This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Introductions > Overview > English Literature (1) – Quiz 6 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books English Literature (1) Quiz 6 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. How does Portia find a loophole to save Antonio's life? A) By offering a larger sum of money to Shylock. B) By shedding blood from Antonio's body. C) By proving Shylock sought the life of a citizen. D) By declaring the contract invalid. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) By proving Shylock sought the life of a citizen. 2. What part of speech is the word oppressor? A) Noun. B) Adjective. C) They tend. D) Verb. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Noun. 3. Answer the questions with True / False. Each butterfly egg has a bird inside. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 4. Rationalists believed that a person should be directed by what? A) Reason. B) Faith. C) Law. D) Scripture. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Reason. 5. What is the opposite of slow? A) Fast. B) Thin. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fast. 6. How does Meg penetrate her father's prison cell? A) Tessering through the wall. B) Wearing Mrs. Who's spectacles. C) Picking the lock. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Wearing Mrs. Who's spectacles. 7. "The tiger family is thinningTwo by two and one by one" (a) what does the word thinning mean(b) what is the poetic device that is used in the second line A) Thinning means decreasingB) its hyperbole. B) Thinning means increasingB) its Personification. C) Thinning means decreasingB) alliteration. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Thinning means decreasingB) alliteration. 8. Who took Lola's first time? A) Max. B) Aldo. C) Junior. D) Trujillo. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Aldo. 9. 'Elia' is which author's pseudonym? A) Charles Dickens. B) Charles Lamb. C) Emily Bronte. D) Eric Arthur Blair. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Charles Lamb. 10. Samuel Becket was a A) Novelist. B) Poet. C) Playwright. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Playwright. 11. What was the most powerful institution in the Medieval period? A) The Catholic Church. B) The Crown. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Catholic Church. 12. ..... means having an effect. A) Tellingly. B) Anxious. C) Deserted. D) None of the Above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tellingly. 13. Give one word for what the girl is doing. A) Complaining. B) Moaning. C) Reciting. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Complaining. 14. AO3:Show an understanding between the texts and the ..... in which they were written. A) Context. B) Methodology. C) Form. D) Way. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Context. 15. What does Chief Seattle mean by untimely decay? A) His people being killed by their enemies. B) The hastend dwindling of his tribe. C) Red Indians becoming a weaker tribe. D) Red Indians becoming a stronger tribe. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The hastend dwindling of his tribe. 16. Which bill granted voting power to women in England? A) First Reform Bill. B) Representation Act. C) Act of 1886. D) People's Charter. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Representation Act. 17. Who wrote the novel 'Little Women' A) J.K. Rowling. B) Jane Austen. C) Louisa May Alcott. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Louisa May Alcott. 18. ..... means worried and nervous A) Tellingly. B) Anxious. C) Deserted. D) None of the Above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Anxious. 19. Who is Lizzie Velasquez? A) She is a famous actor. B) She is a famous poetess. C) She is a motivational speaker and a writer. D) She is a well-known sports person. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) She is a motivational speaker and a writer. 20. In which the characters and their situations areintroduced. It's known as ..... A) Falling action. B) Crisis. C) Exposition. D) Resolution. E) Complication. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Exposition. 21. The narrator paid a rent of rupees ..... for the occupation of the Gymkhana Grounds. A) 8. B) 10. C) 6. D) 4. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 10. 22. The ..... of the shoe is made of leather. A) Soul. B) Sole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sole. 23. Read, understand and respond to texts. A) AO1. B) AO4. C) Yes. D) AO2. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) AO1. 24. This plot stage is characterized by conflict development. A) Exposition. B) Rising action. C) Climax. D) Falling action. E) Resolution. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rising action. 25. Those are ..... great pictures that l never want to throw away A) Such a. B) Such. C) So. D) That. E) Such an. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Such. 26. In the terror of whom did the author woke up A) Lulu. B) Kikuyu Local LD Ren. C) Kamante. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lulu. 27. The Kingfisher group, ..... name was changed from Woolworths earlier this year, includes about 720 high street shops. A) That. B) Whom. C) Whose. D) Which. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Whose. 28. What did Chief Seattle mean when said his words were like stars that never change? A) He didn't trust his people not to change. B) He could be trusted to always keep his word. C) He could not be trusted as stars are not constant. D) He wanted to sell his tribe's land. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He could be trusted to always keep his word. 29. If you ..... your money, you could buy a new phone. A) Would save. B) Would saved. C) Save. D) Saved. E) Were saved. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Saved. 30. If the last word in line 1 rhymes with the last word in line 2, this means the scheme is ..... A) BB AA. B) AB AB. C) Now what. D) AB CD. E) AA BB. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) AA BB. 31. Throughout the poem, the speaker compares his escalating anger to ..... A) Building a water fountain. B) Growing an apple tree. C) Plowing a field. D) A forest. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Growing an apple tree. 32. Shadow was given his name because ..... A) It was black in colour. B) It had a long tail. C) It followed its master everywhere. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It followed its master everywhere. 33. Which English poet wrote the poem 'Paradise Lost'? A) Emily Dickinson. B) John Milton. C) Robert Frost. D) William Shakespeare. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) John Milton. 34. An indirect way to control or influence others A) Plot Sequence of events in a story. B) Dramatic irony. C) Pacing. D) Manipulation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Manipulation. 35. Someone who tells a story is A) The hero. B) The narrative. C) The main character. D) The narrator. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The narrator. 36. Emperor Claudius invaded England in the year? A) 42 AD. B) 43 AD. C) 34 AD. D) 34 BC. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 43 AD. 37. The Proletariat means "the working class" in Karl Marx's Social Pyramid. In Animal Farm, what character represents the proletariat? A) Moses. B) Napoleon. C) Boxer. D) Mollie. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Boxer. 38. What are Belis parents occupations? A) Physiologist and Cardiologist. B) Doctor and Nurse. C) Surgeon and Therapist. D) Nurse and Surgeon. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Doctor and Nurse. 39. What are the names of the Bennett girls in order from youngest to oldest? A) Elizabeth, Jane, Kitty, Lydia, Mary. B) Lydia, Kitty, Mary, Elizabeth, Jane. C) Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Kitty, Lydia. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lydia, Kitty, Mary, Elizabeth, Jane. 40. In "A Grammarian's Funeral" the speaker is A) A mentor of the grammarian. B) A student of the grammarian. C) A contemporary of the grammarian. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A student of the grammarian. 41. Chapter 4 of the novel s entitled? A) The Blow. B) Neighbors. C) Reflection. D) Growing. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Growing. 42. What did Billy shout? A) Good dog. B) Devil dog. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Devil dog. 43. Who was the assistant headmaster? A) Geography Teacher. B) No one was the Assistant headmaster. C) Samuel. D) Other Teacher. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Samuel. 44. X:I visited the University of California last year.Y:That is the place ..... my brother is studying now. A) When. B) Which. C) Where. D) Who. E) Whose. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Where. 45. Name the writers of the progressive trend? A) Louis. B) Dickens. C) Conrad. D) Kipling. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dickens. 46. Who was the captain of Malgudi Cricket Club? A) Stoning. B) Swaminathan. C) Mani. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stoning. 47. Feeling brave, we tried the Devil Chili paste at the Primadona Restaurant.The function of prepositional phrase in the sentence is used as ..... A) Verb. B) Adverb Prepositional Phrase. C) Adjective Prepositional Phrase. D) Noun. E) They tend. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Adverb Prepositional Phrase. 48. What does the duke assure Shylock before his punishment? A) He offers him a plea deal. B) He acknowledges their differences. C) He warns him of the consequences. D) He promises to show mercy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He acknowledges their differences. 49. Is there population increasing or decreasing? A) Decreasing. B) Increasing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Decreasing. 50. The setting of a poem helps us to understand the ..... and the persona's behavior. A) Poem's background. B) Meaning. C) Central idea. D) Style. E) Atmosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Atmosphere. 51. It is the other name of India. A) Rama. B) Bharat. C) Bharata. D) Varsha. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bharat. 52. Choose the correct spelling which is correctly spelt. A) Happiest. B) Happiest. C) Happiest. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Happiest. 53. Caecilians, ....., are the only amphibians that are blind A) Live underground. B) Live which underground. C) Who live underground. D) Which live underground. E) Where Live underground. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Which live underground. 54. WORD MEANING OF-HUNG A) SHAKING. B) HAPPY. C) SLUNG. D) WOODEN. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) SLUNG. 55. A figure of speech in which 'like' or 'as' is used to make a comparison between two basically dissimilar ideas. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 56. The wood fairy gave it back its sharp ..... needles. A) Stiff. B) Gold. C) Glass. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stiff. 57. The stars tonight are ..... they were last night. A) Brightest than. B) The brightest. C) Brighter than. D) More bright than. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Brighter than. 58. A term used to hint at a future event A) Plot. B) Fable. C) Foreshadow. D) Title. E) Character. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Foreshadow. 59. Tom cried in ..... A) Happiness. B) Grief. C) Disbelief. D) Sorrow. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Disbelief. 60. In the structural analysis of Beowulf, which event is considered the kernel? A) Beowulf's fight against the dragon. B) Beowulf's funeral. C) Beowulf's fight against Grendel's mother. D) The banquets. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Beowulf's fight against Grendel's mother. ← 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 7English Literature (1) Quiz 8English Literature (1) Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books