This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Introductions > Overview > English Literature (1) – Quiz 32 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books English Literature (1) Quiz 32 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The name of the essay written by vijaya lakshmi? A) My teacher and I. B) My dream and I. C) I and my friend. D) My friend and I. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) My friend and I. 2. An image transferred by something that stands for orrepresents something else. A) Symbol. B) Idiom. C) Imagery/image. D) Litotes. E) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Symbol. 3. Use a range of vocabulary and sentence structures for clarity, purpose and effect, with accurate spelling and punctuation. A) AO1. B) Yes. C) AO2. D) AO4. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) AO4. 4. Why has the poet called the map a bad example? A) The map depicts the slum. B) The places on map are out of reach of children. C) The map is wrong. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The places on map are out of reach of children. 5. Priyanka knew that her grandmother would hardly welcome her A) New pet. B) Friends. C) Neighbours. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) New pet. 6. Who is the author of Heart of Darkness? A) Joseph Conrad. B) Joseph Campbell. C) Jean Green. D) Jean Baudrillard. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Joseph Conrad. 7. What did the Robbins take from Raggedy-Ann? A) Twine. B) Yarn. C) Thread. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Yarn. 8. Which was the place the child ran to, to look for his parents? A) The grove. B) The roundabout. C) The shrine. D) The entrance of the fair. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The shrine. 9. The shoes must be ..... and ..... A) Smart and durable. B) Big and colourful. C) Big and comfortable. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Smart and durable. 10. Gideon Sundback developed the modern zipper by ..... A) Creating something entirely new. B) Improving earlier inventions. C) Stealing someone else's idea. D) Meditating on the Diamond Sutra. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Improving earlier inventions. 11. Every body paragraph should include A) A topic sentence that addresses the specific WHAT and HOW. B) At least three specific examples. C) Analysis of the examples that includes the literary term. D) Transition to the next body paragraph. E) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) All of the above. 12. In "The Fun They Had, " Tommy finds a book. Why are the book's pages yellow and crinkly? A) Someone was trying to hide the book in the attic. B) The book is very cheaply made. C) The book was printed a long time ago. D) No one has ever read the book before. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The book was printed a long time ago. 13. We don't know the person ..... I gave this money. A) Whose. B) Whom. C) Who. D) Which. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Whom. 14. How do the sheep-dogs react to the night mail coach? A) They try to stop it from passing. B) They sleep peacefully. C) They run alongside it. D) They completely ignore it. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They sleep peacefully. 15. What's the first theatre established in London in 1576? A) The Globe. B) The Rose. C) The Theatre. D) The Swan. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Theatre. 16. Uncle podger volunteers to put up the picture A) By himself. B) By his wife. C) By his father. D) By help of others. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) By himself. 17. What's the term for "addressing an inanimate object as if it were alive" A) Apostrophe. B) Essay. C) Epic. D) Idyll. E) Elegy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Apostrophe. 18. Who did not betrayed to Caesar? A) Metolius. B) Marc Antony. C) Brutus. D) Cascia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Marc Antony. 19. How to identify a story's theme? A) Examine the central conflict. B) Examine the number of literary devices used. C) Start with a clear idea of the type of setting. D) Look closely at the rising action of the plot. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Examine the central conflict. 20. Identify the kind of tense I shall visit you tomorrow. A) Simple future tense. B) Simple past tense. C) Simple present tense. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simple future tense. 21. What is the meaning of truffle A) Black and white toffy. B) Mushrooms. C) Black and soft mushrooms. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Black and soft mushrooms. 22. A boy can no longer become a young warrior after the age of: A) 16. B) 13. C) 10. D) 14. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 16. 23. The wolf went to the house made of sticks at ..... A) Noon. B) Night. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Noon. 24. In two years time, I ..... (play) soccer in Italy A) I'll have playing. B) I'll playing. C) I'll be playing. D) I'll have been playing. E) I'll be had playing. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) I'll be playing. 25. Where is tiny shutters located on Ram Singh's body? A) Head. B) Near abdomen. C) Legs. D) Chest. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Chest. 26. In the poem, what does the persona hopes that someone in some strange land will find? A) Basket full of Dreams. B) Paper Boat with Shiuli flowers. C) Boat. D) Fairies. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Paper Boat with Shiuli flowers. 27. The room had a light purple smell, of the glorious bounty of spring. A) Simile. B) Synesthesia. C) Metaphor. D) Synecdoche. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Synesthesia. 28. What is the freshwater fish of Coorg? A) Be careful. B) River Dolphin. C) Trapped. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Trapped. 29. What was the name of the grandmother A) Krishnatakka. B) Abba. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Krishnatakka. 30. Read the sentences below and write (True / False).Teachers put out the fire. