This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Introductions > Overview > English Literature (1) – Quiz 27 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books English Literature (1) Quiz 27 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is a meaning of transparent. A) See-through. B) Money paid as a punishment. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) See-through. 2. X:Why didn't you come to school yesterday?Y: ..... I missed the school bus. A) I got up such late that. B) I got up so late because. C) I got up so late but. D) I got up very late that. E) I got up so late that. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) I got up so late that. 3. Haris:Does Arif invite you to his birthday party next Sunday? Hafiz:Yupz. If I come, I ..... you. A) Will see. B) Will register. C) Will make. D) Will accept. E) Will invite. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Will see. 4. Who introduced Sonnet form to England A) Petrarch. B) Wyatt. C) Spenser. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Wyatt. 5. This author perfected the historical novel, but s/he always wanted to be known as a poet. A) Charles Lamb. B) Sir Walter Scott. C) Mary Shelley. D) Jane Austen. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sir Walter Scott. 6. The Garo tribe is matriarchal. What does that mean? A) After marriage, the wife goes to live with her husband and his family. B) After marriage, the husband and wife live separately in a house of their own. C) After marriage, the husband goes to live with his wife and her family. D) After marriage, the husband and wife do not live together for some time. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) After marriage, the husband goes to live with his wife and her family. 7. Meaning of adorned A) Walking. B) Decorated. C) Running. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Decorated. 8. Dr. Kalam studied ..... and first gained widespread recognition when he started working for the ..... FILL IN THE BLANK A) Science, ISRO. B) Electronic Engineering, SLV-III. C) Aeronautical Engineering, DRDO. D) None Of These. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) None Of These. 9. What had Peterkin found? A) A skull. B) A ball. C) None of these. D) Both of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A skull. 10. A character within a story that represents specific stereotypes, and often familiar and recognizable by the audience: A) Dynamic character. B) Round character. C) Stock character. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stock character. 11. What did Scrooge find at the other places he visited with the Ghost of Christmas present? A) Suffering and misery. B) People toasting Scrooge. C) Equal happiness and sadness. D) Happily celebrating Christmas. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Happily celebrating Christmas. 12. How do modern audiences perceive the Venetians' treatment of Shylock? A) They see it as just and necessary. B) They find it cruel and vindictive. C) They believe it is a fair punishment. D) They are indifferent to the outcome. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They find it cruel and vindictive. 13. The poet will paint the daisies with A) Yellow colour. B) Pollen and dew. C) Autumn leaves. D) Snow. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pollen and dew. 14. Which essay should start with a power paragraph? A) Paper 1-Commentary. B) Paper 2-Comparison. C) Both. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both. 15. Edmund Spenser's was born in A) 1552. B) 1555. C) 1554. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1552. 16. The meaning of 'stride' is: A) To move fast. B) To walk taking big steps. C) To hide. D) Jump. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To walk taking big steps. 17. How many types of conflict are there? A) 2. B) 3. C) 5. D) 4. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 2. 18. The ..... flew screeching over his head A) Parrot. B) Pigeon. C) Monkey. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Parrot. 19. Who wrote Essays of Elia A) William Hazlitt. B) Francis Bacon. C) Charles Lamb. D) Charles Dickenson. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Charles Lamb. 20. Choose the setting. A) People. B) A dinosaur. C) A rainy day. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A rainy day. 21. Which word carries a more negative connotation? The fresh paw prints-that our guide identified as belonging to a black bear ..... me. A) Scared. B) Frightened. C) Unsettled. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Frightened. 22. Antonym for the word "Strange" A) Familiar. B) New. C) Curious. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Familiar. 23. Which phrase is used to describe a film or novel that references itself in some way? A) Inside Job. B) Framing Device. C) Metatheatrics. D) Method Acting. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metatheatrics. 24. Why did the writer doubted if he should ever come back? A) Because he knew how way leads on to way. B) Because he did not like the first road. C) He only wanted to travel the second road. D) None of the given. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Because he knew how way leads on to way. 25. Ganpati Singhad..... A) Neatly. B) Slowly. C) Loudly. D) Clearly. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Loudly. 26. Daniel Defoe is the father of ..... A) Poetry. B) Short stories. C) English. D) Novels. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Novels. 27. Many authors published in the ..... to make their stories more affordable. A) Newspapers. B) Telegraph. C) Magazines. D) Books. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Newspapers. 28. Lorenzo wanted to have a ..... when Portia arrives the palace. A) Grand welcome with music. B) Silence. C) Shining lights. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Grand welcome with music. 29. Those were ..... difficult assignments that we spent two weeks finishing them. A) So. B) Such an. C) Such. D) Such a. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Such. 30. Thrushcross Grange is an important locale in ..... A) Wuthering Heights. B) The Mill on the Floss. C) Jane Eyre. D) Vanity Fair. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Wuthering Heights. 31. Who trod on the butter? A) George. B) Harris. C) Jerome. D) All. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) George. 32. What request did the speaker give in both stanza 1 and 6? A) You might get me sick. B) Don't breathe next to me. C) Don't cough when I'm here. D) Cover your mouth when you yawn. