This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Introductions > Overview > English Literature (1) – Quiz 60 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books English Literature (1) Quiz 60 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The heroic couplet was first used by: A) Pope. B) Dryden. C) Spenser. D) Chaucer. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Chaucer. 2. "God moves in mysterious ways, his wonders to perform." A) The Task. B) Praise the Savior, Ye Who Know Him. C) LIght Shining Out of Darkness. D) "From Greenland's Icy Mountains". Show Answer Correct Answer: C) LIght Shining Out of Darkness. 3. The river outside the boundary is dangerous to cross.The function of prepositional phrase in the sentence is used as ..... A) They tend. B) Object. C) Noun. D) Adjective Prepositional Phrase. E) Adverb Prepositional Phrase. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Adjective Prepositional Phrase. 4. Which city is described as "asleep in granite" in the poem? A) Cranston. B) Aberdeen. C) Edinburgh. D) Glasgow. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Aberdeen. 5. What admirable trait does Stanley demonstrate towards his fellow campmates? A) Ambition and cunning. B) Kind-heartedness and compassion. C) Resilience and bravery. D) Fearfulness and anxiousness. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Kind-heartedness and compassion. 6. Why do the squirrels drop partially eaten fruit in the river? A) To feed the water animals. B) To energise the river. C) To pollute the river. D) To enjoy the splash and ripple effect. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To enjoy the splash and ripple effect. 7. What is Newspeak? A) The official language of Oceania, engineered to remove even the possibility of rebellious thought and contains no negative terms. B) The official language of The Brotherhood, engineered to allow members of The Brotherhood to communicate with one another without Party members knowing. C) A machine that types as Winston dictates into it. D) A type of literature written by Winston and other Party members in his department in Minitrue. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The official language of Oceania, engineered to remove even the possibility of rebellious thought and contains no negative terms. 8. The greatest English poet since John Milton A) John Keats. B) Samuel Taylor Coleridge. C) William Wordsworth. D) Robert Southey. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) William Wordsworth. 9. What we say mother in Karnataka A) Mother. B) Abba. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Abba. 10. What is Rokeya's birthday? A) 18 September, 2012. B) 12 November, 2022. C) 25 May, 2009. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 18 September, 2012. 11. The Death of Arthur is A) A Chivalric Romance written in English. B) A ballad. C) An epic heroic poem. D) A Chivalric Romance written in French. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A Chivalric Romance written in English. 12. The greatest Modern Dramatist A) John Milton. B) Edmund Spenser. C) George Bernard Shaw. D) William Wordsworth. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) George Bernard Shaw. 13. Which of the following elements is NOT characteristic of Arthurian romances? A) The supernatural. B) Adventure. C) Circular structure. D) A survey of the middle classes. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A survey of the middle classes. 14. "The papers crackled again" A) Simile. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Alliteration. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia. 15. The colour of the turnip was ..... and ..... A) White and purple. B) Yellow and red. C) Orange and green. D) Purple and blue. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) White and purple. 16. Wrote "Elegy in a Country Churchyard" A) John Keats. B) Thomas Gray. C) Robert Burns. D) Samuel Johnson. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Thomas Gray. 17. Who was the first Prime Minister of India A) Mahatma Gandhi. B) Jawaharlal Nehru. C) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. D) Indira Gandhi. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Jawaharlal Nehru. 18. Who wrote the book Lily's Crossing A) Doris Gates. B) Ridley Pearson. C) Patricia Giff. D) R.J. Palace. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Patricia Giff. 19. The use of caesura and the word 'but' interjecting mid-sentence replicates the writers tumbling thoughts. This is an example of AO A) 4. B) 2. C) 1. D) 3. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 3. 20. When did the author start experiencing an aversion to water? A) At the age of 3-4 years. B) At the age of 11. C) At YMCA pool. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) At the age of 3-4 years. 21. "Why should I warn you, eh? I'm trying to save your neck. " Who said this line? A) Silver. B) Tom. C) Mr. Hands. D) Jim. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Silver. 22. What did Nandi wish to be? and why? A) To be a fish so that she could swim. B) To be a bird so that she could fly and bring her father back home. C) To be a monkey so that she could swing from tree to tree. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To be a bird so that she could fly and bring her father back home. 23. Damaged or worn down by hard use A) Wide-eyed. B) Mend. C) Battered. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Battered. 24. Which age of literature had the theme of religious tolerance? A) Common Wealth. B) Elizabethan. C) Modern. D) Augustan. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Elizabethan. 25. What kind of river would you call grown up? A) Big river. B) Small river. C) River that enters the sea. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) River that enters the sea. 26. Ganapati had to..... A) Feel. B) Walk. C) Run. D) Come. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Walk. 27. How many prepositional phrases? For the holidays we will travel to Minnesota for a family vacation. A) 2. B) 3. C) 4. D) 1. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 3. 28. Why does Jim react so strangely when Della tells him she has sold her hair? A) He is ashamed of not being an adequate provider. B) He has bought a gift for her that is no longer usable. C) He is upset that she didn't consult him. D) He thinks she looks like a chorus girl. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He has bought a gift for her that is no longer usable. 29. Main idea of a text or story A) Conflict. B) Character. C) Theme. D) Plot. E) Setting. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Theme. 30. One of the most important quote written by Malala is ..... A) "one child, one teacher, one pen and one book can change the life.". B) "one child, one teacher, one pen and one book can change the world.". C) "one child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world.". D) "one child, one teacher, one book and one pencil can change the world.". Show Answer Correct Answer: C) "one child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world.". 31. The most intelligent and sensible of Bennet sisters A) Elizabeth. B) Mary. C) Jane. D) Lydia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Elizabeth. 