This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Introductions > Overview > English Literature (1) – Quiz 70 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books English Literature (1) Quiz 70 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Abou ben adhem was a man who ..... A) Was asleep. B) God had blessed. C) Ate porridge everyday. D) Who loves the lord. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) God had blessed. 2. In a poetry, the repetition of similar internal vowel sounds in a sentence is called ..... A) Metonymy. B) Assonance. C) Metaphor. D) Alliteration. E) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Assonance. 3. The Father of English Grammar A) Francis Bacon. B) John Milton. C) John Keats. D) Lindley Murray. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lindley Murray. 4. How did the grandfather in the portrait hung on the wall look like? A) Short and fat. B) Long and white hair. C) Puckered face. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) None of these. 5. What did the child do when he realized that he had lost his way? A) Felt happy. B) Reported to the office. C) Cried and ran here and there. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cried and ran here and there. 6. How much far was the docks from Anil's house? A) About 1 mile far. B) About 2 miles far. C) About 3 miles far. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) About 2 miles far. 7. Who is Rami's sister? A) Donna Rae. B) Betty. C) Arlene. D) Debbie. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Arlene. 8. X:it seems that nearly everyone owns a hand phone now.Y:yes, you are right. It has become ..... A) So very common thing. B) That common thing. C) What a common thing. D) So common thing. E) Such a common thing. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Such a common thing. 9. What is Zeki's favourite animal? A) Lizard. B) Bird. C) Cat. D) Camel. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lizard. 10. In 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory', what is the name of the boy who loves chocolate? A) Mike Teavee. B) August Gloop. C) Charlie Bucket. D) Violet Beauregarde. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) August Gloop. 11. English General who overthrew King Charles I after the English Civil War. A) Charles I. B) Peter the Great. C) Oliver Cromwell. D) Louis XIV. E) Henry VIII. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Oliver Cromwell. 12. R K Narayan is the writer of one of the following short stories. A) The Blind Dog. B) The Child. C) The Bet. D) After Twenty Years. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Blind Dog. 13. How is the Victorian Era considered? A) Queen Victoria birthday. B) The industrial war. C) Golden age of the English novel. D) Golden age of the English work. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Golden age of the English novel. 14. What task did the boys have shortly after becoming young warriors? A) To sit with the Chief in the Council House. B) To fight the Red Coat soldiers. C) To go hunting without their fathers. D) To dig for gold. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To go hunting without their fathers. 15. What phrase is used to describe a technique in which the audience is aware of the theatrical elements of a performance? A) Asides. B) Brechtian Technique. C) Epic Theatre. D) Alienation Effect. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alienation Effect. 16. When was Blake's 'Songs of Innocence' published? A) 1787. B) 1788. C) 1786. D) 1789. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1789. 17. Love is like a riverit is an example of ..... A) Personification. B) Hyperbole. C) Stanza. D) Metaphore. E) Similarly. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 18. What is the child's attitude towards their own name? A) They are proud of their name. B) They don't like their name. C) They have forgotten it. D) They want to change their name. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) They want to change their name. 19. The language of everyday use. It is relaxed and conversational. It often includes common and simple words, idioms, slang, jargon, and contractions. A) Informal Diction. B) Neutral Diction. C) Abstract Diction. D) Formal Diction. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Informal Diction. 20. The meaning of the word Unleashed is ..... A) To manage. B) To tame. C) To control something. D) To let a force be felt or have an effect. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To let a force be felt or have an effect. 21. What is the poem's theme? A) Gardening helps people let go of anger. B) Patience and tolerance are important to solve problems. C) It is important to express your anger or it will only intensify and get worse. D) Allowing anger to grow can be considered healthy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It is important to express your anger or it will only intensify and get worse. 22. Realist novels focus on A) Ordinary people and places /material world. B) Unreal world. C) Ideals. D) Unmaterialist. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ordinary people and places /material world. 23. Robert Luis Stevenson is the author of A) "David Copperfield". B) " Journey to the Centre of the Earth". C) "Treasure Island". D) "The Last Inch". Show Answer Correct Answer: C) "Treasure Island". 24. Which literary element refers to the feeling or atmosphere created in a text? A) Plot. B) Mood. C) Character. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mood. 25. Sri Lanka faces ..... wave of the pandemic A) 1st. B) And. C) An offer. D) Ch. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) An offer. 26. Who was Amelia Earhart? A) She was the first woman to swim across the Atlantic Ocean. B) She was the first woman to sail across the Atlantic Ocean. C) She was the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean. D) She was the first woman to fly across the Pacific Ocean. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) She was the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean. 27. Who went to Puri? A) Kasia. B) Kapila. C) Both Of These. D) None Of These. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Kapila. 28. Both wry with the laboured ease of lossby this line poet lost ..... ? A) Her loved ones. B) Her mother. C) Her mother's happiness. D) Her happiness. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Her mother's happiness. 