This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Introductions > Overview > English Literature (1) – Quiz 37 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books English Literature (1) Quiz 37 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. When Mr. Bennet dies, who will inherit his estate? A) Elizabeth Bennet. B) Mrs. Elizabeth. C) Jane Bennet. D) Mr. Collins. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mr. Collins. 2. Who was the fastest among the boys? A) Charlie. B) Johnny. C) Tommy. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Johnny. 3. Meaning of novel A) A story not of book length. B) A story of book length. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A story of book length. 4. How does the sea's behavior change from stanza 1 to stanza 2? A) It becomes calmer. B) It becomes more aggressive. C) It becomes more playful. D) It becomes quieter. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It becomes more aggressive. 5. The little boy met Jalan near the ..... A) Well. B) River. C) Temple. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Temple. 6. Which phrase is used to describe a theatre movement that rejects traditional narrative? A) Inside Job. B) Theatre of the Absurd. C) Framing Device. D) Deus Ex Machina. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Theatre of the Absurd. 7. A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters was written by A) Martin Amis. B) John Fowles. C) William Golding. D) Julian Barnes. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Julian Barnes. 8. What is longer ..... a novel or novella? A) Novel. B) Novella. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Novel. 9. Did the wolf eat the first duck? A) No, he didn't. B) Yes, he did. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) No, he didn't. 10. It is the basis of earlier written documents. A) Stories passed on orally. B) Books. C) Papyrus. D) Scrolls. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stories passed on orally. 11. Poems are usually written in a group of lines called ..... A) Rhythm. B) Paragraph. C) Rhyme. D) Stanza. E) Paraphrase. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stanza. 12. What is "the big bear blew bubbles in the barn" an example of? A) Alliteration. B) In Room. C) Assonance. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 13. Whose parents are poor? A) Gopal. B) Raman. C) Rajesh. D) Vijay. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Raman. 14. The young man wanted to stay at A) The Peninsula Hotel. B) The Park Hotel. C) The Patagonian Hotel. D) The Square Hotel. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Patagonian Hotel. 15. Which of these is most clearly a synonym for the word 'muffled'? A) Quieted. B) Carved. C) Shortened. D) Mastered. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Quieted. 16. What did Binya exchange with the picknickers for the blue umbrella? A) Bear's Claw. B) Leopard's Claw. C) Blue and gray. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Leopard's Claw. 17. Who wrote Frankenstein? A) Marie Shell. B) Mary Shelley. C) Mrs. Gaskell. D) George Eliot. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mary Shelley. 18. Which one of them was an amiable person? A) Mrs.Joe Gargery. B) Mr.Joe Gargery. C) The Convict. D) Pip. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mr.Joe Gargery. 19. How old was Evelyn when she went to the Royal academy of music? A) 14. B) 17. C) 20. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 17. 20. ..... can explain about the creative process A) Autobiography. B) Psychology. C) Biography. D) Circumstances. E) Philosophy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Psychology. 21. During the weekend, Devi goes to the ..... A) Music class. B) Gymnastic class. C) Drama class. D) Dance class. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gymnastic class. 22. What is the term for the feeling of uncertainty or tension that a writer creates for the reader? A) Resolution. B) Climax. C) Foreshadowing. D) Suspense. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Suspense. 23. Rhyme scheme of daffodils A) Ababcc. B) Aababc. C) Ababcc. D) Aabbcc. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ababcc. 24. Grandmothers name was Krishntakka A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 25. What is the main theme in Raymond's Run? A) War. B) Childhood experiences. C) Appearance versus reality. D) Love. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Appearance versus reality. 26. When was the New York Review Of Books first published? A) 1st February 1963. B) 4th April 1967. C) 1st February 1960. D) 4th February 1962. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1st February 1963. 27. What selection by Oscar Wilde is a satire of British social structure? A) "The Nightingale and the Rose". B) "Danny Deever". C) The Importance of Being Earnest. D) The Ballad of Reading Gaol. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Importance of Being Earnest. 28. Identity this dramatist and critic. A) W.H. Auden. B) T.S. Eliot. C) Harold Pinter. D) Oliver Goldsmith. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) T.S. Eliot. 29. What kind of homework would Avva do? A) Draw and colour. B) Solve problems in Maths. C) Picture study. D) Read, repeat, write and recite. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Read, repeat, write and recite. 30. What is the meaning of the name lulu? A) A big cat. B) Antelope. C) Word of pearl. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Word of pearl. 