32. The students were tired ..... A) From aluminum. B) Beyond the high mountains. C) After the test. D) Up the chimney. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) After the test. 33. Who decided to help the Johnsons to sell at the market? A) Debbie. B) The Hibbertsons. C) The Hilchers. D) Merton. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Hilchers. 34. Why did Marmee say the girls shouldn't buy Christmas present? A) It's not Christmas time. B) They don't have enough money. C) Soldiers don't get luxuries. So the girls don't get any. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They don't have enough money. 35. Fill in the blanks:As they pass by, pluck ..... by the sleeve, A) Cicero. B) Ceasar. C) Bark. D) Antony. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bark. 36. This poem is ..... A) Imaginary. B) Very easy. C) Confusing. D) Not imaginary. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imaginary. 37. Where did grandmother sit and breaking the breads into little bits in the afternoon? A) Room. B) Verandah. C) Temple. D) Floor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Verandah. 38. Which of the following is not a novel by Virginia Woolf? A) The Voyage Out. B) Night and Day. C) Jacob's Room. D) Forsyte Saga. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Forsyte Saga. 39. Who were the couple could not able to face happy ending? A) Bassanio-Portia. B) Nerissa-Graciano. C) Hamlet-Ophelia. D) Oberon-Titania. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hamlet-Ophelia. 40. Find Philip Larkin's collection! A) "The Middle Ground". B) "High Windows". C) "No Man's Land". D) "Plenty". Show Answer Correct Answer: B) "High Windows". 41. What materials were used to build Tommy's hut? A) Wattle and daub. B) Bricks and cement. C) Sticks. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Wattle and daub. 42. What name is now given to the language in which Chaucer worked? A) New English. B) Old English. C) Middle English. D) Early English. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Middle English. 43. A long time ago, very few people lived in the New Territories. There were only a few villages. If the people wanted to go from one village to another, they often had to pass through wild and unsafe forest.One day, a farmer's young wife went to the next village to visit her own mother and brother. She brought along her baby son. When it was time for her to leave, her brother said " it is getting dark. Let my son, Ah Tim go with you though the forest." So Ah Tim led the way and the young woman followed behind, carrying her baby. When they were in the forest, suddenly they saw a group of wolves. They began to run to avoid the danger, but Ah Tim kicked against a stone and fell down. At once the wolves caught him. The young woman cried to the wolves, " please eat my own son instead." Then, she put her baby son on the ground in front of the wolves and took her nephew away.Everyone understood that this was because the woman was very good and kind. She had offered her own son" s life to save her nephew.They ran back to the house and called for help. All men in the village fetched thick sticks and went back with her into the forest. When they got there, they saw something very strange. Instead of eating the woman's baby the wolves were playing with him. What did the villagers bring sticks for? A) For the fire woods. B) For building a house for the woman. C) For play. D) To bring the woman's nephew. E) For the weapon to beat the wolves. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) For the weapon to beat the wolves. 44. Which among the following happens in Act 1? A) Macbeth and Banquo meet the witches for the first time. B) Macbeth kills Duncan. C) Banquo dies. D) Birnam Forest moves to Dunsinane. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Macbeth and Banquo meet the witches for the first time. 45. What event marked the end of the Anglo-Saxon rule in England? A) The Germanic Invasion in 449. B) The Roman Invasion in 43. C) The Norman Conquest in 1066. D) The Wars of Roses in 1455. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Norman Conquest in 1066. 46. Who said it:" Wow" "You are fast." A) Robin. B) Squirrel. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Robin. 47. What was the narrators opinion on rules? A) Rules are meant to be observed in the spirit and not in the letter. B) Rules are there to be broken. C) Rules should not be made in the first place. D) Rules exist only to fill rule books. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rules are meant to be observed in the spirit and not in the letter. 48. At last the old servant left his job. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 49. Noam Chomsky introduced TG Grammar in which work? A) Syntactic Structures. B) Linguistic theory. C) The Journal of Symbolic Logic. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Syntactic Structures. 50. Who were the upper-class people in Middle England? A) Serfs and peasants. B) Nobles and Clergy. C) Chivalry. D) Freemen. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nobles and Clergy. 51. Courageous people die A) Once. B) Hundred times. C) With others. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Once. 52. Robin Hood lived in ..... Forest. A) Sherwood. B) Tropical. C) Dark. D) Shwarzwald. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sherwood. 53. A poem with no meter or rhyme A) Ballad. B) Free verse. C) Elegy. D) Narrative. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Free verse. 54. What is the term for the opposite of what you expect to happen? A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Irony. 55. What a given character is is revealed by what thatcharacter does. It's known as ..... A) Characterization through appearance. B) Characterization through action. C) Characterization by author. D) Characterization through the use of names. E) Characterization through dialogue. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Characterization through action. 56. Who won the nobel prize in literature? A) Emily dickinson. B) Jane austen. C) Ernest hemingway. D) William shakespeare. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ernest hemingway. 57. What is meant by "A wedding so contrary" ? A) There are alot of persons who are unhappy about this wedding taking place. B) The couple is marrying for the wrong reasons. C) The persons who are marrying are hurting others by going through with the wedding. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The persons who are marrying are hurting others by going through with the wedding. 58. Plath is known as a A) Confessional poet. B) Existential oet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Confessional poet. 59. Which period is characterized by experimentation with metafiction and fragmented poetry? A) Classical Roman Period. B) Modern Period. C) Postmodern Period. D) Classical Greek Period. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Postmodern Period. 60. Read Chapter11 and answer the following questions?C:Answer the following questions:What was in the lead box? A) A dead animal. B) Portia's picture. C) A picture of a fool. D) None of above. 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