This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Introductions > Overview > English Literature (1) – Quiz 24 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books English Literature (1) Quiz 24 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Who was the main character in this story? A) Humpty Dumpty. B) The King's horses. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Humpty Dumpty. 2. ..... means amphitheater. A) Agony. B) White heat. C) Arena. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Arena. 3. Which of the following is not a poem by Kamala Das A) The Freaks. B) My Grandmother's House. C) To swear. D) A Hot Noon in Malabar. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To swear. 4. How high did unemployment rise between 1972 and 1984 in Manchester? A) 35%. B) 25%. C) 30%. D) 20%. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 20%. 5. What is the name of the 'Magical' item that grants wishes? A) The Monkey's Leg. B) The Eagle's Talon. C) The Dog's Paw. D) The Monkey's Paw. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Monkey's Paw. 6. Victorian age is also known as A) Age of Revolution. B) Age of Tennyson. C) Age of Johnson. D) Age of Pope. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Age of Tennyson. 7. What was Robin's talent? A) To fly. B) To sing and dance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To fly. 8. How many Gold spots were there monarch pupa? A) 18. B) 13. C) 12. D) 10. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 12. 9. What happened to religion in the Renaissance era? A) Religion became the source of law. B) Religion gave great influence in literature. C) People became more religious. D) People began to closely examine and critique religion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) People began to closely examine and critique religion. 10. The Garos call themselves 'Achik-mande'. What does it mean? A) Family of the Chief. B) Brothers of the village. C) Men of the hills. D) People of peace. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Men of the hills. 11. Social function of Poem is, EXCEPT ..... A) To express emotions. B) To entertain. C) To make famous. D) To give pleasure. E) To give value. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To make famous. 12. "Titanic" is one of the examples of a non-fictional narrative. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 13. What did Kento like best about his summer? A) Kento liked the baseball game. B) Kento liked sleeping all day. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Kento liked the baseball game. 14. Whose portrait is this? A) Charles Dickens. B) Oscar Wilde. C) Jules Verne. D) William Shakespeare. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) William Shakespeare. 15. How does the poem challenge traditional perspectives on education? A) By presenting the child's unique and innocent viewpoint. B) By questioning the purpose of certain school practices. C) By highlighting the child's need for guidance and understanding. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 16. Where do the lives of these slum children slyly turn? A) In the catacombs. B) In their cramped holes. C) In school. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) In their cramped holes. 17. Robinson Crusoe is a novel from the ..... century. A) 16th. B) 18th. C) 19th. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 18th. 18. The opposite of beautiful is A) Nice. B) Ugly. C) Pretty. D) Unkind. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ugly. 19. Our neighbors are so kind that ..... A) They let us borrow their lawn mower. B) They angry with us. C) They find jewelry. D) They go to mall. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They let us borrow their lawn mower. 20. Story has a surprise ending that the children are imaginary and the author is dreaming A) "Ode on a Grecian Urn". B) Dream Children:A Reverie. C) Pride and Prejudice. D) Ivanhoe. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dream Children:A Reverie. 21. What type of humour is The Lion and Albert? A) Coloured humour. B) White humour. C) Humour. D) Black humour. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Black humour. 22. What was Toad's latest passion? A) A bike. B) A gypsy caravan. C) A truck. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A gypsy caravan. 23. Bo would ..... to his bowl. A) Dance. B) Bang. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dance. 24. What is the overall theme of "A Song for St. Cecilia's Day" ? A) Love. B) Religion. C) Music. D) Nature. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Music. 25. At night Anil gave food to ..... A) Stray cat. B) Stray dog. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stray dog. 26. Identify the kind of tense. I have done my homework. A) Present Perfect Tense. B) Present Continuous Tense. C) Simple Past Tense. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Present Perfect Tense. 27. The poet of The Village Blacksmith is A) Susan Wallace. B) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. C) Robert Frost. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. 28. Who wrote the famous prize winning poem "Jejuri" ? A) Arun Kolatkar. B) My name is Ezekiel. C) A K Mehrotra. D) Jayant Mahapatra. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Arun Kolatkar. 29. The word pastoral means A) Pasteurization. B) Rural. C) Hunting. D) Cultivating. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rural. 30. What is the meaning of "whine" ? A) A beverage. B) Cry. C) Shout. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cry. 31. "Say first, of God above or Man below, What can we reason but from what we know?" A) "An Essay on Man". B) "Kubla Khan". C) "Ode:Intimations of Immortality". D) "Lines Written in Early Spring". Show Answer Correct Answer: A) "An Essay on Man". 