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INTRODUCTION


For PPSC/FPSC/KPPSC/SPSC/AJKPSC/BPSC & All English Lectureship Tests/University Entry Tests and Interviews By
Jahanzeb Jahan

(PhD English Scholar)

Department of English

University of Education, Lahore

OLD ENGLISH PERIOD

1. • Old English period started from:

  • a) 700 AD
  • b) 600 AD
  • c) 800 AD
  • d) 650 AD

2. • When Beowulf was composed England was changing from _______ to Christianity.

  • a) Hinduism
  • b) Buddhism
  • c) Pagan
  • d) None of the above

3. • ______ invaded England in 469 AD.

  • a) Romans
  • b) French
  • c) Anglo Saxons
  • d) None

4. • Roman invaded England in:

  • a) 20 BC
  • b) 40 BC
  • c) 55 BC
  • d) 59 BC

5. • Anglo Saxon invaded England in:

  • a) 500 AC
  • b) 469 AC
  • c) 700 AC
  • d) 800 AC

6. • Anglo Normans invaded England in:

  • a) 1000 AD
  • b) 1061 AD
  • c) 1000 BC
  • d) 1066 AD

7. • Old English was spoken from _______ to 1100 AD.

  • a) 300 AD
  • b) 600 AD
  • c) 1200 AD
  • d) 900 AD

8. • Widsith was a _______ poem.

  • a) Pagan
  • b) Christian
  • c) Hindi
  • d) None of the above

9. • Working era of Caedmon:

  • a) 657 to 684 AD
  • b) 577 to 700
  • c) 400 to 500
  • d) 400 to 450

10. • _______ is the earliest English poet whose name is known.

  • a) Robert Brown
  • b) Charles Dickens
  • c) Caedmon
  • d) Shelley

11. • The first and greatest English epic poem:

  • a) The Wanderer
  • b) The Bear
  • c) Snow White
  • d) Beowulf

12. • The author of the poem BEOWULF is:

  • a) Peter Parker
  • b) Frost
  • c) Anonymous
  • d) Charles Dickens

13. • Beowulf contains ______ lines.

  • a) 3000
  • b) 4000
  • c) 3182
  • d) 4182

14. • In this epic poem, Beowulf sails to _______ with a band of warriors to save the king Hrothgar.

  • a) England
  • b) France
  • c) Denmark
  • d) Egypt

15. • Beowulf saved the king from a monster called:

  • a) Beast
  • b) Grendel
  • c) Loki
  • d) Thor

16. • Grendel’s ______ was also killed by Beowulf.

  • a) Sister
  • b) Brother
  • c) Mother
  • d) Son

17. • After 40 years, at the end of poem, ______ was killed by Beowulf.

  • a) Monster
  • b) Bear
  • c) Lion
  • d) Dragon

18. • A number of short poems in the Exeter book are described under:

  • a) Romantic poems
  • b) Wisdom poetry
  • c) Love poetry
  • d) Victory poems

19. • They are _______ poems included in Exeter book.

  • a) Lyrical
  • b) Romantic
  • c) Sad
  • d) Horror

20. • Seafarer is the story of a somber ______ from home to sea.

  • a) Exile
  • b) Wisdom
  • c) Fight
  • d) Voyage

21. • Seafarer was translated by:

  • a) Ezra
  • b) Izabella
  • c) Hrothgar
  • d) Robert Brown

22. • Seafarer consisted of ______ lines.

  • a) 174
  • b) 89
  • c) 131
  • d) 124

23. • Exeter book was the book of _____ century.

  • a) 12th
  • b) 10th
  • c) 11th
  • d) 5th

24. • Exeter consists of _____ leaves (pages).

  • a) 131
  • b) 190
  • c) 144
  • d) 123

25. • Wife’s Lament and Husband Message are from _________ poetry.

  • a) Romantic
  • b) Horror
  • c) Epic
  • d) Wisdom

26. • The Wanderer is a/an _______ poem.

  • a) Lyrical
  • b) Romantic
  • c) Heroic
  • d) Alliterative

27. • How many lines does The Wanderer poem have?

  • a) 116
  • b) 120
  • c) 127
  • d) 115

28. • Two of the important poets of Old English were:

  • a) Caedmon and Cynewulf
  • b) Frost & Dickens
  • c) Alfred & Dickens
  • d) None of these

29. • Who was the famous prose writer of Old English period?

  • a) Chaucer
  • b) Dickens
  • c) Shakespeare
  • d) Aelfric

30. • When did St. Augustus arrive in England?

  • a) 577 AD
  • b) 399 AD
  • c) 895 AD
  • d) 597 AD

31. • Danish fleet was captured by Alfred the Great in _______.

  • a) 677 AD
  • b) 500 AD
  • c) 895 AD
  • d) 400 AD

32. • Old English word Ongle means:

  • a) Rod
  • b) Gold
  • c) Fish
  • d) Hook

33. • Ruling class of that time was called as:

  • a) Ethos
  • b) Pathos
  • c) Churls
  • d) Earls

34. • Lower class of that time was called as:

  • a) Ethos
  • b) Pathos
  • c) Churls
  • d) Earls

35. • WYRD, to them was ______.

  • a) Mystery
  • b) Drama
  • c) Love
  • d) Fate

36. • Which hero made his appearance in Celtic Romances?

  • a) King Alfred
  • b) King Asoka
  • c) King Hrothgar
  • d) King Arthur

37. • Which old English poem tells the story of resistance against a Scandinavian raid?

  • a) Battle of bastards
  • b) Battle of Malden
  • c) Battle of Beast
  • d) Troy

38. • Which king allowed translation of different kind of literary work?

  • a) King Alfred
  • b) King Arthur
  • c) King Asoka
  • d) King Alex

39. • Theme of the poem BEOWULF is_________.

  • a) A Warrior
  • b) A King
  • c) A thief
  • d) Dragon

40. • Which poem has the theme of EXILE?

  • a) Ulysses
  • b) The Wanderer
  • c) The Sea
  • d) Life

41. • When did Vikings attack England?

  • a) 500 AD
  • b) 200 AD
  • c) 600 AD
  • d) 787 AD

ANGLONORMAN AGE-THE MIDDLE ENGLISH PERIOD

1. What is the Period of Anglo‑Norman Age?

  • a) 1300 to 1500
  • b) 1350 to 1550
  • c) 1100 to 1500
  • d) None of these

2. Who is known as Duke of Normandy?

  • a) William the Conqueror
  • b) William the king
  • c) Victor the king

3. Norman Conquest started with the arrival of?

  • a) William the Conqueror
  • b) Harry II
  • c) Elizabeth I
  • d) Henry I

4. Norman Conquest started in?

  • a) 1050
  • b) 1066
  • c) 1077
  • d) 1090

5. The word Norman came originally from?

  • a) North man
  • b) Normal Man
  • c) Norwegian
  • d) None of above

6. What was the dialect of Normans?

  • a) Swedish
  • b) English
  • c) Scottish
  • d) French

7. For how many years did Anglo‑Norman remain the language of the king of England?

  • a) 400 years
  • b) 450 years
  • c) 300 years
  • d) 350 years

8. Who was the first king whose mother tongue was English?

  • a) Henry I
  • b) Henry V
  • c) Henry II
  • d) Henry IV

9. A book titled Domesday was written in which language?

  • a) Latin
  • b) French
  • c) English
  • d) Norman

10. The book Domesday was written in which year?

  • a) 1186
  • b) 1086
  • c) 1056
  • d) 1156

11. What was the official language of the Royal Court?

  • a) French
  • b) English
  • c) Spanish
  • d) Any other

12. What was the language of the Church in this age?

  • a) English
  • b) Spanish
  • c) Latin
  • d) Norman

13. What was the language of majority of lower‑class people?

  • a) Spanish
  • b) French
  • c) English
  • d) Latin

14. Middle English romance was principally what type of literature?

  • a) Secular
  • b) Romantic
  • c) Orthodox
  • d) None of these

15. More than eighty pieces of romances were written in the form of?

  • a) Meter and Alliteration
  • b) Essays
  • c) Dramas
  • d) Novels

16. King Arthur by Geoffrey of Monmouth was written in which century?

  • a) 10th
  • b) 9th
  • c) 12th
  • d) 13th

17. The Green Knight was written by Gawain in which century?

  • a) Earlier 12th C.
  • b) Late 12th C.
  • c) Earlier 14th C
  • d) Late 14th C

18. What kind of Plays were written between 1154 to 1603?

  • a) Miracle Plays
  • b) Mystery Plays
  • c) Romantic Plays
  • d) Both A & B

19. Plays (i) Le Jeu de Saint Nicolas & (ii) St. Johan the Hairy were?

  • a) Romantic in nature
  • b) Orthodox Nature
  • c) Mystery and Miracle plays

20. The Castle of Preservance written in 1425 was ___ play.

  • a) Morality
  • b) Miracle
  • c) Mystery
  • d) Romantic

21. Wisdom written between 1460-1463 was ___ play.

  • a) Miracle
  • b) Mystery
  • c) Romantic
  • d) Morality

22. Mankind written in 1470 was ___ play.

  • a) Miracle
  • b) Morality
  • c) Mystery
  • d) Romantic

23. Everyman written in 1495 was ____ play.

  • a) Miracle
  • b) Mystery
  • c) Morality
  • d) Romantic

24. What is the period of William Langland?

  • a) 1332 to 1386
  • b) 1315 to 1400
  • c) 1350 to 1400
  • d) 1432 to 1486

25. Piers Plowman written between 1370 to 1390 was authored by?

  • a) William Langland
  • b) William Davis
  • c) Henry IV
  • d) None

26. Book Mirour de l’Omme was written in 1330 to 1408 by:

  • a) William Langland
  • b) William Davis
  • c) Henry IV
  • d) Gower

27. Book Mirour de l’Omme was written in 1380 has how many lines?

  • a) 29945
  • b) 39945
  • c) 45500
  • d) 29999

28. Which revolt was the major theme of Johan Gower’s Vox Clamantis?

  • a) Citizen’s Revolt
  • b) People’s Revolt
  • c) Peasants’ Revolt
  • d) Poet’s Revolt

29. A famous book Confessio Amantis by Gower has how many lines?

  • a) 45500
  • b) 33999
  • c) 23000
  • d) 44000

30. A famous English Poet Geoffrey Chaucer was born in?

  • a) 1340s
  • b) 1339
  • c) 1356
  • d) 1440

31. Famous English Poet Geoffrey Chaucer died in?

  • a) 25th October 1400
  • b) 24th December 1400
  • c) 23rd September 1400
  • d) None of these

32. Famous poet Geoffrey Chaucer is buried in place known as?

  • a) Writer’s corner
  • b) Poet’s corner
  • c) Both a and B
  • d) None of these

33. Who is known as Father of English Poetry, English Language and English Literature?

  • a) Chaucer
  • b) Milton
  • c) Alexander Pope
  • d) All

34. Which poem includes visions by the protagonist?

  • a) Piers Plowman
  • b) The Canterbury Tales
  • c) The House of Fame
  • d) None of the Above

35. “The History of The King of Britain” was written in Latin by?

  • a) Geoffrey of Monmouth
  • b) Milton
  • c) Alexander Pope
  • d) Chaucer

36. Who was the archbishop of Canterbury in the Middle English period?

  • a) St. Paul
  • b) St. Thomas Becket
  • c) St. Thomas Paul
  • d) HG Becket

37. Who dictated the first Autobiography in English?

  • a) Margery Kempe
  • b) Martin
  • c) Henry
  • d) None of the above

38. Famous French book “The Fall of Princess” was translated by:

  • a) John Dryden
  • b) John Milton
  • c) John Lydgate
  • d) None of the above

39. Who wrote sequel to Chaucer’s ‘The Nun’s Priest’s Tale’?

  • a) Robert Gower
  • b) Robert Henry
  • c) Robert Henryson
  • d) Thomas Paul

40. Who wrote Arthurian Romance?

  • a) Sir James
  • b) Sir Thomas Malory
  • c) Sir Victor Hugo
  • d) None of these

41. The writer of “Troilus and Criseide” Geoffrey Chaucer was the son of?

  • a) Wine Merchant
  • b) Leather Merchant
  • c) Wool Merchant
  • d) None

42. The famous lines “The Hurls in at the hall-door…” appear in which work?

  • a) Canterbury Tales
  • b) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
  • c) Paradise Lost Book VI
  • d) None of the above

43. Who wrote the famous work meditating on the "personal 'Ghostly' vision"?

  • a) Julian of Norwich
  • b) Julian Ann
  • c) Sir Gawain
  • d) None

44. Famous characters Coll, Gib, Daw, and Mak are found in which play?

  • a) The Second Shepherd’s Play
  • b) All’s Well That Ends Well
  • c) A Doll’s House
  • d) The Crucible

45. The characters with Knowledge, Beauty, Five-wits, and discretion appear in which play?

  • a) The Second Shepherd’s Play
  • b) Everyman
  • c) Mankind
  • d) Wisdom

46. Who wrote inspiring English ballad which influenced 20th century songs A Hard Rain’s A Gonna Fall?

  • a) Lord Randall
  • b) Shakespeare
  • c) Milton
  • d) John Dryden

47. Famous lines “O mother, mother, make my bed / O make it soft and narrow. Since my love died for me today, I’ll die for him tomorrow”?

  • a) Lord Randall
  • b) Bonny Barbara Allen
  • c) Shelly
  • d) Coleridge

48. In which Poem Chaucer solicits his patron Henry IV to provide him with some cash?

  • a) Complaint to his mistress
  • b) Complaint to his master
  • c) Complaint to His Purse
  • d) Complain to Priest

49. Which is the important scene in “Gawain and the Green Knight”?

  • a) The Three kisses
  • b) The magic
  • c) The game
  • d) None of the above

50. Which Famous English Writer escaped from Coleshill and Colchester jails?

  • a) Sir Henry
  • b) Sir Thomas Roy
  • c) Sir Thomas Malory
  • d) None of the above

Chapter 4: RENAISSANCE-THE AGE OF SHAKESPEARE

1. • The Renaissance Age is known as

  • a) The Elizabethan Period
  • b) The age of Marlowe
  • c) Post Restoration period
  • d) Colonial Period

2. • Renaissance means:

  • a) Acting or behaving
  • b) Revival-Rebirth
  • c) The process of bringing an object back
  • d) Colonial

3. • England captured the massive area of the world during:

  • a) Shakespeare’s Time
  • b) Puritan Period
  • c) Colonial Period
  • d) Renaissance Period

4. • Renaissance is known for:

  • a) Acting or Behaving
  • b) to bring back to good
  • c) to bring back to its original signification
  • d) Revival of learning

5. • Fall of Constantinople was in _______ AD.

  • a) 1453
  • b) 1443
  • c) 1463
  • d) 1433

6. • How was knowledge spread all over?

  • a) through Germans’ knowledge
  • b) Through Americans
  • c) Through Britain’s efforts
  • d) Through the Greeks

7. • ________ were famous discoverers/travelers of this period.

  • a) Vasco da Gama & Columbus
  • b) Napoleon Bonaparte & Martin Luther
  • c) Both a & b
  • d) None of these

8. • _____ started a movement called the Reformation.

  • a) Columbus
  • b) Martin Luther
  • c) Vasco da Gama
  • d) Boccaccio

9. • _____ Ordered Luther’s writhing burned.

  • a) Toni Morrison
  • b) Robert Frost
  • c) William Falkner
  • d) Pope Leo X

10. • ___ were the protestant group that follows the teachings of Luther.

  • a) Catholics
  • b) Lutherans
  • c) Protestants
  • d) Britain’s 11

11. • ______ divided Western European Christians into Catholic and Protestants.

  • a) The Protestant movement
  • b) The Anglicans
  • c) The Catholic’s protest
  • d) The Catholics

12. • Who were the proponents of Renaissance in Italy?

  • a) Shakespeare
  • b) Marlow
  • c) Dante Petrarch and Boccaccio
  • d) Donne

13. • Who wrote “Utopia”?

  • a) John Lyly
  • b) Shakespeare
  • c) Anton Chekhov
  • d) Sir Thomas More

14. • What was the changed in characterization during Renaissance?

  • a) Personifications of Morality
  • b) betterment in society
  • c) Keep hold on cruel
  • d) Theatre came

15. • John Lyly was born and died in:

  • a) 1554-1606
  • b) 1534-1616
  • c) 1600-1686
  • d) 1656-1719

16. • Eupheus was written by:

  • a) Hemingway
  • b) Morrison
  • c) Jane Austen
  • d) John Lyly

17. • Endymion (1588) was written by:

  • a) William Faulkner
  • b) John Lyly
  • c) Robert Frost
  • d) O’ Neill

18. • George Peele was born and died in:

  • a) 1554-1606
  • b) 1534-1616
  • c) 1557-1597
  • d) 1560-1592

19. • The Old Wives’ Tale (1584) is a famous work by:

  • a) George Peele
  • b) John Lyly
  • c) Donne
  • d) Marlow

20. • George Peele 1557-1597 also wrote:

  • a) The Crucible
  • b) The Sun also raises
  • c) A farewell to arms
  • d) Arraignment of Paris

21. • Thomas Kyd was born and died in:

  • a) 1558-1594
  • b) 1572-1637
  • c) 1564-1594
  • d) 1593-1657

22. • Thomas Kyd 1557-1595 is famous for:

  • a) His Dramas
  • b) His Novels
  • c) The Spanish Tragedy
  • d) Poems

23. • Robert Green was born and died in:

  • a) 1558-1592
  • b) 1572-1637
  • c) 1564-1594
  • d) 1593-1657

24. • Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay (1594) is a famous work by:

  • a) Shakespeare
  • b) Robert Green
  • c) John Lyly
  • d) Donne

25. • Robert Green 1560-1592 also wrote:

  • a) A Tale of Two Cities
  • b) Joseph Andrews
  • c) Tess of the D’Urbervilles
  • d) Orlando Furioso

26. • Ben Jonson was born and died in:

  • a) 1590-1637
  • b) 1572-1637
  • c) 1616-1710
  • d) 1710-1790

27. • The Alchemist (1610) was a famous drama by:

  • a) Ben Jonson
  • b) Robert Frost
  • c) John Lyly
  • d) Oscar Wilde

28. • Ben Jonson (1572-1637) also wrote:

  • a) Birches
  • b) The road not taken
  • c) Lady Lazarus
  • d) Every man in his humour

29. • Christopher Marlow was born and died in:

  • a) 1564-1594
  • b) 1437-1510
  • c) 1556-1610
  • d) 1610-1720

30. • Doctor Faustus was published in:

  • a) 1604
  • b) 1616
  • c) 1589
  • d) 1572

31. • Doctor Faustus (1592) was written by:

  • a) Shakespeare
  • b) Donne
  • c) Marlow
  • d) Sophocles

32. • Other plays of Marlowe:

  • a) The Jew of Malta & Tamburlaine
  • b) Edward ii & Dido, Queen of Carthage
  • c) Both a & b
  • d) None of these

33. • Which Poets are termed as university wits?

  • a) Williams Davis
  • b) Anton Chekov
  • c) Gloria Emerson
  • d) Christopher Marlow

34. • Time frame of university wits was:

  • a) Near the end of 16th Century
  • b) Starting the 15th century
  • c) Starting the 16th century
  • d) near the end of 17th century

35. • The University wits were also famous as:

  • a) Secular writer
  • b) Chaucerian
  • c) Tragedians
  • d) Nature’s writers

36. • William Shakespeare was born and died in:

  • a) 1564-1616
  • b) 1597-1630
  • c) 1606-1680
  • d) 1616-1690

37. • Hamlet was published in:

  • a) 1554
  • b) 1603
  • c) 1690
  • d) 1534

38. • Romeo and Juliet was published in:

  • a) 1597
  • b) 1467
  • c) 1527
  • d) 1517

39. • Macbeth was published in:

  • a) 1643
  • b) 1653
  • c) 1623
  • d) 1633

40. • Who did not go to university but is known among university wits?

  • a) Ben Jonson
  • b) George Peele
  • c) Thomas Kyd
  • d) John Lyly

41. • Othello was published in:

  • a) 1634
  • b) 1605
  • c) 1633
  • d) 1566

42. • The Tempest was published in:

  • a) 1563
  • b) 1633
  • c) 1611
  • d) 1645

43. • A Mid-Summer Night’s Dream was published:

  • a) 1700
  • b) 1720
  • c) 1620
  • d) 1600

44. • Edmund Spenser born and died in:

  • a) 1522-1572
  • b) 1552-1599
  • c) 1512-1532
  • d) 1532-1592

45. • The Faerie Queen is by:

  • a) Edmund Spenser
  • b) Oscar Wilde
  • c) John Dionne
  • d) Sheridan

46. • Edmund Spenser wrote:

  • a) The Knight
  • b) Vikings
  • c) The Sea
  • d) Faerie Queen

47. • Philip Sidney was born and died in:

  • a) 1534-1566
  • b) 1544-1576
  • c) 1554-1586
  • d) 1564-1596

48. • Philip Sidney wrote:

  • a) The Sea
  • b) Life of Galileo
  • c) Arms and the man
  • d) An Apology for Poetry

49. • Which persons most embodied the ideas of the Renaissance?

  • a) Leonardo Da Vinci
  • b) Martin Luther
  • c) Was Co De Chama
  • d) Ben Johnson

50. • Who spoke against the practices of indulgences?

  • a) Martin Luther
  • b) Leonardo Da Vinci
  • c) Ben Johnson
  • d) Was Co De Gama

51. • The character of Falstaff is important in which play(s) by William Shakespeare:

  • a) Hamlet
  • b) Pygmalion
  • c) Dr. Faustus
  • d) Henry IV, Part I

52. • Which of the following figures was an important political theorist of Renaissance?

  • a) Martin Luther
  • b) Leonardo
  • c) Niccole Machiavelli
  • d) Edmund Spenser

53. • The intellectual and social movement which historians call “_______” is lies at the base of the period we call the Renaissance?

  • a) Generalism
  • b) Pessimism
  • c) Humanism
  • d) Feminism

54. • Sir Philip Sidney’s strong ________ convictions made him publicly oppose a projected marriage for Queen Elizabeth?

  • a) Protestant
  • b) Catholic
  • c) Pits
  • d) German

55. • Who is the Elizabethan Era named after?

  • a) Queen Elizabeth II
  • b) Queen Elizabeth I
  • c) Elizabeth III
  • d) Elizabeth IV

56. • What form of fine art Elizabethan Era most famous for?

  • a) Theatre
  • b) Novel
  • c) Poetry
  • d) Prose

57. • What famous writer from the Elizabethan Era is considered by many to be the greatest writer of the English Language?

  • a) Donne
  • b) William Davies
  • c) William Shakespeare
  • d) Toni Morrison

58. • What was the Privy Council?

  • a) A group of justice
  • b) A group of judges
  • c) A group of believers in Monarch
  • d) A group of advisors to the Monarch

59. • Which topics did Thomas More focus in his “Utopia”?

  • a) Love
  • b) Politicians
  • c) Satire on Society
  • d) Riches, Jewels, and gold

60. • Christopher Marlow’s influence on William Shakespeare was in all probability___:

  • a) Very great
  • b) High
  • c) Normal
  • d) Very low

61. • The Renaissance was spurred on the most by which of the following technical innovation?

  • a) Theatre
  • b) Weapon Tools
  • c) The printing press
  • d) T.V

62. • What characterizes the byzantine church during the Middle Ages and Renaissance periods?

  • a) They began to cooperate with Muslims
  • b) They began to cooperate with Jews
  • c) they began to cooperate with Indians
  • d) They began to cooperate to with Britain

63. • Renaissance humanism represented:

  • a) Comedy
  • b) Tragedy
  • c) Human subject
  • d) Famine

64. • What was the relationship between Renaissance thinker’s and poets to the classical world?

