This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Introductions > Overview > English Literature (1) – Quiz 28 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books English Literature (1) Quiz 28 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Paradise's Lost was a famous work of ..... A) Edmund Spenser. B) Thomas More. C) John Milton. D) Shakespeare. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) John Milton. 2. What does the 3-3-11 paragraph thesis statement include? A) A thesis statement. B) A hook to grab the reader's attention. C) Multiple examples. D) Re-wording major nouns. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Re-wording major nouns. 3. How much was Eva Smith and the rest of the workers averaging at Birling's machine shops? A) Thirty-five shillings a week. B) Forty-two shillings a week. C) Twenty two and six shillings a week. D) Eight shillings a week. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Twenty two and six shillings a week. 4. A narrator who sees and knows everything is A) Major. B) Omniscient. C) Intrusive. D) Impersonal. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Omniscient. 5. Haffiz and Azwan are busy doing ..... homework. A) Theirs. B) Our. C) Their. D) His. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Their. 6. Realist style uses A) Detail description. B) Everyday Language. C) Disparity between appearance and reality. D) All the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All the above. 7. Which famous English author wrote the play 'Romeo and Juliet'? A) J.K. Rowling. B) Jane Austen. C) William Shakespeare. D) Charles Dickens. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) William Shakespeare. 8. What is the term for the repetition of similar vowel sounds in nearby words? A) Onomatopoeia. B) Consonance. C) Metaphor. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Assonance. 9. Who has an idea to help mama? A) Papa. B) Ian. C) Anna. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Anna. 10. "See how it stays on my plate?" Who said these words? A) Mummy. B) Chikki. C) Daddy. D) Inside. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Daddy. 11. The ant was ..... when cheel caught sight of it. A) Boating. B) Swimming. C) Drowning. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Drowning. 12. Who owned Raggedy-Ann? A) Betty. B) Marcella. C) Susan. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Marcella. 13. Akbar banished Birbal because A) Akbar was happy. B) Akbar was angry. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Akbar was angry. 14. What colour symbolizes peace? A) White. B) Blue. C) Red. D) Black. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) White. 15. What word means "exactly the same as something else" ? A) Idea. B) Invention. C) Patent. D) Identical. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Identical. 16. How many other people went into hiding with Anne Frank? A) 7. B) 6. C) 3. D) 5. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 7. 17. Words mean exactly what they say A) Concrete. B) Connotation. C) Literal. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Literal. 18. Language that signifies ideas, concepts, or emotions that are not physical or concrete A) Figurative. B) Abstract. C) Literal. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Abstract. 19. STOBDAN IS ..... THAN CHUSKIT. A) SHORTER. B) SHORT. C) SHORTEST. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) SHORTER. 20. A nything that stands for or represents something else. A) Characterization. B) Adverb. C) Imagery. D) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Symbolism. 21. What is the meaning of glared? A) Stared. B) Looked at someone in an angry way. C) Very quickly. D) Encouraged, spurred. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Looked at someone in an angry way. 22. Name the novel by Charles Dickens which is written in first person narrative. A) Our Mutual Friend. B) Pickwick Papers. C) A Tale of Two Cities. D) Great Expectations. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Great Expectations. 23. She/He was an Indian author known for for her/his work set in the fictional South Indian town of Malgudi. A) Ruskin Bond. B) Arundhati Roy. C) R K Narayan. D) Jhumpa Lahiri. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) R K Narayan. 24. When the author compares the swinging of the sledge to the sexton ringing the bell, which literary term is used? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 25. Where did Jake and Debbie keep their wedding reception? A) The Church Hall. B) The Community center. C) A Garden. D) Robin Hill. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Robin Hill. 26. How did the persona covered his anger in front of his enemy? A) The persona cries. B) The persona pretends to be friendly. C) The persona does not do any face reactions. D) The persona puts a fake smile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The persona puts a fake smile. 27. 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. From the passage we learn that the villages were ..... A) Located in one huge area. B) Situated in a large district. C) Separated by untamed jungles. D) Wild and unsafe. E) Dark and very dangerous. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Separated by untamed jungles. 28. Choose the correct opposite of 'above' A) In. B) Below. C) Outside. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Below. 29. John ..... repaired many cars before he received his mechanic's license A) Had. B) Have. C) Was. D) Will. E) Has. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Had. 30. Meaning of overwhelming A) Overpowering. B) Low powering. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Overpowering. 31. Did the kitty catch the rat? A) Maybe. B) Yes. C) I do not know. D) No. