This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Introductions > Overview > English Literature (1) – Quiz 5 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books English Literature (1) Quiz 5 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Ramadan:My computer is broken ..... Daren:I know a guy who can look it up for you A) That's too bad. B) I hate it. C) What should I do?. D) Can I help you?. E) What is it?. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) What should I do?. 2. Which paper requires students to develop their own analysis of a passage? A) Paper 1 Commentary. B) Paper 2 Comparison. C) Both. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Paper 1 Commentary. 3. Who sang to its heart's elation? A) Frog. B) Nightingale. C) Both of them. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Frog. 4. Gina got sick after watching Korean drama. She ..... Korean drama until midnight. A) Should watch. B) Should have watched. C) Shouldn't watch. D) Should buy. E) Shouldn't have watched. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Shouldn't have watched. 5. What workout does Yunior make Oscar do? A) Running. B) Hiking. C) Jogging. D) Weightlifting. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Running. 6. " Ode to Autumn " was composed in the year A) 1818. B) 1819. C) 1820. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1819. 7. A Sanskrit poet and dramatist who is probably the greatest writer of all time; considered as the Shakespeare of India. A) Kalidasa. B) Rabindranath Tagore. C) Prem Chand. D) Anita Desai. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Kalidasa. 8. Why the fly decided to go to the spider's dismal den? A) The fly wanted to see his parlour. B) The fly wanted to see his pantry. C) The fly wanted to enjoy the various comforts. D) The fly wanted to see herself in the looking glass of the parlour. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The fly wanted to see herself in the looking glass of the parlour. 9. Rolling through the field in thedeadof winter A) Consonance. B) Enjambment. C) Alliteration. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Enjambment. 10. The man ..... was speaking loudly on his mobile phone was a journalist. A) Who. B) Whom. C) Where. D) Why. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Who. 11. What do the children find on the dais in the center of IT's dome? A) A pulsating tessarct. B) A gaint heart. C) A giant brain. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A giant brain. 12. For which book did Ruskin Bond receive the Sahitya Academy Award in 1992? A) Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra. B) The White Tiger. C) The Great Indian Novel. D) The God of Small Things. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra. 13. What type of men does Caesar think is dangerous? A) Fat and well groomed men. B) Lean & cunning men. C) Lean and hungry men. D) Fat and smart men. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lean and hungry men. 14. "Della finished her cry ..... and looked out dully at a gray cat walking a gray fence in a gray backyard." The repetition of the word "gray" reinforces the ..... mood. A) Dreary. B) Holiday. C) Colorful. D) Boring. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dreary. 15. Read the text and Answer the questions below. The frog eggs float on the top of the pond. Inside the eggs there are black dots. Each dot is a tiny tadpole! The eggs hatch in three weeks. The Tadpoles are all black. They allhave tiny tails. When do the eggs hatch A) The eggs hatch after five weeks. B) The eggs hatch after one day. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The eggs hatch after five weeks. 16. It is the story's most important part or where the peak of the story is. A) Climax. B) Resolution. C) Rising action. D) Exposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Climax. 17. How does Shylock view the Venetians' offer of mercy? A) He considers it a vital contribution. B) He thinks they are mocking him. C) He welcomes the opportunity for forgiveness. D) He believes it is a kindness. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He thinks they are mocking him. 18. Who is the writer of 'What's Your Dream?' A) Vikram Seth. B) Rabindranath Tagore. C) Ruskin Bond. D) Salman Rushdie. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ruskin Bond. 19. If I can reach the target, my boss will give me reward. A) To. benar. B) B. wrong. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To. benar. 20. What unintended effect did the decades of oppression and brutality had? A) Created men of extraordinary courage, wisdom and generosity. B) Poverty and suffering. C) Boycot from foreign nations. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Created men of extraordinary courage, wisdom and generosity. 21. What is the definition of cause and effect? A) A relationship between actions or events. B) A relationship between people and events. C) A relationship between emotions and events. D) A relationship between thoughts and events. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A relationship between actions or events. 22. Beowulf, the earliest and the greatest epic, or heroic drama in History of English Literature tells about the hero and leader of the spear Danes. A) True. B) False. C) It's not heroic drama but heroic poem. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It's not heroic drama but heroic poem. 23. The scene ..... followed was short and fearful. A) Whom. B) When. C) Who. D) Which. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Which. 24. Which of the following characteristics does NOT apply to Anglo-Saxon elegies? A) Stoic resignation. B) Depiction of favourable nature. C) Comfort in Christian values. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Depiction of favourable nature. 25. Who does Scrooge makes his business partner in the end? A) Nobody. B) Marley. C) Fred. D) The Charity workers. E) Cratchit. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Cratchit. 26. If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; (stanza 1, line 4) A) Accommodate, consider. B) If you waste time, it never forgives you. C) Keep your good qualities intact. D) Keep a calm and composed state of mind. E) Becoming so rigid about one's opinions and thoughts that you cannot take suggestions. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Accommodate, consider. 27. Arthur's knights sat at a round table to symbolize their equality. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 28. Who is the writer of the story 'The Fraid'? A) Thomas Hardy. B) Christina Rossetti. C) Susan price. D) Edward Lear. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Susan price. 29. How many men had come to rescue the sparrow? A) Four. B) Five. C) Three. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Three. 30. Who was the fairy king? A) Tatiana. B) Lysander. C) Oberon. D) Puck. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Oberon. 31. What is a phrase or sentence repeated at intervals? A) Quatrain. B) Refrain. C) Metonymy. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Refrain. 32. Who exclaimed "Yes, God willing." A) The woman who was preparing supper. B) The Postmaster. C) The older boys. D) Lencho himself. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The woman who was preparing supper. 33. One can reach Coorg by: A) Air. B) Rail. C) Road. D) All the given choices. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All the given choices. 34. What is the meaning of tawny A) Brownish yellow. B) Pink. C) Blue. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Brownish yellow. 35. This part of the plot "ties up all the loose ends" and prepares the reader for the ending of the story. A) Exposition. B) Rising action. C) Climax. D) Falling action. E) Resolution. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Falling action. 36. Who wrote Parlement of Foules A) Chaucer. B) Shakespeare. C) Bernard Shaw. D) Keats. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Chaucer. 37. What was the direction of wind? A) THAT. B) WSW. C) ENE. D) WNW. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) THAT. 38. Who is the poet of the poem:'To a Butterfly'? A) Edith Nesbit. B) William Wordsworth. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) William Wordsworth. 39. What promise did Anil make to the Thief Boy? A) Giving him a Good Job. B) Giving him money. C) Teaching him reading and Writing. D) Playing with him. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Teaching him reading and Writing. 40. The overall feeling or atmosphere of a poem often created by the author's use of imagery is called ..... A) Style. B) Mood. C) Theme. D) Point of view. E) Character. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mood. 41. The literary term that is used to refer to the weakness in the personality of the hero of a tragedy is A) Prejudice. B) Antagonism. C) Tragic flaw. D) Soliloquy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tragic flaw. 42. Anne described the Secret Annexe as ..... and ..... A) Damp, uncomfortable. B) Dry, uncomfortable. C) Dry, lopsided. D) Damp, lopsided. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Damp, lopsided. 43. Which paper analyzes a poem or prose extract? A) Paper 1. B) Paper 2. C) Both. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Paper 1. 44. A synonym for book is ..... A) Passage. B) Article. C) Magazine. D) Novel. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Novel. 45. The narrator received a notice from the municipality to ..... his road engine. A) Sell. B) Attend to. C) Buy. D) Give. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Attend to. 46. What is the rhyme scheme of the poem The Lion and Albert? A) Father. B) ABBC. C) ABCB. D) ABBA. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) ABCB. 47. Who wrote book Number the Stars A) Doris Gates. B) Lois Lowry. C) Patricia Giff. D) Robert Beatty. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lois Lowry. 48. Read the description and guess the character. "A redheaded pure-blood wizard, the sixth son of Arthur and Molly. He attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and was sorted into Gryffindor house." A) Harry Potter. B) Ron Weasley. C) Draco Malfoy. D) Dean Thomas. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ron Weasley. 49. What is an Italian stanza form made popular by Dante? A) Sestet. B) Third rime. C) Simile. D) Soliloquy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Third rime. 50. Who finally provided a solution to the king's problem? A) The minister. B) The cobler. C) The leatherman's old chief. D) The leatherman. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The leatherman's old chief. 51. Person vs. Self, is what type of conflict? A) External. B) Internal. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Internal. 52. Analysis of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales:Discuss the portrayal of the Pardoner in The Canterbury Tales. A) The Pardoner is portrayed as a generous and selfless person. B) The Pardoner is portrayed as a corrupt and hypocritical figure. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Pardoner is portrayed as a corrupt and hypocritical figure. 53. What did Meg do to earn money? A) Works for a terrible old lady. B) Washes cups and plates. C) Teaches spoiled children. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Teaches spoiled children. 54. What is the moral of this poem? A) Be firm and strong and never be defeated by any obstacle. B) Pray to the wind. C) Don't be weak. D) Request the wind. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Be firm and strong and never be defeated by any obstacle. 55. English theaters were closed in the following year A) 1620. B) 1650. C) 1642. D) 1599. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1642. 56. ..... the papers this morning? A) Has you read. B) Do you read. C) Have you read. D) Are you reading. E) Had you read. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Have you read. 57. Which work is considered one of the finest elegies in the English language? A) Paradise Lost. B) Lycidas. C) Some Gospel Truths Opened. D) The Pilgrim's Progress. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lycidas. 58. What effect does the howling of the sea create? A) Fear and terror. B) Joy and happiness. C) Sadness and grief. D) Excitement and curiosity. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fear and terror. 59. Where was Jim Corbett born? A) In Antarctica. B) In Australia. C) In The Kumaon region. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) In The Kumaon region. 60. The earth ..... around the sun. A) Revolves. B) Revolve. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Revolves. ← 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 6English Literature (1) Quiz 7English Literature (1) Quiz 8English Literature (1) Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books