  • a) they refused it
  • b) they left it
  • c) they embraced it
  • d) they spoiled it

65. • Edmund Spenser was born and died in:

  • a) 1530-1604
  • b) 1550-1589
  • c) 1505-1590
  • d) 1552/53-1599

66. • The Faerie Queen was written by:

  • a) Edmund Spencer
  • b) Jane Austen
  • c) Robert Frost
  • d) Oscar Wilde

67. • The Faerie Queen was published in:

  • a) 1590
  • b) 1580
  • c) 1600
  • d) 1616

68. • The Shepherd’s Calendar was written by:

  • a) Edmund Spencer
  • b) Church
  • c) W. Davis
  • d) W.H. Auden

69. • The Faerie Queen is an epic as well as an:

  • a) Sonnet
  • b) Simile
  • c) Allegory
  • d) Metaphor

70. • Spenser used a distractive verse from, called:

  • a) The Spenserian stanza
  • b) the Spenserian Tragedy
  • c) The Spenserian Verse
  • d) The Spenserian sonnet

71. • Raphael was a famous painter of:

  • a) Renaissance Time
  • b) Puritan Time
  • c) Saxon Time
  • d) Restoration Time

72. • Christopher Marlow (1564-1594) was also known as:

  • a) The Muses Darling
  • b) Daddy
  • c) A Monk
  • d) A Spy
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Chapter 6: THE PURITAN AGE

1. • The literature of seventeenth century may be divided into ____ periods.

  • a) The Puritan age
  • b) Restoration period
  • c) Victorian age
  • d) Both a and b

2. • The Puritan age is also known as age of:

  • a) Dryden
  • b) Milton
  • c) Chaucer
  • d) Shakespeare

3. • _____ Period is also known as the age of Dryden.

  • a) Elizabethan age
  • b) Puritan age
  • c) Restoration
  • d) None

4. • The seventeenth century was marked by the decline of the ______ spirit.

  • a) Literary
  • b) Philosophical
  • c) Renaissance
  • d) Abolition

5. • Puritan age lacked quality______.

  • a) Playwrights
  • b) Theater
  • c) Poets
  • d) Essayist

6. • In this age Newton, Bacon and Descartes popularized spirit of:

  • a) Science
  • b) Philosophy
  • c) Writers
  • d) Poetry

7. • English language as a vehicle for storing and conveying facts for the first time was used in ____age.

  • a) Restoration
  • b) Puritan age
  • c) Elizabethan
  • d) Renaissance

8. • Another new form of writing appeared in this age known as art of:

  • a) Autobiography
  • b) Folktales
  • c) Biography
  • d) Essays

9. • _____ was the noblest representative of the Puritan spirit.

  • a) Chaucer
  • b) Dryden
  • c) Milton
  • d) Eliot

10. • The age focused more on ____.

  • a) Scientific inventions
  • b) Naturalism
  • c) Human rights
  • d) Liberty of people

11. • The name Puritan was at first given to those who:

  • a) Advocated certain changes in the form of worship of the reformed English Church under Elizabeth
  • b) Opposed to the luxury and sensual enjoyment
  • c) Mimicked the cultural values in their writings
  • d) Believed in the existence of God

12. • Puritanism became a ____ movement against the cruel rule of the king.

  • a) Social
  • b) National
  • c) Political
  • d) Religious

13. • Puritans were _____ when Charles I was defeated and beheaded.

  • a) Sad
  • b) Wrathful
  • c) Happy
  • d) Hateful

14. • Jacobean poetry was there during the rule of:

  • a) Charles I
  • b) Elizabeth I
  • c) James I
  • d) James II

15. • Caroline poetry was there during the rule of:

  • a) James I
  • b) Charles I
  • c) William III
  • d) Alfred

16. • The school of Spencer included Spenserians who followed the style of:

  • a) John Spenser
  • b) Edward Spenser
  • c) Edmund Spenser
  • d) Earl Spencer

17. • Phineas Fletcher (1582-1648) wrote:

  • a) Spenserian pastorals
  • b) Epics
  • c) Spenserian allegories
  • d) Both a and c

18. • The Purple Island (1633) was written by:

  • a) Edmund Spenser
  • b) Phineas Fletcher
  • c) John Milton
  • d) Giles Fletcher

19. • Phineas Fletcher was brother of:

  • a) Giles Fletcher(1583-1623)
  • b) Dr Giles Fletcher
  • c) Mr. Edmund
  • d) Edmund Spenser

20. • Giles Fletcher (1583-1623) wrote:

  • a) Christ’s victories and Triumph in Heaven, and Earth, Over and after Death (1610)
  • b) The purple Island
  • c) Locustae
  • d) Vel Pietas

21. • Some more poets under the same influence were named as:

  • a) William Browne
  • b) George Wither
  • c) William Drummond
  • d) All of the above

22. • Britannia’s Pastorals 1613 was written by:

  • a) George Wither
  • b) William Browne
  • c) Drummond
  • d) None

23. • The shepherd’s Hunting 1614 was written by:

  • a) William Browne
  • b) George Wither
  • c) William Drummond
  • d) William Shakespeare

24. • Tears on the Death of Maladies, An Elegy 1613, was written by

  • a) George wither
  • b) Shakespeare
  • c) William Drummond
  • d) Milton

25. • Metaphysical poets include:

  • a) John Donne and Herrick
  • b) Thomas Carew and Richard Crashaw and Henry Vaughan
  • c) George Herbert, Lord Herbert of Cherbury
  • d) All

26. • Following are all the characteristics of metaphysical poetry except:

  • a) Conceits and exaggeration
  • b) Quibbling about meanings
  • c) Display of learning with far-fetched similes and metaphors
  • d) Highly philosophical poetry

27. • Who first used the term “Metaphysical”.

  • a) Andrew Marvell
  • b) John Donne
  • c) Dr. Johnson
  • d) George Herbert

28. • John Donne was born and died in:

  • a) 1572-1631
  • b) 1552-1603
  • c) 1581-1631
  • d) 1508-1571

29. • Apart from being metaphysical, Donne is also known as _____poet.

  • a) Nature
  • b) Love
  • c) Revolutionary
  • d) Atheist

30. • “The Flea” was written by:

  • a) Dr Johnson
  • b) John Donne
  • c) John Dryden
  • d) Andrew Marvell

31. • “A Valediction: Forbidden Mourning” was written by:

  • a) John Cleveland
  • b) Dr. Johnson
  • c) John Donne
  • d) George Herbert

32. • Robert Herrick was born and died in:

  • a) 1592-1670
  • b) 1591-1674
  • c) 1690-1730
  • d) 1500-1600

33. • Abraham Cowley was born and died in:

  • a) 1618-1667
  • b) 1620-1660
  • c) 1711-1770
  • d) 1650-1710

34. • Whereas the metaphysical poets followed the lead of Donne, the cavalier poets followed:

  • a) Dryden
  • b) Ben Jonson
  • c) Dr. Johnson
  • d) Richards

35. • Ben Jonson imitated ______ by writing like him satires, elegies, epistles and complimentary verses.

  • a) Horace
  • b) W.H. Auden
  • c) Homer
  • d) Aesop

36. • “Cavalier” means:

  • a) A knight--- one who fought in the war
  • b) A Royalist----one who fought for country during proxy war
  • c) A king-----one who leads the army
  • d) A Royalist---one who fought on the side of the king during civil war

37. • Herrick, Lovelace, Suckling and Carew were ____ poets.

  • a) Revolutionary
  • b) Cavalier
  • c) Historical
  • d) Anti-war

38. • _____ was the greatest poet of Puritan age.

  • a) John Dryden
  • b) John Milton
  • c) Shakespeare
  • d) John Donne

39. • “The soul was like a star, and dwelt apart” was wrote about Milton by:

  • a) William James
  • b) Shakespeare
  • c) William Wordsworth
  • d) Lord Byron

40. • Milton wrote the poem “Lycidas” in:

  • a) 1638
  • b) 1637
  • c) 1630
  • d) 1618

41. • Milton was born and died in:

  • a) 1608-1674
  • b) 1600-1670
  • c) 1601-1674
  • d) 1610-1674

42. • Milton’s masterpiece “Paradise Lost” was published in”

  • a) 1668
  • b) 1665
  • c) 1667
  • d) 1670

43. • “This man cuts us all, and the ancient too” was said about Milton by:

  • a) John Donne
  • b) John Dryden
  • c) William Wordsworth
  • d) Milton himself

44. • Paradise regained and Samson Agonistes were published in:

  • a) 1671
  • b) 1674
  • c) 1677
  • d) 1672

45. • The greatest dramatist of the Jacobean period was:

  • a) John Dryden
  • b) John Milton
  • c) Ben Jonson
  • d) J.P. Jacobsen

46. • Thomas Dekker (1570-1632) is categorized under:

  • a) Jacobean drama
  • b) Caroline drama
  • c) Both a and b
  • d) Johnson’s drama

47. • Jacobean and Caroline Drama was rich in:

  • a) Poetry writing
  • b) Prose writing
  • c) Famous epics
  • d) Plays writing

48. • Alexander Pope, in Epistle iv of his ‘Essay on Man’ refers _______ the wisest, brightest and meanest of mankind.

  • a) Ben Johnson
  • b) Jakobson
  • c) Bacon
  • d) John Milton

49. • ______ belongs both the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods.

  • a) Francis Bacon
  • b) Jakobson
  • c) Shakespeare
  • d) Ben Johnson

50. • Francis Bacon was born and died in:

  • a) 1561-1620
  • b) 1565-1618
  • c) 1561-1626
  • d) 1566-1632

51. • Francis Bacon is famous for his:

  • a) Epigrammatic style
  • b) Letters
  • c) Novels
  • d) Wealth

52. • Francis Bacon published most of his essays in:

  • a) 1596
  • b) 1597
  • c) 1599
  • d) 1595

53. • The “Anatomy of Melancholy” is written by:

  • a) Robert Browne
  • b) Bacon
  • c) Burton
  • d) Dr. Johnson

54. • Sir Thomas Browne was born and died in:

  • a) 1605-1680
  • b) 1604-1682
  • c) 1605-1682
  • d) 1600-1682

55. • “Religio Medici” was written by:

  • a) Thomas Hardy
  • b) Burton
  • c) Dr. Johnson
  • d) Thomas Browne

56. • What proceeded Jacobean era?

  • a) Puritan age
  • b) Caroline era
  • c) Elizabethan
  • d) Victorian age

57. • The Jacobean ended with a severe economic depression in 1620-1626, complicated by a serious outbreak of _____ in London in 1625.

  • a) Rebellious attitude of civilians
  • b) Great plague of London
  • c) Commencement of war
  • d) Beginning of hypocrisy

58. • The word “Jacobean” is derived from the ____name Jacob, which is the original form of the English name James.

  • a) Latin language
  • b) Greek language
  • c) Hebrew language
  • d) Italian language

59. • The Jacobean era succeeds the ____ era and precedes the Caroline era, and specifically denotes a style of architecture, visual arts, decorative arts, and literature that is predominant of that period.

  • a) Shakespearean
  • b) Elizabethan
  • c) Victorian
  • d) Puritan age

60. • Phineas Fletcher (1582-1648) was a disciple of:

  • a) Edmund Spenser
  • b) Ben Johnson
  • c) Burke
  • d) Philip Sydney

61. • Famous satiric drama, Volpone, is written by?

  • a) Philip Sydney
  • b) Ben Johnson
  • c) Marlow
  • d) Shakespeare

Chapter 7: RESTORATION ERA

1. • Restoration means the restoration of ________ as the King of England.

  • a) William II
  • b) Charles II
  • c) Edmund I
  • d) Richard I

2. • __________ was beheaded after being convicted of treason.

  • a) Charles II
  • b) Charles I
  • c) Elizabeth I
  • d) Richard I

3. • The Restoration Age is also called_______________ age of:

  • a) Shakespeare
  • b) Keats
  • c) Dryden
  • d) Hardy

4. • __________and frivolity prevailed during the Restoration Age.

  • a) Licentiousness
  • b) Morality
  • c) Religiousness
  • d) Patriotism

5. • ____________techniques were implemented in art and drama.

  • a) French
  • b) Spanish
  • c) Dutch
  • d) American

6. • Tendency to precision and ____emerged during the Restoration Age.

  • a) Imagism
  • b) Nihilism
  • c) Expressionism
  • d) Realism

7. • ‘The Royal Society’ was established in ________.

  • a) 1660
  • b) 1661
  • c) 1662
  • d) 1663

8. • ____________ was established for improving the knowledge.

  • a) The Royal Academy
  • b) The Royal Society
  • c) The Imperial Society
  • d) The Imperial Academy

9. • Dryden used _____________ sentences in his prose.

  • a) Precise and incomplete
  • b) Precise and clear
  • c) Metaphorical and unclear
  • d) Dramatic and figurative

10. • Dryden used __________ in his poetry.

  • a) Quatrains
  • b) Monostich
  • c) Blank verses
  • d) Heroic couplets

11. • John Dryden was born in ______ and died in _________.

  • a) 1612, 1712
  • b) 1632, 1700
  • c) 1631, 1700
  • d) 1631, 1720

12. • Dryden’s poetry was mostly _______________.

  • a) Satirical and realistic
  • b) Satirical and paradoxical
  • c) Repetitive and realistic
  • d) Repetitive and paradoxical

13. • Dryden, in his youth, was influenced by ________.

  • a) Abraham Lincoln
  • b) Abraham Cowley
  • c) Horace
  • d) Ovid

14. • Dryden first used conceits like the metaphysicals but during later years he opted for a clear and forceful style which led to the foundation of _________school of poetry.

  • a) Romantic
  • b) Feminist
  • c) Classical
  • d) Confessional

15. • “Mac Flecknoe” is written by_________.

  • a) John Donne
  • b) John Green
  • c) Steinbeck
  • d) John Dryden

16. • __________ was first a protestant and then became a catholic.

  • a) John Dryden
  • b) Shakespeare
  • c) Swift
  • d) John Green

17. • “The Medal” by Dryden was written in________.

  • a) 1683
  • b) 1684
  • c) 1688
  • d) 1682

18. • “The Palamon and Arcite” was written by_________.

  • a) John Dryden
  • b) William Congreve
  • c) John Milton
  • d) Wycherley

19. • “The Palamon and Arcite” was based on__________.

  • a) Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale
  • b) Chaucer’s Pardoner’s Tale
  • c) Chaucer’s Miller’s Tale
  • d) Chaucer’s Monk’s Tale

20. • “Alexander’s Feast’ by Dryden was written in________.

  • a) 1677
  • b) 1678
  • c) 1672
  • d) 1697

21. • Theatres reopened in Restoration Age in _________.

  • a) 1600
  • b) 1664
  • c) 1660
  • d) 1667

22. • “Wild Gallant” was written by______.

  • a) Keats
  • b) Milton
  • c) Dryden
  • d) Chaucer

23. • Etherege was born and died in________.

  • a) 1635-1691
  • b) 1635-1690
  • c) 1634-1691
  • d) 1634-1690

24. • Etherege wrote:

  • a) The Comical Revenge or Love in a Tub (1664)
  • b) The Tragic Revenge or Love in a Tub (1664)
  • c) Wild Gallant (1669)
  • d) Alexander’s Feast (1697)

25. • Wycherley was born in _____ and died in ________.

  • a) 1640, 1716
  • b) 1641, 1716
  • c) 1641, 1770
  • d) 1640, 1770

26. • “The Country Wife” (1675) was written by________.

  • a) Milton
  • b) Dryden
  • c) Wycherley
  • d) Etherege

27. • “The Plain dealer” (1676) was written by________.

  • a) Etherege
  • b) Congreve
  • c) Dryden
  • d) Wycherley

28. • The most celebrated dramatist of the age was ____________.

  • a) Faulkner
  • b) Wordsworth
  • c) Blake
  • d) William Congreve

29. • William Congreve was born and died in_______.

  • a) 1671-1720
  • b) 1670-1729
  • c) 1670-1720
  • d) 1677-1755

30. • The Way of the World (1700) was written by ________.

  • a) John Dryden
  • b) John Milton
  • c) Etherege
  • d) William Congreve

31. • Who wrote The Mourning Bride (1697)?

  • a) William Congreve
  • b) Blake
  • c) Dryden
  • d) Milton

32. • Who wrote The Old Bachelor (1693)?

  • a) John Milton
  • b) Dryden
  • c) Aphra Behn
  • d) Congreve

33. • Shelley and __________ criticized French influenced dramas written in Restoration Era.

  • a) Charles Dickens
  • b) C. S. Lewis
  • c) Lamb
  • d) Bacon

34. • Restoration Period was specialized in __________.

  • a) Comedy
  • b) Tragedy
  • c) History
  • d) Tragi-comedy

35. • ________was the chief tragedy writer of the age.

  • a) Congreve
  • b) Etherege
  • c) Dryden
  • d) Bacon

36. • Aurangzeb (1675) was written by ____________.

  • a) Lamb
  • b) Etherege
  • c) Congreve
  • d) Dryden

37. • The Conquest of Granada (1672) was written by_________.

  • a) Dryden
  • b) Milton
  • c) Faulkner
  • d) Congreve

38. • Dryden’s essay of Dramatic Poesy was published in _________.

  • a) 1689
  • b) 1688
  • c) 1668
  • d) 1667

39. • ________was England’s first Poet Laureate.

  • a) Shakespeare
  • b) Keats
  • c) Dryden
  • d) Milton

40. • Sir William Temple was born and died in __________.

  • a) 1629-1699
  • b) 1628-1699
  • c) 1628-1698
  • d) 1630-1698

41. • “Observations upon the United Provinces of the Netherlands” was written by________.

  • a) William Temple
  • b) Bacon
  • c) Lamb
  • d) John Dryden

42. • “Upon the Gardens of Epicurus” was written by __________.

  • a) George Etherege
  • b) John Dryden
  • c) Congreve
  • d) William Temple

43. • John Bunyan was born and died in ___________.

  • a) 1625-1688
  • b) 1626-1688
  • c) 1627-1688
  • d) 1628-1688

44. • John Tillotson was born and died in _________.

  • a) 1630-1691
  • b) 1630-1692
  • c) 1630-1694
  • d) 1630-1693

45. • British writings of the Restoration Era are often called “neo-classical”. Why is this?

  • a) They belong to the classical age
  • b) They imitate the Latin classics
  • c) They defy the classical writings
  • d) They reject the classical writers

46. • The restoration era exhibited a change in the prose style effected by The Royal Society of London for the Promotion of Natural Knowledge. What kind of style did this society call for?

  • a) Short and clear
  • b) Precise and exact
  • c) Precise but incomplete
  • d) Short and metaphorical

47. • The Restoration Era introduced a new form of art: the novel. What is true about them?

  • a) They were short and tragic
  • b) They were short and precise
  • c) They were long and tragic
  • d) They were long and often comical narratives

48. • Samuel Pepys was born and died in________.

  • a) 1633-1703
  • b) 1634-1703
  • c) 1637-1703
  • d) 1633-1706

49. • Samuel Pepys was an administrator of England and a member of ___.

  • a) Senate
  • b) Parliament
  • c) Royal family
  • d) House of Lords

Chapter 8: AUGUSTAN AGE-NEO CLASSICAL AGE

1. • This age is also known as age of _____:

  • a) William II
  • b) Reason
  • c) Feelings
  • d) Death

2. • The Enlightenment also begins to develop in consequence of the changes brought by the _____ revolution.

  • a) Russian
  • b) Scientific
  • c) Agrarian
  • d) Bloody

3. • Leviathan was written by: _______________

  • a) Shakespeare
  • b) Thomas Hobbes
  • c) Locke
  • d) Hardy

4. • Leviathan means:

  • a) Patriotism
  • b) Morality
  • c) Bird
  • d) Sea Monster

5. • Second Treatise on Civil Government 1689 was written by:

  • a) Shakespeare
  • b) Hobbes
  • c) John Locke
  • d) Hardy

6. • Candide was written by:

  • a) Shakespeare
  • b) Hobbes
  • c) John Locke
  • d) Voltaire

7. • The Social Contract was written by:

  • a) Rousseau
  • b) Hobbes
  • c) Donne
  • d) Voltaire

8. • 18th Century is divided into Age of Pope and Age of _____.

  • a) Dryden
  • b) Johnson
  • c) Locke
  • d) Hardy

9. • The most prominent Poet and satirist of the English Augustan period is:

  • a) Dryden
  • b) Pope
  • c) Donne
  • d) Burke

10. • ‘The Rape of the Lock’ is a _____ poem

  • a) Sonnet
  • b) Epic
  • c) Serious
  • d) Mock Heroic

11. • Alexander Pope was born in 1688 and was a ______

  • a) Jew
  • b) Protestant
  • c) Catholic
  • d) Pagan

12. • Glorious Revolution came in:

  • a) 1688
  • b) 1866
  • c) 1677
  • d) 1888

13. • His height was 4 feet 6 inches

  • a) Lincoln
  • b) Pope
  • c) Horace
  • d) Ovid

14. • ‘The Holy Fair’ was written by:

  • a) Elio
  • b) Dickinson
  • c) Burns
  • d) Frost

15. • Robinson Crusoe was written by:

  • a) John Donne
  • b) John Green
  • c) Hardy
  • d) Daniel Defoe

16. • Gulliver’s Travels was by:

  • a) Jonathan Swift
  • b) Pope
  • c) Dryden
  • d) John Green

17. • A Tale of a Tub is written by:

  • a) Dryden
  • b) Pope
  • c) Green
  • d) Swift

18. • Swift is alleged as ______.

  • a) Misanthropist
  • b) Humanist
  • c) Cynical
  • d) Critic

19. • ‘A Dictionary of the English Language’ was written by:

  • a) Dr. Johnson
  • b) Chaucer
  • c) Shaw
  • d) Webster

20. • Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding is based on:

  • a) Arabella
  • b) Romela
  • c) Shamela
  • d) Pamela

21. • Father of Novel:

  • a) Henry Fielding
  • b) Johnson
  • c) Shaw
  • d) Defoe

22. • Richard Brinsley Sheridan is famous for his Comedy of Manner work:

  • a) A Passage
  • b) Private Life
  • c) School for Scandal
  • d) India

Chapter 9: ROMANTIC AGE

1. • Which of the following did the Romantic poets value?

  • a) industrialization
  • b) Reason
  • c) The city
  • d) nature

2. • This era mostly focused on:

  • a) politics
  • b) feelings
  • c) religion
  • d) education

3. • Romantics thought the beauty of nature was a path to

  • a) New places
  • b) sophistication
  • c) spiritual enlightenment

4. • Romantics showed more ____ than the previous areas.

  • a) spirituality
  • b) emotions
  • c) loyalty
  • d) love

5. • Which is not characteristic of Romantic period?

  • a) a return to nature
  • b) appreciation of the individual
  • c) love of reason
  • d) turning against industrialization

6. • Romanticism is all about physical love?

  • a) true
  • b) false

7. • What historical events sparked the Romantic movements?

  • a) political affairs
  • b) World War 2
  • c) The Vietnam war
  • d) industrial revolution

8. • Who was not an author during Romantic era?

  • a) William Wordsworth
  • b) Coleridge
  • c) Shelley
  • d) JK Rowling

9. • Who inspired British Romantic writers for their ideals of liberty and freedom?

  • a) Russia and the Ukraine
  • b) America and France
  • c) Germany and Austria
  • d) China and Japan

10. • Who created the term Romantic period?

  • a) Romantic poets
  • b) current novelists
  • c) Victorian critics
  • d) All

11. • Which of the following is the typically Romantic poet form?

  • a) the fractal
  • b) the figment
  • c) the fragment
  • d) the aubade

12. • Which of the following was a typically Romantic means of achieving visionary states?

  • a) opium
  • b) dreams
  • c) childhood
  • d) All

13. • Romanticism stands for__

  • a) Regulation
  • b) authority
  • c) informality
  • d) regimentation

14. • Romantic age is also known as the age of___

  • a) Wordsworth
  • b) people
  • c) Johnson
  • d) Dryden

15. • Who termed "Romantic age" as the age of Wordsworth?

  • a) Johnson
  • b) Dryden
  • c) Louis Cazamian
  • d) Saintsbury

16. • The Romantic movement began with the publication of _

  • a) Lady of the lake
  • b) Lyrical ballads
  • c) Joan of Arc
  • d) Alice in wonderland

17. • Which of the following writers belong to the Romantic period in English literature?

  • a) Chaucer
  • b) Dryden
  • c) Pope
  • d) S.T Coleridge

18. • "The Lyrical Ballads" is written by___

  • a) Wordsworth
  • b) Collins
  • c) Gray
  • d) Shelley

19. • The Lyrical Ballads was written in:

  • a) 1898
  • b) 1798
  • c) 1788
  • d) 1850

20. • Romanticism is mainly connected with:

  • a) Joys
  • b) Expectation
  • c) Love and Beauty
  • d) Excitement

21. • Which is known as romantic period of English literature?

