This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Introductions > Overview > English Literature (1) – Quiz 69 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books English Literature (1) Quiz 69 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is the term for the repetition of similar consonant sounds at the beginning or in the middle of words? A) Metaphor. B) Rhyme. C) Alliteration. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 2. When was Kipling born? A) 1856. B) 1865. C) 1888. D) 1866. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1865. 3. Complete the following sentence from Lenka's song "Everything at Once." "As ..... as a fox." A) Warm. B) Sly. C) Buzzed. D) Happy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sly. 4. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning by Alan Sillitoe is an example of A) Postmodern. B) Modernist. C) Working Class. D) Futurist. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Working Class. 5. Who is the author of the story "The Thief's story" ? A) Ruskin Bond. B) Robert Arthur. C) Victor Canning. D) James Herriot. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ruskin Bond. 6. ..... means misery. A) Agony. B) White heat. C) Arena. D) None of the Above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Agony. 7. Why did Chief Seattle give his famous speech? A) To tell the Governor Stevens that he would never give up his land. B) He wanted to tell how he awful he felt about selling their land. C) He wanted to plead to the governer to leave them alone. D) He wanted to become immortal. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He wanted to tell how he awful he felt about selling their land. 8. "The Hairy Ape" is a famous Play by? A) Eugene O'Neill. B) Christopher Fry. C) T.S Eliot. D) Barrie. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Eugene O'Neill. 9. Hawaii has ..... amazing beaches that everyone wants to live there A) Such. B) And. C) Will. D) So. E) That. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Such. 10. Who wrote Sonnet 18? A) W. Shakespeare. B) Lord Byron. C) Lord Tennyson. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) W. Shakespeare. 11. Valentine Hauy was a French man. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 12. Who is best known for the work "Lord of the Flies" ? A) William Golding. B) Mary Shelley. C) Gerard Manley Hopkins. D) T S Eliot. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) William Golding. 13. In January the year just begins.In February there's a Valentine for everyone.In March the winds can blow and blow.In April spring comes and there's no more snow.In May the air is fresh and clean.In June the grass is long and green.In July the sun is high in the sky.In August hot winds go blowing by.In September we children go to school.In October Halloween fun is the rule.In November we have a day of Thanksgiving.In December there's holiday fun in giving. How would you feel in August? A) I felt the cool air. B) I felt bright sun. C) D. I felt windy season. D) I felt the hot wind. E) I felt very fresh. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) I felt the hot wind. 14. How do the Whites treat the living differently than the Red Indians? A) They cease to love their people and their land and forget them. B) They love their people but are not allowed to come back. C) They never forget the world that gave them life. D) They visit the lonely hearted living and guide them. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They cease to love their people and their land and forget them. 15. Her finger hungered for a ring A) Alliteration. B) Consonance. C) Assonance. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Consonance. 16. What is meant by 'yellow wood ' A) A jungle with yellow trees. B) A jungle with yellow flowers. C) A jungle in the month of autumn. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A jungle in the month of autumn. 17. Teenagers these days are far more sophisticated than those in the past.The word "those" refer to ..... A) Laws. B) Days. C) Teenagers. D) Crimes. E) Children. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Teenagers. 18. "Once a warrior very angry, seized her grandmother, and threw her Up into the sky at midnight; 'Tis her body that you see there."She was referring to A) The light emitting from the stars. B) The colours on the moon. C) The craters on the moon. D) The stars. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The craters on the moon. 19. COMPLETE ....., BIGGER, ..... A) BIG, MOST BIG. B) BIG, BIGGEST. C) BIG, BIGGEST. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) BIG, BIGGEST. 20. The morning newspaper come in A) Evening. B) Night. C) Afternoon. D) Morning. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Afternoon. 21. In the General Prologue, when does the pilgrimage to Canterbury start? A) September. B) January. C) April. D) December. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) April. 22. Which period is marked by the emergence of Naturalist writers like Stephen Crane? A) Romantic Period. B) Victorian Period. C) Classical Roman Period. D) Classical Greek Period. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Victorian Period. 23. What is the term for the use of language to create mental images and sensory impressions? A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Imagery. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Imagery. 24. Who were the original Magi? A) Jim and Della. B) Adam and Eve. C) The three kings who gave gifts to the baby Jesus. D) The shepherds who traveled to see Jesus. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The three kings who gave gifts to the baby Jesus. 25. The trade group, ....., informed George Kurtz that it intended to pursue copyright-infringement charges against Found stone. A) The Software Industry Association is. B) The Software Industry Association. C) Is the Software Industry Association. D) Which the Software Industry Association. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Software Industry Association. 26. Rhyming words for Cold? A) ME. B) Old. C) Song. D) Tree. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Old. 27. ..... is a comparison of two unlike things without theuse of signal words such as like or as. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Litotes. D) Personification. E) Symbol. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 28. What does diverge mean? A) To be separated and taking a different turn. B) To be torn. C) To break. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To be separated and taking a different turn. 29. By whom Nelson Mandela was accompanied? A) Thabo Mbeki-The Best Of Thabo Mbeki. B) What are they?. C) Oliver Tambo. D) Mr de Klerk. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) What are they?. 30. Jallianwallah Bath massacre took place on A) 19 April 1919. B) 13 April 1912. C) 13 April 1919. D) 13 April 1916. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 13 April 1919. 31. Before the first period, Josh borrowed a pencil from his classmate.The function of prepositional phrase in the sentence is used as ..... A) Adverb Prepositional Phrase. B) Object. C) Verb. D) They tend. E) Adjective Prepositional Phrase. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Adverb Prepositional Phrase. 32. Which ambiguous phrase from the poem opens up the issue of child labour and where we would expect children like these to spend their days? A) It will give when heaped with prayer. B) Hard at work in the school of days. C) All-that-will-be. D) Freeze into the frame. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hard at work in the school of days. 33. How much approximate time was taken to repair tommys's historic teacher? A) About 18 days. B) About 1 month. C) About 11 days. D) About 3 months. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) About 1 month. 34. Word which has below as the meaning.A repeated decorative design. A) Chase. B) Halted. C) Patterns. D) Hind. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Patterns. 35. In the story (A Fine Family)Papa picked Ian and Anna from ..... A) The park. B) School. C) The mall. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) School. 36. Who is Aunt Maria? A) Uncle podger, s wife. B) Uncle podger daughter. C) Uncle podger, s sister. D) Uncle podger niece. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Uncle podger, s wife. 37. This age was punctuated for its presence having felt int he field of dramatics and poetry, which lays its meaningful head in the lap of nature. Lyric and narrative poetry were the corner stones of this era. A) Eli age. B) Elizabeth age. C) Elizabeth period. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Elizabeth age. 38. Who is the author of The Hero Two Doors Down? A) Grace Lin. B) Margaret Peterson Haddix. C) Sharon Robinson. D) Wendy Mass. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sharon Robinson. 39. "Do I have to, madam? who asked this question? A) Half. B) Radhika. C) Vijay Lakshmi. D) None of them. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Vijay Lakshmi. 40. Question 3:For Jonzi, what is the meaning of the last leaf that falls or does not fall? A) If that leaf falls, she won't continue drawing. B) If that leaf falls, she will be very sad. C) She no longer wanted to care about the last leaf. D) Whether the leaf falls or not will determine her fate. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Whether the leaf falls or not will determine her fate. 41. Beowulf is similar in structure to Caedmon's Hymn because of the ..... verse and use of ..... However, it's different because it's really long, and is classified as ..... instead of a poem. A) Blank cutting an epic. B) Alliterative; cutting an epic. C) Alliterative; hyperbole; a novel. D) Blank cutting a novel. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliterative; cutting an epic. 42. What was Newton's dog called? A) Gold. B) Ruby. C) Sapphire. D) Diamond. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Diamond. 43. What does Scrooge send to Cratchits and do he go the Christmas party of Fred after changing himself? A) He send Cratchits a lot of gifts and doesn't go to Fred's party. B) He doesn't send any thing to the Cratchits and go to Fred's party. C) He sent a big Turkey to Cratchits but doesn't go to Fred's party. D) He sent a Turkey to the Cratchits and go to Fred's Christmas party. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) He sent a Turkey to the Cratchits and go to Fred's Christmas party. 44. Which of these does the hawk most likely represent? A) Gratitude. B) Family life. C) Poor choices. D) Misfortune. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Misfortune. 45. What was the relationship between the King and the nobility in the Feudal system? A) The King gave the Barons some of this lands and the noblemen provided Military Service. B) A Bond of full loyalty and trust between the King and the Barons. C) The King didn't trust the noblemen at all. D) The Knights fought for the king in case of war. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The King gave the Barons some of this lands and the noblemen provided Military Service. 46. She would forget all her ..... work A) Household. B) Copy work. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Household. 47. A word that joins elements of equal rank (and, or, but) A) Declarative. B) Co-ordinating conjunction. C) Subordinating conjunction. D) Conceit. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Co-ordinating conjunction. 48. WORD MEANING-COVENTRY A) CAME. B) TO SEND SOMEONE. C) CONVEY. D) PIPS. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) TO SEND SOMEONE. 49. Anglo-Saxon language is a synthetic language that has root from what language? A) Latin. B) Greek. C) French. D) Germanic. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Germanic. 50. Synonym of-throttle A) Charges. B) Strangles. C) Looked angrily. D) Showing signs of fear. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Strangles. 51. "He told you twice, but you weren't listening ..... " From which text is this line taken? Who wrote them? Who is referred to as 'he' here? A) The Lumber Room, Saki, The boy. B) The Lumber Room, Saki, Nicholas. C) The Lumber Room, Sali, Saki. D) The Lumber Room, Saki, Bobby. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Lumber Room, Saki, Bobby. 52. How does the sea behave when the night wind roars? A) It lies still and quiet. B) It bounds to its feet and shakes over the cliffs. C) It dives deep into the ocean. D) It dances with the moon. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It bounds to its feet and shakes over the cliffs. 53. Research is to study a subject in detail, especially in order to discover new information or reach a new understanding A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 54. Which is not the common theme of early Old English Period? A) Riddles. B) Humanism. C) Elegiac poetry. D) Heroic poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Humanism. 55. Did Anil prepared for the voygae by packing a bundle of clothes in a pillow case, a penknife and a bar of chocolate? A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 56. The kite would blow with the wind for a day and a night A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 57. "Man's goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished."Which example does Nelson Mandela cite to prove this statement? A) The kindness of his fellow citizens. B) The kindness of his prison officers. C) The loyalty of the military force. D) His comrades in ANC. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The kindness of his prison officers. 58. What does 'adieu' mean? A) Good morning. B) Welcome. C) Goodbye. D) Hello. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Goodbye. 59. He is ..... that he can learn multiple languages at the same time A) So clever boy. B) So an clever boy. C) So a clever boy. D) Such a clever boy. E) Such an clever boy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Such a clever boy. 60. Which period is known for sentimental novels and the rise of Aestheticism and 'the Decadence'? A) Postmodern Period. B) Romantic Period. C) Medieval Period. D) Enlightenment Period. 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