This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Introductions > Overview > English Literature (1) – Quiz 42 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books English Literature (1) Quiz 42 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The attitude of a writer towards the subject matter is the A) Climax. B) Crisis. C) Plot. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tone. 2. Nancy:Guess who he is!Ronaldo:It looks like a famous presenter.Nancy:That's right. He's ..... popular that he ..... almost every day on TV. A) So, appears. B) So, appear. C) Such a, appears. D) Such, appear. E) So a, appears. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) So, appears. 3. How did the Celtic tribes in Britain contribute to English Literature? A) They left us stories such as that of Tristan & Isolde. B) They left us legends passed on by word of mouth. C) They left us romantic legends like that of King Arthur and also Gaelic, still spoken in Wales. D) They left us their love for Nature, trees and lakes. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They left us romantic legends like that of King Arthur and also Gaelic, still spoken in Wales. 4. Your phone number is ..... if you decide to move to a different home or office. A) Botable. B) Portable. C) Portable. D) Portable. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Portable. 5. What is the meaning of excited? A) Caring. B) Thrilled. C) Curious. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Thrilled. 6. The mother duck pretended to be ..... A) Hurt. B) Dead. C) Afraid. D) Eat. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hurt. 7. Complete the dialogue below using "Modals" Student A:People with high blood tension ..... consume much salty food and coffee. Student B:It means that it is advisable for them not to consume much salty food and coffee. A) Should being. B) Should be. C) Should not. D) Should have been. E) Should. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Should not. 8. The common theme in the Renaissance period. A) Heroic poetry. B) Naturalism. C) Riddles. D) Humanism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Humanism. 9. The word "England" came from? A) Anglo Land. B) Angle Land. C) Angle Land. D) Anglo Land. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Angle Land. 10. Why does Shylock want a pound of flesh from Antonio? A) Because he hates Antonio. B) Because he wants revenge. C) Because he dislikes pigs and cats. D) Because he values justice. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Because he values justice. 11. Who was the youngest sister? A) Beth. B) Jo. C) Amy. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Amy. 12. Find the word from the passage which means 'extremely bad'. A) Terrible. B) Trouble. C) Young. D) Father. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Terrible. 13. How can the tone of a text influence the determination of its theme? A) Tone has no impact on theme. B) Tone helps convey the author's attitude and emotions, which can hint at the theme. C) Tone always directly states the theme. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tone helps convey the author's attitude and emotions, which can hint at the theme. 14. Who is the father of Indian English literature? A) Chaucer. B) Spenser. C) Shakespeare. D) None of them. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Chaucer. 15. An Inspector Calls Which character said this? "I only told her tonight because I knew everything was coming out-it was simply bound to come out tonight" A) Sybil Birling. B) Sheila. C) Arthur Birling. D) Eric. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sheila. 16. Who was the Romeo's adviser and councillor? A) Friar Lawrence. B) Fear Lawrence. C) Friar Lawrence. D) Fiare Lawrence. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Friar Lawrence. 17. What do yellow wood symbolise? A) Winter Season. B) Autumn Season. C) Monsoon Season. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Autumn Season. 18. How did MAtilda look on the day of the ball? A) Elegant. B) Gracious. C) Joyful. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these. 19. How many tales appear in the version of The Canterbury Tales that we can read today? A) 24. B) 120. C) 50. D) 16. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 24. 20. How were the peaches A) They had the blush of an innocent girl. B) Rotten. C) Enormous, succulent and appetizing. D) Out of season, yet cheap. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They had the blush of an innocent girl. 21. When did the period called Renaissance take place? A) 15th century. B) 19th century. C) 16th century. D) 13th century. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 16th century. 22. What does Victor do when Mr. Bueller asks if anyone knows French? A) Sits quietly waiting for someone to answer. B) Acts like. he knows French. C) Tells Mr. Bueller that he doesn't know any French. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Acts like. he knows French. 23. What does the child emphasize about the railings in the second stanza? A) They are meant to keep the child in. B) They are for decoration. C) They are unnecessary. D) They are meant to keep the monsters out. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) They are meant to keep the monsters out. 24. The short introduction section at the beginning of a play that provides background information of the story is called A) Epilogue. B) Monologue. C) Prologue. D) Dialogue. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Prologue. 25. Cindererella's stepmother was ..... of her beauty. A) Proud. B) Sad. C) Happy. D) Jealous. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Jealous. 26. Which are the two institutes opened under Jawaharlal Nehru's governance A) Harrow school. B) IIT. C) IIT and AIIMS. D) IIT AND AIMS. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) IIT and AIIMS. 27. A mother turtle visits ..... A) The beach. B) Her friend. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The beach. 28. WHAT DOES IT MEAN BY "YOU MAR OUR LABOUR ''? A) YOU DO OUR WORK. B) YOU SPOIL OUR WORK. C) YOU CANNOT DO OUR WORK. D) YOU CAN DO OTHER WORKS. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) YOU SPOIL OUR WORK. 29. Read the first stanza of the poem. Based on lines 5 and 6, what can you conclude about the speaker's values? A) The speaker values curiosity and creativity. B) The speaker values patience and honesty. C) The speaker values good looks and political debates. D) The speaker values the opinions of other people. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The speaker values patience and honesty. 