This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Introductions > Overview > English Literature (1) – Quiz 76 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books English Literature (1) Quiz 76 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. When Sun-Sun started selling, he was stern with his bargaining at first, then he went back to giving his goods away. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 2. 'Think dear boy think'. Who said these words to whom? A) Feluda is tapas. B) Captain Ralph to the rover. C) Omar to Mikel. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Feluda is tapas. 3. Who wrote the book "The Indian in the Cupboard" A) Lynne Banks. B) Gary Schmidt. C) R.J. Palace. D) Patricia Giff. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lynne Banks. 4. On ..... she returned from a modelling assignment A) 17 September. B) 7 September. C) 5 September. D) 4 September. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 5 September. 5. Which are the kinds of English Literature? A) Imaginary Literature and Real Literature. B) Real stories and Fake stories. C) Fictional Literature and Non-fictional Literature. D) Fictional Literature and Real Literature. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fictional Literature and Non-fictional Literature. 6. Where did the first ghost take Scrooge? A) Into his past. B) Into Marley's past. C) Into present day. D) Into his future. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Into his past. 7. This genre involves elements, such as a crime, which remain unsolved until the end of the narration A) Romance. B) Mystery or Detective. C) Science Fiction. D) Horror. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mystery or Detective. 8. Chaucer served in the English army under which king? A) Henry III. B) Richard II. C) Edward III. D) Edward II. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Edward III. 9. What is the effect of the child's use of questions in the poem? A) It creates a sense of curiosity and wonder. B) It highlights the child's lack of knowledge. C) It engages the reader in the child's thought process. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 10. The child wants to play with the ..... A) Sun. B) Moon. C) Birds. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Birds. 11. What was the antidote that Shen Nong had discovered, called? A) Milk. B) Cha (Tea). C) Coffee. D) Spring water. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cha (Tea). 12. One day Jalan left an ..... for him. A) Apple. B) Coconut. C) Orange. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Orange. 13. Meaning of the word 'mortifying' A) Deadly. B) Juicy. C) Humiliating. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Humiliating. 14. The literary term that describes the anxiety of the reader to know what happens next in subsequent developments in a novel is A) Surprise. B) Expectation. C) Suspense. D) Surmise. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Suspense. 15. What is the thematic idea present in Ghost Boys? A) Privilege. B) Courage. C) Family. D) Friendship. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Courage. 16. 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 is the purpose of the writer by writing the story above? A) To describe the danger of the villages. B) To entertain the readers of the story. C) To explain how important a relative is. D) To narrate how the wolves were playing with the baby. E) To tell the villagers' relationship. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To entertain the readers of the story. 17. Who wrote Macbeth? A) Arnold. B) Virginia Woolf. C) Shakespeare. D) Milton. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Shakespeare. 18. Why are pandas endangered? A) Habitat destruction. B) Poaching. C) Habitat loss. D) Invasive species. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Habitat destruction. 19. Who helped publish Anne's Diary? A) Her sister. B) The United States Army. C) Adolf Hitler. D) Her father. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Her father. 20. Who was the original Christopher Robin in A. A. Millne's famous tale Winnie-the-Pooh? A) A. A. Millne's younger brother. B) A. A. Milne's son. C) A. A. Milne's baby nephew. D) Nobody, Christopher Robin was only made up. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A. A. Milne's son. 21. I know the girl who has qualified for the interview. What is the function of the word 'who' in the above sentence. A) Relative adverb. B) Relative pronoun. C) Interrogative pronoun. D) Conjunction. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Relative pronoun. 22. Uncle Jim was glad to find his nephew ..... A) Scared. B) Angry. C) Alive. D) Afraid. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alive. 23. P.B. Shelley's pamphlet 'the necessity of atheism' is about the fact that we cannot prove that God exists. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 24. Which of these themes does NOT appear in "Bright star" ? A) Strong love. B) Two lovers. C) Eternity. D) Horrible death. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Horrible death. 25. Find the non-finite verb in the following sentence: "The children have completed the given homework" A) Given. B) Have. C) Have completed. D) The children. E) Homework. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Given. 26. Which literary form gained popularity during the Restoration period? A) Drama. B) Novel. C) Satire. D) Short story. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Satire. 27. " If I had known that you were in Surabaya, I would have shown you some interesting places. " ..... " Choose the best response to fill the blank! A) Thank you I will ready enjoy that. B) I am sorry, I did not have time to write you before I left for Surabaya. C) That is a good idea. I have not had time to go around. D) Yes, it was such an interesting trip. E) Thank you for showing me around surabaya. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) I am sorry, I did not have time to write you before I left for Surabaya. 28. Who wrote "The Magus" A) John Fowles. B) D.H. Lawrence. C) William S.Burroughs. D) Charles Dickens. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) John Fowles. 29. "I am not shouting sir!"Who said this and to whom? A) Headmaster to Swami. B) Swami to Samuel. C) Father to Swami. D) Headmaster to Father. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Swami to Samuel. 30. 'In Mother, any distance' Simon Armitage writes "Mother, any distance greater than a ..... span" What word is missing? A) Sorry. B) Single. C) Silver. D) Spacious. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Single. 31. Who intoduced the Italian Sonnet for the first time in England? A) Francis Bacon. B) Sir Thomas Malory. C) William Shakespeare. D) Sir Thomas Whyatt. E) Flight johnson. