English Literature (1) Quiz 81 (20 MCQs)

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1. The poet of The Village Blacksmith is

Correct Answer: B) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

2. Who wrote the famous prize winning poem "Jejuri" ?

Correct Answer: C) Arun Kolatkar.

3. The word pastoral means

Correct Answer: B) Rural.

4. What is the meaning of "whine" ?

Correct Answer: B) Cry.

5. "Say first, of God above or Man below, What can we reason but from what we know?"

Correct Answer: C) "An Essay on Man".

6. This is not the name of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms.

Correct Answer: A) Estonia.

7. Who was the most beautiful fish in the sea?

Correct Answer: B) Rainbow Fish.

8. Use of double negatives

Correct Answer: B) Understatement.

9. In fables the wits of ordinary people are tested.

Correct Answer: B) No.

10. Who was Tomkin's friend?

Correct Answer: B) The Stool.

11. Which award did Paul Zacharia win

Correct Answer: B) Sahitya Akademi Award.

12. With what emotion did he accept the child's offer?

Correct Answer: A) Happiness.

13. What is the synonym for-hermit

Correct Answer: B) One who has renounced the world for religion.

14. Which word has same meaning with anger?

Correct Answer: B) Wrath.

15. When was Alice's Adventures published?

Correct Answer: A) 1865.

16. What did James ask the man to give him?

Correct Answer: A) Food.

17. How many sonnets were by William Shakespeare?

Correct Answer: B) 154.

18. What proposition of the White people does the speaker refer to in "Chief Seattle's Speech" ?

Correct Answer: C) Buying the native lands and protecting their children, women and old men in return.

19. The poet will build a small cabin of .....

Correct Answer: C) Both of these.

20. Match each quotation with the correct work: "The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity."

Correct Answer: A) "The Second Coming".