This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Overview > English Literature (1) – Quiz 32 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books English Literature (1) Quiz 32 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. In Clint's dream, he killed the leader of the pirates in reality he- A) Broke a vase. B) Broke the T.V. C) Tore the bedsheet. D) Fell off the bed. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Broke a vase. 2. Which of these words best describes the gypsies? A) Rich. B) Kind. C) Wise. D) Discouraging. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Wise. 3. Make a meaningful word with RESDPA A) Dreams. B) Danced. C) Spread. D) None of them. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Spread. 4. Who wrote 'The God of Small Things? A) Anita Desai. B) Arundathi Roy. C) Kiran Desai. D) Meet Lahiri. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Arundathi Roy. 5. Credited with writing the novel of manners and the first novel to include an entire family. A) Robert Burns. B) Sir Walter Scott. C) Jonathan Swift. D) Jane Austen. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Jane Austen. 6. What is the reasons why for 600 years no good and remarkable piece of literature was written? A) No writers. B) No pen. C) No printing press. D) None of the Above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) No printing press. 7. True or falseThere were pale ones with bumps and soft, leafy greens. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 8. 'A dark and ominous cloud crept over the village of Umunede, and thunder rumbled intermittently. The great and aged Oba Oduma laid in his deathbed, his chest heaving slowly as he took his last breaths on earth.' The passage illustrates a literary technique known as A) Horror. B) Ghost story. C) Myth. D) Pathetic fallacy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pathetic fallacy. 9. Ruby's mother was waiting for ..... A) Ruby. B) Nasima. C) Edge. D) Reshma. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ruby. 10. An Anansi story is a an example of a A) People talk. B) Comedy. C) Cartoon. D) Proverb. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) People talk. 11. In which parish was Mountain Top located? A) Portland. B) Manchester. C) St. Catherine. D) Clarendon. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Portland. 12. A merchant and a writer who set up the first printing press in England in 1476. A) William Caxton. B) William Langland. C) William Shakespeare. D) William of Occam. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) William Caxton. 13. How many roads were there in the yellow wood? A) Three. B) Two. C) One. D) None of these above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Two. 14. Who is the writer of " A House Mr. Biswas A) Salman Rushdie. B) V.S. Naipaul. C) Vikram Seth. D) Narayan. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) V.S. Naipaul. 15. What lesson does Gawain learn at the end of the narrative? A) He should have yielded to the lady's charms. B) He is not a worthy knight. C) Full integrity is unattainable. D) He was disloyal and will never be forgiven. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Full integrity is unattainable. 16. What is the main theme explored in the trial scene? A) Revenge. B) Mercy. C) Justice. D) Forgiveness. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Justice. 17. Name the visionary scientist/ teacher ..... He was born in AD 476 in Kusumapura-He was an astronomer and mathematician-He was the first to suggest the approximation of pi.-India's first satellite was named after him. A) Bhaskaracharya. B) Aryabhata. C) Srinivas Ramanujan. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Aryabhata. 18. When did the Black Death start in England? A) 1348-9. B) 1349-50. C) 1350-1. D) 1352-2. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1348-9. 19. The Father of Modern Theatre A) Lindley Murray. B) Henrik Ibsen. C) Arthur Miller. D) John Wycliffe. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Henrik Ibsen. 20. Sammy loves telling the children ..... stories. A) Christmas. B) 'duppy'. C) Fairy tale. D) Adventure. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 'duppy'. ← 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