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Don't breathe next to me. 33. What does Thomas Gradgrind's view not repress? A) Love. B) Reason. C) Imagination. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Reason. 34. These are the elements in film except for? A) Dialogue. B) Narrator. C) Scenes. D) Visuals. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Narrator. 35. The other packers teased him. Which would the packers NOT do? A) Mock him. B) Praise him. C) Torment him. D) Give him a hard time. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Praise him. 36. What genre was born in the epoch of Enlightenment? A) Satirical novel. B) Realistic didactic novel. C) Realistic novel. D) Family novel. E) Picaresque novel. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Realistic didactic novel. 37. Who is considered the father of English literature? A) John Milton. B) William Shakespeare. C) Charles Dickens. D) Geoffrey Chaucer. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Geoffrey Chaucer. 38. "Bah, humbug!" Who said this? A) Tiny Tim. B) Scrooge. C) Fred. D) Christmas Present. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Scrooge. 39. Rahul and Lily study in ..... A) Class 1. B) Class 2. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Class 1. 40. What is the prepositional phrase? Yosie's house is near a busy intersection. A) Near a busy intersection. B) Yosie's house. C) Near a busy. D) House is near. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Near a busy intersection. 41. What is the term for the use of exaggeration or overstatement for emphasis? A) Metaphor. B) Irony. C) Hyperbole. D) Understatement. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 42. What is the meaning of the word 'panache' as used in the poem? A) An ornament. B) A tuft or plume of feathers. C) Colourful. D) Flamboyant confidence of style or manner. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Flamboyant confidence of style or manner. 43. After reaching to the home town, Mole and Ratty sat down to have a late ..... in Rat's cosy ..... parlour A) Supper, riverside. B) Dinner, riverside. C) Lunch, riverside. D) Supper, seaside. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Supper, riverside. 44. Name the poet of 'If'. A) William Blake. B) Roald Dahl. C) Rudyard Kipling. D) Lewis Carroll. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rudyard Kipling. 45. Charles Dickens is one of Britain's most famous authors. His writing includes books such as Oliver Twist and A Christmas Carol-books that are still very widely read today. He wrote about things that many people before him had avoided writing about, like the lives of poorer people ..... True or False A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 46. Who said this? "I realize that you may have to conduct some sort of inquiry, but I must say that so far you seem to be conducting it in a rather peculier and offensive manner" A) Mr Arthur Birling. B) Sybil Birling. C) Eric Birling. D) Mr Gerald Croft. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sybil Birling. 47. Choose TRUE or FALSE.1. Bertha thought it to be really fortunate that the term was almost over, as she was nearly bankrupt A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 48. Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam become the eleventh president in ..... FILL IN THE BLANK. A) 2004. B) 2002. C) 1998. D) 2006. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 2002. 49. What would happen to the little girl if she went home without selling any matches? A) Her grandmother would make her some soup. B) Nothing. C) Her mother would put her to bed early. D) Her father would beat her. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Her father would beat her. 50. The poem Sick, " has a rhyme scheme of AABBCCDD. What does that mean A) A rhyme scheme of AABBCCDD means that every two lines rhyme. B) A rhyme scheme of AABBCCDD means that every three lines rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A rhyme scheme of AABBCCDD means that every two lines rhyme. 51. Myths and legends are both types of traditional stories. Myths are traditional stories that explain the beliefs and practices of a culture. What is a legend? A) Stories based on real events or people, and are passed down from generations to generation. B) Legends are always tragic and negative stories that have animal characters. C) Legends are set in the future. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stories based on real events or people, and are passed down from generations to generation. 52. Bo got up and ..... the door. A) Pushed. B) Bumped. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bumped. 53. The rhyming word of Swing in the poem is ..... A) Thing. B) Bring. C) King. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Thing. 54. What was Bismillah Khan's grandfather? A) A soldier. B) The shehnai Nawaz of the Bhojpur King's court. C) A courtier. D) An actor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The shehnai Nawaz of the Bhojpur King's court. 55. Read "The Merchant of Venice " chapter 8" and answer the following questions:Choose the best phrase to complete the sentences:All the children ..... A) The streets shouting; my daughter, my money, my jewels. B) In Venice followed Shylock and shouted like him. C) Pay his debt on time. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) In Venice followed Shylock and shouted like him. 56. The inauguration ceremony took place on ..... A) 10th May, 1993. B) 10th May, 1994. C) 10th May, 1992. D) 10th May, 1995. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 10th May, 1994. 57. The king used the public area to meet out his own brand of justice. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 58. What is the name of the girl in the story"The Restaurant" ? A) Sui. B) Devi. C) Riya. D) Mira. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Devi. 59. "The instructor was finished. But I was not finished" . What does author mean by this A) He was perfect in swimming. B) He was still not satisfied with a feeling to overcome fear. C) His work was over. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He was still not satisfied with a feeling to overcome fear. 60. I didn't attend the wedding. How could I have? Wasn't it the crowning insult to father and me? Identify the literary device used in this statement. A) Question. B) Rhetorical Question. C) Characterization. D) Setting. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhetorical Question. ← 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