  • a) 1550-1558
  • b) 1649-1660
  • c) 1798-1832
  • d) 1910-1936

22. • "Songs of Innocence and of Experience “was written by __;

  • a) Keats
  • b) William Blake
  • c) Shelley
  • d) Wordsworth

23. • Which of these works was fragment.

  • a) Christabel
  • b) The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
  • c) Dejection
  • d) Frost at Midnight

24. • Kubla Khan is known as.

  • a) A vision in a Dream
  • b) Biography of the poet
  • c) The best complete poem of Coleridge
  • d) A real incident

25. • Water, Water everywhere, Nor any drop to drink: These lines are from:

  • a) Christabel
  • b) The rime of the ancient mariner
  • c) Kubla Khan
  • d) Frost at midnight

26. • ---- was largely unrecognized during his lifetime:

  • a) Keats
  • b) Blake
  • c) Shelley
  • d) Wordsworth

27. • Water, Water everywhere Nor any drop to drink. The lines are by:

  • a) Keats
  • b) Coleridge
  • c) Shelley
  • d) Wordsworth

28. • We have no time to stand and stare. The line is referring to___.

  • a) Imaginative life
  • b) 100 years war
  • c) Mechanical Life
  • d) Life

29. • Keats uses his ____ to get escape.

  • a) Opium
  • b) Imagination
  • c) Nature
  • d) Impression

30. • __ uses intricate symbols.

  • a) Keats
  • b) Blake
  • c) Wordsworth
  • d) Shelley

31. • Wordsworth is also called:

  • a) Lyrical singer
  • b) Poet and prophet of nature
  • c) Son of nature
  • d) Impressive Bard

32. • Which poem is considered Wordsworth's magnum opus?

  • a) Lyrical ballads
  • b) The prelude
  • c) We are seven
  • d) Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey

33. • Themes of William Wordsworth's poetry are:

  • a) Men and women
  • b) Farmer
  • c) Ruler poor
  • d) All of these

34. • In 1795 William Wordsworth met and worked with:

  • a) Spencer
  • b) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • c) T.S Eliot
  • d) W.H Davies

35. • Keats more focused on:

  • a) Beauty
  • b) Supernatural
  • c) Revolution
  • d) All of them

36. • Shelley more focused on:

  • a) Beauty
  • b) Supernatural
  • c) Revolution
  • d) All of them

37. • Coleridge more focused on:

  • a) Beauty
  • b) Supernatural
  • c) Revolution
  • d) All of them

38. • Wordsworth more focused on:

  • a) Beauty
  • b) Imagination
  • c) Nature
  • d) All of them

39. • Feature/s of romantic poetry is/are:

  • a) Beauty
  • b) Nature
  • c) Imagination
  • d) All of them

Chapter 10: THE VICTORIAN AGE

1. During the 19th century, ___ become the leading form of the literature in English.

  • a) Poetry
  • b) Fiction
  • c) Novel
  • d) Mystery

2. The works by pre-Victorian writers such as _____ and Walter Scott had perfected both closely observed social satire and historical fiction.

  • a) George Eliot
  • b) Jane Austen
  • c) Hardy
  • d) Dickens

3. _____ is very important and in abundance in Victorian Novels.

  • a) Characterization
  • b) Modernism
  • c) Drama
  • d) Romance

4. Tennyson and Browning's earlier poems were having imprints of ____

  • a) Modernism
  • b) Romanticism
  • c) Humor
  • d) Characterization

5. Tennyson was close to:

  • a) Byron and Keats
  • b) Jane Austen
  • c) Hardy
  • d) Bronte sisters

6. The revolutionary theories by Romantics were replaced by ____ conception of progress by Charles Darwin and Bantam.

  • a) Characterization
  • b) Socialism
  • c) Romanticism
  • d) Evolutionary

7. Alfred Tennyson was born and died in

  • a) 1810 – 1900
  • b) 1807 – 1890
  • c) 1809 – 1892
  • d) 1809 – 1895

8. His poetry is chronological history of time.

  • a) Jane Austen
  • b) Tennyson
  • c) George Eliot
  • d) Dickens

9. Ulysses was written in

  • a) 1833
  • b) 1838
  • c) 1835
  • d) 1830

10. Tennyson also wrote

  • a) The Sea
  • b) The charge of the Sin
  • c) Crossing India
  • d) The Lady of Shallot

11. Robert Browning is famous for

  • a) Alliteration
  • b) Elegy
  • c) Non fiction
  • d) Dramatic Monologue

12. Browning believed spiritualism to be

  • a) Fraud
  • b) Honest
  • c) Inspiration
  • d) Helpful

13. Browning was severely criticized by

  • a) Keats
  • b) Shelley
  • c) Dunglas Home
  • d) Byron

14. Browning became an atheist following

  • a) Sam Harris
  • b) Dawkins
  • c) Shelley
  • d) Christopher Hitchens

15. Fra Lippo Lippi was written in

  • a) 1955
  • b) 1855
  • c) 1852
  • d) 1865

16. Which is not the Works of Browning.

  • a) Men and Supermen
  • b) My last Duchess 1842
  • d) Andrea del Sarto 1855
  • e) Last Ride Together

17. Mathew Arnold was born and died in

  • a) 1809 – 1892
  • b) 1830 – 1894
  • c) 1822 – 1888
  • d) 1828 - 1882

18. Mathew Arnold was neighbor of

  • a) Browning
  • b) Tennyson
  • c) Dickens
  • d) Wordsworth

19. Mathew Arnold wrote

  • a) Culture and Anarchy
  • b) Ulysses
  • c) Iliad
  • d) Thyestes

20. Tennyson and Browning were

  • a) Modern Age Poet
  • b) Early Victorian Poets
  • c) Edwardian Age Poet
  • d) Neoclassical Poet

21. Pre - Raphaelite movement included

  • a) Rossettis, Swinburne and Moris
  • b) Rossettis, Holman Hunt and Tennyson
  • c) Rossettis, Morris and Tennyson
  • d) None of these

22. ____ in 1847 developed a brotherhood of painters under the influence of Ruskin's 1st volume of modern painters.

  • a) Swinburne
  • b) Holman Hunt
  • c) Gabriel Rossetti
  • d) Millais

23. Poets of Pre - Raphaelite movement were impressed with Italian paintings before

  • a) Rossetti
  • b) Holman Hunt
  • c) Raphael
  • d) Millais

24. Poets of Pre - Raphaelite movement were ____ as well.

  • a) Masons
  • b) Carpenters
  • c) Architecture
  • d) Painters

25. Dante Gabriel Rossetti was born and died in

  • a) 1828 – 1885
  • b) 1828 – 1882
  • c) 1837 – 1909
  • d) 1928 - 1982

26. Dante Gabriel Rossetti was son of

  • a) Holman Hunt
  • b) Swinburne
  • c) Raphael
  • d) Gabriel Rossetti

27. Christiania Rossetti was born and died in

  • a) 1828 – 1882
  • b) 1830 – 1000
  • c) 1830 – 1894
  • d) 1937 - 1909

28. William Morris was born and died in

  • a) 1834 – 1896
  • b) 1836 – 1898
  • c) 1834 – 1898
  • d) 1837 - 1896

29. Algernon Charles Swinburne was born and died in

  • a) 1827 – 1900
  • b) 1834 – 1896
  • c) 1837 – 1909
  • d) 1837 - 1900

30. Algernon Charles Swinburne was influenced by

  • a) Dante Alighieri
  • b) Gabriel Rossetti
  • c) Shakespeare and Shelley
  • d) Christina

31. Algernon Charles Swinburne wrote

  • a) A Tale of Tub
  • b) George IV Life
  • c) Frankenstein
  • d) Songs before sunrise 1871

32. Early Victorian Novelist include

  • a) Charles Dickens
  • b) Jane Austin
  • c) Joseph Andrews
  • d) The Bronte sisters

33. Charles Dickens first novel was

  • a) A Christmas Carol
  • b) Pickwick Papers
  • c) Great expectations
  • d) Oliver Twist

34. Pickwick Papers was written at the age of

  • a) Almost 20 years
  • b) Almost 22 years
  • c) Almost 25 years
  • d) 27 years

35. Most of the novels of Dickens appeared in

  • a) Episodes
  • b) Chapters
  • c) Serials
  • d) None of these

36. A Christmas Carol was written by

  • a) Charles Dickens
  • b) William Thackeray
  • c) Shakespeare
  • d) Bronte sisters

37. A Tale of Two Cities was written in

  • a) 1849
  • b) 1859
  • c) 1869
  • d) 1879

38. David Copperfield was written in

  • a) 1845
  • b) 1846
  • c) 1848
  • d) 1849

39. Great Expectations was written in

  • a) 1840
  • b) 1850
  • c) 1860
  • d) 1865

40. Hard Times was written in

  • a) 1854
  • b) 1856
  • c) 1857
  • d) 1859

41. Oliver Twist was written in

  • a) 1855
  • b) 1834
  • c) 1846
  • d) 1837

42. William Makepeace Thackeray was born and died in

  • a) 1811 – 1863
  • b) 1814 – 1863
  • c) 1817 – 1863
  • d) 1819 - 1863

43. Dicken saw good in world but Thackeray was

  • a) Optimistic
  • b) Naïve
  • c) Cynical
  • d) Credulous

44. Charlotte Bronte was born and died in

  • a) 1811 – 1851
  • b) 1816 – 1855
  • c) 1818 – 1858
  • d) 1821 - 1871

45. Emily Bronte was born and died in

  • a) 1818 – 1841
  • b) 1818 – 1848
  • c) 1818 – 1858
  • d) 1818 - 1862

46. Charlotte Bronte is known for her novel.

  • a) Jane Eyre 1847
  • b) The Egoist 1879
  • c) Treasure Island 1882
  • d) Wuthering Heights 1847

47. Other works of Charlotte Bronte are:

  • a) Emma
  • b) The Professor
  • c) People
  • d) Europe

48. Emily Bronte is known for her work

  • a) Jane Eyre
  • b) The Professor
  • c) The Egoist
  • d) Wuthering Heights

49. Willkie Collins was born and died in

  • a) 1818 – 1848
  • b) 1824 – 1888
  • c) 1824 – 1889
  • d) 1834 - 1888

50. The Moonstone was written in

  • a) 1858
  • b) 1868
  • c) 1878
  • d) 1888

51. Anthony Trollope is known for

  • a) Barchester Towers
  • b) Jane Eyre
  • c) The Professor
  • d) The Egoist

52. Late Victorian Novelists included

  • a) George Eliot 1819 – 1880
  • b) George Meredith 1829 - 1909
  • c) Thomas Hardy 1840 – 1928
  • d) All

53. Late Victorian Novels were called ___ novels.

  • a) Realistic
  • b) Romantic
  • c) Modern
  • d) Historical

54. Late Victorian Novels were closer to

  • a) Modern life
  • b) Social mobility
  • c) Monarchy
  • d) Rustic life

55. Real name of George Eliot was

  • a) George Meredith
  • b) George Eliot
  • c) George Emily
  • d) Mary Ann Evans

56. She was born in ____ which remained a setting for her novels.

  • a) Yorkshire
  • b) East Anglia
  • c) Midland
  • d) Warwickshire

57. Adam Bede was written in

  • a) 1859
  • b) 1869
  • c) 1959
  • d) 1969

58. George Meredith wrote

  • a) The Egoist 1879
  • b) The Professor 1857
  • c) Jane Eyre 1847
  • d) Sohrab and Rustum 1853

59. George Meredith was famous for

  • a) Psychological Realism
  • b) Modernism
  • c) Maxims and Aphorism
  • d) Role of fate and chance

60. Hardy's novels are termed as

  • a) Mystery
  • b) Thriller
  • c) Romance
  • d) Wessex Novels

61. Hardy's novels include the role of:

  • a) Fate & Chance
  • b) Treasure
  • c) Good Luck
  • d) Rainbow

62. Tess of d’ Urbervilles was written in

  • a) 1881
  • b) 1887
  • c) 1891
  • d) 1897

63. Jude of Obscure was written in

  • a) 1890
  • b) 1893
  • c) 1895
  • d) 1899

64. The Return of Native was written in

  • a) 1868
  • b) 1878
  • c) 1888
  • d) 1898

65. Robert Louis Stevenson was born and died in

  • a) 1824 – 1889
  • b) 1854 – 1892
  • c) 1860 – 1898
  • d) 1850 – 1894

66. Robert Louis Stevenson is known for his

  • a) Treasure island 1882
  • b) Jude the Obscure 1895
  • c) Wuthering Heights 1847
  • d) The Professor 1857

67. George Eliot’s Novel Romola is a ___ novel

  • a) Modern
  • b) Realistic
  • c) Historical
  • d) Romantic

68. Which Victorian writers regularly published their work in periodicals?

  • a) Thomas Carlyle
  • b) Mathew Arnold
  • c) Charles Dickens
  • d) Keats

69. Who was the leader of Pre - Raphaelite group of artists in England?

  • a) Christina Rossetti
  • b) Mathew Arnold
  • c) Holman Hunt
  • d) D.G. Rossetti

70. Henrik Ibsen was born and died in

  • a) 1819 – 1880
  • b) 1824 – 1889
  • c) 1828 – 1906
  • d) 1829 - 1909

71. Hedda Gabler was written in

  • a) 1880
  • b) 1890
  • c) 1900
  • d) 1910

72. A Doll's House was written in

  • a) 1879
  • b) 1889
  • c) 1891
  • d) 1897

Chapter 11: THE 20TH CENTURY LITERATURE

1. • The earlier 20t century literature is known as:

  • a) Regency
  • b) Postcolonial
  • c) Edwardian literature
  • d) Trivial

2. • People who influenced 20th Century:

  • a) Einstein, Darwin, Milton and Edward
  • b) Einstein, Darwin, Freud and Marx
  • c) William Blake, Freud, Marx and Darwin
  • d) Einstein, James Baldwin, Darwin and Freud

3. • _____, a movement that was a radical break from 19th century Victorianism.

  • a) Modernism
  • b) Expressionism
  • c) Impressionism
  • d) post-Impressionism

4. • The 20th Century is distinguished as the century of_________.

  • a) Provincialism
  • b) Regionalism
  • c) Urbanism
  • d) Parochialism

5. • Novelists used ___environments as backdrops for the stories they told

  • a) Post-Colonial
  • b) Urban
  • c) Colonial
  • d) Trivial

6. • Perhaps the best known of these is James Joyce’s:

  • a) Dubliners
  • b) The dead
  • c) Araby

7. • Queen Victoria’s death:

  • a) 1901
  • b) 1801
  • c) 1902
  • d) 1900

8. • Peter Pan was first performed:

  • a) 1908
  • b) 1900
  • c) 1904
  • d) 1906

9. • Joseph Conrad was born and died in:

  • a) 1857-1924
  • b) 1867-1920
  • c) 1865-1934
  • d) 1924-1956

10. • Heart of darkness was published in:

  • a) 1802
  • b) 1902
  • c) 1801
  • d) 1901

11. • Lord Jim (1900) was a famous novel by:

  • a) Joseph Conrad
  • b) George Orwell
  • c) Dylan Thomas
  • d) James Baldwin

12. • Anton Chekov was born and died in:

  • a) 1860-1904
  • b) 1861-1904
  • c) 1862-1904
  • d) 1866-1904

13. • Anton Chekov Wrote

  • a) Iliad
  • b) The Mask
  • c) Evening Star
  • d) The Bear

14. • The Cherry Orchard was written in:

  • a) 1904
  • b) 1903
  • c) 1908
  • d) 1910

15. • Anton Chekhov was a ________ playwright.

  • a) American
  • b) Russian
  • c) African
  • d) England

16. • George Orwell was born and died in:

  • a) 1903-1950
  • b) 1803-1850
  • c) 1860-1904
  • d) 1861-1904

17. • George Orwell was born in:

  • a) America
  • b) Africa
  • c) India
  • d) England

18. • George Orwell is famous for:

  • a) Animal Farm
  • b) 1984
  • c) Why I write
  • d) Essays

19. • Animal farm is an:

  • a) Allegory
  • b) Ode
  • c) Classic
  • d) Fantasy

20. • Animal Farm focuses on:

  • a) Socialism
  • b) Marxism
  • c) Communism
  • d) Imperialism

21. • Animal Farm was written in______.

  • a) 1945
  • b) 1946
  • c) 1947
  • d) 1965

22. • Nineteen Eighty-four was written by:

  • a) George Orwell
  • b) Wordsworth
  • c) Eliot
  • d) Chaucer

23. • First use of the term ‘expressionism’

  • a) 1811
  • b) 1711
  • c) 1911
  • d) 1812

24. • Titanic sunk in:

  • a) 1912
  • b) 1913
  • c) 1914
  • d) 1916

25. • World War 1 duration was:

  • a) 1914-1918
  • b) 1922-1926
  • c) 1924-1928
  • d) 1926-1930

26. • World War 2 duration was;

  • a) 1919-1925
  • b) 1929-1935
  • c) 1939-1945
  • d) 1949-1955

27. • James Joyce was born and died in:

  • a) 1882-1941
  • b) 1884-1942
  • c) 1882-1942
  • d) 1881-1941

28. • James Joyce noted for his _______ use of language

  • a) Experimental
  • b) Expressive
  • c) Informative
  • d) Directive

29. • Ulysses (1922) was written by:

  • a) James Joyce
  • b) Orwell
  • c) Faulkner
  • d) Aldous Huxley

30. • A Portrait of the artist as a young Man (1916) was written by:

  • a) Orwell
  • b) Faulkner
  • c) James Joyce
  • d) George Eliot

31. • Stream of Consciousness was first coined by:

  • a) William James, a psychologist
  • b) Leonard Wolf
  • c) Vanessa Bell, English painter
  • d) Charles Dickens, social critic

32. • Virginia Woolf was born and died in:

  • a) 1882-1941
  • b) 1882-1942
  • c) 1882-1943
  • d) 1882-1945

33. • Mrs. Dalloway (1925) was written by:

  • a) Virginia Woolf
  • b) Leonard Wolf
  • c) Dickens
  • d) Wordsworth

34. • To the Lighthouse (1927) was written by:

  • a) Orwell
  • b) Virginia Woolf
  • c) Eliot
  • d) Dickens

35. • William Butler Yeats was born and died in

  • a) 1865-1938
  • b) 1865-1939
  • c) 1864-1939
  • d) 1864-1938

36. • William Butler was an________ poet:

  • a) Irish
  • b) American
  • c) Indian
  • d) African

37. • Byzantium, Sailing to Byzantium and Wild Swans at Coole are written by:

  • a) W.B Yeats
  • b) J. k Rowling
  • c) D.Lawrence
  • d) T.S. Eliot

38. • Yeats got Nobel Prize in:

  • a) December 1923
  • b) November 1923
  • c) March 1930
  • d) April 1923

39. • Bertolt Brecht was born and died in:

  • a) 1898-1956
  • b) 1898-1957
  • c) 1865-1936
  • d) 1865-1936

40. • The Three penny Opera was written by:

  • a) Bertolt Brecht
  • b) James Joyce
  • c) T.S Eliot
  • d) George Orwell

41. • Life of Galileo was written by:

  • a) Bertolt Brecht
  • b) Peter Pan
  • c) George Orwell
  • d) D.H Lawrence

42. • Aldous Huxley was born and died in:

  • a) 1894-1963
  • b) 1892-1975
  • c) 1894-1966
  • d) 1895-1963

43. • Brave New World (1932) was written by:

  • a) Aldous Huxley
  • b) Peter Pan
  • c) John Dalton
  • d) W.B Yeats

44. • Wilfred Owen was born and died in:

  • a) 1893-1918
  • b) 1893-1919
  • c) 1893-1920
  • d) 1893-1923

45. • T.S Eliot was born and died in:

  • a) 1888-1965
  • b) 1888-1966
  • c) 1888-1967
  • d) 1888-1968

46. • The Waste Land was written in:

  • a) 1920
  • b) 1921
  • c) 1922
  • d) 1923

47. • The Hollow Men was written by:

  • a) T.S Eliot
  • b) Heaney
  • c) Byron
  • d) W.B Yeats

48. • D.H. Lawrence was born and died in:

  • a) 1885-1930
  • b) 1885-1928
  • c) 1866-1910
  • d) 1866-1930

49. • D.H .Lawrence wrote:

  • a) Lady Chatterley’s lover
  • b) Sons and lovers 1913
  • c) Women in Love 1920
  • d) All of above

50. • W.H Auden was born and died in:

  • a) 1907-1977
  • b) 1907-1973
  • c) 1807-1877
  • d) 1807-1873

51. • Funeral Blues 1938, Museedes Beaux Arts 1939, the age of Anxiety 1947 written by:

  • a) W.H .Auden
  • b) T.S Eliot
  • c) Wordsworth
  • d) D.H Lawrence

52. • George Bernard Shaw was born and died in:

  • a) 1856-1950
  • b) 1957-1950
  • c) 1958-1950
  • d) 1965-1950

53. • Pygmalion 1912, Man and Superman 1903, Arms and the man 1894, The Doctor’s dilemma 1906, The Devil’s Disciple 1897 written by:

  • a) G B Shaw
  • b) W.H. Auden
  • c) George Orwell
  • d) D.H Lawrence

54. • E.M Foster was born and died in:

  • a) 1879-1979
  • b) 1879-1970
  • c) 1857-1950
  • d) 1857-1952

55. • A Passage to India 1924 , Howards End 1910 by:

  • a) E.M Foster
  • b) J.K. Rowling
  • c) W.B. Yeast
  • d) Peter Pan

56. • Henrik Ibsen was born and died in:

  • a) 1828-1906
  • b) 1827-1905
  • c) 1826-1906
  • d) 1828-1908

57. • Hedda Gabler 1890, The Wild Duck 1884, A Doll’s House 1879, Peer Gynt 1867 written by:

  • a) Henrik Ibsen
  • b) Dickens
  • c) George Eliot
  • d) E.M Foster

58. • Sean O’Casey was born and died in:

  • a) 1880-1964
  • b) 1880-1965
  • c) 1880-1966
  • d) 1880-1967

59. • Sean O’ Casey is known for:

  • a) Juno and the Paycock 1924
  • b) The Wild Duck 1884
  • c) A doll house 1879
  • d) Peer Gynt 1867

60. • Robert frost was born and died in:

  • a) 1864-1963
  • b) 1854-1963
  • c) 1874-1963
  • d) 1877-1963

61. • Robert Frost was _______poet:

  • a) American
  • b) British
  • c) African
  • d) Indian

62. • Robert Frost is also known as______ poet.

  • a) Regional
  • b) Lyrical
  • c) Dramatic
  • d) Narrative

63. • Robert frost also known for:

  • a) Stopping by woods on a snowy evening
  • b) The Road Not Taken
  • c) The Death of the Hired man
  • d) All of These

64. • Walter De La Mare was born and died in:

  • a) 1837-1956
  • b) 1838-1959
  • c) 1837-1957
  • d) 1838-1958

65. • Walter de la Mare known for

  • a) Peacock pie 1913
  • b) Memoirs of a Midget 1921
  • c) Songs of childhood 1916
  • d) All of above

66. • Oscar wild was born and died in:

  • a) 1854-1900
  • b) 1855-1901
  • c) 1856-1902
  • d) 1857-1903

67. • Oscar Wild is famous for:

  • a) The Happy Prince 1888
  • b) The Picture of Dorian Gray
  • c) The importance of Being Earnest 1895
  • d) All of These

68. • Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) is known for

  • a) The Jungle book
  • b) If
  • c) Both
  • d) None

69. • Eugene O’ Nell (1888-1953) is best known for:

  • a) Mourning Becomes Electra 1931
  • b) The importance of being Earnest
  • c) Rock pie
  • d) Childhood song

70. • Long Day’s journey into night 1956 was written by:

  • a) Eugene O’ Neill
  • b) Oscar Wild
  • c) Eliot
  • d) George Orwell

71. • Eugene O’Neill’s plays were mostly_____

  • a) Regional
  • b) Psychological
  • c) Lyrical
  • d) Dramatical

72. • Eugene O’ Neill’ plays were his_____.

