This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Introductions > Overview > English Literature (1) – Quiz 15 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books English Literature (1) Quiz 15 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What does Kento's dog like to do when she listens to him? A) The dog liked to cry. B) The dog liked to wag her tail. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The dog liked to wag her tail. 2. Where did Beli get a scholarship for? A) Santo Domingo Institute of Technology. B) The Redeemer. C) New York University. D) Rutgers. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Redeemer. 3. Answer the below sentence with true or false.Prairie dogs not lie in the sun to stay warm. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 4. ..... is the protagonist of the novel THE VENDOR OF SWEETS. A) NARAYAN. B) GAY. C) JAGAN. D) MALI. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) JAGAN. 5. What is archaic language? A) A comparison between two things. B) Language characteristic of an earlier time. C) A story with a hidden meaning. D) A person who opposes someone or something. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Language characteristic of an earlier time. 6. What is the best way to start a personal response A) The reader . B) I think . C) The viewer . D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The reader . 7. Which of these elements were most important to shape Anglo-Saxon Literature? A) 1.The tradition of passing by word of mouth the sagas of their warriors to the future generations.2.The sharing of food and mead.3. The giving of "rings" by the chief of the tribe to his warriors. B) 1.The Mead Hall, where families would gather and listen to the scop or gleeman reciting whole sagas.2.The deeds of their warriors, remembered forever in poems passed on by word of mouth.3. The use of literary devices (alliteration, caesura, etc) to help the scop / gleeman remember the lines. C) 1. The scop composing (in his head) the poems later recited by him or a gleeman.2. The sound of the harp, which accompanied the recitation. 3. The sense of a shared heritage and a shared past in the tribe. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1.The Mead Hall, where families would gather and listen to the scop or gleeman reciting whole sagas.2.The deeds of their warriors, remembered forever in poems passed on by word of mouth.3. The use of literary devices (alliteration, caesura, etc) to help the scop / gleeman remember the lines. 8. Read the text and Answer the questions below.The frog eggs float on the top of the pond. Inside the eggs there are black dots. Each dot is a tiny tadpole! The eggs hatch in three weeks. Where do frog eggs float? A) The frog eggs float on the swimming pool. B) The frog eggs float on the pond. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The frog eggs float on the pond. 9. We will not able to get a hotel room because we had not ..... in advance. A) Book. B) Booking. C) Will book. D) Booked. E) Is book. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Booked. 10. Ganpati Slept..... A) Some. B) Less. C) Low. D) Well. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Well. 11. "I am not shouting sir!" Why was the speaker shouting? A) To prank the teacher. B) To express hatred for the teacher. C) To provoke his teacher's anger. D) To make the teacher laugh. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To provoke his teacher's anger. 12. The imagery which can be seen from the description offeelings such as feeling hot, cold, smooth, rough, andanything that can be felt to be touched. A) Auditory imagery. B) Olfactory imagery. C) Visual imagery. D) Tactile imagery. E) Organic imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tactile imagery. 13. A. Before us lay the dark bulk of the house, its serrated roof and bristling chimneys hard outlined against the silver-spangled sky.What is the meaning of serrated from the above line? A) Having big sharp edges like a saw. B) Having small sharp edges like a knife. C) Having big sharp edges like a knife. D) Having small sharp edges like a saw. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Having small sharp edges like a saw. 14. You are seriously funny ! this is an example of A) Oxymoron. B) Ambiguity. C) Allusion. D) Sarcastic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Oxymoron. 15. What drives the actions of the Warden? A) Greed and ruthlessness. B) Determination and resilience. C) Kind-heartedness and compassion. D) Cunning and ambition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Greed and ruthlessness. 16. Charles Wallace suggests that Calvin and Meg surrender to IT if they are in the need of a father. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 17. The sea turtle needed enough of both A) Food and water. B) Sun and sand. C) Sun and water. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sun and water. 18. Was it a happy ending for Marcella and Raggedy-Ann? A) Yes. B) No. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Yes. 19. For how much money did the get the overcoat? A) 80 rupees. B) 150 roubles. C) 150 rupees. D) 80 roubles. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 80 roubles. 20. What was the name of the maintenance man of the power station? A) Hiralal. B) God will help. C) Supervisor. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) God will help. 21. Which phrase suggests that the persona had planned a devious strategy? A) And with hard deceitful wiles. B) And with soft deceitful wiles. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) And with soft deceitful wiles. 22. Robinson Crusoe's ship got wrecked while he was travelling to? A) Brazil. B) England. C) Africa. D) India. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Africa. 23. The first book written by an Indian in English was A) The Young Spanish Maiden. B) Kanthapura. C) The Travels of Dean Mahomet. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Travels of Dean Mahomet. 24. What did the young maiden offer to hire him with? A) Power. B) Money. C) Smile. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Smile. 25. Which phrase is used to describe a play in which the actors are unaware of their roles as actors? A) Metatheatrics. B) Inside Job. C) Framing Device. D) Method Acting. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Inside Job. 26. Which one is not contrary connectors? A) In spite of. B) Because. C) Although. D) Even though. E) Though. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Because. 27. Are all Units equally weighted? A) Yes-all units 25%. B) No-Unit 1 & 2 20%, Unit 3 & 4 30%. C) No-Unit 1 & 2 30%, Unit 3 & 4 20%. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) No-Unit 1 & 2 20%, Unit 3 & 4 30%. 28. A mood that expresses strong emotions A) Foregrounding. B) Imagery. C) Fillers. D) Exclamatory. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Exclamatory. 29. King of Scotland A) King James VI. B) Thomas More. C) Francis Bacon. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) King James VI. 30. WHO WAS THE AUTHOR OF THE STORY 'MAKING FRIENDS' A) KENN NESBITT. B) LOUISA MAY ALCOTT. C) RUSKIN BOND. D) CHARLES DICKENS. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) LOUISA MAY ALCOTT. 31. A biography is a story of a person's life that someone else wrote. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 32. Charles dicken wrote ..... A) Lord of the flies. B) Oliver twist. C) Hamlet. D) Frankenstein. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Oliver twist. 33. Who is considered one of the last Romantic poets to use Christian symbolism in his work? A) John Keats. B) William Blake. C) William Wordsworth. D) Percy Bysshe Shelley. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) William Blake. 34. This word means a subtle way of disrespecting someone's culture or race. A) Micro-aggression. B) Bias. C) Ethnicity. D) Racism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Micro-aggression. 35. The narrator engaged ..... coolies to push the engine from behind. A) 10. B) 50. C) 15. D) 25. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 50. 36. Sylvia plath is a A) British poet. B) American poet. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) American poet. 37. What does endangered mean? A) It means that it no longer exits. B) It means that it is under threat or near extintion. C) It means that it is in great number. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It means that it is under threat or near extintion. 38. ..... is the study of the structure of phrases and sentences. A) Phonology. B) Semantics. C) Syntax. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Syntax. 39. Gwendolyn Brooks is the author of "Do Not Weep, Maiden, for War is Kind." A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 40. What made Raman famous? A) His friendship. B) His smile. C) Fruits from his orchard. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fruits from his orchard. 41. What trait does X-Ray display along with his ambition? A) Cunning and resourcefulness. B) Shyness and fearfulness. C) Kind-heartedness and compassion. D) Determination and resilience. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cunning and resourcefulness. 42. WOMAN & CHILD are..... A) Of Anglo-Saxon derivation. B) Of French derivation. C) Of Latin derivation. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Of Anglo-Saxon derivation. 43. Which character in The Canterbury Tales is a little deaf following a blow to the head from one of her husbands? A) The wife of Exeter. B) The wife of Bristol. C) The wife of Bath. D) The wife of Dorchester. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The wife of Bath. 44. Which instrument did Nat love playing? A) Violin. B) Drums. C) Guitar. D) Piano. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Violin. 45. What is a meaning of litter. A) Trash thrown on the ground. B) See-through. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Trash thrown on the ground. 46. Because of your help, i can finish my work yang merupakan effect adalah..... A) Because of. B) Your help. C) I can finish my work. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) I can finish my work. 47. Where did Kipling spend his childhood? A) London. B) Wales. C) Lahore. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lahore. 48. Who has composed the poem "Paper Boats?" A) Strabismus and sh panties. B) Rabindranath Tagore. C) Ogden Nash. D) Hugh Lofting. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rabindranath Tagore. 49. What was the child doing? A) Playing with flowers. B) Playing with sand. C) Playing with sea. D) Playing with sea shells. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Playing with sea shells. 50. Which valley does the poet talk about? A) The valley of flowers. B) The Tyrol valley. C) The tyrolese valley. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The tyrolese valley. 51. ..... is verse and rhythmic writing that creates an emotional response. A) Poetry. B) Misery. C) Biography. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Poetry. 52. What does Piggy symbolize in Lord of the Flies? A) Leadership. B) Strength. C) Reason. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Reason. 53. Name the poet laureate in 19th C England. A) Robert Browning. B) Alfred Lord Tennyson. C) George Eliot. D) Mathew Arnold. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alfred Lord Tennyson. 54. If we don't hurry, the meeting ..... by the time we get there. A) Would have started. B) Will be started. C) Would be started. D) Would start. E) Will have started. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Will be started. 55. Understanding of medieval English literary devices:Explain the use of irony in medieval English literature with examples. A) Irony in medieval English literature was used to praise societal norms and values. B) Irony in medieval English literature was used to promote honesty and sincerity. C) Irony in medieval English literature was used to avoid criticizing societal norms and values. D) Irony in medieval English literature was used to criticize or satirize societal norms and values. An example is Chaucer's 'The Canterbury Tales', where the character of the Pardoner preaches against greed and avarice, while being guilty of those sins himself. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Irony in medieval English literature was used to criticize or satirize societal norms and values. An example is Chaucer's 'The Canterbury Tales', where the character of the Pardoner preaches against greed and avarice, while being guilty of those sins himself. 56. What was in the squashed box Hagrid had brought Harry? A) Small, Sticky, Chocolate Cake with HAPPY BIRTHDAY HARRY written in green icing. B) Large, Sticky, Chocolate Cake with HAPPY BIRTHDAY HARRY written in green icing. C) Large, Sticky, Chocolate Cake with HAPPY BIRTHDAY HARRY written in blue icing. D) Small, Sticky, Chocolate Cake with HAPPY BIRTHDAY HARRY written in blue icing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Large, Sticky, Chocolate Cake with HAPPY BIRTHDAY HARRY written in green icing. 57. A sonnet has.....lines? A) 12. B) 24. C) 14. D) 20. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 14. 58. The Importance of Being Earnest was penned by whom? A) Alfred Lord Tennyson. B) Oscar Wilde. C) Mathew Arnold. D) Robert Browning. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Oscar Wilde. 59. Music sweetens ears during ..... A) Silence. B) Morning. C) Noon. D) Afternoon. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Silence. 60. Jake was very understanding when people's animals destroyed his crops. He just let them off with a warning. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesIntroductions QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesEnglish Literature (1) Quiz 1English Literature (1) Quiz 2English Literature (1) Quiz 3English Literature (1) Quiz 4English Literature (1) Quiz 5English Literature (1) Quiz 6English Literature (1) Quiz 7English Literature (1) Quiz 8 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books