This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Introductions > Overview > English Literature (1) – Quiz 52 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books English Literature (1) Quiz 52 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Who saved England from Spanish invasion and internal squabbles during the Elizabethan Period? A) Queen Elizabeth. B) Henry Tudor. C) William I. D) Oliver Cromwell. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Queen Elizabeth. 2. In Shel Silverstein's poem "Sick, " is Peggy Ann Mckay really sick. A) Yes. B) No. C) Don't know. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) No. 3. What's the term for "long, narrative poem about heroic adventures" A) Idyll. B) Epic. C) Apostrophe. D) Essay. E) Elegy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Epic. 4. Akbar realized his ..... and ..... his favorite minister. A) Missed, mistake. B) Mistake, missed. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mistake, missed. 5. What theme is suggested by the narrator returning the money to Anil? A) It is more rewarding to work hard for what you have than take from others. B) Home is where the heart is. C) Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. D) Knowledge is power. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It is more rewarding to work hard for what you have than take from others. 6. Why does Shylock refuse to show mercy during the trial? A) He is afraid of the consequences. B) He is blinded by spite. C) He wants to impress the Duke. D) He wants to uphold moral justice. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) He wants to uphold moral justice. 7. The children learn ..... things in school. A) Nothing. B) Many. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Many. 8. What poem is this line from? "And folded, one over the other, like a pair of wings settling after flight." A) Before You Were Mine. B) Eden Rock. C) Neutral Tones. D) Winter Swans. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Winter Swans. 9. ..... you..... doctor? A) Is, an. B) Is, a. C) Are, a. D) Are, An. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Are, a. 10. What genre in 'Bright Star' A) Elegy. B) Sonnet. C) Iamb. D) Ode. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sonnet. 11. A tablet is a mobile computing devices. It is a about? A) Functions. B) Thesis. C) History. D) General classification. E) Size. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) General classification. 12. Poet of hope and Regeneration A) Samuel Taylor Coleridge. B) William Blake. C) John Dryden. D) Percy Bysshe Shelley. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Percy Bysshe Shelley. 13. Who is known as father of English literature? A) Chaucer. B) Milton. C) T S Eliot. D) Shakespeare. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Chaucer. 14. What is the effect of the poem's vivid imagery? A) It distances the reader from the fireworks experience. B) It creates a sense of confusion and chaos. C) It engages the reader's senses and imagination. D) It diminishes the impact of the fireworks display. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It engages the reader's senses and imagination. 15. Father of English Mystery Play A) Samuel Johnson. B) Robert Frost. C) Edgar Allen Poe. D) Henrik Ibsen. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Edgar Allen Poe. 16. What was the name of the Robot in Gopa's house? A) Rohit. B) Rohan. C) Roma. D) Raju. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Roma. 17. What is the meaning of 'foe'? A) C) enemy. B) B) lover. C) D) classmate. D) A ) friend. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) C) enemy. 18. The character in Macbeth who became mad because of guilt and eventually died because of it. A) Macduff. B) Macbeth. C) Lady Macbeth. D) Duncan. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lady Macbeth. 19. 'Why allow a bad egg corrupt the good one? is an example of A) A biblical question. B) An Oxymoronic question. C) A counter argument. D) A rhetorical question. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A rhetorical question. 20. The villain in a story is called ..... A) Protagonist. B) Minor character. C) Antagonist. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Antagonist. 21. What is a source of happiness to the speaker in both these stanzas? A) The source of happiness to the speaker in both the stanzas is the pretty shell that she found on the beach. B) In the second stanza the speaker is in the bedroom in his house. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The source of happiness to the speaker in both the stanzas is the pretty shell that she found on the beach. 22. Priyanka saved Keerti by dropping it inside her A) Basket. B) Pocket. C) Bag. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bag. 23. The little girl ..... to be able to understand the thrushes. A) Reviewed. B) Answered. C) Longed. D) Replied. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Longed. 24. The poet advises us not to lose common touch while walking with kings. Which of the following qualities does 'common touch' symbolize? A) Righteousness. B) Humility. C) Kindness. D) Patience. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Humility. 25. Who was a poet of the 'Satanic School' among the following? A) Wordsworth. B) Charles Lamb. C) Keats. D) Shelley. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Shelley. 26. In the poem FOG, the poet compares fog to ..... A) A car. B) A bat. C) A harbor. D) A cat. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A cat. 27. What did the boy ask for first? A) A bullock cart ride. B) To buy a toy. C) To go back home. D) To collect flowers. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To buy a toy. 28. What was the problem in the story? A) Humpty Dumpty's shell was broken. B) Humpty Dumpty had a cold. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Humpty Dumpty's shell was broken. 29. In the story "The 7th Grade", why does Michael scowl? A) Because he is angry. B) Because he thinks he looks cool. C) Because he is confused. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Because he thinks he looks cool. 30. Niken said my mom, "Can I meet your daughter, Atin, now?" . We know that ..... A) Niken asked my mom if she can meet her daughter, Atin, then. B) Niken asked my mom if she could meet her daughter, Atin, , then. C) Niken asked my mom if she can meet his daughter, Atin, then. D) Niken asked my mom if she could met her daughter, Atin, , then. E) Niken asked my mom if she could met her daughter, Atin, , now. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Niken asked my mom if she could meet her daughter, Atin, , then. 31. Myths are stories ..... A) About wise fools. B) About people. C) About Gods/Godesses. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) About Gods/Godesses. 32. Novel written by Plath A) The Bell Jar. B) Colossus. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Bell Jar. 33. Did Petrovich reject mending the overcoat? A) No. B) Yes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Yes. 34. The sea birds had spotted their next meal in the A) Baby snail. B) Baby turtle. C) Baby bird. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Baby turtle. 35. The ..... is what happens in the story. A) Script. B) Exposition. C) Plot. D) Climax event. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Plot. 36. Child of 11 siblings from Halilintar Anofial Asmid (father) and Lenggogeni Faruk (mother). Inherited from his parents who has passion in trading and expeditions, Atta spent challenging childhood. He already travelled many places around the world. He has become a businessman since primary school. At fifth grade, he's already sold handicraft to his friend and marketing his father communication products. Among his friends, Atta is known as self-motivated, reliable, responsible and hard working person. It comes no surprise he is passionately in love with fashion and travel. What is the purpose of the text above? A) To describe about Atta's personal life. B) To know about how to be a good trader. C) To entertain the reader. D) To explain about how to be a content Creator. E) To tell about the way in becoming an artist. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To describe about Atta's personal life. 37. What did Madame Zeroni do to help him out? A) Make him carry her up a mountain. B) Curse him. C) Give him a pig. D) Put a spell on him. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Give him a pig. 38. There is no ....., you have to work hard for it, said the old man to the boy. A) Shortcut. B) Magic formula. C) Other way. D) None of them. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Magic formula. 39. I spoke to the man ..... wife had been admitted to the hospital A) Whom. B) Whose. C) Why. D) Which. E) Who. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Whose. 40. How often should you read? A) Never. B) 2x per week. C) Once a month. D) Every day. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Every day. 41. Ruby was in the ..... A) Garden. B) Cinema. C) House. D) Field. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Garden. 42. If you can bear to hear the truth you've spokenTwisted by knaves to make a trap for foolsWhat does the word 'knaves' mean in the above lines? A) People who pretend to be somebody else in order to deceive others. B) People who steal from others. C) People who make fun of others. D) People who lie to others. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) People who lie to others. 43. What is Beowulf's funeral like? A) He is cremated on a funeral pyre. B) His corpse is laid on a ship. C) His retainers tear off his arms. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He is cremated on a funeral pyre. 44. 'Tintern Abbey' exalts A) Solitude. B) Materialism. C) Tyranny. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Solitude. 45. The writer doubted his decision of taking the first road? A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 46. They (try) ..... their best on the exam last week. A) Tryed. B) Trade. C) Tried. D) Trying. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tried. 47. What did the persona do to pretend that he was not angry? A) HE SMILED. B) HE CRIED. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) HE SMILED. 48. What was the first fiction novel to be published in English? A) Robinson Crusoe. B) Brave New World. C) Alice in Wonderland. D) 100 Years of Solitude. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Robinson Crusoe. 49. In Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet when Mercutio is stabbed by Tybalt. Mercutio says, "Ay, ay, a scratch, a scratch. Marry, 'tis enough. Where is my page?-Go, villain, fetch a surgeon." A) Hyperbole. B) Symbol. C) Metaphor. D) Understatement. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Understatement. 50. Which of these plays is not a tragedy? A) Macbeth. B) Hamlet. C) A Mid-summer Night's Dream. D) King Lear. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A Mid-summer Night's Dream. 51. "Before the Match " is an extract from which novel? A) Swami and boys. B) Swami and Friends. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Swami and Friends. 52. Who is the Nigerian writer who popularized the novel "Things Fall Apart" ? A) Amos Tutuola. B) Leonard Kibera. C) Es'kia Mphahlele. D) Chinua Achebe. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Chinua Achebe. 53. When did the Parsi team beat the Bombay Gymkhana team at cricket? A) 1888. B) 1890. C) 1889. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1889. 54. Pramudya went to Bogor by motorcycle last night. Now, he gets a pain on his back. He ..... to Bogor by public transportation. A) Should have went. B) Should walk. C) Should have driven. D) Should drive. E) Should go. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Should have went. 55. What is he a "fairly successful hand" at? A) Deceiving. B) Stealing. C) Wrestling. D) Working hard. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stealing. 56. River Bottom symbolizes ..... A) Success. B) A river. C) Failure. D) A farm. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Failure. 57. The new friend is from Bogura. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 58. 'In the Bazaars of Hyderabad' is written by ..... A) Indira Gandhi. B) William Wordsworth. C) Not in the alley. D) Rabindranath Tagore. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Not in the alley. 59. If you ..... ice it will turn into water.What is the best verb to complete the sentence? A) Hot. B) Fire. C) Cold. D) Hint. E) Heat. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Heat. 60. What is Leitmotif? A) A storyteller. B) A musical instrument. C) A music composer. D) A recurrent theme throughout a musical or literary composition. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A recurrent theme throughout a musical or literary composition. ← 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