  • a) Autobiography
  • b) Historic
  • c) Factual
  • d) Fact-based

73. • Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) WAS Novelist:

  • a) American
  • b) Australian
  • c) African
  • d) Victorian

74. • Ernest Hemingway was novelist wrote about:

  • a) Wars (Pre and post war Experiences with autobiography)
  • b) Historical based
  • c) Fictional based
  • d) Non – fictional based

75. • Hemingway hero is also known as:

  • a) Tyro
  • b) Warrior
  • c) Survivor
  • d) None of These

76. • Code hero is also known as:

  • a) Tutor
  • b) learner
  • c) Survivor
  • d) none

77. • The novels of Hemingway reflect:

  • a) Nihilism
  • b) Existentialism
  • c) Colonialism
  • d) All of These

78. • Hemingway famous works are:

  • a) The old man and the sea 1952
  • b) For whom the bells tolls 1940
  • c) A farewell to arms1929
  • d) All of These

79. • William Faulkner (1897-1962) Wrote:

  • a) William Faulkner 1929
  • b) As I Lay Dying 1930
  • c) The Hamlet 1940
  • d) All of These

80. • Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred owner were known as:

  • a) Trench Poets
  • b) Extremist
  • c) Tutor
  • d) None

81. • The imagists were:

  • a) T.E. Hulme
  • b) Ezra Pound, Richard Aldington
  • c) F.S Flint , James Joyce
  • d) All of above

82. • The Georgian Poets include;

  • a) Lascelles Abercrombie
  • b) Gordon Bottomley
  • c) Rupert Brooke
  • d) All

83. • H.G Wells is famous for:

  • a) The invisible Man
  • b) The time machine
  • c) All of above
  • d) None

84. • Name from the following names of the beloved of W.B. Yeats who inspired some of his best poems like” He Wishes for the Clothes of Heaven and ‘Broken Dreams’?

  • a) Maud Gonne
  • b) Ezra pound
  • c) Richard Aldington
  • d) None of them

85. • The poet D.H Lawrence was very famous for____-particular type of verse-form.

  • a) Free verse
  • b) Lyrical verse
  • c) Blank verse
  • d) Rhymed verse

86. • The common thing in George Bernard Shaw, William Butler Yeats, Rudyard Kipling and William Golding?

  • a) All of them were only poets
  • b) All of them received the Nobel prize
  • c) All of them were the African poets
  • d) All of them were fictional writers.

87. • ________ playwright received the 1938 Academy Award for writing Adapted Screenplay

  • a) George Bernard Shaw
  • b) Orwell
  • c) William Golding
  • d) WB Yeats

88. • Which Novel focuses on Winston Smith and his attempt to rebel against the totalitarian state in which A farewell to arms he lives.

  • a) Nineteen Eighty-four
  • b) Happy Prince
  • c) Broken Dreams
  • d) The Flag

89. • Nineteen Eighty-four is ___novel.

  • a) Dystopian
  • b) Autobiography
  • c) Epistolary
  • d) Mainstream fiction

90. • Which book modeled on Homer’s odyssey’ tells the story of a day in Dublin?

  • a) Ulysses by James Joyce
  • b) Nineteen Eighty-four by George Orwell
  • c) On the Road by Jack Kerouac

91. • Who wrote the war time book ‘The last Enemy”?

  • a) Richard Hillary
  • b) Jack Kerouac
  • c) D.H. Lawrence
  • d) George William

92. • Among war poets, one survived World War I. Who is that lucky poet?’

  • a) Siegfried Sassoon
  • b) William words worth
  • c) J.K Rowling
  • d) James Joyce

93. • Which poet wrote these famous poems ‘Easter 1916’,’No second troy and ‘Sailing to Byzantium.

  • a) Yeats
  • b) Joyce
  • c) Lawrence
  • d) none

94. • In his poem ‘Muses des Beaux Arts” W.H. Auden describes the painting the fall of Icasur. Which Flemish painter made this painting?

  • a) Pieter Brueghel
  • b) Peter pan
  • c) None
  • d) Both of them

Chapter 12: POST-COLONIAL AGE

1. • “____________” is a territory tied to a sovereign state.

  • a) Border
  • b) Colony
  • c) Empire
  • d) State

2. • In _______ one nation ruling over another territory, usually overseas.

  • a) Historicism
  • b) Patriotism
  • c) Colonialism
  • d) Nationalism

3. • The ___________ English novel is the novel of “imperialism’’. The themes and subplots of colonialism run everywhere (Edward Said).

  • a) 19th Century
  • b) 17th Century
  • c) 20th century
  • d) 15th century

4. • Colonialism is the “Practice” and _________ is the “Idea or Philosophy” behind it.

  • a) Development
  • b) Imperialism
  • c) Civilization
  • d) Reconciliation

5. • Imperialism can lead to ________

  • a) Terrorism
  • b) Colonialism
  • c) Education
  • d) War

6. • ____________ refers to the area of inquiry/ study.

  • a) Exploration
  • b) Post-colonialism
  • c) Literature
  • d) Colonialism

7. • _______ is the literature produced by colonial powers and/or works produced by those who were/are colonized.

  • a) South Asian Literature
  • b) English Literature
  • c) Irish Literature
  • d) Postcolonial Literature

8. • ______ is an examination of history, culture and literature by members of once colonized territories during the 19th and 20th centuries.

  • a) Reader response Theory
  • b) Socialism
  • c) New Historicism
  • d) Postcolonial Criticism/ Theory

9. • The academic study of cultural legacy of colonialism and imperialism is:

  • a) Leninism
  • b) Cultural Study
  • c) Historicism
  • d) Postcolonial studies/ Post-colonialism

10. • “The White Man’s Burden” (1899), is about:

  • a) British Rule
  • b) Nationalism
  • c) Colonialism
  • d) Freedom

11. • Spreading of the people with an intent to colonize or simply work and immigrate to another country is:

  • a) Oppression
  • b) Diaspora
  • c) Dehumanization
  • d) Exile

12. • Migrant’s desire & attempt to combine the native & the host culture is:

  • a) Hybridity
  • b) Dyadic pairing
  • c) Neo-Colonialism
  • d) Identity

13. • Negotiations of two identities is:

  • a) Hybridity
  • b) Identity Crisis
  • c) Diaspora
  • d) Unhomeliness

14. • A term introduced by Antonio Gramsci:

  • a) Syncretism
  • b) Orientalism
  • c) Subaltern
  • d) Binary Opposition

15. • Subalterns describes _______ classes.

  • a) Elite Class
  • b) English Class
  • c) Lower Class
  • d) Business Class

16. • __ is the means by which the colonized adapt the colonizer’s culture.

  • a) Ersatz
  • b) British Culture
  • c) Periphery
  • d) Mimicry

17. • Mimicry of host culture leads to:

  • a) Ruling Class
  • b) Ambivalence
  • c) Certainty
  • d) Patriotism

18. • ________ contains both mockery and a menace.

  • a) Hybridity
  • b) Colonialism
  • c) Pretention
  • d) Ambivalence

19. • The ambiguous way in which colonizer and colonized regard one another:

  • a) Alterity
  • b) Essentialism
  • c) Ambivalence
  • d) Subaltern

20. • Women are oppressed by both patriarchy & the colonial power. This is:

  • a) Double Colonization
  • b) Essentialism
  • c) Marginalization
  • d) Oppression

21. • The continuing economic dominance and exploitation of the “politically-free” Third World countries by Euro-American powers is:

  • a) Globalization
  • b) Human Uplift
  • c) Eurocentrism
  • d) Escapism

22. • Concept that becomes a colonial excuse and basis of discrimination and disempowerment of the colonized:

  • a) Race
  • b) Ethnicity
  • c) Economy
  • d) Identity

23. • Seeing Arab culture as exotic, backward, uncivilized and at times dangerous is described by:

  • a) Arab Culture
  • b) Orientalism
  • c) Postcolonial
  • d) Exoticism

24. • Culture plays a massive role in bringing _________

  • a) Economic Prosperity
  • b) Awareness
  • c) Imperialism
  • d) Hope

25. • Homi Bhabha’s most significant concept is:

  • a) Hybridity
  • b) Metanarrative
  • c) Fixity
  • d) Ambivalence

26. • Chinua Achebe attacks for its racism:

  • a) Heart of Darkness
  • b) Lord of flies
  • c) Race for Profit
  • d) Blackballed

27. • The departure from a homeland by a people is called by postcolonial critics:

  • a) Hybridity
  • b) Unhomeliness
  • c) Diaspora
  • d) Migration

28. • Postcolonial criticism has been important to:

  • a) Literature
  • b) Political freedom
  • c) Euro-American imperialism
  • d) Third-World feminism

29. • Postcolonial critics speak primarily of:

  • a) Human development
  • b) Women rights
  • c) Euro-American imperialism
  • d) Child labor

30. • A post-colonial critic might be interested in works such as Daniel Defoe’s______

  • a) Decolonizing the Mind
  • b) History of Colonies
  • c) Robinson Crusoe
  • d) Heart of Darkness

31. • In ______, Achebe details the strife and devastation that occurred when British colonists began moving inland from the Nigerian coast.

  • a) Things Fall Apart
  • b) Songs of innocence & Experience
  • c) Cherry Orchard
  • d) The Critic

32. • _______ points out the negative effects caused by the imposition of Western religion and economics.

  • a) New World Order
  • b) Achebe
  • c) David Bleich
  • d) Literary Criticism

33. • _______also questions the role of the Western literary canon and Western history as dominant forms of knowledge making

  • a) Structuralism
  • b) Formalism
  • c) Orientalism
  • d) Post-colonial criticism

34. • Western critics might consider__________ as effective critique of colonial behavior.

  • a) A Tale of Two Cities
  • b) Heart of Darkness
  • c) Culture and Imperialism
  • d) A passage to India

35. • Orientalism, 1978; Culture and Imperialism,1994 are by:

  • a) Edward Said
  • b) Daniel Elam
  • c) Tyson
  • d) Jomo Kenyatta

36. • The Location of Culture, 1994 is by:

  • a) Homi Bhabha
  • b) Conrad
  • c) Achebe
  • d) Edward Said

37. • The god of small things, 1997 is by:

  • a) W. H. Auden
  • b) Arundhati Roy
  • c) Anita Desai
  • d) Ronald Blythe

Chapter 13: CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE 1939-PRESENT

1. • The second world war ended with bombs on:

  • a) Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  • b) America and Australia
  • c) Hiroshima and England
  • d) Nagasaki and Africa

2. • Philip Larkin was born in:

  • a) 1923
  • b) 1922
  • c) 1924
  • d) 1928

3. • Philip Larkin was died in:

  • a) 1984
  • b) 1986
  • c) 1990
  • d) 1985

4. • Mr. Bleaney was written by:

  • a) Philip Larkin
  • b) Dickens
  • c) Shakespeare
  • d) Tony Morrison

5. • Church Going by Larkin was published in around:

  • a) 1954
  • b) 1955
  • c) 1957
  • d) 1951

6. • MCMXIV was published by Larkin in:

  • a) 1966
  • b) 1964
  • c) 1965
  • d) 1970

7. • Ted Hughes was born and died in:

  • a) 1930-1998
  • b) 1933-2002
  • c) 1929-1999
  • d) 1932-2005

8. • The Thought Fox is renowned poem by:

  • a) Sylvia Plath
  • b) Virginia Woolf
  • c) Ted Hughes
  • d) P.B. Shelley

9. • Ted Hughes wrote these poems:

  • a) Snow Drop, Night Ride on Ariel, Hawk Roosting, Telegraph Wires
  • b) Snow Drop, Twelfth Night, Macbeth
  • c) Lamb Roosting
  • d) Telegraph Wires

10. • John Ashbery was born in:

  • a) 1926
  • b) 1927
  • c) 1930
  • d) 1931

11. • John Ashbery died in:

  • a) 2017
  • b) 2020
  • c) 2015
  • d) 2013

12. • John Ashbery is famous for:

  • a) The Painter, Othello, Ode on a Grecian Urn
  • b) Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror, The Painter, Weet Casements
  • c) The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The Prelude
  • d) New Casements

13. • Ashbery first saw a copy of Parmigianino’s Mannerist painting Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror (c.1524) in

  • a) 1950
  • b) 1949
  • c) 1954
  • d) 1970

14. • Parmigianino was an:

  • a) Italian late Renaissance artist
  • b) Romantics
  • c) Anglo-Norman artist
  • d) Victorian artist

15. • The Painter, by Ashbery, has a major theme of:

  • a) Modern and creative artists are crucified by the traditional and conventional people
  • b) Love
  • c) Jealousy
  • d) Hate

16. • Wet Casements, by Ashbery begins with:

  • a) A Funeral Scene
  • b) A Love scene
  • c) A Wedding Scene
  • d) A War Scene

17. • Adrienne Rich was born in:

  • a) 1929
  • b) 1930
  • c) 1928
  • d) 1924

18. • Adrienne Rich died in:

  • a) 2011
  • b) 2012
  • c) 2010
  • d) 2019

19. • Rich is best known for:

  • a) Diving into the Wreck
  • b) Pride and Prejudice
  • c) Tale of Two Cities
  • d) Waiting for Godot

20. • Diving into the Wreck is about:

  • a) Women Emancipation
  • b) Women Empowerment
  • c) Feminism
  • d) Liberalism

21. • Sylvia Plath was born in:

  • a) 1932
  • b) 1933
  • c) 1940
  • d) 1944

22. • Plath died in:

  • a) 1965
  • b) 1963
  • c) 1970
  • d) 1971

23. • Sylvia Plath used a metaphor quite often:

  • a) Bees
  • b) River
  • c) Ant
  • d) Mountains

24. • Plath was deeply obsessed with:

  • a) Love
  • b) Death
  • c) Marriage
  • d) Affairs

25. • Sylvia Plath married:

  • a) Ted Hughes
  • b) Coleridge
  • c) John Keats
  • d) Shakespeare

26. • Sylvia Plath’s horse is also referred in her famous poem:

  • a) Ariel
  • b) Mars
  • c) Skyrocket
  • d) Clouds

27. • Daddy was written by:

  • a) Ted Hughes
  • b) Sylvia Plath
  • c) Wordsworth
  • d) Larkin

28. • Lady Lazarus by Plath is about:

  • a) Women Emancipation
  • b) Misogyny
  • c) Patriarchy
  • d) Justice

29. • Toni Morrison was born in:

  • a) 1930
  • b) 1935
  • c) 1940
  • d) 1931

30. • Tony Morrison died in:

  • a) 2020
  • b) 2019
  • c) 2018
  • d) 2021

31. • Morrison is best known for:

  • a) Canterbury Tales
  • b) Pilgrimage
  • c) Jazz
  • d) The Sea

32. • What writing technique is used in Jazz:

  • a) Narrative writing technique
  • b) Descriptive writing style
  • c) Stream of Consciousness
  • d) Free writing style

33. • Full name of Tony Morrison:

  • a) Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison
  • b) Marry Eve Morrison
  • c) Tony Anthony
  • d) Hedda Gabbler

34. • Arthur Miller was born in:

  • a) 1915
  • b) 2015
  • c) 1920
  • d) 1905

35. • Arthur Miller died in:

  • a) 2015
  • b) 2005
  • c) 1995
  • d) 1885

36. • Miller is best known for:

  • a) Death of a Night
  • b) The Life
  • c) Death of a Woman
  • d) Death of a Salesman, The Crucible

37. • Death of a Salesman is:

  • a) Greek Tragedy
  • b) Modern Tragedy
  • c) Shakespearean Tragedy
  • d) Tragi comedy

38. • The Crucible is staged in:

  • a) Salem (witch hunt trials)
  • b) Hunza
  • c) England
  • d) West Africa

39. • Alice walker (1944) is known for:

  • a) Everyday Use, Once and The Color Purple
  • b) The Color Black
  • c) Once in a While
  • d) Tonight

40. • Ahmad Ali was born in:

  • a) 1909
  • b) 1910
  • c) 1914
  • d) 1947

41. • Ahmed Ali died in:

  • a) 1947
  • b) 1948
  • c) 1994
  • d) 2000

42. • Ahmed Ali is known for novels:

  • a) Twilight in Arabia
  • b) The Avatar
  • c) Ocean Nights
  • d) Twilight in Delhi 1940, Ocean of night 1964, Rats and diplomats 1968, The land of twilight 1931, Break the chains 1932

43. • Hanif Qureshi 1954 is known for:

  • a) The Buddha of Suburbia 1990, The Black Album 1995, Intimacy 1998, Gabriel’s Gift 2001
  • b) Angel and Satan 2002
  • c) The Black Album 1995
  • d) Gabriel’s Gift 2001

44. • Zulfiqar Ghose 1935 is known for:

  • a) The Murder of Bhutto 1980
  • b) Statement Against Corpses 1964, B.S. Johnson, The Contradictions 1966, The Murder of Aziz Khan 1967
  • c) Kubla Khan 2001
  • d) Don Juan 1934

45. • Sara Sulehri 1953 is known for:

  • a) Meatless Days, Boys Will Be Boys, A Daughter’s Elegy
  • b) Girls will be girls
  • c) Drastic imagery
  • d) Ruthless Geeks

46. • Muneeza Shamsie 1944 is famous for:

  • a) Hybrid Tapestries: The Development of Pakistani Literature in English in 2017
  • b) Pakistani Literature in Spanish 2010
  • c) The Lord of the Flies
  • d) Pygmalion

47. • Mohsin Hamid 1971 is best known for:

  • a) Smoke from the Chimney
  • b) The Reluctant Revolutionist
  • c) Moth Smoke, The Reluctant Fundamentalist
  • d) A Train to the Station

48. • Bapsi Sidhwa 1936 is famous for:

  • a) Cracking India 1988, The Crow Eaters 1978, The Bride 1983
  • b) The Groom
  • c) Swan Black
  • d) Blood, Sweat and Tears

49. • Cracking India 1998 by Sidhwa is also known as:

  • a) Lolli Pop
  • b) Ice Candy Man
  • c) Ice-Cream Man
  • d) Limerick

50. • Which American writer published A Brave and Startling Truth in 1996:

  • a) Maya Angelou
  • b) Sidhwa
  • c) Mohsin Hamid
  • d) Marry Wollstonecraft

51. • Maya Angelou was born in:

  • a) 1930
  • b) 1940
  • c) 1945
  • d) 1928

52. • Angelou died in:

  • a) 2014
  • b) 2013
  • c) 2020
  • d) 2019

53. • I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings was written by:

  • a) George Eliot
  • b) Maya Angelou
  • c) Elizabeth Sewell
  • d) Lord Byron

54. • Elizabeth Sewell was born and died in:

  • a) 1919- 2001
  • b) 1977- 2000
  • c) 1995- 2002
  • d) 1960- 2006

55. • Elizabeth Sewell is best known for:

  • a) Happy New Year Party
  • b) New Year Resolutions
  • c) Summer Outings
  • d) In the Dark Night

56. • What is a poem called whose first letters of each line spell out a word?

  • a) Free Verse Poem
  • b) Liberal Poem
  • c) Limerick
  • d) Acrostic

57. • What is a funny poem of five lines called?

  • a) Septet
  • b) Limerick
  • c) Octave
  • d) Rudimentary

58. • Which type of feminist believes that men and women are equal:

  • a) Liberal
  • b) Modern
  • c) Conservative
  • d) Greek

59. • Which type of feminist finds important differences between men and women that are arbitrary and flexible?

  • a) Pre-feminist
  • b) Post- Positivist
  • c) Liberals
  • d) Mid positivist

60. • An important implication of a post-positivist stance is that:

  • a) Women are inferior
  • b) Men will rule the world
  • c) Myths about women should be supported
  • d) Our theories help to make the world as we know it

Chapter 14: GREEK LITERATURE

1. Greek tragedy is a genre of theater that began its development in the ____ BC.

  • a) 8th
  • b) 2nd
  • c) 3rd
  • d) 6th

2. Father of Tragedy is:

  • a) Euripides
  • b) Sophocles
  • c) Aeschylus

3. The first known actor to perform tragedy was:

  • a) Euripides
  • b) Thespis
  • c) Aeschylus
  • d) None of these

4. For the Greeks, tragedy had its roots in their annual ______ celebrations every spring.

  • a) Dionysus
  • b) Zeus
  • c) Athena
  • d) Thespis

5. Dionysus, both the god and wine and _____, was honored in Greek tragedies and comedies during the festival.

  • a) Theatre
  • b) War
  • c) Tragedy
  • d) Comedy

6. The word "tragedy" stems from _____ song

  • a) Goat
  • b) Tragic
  • c) Ionic
  • d) Fatal

7. Except for Sophocles, who would later write single-part plays, many were stories told over three plays, a _____

  • a) Ritual
  • b) Change
  • c) Trilogy
  • d) Custom

8. While each play took place in a single location like a palace or temple, much of the action, particularly the violent scenes, took place _____.

  • a) Off Stage
  • b) On Stage
  • c) Both
  • d) None

9. Aeschylus' ____ features a scene of the king murdered bloodily by his wife in a bathtub, but the action happens offstage.

  • a) Electra
  • b) Oresteia
  • c) Agamemnon
  • d) None

10. Greek plays were performed in an ____ theater, used masks, and were almost always performed by a chorus and three actors

  • a) Indoor
  • b) Outdoor
  • c) Square
  • d) None

11. ______ is the Muse of tragedy

  • a) Melpomene
  • b) Thalia
  • c) Zeus
  • d) Hera

12. ______ is the Muse of comedy

  • a) Melpomene
  • b) Hera
  • c) Zeus
  • d) Thalia

13. A building with an arrangement of confusing pathways.

  • a) Echinus
  • b) Labyrinth
  • c) Doric
  • d) Anta

14. The orchestra (literally, "dancing space") was normally ____.

  • a) Circular
  • b) Square
  • c) Indoor
  • d) Tiny

15. The _____ (literally, "viewing-place") is where the spectators sat

  • a) Priest
  • b) Page
  • c) Theatron
  • d) Abacus

16. The skene (literally, "tent") was the building directly ___ the stage.

  • a) On
  • b) Behind
  • c) Across
  • d) Opposite

17. _____ were the gateways from where actors entered or exited.

  • a) Theatron
  • b) Parados
  • c) Skene
  • d) Orchestra

18. The _____ usually gives the mythological background necessary for understanding the events of the play.

  • a) Parodos
  • b) Epilogue
  • c) Prologue
  • d) Exodos

19. ____ is the song sung by the chorus as it first enters the orchestra and dances.

  • a) Prologue
  • b) Epilogue
  • c) Parodos
  • d) Exodos

20. ___ comes in the end of play, when the chorus exits singing a song.

  • a) Exodos
  • b) Epilogue
  • c) Prologue
  • d) Parodos

21. The Greek actors wore _____ to hide their identity.

  • a) Masks
  • b) Caps
  • c) Paints
  • d) Hoods

22. Iliad and Odyssey were written by:

  • a) Trojans
  • b) Homer
  • c) Achilles
  • d) Sophocles

23. _____ was a temple where humans got signs from gods.

  • a) Thebes
  • b) Phokis
  • c) Delphi
  • d) Corinth

24. Thespis was also a _____.

  • a) Warrior
  • b) Poet
  • c) Drama
  • d) Tale

25. ____ was the supreme god of Greeks

  • a) Hermes
  • b) Apollo
  • c) Neptune
  • d) Zeus

26. Son of Zeus who was also named as Phoebus?

  • a) Apollo
  • b) Hermes
  • c) Neptune
  • d) Ares

27. High city or city of the gods.

  • a) Acropolis
  • b) Polis
  • c) Temenos
  • d) Tholos

28. Love for Greek culture, art, myths and legend is:

  • a) Underworld
  • b) Hellenism
  • c) Hamartia
  • d) None

29. A sudden reversal of situation in Greek drama is called:

  • a) Anagnorisis
  • b) Turn
  • c) U-Turn
  • d) Peripeteia

30. Anagnorisis is also known as:

  • a) Discovery
  • b) Reversal
  • c) Turn
  • d) None

31. The most important element of tragedy to Aristotle is:

  • a) Character
  • b) Skene
  • c) Story
  • d) Plot

32. Oedipus kills a monster known as:

  • a) Tholos
  • b) Woman
  • c) Lion
  • d) Sphinx

33. Oedipus was descendent of:

  • a) Polis
  • b) Cadmus
  • c) Zeus
  • d) Creon

34. Agamemnon was brother-in-law of ______.

  • a) Echinus
  • b) Hector
  • c) Helen
  • d) Clytemnestra

35. ____ was supposed to be the most beautiful woman.