31. WHO WAS ARTHUR'S FOSTER BROTHER? A) SIR HECTOR. B) SIR DRAGON. C) SIR MOUNTAIN. D) SIR KAY. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) SIR KAY. 32. "A serious or dangerous situation" is a(n) ..... A) Invention. B) Emergency. C) Patent. D) Device. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Emergency. 33. Which tree is sacred? A) Pine tree. B) Deodar tree. C) Rose tree. D) Ashoka tree. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Deodar tree. 34. Who is the author of the poem packing A) James Bond. B) R.K Laxman. C) Jerome. K Jerome. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Jerome. K Jerome. 35. Choose the correct opposite for 'slow' A) Fast. B) Steady. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fast. 36. Identify the literary device in this statement:Money talks, son. A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 37. The nuts are so ..... A) Black. B) Big. C) White. D) Small. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Small. 38. Please don't ask me to make any ..... about tomorrow's meeting. A) Predicshion. B) Pridiction. C) Prediction. D) Predecshion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Prediction. 39. What kind of a poem is it? A) Inspiring. B) Discouraging. C) Adventurous. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Inspiring. 40. Why was the 'Assisted Passage' Loan Scheme set up? A) To help people coming to the UK. B) To help the working class. C) To help settlers enter Canada more cheaply. D) To determine where you came from. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To help settlers enter Canada more cheaply. 41. A corona is a dangerous virus, so to be safe! we have to? except! A) Stay home. B) Sun bathing. C) Clean hand. D) Meet up. E) Use hand sanitizer. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Meet up. 42. Who is the writer of the story "The Restaurant?" A) Claire Horshburgh. B) Colin Ash. C) Christina Rossetti. D) Margaret G. Roses. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Claire Horshburgh. 43. Identify this person A) Geoffrey Chaucer. B) William Shakespeare. C) John Milton. D) William Wordsworth. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) William Shakespeare. 44. Who is he talking to when he says "if buds are nip'd ..... " A) His parents. B) Teacher. C) Caged bird. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) His parents. 45. How did the stone gentleman's great square face looked like? A) Solemn and Sad. B) Happy and Funny. C) Scary and Funny. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Solemn and Sad. 46. How does the night mail coach reach its destination on time? A) By speeding up. B) By skipping some stops. C) By following a strict timetable. D) By taking shortcuts. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) By following a strict timetable. 47. Bhaloo small black nose was always sniffing about in search of A) Food. B) His mother. C) Chota. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Food. 48. What is the title of the earliest of Chaucer's poems, written some time between 1369 and 1372? A) The book of the Abbess. B) The book of the Duchess. C) The book of the Governess. D) The book of the Countess. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The book of the Duchess. 49. The big house-to refer to prison My brother was just released from the big house. A) Synecdoche. B) Metonymy. C) Synesthesia. D) Paradox. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metonymy. 50. How many years Nelson Mandela spent in prison? A) Thirty Five years. B) Thirty years. C) Twenty five years. D) Twenty Seven years. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Thirty years. 51. Priyanka with her school bag was going A) To school. B) Home. C) To her friend. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Home. 52. 'I was fortunate that during my life I never experienced violence ..... "Who is referred to as 'I' here? A) Kumar Sangakkara. B) The team mate. C) The cricketers. D) The writer. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Kumar Sangakkara. 53. When did William Shakespeare write his first book? A) 1604-05. B) 1577-78. C) 1592-93. D) 1589-90. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1589-90. 54. A person or animal in a story is called ..... A) A character. B) Setting. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A character. 55. A story with complication or problematic events and it tries to find the resolutions to solve the problems is the meaning of? A) Explanation Text. B) Descriptive Text. C) Narrative Text. D) Procedure Text. E) Recount Text. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Narrative Text. 56. What is the purpose of the repetition of "bones" in the first stanza? A) To create a rhythmic effect. B) To emphasize the sea's hunger. C) To show the sea's playfulness. D) To confuse the reader. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To emphasize the sea's hunger. 57. Cheel dropped a ..... where the ant was struggling. A) Twig. B) Leaf. C) Flower. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Twig. 58. Who was the worst packer? A) George. B) Jerome. C) Steve. D) Harris. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Harris. 59. What did the coney use to discover its enemies? A) Its eyes and nose. B) Its mouth. C) Its ears. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Its eyes and nose. 60. Did Sue learn her lesson? A) Never. B) Yes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Never. ← 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