This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Introductions > Overview > English Literature (1) – Quiz 19 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books English Literature (1) Quiz 19 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Who is the flower girl? A) The young lady. B) Pickering. C) Eliza Doolittle. D) Higgins. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Eliza Doolittle. 2. How can you describe the night? A) A bright night. B) A very dark night. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A very dark night. 3. Emily Bronte died because of ..... A) Hunger. B) Tuberculosis. C) Car accident. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tuberculosis. 4. The name of the dismissed bus driver was ..... A) Jones. B) John. C) Joseph. D) James. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Joseph. 5. Who is regarded as the father of English Poetry? A) Spenser. B) Shakespeare. C) Wordsworth. D) Chaucer. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Chaucer. 6. Uncle Shams came ..... month early for the wedding. A) 1 month. B) 3 months. C) 6 months. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1 month. 7. A long time ago, very few people lived in the New Territories. There were only a few villages. If the people wanted to go from one village to another, they often had to pass through wild and unsafe forest.One day, a farmer's young wife went to the next village to visit her own mother and brother. She brought along her baby son. When it was time for her to leave, her brother said " it is getting dark. Let my son, Ah Tim go with you though the forest." So Ah Tim led the way and the young woman followed behind, carrying her baby. When they were in the forest, suddenly they saw a group of wolves. They began to run to avoid the danger, but Ah Tim kicked against a stone and fell down. At once the wolves caught him. The young woman cried to the wolves, " please eat my own son instead." Then, she put her baby son on the ground in front of the wolves and took her nephew away.Everyone understood that this was because the woman was very good and kind. She had offered her own son" s life to save her nephew.They ran back to the house and called for help. All men in the village fetched thick sticks and went back with her into the forest. When they got there, they saw something very strange. Instead of eating the woman's baby the wolves were playing with him. How could the wolves catch Ah Tim? A) The wolves were good runners. B) He was afraid. C) He was stumbled by a stone. D) The woman cried. E) He ran slowly. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He was stumbled by a stone. 8. WORD MEANING-PENSIVE A) THOUGHTFUL. B) JOYFUL. C) EXITED. D) TWINKLE. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) THOUGHTFUL. 9. What is the meaning of the word 'skeptical'? A) Happy about something. B) Confident about something. C) Worried about something. D) Not easily convinced; having doubts or reservations. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Not easily convinced; having doubts or reservations. 10. And John Updike wins with his fourth and final novel in a series. What was it? A) Rabbit Redux. B) Rabbit is Rich. C) Rabbit Run. D) Rabbit at Rest. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rabbit at Rest. 11. POET OF 'MALALA' POEM A) LOUISA MAY ALCOTT. B) KENN NESBITT. C) ROAN MENDRIQ. D) RUSKIN BOND. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) ROAN MENDRIQ. 12. Were the old man, old woman, little boy, little girl and big dog able to pull up the enormous turnip? A) Yes. B) Maybe. C) Somewhat. D) No. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) No. 13. Priyanka was a little girl who was A) Seven year old. B) Eight year old. C) Nine year old. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Seven year old. 14. What was the colour of the plastic phone? A) Pink. B) Blue. C) Red. D) Green. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pink. 15. Permanence in world of change satisfied through art A) "The Tables Turned". B) "Ode on a Grecian Urn". C) "My Native Land". D) "The Deserted Village". Show Answer Correct Answer: B) "Ode on a Grecian Urn". 16. Identify the writer. A) Bharti Mukherjee. B) Sudha Murty. C) Chitra Banerjee. D) Bharti Mukherjee. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sudha Murty. 17. The ..... home was beyond the mango grove A) Little girl. B) Little boy's. C) Road. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Little boy's. 18. .Milton left his dog in the river and didn't rescue him. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 19. What is the name of Shakespeares's theatre? A) The Globe. B) The Stage. C) The Plaza. D) The Origin. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Globe. 20. HOW DID THE YOUNG ATHLETE CRY AS HE GOT FALL? A) HE CRIED IN PAIN. B) HE DID WEEP INSIDE. C) HE CRIED HOPELESSLY. D) HE CRIED TO CALL BACK HIS FRIENDS. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) HE CRIED HOPELESSLY. 21. What Did Norman the Conqueror do? A) Write Doomsday. B) Sign the Magna Carta. C) Lead the Crusades. D) Defeat the Anglo Saxons. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Defeat the Anglo Saxons. 22. Which is NOT a comedy by Shakespeare? A) The Twelfth night. B) Pygmalion. C) A Midnight's Summer Dream. D) As you Like it. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pygmalion. 23. At the end, did Humpty Dumpty fall off the wall? A) Yes. B) No. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Yes. 24. What literary device is used when a writer's attitude towards the subject or audience is conveyed? A) Tone. B) Imagery. C) Symbolism. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tone. 25. Who is the author of the queen's Croquent-ground? A) Leuice Carroll. B) Lewis Carroll. C) Luice Carroll. D) Lius Carroll. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lewis Carroll. 26. Which country did the Renaissance start in? A) England. B) Italy. C) France. D) Germany. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Italy. 27. A poem of fourteen lines is a/an A) Sonnet. B) Ode. C) Elegy. D) Dirge. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sonnet. 28. Meaning of blaze A) A light perfume. B) A bright fire. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A bright fire. 29. If I work at Ministry of Foreign Affairs, ..... Choose the best answer to complete the sentence! A) I get a chance to continuing my study in foreign country. B) I would get a chance to continuing my study in foreign country. C) I will get a chance for continuing my study in foreign country. D) I would have got a chance to continuing my study in foreign country. E) I would have get a chance to continuing my study in foreign country. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) I will get a chance for continuing my study in foreign country. 30. Tommy was the best ..... among all the boys. A) Chief. B) Marksman. C) Fighter. D) Runner. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Marksman. 31. ..... means appealing A) Vaults. B) Irresistible. C) Imperious. D) None of the Above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Irresistible. 32. What is the powerful foe of all who recieve 400 roubles a year? A) Eastern Summer. B) Southern Spring. C) Western Rain. D) Northern Cold. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Northern Cold. 33. The Earliest surviving English poem A) Brut. B) King Horn. C) Beowulf. D) Piers plowman. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) King Horn. 34. The Elizabethan playhouses did not have any artificial lighting. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 35. Cheerful and lively A) Merry. B) Sad. C) Unhappy. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Merry. 36. When was Ted Hughes's first book of poetry "The Hawk in the Rain" appeared? A) 1957. B) 1967. C) 1970. D) 1961. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1957. 37. Who did the knight meet on the way? A) His wife. B) A vampire. C) A ghost. D) A pilgrim shadow. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A pilgrim shadow. 38. Who is the writer of the Harry Potter series A) Salman Rushdie. B) J.K.Rushdie. C) J.K.Rowling. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) J.K.Rowling. 39. How much Apple did Ben give to Tom? A) Quarter of it. B) Half of it. C) All of it. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) All of it. 40. Where did the Celts come from originally? A) From Northern Scotland. B) From Germany, Western and Central Europe. C) From Cornwall and Wales. D) From Ireland. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) From Germany, Western and Central Europe. 41. The rhyme scheme of the stanza given below is: "I cannot go to school today, " Said little Peggy Ann McKay. "I have the measles and the mumps, A gash, a rash and purple bumps. My mouth is wet, my throat is dry, I'm going blind in my right eye. A) Ababcc. B) Abcabc. C) Aabbcc. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Aabbcc. 42. Sultan bought a boat ..... costs thirty thousand dollars. A) Which. B) Whom. C) Who. D) When. E) Where. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Which. 43. With what did Tomkin cut the cloud? A) A knife. B) A scissor. C) A blade. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A scissor. 44. Who is the author of 'The Fun They Had'? A) Ruskin Bond. B) Isaac Asimov. C) Isaac Asimov. D) William Somerset Maugham. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Isaac Asimov. 45. When was Hegel's Philosophy of Mind published? A) 1893. B) 1894. C) 1891. D) 1890. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1894. 46. In the shoes shop, the ..... attended the centipede. A) Salesman. B) Shopkeeper. C) Friend. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Salesman. 47. At the Railway Station, Upway is written by ..... A) William Wordsworth. B) Thomas Hardy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Thomas Hardy. 48. Repeating the phrase, ''I have thought so much ..... " highlights how the writer has thought deeply about how to portray the woman. This is an example of AO A) 4. B) 2. C) 3. D) 1. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 3. 49. Action that are done after tragedy or tragic event is called? A) Exposition. B) Catharsis. C) Catastrophe. D) Dramatic Personae. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Catastrophe. 50. The meaning of measles is: A) A long, deep cut or wound. B) A piece of torn skin at the root of a fingernail. C) An infectious viral disease causing fever and a red rash, typically occurring in childhood. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) An infectious viral disease causing fever and a red rash, typically occurring in childhood. 51. What is the name of the story we are looking at in this term? A) The Woung Warriors. B) The Redcoats. C) The Young Warriors. D) Tommy, Johnny, David, Uriah and Charlie. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Young Warriors. 52. How many were slain in the great victory? A) One thousand. B) Two thousand. C) Hundred thousand. D) Many thousand. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Many thousand. 53. 'Freedom, I was beginning to realize, is something you have to insist upon.' Which of the following can replace the word 'insist'? A) Request. B) Demand. C) Command. D) Suggest. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Demand. 54. "Banks:Their Business and Yours" is an example of what type of writing? A) Realistic Fiction. B) Expository Text. C) Science Fiction. D) First Person Narrative. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Expository Text. 55. Shelly is sitting ..... A) In the boat. B) At home. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) In the boat. 56. In "Native Athens, Ere We Part", where is the author going? A) Athens. B) Istanbul. C) Philippi. D) England. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Istanbul. 57. Who wrote Seven Ages of Man? A) Spencer. B) Shakespeare. C) Marlowe. D) Chaucer. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Shakespeare. 58. Who did he talk to about this first? A) His pa. B) His ma. C) Mill Wheel. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) His pa. 59. Why did the child lag behind his parents? A) Because of the stops he took to look closely at his favourite things. B) Because he was walking slow. C) Because he was crying. D) All. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Because of the stops he took to look closely at his favourite things. 60. 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