
| C. | the thames |
| D. | leman |
| Answer» E. | |
| 83. |
Which month is the "cruellest"? |
| A. | september |
| B. | april |
| C. | may |
| D. | december |
| Answer» C. may | |
| 84. |
What does "the centre cannot hold" mean? |
| A. | jesus christ cannot save us |
| B. | summer cannot last forever |
| C. | the world\s core values and meanings are falling apart |
| D. | the heart cannot sustain the mind |
| Answer» D. the heart cannot sustain the mind | |
| 85. |
In what sense does Yeats use the term 'Spiritus Mundi'? |
| A. | collective meaning of broken images |
| B. | collective unconscious that all human beings share |
| C. | collective myths that society believe |
| D. | collective memory of trauma |
| Answer» C. collective myths that society believe | |
| 86. |
What does gyre mean? |
| A. | spirit |
| B. | spiral |
| C. | sphinx |
| D. | stone image |
| Answer» C. sphinx | |
| 87. |
Name the ninth century Byzantine Emperor referred to in the poem 'Sailing to Byzantium |
| A. | theodore |
| B. | tiresias |
| C. | theophilus |
| D. | trescothick |
| Answer» D. trescothick | |
| 88. |
Where is Byzantium located? |
| A. | ireland |
| B. | scotland |
| C. | turkey |
| D. | italy |
| Answer» D. italy | |
| 89. |
The title of Yeats' 'The Second Coming' is a reference to what event? |
| A. | the return of jesus christ |
| B. | world war i |
| C. | world war ii |
| D. | the modernism era |
| Answer» B. world war i | |
| 90. |
Identify the term that is not used by Hopkins to describe the Windhover? |
| A. | minion, |
| B. | dauphin |
| C. | falcon |
| D. | beast |
| Answer» E. | |
| 91. |
Which order did Gerard Manley Hopkins join? |
| A. | carmelite |
| B. | jesuit |
| C. | franciscan |
| D. | benedictine |
| Answer» C. franciscan | |
| 92. |
Who published the first collected edition of Gerard Manley Hopkins’ poems in 1918? |
| A. | robert bridges |
| B. | stephen spender |
| C. | richard dixon |
| D. | coventry patmore |
| Answer» B. stephen spender | |
| 93. |
What shine “blue beak� |
| A. | sky |
| B. | feathers |
| C. | embers |
| D. | eyes |
| Answer» D. eyes | |
| 94. |
“Kingdom of day lights dauphin dapple dawn drawn falcon†Identify the figure of speech used. |
| A. | simile |
| B. | metaphor |
| C. | assonance |
| D. | alliteration |
| Answer» E. | |
| 95. |
Hopkins coined which of these terms to describe the individual uniqueness of each creation? |
| A. | inscape |
| B. | instress |
| C. | signifier |
| D. | sprung rhythm |
| Answer» B. instress | |
| 96. |
What event inspired Hopkins to return to writing poetry in 1875? |
| A. | famine |
| B. | earthquake |
| C. | shipwreck |
| D. | war |
| Answer» D. war | |
| 97. |
Hopkins read classics at which of these universities? |
| A. | oxford |
| B. | cambridge |
| C. | dublin |
| D. | leeds |
| Answer» B. cambridge | |
| 98. |
To whom did Hopkins dedicate 'The Windhover'? |
| A. | mary |
| B. | peter |
| C. | moses |
| D. | christ |
| Answer» E. | |
| 99. |
Which language that Hopkins learned at St Beuno's seminary greatly influenced his poetry? |
| A. | welsh |
| B. | gaelic |
| C. | erse |
| D. | cornish |
| Answer» B. gaelic | |