This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > English Literature (1) – Quiz 251 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books English Literature (1) Quiz 251 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What does the night mail coach symbolize in the poem? A) Duty and hope. B) Efficiency and speed. C) Long journeys and adventure. D) Melodious sounds and countryside charm. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Duty and hope. 2. Which is the Literary award? A) R. D. Birla Award. B) Dronacharya Awards. C) Jawaharlal Nehru Award. D) Jnanpith award. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Jnanpith award. 3. The poem 'If' was written by: A) Rudyard Kipling. B) T.S. Eliot. C) G.M. Hopkins. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rudyard Kipling. 4. Which of the following characters represents best the system of comitatus? A) Wiglaf. B) Grendel. C) The Green Knight. D) The Wife of Bath. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Wiglaf. 5. Refers to a group of recently coined words often used in informal situations. These words often come and go quickly, passing in and out of usage within months or years. A) Abstract Diction. B) Slang. C) Dialect. D) Jargon. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Slang. 6. To lose a hotel and a cake of soap in one afternoon suggests A) Willful carelessness. B) Willful defaulter. C) Carlessly stubborn. D) Forgetfulness. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Willful carelessness. 7. Which phrase is used to describe the use of a mechanical device to solve a problem? A) Deus Ex Machina. B) Method Acting. C) Inside Job. D) Framing Device. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Deus Ex Machina. 8. Analysis of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales:What is the significance of the frame narrative in The Canterbury Tales? A) The frame narrative limits the range of narratives included. B) The frame narrative allows for a diverse range of narratives to be included in the overall work. C) The frame narrative is irrelevant to the overall work. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The frame narrative allows for a diverse range of narratives to be included in the overall work. 9. Which author wrote Woods Runner? A) Gordon Korman. B) Rodman Philbrick. C) Gary Paulsen. D) Deborah Wiles. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Gary Paulsen. 10. You had ..... English before you moved to New York. A) Study. B) Studied. C) Studying. D) Student. E) Will study. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Studied. 11. "Terrence, look your last at me"Who is Terrance here? A) The friend of the narrator. B) The best friend of the narrator. C) The narrator. D) The close friend of the narrator. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The close friend of the narrator. 12. Sun-sun planted these crops ..... A) Cabbage. B) Callaloo. C) Tomatoes. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 13. Who is the author of our love song from north A) Bankim Chandra Chatterjee. B) Rabindranath Tagore. C) Not in the alley. D) Paradise order. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Not in the alley. 14. The room was ..... so I turned the heating off. A) Too hot. B) Too cold. C) Cold enough. D) Hot enough. E) Cool. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hot enough. 15. "Once upon a time, in Anand, a sleepy little town in Gujarat, pulled in a train from Mumbai, carrying a foreign educated, nattily dressed young man. Unknown to him, a unique and revolutionary experiment was brewing in this town. A band of tenacious dairy farmers were struggling against the exploitative practices followed by the local trade. Bored in this small town, he pitched in, little knowing that he was actually sowing the seeds of a cooperative movement." What is the meaning of the word 'brewing' here? A) Something developing or taking shape. B) Making of tea. C) Preparing coffee. D) Boiling water. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Something developing or taking shape. 16. It was ..... awful weather (that) we couldn't leave the hotel. A) Such. B) So. C) So much. D) Such a. E) So many. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Such. 17. How does she Floats? A) Like a flower in the wind of our song. B) Like a bird on the foam of a stream. C) Like a laugh from the lips of a dream. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Like a laugh from the lips of a dream. 18. WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY THE WORD 'REFUGEE'? A) A STRANGER. B) ONE THAT FLEES. C) AN ENEMY. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) ONE THAT FLEES. 19. A sister walks into her brother's messy apartment and says, "I see you're still the king of clean!" A) Verbal irony. B) Dramatic irony. C) Paradox. D) Situational irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Verbal irony. 20. Priya was very ..... A) Happy. B) Excited. C) Sad. D) None of above. 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