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sir Thomas Whyatt. 32. Shola is a sort of a mountain. A) Forest. B) Grassland. C) House. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Forest. 33. Hafiz got stomachache after eating Seblak. He ..... spicy lobster too much. A) Shouldn't have eaten. B) Should eat. C) Should buy. D) Should have eaten. E) Shouldn't eat. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Shouldn't eat. 34. Who is the writer of the poem "The Dance of the Eunuchs? A) My name is Ezekiel. B) Kamala Das. C) Daru Allah. D) A.K. Ramanujan. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Kamala Das. 35. Who is the author of Turtle in Paradise? A) Andrew Clements. B) Sara Pennypacker. C) Cynthia Lord. D) Jennifer L. Holm. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Jennifer L. Holm. 36. What is the meaning of the word BLISS? A) Great lonliness. B) Great joy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Great joy. 37. A ..... is a brief story or poem. A) Legend. B) Epic. C) Fable. D) Myth. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fable. 38. The poet felt sorry because A) He could not travel on both the roads. B) He could not see the roads well. C) He did not know the directions. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He could not travel on both the roads. 39. Wuthering refers to ..... A) Winds on the moors. B) Evil nights. C) Love. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Winds on the moors. 40. Who of the following is known for his Hellenic Spirit? A) P B Shelley. B) Southey. C) John Keats. D) Lord Byron. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) John Keats. 41. The old man called ..... for help. A) Old woman. B) Little boy. C) Cat. D) Little girl. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Old woman. 42. Who was in front of the cat? A) Little boy. B) Big dog. C) Old woman. D) Old man. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Big dog. 43. How much money does Mr. White wish for? A) 200 pounds. B) 2000 dirhams. C) 200 dollars. D) 20 dollars. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 200 pounds. 44. Select the best example of Hyperbole. A) Bobby is as quick as a fox. B) The sweet smell of success. C) The sun smiled at me as it popped up. D) He can talk the legs off a horse. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) He can talk the legs off a horse. 45. (Theme) A world of change can be satisfied through art. A) "Ode on a Grecian Urn". B) "Near Dover". C) "Mutability". D) "To a Skylark". Show Answer Correct Answer: A) "Ode on a Grecian Urn". 46. What is the definition of obesity? A) The condition of having a healthy weight. B) The condition of being muscular and fit. C) The condition of being fat or overweight. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The condition of being fat or overweight. 47. How does the child describe the classrooms? A) Made out of glass. B) Made out of bricks. C) Dark and scary. D) Colorful and inviting. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Made out of glass. 48. What is the definition of Anthropomorphism? A) Unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern. B) The attribution of human characteristics to animals or inanimate objects. C) A grammatical situation involving the words "if" and "were, " setting up a hypothetical situation. D) A simple story that illustrates a moral or religious lesson tagsCCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.11-12.4.c. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The attribution of human characteristics to animals or inanimate objects. 49. ..... is a process whereby the text is being scanned for Grammar, Syntax, and Spelling errors A) Critique. B) Proofreading. C) Editing. D) Analysis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Proofreading. 50. He said, "When I was a boy, I could eat whatever I wanted." A) He said that when she was a boy he could eat whatever he wanted. B) He said that when he is a boy he can eat whatever he wanted. C) He said that when he was a boy he could eat whatever he wanted. D) He said that when he had been a boy he could eat whatever he wanted. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He said that when he was a boy he could eat whatever he wanted. 51. Find out the word which means " an area inside a farm assigned to an animal. A) Gout. B) Route. C) Cataracts. D) Stall. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stall. 52. She was so hungry she could eat a horse A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Metonymy. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 53. Romanticism is not the bringfulness of feeling, imagination, and passion. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 54. A famous written literature in Old English literature that talks about heroism. A) Robinhood. B) Amplifier plan d bata. C) Gilgamesh. D) Beowulf. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Beowulf. 55. A condition of the reverse of what we have expected or an expression whose intended implication is the opposite of its literal sense is known as ..... A) Reverse psychology. B) Irony. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Irony. 56. If you only survey the title and the opening sentences of "My English, " what purpose would you say Julia Alvarez had in writing this selection? A) To discuss her personal experience learning English. B) To explain her family history. C) To argue that keeping secrets is not a good idea. D) To describe the best way to learn English. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To discuss her personal experience learning English. 57. The word 'haggle' means ..... A) To beg. B) To fight. C) To credit. D) To bargain for a better price. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To bargain for a better price. 58. What is Basil Hallward's occupation in "The picture of Dorian Gray" ? A) Sculptor. B) Chef. C) Painter. D) Writer. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Painter. 59. What is the definition of Epitaph? A) A formal poem presenting a meditation on death or another solemn theme. B) A simple story that illustrates a moral or religious lesson tagsCCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.11-12.4.c. C) A brief statement written on a tomb or gravestone. D) The repetition of vowel sounds. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A brief statement written on a tomb or gravestone. 60. ..... means intimidating. A) Formidable. B) Exclamation. C) Fascinating. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Formidable. ← 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 6English Literature (1) Quiz 7English Literature (1) Quiz 8 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books