This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Overview > English Literature (1) – Quiz 106 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books English Literature (1) Quiz 106 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is meant by "earning my keep" ? A) Earning things to keep. B) Keeping what I earn. C) Getting a good salary. D) Performing sufficient work or help in exchange for money. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Performing sufficient work or help in exchange for money. 2. Whose priest was Gandhiji? A) Truth and God. B) Lies and Demon. C) Trees and Nature. D) Truth and Non-violence. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Truth and Non-violence. 3. We should become more resolute. What is the meaning of the word 'resolute'? A) Admirably purposeful, determined, and unwavering. B) Positively motivated. C) Encouraging someone. D) Having doubts. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Admirably purposeful, determined, and unwavering. 4. Word which has below as the meaning.Pursue in order to catch up with A) Chase. B) Calmbered. C) Rollicked. D) Halted. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Chase. 5. The elements in a literary work used to evoke mentalimages, not only of the visual sense, but of sensationand emotion as well. A) Personification. B) Symbol. C) Slang. D) Imagery. E) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Imagery. 6. Why is Old English difficult for contemporary people to read? A) Because works written in Old English have radically different approaches to description. B) Because it's essentially a foreign language. C) Because it's difficult to find examples of work written in Old English. D) Because works written in Old English have radically different approaches to dialogue. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Because it's essentially a foreign language. 7. The old lay's bag were? A) Heavy. B) Four. C) Classy. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Heavy. 8. The best season to visit Coorg is: A) September to March. B) April to June. C) July to August. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) September to March. 9. Shakespeare belonged to the Elizabethan Era? A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 10. Who was the editor of the anthology " India in Song:Eastern Themes in English Verse by British and Indian Poets in 1920" ? A) E.V. Rie. B) Theodore Douglas Dunn. C) My name is Ezekiel. D) R. Parthasarathy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Theodore Douglas Dunn. 11. What genre dominated the Romantic Age? A) Novel. B) Mystery. C) Hymns. D) Poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Poetry. 12. In the poem 'Queen Mab', P.B. Shelley states that poetry can reform the world. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 13. Which is a synonym for magnate? A) Muggle. B) Mover. C) Mogul. D) Mutant. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mogul. 14. Who was the first chief of India army-a Coorgi as Inentioned in "Coorg" ? A) Sam Manekshaw. B) General Cariappa. C) General Gopal Gurunath Bewoor. D) Vishwa Nath Sharma. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) General Cariappa. 15. Only in Latin America did Chevy Nova have negative meaning. A) True. B) False. C) Not Given. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 16. Which period is known as The Golden Age of Greece? A) Homeric or Heroic Period. B) Classical Greek Period. C) Classical Roman Period. D) Patristic Period. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Classical Greek Period. 17. Father of modern literary criticism A) Alexander Pope. B) John Dryden. C) Samuel Johnson. D) Jonathan Swift. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) John Dryden. 18. 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. Who was Ah Tim? A) The young woman's brother. B) The young woman's son. C) The young woman's brother and nephew. D) The young woman's brother's son. E) One of the men who fetched a stick. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The young woman's brother's son. 19. Baby means..... A) Son or king in Swahili. B) Daughter or queen in Swahili. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Son or king in Swahili. 20. What is the child's attitude towards their own understanding of school? A) They are confident in their knowledge. B) They are aware of their lack of knowledge. C) They are indifferent to their own understanding. D) They are embarrassed by their lack of understanding. 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