This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Introductions > Overview > English Literature (1) – Quiz 56 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books English Literature (1) Quiz 56 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What was Toad's recent purchase after the accident? A) An expensive motorcar. B) An expensive cart. C) An expensive airbus. D) An expensive bike. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) An expensive motorcar. 2. What is wrath as mentioned in the poem? A) Sadness. B) Anger. C) Joy. D) Happiness. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Anger. 3. Who wrote the poem "The Wasteland ''? A) Philip Larkin. B) T.S.Eliot. C) William Wordsworth. D) Thomas Gray. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) T.S.Eliot. 4. Love is a red, red rose A) Metaphor. B) Repetition. C) Imagery. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Repetition. 5. I eat sunflower seeds A) X-Ray. B) Mr Sir. C) The warden. D) Mr. Pendanski. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mr Sir. 6. ''A free bird leaps ..... " The poet forces the reader to understand how this was not the case for African Americans. This is an example of what AO A) 4. B) 2. C) 3. D) 1. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 4. 7. ..... you like salad? A) Do. B) Does. C) Did. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Do. 8. The purpose of the text is to entertain the readers. It is called as ..... text. A) Recount. B) Narrative. C) Report. D) Procedure. E) Descriptive. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Narrative. 9. Though he used many pen names, Swift never published completely anonymously A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 10. Who is this English poet who wrote about the natural world? A) William Wordsworth. B) Dorothy Wordsworth. C) Robert Browning. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) William Wordsworth. 11. One of his best poems was devoted to his ..... A) Son. B) Daughter. C) Wife. D) Mother. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Son. 12. Which of the following traits does Stanley Yelnats possess? A) Shyness and fearfulness. B) Determination and resilience. C) Cunning and ambition. D) Lack of empathy and toughness. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Determination and resilience. 13. How does Shylock's refusal to show mercy affect him in the end? A) He is given a second chance. B) He becomes a hero. C) He gains sympathy from the audience. D) He loses everything he holds dear. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) He loses everything he holds dear. 14. What is a truth expressed in the form of an apparent contradiction? A) Paradox. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Pastoral. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Paradox. 15. In a poetry, there is a figurative language called metonymy in which something closely associated with a subject ..... for it. A) Is imagined. B) Is related. C) Is compared. D) Is substituted. E) Is changed. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Is substituted. 16. How many poetic devices are used in the poem 'Leisure'? A) 5. B) 8. C) 1. D) 3. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 5. 17. What is the meaning of "CRIER" ? A) One who makes public announcements. B) Crying. C) One who screams loudly. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) One who makes public announcements. 18. The ..... of a poem refers to how the writer's presents his poem. A) Tone. B) Moral. C) Style. D) Feeling. E) Observant. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tone. 19. What was the name of the main character of the story? A) Akaky Akaivich. B) Akakie Akakyvich. C) Akaky Akaievich. D) Akaky Akakievich. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Akaky Akakievich. 20. The climb to the ..... hills brings you into a panoramic view of the entire misty landscape of Coorg. A) Brahmagiri. B) Himalayan. C) Nilgiris. D) Parvati. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Brahmagiri. 21. Pick the adjective that Anne uses to describe Peter. A) Lazy. B) Obnoxious. C) Funny. D) Intelligent. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Obnoxious. 22. How did Macbeth describe his ambition in Act 1? A) "vaulting ambition". B) "rich ambition". C) "low ambition". D) "galloping ambition". Show Answer Correct Answer: A) "vaulting ambition". 23. What is the name of the chairman who died recently at Puttalam? A) Silva. B) Harindnath. C) Hon.K.A.Baiz. D) Ajit Rohana. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hon.K.A.Baiz. 24. You planted tree with ..... heart A) Lovely. B) Bad. C) Greedy. D) Happy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Greedy. 25. "Mom's spaghetti pulled me to the kitchen" is an example of what? A) Irony. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 26. What does the child want to be a part of? A) The teacher's lessons. B) The parent's discussions. C) The school's traditions. D) The older children's games. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The school's traditions. 27. She is old ..... to make her own bed now. A) Girl. B) To. C) Too. D) Woman. E) Enough. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Enough. 28. What is the speaker probably urging the addressee to do in lines 29 and 30? A) The speaker is probably urging the addressee to pay more attention to kings than to common people. B) The speaker is probably urging the addressee to exercise more often. C) The speaker is probably urging the addressee to make the most of his time. D) The speaker is probably urging the addressee to relax and enjoy the moment. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The speaker is probably urging the addressee to make the most of his time. 29. Robin Hill symbolizes ..... A) Failure. B) Success. C) A farm. D) A hill. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Success. 30. Death be not Proud was written by A) John Donne. B) Alfred Tennyson. C) A. Upadhyay. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) John Donne. 31. Question 1:Why did the author name the story "The Last Leaf" ? A) Because the image of the leaf is very beautiful. B) Because the leaf is a special art detail. C) Because the leaf is an artistic detail that best represents the subject of the work. D) All are correct. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All are correct. 32. What is a dramatic effect in which a character directly addresses either the audience or another character? A) Soliloquy. B) Metonymy. C) Dialogue. D) Aside. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Aside. 33. We have a new grocery store in the neighborhood.Which noun is being modified by another noun? A) Store. B) We. C) Neighborhood. D) Grocery. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Store. 34. In literature, what does genre mean? A) The type of the literature. B) How foreshadow is used. C) The type of character. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The type of the literature. 35. In Chapter 4 Sun-Sun brought home a present for his sun. What was it? A) Two goat kids called Marble and Gem. B) A mule called Marble. C) A puppy named Max. D) A cake and some ice-cream. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A puppy named Max. 36. What is the difference between foreshadowing and flashback? A) Foreshadowing is about the past, flashback is about the future. B) Foreshadowing is a character, flashback is a setting. C) There is no difference. D) Foreshadowing is about the future, flashback is about the past. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Foreshadowing is about the future, flashback is about the past. 37. Jalan was standing in front of the ..... A) House. B) Temple. C) Mountain. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Temple. 38. Identify the literary device in the following: "And then the sun would hop over the cockscomb-serrated hill and feed its light into the fields in an advancing arc, broken only by an odd tree, until the entire place was flooded." A) Assonance. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 39. What was the little kite's fear? A) The little kite's fear was that he would be left behind if he flies. B) The little kite's fear was that he would never meet his parent if he flies to the tranquil sky. C) The little kite's fear was that he would fall if he tried to fly into the sky. D) I guess the little kite had no fears and he was all okay. . Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The little kite's fear was that he would fall if he tried to fly into the sky. 40. "After all everything consists of flour, sugar and flavours ..... "said by A) The Cousin. B) Jagan. C) The head cook. D) Mali. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Jagan. 41. What place does the speaker compare the world to in the last three lines of the poem " Dover Beach ''? A) A treacherous chasm. B) A darling plain. C) A whispering wood. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A darling plain. 42. How do baby turtles look like when they grow? A) As big as dinner plates. B) As big as the dinosaur. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) As big as dinner plates. 43. Bismillah Khan was called A) Bismillahsab. B) Bismillahsab. C) Pig. D) Ustadsab. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pig. 44. The sloping supporting beams of a roof are called A) Reapers. B) Rafters. C) Fritters. D) Beamers. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rafters. 45. Which Roald Dahl book tells the story of a young girl named Sophie and her encounters with giants? A) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. B) Matilda. C) James and the Giant Peach. D) The BFG. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The BFG. 46. Further stylistic features include rhetorical figures, or figures of speech. For example ..... A) Hyperbole and Personification. B) Alliteration and Onomatopoeia. C) Irony and Oxymoron. D) Simile and Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile and Metaphor. 47. At which age Granny learned climbing trees? A) 4 years. B) 6 years. C) 15 years. D) 62 years. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 6 years. 48. ..... a beautiful and talented, but poor, actress and singer, with whom Dorian falls in love. Her love for him ruins her acting ability, as she no longer finds pleasure in portraying fictional love when she is experiencing love in reality. She commits suicide after learning that Dorian no longer loves her. Lord Henry likens her to Ophelia. A) James Vane-. B) Sibyl Vane. C) Dorian Gray. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sibyl Vane. 49. Who wrote ' Advancement of Learning'? A) Shakespeare. B) Chaucer. C) Bacon. D) Gower. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bacon. 50. Read these lines from the poem:If you can think ..... and not make thoughts your aim, If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same:If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools; To personify means to give human-like characteristics to something that is not human. What does the poet personify in these lines? A) "thoughts". B) "triumph and disaster". C) "knaves" and "fools". D) "tools". Show Answer Correct Answer: B) "triumph and disaster". 51. They laugh because they see funny things "they see funny things" merupakan ..... A) Cause. B) Effect. C) Conjunction. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Effect. 52. Is Gopa watching a dream or it is the reality that he was talking to the Alien? A) Dream. B) Reality. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dream. 53. Scotland's greatest poet A) Jane Austen. B) Sir Walter Scott. C) Robert Burns. D) Jonathan Swift. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Robert Burns. 54. What was Tomkin's throne made of? A) Gold. B) Silver. C) Rock. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gold. 55. Who sent a letter to Feluda and Tapesh? A) Kalikinkar Majumdar. B) Satyajit Ray. C) Grandmother. D) Gokul. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Kalikinkar Majumdar. 56. The "Thou" found throughout the poem 'Ode to the Westwind' refers to A) Autumn. B) Poet's beloved. C) The West Wind. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The West Wind. 57. Most students think that Mathematics is ..... than other subjects. A) More beautiful. B) More expensive. C) More diligent. D) More difficult. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) More difficult. 58. The ship was attacked by German pirate. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 59. Why does Margie think school "from a long time ago" must have been fun? A) The teachers were human. B) The students never had to take tests. C) The grading system was easier. D) There was no floccinaucinihilipilification going on. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The teachers were human. 60. This question might forshadowe dr odai's talk Is procrastination good or bad? A) Good. B) Bad. C) I'm not sure I'd rather listen to Dr Odai's talk first. D) None of above. 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