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 31. What observations were made in stanza 2? A) The person's nose is red. B) The person is sneezing a lot and has puffy eyes. C) The person is coughing. D) The person is yawning. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The person is sneezing a lot and has puffy eyes. 32. 'No place' or 'nowhere' A) Octopus. B) Utopia. C) Ou-tops. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ou-tops. 33. What percentage of Chaucer's vocabulary is estimated to be French in origin? A) 10-15%. B) 15-20%. C) 5-10%. D) 20-25%. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 20-25%. 34. The sea life is effected because of the burning of X-press Pearl A) Yes. B) No. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Yes. 35. When about noon, as the sun passed the meridian, hethought he felt a little breeze of wind in his face, springingup from ..... write the direction. A) NNW. B) SSW. C) NNE. D) SSE. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) SSE. 36. Who met Caesura's ghost? A) Bottom. B) Claudius. C) Brutus. D) Antonio. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Brutus. 37. The Canterbury Tales is written by? A) John Gower. B) William Langland. C) Geoffrey Chaucer. D) John Milton. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Geoffrey Chaucer. 38. Life is precious, we should live A) Happily. B) By wasting. C) By squandering money. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Happily. 39. Which country's Romanticism was especially focused on drama and literary criticism? A) England. B) Italy. C) Germany. D) France. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) France. 40. Who often had funny story to tell? A) Dad. B) Mum. C) Devi. D) None of them. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dad. 41. She always want to stay beside me. The object of preposition above is ..... A) Adjective. B) Adverb. C) Noun. D) They tend. E) Object Pronoun. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Object Pronoun. 42. What are ballads? A) Romantic stories usually set up to be sung. B) Narrative songs that have been preserved by oral transmission. C) Poems. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Narrative songs that have been preserved by oral transmission. 43. What is alliterative verse? A) Words in the same line start with the same letter. B) Break, pause. C) Using metaphors. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Words in the same line start with the same letter. 44. He was so confused that he left before the lecture ..... over. A) Was. B) Has. C) Have. D) Is. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Was. 45. "Talking brought me here ..... "What technique is used here? A) Simile. B) Irony. C) Visual Imagery. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Irony. 46. What evidence best supports the inference that Anil knew the narrator took his money? A) "I hurried back to the room feeling nervous.". B) "But when I took the note, I saw it was still wet from the night's rain.". C) "In the morning he would probably have given me two or three rupees to go to the cinema, but now I had it all.". D) "I smiled at Anil in my most appealing way.". Show Answer Correct Answer: B) "But when I took the note, I saw it was still wet from the night's rain.". 47. What is the nationality of J.K Rowling? A) Canadian. B) British. C) American. D) Scottish. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) British. 48. What did the child wanted to have from the flower shop? A) He wanted a garland of Gulmohur. B) He wanted roses. C) He wanted lilies. D) He wanted lotuses. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He wanted a garland of Gulmohur. 49. ..... dawned bright and clear. A) Tenth April. B) Tenth May. C) Tenth July. D) Tenth June. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tenth May. 50. What criticism has been raised about the courtroom proceedings? A) The trial is unjust. B) Shylock is biased. C) The presiding duke is impartial. D) Portia is married to the defendant. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The trial is unjust. 51. Prothalamion is "a Spousall Verse in Honour of the Double Marriage" of: A) Elizabeth and Katherine. B) Elizabeth and Mary. C) Katherine and Mary. D) Mary and Isabella. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Elizabeth and Katherine. 52. A loud, harsh piercing cry A) Screech. B) Call. C) Hoot. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Screech. 53. What did he find on the shore and toss itinto the boat? A) Fish. B) Shark. C) Hare. D) Tortoise. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tortoise. 54. "Clean the board" what does this sentence express? A) Instruction. B) Command. C) Request. D) None of them. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Command. 55. The stories were passed on in writing A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 56. Which of the following statements best describes the structure of the poem? A) It consists of three stanzas with an ABAB rhyme scheme. B) It is a free verse poem without a specific structure. C) It follows a structured and rhythmic form with an AABB rhyme scheme. D) It consists of alternating long and short lines. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It follows a structured and rhythmic form with an AABB rhyme scheme. 57. The doctor ..... He is waiting for you in the next room. A) Has come. B) Had come. C) Came. D) Have come. E) Is coming. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Has come. 58. What was the narrator's job/business? A) To cross the bridge. B) Explore the bridgehead beyond. C) Find out to what point had the enemy had advanced. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these. 59. 'I charge only three pies per question, and what you get ought to be good enough for your money ..... ' What is the meaning of pies? A) Pies is a baked dish of fruit, or meat and vegetables, typically with a top and base of pastry. B) Pies was a unit of British currency used in the past. C) Pies was a unit of Indian currency used in the past. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pies was a unit of Indian currency used in the past. 60. 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