  • a) Delphi
  • b) Helen
  • c) Hera
  • d) Clytemnestra

36. Who was messenger of gods?

  • a) Hermes
  • b) Apollo
  • c) Dionysus
  • d) Ares

37. Greek god of war:

  • a) Hermes
  • b) Apollo
  • c) Ares
  • d) Dionysus

38. Greek goddess of beauty:

  • a) Aphrodite
  • b) Hera
  • c) Juno
  • d) Venus

39. ______ was punished to carry sky forever.

  • a) Atlas
  • b) Hercules
  • c) Ashlar
  • d) Agora

40. Prometheus stole _____ from gods for humans.

  • a) Fire
  • b) Food
  • c) Shelter
  • d) Drinks

41. Prometheus, Epimetheus were ____ of Atlas

  • a) Spies
  • b) Rulers
  • c) Enemies
  • d) Brothers

42. Agamemnon suffered due to the curse of the house of ____.

  • a) Prostyle
  • b) Dentils
  • c) Atreus
  • d) Polis

43. Atreus was son of ______.

  • a) Tantalus
  • b) Dentils
  • c) Atreus
  • d) Polis

44. Atreus and Thyestes were _____.

  • a) Anta
  • b) Infants
  • c) Spies
  • d) Brothers

45. Who invites Thyestes with a plan of revenge?

  • a) Atreus
  • b) Tholos
  • c) Tantalus
  • d) Stylobate

46. _____ eloped with Atreus’ wife.

  • a) Thyestes
  • b) Entasis
  • c) Achilles
  • d) Aegisthus

47. _____ is taken in by Atreus’ plan.

  • a) Thyestes
  • b) Achilles
  • c) Agora
  • d) Aegisthus

48. At Atreus’ palace, Thyestes unknowingly eats ______.

  • a) Poison
  • b) Own Sons
  • c) Dirt
  • d) pig

49. _____ was son of Atreus.

  • a) Agamemnon
  • b) Aegisthus
  • c) Tantalus
  • d) Anta

50. Agamemnon was brother of:

  • a) Aegisthus
  • b) Menelaus
  • c) Tantalus
  • d) Metopes

51. Atreus and Thyestes were:

  • a) Rogues
  • b) Brothers
  • c) Slaves
  • d) Goons

52. Helen eloped with:

  • a) Hector
  • b) Paris
  • c) Atreus
  • d) Achilles

53. Hector was ____ of Paris.

  • a) Brother
  • b) Friend
  • c) Slave
  • d) Enemy

54. King of Troy was:

  • a) Hector
  • b) Paris
  • c) Ajax
  • d) Priam

55. Achilles fought in Trojan War for:

  • a) Dentils
  • b) Greeks
  • c) Abacus
  • d) Temenos

56. Odysseus was condemned in sea for ____ years.

  • a) 05
  • b) 10
  • c) 22
  • d) 15

57. Achilles was killed by:

  • a) Paris
  • b) Hector
  • c) Priam
  • d) Ajax

58. Electra was ____ of Agamemnon.

  • a) Wife
  • b) Daughter
  • c) Sister
  • d) Witch

59. Agamemnon kills his own ______.

  • a) Son
  • b) Daughter
  • c) Horse
  • d) Self

60. Agamemnon kills his daughter _______.

  • a) Torus
  • b) Electra
  • c) Hera
  • d) Iphigenia

61. Zeus’ son, a demigod, is:

  • a) Apollo
  • b) Hermes
  • c) Hercules
  • d) Ajax

Chapter 15: OEDIPUS REX

Which of the Theban plays was probably written last?

  • a) Oedipus at Colonus
  • b) Oedipus Rex
  • c) Antigone
  • d) None

How many children does Oedipus have?

  • a) 4
  • b) 5
  • c) 3
  • d) 2

; In Oedipus the king, whose murder must be avenged to end the plague in Thebes?

  • a) Laius
  • b) Creon
  • c) Oedipus Rex
  • d) Tiresias

What does the name Oedipus mean?

  • a) Swollen foot
  • b) Blind
  • c) Educated
  • d) Lucky

Which of the three Theban plays was probably written first?

  • a) Antigone
  • b) Oedipus Rex
  • c) Oedipus at Colonus
  • d) None of these

In what country was Oedipus raised?

  • a) Thebes
  • b) Corinth
  • c) Oracle's place
  • d) Greek

In which play does Tiresias not appear?

  • a) Oedipus Rex
  • b) Oedipus at Colonus
  • c) Antigone
  • d) All of these

What sentence does Creon impose upon Antigone his edict prohibiting Polynice's burial?

  • a) She must be banished
  • b) She must be buried alive
  • c) She must be blind
  • d) She must be married with a blind

What is Creon's relationship with Jocasta?

  • a) Cousin
  • b) Brother
  • c) Brother-in-law
  • d) Uncle

What does Oedipus use to stab his own eyes?

  • a) Knives
  • b) The brooches from Jocasta's robe
  • c) Needles
  • d) Nails

From whose curse did Oedipus rescue Thebes?

  • a) The plague
  • b) The Oracles
  • c) The Sphinx's
  • d) All

Who spoke last in the play Oedipus Rex?

  • a) Oedipus Rex
  • b) Jocasta
  • c) The chorus
  • d) Tiresias

Whom was Antigone meant to marry?

  • a) Tiresias
  • b) Creon
  • c) Haemon
  • d) Oracles

Which God did Athenian theatrical performance celebrate?

  • a) Greek god
  • b) Apollo
  • c) Dionysus
  • d) Zeus

Which of the following characters remains alive throughout the three Theban plays?

  • a) Oedipus
  • b) Antigone
  • c) Creon
  • d) Jocasta

; Where was Laius killed?

  • a) In Thebes
  • b) At a three-crossroads
  • c) In a forest
  • d) At home

In Oedipus at Colonus, how does Creon attempt to coerce Oedipus to return to Thebes?

  • a) Bribed
  • b) Threatened
  • c) Lured Him
  • d) He kidnaps his daughters

What does Oedipus prophecy about Polynices and Eteocles?

  • a) They will kill Creon
  • b) They will be kings
  • c) They will die at each-others hands
  • d) They will marry one lady

Who is the last remaining survivor of Oedipus's family?

  • a) Antigone
  • b) Creon
  • c) Ismene
  • d) Jocasta

What does Creon do just before he finds Antigone dead?

  • a) Marry Polynices
  • b) gives Oedipus proper burial
  • c) Marry Ismene
  • d) Gives Polynices a proper burial

What is the name of the character who helps Oedipus in Oedipus at Colonus?

  • a) Polybus
  • b) Theseus
  • c) Tiresias
  • d) Creon

The priest is ___________at the beginning of the play

  • a) Praising
  • b) Fighting
  • c) Asking the gods for help
  • d) Weeping

The priest is doing this because _____

  • a) They were afraid of Sphinx
  • b) There was black death
  • c) There is a plague in the city
  • d) Jocasta was dead

At the beginning of the play, Oedipus sends Creon to _______________

  • a) Apollo at Delphi
  • b) Oracle at Delphi
  • c) Tiresias
  • d) Forest

Creon reported that _______

  • a) Jocasta must be banished
  • b) Laius's killer must be found
  • c) Oedipus must be banished
  • d) Creon must be hanged

According to the report, the man they will find, must ____________

  • a) Be killed
  • b) Be blinded
  • c) Both a and b
  • d) Be banished or killed

; No one investigated Laius's; murder at the time because________

  • a) There was plague
  • b) None of these
  • c) The Sphinx was attacking the city
  • d) All of these

Creon advised Oedipus to send for__________

  • a) Apollo
  • b) Teiresias
  • c) Zeus
  • d) All of these

29. When Tiresias arrived, he said that ____ ___

  • a) He will not tell who did it
  • b) He will tell everyone
  • c) Both a and b
  • d) None of these

30. When Tiresias charged Oedipus with killing Laius, he responded by

  • a) Calling Tiresias a blind fool and accusing Creon of killing Laius
  • b) accusing Tiresias of conspiring with Creon
  • c) Both
  • d) None

31. According to Tiresias _____ is culprit.

  • a) Oedipus
  • b) Creon
  • c) He himself
  • d) Jocasta

32. What does Oedipus ask Creon?

  • a) Why Tiresias didnt say anything at the time of Laiuss death
  • b) Why he was not investigating before
  • c) Both
  • d) None of these

33. Does Creon say he wants to be king?

  • a) Yes
  • b) No
  • c) He doesnt know
  • d) He is already

34. Jocasta convinced Oedipus to _______Creon.

  • a) Leave
  • b) Forgive
  • c) Pray
  • d) Suicide

35. Jocasta attempts to prove to Oedipus that ___________

  • a) She killed the baby
  • b) Prophecies and gods are not trustworthy
  • c) She didnt have a baby
  • d) She left her baby exposed on a mountain

37. Jocasta's story upset Oedipus because ________

  • a) He killed a man at a crossroads
  • b) He knows the prophecy
  • c) His father told him so
  • d) All of these

38. What made Oedipus go to the oracle when he was young?

  • a) He wanted to marry
  • b) A courtier told him that he was adopted
  • c) He was upset
  • d) All of these

39. The oracle told Oedipus that he___________

  • a) Would kill his father and marry his mother
  • b) Will die young
  • c) Will not marry
  • d) None of these

40. What news does the messenger bring from Corinth?

  • a) That Polybus was not Oedipus's father
  • b) that Corinth wants Oedipus to be its king
  • c) That Polybus is Alive
  • d) All of these

41. _______Gave Oedipus to Polybus and Merope.

  • a) The messenger
  • b) Tiresias
  • c) Oracle
  • d) Apollo

42. How did Jocasta die?

  • a) Oedipus killed her
  • b) She hanged herself
  • c) Creon killed her

43. Sphinx was __________

  • a) A deadly Monster
  • b) God
  • c) Helper
  • d) Kind man

44. What riddle did the Sphinx ask?

  • a) He fooled others only
  • b) What moves on 4 legs in morning, 2 in day and 3 in night
  • c) To tell him about the sins they do
  • d) All of these

45. Oedipus correctly answered that it is

  • a) An animal
  • b) A monster
  • c) Man
  • d) Grendel

Chapter 16: PROLOGUE TO THE CANTERBURY TALES

1. The hundred years war continued from 1337 to ________

  • a) 1453
  • b) 1456
  • c) 1460
  • d) 1470

2. The Hundred years war was fought between _____

  • a) England and America
  • b) England and Ireland
  • c) England and France
  • d) England and Spain

3. _______ was the popular leader of The Peasants Revolt

  • a) Chaucer
  • b) Wycliffe
  • c) John Ball
  • d) None of these

4. England suffered from Black Death in the reign of ___________

  • a) Richard I
  • b) Edward III
  • c) Queen Victoria
  • d) Queen Elizabeth

5. The name Chaucer is derived from Chaussier which means __________

  • a) Poet
  • b) Historian
  • c) Shoemaker
  • d) Saint

6. Chaucer was born in ________

  • a) 1340s
  • b) 1355
  • c) 1348
  • d) 1349

7. Chaucer died in ________

  • a) 1397
  • b) 1398
  • c) 1399
  • d) 1400

8. Chaucer served _______ kings.

  • a) 2
  • b) 3
  • c) 4
  • d) 5

9. Chaucer served as courtier under Edward III, Richard II and _______

  • a) Henry I
  • b) Henry II
  • c) Henry III
  • d) Henry IV

10. Chaucer married in _______

  • a) 1360
  • b) 1362
  • c) 1364
  • d) 1366

11. Chaucer became a Justice of The Peace in Kent in _______

  • a) 1380
  • b) 1385
  • c) 1390
  • d) 1395

12. He became a member of Parliament in _______

  • a) 1380
  • b) 1383
  • c) 1386
  • d) 1389

13. Chaucer was buried in _______ Abbey.

  • a) Banbury
  • b) Minister
  • c) West Minister
  • d) None

14. West Minister abbey has a place called _______

  • a) Writers Corner
  • b) Poets Corner
  • c) Painters Corner
  • d) None

15. He wrote The Canterbury Tales in _______

  • a) 1384
  • b) 1385
  • c) 1386
  • d) 1387

16. Chaucer got the idea of the stores from _______

  • a) Wycliff
  • b) Petrarch
  • c) Dante
  • d) Boccaccio

17. Chaucer got inspiration from Boccaccios _______

  • a) Decameron
  • b) Narration
  • c) Life
  • d) Past

18. The Peasants Revolt occurred in _______

  • a) 1383
  • b) 1384
  • c) 1381
  • d) 1386

19. English became the official language of the British parliament, and the only national language of England in _______Age.

  • a) Old Period
  • b) Middle English
  • c) Renaissance
  • d) Puritan

20. The Pilgrims visit Canterbury in

  • a) March
  • b) April
  • c) May
  • d) June

21. The poet was in _______ Inn when he met the pilgrims

  • a) South wreck
  • b) Canterbury
  • c) Tabard
  • d) None of them

22. The pilgrims were _______ in number

  • a) 26
  • b) 27
  • c) 28
  • d) 29

23. Chaucer begins with the character of _______

  • a) The Knight
  • b) The Squire
  • c) The Yeoman
  • d) The Monk

24. The knight loved chivalry, truth, honour, freedom and _________

  • a) Riding
  • b) Courtesy
  • c) Honesty
  • d) Pilgrimages

25. He had fought ______ mortal battles.

  • a) 10
  • b) 12
  • c) 15
  • d) 18

26. He fought _______ one to one combats.

  • a) 2
  • b) 3
  • c) 4
  • d) 5

27. He was as meek as ____________.

  • a) Virgin
  • b) maid
  • c) Girl
  • d) woman

28. The Knight was a ________ man.

  • a) Proud
  • b) Haughty
  • c) Dangerous
  • d) Humble

29. His horse was as ______ as himself.

  • a) Gay
  • b) Decorated
  • c) Simple
  • d) Bright

30. The squire was a ______ fellow.

  • a) Pious
  • b) Lusty
  • c) Mean
  • d) Crook

31. The squire was a bachelor of ________ years.

  • a) 17
  • b) 20
  • c) 22
  • d) 26

32. He was of ________ stature.

  • a) Built
  • b) Huge
  • c) Average
  • d) Small

33. His dress was ___________.

  • a) Simple
  • b) Worn out
  • c) Embroided
  • d) Tidy

34. He was as fresh as the month of __________.

  • a) April
  • b) May
  • c) June
  • d) July

35. He slept no more than a _________

  • a) Lover
  • b) Cuckoo
  • c) Parrot
  • d) Nightingale

36. The ________ had only one servant with him.

  • a) The Squire
  • b) The Knight
  • c) The Yeoman
  • d) The Friar

37. The Yeoman was dressed in _________.

  • a) Red
  • b) Green
  • c) Yellow
  • d) Blue

38. He wore a silver cross of St. _________ .

  • a) Christopher
  • b) Maurus
  • c) Benedict
  • d) Paul

39. There was also a nun, a _________.

  • a) Prioress
  • b) Secretary
  • c) Widow
  • d) landlord

40. Her greatest oath was by _________.

  • a) St. Paul
  • b) St. Maurus
  • c) St. Eloy
  • d) St. Benedict

41. Her name was ___________.

  • a) Eglantine
  • b) Aglentine
  • c) Englentine
  • d) Anglentine

42. She was very careful about her ________.

  • a) Religion
  • b) Sick fellows
  • c) Table Manners
  • d) Dress

43. She spoke _______ language.

  • a) Spanish
  • b) French
  • c) Italian
  • d) Russian

44. She could not see a _______ bleeding.

  • a) Man
  • b) Woman
  • c) Mouse
  • d) Saint

45. She fed her _______ with flesh.

  • a) Friends
  • b) Monks
  • c) Servants
  • d) Dogs

46. Her eyes were as grey as _________.

  • a) Glass
  • b) Jar
  • c) Jug
  • d) Cloud

47. He forehead was as broad as a _________.

  • a) Span
  • b) Hand
  • c) Shoe
  • d) Yoot

48. On her brooch, _______ was engraved.

  • a) A
  • b) B
  • c) C
  • d) D

49. Amor Vincit Omnia means Love ______:

  • a) Kills all
  • b) Melts all
  • c) Conquers all
  • d) Sees all

50. She had a nun and ______ priests with her.

  • a) 2
  • b) 3
  • c) 4
  • d) 5

51. The Monk loved ________.

  • a) Running
  • b) Reading
  • c) Hunting
  • d) Writing

52. He had many fine _________.

  • a) Dogs
  • b) Hares
  • c) Cats
  • d) Horses

53. He disliked the rules of St. ______ and St. Benedict.

  • a) Eloy
  • b) Maurus
  • c) Paul
  • d) Peter

54.I said, his opinion was _________

  • a) Bad
  • b) Good
  • c) Foolish
  • d) Sweet

55. He hated manual work contrary to the teachings of ____.

  • a) St. Augustine
  • b) St. Paul
  • c) St. Benedict
  • d) St. Maurus

56. He used a ______ pin to fasten is hood.

  • a) Silver
  • b) Brass
  • c) Iron made
  • d) Wrought gold

57. His head shone like a ______.

  • a) Sun
  • b) Light
  • c) Glass
  • d) Bulb

58. His boots were _________.

  • a) Coarse
  • b) Soft
  • c) Old
  • d) Borrowed

59. His favourite dish was _______.

  • a) Roast chicken
  • b) Roast swan
  • c) Roast pigeon
  • d) Roast sparrow

60. The friar was a _______ person.

  • a) Virtuous
  • b) Honest
  • c) Wanton
  • d) Devoted

61. He had arranged many a _________.

  • a) Function
  • b) Marriage
  • c) Tour
  • d) Deal

62. He was familiar with all ________.

  • a) Beggars
  • b) Poor people
  • c) Franklins
  • d) Politicians

63. He was a favourite of __________.

  • a) Old women
  • b) Poor women
  • c) Rich women
  • d) Beggar women

64. He was _______ easily.

  • a) Bribed
  • b) Deceived
  • c) Defeated
  • d) Condemned

65. He offered pins to ladies and knives to _______.

  • a) Politicians
  • b) Kings
  • c) Franklins
  • d) Princess

66.His purchase was better than his _________

  • a) Pay
  • b) Income
  • c) Rent
  • d) Bribe

67. He was very helpful in __________days.

  • a) Holy
  • b) Arbitration
  • c) Epidemics
  • d) Wars

68. His __________ twinkled in his head.

  • a) Nose
  • b) Ears
  • c) Lips
  • d) Eyes

69. He was called _________.

  • a) Huperd
  • b) Huberd
  • c) Hubirde
  • d) Dupherd

70. The merchant had a ________.

  • a) Bible
  • b) Forked beard
  • c) Relic
  • d) Huge purse

71. He always talked about increase in his _______.

  • a) Hair
  • b) Forked beard
  • c) Profit
  • d) Children

72. He was ______ in his trade.

  • a) Novice
  • b) Majestic
  • c) Honest
  • d) Bad

73. His name was ________.

  • a) John
  • b) Unknown
  • c) Simon
  • d) Peter

74. The Clerk had a great knowledge of _______.

  • a) Maths
  • b) Science
  • c) Literature
  • d) Logic

75. His horse was _______.

  • a) Fat
  • b) Strong
  • c) Lean
  • d) Huge

76. He wanted to have _______ books of Aristotle.

  • a) 02
  • b) 06
  • c) 15
  • d) 20

77. He did not collect ______ like other scholars.

  • a) Money
  • b) Silver
  • c) Gold
  • d) Brass

78. He spent all money on ________.

  • a) Fashion
  • b) Books
  • c) Cloths
  • d) Girls

79. The Sergeant of Law was often seen at _____ Porch.

  • a) St. Maurus
  • b) St. Peters
  • c) St. Pauls
  • d) St. Benedicts

80. He was often appointed ________ of assize.

  • a) Head
  • b) Justice
  • c) Master
  • d) Leader

81. All ownership to him became ______ simple.

  • a) Fee
  • b) Very
  • c) Quite
  • d) Free

82. Yet he seemed _____ busier than he actually was.

  • a) Less
  • b) Much
  • c) Very
  • d) Bit

83. The Lawyer had a _______ in his company.

  • a) Friar
  • b) Monk
  • c) Franklin
  • d) Prioress

84. Franklins beard was as white as a ________.

  • a) Cloud
  • b) Daisy
  • c) Paint
  • d) Pigeon

85. He seemed Epicurus own _________.

  • a) Self
  • b) Enemy
  • c) Friend
  • d) Son

86. ___________ was he in his area.

  • a) St. Eloy
  • b) St. Julian
  • c) St. Maurus
  • d) St. Paul

87. At county court sessions, he was ____ and sire.

  • a) Leader
  • b) Justice
  • c) Lord
  • d) Sir

88. The five Guildsmen were dressed in _____ cloths.

  • a) Neat
  • b) Different
  • c) Same
  • d) Unique

89. Their wives loved to be called _________.

  • a) Miss
  • b) Mrs.
  • c) Madam
  • d) Her Majesty

90. The cook was with _______

  • a) The Franklin
  • b) The Monk
  • c) The Five Guildsmen
  • d) The Friar

91. He could tell the taste of ________ ale.

  • a) Banbury
  • b) London
  • c) Indian
  • d) American

92. The shipman lived for in _______.

  • a) East
  • b) West
  • c) North
  • d) South

93. He was from _________.

  • a) London
  • b) Belgium
  • c) Dartmouth
  • d) Asia

94. He stole _______ from barrels.

  • a) Water
  • b) Juice
  • c) Wine
  • d) Sugar

95. He killed the person threw his body into _______.

  • a) Mud
  • b) Sea
  • c) Sand
  • d) Ship

96. Many a tempest shook his _________.

  • a) Flag
  • b) Ship
  • c) Beard
  • d) Boat

97. His boat was called ______.

  • a) Magadalene
  • b) Magduline
  • c) Mugdalin
  • d) Maguduline

98. The Doctor of Medicine was also expert of

  • a) Music
  • b) Literature
  • c) Logic
  • d) Astronomy

99. Astronomy is also called ________.

  • a) Magic
  • b) Black magic
  • c) Natural magic
  • d) A trick

100. His friendship with the druggists was not _____.

  • a) Good
  • b) Loyal
  • c) New
  • d) Dangerous

101. His diet was ________.

  • a) Moderate
  • b) Bad
  • c) Sugar free
  • d) Superfluous

102. He saved what he earned in ________.

  • a) 100 years war
  • b) Black Death
  • c) Peasants Revolt
  • d) America

103. He loved ________ in special.

  • a) Patient
  • b) Gold
  • c) Money
  • d) Drugs

104. The wife of bath was___________.

  • a) Abnormal
  • b) Deaf
  • c) Dumb
  • d) Virgin

105. She was expert of _________.

  • a) Marriage
  • b) Cloth making
  • c) Traveling
  • d) Dance

106. Her scarfs were ________ heavy.

  • a) 10-pound
  • b) 10 kg
  • c) 20-pound
  • d) 20 kg

107. She had married ________ times.

  • a) One
  • b) Three
  • c) Five
  • d) Seven

108. She had crossed many a strange _______.

  • a) Streams
  • b) River
  • c) Sea
  • d) Ocean

109. She had broad ________.

  • a) Lips
  • b) Hips
  • c) Forehead
  • d) Cheeks

110. She knew the remedies of _________.

  • a) Hate
  • b) Love
  • c) Dance
  • d) Marriage

111. The Parson was not poor in ________.

  • a) Community
  • b) Holy thoughts
  • c) Abuses
  • d) Society

112. He preached ____________.

  • a) Christs Gospel
  • b) Literature
  • c) Logic
  • d) Maths

113. To him, rich and poor were _________

  • a) Different
  • b) Equal
  • c) Bad
  • d) Good

114. He was poor, yet he gave ________.

  • a) Advice
  • b) Lands
  • c) Alms
  • d) Titles

115.If Gold rusts, what shall _______ do?