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) No. 32. What do you imagine a ground bird is in the poem? A) Birds that fly in the sky. B) Birds that live in the nest. C) Birds that feed on the ground. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Birds that feed on the ground. 33. Chotu the peachick was rude to Prakash A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 34. Called the world's supreme poet of nature A) Percy Bysshe Shelley. B) William Wordsworth. C) Robert Burns. D) Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) William Wordsworth. 35. When was 'An Inspector Calls' written? A) 1947. B) 1946. C) 1948. D) 1944. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1946. 36. There are lots of birds nesting ..... A) Now. B) Under the eaves. C) Drink a glass of water. D) Fly with a flock of bird. E) There. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Under the eaves. 37. Who does the author believe you must count on in life? A) Loving family. B) Nobody. C) Yourself. D) Trustworthy friends. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Yourself. 38. The concern of the neoclassical writers was: A) Love. B) Human nature. C) Nature. D) Revenge. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Human nature. 39. Word which has below as the meaning.Robe A) Objection. B) Reflection. C) Pale. D) Cloak. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cloak. 40. The baby of dog is ..... A) Kitten. B) Puppy. C) Calf. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Puppy. 41. What does the Duke call Shylock during Antonio's trial? A) A non-Jew. B) A merciful person. C) A gentle Jew. D) An inhuman wretch. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) An inhuman wretch. 42. Song of Innocence and Experience is the most famous poem written by William Blake. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 43. What is the definition of internal conflict? A) Problems which occur within. B) The author provides clues about what will happen. C) Problems which are outside of your control. D) The opposition of two or more forces. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Problems which occur within. 44. The weather was very cold. Nobody stayed outside.The proper combination of the two sentences is ..... A) The weather was so cold that nobody stayed outside. B) The weather was very cold but nobody stayed outside. C) The weather was so cold that everybody stayed outside. D) The weather was so cold, yet everybody stayed outside. E) The weather was such cold that nobody stayed outside. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The weather was so cold that nobody stayed outside. 45. Counsel Goel said to Ram Singh to recall in detail your activities of last ..... days. A) Six. B) Five. C) Four. D) Seven. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Six. 46. For how many years had the Selfish Giant been away? A) Seven. B) Five. C) Nine. D) One. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Seven. 47. The renaissance period of literature in England also known as? A) Victorian period. B) Elizabethan period. C) Romantic period. D) Anglo-Norman period. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Elizabethan period. 48. What is Geoffrey Chaucer's best-known work? A) Caedmon's Hymn. B) The death of Arthur. C) The Confessio. D) The Canterbury Tale. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Canterbury Tale. 49. The relative speed or slowness with which a story is told or an idea is presented A) Pacing. B) Dramatic irony. C) Irony. D) Plot. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pacing. 50. A driver drives..... A) Rocket. B) Bus. C) Plane. D) Helicopter. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bus. 51. What is the definition of compare and contrast? A) Discussing elements that are similar and different. B) Discussing elements that are similar but not different. C) Discussing elements that are different but not similar. D) Discussing elements that are neither similar nor different. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Discussing elements that are similar and different. 52. Napoleon represents: A) Tzar Nicholas. B) Stalin. C) The Queen. D) Orwell. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stalin. 53. What is the meaning of the word "Keltai" A) Barbarians. B) Good People. C) Aborigines. D) Humans. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Barbarians. 54. 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. The brother let her son go with his aunt as she left home because ..... A) Ah Tim wanted to see the wolves. B) Ah Tim was bored to live with his parents. C) Ah Tim would be a guardian for them. D) His aunt wanted him to come long. E) The baby was too cute to be alone. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ah Tim would be a guardian for them. 55. When Nokomis told Hiawatha about "the pathway of ghosts, the shadows Running straight across heaven, crowded with the ghosts, the shadows" she was referring to A) Saturn's ring. B) Herself. C) Milky Way. D) None of them. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Milky Way. 56. Who was the person lost his money because of greediness? A) Bassanio. B) Lysander. C) Graciano. D) Shylock. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Shylock. 57. Suffixes are added ..... of a word. A) At the beginning. B) In the middle. C) At the end. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) At the end. 58. What year did the Titanic sink? A) 1911. B) 1915. C) 1914. D) 1912. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1912. 59. Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it. Identify the figure of speech in the given line. A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Alliteration. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 60. Anne and her family were afraid of being caught by ..... A) Werewolves/vampires. B) Green Police/Gestapo. C) Miep and Mr. Kraler. D) Bears/wolves. 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