29. What selection is the following quotation from: "Say first, of God above or Man below, /What can we reason but from what we know?" A) "A Song for St. Cecilia's Day". B) "An Essay on Man". C) "On a Certain Lady at Court". D) Commentaries on the Laws of England. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) "An Essay on Man". 30. Which of these is NOT a theme in Frankenstein? A) Scientific development. B) Romanticism. C) Dualism. D) Loss of ideals. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Loss of ideals. 31. How long do you have for English Literature Paper One? A) 1 hour 30 minutes. B) 2 hours. C) 1 hour 45 minutes. D) 1 hour. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1 hour 45 minutes. 32. Why does the persona 'glad' when he saw his foe beneath the tree? A) He felt satisfied with the defeat of his foe. B) He felt happy to see his foe dying. C) He had gain trust from his enemy. D) He really dislike his enemy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He felt satisfied with the defeat of his foe. 33. How the reader feels when reading a story as a result of the writer's word choices is the ..... ? A) Mood. B) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mood. 34. Who is Lord Byron? A) A British Victorian poet. B) A British Romantic poet. C) An American Neo-classic poet. D) An American Romantic poet. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A British Romantic poet. 35. Whom did Tomkin meet on his way? A) A cow. B) A man. C) A skinny girl. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A skinny girl. 36. What do the main characters demonstrate through their teamwork? A) The power of individual strength. B) The importance of listening to authority. C) The power of unity and cooperation. D) The significance of following rules blindly. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The power of unity and cooperation. 37. When the show ended, I walked to the hall. Guess what! I met Miss Indonesia. I couldn't miss her huge tiara. She is ..... beautiful and elegant that guests took photos with her. A) Very. B) That. C) So. D) Such as. E) So as. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) So. 38. WHOM DID BOATSWAIN ASK THE MARINERS TO BE ATTENTIVE? A) TO GONZALO. B) TO THE KING. C) TO THE MASTER. D) ANTONIO. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) TO THE MASTER. 39. Father of English act play A) Samuel Johnson. B) Charles Lamb. C) Edgar Allen Poe. D) Henrik Ibsen. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Samuel Johnson. 40. Where did inauguration ceremony took place? A) Amphitheater formed by Union buildings in Pretoria. B) Union building in Cape Town. C) Sandstone building in Africa. D) New MPH at Indian School Muscat. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Amphitheater formed by Union buildings in Pretoria. 41. I learned from the story (A Fine Famly) A) I can't help. B) I can help. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) I can help. 42. "CONQUER TASTE, AND you will have ..... the self " A) Conquering. B) Conquer. C) Controlled. D) Conquered. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Conquered. 43. The novel 'The God of Small Things' is written by A) Salman Rushdie. B) Rabindranath Tagore. C) Aditi Rao. D) Arundhati Roy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Arundhati Roy. 44. What is the preposition? Under a warm blanket, Pam rested. A) Under. B) Pam. C) Blanket. D) Rested. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Under. 45. Read Chapter 9 and answer the following questions?C:Answer the following questions:Did Portia Know Bassanio before he came to choose a box? A) Yes, she did. B) No, she didn't. C) We don't Know. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Yes, she did. 46. For the Literature component, how many exams will you sit? A) 5. B) 2. C) 1. D) 3. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 3. 47. Who is the great humanist of the Early Renaissance? A) John Milton. B) William Shakespeare. C) Thomas More. D) Edmund Spenser. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Thomas More. 48. Why did she not went to the children? A) Because she didn't like them. B) Because she had an appointment in nairobi. C) Because she was scared of antelopes. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Because she had an appointment in nairobi. 49. This strip may look different (ripped edges or squiggle edges) A) Narrator. B) Flashback. C) Thought bubbles. D) Speech bubbles. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Flashback. 50. What selection is the character Sir Roger de Coverley from? A) Robinson Crusoe. B) The Spectator. C) Gulliver's Travels. D) The Tatler. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Spectator. 51. Plot is a literary term used to describe the events that make up a story. What is the correct order of the plot line? A) Exposition-Climax-Rising Action-Falling Action. B) Exposition-Rising Action-Climax-Falling Action-Resolution. C) Resolution-Climax-Falling Action-Exposition. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Exposition-Rising Action-Climax-Falling Action-Resolution. 52. Rubeus Hagrid had a particular way of speaking English which is common to the natives of ..... A) England. B) South England. C) South West England. D) West England. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) South West England. 53. The oldest surviving epic of the Old English Period A) Hamlet. B) Beowulf. C) Canterbury Tale. D) Odyssey. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Beowulf. 54. Grandmother asked the dirty thing to be A) Kept. B) Thrown. C) Saved. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Thrown. 55. Which Theatre did Yeats Found? A) Gaiety theatre. B) Abbey theatre. C) Epic theatre. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Abbey theatre. 56. Where was Old Kaspar sitting? A) Before his cottage door. B) In the shade. C) In the courtyard. D) In his garden. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Before his cottage door. 57. Which essay may include discussion of specific words, images, and figurative language? A) Paper 1-Commentary. B) Paper 2-Comparison. C) Both. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Paper 1-Commentary. 58. What literary device is used when the outcome of a situation is the opposite of what was expected? A) Irony. B) Metaphor. C) Allusion. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Irony. 59. Great things overshadow small things. Who said this? A) Jessica. B) Stephano. C) Nerissa. D) Portia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Portia. 60. A country in the West Indies- A) Japan. B) Korea. C) Island. D) Jamaica. 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