  • a) Brass
  • b) Silver
  • c) Metal
  • d) Iron

116. He didnt run London to seek Chantry in ________.

  • a) St. Maurus
  • b) St. Paul
  • c) St. Benedict
  • d) St. Peter

117. He was a shepherd, not a ___________.

  • a) Hord
  • b) Master
  • c) Money maker
  • d) Rich

118. He snubbed the wicked _________.

  • a) Openly
  • b) Secretly
  • c) Cowardly
    • d) Slowly

119. He preached whatever Christ and his _______ Apostles preached.

  • a) 11
  • b) 12
  • c) 13
  • d) 14

120. The Plowman was ______ brother.

  • a) The Friars
  • b) The Clerks
  • c) The Parsons
  • d) The Monks

121. He loved God and then his _______.

  • a) Family
  • b) Own self
  • c) Land
  • d) Neighbours

122. He worked free of cost in _______ name.

  • a) Gods
  • b) Christs
  • c) St. Pauls
  • d) St. Eloys

123. He sat upon a ___________.

  • a) Donkey
  • b) Horse
  • c) Mare
  • d) Mule

124. The Miller was a _______ man.

  • a) Muscular
  • b) Thin
  • c) Lean
  • d) Polite

125. He could easily break a door with is ___________.

  • a) Arm
  • b) Hand
  • c) Leg
  • d) Head

126. He mostly talked about ________.

  • a) Honesty
  • b) Religion
  • c) Sin
  • d) Games

127. His beard was as broad as a _________.

  • a) Sky
  • b) Spade
  • c) Span
  • d) Ball

128. His mouth was as big as a ___________.

  • a) Spade
  • b) Furnace
  • c) Cow
  • d) Lion

129. He could play on __________.

  • a) Piano
  • b) Guitar
  • c) Bagpipe
  • d) Flute

130. The municipal was ______ person.

  • a) Learned
  • b) Dishonest
  • c) Cute
  • d) Honest

131. He had ______ masters.

  • a) 10
  • b) 20
  • c) 30
  • d) 40

132. The Reeve was very _______.

  • a) Strong
  • b) Lean
  • c) Healthy
  • d) Terrible

133. His lord was ________ years old.

  • a) 20
  • b) 40
  • c) 60
  • d) 80

134. He was a very _______ person.

  • a) Honest
  • b) Dishonest
  • c) Cruel
  • d) Virtuous

135. His house was built upon a ________.

  • a) Mountain
  • b) Hill
  • c) Cliff
  • d) Heath

136. His horse was named ________

  • a) Hubert
  • b) Scot
  • c) Junior
  • d) Mauduline

137. The summoner had a ___________ face.

  • a) Cute
  • b) Pimpled
  • c) Clean
  • d) Beautiful

138. His eyes were _________.

  • a) Narrow
  • b) Wide
  • c) Blue
  • d) Black

139. His face frightened the _________.

  • a) Animals
  • b) Women
  • c) Children
  • d) Girls

140. When he was drunk, he spoke ________.

  • a) French
  • b) German
  • c) English
  • d) Latin

141. He scarified his girlfriend for a quart of ______.

  • a) Milk
  • b) Wine
  • c) Water
  • d) Juice

142. He said that sinners soul was in his ________.

  • a) Body
  • b) Hands
  • c) House
  • d) Purse

143. He was the advisor of ________.

  • a) Poor people
  • b) Franklins
  • c) Young girls
  • d) Old man

144. The Pardoner belonged to _________.

  • a) Roncesvalles
  • b) Canterbury
  • c) Banbury
  • d) West minister

145. His hair hung like a ___________.

  • a) Wax
  • b) Thread
  • c) Flax
  • d) Rope

146. He followed the new ________.

  • a) Girl
  • b) Fashion
  • c) Syllabus
  • d) Rule

147. His sparkling eyes resembled those of ______.

  • a) Hare
  • b) Falcon
  • c) Cat
  • d) Dog

148. He carried ________ relies.

  • a) False
  • b) True
  • c) Fifty
  • d) Two

149. He seemed either a eunuch or a _________.

  • a) Horse
  • b) Mare
  • c) Donkey
  • d) Mule

150. He sang merrily to _______ money.

  • a) Give
  • b) Donate
  • c) Swindle
  • d) Distribute

151. The Host ________ us.

  • a) Hated
  • b) Welcomed
  • c) Loved
  • d) Disliked

152. He was __________ man.

  • a) Thin
  • b) Lean
  • c) Well-built
  • d) Dishonest

153. He decided to _______ with others.

  • a) Dance
  • b) Eat
  • c) Ride
  • d) Sleep

154. The host awakened them acting like a ________.

  • a) Hen
  • b) Cock
  • c) Chick
  • d) Hero

155. He addresses _________ first of all for a tale.

  • a) The Knight
  • b) The Clerk
  • c) The Prioress
  • d) The Monk

156. The most ironical character is of _________.

  • a) The Monk
  • b) The Wife
  • c) The Prioress
  • d) the Merchant

157. Chaucer divides his characters into ________ major categories.

  • a) 2
  • b) 3
  • c) 4
  • d) 5

158. His characters are _____ as well as types.

  • a) Unique
  • b) Similar
  • c) Individual
  • d) Pure

159.The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales shows Chaucers_______

  • a) Realism
  • b) Hatred
  • c) Himself
  • d) Enemies

160. Chaucer is ______ among modern.

  • a) Old
  • b) Traditional
  • c) Fashionable
  • d) Medieval

161. Chaucer is the father of ______ language.

  • a) German
  • b) French
  • c) Spanish
  • d) English

162. Chaucers characters are ________.

  • a) Stereotype
  • b) Simple
  • c) Universal
  • d) Strange

163. __________ is not found in Chaucers pilgrims.

  • a) Upper class
  • b) Lower
  • c) Middle class
  • d) Lower Middle class

164. Chaucer detected ________ in Church.

  • a) Virtue
  • b) Abuses
  • c) Intellect
  • d) Wisdom

165. The Shrine of Saint__________ is at Canterbury.

  • a) Thomas Becket
  • b) Paul
  • c) Peter
  • d) Maurus

166. St. Thomas became the most important ecclesiast in England after the death of:

  • a) Richard II
  • b) Theobald
  • c) Edward III
  • d) Henry IV

167. He resigned from the chancellorship as soon as he became:

  • a) A Saint
  • b) Lord
  • c) Archbishop
  • d) Prior

168. Thomas and Henry II quarreled over the relations of Church and realm in:

  • a) 1160
  • b) 1161
  • c) 1162
  • d) 1163

169. Thomas fled to ______ to escape the new laws made by Henry I.

  • a) France
  • b) Germany
  • c) Russia
  • d) Holland

170. Thomas stayed in France for ________ years.

  • a) 6
  • b) 16
  • c) 26
  • d) 36

171. He returned to England in _______ after reconciliation.

  • a) 1169
  • b) 1170
  • c) 1171
  • d) 1172

172. Four of the Kings men, murdered Thomas at ______.

  • a) Paris
  • b) London
  • c) Canterbury
  • d) Banbury

173. Thomas Becket was canonized in ________.

  • a) 1173
  • b) 1174
  • c) 1175
  • d) 1176

174. Canterbury Cathedral was founded in __________.

  • a) 590
  • b) 592
  • c) 595
  • d) 597

175.The Book of the Duchess by Chaucer was written in ________.

  • a) 1368-1369
  • b) 1369-1370
  • c) 1370-1371
  • d) 1371-1372

176. He wrote the Parliament of Fouls in _______.

  • a) 1370-72
  • b) 1372-75
  • c) 1374-75
  • d) 1377-1382

177.The House of Fame, an unfinished poem was written in _____.

  • a) 1368
  • b) 1369
  • c) 1370
  • d) 1371

178.Troilus and Criseyde was written in _______.

  • a) 1380
  • b) 1385
  • c) 1390
  • d) 1395

179. Chaucers wife died in ________.

  • a) 1380
  • b) 1383
  • c) 1385
  • d) 1387

180. Chaucer served as a page in _________.

  • a) 1350
  • b) 1357
  • c) 1359
  • d) 1360

Chapter 17: DR. FAUSTUS

1. In the prologue, who introduces the story of Doctor Faustus?

  • a) Good Angel
  • b) The Chorus
  • c) Mephistopheles
  • d) Lucifer

2. To which Greek Mythological character is Faustus compared in the Prologue?

  • a) Theseus
  • b) Minotaur
  • c) Icarus
  • d) Aegeus

3. In Greek mythology, He is the son of the master craftsman Daedalus, the creator of the Labyrinth. He and his father attempt to escape from Crete by means of wings that his father constructed from feather and wax. Who do you think this “He” is?

  • a) Icarus
  • b) Zeus
  • c) Sophocles
  • d) Minos

4. What fields of learning does Faustus consider before he turns to magic?

  • a) Logic, Medicine, Law, and theology
  • b) Philosophy, Law and Physics
  • c) Topology, History, and science
  • d) Only theology

5. Which characters instruct Faustus in the Dark Arts?

  • a) Wagner and Clown
  • b) The Scholars
  • c) Martino and Frederick
  • d) Cornelius and Valdes

6. When he first summons Mephistopheles, how does Faustus ask him to appear?

  • a) In the shape of a Franciscan Friar
  • b) In the shape of a Monk
  • c) In the shape of Helen of Troy
  • d) In the shape of a spinster

7. When he first summons Mephistopheles, how does Faustus ask him to appear?

  • a) Go, and come with sword in the left hand.
  • b) Go, and return an old Franciscan friar; that holy shape becomes a devil best.
  • c) Go, and get back like a Monk of Geoffrey Chaucer.
  • d) Go, and never return, because I’ve seen you.

8. What is the name of the ruler of Hell in Doctor Faustus?

  • a) Satan
  • b) Lucifer
  • c) Mephistopheles
  • d) Devil

9. How long does Faustus demand that Mephistopheles serve him?

  • a) 22 years
  • b) 23 years
  • c) 24 years
  • d) 25 years

10. What does Faustus offer in return for this service?

  • a) His knowledge
  • b) His soul
  • c) His wealth
  • d) His books

11. How does Faustus sign his compact with Lucifer?

  • a) In his own blood
  • b) In red ink
  • c) In his servant’s blood
  • d) In congealed blood

12. What is the meaning of the words that appear on Faustus’s arm in Latin? (Homo Fuge)

  • a) Happy Man
  • b) Bad Man
  • c) Fly Man
  • d) Die Man

13. Who agrees to become Wagner’s servant?

  • a) Robin
  • b) The Clown
  • c) Rafe
  • d) None of them

14. What does Mephistopheles refuse to tell Faustus?

  • a) Who sent him to Faustus
  • b) Who named him
  • c) Who made the world
  • d) Who told him about Faustus

15. Why does Mephistopheles refuse to answer the question? (Who made the world?)

  • a) He says that “the answer is against our kingdom”
  • b) He says that “the answer can harm you”
  • c) He says that “the answer will kill you”
  • d) He says that “the answer is not worth-mentioning”

16. Which city does Faustus visit extensively in scene 7?

  • a) Venice
  • b) Florence
  • c) Naples
  • d) Rome

17. What trick does Faustus, while invisible, play on the pope?

  • a) He steals the money
  • b) He steals the food
  • c) He changes pope’s dress
  • d) He makes Pope forget who he is.

18. Which historical figure does Faustus conjure up for the Emperor to see?

  • a) Alexander
  • b) Plato
  • c) Socrates
  • d) Aristotle

19. Which character is publicly skeptical of Faustus’s powers?

  • a) Robin (an ostler)
  • b) Wagner (the servant)
  • c) The Knight (Benvolio)
  • d) One of the scholars

20. How does Faustus humiliate the skeptic?

  • a) He makes antlers sprout from the skeptic’s head
  • b) He puts his life-long good name on the line
  • c) He makes him eat what he never ate before
  • d) He gets him beaten up for nothing

21. Who tries to persuade Faustus to repent just before he re-seals his pact with Lucifer?

  • a) Good angel
  • b) An Old Man
  • c) Neither of the above-mentioned names
  • d) The Chorus

22. Where, according to Mephistopheles, is Hell?

  • a) “Everywhere that heaven is not”
  • b) He stays silent
  • c) He says “I’m not supposed to tell you”
  • d) “Far away from Heaven”

23. What famous beauty does Mephistopheles present to Faustus in Scene 12?

  • a) Hecuba, queen of Troy
  • b) Helen of Troy
  • c) Aphrodite, goddess of love
  • d) Penthesilea, queen of the Amazons

24. What happens to Faustus at the end of the play?

  • a) He collapses in his fear of death
  • b) He starts crying
  • c) He is taken by devils
  • d) Nothing happens to him

25. After Faustus signed the contract with the Devil, what was the first thing he asked Mephistopheles to give him?

  • a) A book of theology
  • b) A book of law
  • c) A book of Incantations
  • d) A pair of scissors

26. How does Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus differ from a traditional Greek tragedy?

  • a) He doesn’t fall victim to any downfall
  • b) He doesn’t have Hamartia
  • c) He is a scholar
  • d) Faustus is a common man rather than a king

27. Marlowe was born in ____.

  • a) 1564
  • b) 1464
  • c) 1600
  • d) 1566

28. Marlowe is included among____.

  • a) The Critics of 16th century
  • b) The University Wits
  • c) The Protestants
  • d) The Romantics

29. Marlowe is known for:

  • a) Tamburlaine
  • b) Hero and Leander
  • c) Dido, Queen of Carthage
  • d) Doctor Faustus and Jew of Malta

30. Doctor Faustus exhibits _____ Spirit.

  • a) Renaissance
  • b) Religious
  • c) Poetic
  • d) None of them

31. In “the tragic history of Doctor Faustus”, Faustus was a____.

  • a) A Spanish writer
  • b) A German Scholar
  • c) An experienced teacher
  • d) An Italic Scholar

32. Faustus signs the contract with the Devil in blood. What Problem does he encounter?

  • a) His blood turns black
  • b) His blood keeps running out of his veins.
  • c) His blood congeals
  • d) His blood starts falling down on his left foot.

33. What else is personification of Faustus’s thoughts?

  • a) Good and Evil Angels
  • b) A talking cat
  • c) A dead heart
  • d) A Crow

34. The __ deadly sins make an appearance in the play, and Faustus is delighted by the sight of them.

  • a) 05
  • b) 06
  • c) 07
  • d) 08

35. “A sound magician is a mighty God” is said by____.

  • a) Dr. Faustus
  • b) Mephistopheles
  • c) Lucifer
  • d) The Chorus

36. “Tis Magic, Magic, that hath ravished me” is said by which character?

  • a) The Chorus
  • b) Lucifer
  • c) Dr. Faustus
  • d) The Knight

37. “But mercy, Faustus, of thy saviour sweet, Whose blood alone must wash away thy guilt” is said by____.

  • a) The Old man
  • b) The Chorus
  • c) Doctor Faustus
  • d) Good Angel

38. Who speaks out the sentence, “When I behold the Heavens, then I repent, and curse thee, wicked Mephistopheles, because thou hast deprived me of those joys.”

  • a) The Old man
  • b) The Chorus
  • c) Doctor Faustus
  • d) Good Angel

39. “For where we are is Hell, and where hell is, there must we ever be: And, to conclude, when all the world dissolves, and every creature shall be purified, all places shall be hell that are not heaven” is said by____.

  • a) Mephistopheles
  • b) Satan
  • c) Bad Angel
  • d) None of them

40. Faustus spends his 24 years in ____.

  • a) Practically doing nothing as he vowed
  • b) Killing People
  • c) He keeps on sleeping all the day long.
  • d) He reads books

41. Marlowe died in ____.

  • a) 1592
  • b) 1593
  • c) 1594
  • d) 1595

42. Christopher Marlowe was born to Canterbury Shoemaker:

  • a) James Joyce
  • b) Peterson
  • c) Hemingway
  • d) John Marlowe

43. __ dramas have been attributed to Christopher Marlowe.

  • a) 5
  • b) 6
  • c) 7
  • d) 8

44. “Doctor Faustus” was published in____.

  • a) 1600
  • b) 1602
  • c) 1604
  • d) 1606

45. The tragic flaw of Dr. Faustus is:

  • a) His hubris
  • b) His ambitious nature to learn
  • c) His teasing nature
  • d) His knowledge

46. Faustus’s last soliloquy is about____.

  • a) Repentance
  • b) His past time
  • c) Hubris
  • d) His future

Chapter 18: DIVINE COMEDY BY DANTE AND FIRST ENGLISH EPIC POEM BEOWULF

1. Divine Comedy was written by:

  • a) Milton
  • b) Chaucer
  • c) Dante
  • d) Shakespeare

2. Divine Comedy was:

  • a) Sonnet
  • b) A Long Italian Poem
  • c) Ballads
  • d) None of these

3. The poem is divided by in……parts.

  • a) Three
  • b) Four
  • c) Two
  • d) Five

4. How many total Cantos in the Poem Divine Comedy?

  • a) 200
  • b) 300
  • c) 100
  • d) 50

5. The Roman Poet……. guides him thought Hell and Purgatory,

  • a) Surrey
  • b) John Keats
  • c) Milton
  • d) Virgil

6. …………. Dantes Ideal woman, guides him through Heaven

  • a) Virgil
  • b) Beatrice
  • c) Russell
  • d) None of these

7. Who was a Florentine woman he had met in childhood and admired?

  • a) Beatrice
  • b) Virgil
  • c) Ezra
  • d) None of these

8. How many circles hell is made up of?

  • a) 2 circles
  • b) 3 circles
  • c) 9 circles
  • d) 8 circles

9. As Dante descends into Hell, the sins that he comes across become:

  • a) None serious
  • b) Interested
  • c) Comedy
  • d) More Serious

10. The souls who are stung by wasps outside of Hell are:

  • a) The Neutral Souls
  • b) The artificial souls
  • c) The Bad Souls
  • d) Good souls

11. The first infernal River is the:

  • a) Tames
  • b) Acheron
  • c) Indus
  • d) Jumna

12. In Dantes system, murder is:

  • a) Less serious than fraud
  • b) More serious than heresy
  • c) Both A and B
  • d) None of these

13. A demon who judges the gravity of the souls sins

  • a) Virgil
  • b) Beatrice
  • c) Bishops
  • d) Minos

14. Dantes attitude towards the sodomites is:

  • a) Respectful
  • b) Rude
  • c) Ugly
  • d) Good

15. Which term Does Dante use himself?

  • a) A red whine
  • b) A White Guelf
  • c) A Green Belt
  • d) Both A &B

16. Dantes attitude towards Florence is:

  • a) Rude
  • b) Good
  • c) Ugly
  • d) Loving but bitter

17. Francesca da Rimini and her husbands brother fell in love while:

  • a) Reading a chivalric romance together
  • b) Playing in the ground
  • c) While talking in anger
  • d) None of these

18. Dantes earth is:

  • a) Straight
  • b) Round
  • c) Shapeless
  • d) Both A and B

19. The sinners who are covered in flame are:

  • a) Good counselors
  • b) Bad counselors
  • c) Fraudulent counselors
  • d) None of these

20. Which kinds of sins are considered least serious by Dante?

  • a) Those resulting from incontinence
  • b) Those resulting from good evil
  • c) Those resulting from continence
  • d) Not sure

21. Hell is shaped like a:

  • a) Triangle
  • b) Round
  • c) Straight
  • d) Cone

22. Dante thought Pope Boniface VIII would be damned for:

  • a) Simony
  • b) Homer
  • c) Cerberus
  • d) All of these

23. The Inferno was written during Dantes:

  • a) Horace
  • b) Ovid
  • c) Exile from Florence
  • d) Lucan

24. Dante wrote in………writing style

  • a) Prose
  • b) Tuscan
  • c) Classical
  • d) Mock Epic

25. Farinata is a ……. Character:

  • a) Pluto
  • b) Comic
  • c) Heretic
  • d) Cerberus

26. The time Dante spends in Hell corresponds to:

  • a) Days after Easter
  • b) Days after Death
  • c) Both A&B
  • d) Days before Easter

27. The forest of twisted trees is in the:

  • a) 3rd Circle
  • b) 7th Circle
  • c) 8th Circle
  • d) 9th Circle

28. Dante shows himself to be:

  • a) Often Frightened
  • b) Full of pity
  • c) Unbending hatred
  • d) All of these

29. Usurers are damned for:

  • a) Lust
  • b) pity
  • c) Greed
  • d) Honesty

30. Beowulf’s personal reason for coming to Denmark is his:

  • a) Glory that awaited him
  • b) For fame
  • c) For money
  • d) For murdered

31. In Beowulf, Grendel dies after his:

  • a) Cutting his neck
  • b) Cutting throat
  • c) Both A&B
  • d) Arms his torn from its socket

32. Grendel was a:

  • a) King
  • b) Monster
  • c) Angel
  • d) Thief

33. Priors to Beowulf’s coming to their assistance against Grendel, Hrothgars People made Sacrifices…

  • a) Theirs Goats
  • b) Their Lives
  • c) Their old stone Gods
  • d) Their wealth

34. In Beowulf, the visitors to the Danish meadhall are….

  • a) Geats
  • b) Roam
  • c) Anglicans
  • d) England

35. Beowulf defeats Grendel with his:

  • a) Revolver
  • b) Sword
  • c) Knife
  • d) Powerful grip

36. Why the follower of Beowulf is powerless in front of Grendel?

  • a) They got frightened
  • b) He put a spell on their weapons
  • c) He destroy their weapons
  • d) He snatch their weapons

37. What does Beowulf do when he meets Hrothgar?

  • a) He got frightened
  • b) Nothing to do
  • c) He boasts of his exploits
  • d) Both A&C

38. Where is Beowulf from?

  • a) Geatland
  • b) England
  • c) London
  • d) Denmark

39. Who are the Scylding?

  • a) Beowulf’s warriors
  • b) Pops
  • c) Hrothgar’s warriors
  • d) Kind people

40. What jealous character taunts Beowulf during the festivities in Heorot?

  • a) Simony
  • b) Unferth
  • c) Natural Souls
  • d) Glory

41. In Heorot, Beowulf relates the tale of how he defeated his childhood friend, Breca, in what kind of competition?

  • a) A Horse race
  • b) A Battle
  • c) Both A & B
  • d) A Swimming race

42. What is Grendels mother Name?

  • a) No Name
  • b) Famous for as merewif
  • c) Anglaecwif
  • d) Both A, B & C

43. Grendels mother abducted and decapitated Aeschere. Who was Aeschere?

  • a) Hrothgars most trusted advisor
  • b) None
  • c) Priors
  • d) Simple Woman

44. After Hrothgors Death……. was the king.

  • a) Grendel
  • b) Simony
  • c) Beowulf
  • d) Richard 1

45. The author of Beowulf is:

  • a) Shakespeare
  • b) Anonymous
  • c) Sophocles
  • d) William Langland

46. Beowulf contains Pagan and ……..both elements. So, the author must be a……

  • a) Atheist
  • b) Jewish
  • c) Christian
  • d) Angles

47. Beowulf received a mortal wound while killing a………

  • a) Dragon
  • b) Python
  • c) king
  • d) People

Chapter 19: MACBETH

1. How many men reign as king of Scotland throughout the play?

  • a) 2
  • b) 3
  • c) 4
  • d) 5

2. The Witches give ______ prophecies.

  • a) 2
  • b) 3
  • c) 4
  • d) 7

3. The prophecy regarding Macbeth becoming a______ fulfils at once.

  • a) King
  • b) Thane
  • c) Rebel
  • d) Murderer

4. What title is Macbeth given after his victory described in act 1?

  • a) Thane of Cawdor
  • b) Thane of Rome
  • c) King of Scotland
  • d) None

5. Who does Lady Macbeth frame for the murder of Duncan?

  • a) Banquo
  • b) Macduff
  • c) Malcolm
  • d) Duncan’s drunken Guards

6. Who kills Banquo?

  • a) Macduff’s men
  • b) Macduff
  • c) Macbeth’s Hired men
  • d) Macbeth

7. Who discovers Duncan’s body?

  • a) Banquo
  • b) Malcolm
  • c) Macduff
  • d) Macbeth

8. Whom does Macbeth see sitting in his chair during the banquet?

  • a) Duncan’s ghost
  • b) Duncan’s son
  • c) Banquo’s ghost
  • d) Banquo’s son