30. ..... was impressed about Hauwa's performance and took Hauwa out for shopping. A) Mr. Joe. B) Mr. Johnson. C) Mr. Frank. D) Mr. Fred. E) Mr. Felix. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mr. Johnson. 31. Who says that you can go around the world in eighty days? A) Mr. Philease Fogg says that you can go round the world in eighty days. B) Mr. Stuart says that no one can go round the world in eighty days unnoticed. C) Mr. Ralph says that anyone can go easily round the world in eighty days. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mr. Philease Fogg says that you can go round the world in eighty days. 32. 'Le concert, c'est moi' was coined by ..... A) Franz Liszt. B) Frederic Chopin. C) Johannes Sebastian. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Franz Liszt. 33. What word is being personified in the following sentence? "The wind whispered through the dark and gloomy forest." A) Wind. B) Dark. C) Forest. D) Whispered. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Wind. 34. Who is the author of the novel 'The Alchemist'? A) Paulo Coelho. B) Chetan Bhagath. C) Wordsworth. D) Kafka. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Paulo Coelho. 35. Who was Anne Frank? A) The daughter of Adolf Hitler. B) A Jewish girl who had to go into hiding with her family. C) A famous nurse during World War II. D) A business woman in Germany. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A Jewish girl who had to go into hiding with her family. 36. Paper 2 essays should be organized A) By text-whole to whole. B) By device-part to part. C) Either way to best answer the question. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Either way to best answer the question. 37. "thanks to YouTube which, makes his content were viewed by more 300 million people" The word "viewed" has the similar meaning to ..... A) Subscribed. B) Seen. C) Visited. D) Read. E) Watched. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Watched. 38. What does "she has a green thumb" really mean? A) She is really good at gardening. B) She spilled green paint on her thumb. C) Her fingernails are painted green. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) She is really good at gardening. 39. Name the first play of Samuel Beckett A) Breath. B) Endgame. C) Krapp's Last Tape. D) Waiting for Godot. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Waiting for Godot. 40. For which AO is it important to refer to subject terminology in your analysis of texts? A) AO1. B) AO2. C) Yes. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) AO2. 41. Write the opposite meaning of "appointed" A) Approved. B) Appointing. C) Disappointed. D) Refused. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Disappointed. 42. Morning star of the Renaissance A) Lord Byron. B) Samuel Taylor Coleridge. C) Geoffrey Chaucer. D) John Milton. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Geoffrey Chaucer. 43. The exam started 10 minutes ago. Started means: A) Asked. B) Began. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Began. 44. What does ' spear' mean? A) Happy. B) Bow and Arrow. C) Sad. D) Desperate. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bow and Arrow. 45. Whom did the two boys decided to fool? A) Einstein. B) Louis Pasteur. C) Charles darwin. D) Kirti. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Charles darwin. 46. What is the name of the poem A) Gulliver's travel. B) The Kitten at play. C) Meeting Cezanne. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Kitten at play. 47. What is the definition of Man vs. Himself? A) A person is at war against himself. B) A person is against another person. C) Problems which are outside of your control. D) Problems with occur within. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A person is at war against himself. 48. What is the main theme explored in the book "Holes" ? A) Adventure and mystery. B) Friendship and loyalty. C) Justice and redemption. D) Responsibility and hope. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Justice and redemption. 49. Which romances were more influential in England? A) Italian romances. B) English romances. C) German romances. D) French romances. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) French romances. 50. Who is the author of the poem "The Sea" ? A) Robert Frost. B) William Wordsworth. C) James Reeves. D) T.S. Eliot. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) James Reeves. 51. Why did mullah bring a bag of cow dung to the neighbors house? A) To irritate the neighbor. B) To trouble the neighbor. C) To get his house back. D) To call the council. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To get his house back. 52. Concise saying, often witty or satiric A) Byronic hero. B) Dynamic. C) Elegy. D) Epigram. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Epigram. 53. What happens in Act 1 Scene 3? A) Visit of Marley. B) Visit of Ghost of Christmas Present. C) Visit of Ghost of Christmas Past. D) Visit of Ghost of Christmas future. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Visit of Ghost of Christmas Past. 54. Which Young Warrior failed to complete the race to Lookout Rock? A) Johnny. B) Uriah. C) Charlie. D) Tommy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Charlie. 55. In ..... his "Jude the Obscure" was so bitterly criticized, that Hardy decided to stop writing novels altogether and returned to an earlier dream. A) 1895. B) 1877. C) 1885. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1895. 56. Choose the correct appearance of Yandi. A) He had a man's body, an ox's head, and a transparent stomach. B) He had a man's head, and a horse's body. C) He had sunrays coming out of his eyes, and he glowed all over. D) He had an ox's body, a man's head, and a full stomach. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He had a man's body, an ox's head, and a transparent stomach. 57. Bo watched the back door. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 58. When I ..... him I noticed that he had had a haircut. A) Was see. B) Saw. C) Will see. D) Is see. E) See. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Saw. 59. In which poem do the following lines occur:"Lightly, O Lightly, we bear her along, She sways like a flower in the wind of our song?" A) 'Indian Women' by Shiv K. Kumar. B) 'Jezuri' by Arun Kalatkar. C) 'The Freaks' by Kamala Das. D) 'Palanquin Bearers' by Sarojini Naidu. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 'Palanquin Bearers' by Sarojini Naidu. 60. Other creatures loathed his voice, But, alas, they had no choice.' What can replace the word 'loathed'? A) Liked. B) Appreciated. C) Hated. D) Encouraged. 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