This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Overview > English Literature (1) – Quiz 186 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books English Literature (1) Quiz 186 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Who were the couple could not able to face happy ending? A) Hamlet-Ophelia. B) Oberon-Titania. C) Nerissa-Graciano. D) Bassanio-Portia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hamlet-Ophelia. 2. Find Philip Larkin's collection! A) "The Middle Ground". B) "High Windows". C) "No Man's Land". D) "Plenty". Show Answer Correct Answer: B) "High Windows". 3. What materials were used to build Tommy's hut? A) Wattle and daub. B) Bricks and cement. C) Sticks. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Wattle and daub. 4. What name is now given to the language in which Chaucer worked? A) Early English. B) Middle English. C) New English. D) Old English. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Middle English. 5. 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 did the villagers bring sticks for? A) For the weapon to beat the wolves. B) To bring the woman's nephew. C) For the fire woods. D) For play. E) For building a house for the woman. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) For the weapon to beat the wolves. 6. Which among the following happens in Act 1? A) Macbeth and Banquo meet the witches for the first time. B) Macbeth kills Duncan. C) Banquo dies. D) Birnam Forest moves to Dunsinane. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Macbeth and Banquo meet the witches for the first time. 7. What event marked the end of the Anglo-Saxon rule in England? A) The Norman Conquest in 1066. B) The Wars of Roses in 1455. C) The Germanic Invasion in 449. D) The Roman Invasion in 43. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Norman Conquest in 1066. 8. Who said it:" Wow" "You are fast." A) Robin. B) Squirrel. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Robin. 9. What was the narrators opinion on rules? A) Rules are meant to be observed in the spirit and not in the letter. B) Rules are there to be broken. C) Rules should not be made in the first place. D) Rules exist only to fill rule books. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rules are meant to be observed in the spirit and not in the letter. 10. At last the old servant left his job. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 11. Noam Chomsky introduced TG Grammar in which work? A) Syntactic Structures. B) Linguistic theory. C) The Journal of Symbolic Logic. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Syntactic Structures. 12. Who were the upper-class people in Middle England? A) Serfs and peasants. B) Nobles and Clergy. C) Chivalry. D) Freemen. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nobles and Clergy. 13. Courageous people die A) Once. B) Hundred times. C) With others. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Once. 14. Robin Hood lived in ..... Forest. A) Shwarzwald. B) Dark. C) Sherwood. D) Tropical. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sherwood. 15. A poem with no meter or rhyme A) Ballad. B) Free verse. C) Elegy. D) Narrative. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Free verse. 16. What is the term for the opposite of what you expect to happen? A) Irony. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Irony. 17. What a given character is is revealed by what thatcharacter does. It's known as ..... A) Characterization through appearance. B) Characterization by author. C) Characterization through action. D) Characterization through the use of names. E) Characterization through dialogue. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Characterization through action. 18. Who won the nobel prize in literature? A) Jane austen. B) William shakespeare. C) Emily dickinson. D) Ernest hemingway. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ernest hemingway. 19. What is meant by "A wedding so contrary" ? A) There are alot of persons who are unhappy about this wedding taking place. B) The couple is marrying for the wrong reasons. C) The persons who are marrying are hurting others by going through with the wedding. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The persons who are marrying are hurting others by going through with the wedding. 20. Plath is known as a A) Confessional poet. B) Existential oet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Confessional poet. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesIntroductions 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 8English Literature (1) Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books