9. What vision does Macbeth have before he kills Duncan?

  • a) A Floating dagger
  • b) A Knife
  • c) An Arrow
  • d) A Ghost

10. With whom are the Scots at war at the beginning of the play?

  • a) Germany
  • b) England
  • c) Norway
  • d) Denmark

11. Who is goddess of witchcraft in the play?

  • a) Aphrodite
  • b) Athena
  • c) Hera
  • d) Hecate

12. What happens to Lady Macbeth before she dies?

  • a) She is plagued by night-mares
  • b) She is plagued by fits of sleepwalking
  • c) She cries all the time
  • d) She keeps on sleeping all the time

13. Why is Macduff able to kill Macbeth despite the Witches’ Prophecy?

  • a) He was a ghost
  • b) He had magical powers
  • c) He was born by cesarean section
  • d) He was created by a ghost

14. Where is Duncan killed?

  • a) In his own palace
  • b) At Macbeth’s castle
  • c) At Macduff’s place
  • d) In his son’s bedchamber

15. Who flees Scotland to join Malcolm in England?

  • a) Banquo
  • b) Fleance
  • c) Macduff
  • d) Banquo’s ghost

16. Malcolm is _________ ‘s son.

  • a) Banquo
  • b) Macduff
  • c) Macbeth
  • d) Duncan

17. What was the weather when Duncan was murdered?

  • a) Violent & Stormy
  • b) Rain at night
  • c) Bright Day
  • d) Dim Moon-light

18. Who flees Scotland immediately after Duncan’s death?

  • a) Malcolm
  • b) Donalbain
  • c) Malcolm and Donalbain
  • d) Macduff

19. Who tells Macduff that his family has been killed?

  • a) Ross
  • b) Lennox
  • c) Porter
  • d) Donalbain

20. In which country is Macbeth set?

  • a) England
  • b) Scotland
  • c) France
  • d) Greece

21. Inverness is:

  • a) A city of France
  • b) A city on Scotland’s northeast coast
  • c) A city in Greece
  • d) An Imaginary world

22. Macbeth’s people kill Banquo but fail to kill his son:

  • a) Lennox
  • b) Porter
  • c) Ross
  • d) Fleance

23. Witches later on give _____ prophecies which are taken wrong by Macbeth.

  • a) 2
  • b) 3
  • c) 4
  • d) 5

24. Scottish Nobles also fight favoring __________.

  • a) Banquo
  • b) Fleance
  • c) Macduff and Malcolm
  • d) Malcolm

25. How does Lady Macbeth die?

  • a) She is killed by guards
  • b) She is killed by Macduff
  • c) She is killed by Malcolm
  • d) She kills herself

26. Macbeth’s tragic flaw is______.

  • a) His ambition
  • b) His is narrow-minded
  • c) He doesn’t take warnings seriously
  • d) His love for his wife

27. Fair is foul, and _____ is fair, hover through fog and filthy air.”

  • a) Foul
  • b) Fair
  • c) Fool
  • d) None of them

28. “Methought, I heard a voice cry, ‘sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep” is said by:

  • a) Lady Macbeth
  • b) Macbeth himself
  • c) Banquo
  • d) Ross

Chapter 20: TWELFTH NIGHT

1. Twelfth night is also known as:

  • a) What You Will
  • b) Romance
  • c) Death Wins
  • d) You Lost It

2. The play centres on the twins Viola and _____.

  • a) Sebastian
  • b) Macbeth
  • c) Antonio
  • d) Orsino

3. Who is Orsino in love with at the beginning of the play?

  • a) Olivia
  • b) Viola
  • c) Maria
  • d) Himself

4. Complete the quote: "If music be the food of _____, play on."

  • a) Soul
  • b) Love
  • c) Hatred
  • d) Joy

5. Where does Twelfth Night take place?

  • a) England
  • b) Illyria
  • c) Rome
  • d) Turkey

6. Olivia unwilling to receive any visitors because of the death of her:

  • a) Father
  • b) Son
  • c) Brother
  • d) Lover

7. Who is Cesario?

  • a) Orsino
  • b) Olivia
  • c) Viola
  • d) None

8. _____ and Sebastian are look alikes.

  • a) Orsino
  • b) Olivia
  • c) Viola
  • d) None

9. Who does Olivia fall in love with?

  • a) Orsino
  • b) Cesario
  • c) Malvolio
  • d) None

10. Who forges the letter that Malvolio thinks is from Olivia?

  • a) Orsino
  • b) Cesario
  • c) Maria
  • d) None

11. Who takes care of Sebastian after he is shipwrecked?

  • a) Antonio
  • b) Athena
  • c) Hera
  • d) Hecate

12. Who challenges Cesario to a duel?

  • a) Orsino
  • b) Sir Andrew
  • c) Maria
  • d) None

13. Who does Olivia marry?

  • a) Orsino
  • b) Sir Andrew
  • c) Sebastian
  • d) None

14. Which character does not get married (or plan to) at the end of the play?

  • a) Orsino
  • b) Malvolio
  • c) Maria
  • d) Toby

15. Who saved Viola from duel?

  • a) Antonio
  • b) Sir Andrew
  • c) Maria
  • d) None

16. Olivia's riotous uncle is Sir ____ Belch.

  • a) Orsino
  • b) Andrew
  • c) Toby
  • d) None

17. Antonio is a sea captain who previously fought against ___.

  • a) Orsino
  • b) Sir Andrew
  • c) Maria
  • d) None

18. Illyria was an ancient region of the ____ Balkans.

  • a) Eastern
  • b) Western
  • c) Central
  • d) None

19. As the very nature of Twelfth Night explores ___ identity and sexual attraction, having a male actor play Viola enhanced the impression of sexual ambiguity.

  • a) Gender
  • b) Moral
  • c) Social
  • d) None

20. We find homo-____ elements in Twelfth Night.

  • a) Sapien
  • b) Sexual
  • c) Hatred
  • d) None

21. The play ends in a declaration of marriage between Duke Orsino and ___

  • a) Viola
  • b) Olivia
  • c) Maria
  • d) None

22. Maria plays a prank with _____.

  • a) Orsino
  • b) Porter
  • c) Malvolio
  • d) Viola

23. Malvolio thinks that _____ loves him.

  • a) Viola
  • b) Olivia
  • c) Maria
  • d) None

24. _____ is detained for his behaviour.

  • a) Orsino
  • b) Malvolio
  • c) Sebastian
  • d) None

25. ____ loves Orsino.

  • a) Viola
  • b) Olivia
  • c) Maria
  • d) None

26. ____ is jealous of Orsino’s love for Olivia.

  • a) Viola
  • b) Malvolio
  • c) Maria
  • d) None

27. Andrew is ____ of Sir Toby.

  • a) Friend
  • b) Enemy
  • c) Student
  • d) None

28. _____ is a jester.

  • a) Orsino
  • b) Feste
  • c) Antonio
  • d) Ross

Chapter 21: OTHELLO

1. Othello was written and published ____.

  • a) 1603-1604
  • b) 1606-1607
  • c) 1610-1611
  • d) 1600-1601

2. Othello is a/an _____ act play.

  • a) 3
  • b) 8
  • c) 5
  • d) 6

3. What are Iago and Roderigo discussing as the first scene opens?

  • a) About Desdemona’s beauty
  • b) About Othello and Desdemona’s marriage
  • c) About weather
  • d) They are silent

4. Othello married Desdemona____.

  • a) Publicly
  • b) Without her consent
  • c) Deceitfully
  • d) Secretly

5. Desdemona’s father is ____.

  • a) Iago
  • b) Roderigo
  • c) Brabantio
  • d) Montano

6. They play begins at____.

  • a) Brabantio’s place
  • b) Montano’s place
  • c) Spain
  • d) London

7. What is Othello’s Military rank?

  • a) Soldier
  • b) General
  • c) Admiral
  • d) Lieutenant

8. Othello is insecure about____.

  • a) His Military Rank
  • b) His position in society
  • c) About his marriage
  • d) About his race and color

9. What is Othello often referred to?

  • a) The Moon
  • b) The Moor
  • c) The lion
  • d) The eagle

10. “The Moor! I know his trumpet” is said by____.

  • a) Iago
  • b) Roderigo
  • c) Othello
  • d) Montano

11. “O beware, my Lord, of jealousy; it is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on.” is said by____.

  • a) Desdemona
  • b) Iago
  • c) Brabantio
  • d) Othello

12. The Antagonist of the play is____.

  • a) Desdemona
  • b) Brabantio
  • c) Othello
  • d) Iago

13. What pattern is embroidered on the handkerchief?

  • a) Mangoes
  • b) Strawberries
  • c) Almond
  • d) None

14. How is the Turkish fleet thwarted?

  • a) By a Storm
  • b) By an Avalanche
  • c) By the army
  • d) All

15. What rank does Cassio hold before Othello strips it from him?

  • a) General
  • b) Lieutenant
  • c) Admiral
  • d) Captain

16. Othello made Cassio his lieutenant preferring him over____.

  • a) Cassio
  • b) Lodovico
  • c) Roderigo
  • d) Iago

17. What is Cassio’s first name?

  • a) James
  • b) John
  • c) Michael
  • d) None

18. What is Brabantio’s position in Venice?

  • a) Captain
  • b) Senator
  • c) Ambassador
  • d) King

19. “Look to her, Moor, if thou hast eyes to see: she has deceived her father, and may thee” is said by___.

  • a) Brabantio
  • b) Iago
  • c) Othello
  • d) Cassio

20. Who made the handkerchief that Othello inherited from his mother?

  • a) A sibyl, or female prophet
  • b) A blind woman
  • c) His grandmother
  • d) His mother herself

21. What first attracted Desdemona to Othello?

  • a) His status
  • b) His personality
  • c) His tales
  • d) His Race

22. What rank does Iago Begrudgingly hold?

  • a) Ensign
  • b) Guard
  • c) Constable
  • d) None

23. Which Epithets is most commonly applied to Iago throughout the play?

  • a) Lion (ironically)
  • b) Honest (ironically)
  • c) Handsome (Ironically)
  • d) Good husband (ironically)

24. Which of Cassio’s weaknesses does Iago exploit?

  • a) A low tolerance for alcohol
  • b) A low tolerance for anger
  • c) A low tolerance for heat
  • d) A low tolerance for beauty

25. Whom does Othello demote for allegedly starting a drunken brawl?

  • a) Roderigo
  • b) Iago
  • c) Bar owner
  • d) Cassio

26. What does Desdemona promise Cassio?

  • a) She will have him married
  • b) She will get him his job back
  • c) She will always consider him her friend
  • d) She will make him feel good

27. How does Cassio feel about Desdemona?

  • a) He loves her
  • b) He respects her
  • c) He wants to marry her
  • d) He wants to make her forget Othello

28. What makes Iago plant against Cassio and Desdemona?

  • a) When he sees her touching her palm
  • b) When he hears her promising Cassio
  • c) When he sees her speaking frankly to Cassio
  • d) All are correct

29. Iago suspects that his wife is involved in____.

  • a) Othello
  • b) Cassio
  • c) A 3rd person
  • d) None of them

30. Who carries handkerchief dropped by Desdemona?

  • a) Cassio
  • b) Emilia
  • c) Bianca
  • d) Othello

31. Whom does Emilia give the handkerchief?

  • a) Iago
  • b) Brabantio
  • c) Othello
  • d) Cassio

32. Iago places the handkerchief in the house of_____.

  • a) Cassio
  • b) Othello
  • c) His relatives
  • d) His friend

33. Cassio loves____.

  • a) Desdemona
  • b) Emilia
  • c) Bianca
  • d) He never loves

34. Handkerchief was symbol of ____.

  • a) Love and Loyalty
  • b) Honesty
  • c) Past
  • d) Hate and disloyalty

35. Iago’s views about women are____.

  • a) Positive
  • b) Negative
  • c) full of hatred
  • d) Full of jealousy

36. “You are pictures out of doors, Bells in your parlors” is said by:

  • a) Othello
  • b) Iago
  • c) Cassio
  • d) Desdemona

37. Players in your housewifery, and housewives in you beds.” Is said by:.

  • a) Cassio
  • b) Iago
  • c) Roderigo
  • d) Brabantio

38. Of what does Brabantio accuse Othello?

  • a) Cheating on her daughter
  • b) Having relationship with a prostitute
  • c) Using Magic and abducting Desdemona
  • d) He accuses him of nothing

39. With whom does Iago make Othello think his wife is having an affair?

  • a) With himself
  • b) Cassio
  • c) Roderigo
  • d) None of them

40. What piece of “recovered evidence” does Othello think proves Desdemona’s treachery?

  • a) The Handkerchief
  • b) A shirt
  • c) A-stained pillow
  • d) A precious gift

41. What does Iago counsel Roderigo to do?

  • a) “Get me a new handkerchief”
  • b) “Put money in my purse”
  • c) “Put money in thy purse”
  • d) “Put money in thy pocket”

42. Roderigo tries to kill ______ and fails.

  • a) Othello
  • b) Emilia
  • c) Cassio
  • d) Othello and Desdemona

43. Who kills Roderigo?

  • a) Othello
  • b) Cassio
  • c) Iago
  • d) Emilia

44. Who kills Desdemona?

  • a) Roderigo
  • b) Iago
  • c) Othello
  • d) She kills herself

45. How does Othello die?

  • a) Iago kills him
  • b) Cassio kills him
  • c) He kills himself
  • d) He doesn’t die.

46. Who is given charge after Othello’s death?

  • a) Michael Cassio
  • b) Iago
  • c) Brabantio
  • d) A new person

47. Cassio is charged with determining _____ punishment.

  • a) His own
  • b) Emilia’s
  • c) Iago’s
  • d) None of them

Chapter 22: KING LEAR

1. King Lear is the ruler of _____.

  • a) England
  • b) France
  • c) Sweden
  • d) none

2. Lear's king's daughters are:

  • a) Ophelia, Regan and Goneril
  • b) Goneril, Regan and Cordelia
  • c) Regan, Orsino and Cordelia
  • d) none

3. King Lear is a story about:

  • a) It tells us about the deep love of daughters
  • b) It tells us the war and kingship
  • c) It tells the tale of a king who bequeaths his power and land to two of his three daughters
  • d) none

4. Daughters are given power after:

  • a) After they declare their love for him in obsequious manner
  • b) After falling in love with Edmund
  • c) both
  • d) none

5. Which one of Lear’s daughters is sent into exile?

  • a) Regan
  • b) Cordelia
  • c) Goneril
  • d) none

6. Cordelia is exiled because:

  • a) She gets nothing, because she will not flatter him as her sisters had done
  • b) She gets the kingdom.
  • c) She knows the reality of her sisters
  • d) none

7. Albany is husband of

  • a) Cordelia
  • b) Goneril
  • c) Regan
  • d) none

8. When Lear visits Goneril, what does she demand of him?

  • a) That he send away some of his knights
  • b) That he should give her more power
  • c) That he would exile Cordelia
  • d) None

9. Why does she say so?

  • a) She tells him to send away his knights and servants because they are too loud and too numerous
  • b) She hates his servant
  • c) She will arrange new team
  • d) None

10. Unable to believe that his beloved daughters are betraying him, Lear slowly goes

  • a) Healthy
  • b) Happy
  • c) Insane
  • d) discouraged

11. Both the elder daughters____ King Lear

  • a) Betray
  • b) Love
  • c) Hate
  • d) none

12. Who is Gloucester’s bastard son?

  • a) Edgar
  • b) Edmund
  • c) Albany
  • d) none

13. Who is Regan married to?

  • a) Duke of Norway
  • b) Duke of Denmark
  • c) Duke of Cornwall
  • d) Duke of France

14. Who is Gloucester?

  • a) Gloucester is a nobleman loyal to King Lear
  • b) Gloucester is vulgar
  • c) Gloucester is brutal
  • d) none

15. When they hear that Lear is coming to visit them, where do Regan and Cornwall go?

  • a) To Gloucester's castle
  • b) to visit Denmark
  • c) to see Cordelia
  • d) None

16. Why is Kent thrown into the stocks?

  • a) For beating Oswald with flat of his sword
  • b) For drinking
  • c) for getting deep interest in politics
  • d) None

17. Why does he beat Oswald?

  • a) Kent's attack on Oswald is a reaction to the steward's dishonesty and to his purpose in fulfilling Goneril's orders.
  • b) for nothing
  • c) for getting state
  • d) none

18. When he flees from his father, how does Edgar disguise himself?

  • a) As a common beggar
  • b) As a Prince
  • c) As a lover
  • d) As a wanderer

19. When Lear tells Regan that Goneril has wronged him, what does Regan advise him to do?

  • a) Go to Regan and ask her love
  • b) Go to Goneril and ask her forgiveness
  • c) Go to both Regan and Goneril for forgiveness.
  • d) None

20. After he curses both Goneril and Regan, what does Lear do?

  • a) He storms out of Gloucester's castle with Fool
  • b) He enters Cordelia’s castle
  • c) Both
  • d) None

21. Fool is:

  • a) The Fool is the king's advocate
  • b) lover of Regan
  • c) disloyal to King
  • d) (Option missing for d in original, assuming this is part of 22)

22. Fool is:

  • a) to appreciate king
  • b) disloyal
  • c) Faulty
  • d) Is also able to point out the king's faults, as no one else can

23. The fool's use of irony, sarcasm, and humor help to ease the truth:

  • a) through his no-sense stories
  • b) through tricks
  • c) And allows him to moderate Lear's behavior
  • d) None

24. Why is Gloucester accused of treason?

  • a) Because Edmund reveals letters showing that he knows of a French invasion
  • b) because Edgar knows the reality
  • c) because Edgar and Edmund are brothers
  • d) none

25. Where does Gloucester send Lear and his attendants?

  • a) To Dover
  • b) To Spain
  • c) To London
  • d) To Denmark

26. How is Gloucester punished for his "treason"?

  • a) He is awarded
  • b) He is blinded
  • c) He is exiled
  • d) None

27. Who encounters Gloucester on the heath and offers to lead him to Dover?

  • a) Edgar
  • b) Edmund
  • c) Orsino
  • d) Lear

28. Who is leading the army that lands at Dover?

  • a) Regan
  • b) Gloucester
  • c) Cordelia
  • d) none

29. To whom are both Goneril and Regan attracted?

  • a) Edmund
  • b) Albany
  • c) Duke of Cornwall
  • d) none

30. Before the battle between the French and English armies, to whose camp is Lear brought!

  • a) Cordelia's
  • b) Ophelia's
  • c) Regan’s
  • d) none

31. What happens to Lear and Cordelia during the battle?

  • a) Edgar kills them
  • b) Edmund captures them
  • c) both a and b
  • d) none

32. How does Regan die?

  • a) Goneril poisons her
  • b) she suicides
  • c) king hanged her
  • d) none

33. Who fights a duel with Edmund?

  • a) Orsino
  • b) Edgar
  • c) Lear
  • d) Albany

34. What does Edmund reveal as he lies dying?

  • a) That he ordered Cordelia killed
  • b) that he loves Cordelia
  • c) he marries Cordelia
  • d) he loves Regan

35. What happens to Lear at the end of the play?

  • a) He fights
  • b) he kills himself
  • c) He dies weeping over Cordelia's body
  • d) (Option missing in original)

36. Who survives in the end?

  • a) Albany, Edgar, and the elderly Kent are left to take care of the country under a cloud of sorrow and regret.
  • b) Cordelia and king
  • c) Edmund and Cordelia

Chapter 23: HAMLET SHORT ANSWERS

  1. 1. Who wrote Hamlet?
    Shakespeare
  2. 2. Who is the protagonist of Hamlet?
    Prince Hamlet
  3. 3. Who is the first character to see the ghost of Old Hamlet?
    Bernardo and Marcellus
  4. 4. Who is Hamlet's best friend?
    Horatio
  5. 5. Who tells Ophelia to reject Hamlet's advance?
    Polonius
  6. 6. Who does Hamlet tell to "get thee to a nunnery"?
    Ophelia
  7. 7. What does Hamlet carry in his hand when he delivers the soliloquy that begins with "To be or not to be"?
    A Book
  8. 8. Who is the captain of Fortinbras' army?
    Young Fortinbras
  9. 9. What is the name of Hamlet's childhood friend who is sent to spy on him?
    Rosencrantz
  10. 10. What is the name of the other childhood friend sent to spy on Hamlet?
    Guildenstern
  11. 11. What does Polonius believe is the cause of Hamlet's "madness"?
    Unrequited love for Ophelia
  12. 12. Who is Hamlet's uncle and stepfather?
    Claudius
  13. 13. Who is the servant of the court who delivers Hamlet's letters to England?
    Osric
  14. 14. Who is the queen of the fairies in "Hamlet"?
    Titania
  15. 15. Who is the king of the fairies in "Hamlet"?
    Oberon
  16. 16. Who tells Hamlet about the ghost of his father?
    Horatio
  17. 17. Who is the first character to speak in "Hamlet"?
    Barnardo
  18. 18. What is the name of the country where "Hamlet" takes place?
    Denmark
  19. 19. Who is the person that Hamlet wants to "catch with his trap"?
    Claudius
  20. 20. Who says the line "Neither a borrower nor a lender be"?
    Polonius
  21. 21. What does Ophelia give to Hamlet that he returns to her after their interaction?
    Remembrances
  22. 22. Who says the line "The lady doth protest too much, methinks"?
    Gertrude
  23. 23. Who says "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark"?
    Marcellus
  24. 24. What is the name of the play Hamlet stages to reveal his uncle?
    The Murder of Gonzago (Mouse Trap)
  25. 25. Whom does Polonius send to France to spy on Laertes?
    Reynaldo
  26. 26. Where does the ghost appear during the play?
    The castle ramparts and Gertrude's bedchamber
  27. 27. How did Claudius murder King Hamlet?
    By pouring poison into his ear
  28. 28. Where is the university at which Horatio and Hamlet studied?
    Wittenberg
  29. 29. Whose skull does Hamlet discover in the churchyard?
    The former court jester's
  30. 30. Where do Hamlet and Laertes fight during Ophelia's funeral?
    Inside the grave itself
  31. 31. What does Hamlet claim to be able to tell the difference between when the wind is from the south?
    A hawk and a handsaw
  32. 32. In whose history of Denmark did Shakespeare find background material for his play?
    Saxo Grammaticus
  33. 33. How does Ophelia drown?
    She falls down from a tree into a brook.
  34. 34. Whose story does Hamlet ask the players to tell upon their arrival to Elsinore?
    Priam and Hecuba's
  35. 35. Who is the last character to die in the play?
    Hamlet
  36. 36. Who speaks the famous "To be, or not to be" soliloquy?
    Hamlet
  37. 37. In what country do Rosencrantz and Guildenstern die?
    England
  38. 38. Why does Hamlet decide not to kill Claudius after the play?
    Claudius is praying.
  39. 39. Who killed Fortinbras's father?
    Old Hamlet
  40. 40. Which of Claudius and Laertes' traps for Hamlet succeeds in killing him?
    The poisoned sword
  41. 41. Which character speaks from beneath the stage toward the end of Act I?
    The Ghost
  42. 42. Who returns Hamlet to Denmark after his exile?
    A group of pirates
  43. 43. What poison does Claudius pour into the ear of Hamlet's father, causing his death?
    Hebenon
  44. 44. How does Queen Gertrude die?
    Poisoned by drinking from goblet.
  45. 45. How are Polonius and Laertes related?
    Polonius is his father
  46. 46. How many soliloquies does Hamlet deliver?
    Seven

Chapter 24: THE FAERIE QUEENE

1. The Faerie Queene is a/an English________ by Edmund Spenser.

  • a) Epic Poem
  • b) Sonnet
  • c) Ode
  • d) Ballad

2. Edmund Spenser in “Faerie Queene” invented the verse form known as:

  • a) Quintain
  • b) Isometric Stanza
  • c) Heterometric Stanza
  • d) Spenserian Stanza