32. This is not the name of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms. A) Estonia. B) Sussex. C) Northumbia. D) Marcia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Estonia. 33. Who was the most beautiful fish in the sea? A) Blue fish. B) Rainbow Fish. C) Octopus. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rainbow Fish. 34. Use of double negatives A) Elogies. B) Understatement. C) Bob and wheel. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Understatement. 35. In fables the wits of ordinary people are tested. A) No. B) Yes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) No. 36. Who was Tomkin's friend? A) The villagers. B) The Stool. C) The Little girl. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Stool. 37. Which award did Paul Zacharia win A) Akademi Sahitya Award. B) Academic Literature Award. C) Sahitya Akademi Award. D) Sahitya Academic Award. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sahitya Akademi Award. 38. With what emotion did he accept the child's offer? A) Boredom. B) Sacrifice. C) Happiness. D) Sadness. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Happiness. 39. Which word has same meaning with anger? A) Foe. B) Wrath. C) Beheld. D) Deceitful. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Wrath. 40. When was Alice's Adventures published? A) 1867. B) 1866. C) 1865. D) 1864. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1865. 41. What did James ask the man to give him? A) Food. B) His long coat. C) A long stick. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Food. 42. What proposition of the White people does the speaker refer to in "Chief Seattle's Speech" ? A) Buying the native land in return of the a big sum of money. B) Selling the land so that the White's could establish their colony. C) Buying the native lands and protecting their children, women and old men in return. D) Taking the native land that Chief Seattle's people planned to abandon. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Buying the native lands and protecting their children, women and old men in return. 43. Match each quotation with the correct work: "The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity." A) "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night". B) "The Second Coming". C) "The Unknown Citizen". D) "Journey of the Magi". E) "Sailing to Byzantium". Show Answer Correct Answer: B) "The Second Coming". 44. What is a formal and complex type of lyrical poetry with a fixed purpose and one dignified theme? A) Antiphon. B) Epigram. C) Novel. D) Ode. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ode. 45. A sound that sheep and goats make. A) Grunting. B) Bleating. C) Roaring. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bleating. 46. The writter 's name was Mrs Sudha Murthy A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 47. What do rabbits represent in For Whom the Bell Tolls? A) The guerrillas. B) Supporters of Franco. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The guerrillas. 48. A character that shows no change, stays the same A) Dynamic Character. B) Static character. C) Protagonist. D) Main Character. E) Minor Character. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Static character. 49. The most exciting part of a literary work is called A) Denouement. B) Climax. C) Rising action. D) Exposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Climax. 50. X: ..... Y:Let me help you to carry the shopping bag. A) I can't finish my housework on time. B) This is really heavy. C) Can I carry the shopping bag?. D) May you come to carry the shopping bag?. E) This shopping book is really nice to use. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) This is really heavy. 51. ....makes a loud harsh sound A) Laugh. B) Screech. C) Shed. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Screech. 52. Which play is a satirical sketch on the world political situation at the end of the forties. A) "Heroes of the Empty View". B) " The Last Exile". C) "The Diplomat". D) "49th State". Show Answer Correct Answer: D) "49th State". 53. Poems characterized by sober meditations on death A) Lyrical ballads. B) Sonnets. C) Elegiac poem. D) Blank verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Elegiac poem. 54. Did James Ramsay get along with his father? A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 55. Which author wrote Crenshaw? A) Barbara O'Connor. B) Katherine Applegate. C) Linda Soo Park. D) Grace Lin. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Katherine Applegate. 56. Name the wife of William Shakespeare A) Anne Hornway. B) Anne Hathaway. C) Anne Hathaway. D) Anne Hawthorn. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Anne Hathaway. 57. The famous quote of Roosevelt about fear is A) "All we have to fear is fear itself". B) "All we have to fear is the fear of death". C) " All we have to fear is the death". D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) "All we have to fear is fear itself". 58. A poem that praises or glories an event or individual describing nature intellectually as well as emotionally is known as A) Narrative poem. B) Ode poem. C) Fragmented poem. D) Lyrical poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ode poem. 59. What is known as a sports competition in which players who win a match continue to play further matches in the competition until just one person or team is left? A) Ranked. B) Tournament. C) Former. D) Players. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tournament. 60. How did the flowering mustard-field look? A) White like silver. B) Pale like melting gold. C) Lovely like a rainbow. D) Red like a rose. 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