3. On a literal level, the poem follows several knights as a means to examine:

  • a) Evils
  • b) Natural Disasters
  • c) Different virtues
  • d) Sins

4. The text of the poem is primarily a/an_____ work:

  • a) Descriptive
  • b) Narrative
  • c) Didactic
  • d) Allegorical

5. It can be read on several levels of allegory, including as praise (or, later, criticism) of Queen:

  • a) Victoria
  • b) Elizabeth
  • c) Elizabeth II
  • d) Anne

6. Spenser presented the first three books of Faerie Queene to Elizabeth I in:

  • a) 1588
  • b) 1589
  • c) 1590
  • d) 1591

7. The poem was a clear effort to gain:

  • a) Court favor
  • b) public favor
  • c) bounties
  • d) fame

8. As a reward, Elizabeth granted Spenser a pension for life amounting to ______ pounds a year:

  • a) 40
  • b) 50
  • c) 60
  • d) 70

9. The poem consists of_____ books:

  • a) 3
  • b) 4
  • c) 5
  • d) 6

10. Seductress of the knights is:

  • a) Gloriana
  • b) Acrasia
  • c) Una
  • d) Caelia

11. A knight who is an embodiment and champion of justice is:

  • a) Artegall
  • b) Sansfoy
  • c) Sansloy
  • d) Sansjoy

12. What has the Dragon done to Una’s parents?

  • a) Ambushed
  • b) Killed
  • d) Taken hostage of
  • d) Burned

13. Whose den does Una warn Redcrosse to avoid:

  • a) Errour’s
  • b) Lion’s
  • c) Dragon’s
  • d) Wolf’s

14. How does Redcrosse defeat Errour?

  • a) Burns her
  • b) Crucifies her
  • c) Stabs her
  • d) Strangles her

15. The Hermit who shelters Redcrosse and Una is really Whom?

  • a) Artegall
  • b) Archimago
  • c) Satyrane
  • d) Britomart

16. What animal befriends Una?

  • a) Dragon
  • b) Lion
  • c) Snake
  • d) Unicorn

17. Who is the mistress of the House of Pride?

  • a) Gloriana
  • b) Acrasia
  • c) Lucifera
  • d) Caelia

18. Who hears Una’s cries for help in the forest?

  • a) Sansjoy
  • b) Fauns
  • c) Satyrs
  • d) both b&C

19. Who protects Una from Sansloy?

  • a) Satyrane
  • b) Sansjoy
  • c) Artegall
  • d) Uta

20. In whose dungeon is Redcrosse imprisoned?

  • a) Artorio’s
  • b) Orgoglio’s
  • c) Lion’s
  • d) Ogario’s

21. How does Prince Arthur kill Orgoglio?

  • a) Hangs him
  • b) Strangles him
  • c) Stabs him
  • d) Dismembers

22. What weapon does Redcrosse use to slay the Dragon?

  • a) Long sword
  • b) Dagger
  • c) Axe
  • d) Spear

23. What virtue does Sir Guyon represent?

  • a) Piety
  • b) Justice
  • c) Temperance
  • d) Truthfulness

24. Who is Guyon’s guide?

  • a) Floremell
  • b) Palmer
  • c) Redcrosse
  • d) Lansloy

25. Who steals Guyon’s horse?

  • a) Braggadocchio
  • b) Orgoglio
  • c) Artorio
  • d) Prince Arthur

26. Who tempts Guyon with riches and his own daughter?

  • a) Mamon
  • b) Lansloy
  • c) Palmer
  • d) Floremell

27. Who prevents theft of Guyon’s possessions?

  • a) Palmer
  • b) Arthur
  • c) Mamon
  • d) Redcrosse

28. What does Arthur read in Alma’s castle?

  • a) A Chronicle of British Kings
  • b) A Chronicle of Lions
  • c) A Chronicle of British Knights
  • d) A Chronicle of British Queens

Chapter 25: THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST

1. The Importance of Being Earnest is written by:

  • a) Henrik Ibsen
  • b) Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde
  • c) George Bernard Shaw
  • d) None of These

2. The Importance of Being Earnest falls in:

  • a) Comedy of Manners
  • b) Absurd
  • c) Colonialism
  • d) Realism

3. Following is not a characteristic of Comedy of Manners:

  • a) Scandals
  • b) Couples
  • c) Pun
  • d) Didactic

4. Following is not a characteristic of Comedy of Manners:

  • a) Town and Urban Life
  • b) Follies of Rich
  • c) Snobbery
  • d) Poverty

5. Algernon Moncrieff is waiting for ____:

  • a) Lady Bracknell
  • b) Jack
  • c) Cecily
  • d) Miss. Prism

6. When the play opens, Algernon Moncrieff is ____:

  • a) Playing on Piano
  • b) Drinking
  • c) Busy in Research
  • d) None

7. Algernon Moncrieff lives at ____:

  • a) Moon Street
  • b) Sun Street
  • c) Half-Moon Street
  • d) None

8. Algernon Moncrieff lives in ____:

  • a) A House
  • b) A Mansion
  • c) A Hut
  • d) A Flat

9. Algernon Moncrieff is mostly in ____:

  • a) Debts
  • b) Prison
  • c) Love
  • d) None

10. Lane is Algernon’s ____:

  • a) Friend
  • b) Brother
  • c) Butler
  • d) None

11. Lane ____ wine secretly:

  • a) Drinks
  • b) Sells
  • c) Gifts
  • d) None

12. Algernon ____ his aunt:

  • a) Avoids
  • b) Hates
  • c) Likes
  • d) Adores

13. ____ comes to meet Algernon before Lady Bracknell comes:

  • a) Jack
  • b) Prism
  • c) Gwendolen
  • d) Chasuble

14. Lane has prepared ____ sandwiches for Lady Bracknell:

  • a) Cucumber
  • b) Chicken
  • c) Vegetables
  • d) No

15. Algernon eats ____ sandwiches before she comes:

  • a) 2
  • b) All
  • c) No
  • d) None

16. Algernon investigates Jack about ____:

  • a) Cigarette Case
  • b) A Murder
  • c) His Aunt
  • d) His Wife

17. Jack says that it was given to him by his:

  • a) Aunt
  • b) Girlfriend
  • c) Wife
  • d) None (It was a gift from Cecily)

18. The Cigarette Case was given to him by:

  • a) His Aunt
  • b) His Wife
  • c) Cecily
  • d) None

19. Cecily is his ____:

  • a) Wife
  • b) Friend
  • c) Aunt
  • d) Ward

20. Jack/John Worthing is known as ____ in Town:

  • a) Earnest
  • b) Jack
  • c) Lane
  • d) None

21. Jack reveals he has come to London to propose to:

  • a) Cecily
  • b) Rina
  • c) Gwendolen
  • d) None

22. Algernon ____ the notion of marriage:

  • a) Ridicules
  • b) Admires
  • c) Accepts
  • d) None of These

23. Algernon says he has always suspected Jack was ____ because he can come to the town anytime:

  • a) Bunburyist
  • b) In Love
  • c) A Fool
  • d) None of These

24. Cecily was grand-daughter of:

  • a) Thomas Cardew
  • b) Jack
  • c) Bracknell
  • d) Miss. Prism

25. Cecily lives at Jack’s place in the country under the guidance of ____:

  • a) Thomas Cardew
  • b) Jack
  • c) Bracknell
  • d) Miss Prism

26. Miss Prism is Cecily’s ____:

  • a) Mother
  • b) Governess
  • c) Ward
  • d) None of These

27. Jack cannot ____ himself in village:

  • a) Entertain
  • b) Explore
  • c) Discover
  • d) None of These

28. Jack needs an ____ to go to Town:

  • a) Excuse
  • b) Airplane
  • c) Umbrella
  • d) Aunt

29. Jack has invented a young brother who is:

  • a) Loyal
  • b) Honest
  • c) Wicked
  • d) None of These

30. Jack’s people know that he goes to town every weekend to ____:

  • a) Pay money to his brother
  • b) Meet Gwendolen
  • c) Beat his brother
  • d) Solve the problems created by his brother (or to visit his "wicked brother Earnest")

31. Algernon confesses that he has invented an invalid in the country named____. Such invention helps him avoid any event he does not want to be part of:

  • a) Bunbury
  • b) Jack
  • c) John
  • d) None of These

32. Jack insists that he is through with ____:

  • a) Gwendolen
  • b) Algernon
  • c) Earnest (his invented brother)
  • d) None of These

33. Algernon maintains that he will need him more than ever if he ____:

  • a) Marries
  • b) Lives in London
  • c) Grows Rich
  • d) None of These

34. The Play is full of Oxymoron and ____:

  • a) Paradoxes
  • b) Irony
  • c) Symbolism
  • d) None of These

35. “In married life three is company and two is none” is ____:

  • a) Paradox
  • b) Irony
  • c) Symbolism
  • d) None of These

36. Algernon tells Lady Bracknell that he will be unable to attend her dinner tonight as ____:

  • a) Bunbury is ill
  • b) Algernon is ill
  • c) He is busy
  • d) None

37. Algernon takes Lady Bracknell to Music Room because ____:

  • a) He wants to plan the party
  • b) He is giving chance to Jack and Gwendolen
  • c) He is talking about their wedding
  • d) None of These

38. For this opportunity, Jack will take Algernon to ____:

  • a) Dinner at Wills’s (often inferred, or simply 'dinner')
  • b) His Town
  • c) His Aunt
  • d) His Wedding

39. Lady Bracknell’s name is ____:

  • a) Augusta
  • b) Gregory
  • c) Prism
  • d) None of These

40. She was coming from the house of ____:

  • a) Prism
  • b) Algernon
  • c) Lady Harbury
  • d) None of These

41. Lady Harbury’s ____ died:

  • a) Father
  • b) Son
  • c) Mother
  • d) Husband

42. Lady Harbury’s hair were turned to ____ colour with grief:

  • a) Gold
  • b) White
  • c) Grey
  • d) None of These

43. Aunt Augusta asks ____ several questions:

  • a) Gabler
  • b) Algernon
  • c) Jack
  • d) None of These

44. She ____ Jack:

  • a) Rejects
  • b) Selects
  • c) Approves
  • d) None of These

45. She rejects him because his ____ was not clear:

  • a) Parentage
  • b) Hair
  • c) Wealth
  • d) None of These

46. Jack says that Thomas Cardew found him in a ____:

  • a) Hand Bag
  • b) Train
  • c) Family
  • d) Restaurant

47. Jack tells Gwendolen his address which is overheard by ____:

  • a) Algernon
  • b) Augusta
  • c) Lane
  • d) None of These

48. Algernon plans to go to see and meet ____:

  • a) Jack
  • b) Cecily
  • c) Gwendolen
  • d) None of These

49. Miss. Prism seems interested in ____:

  • a) Dr. Chasuble
  • b) Jack
  • c) Algernon
  • d) Lane

50. Dr. Chasuble is ____:

  • a) Rector of Church
  • b) Teacher
  • c) Medical Doctor
  • d) None of These

51. Dr. Chasuble ____ with Miss. Prism:

  • a) Disagrees
  • b) Fights
  • c) Flirts
  • d) None of These

52. Dr. Chasuble takes Miss. Prism to a ____:

  • a) Market
  • b) Church
  • c) House
  • d) Walk

53. ____ reaches there as Earnest:

  • a) Algernon
  • b) Jack
  • c) Chasuble
  • d) None of These

54. Gwendolen and Cecily both love Jack and Algernon respectively because of their:

  • a) Fame
  • b) Game
  • c) Name
  • d) None of These

55. Both the girls wanted to have a man named ____:

  • a) Earnest
  • b) Jack
  • c) John
  • d) Algernon

56. Cecily tells Algernon that they were already ____:

  • a) Engaged
  • b) Married
  • c) Divorced
  • d) Friends

57. Miss Prism urges Chasuble to get married to a ____:

  • a) Mature Lady
  • b) Young Lady
  • c) Any Lady
  • d) Noble Lady

58. She is referring to ____:

  • a) Herself
  • b) Augusta
  • c) Gwendolen
  • d) Cecily

59. Jack comes and tells that his brother ____:

  • a) Is Reformed
  • b) Is Dead
  • c) Is Coming
  • d) Has Come

60. Chasuble has ____ lecture for each event:

  • a) Same
  • b) New
  • c) Creative
  • d) Different

61. Jack says that his brother died in ____:

  • a) Paris
  • b) London
  • c) Austerity (fictitiously)
  • d) None of These

62. Jack requests Chasuble to ____ him again:

  • a) Beat
  • b) Help
  • c) Christen
  • d) None of These

63. ____ is also planning for christening:

  • a) Chasuble
  • b) Lane
  • c) Cecily
  • d) Algernon

64. Both are going for christening because they want to ____:

  • a) Change their Names
  • b) Get Promotion
  • c) Convert
  • d) None of These

65. Cecily tells Jack that his brother is ____:

  • a) Dead
  • b) Coming
  • c) Inside (referring to Algernon disguised as Earnest)
  • d) None of These

66. Jack is ____ to see Algernon:

  • a) Shocked
  • b) Happy
  • c) Impressed
  • d) None of These

67. Jack prepares to send ____ back:

  • a) Cecily
  • b) Algernon
  • c) George
  • d) None of These

68. ____ arrives the scene at this moment:

  • a) Gwendolen
  • b) Lane
  • c) King
  • d) None of These

69. Gwendolen and ____ become friends:

  • a) Cecily
  • b) Algernon
  • c) Jack
  • d) Miss Prism

70. Both are shocked to realize that both of them love ____:

  • a) Jack
  • b) Earnest (the name)
  • c) Algernon
  • d) None of These

71. Girls are ____ to know that both the men are not called Earnest:

  • a) Angry
  • b) Happy
  • c) Impressed
  • d) None of These

72. Lady Bracknell arrives and ____ the couples:

  • a) Surprises
  • b) Wishes
  • c) Greets
  • d) None of These

73. She gives her consent when she comes to know that Cecily has:

  • a) A House
  • b) Flowers
  • c) Large Fortune
  • d) None of These

74. Jack says that Cecily cannot be married without his consent until the age of ____:

  • a) 25
  • b) 30
  • c) 35
  • d) 40

75. Augusta is ____ willing for Gwendolen’s marriage with Jack:

  • a) Not
  • b) More
  • c) Much More
  • d) None of These

76. Chasuble enters and announces that he is prepared for the ____:

  • a) Wedding
  • b) Prism
  • c) Christenings
  • d) None of These

77. Chasuble says that he will leave, and mentions that __ is waiting for him:

  • a) Miss Prism
  • b) Lane
  • c) Algernon
  • d) None of These

78. Augusta is ____ to hear the name “Prism:”

  • a) Startled
  • b) Happy
  • c) Angry
  • d) None of These

79. Miss. Prism is ____ to see Lady Bracknell:

  • a) Shocked
  • b) Happy
  • c) Over Joyed
  • d) Sad

80. Lady Bracknell accuses her of kidnapping a ____ from her house:

  • a) Baby Boy
  • b) Baby Girl
  • c) Aged Man
  • d) None of These

81. This incident happened ____ years ago:

  • a) 10
  • b) 28
  • c) 30
  • d) None of These

82. Miss. Prism reveals that she accidentally left the baby in a ____:

  • a) Hand Bag
  • b) Cot
  • c) House
  • d) Train

83. She lost the hand bag at ____:

  • a) Brighton Railway Line
  • b) Victoria Station
  • c) King’s Cross Station
  • d) None of These

84. Miss. Prism had interchanged her ____ with baby:

  • a) Baby
  • b) Money
  • c) Novel Manuscript
  • d) None of These

85. Jack leaves and returns with the same ____:

  • a) Cot
  • b) Baby
  • c) Manuscript
  • d) Hand Bag

86. Jack tells Prism that ____ was the baby:

  • a) He
  • b) Algernon
  • c) Gone
  • d) None of These

87. Jack considers ____ his mother:

  • a) Augusta
  • b) Cecily
  • c) Miss Prism
  • d) None of These

88. Lady Bracknell informs Jack that he is the son of her ____:

  • a) Sister
  • b) Brother
  • c) Cousin
  • d) None of These

89. This realization made Algernon ____’s brother:

  • a) Jack
  • b) Prism
  • c) Gwendolen
  • d) None of These

90. Augusta tells Jack that he was named after his ____:

  • a) Father
  • b) Mother
  • c) Uncle
  • d) None of These

91. Jack starts looking for his father in ____ list:

  • a) Army
  • b) Indian
  • c) Police
  • d) None of These

92. The complete name of Jack and Algernon’s father was ____:

  • a) Algernon John Moncrieff
  • b) Ernest John Moncrieff
  • c) Jack John Moncrieff
  • d) None of These

93. Girls are ____ to learn that their name is Earnest:

  • a) Happy
  • b) Grieved
  • c) Surprised
  • d) Shocked

94. The play is a satire on ____ of aristocracy:

  • a) Snobbery
  • b) Wealth
  • c) Research
  • d) None of These

95. The play is a ____ comedy for serious people:

  • a) Light
  • b) Great
  • c) Trivial
  • d) None of These

96. Oscar Wilde has also written a masterpiece short story, ____:

  • a) The Sad Swallow
  • b) The Happy Swallow
  • c) My Financial Career
  • d) The Happy Prince

97. Oscar Wills Wilde was an ____ poet and playwright:

  • a) Irish
  • b) English
  • c) American
  • d) None of These

98. Oscar Wilde (16th October 1854 – 30th November 1900) was one of the most popular playwrights in ____:

  • a) 1870s
  • b) 1880s
  • c) 1890s
  • d) None of These

99. Wilde was initially buried in the Cimetière de Bagneux outside ____:

  • a) Paris
  • b) Dublin
  • c) London
  • d) None of These

100. “The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what ____ means:”

  • a) Reality
  • b) Non-Fiction
  • c) Semi Fiction
  • d) Fiction

Chapter 26: PARADISE LOST

1. Which angel does Satan trick by disguising himself as a Cherub?

  • a) Chemos
  • b) Isis
  • c) Uriel
  • d) Maloch

2. In Paradise Lost, Satan takes form of:

  • a) An Angel
  • b) A Toad
  • c) A Cormorant
  • d) A Serpent
  • e) All (He takes various forms, but the serpent is key to the Fall)

3. In what book does the fall take place?

  • a) Book 6
  • b) Book 3
  • c) Book 9
  • d) Book 12

4. In which book of the Bible does the story of Adam and Eve occur?

  • a) Exodus
  • b) Genesis
  • c) Samuel
  • d) Leviticus

5. What is Milton's stated purpose in Paradise Lost?

  • a) To justify the ways of God to men
  • b) To show the weaknesses of men
  • c) To show men's inclination towards evil deeds
  • d) To show the cunningness of Devil

6. Which angel wields a large sword in the battle and wounds Satan?

  • a) Gabriel
  • b) Rimmon
  • c) Raphael
  • d) Michael

7. When Satan leaps over the fence into Paradise, what does Milton liken him to?

  • a) A snake slithering up a tree
  • b) A germ infecting a body
  • c) A wolf leaping into a sheep’s pen
  • d) A fish leaping out of water

8. Which angel tells Adam about the future in books 9 and 12?

  • a) Michael
  • b) Raphael
  • c) Rimiel
  • d) Uriel

9. Which Devil is the main architect of Pandemonium?

  • a) Beelzebub
  • b) Dagon
  • c) Moloch
  • d) Mulciber

10. How many times does Milton invoke a muse in complete epic?

  • a) Five
  • b) Three
  • c) Two
  • d) Six

11. Who leads Adam and Eve out of Paradise?

  • a) Raphael
  • b) Raguel
  • c) Michael
  • d) Saraqael

12. In which book Lahore is mentioned?

  • a) 1
  • b) 8
  • c) 10
  • d) None (It's mentioned in Book IX)

13. What is the stated subject of Paradise Lost?

  • a) The fight between good and evil
  • b) The creation of the universe
  • c) Heaven's battle and Satan's tragic fall
  • d) Adam and Eve's disobedience

14. Who discusses the cosmology and the Battle of Heaven and Adam?

  • a) God
  • b) Eve
  • c) Raphael
  • d) Michael

15. In an attempt to defeat God and His angels, what do the rebel angels make?

  • a) A Cannon
  • b) A Catapult
  • c) A Fortress
  • d) A large Sword

16. What does Milton name as his heavenly muse?

  • a) Virgil
  • b) Michael
  • c) Urania
  • d) Titania

17. What does Eve do when she first becomes conscious?

  • a) Go in search of his mate
  • b) Talk to the animals
  • c) Look at her reflection in a stream
  • d) Eat of the tree of knowledge

18. In the phrase "Thy seed shall bruise our foe," "Thy" refers to:

  • a) Sin
  • b) Adam
  • c) Satan
  • d) Eve

19. In the phrase, "Thy seed shall bruise our foe, “seed” refers to:

  • a) Jesus Christ
  • b) Adam
  • c) Satan
  • d) Eve

20. The two archangels who serve as generals in God's army are:

  • a) Michael & Raphael
  • b) Raphael & Gabriel
  • c) Michael & Gabriel
  • d) Michael & Lucifer

21. Who might be considered the friendliest and most sociable of all God's Angels?

  • a) Gabriel
  • b) Raphael
  • c) Michael
  • d) Saraqael

22. The reason for Satan's fall might best be described as:

  • a) Incest
  • b) Lust
  • c) Pride
  • d) Greed

23. On the second day of battle, what does Satan use that surprises God's forces?

  • a) Catapults
  • b) Artillery
  • c) Illusions
  • d) The Holy Sepulchre

24. When was Paradise Lost published?

  • a) 1667
  • b) 1657
  • c) 1677
  • d) 1687

25. On which Biblical theme that Paradise Lost is Based?

  • a) The fall of Lucifer
  • b) The fall of Man
  • c) Adam and Eve
  • d) The Genesis

26. In which style did John Milton write the poem Paradise Lost?

  • a) Free Verse
  • b) Verse Libre
  • c) Regular meter
  • d) Blank Verse

27. The main reason for Adam's fall might best be described as

  • a) Pride
  • b) Love for Eve
  • c) Lust
  • d) Money

28. Earth is described as being connected to Heaven by a?

  • a) Stepping stones of clouds
  • b) Golden Rope
  • c) Golden Chain
  • d) Ladder

29. The Battle between God's army and Satan's Rebels in Heaven lasted?

  • a) Four days
  • b) Two days
  • c) Three days
  • d) Five days

30. Satan's name before fall was?

  • a) Michael
  • b) Beelzebub
  • c) Lucifer
  • d) Belial

31. Who was the companion of Adam in Paradise?

  • a) Satan
  • b) Raphael
  • c) God
  • d) Eve

32. The fruit of which tree were Adam and Eve forbidden to eat?

  • a) Tree of knowledge
  • b) Tree of God
  • c) Tree of life
  • d) Tree of sin

33. Which is the longest book?

  • a) Book X
  • b) Book VIII
  • c) Book IX
  • d) Book l

34. Who is the main protagonist of Paradise Lost?

  • a) Adam
  • b) Eve
  • c) God
  • d) Satan (often considered the most compelling character)

35. Which Devil is Satan's second-in command?

  • a) Beelzebub
  • b) Mommon
  • c) Sin
  • d) Moloch

36. Milton's "Unholy Trinity" of Characters includes.......

  • a) Error, Temptation, and Satan
  • b) Sin, death and Temptation
  • c) Sin, Temptation and Satan
  • d) Satan, Sin and Death

37. Paradise Lost is considered a/an?

  • a) First person narrative
  • b) Novel
  • c) Epic Poem
  • d) Short story

38. At what point does the narration unfold in the poem Paradise Lost?

  • a) After the defeat of Fallen Angels
  • b) Before the defeat of rebel angels
  • c) In Paradise when Satan sits with God
  • d) After the fall of man

39. How many books were included in the second edition of the poem Paradise Lost?

  • a) 10
  • b) 14
  • c) 11
  • d) 12

40. When was "Paradise Regained" published?

  • a) 1671
  • b) 1656
  • c) 1669
  • d) 1652

41. Who pondered "How such United force of Gods, how such as stood like these, could ever know repulse"?

  • a) Moses
  • b) Adam
  • c) Satan
  • d) Joseph

42. Satan makes_______ speeches in book 1.

  • a) Six
  • b) Eight
  • c) Three
  • d) Five

43. Adam, Satan and Eve herself are all dazzled by Eve's______?

  • a) Wit
  • b) Beauty
  • c) intelligence
  • d) Hard work

44. The reason for Eve's fall might best be described as ________

  • a) Lust
  • b) Pride (specifically, intellectual pride and desire for knowledge/power)
  • c) Greed
  • d) Vanity

45. Everyday before the fall Adam and Eve went out to work. What did their work consist of?

  • a) Hunting and gathering food
  • b) Tending to the garden of Eden
  • c) Building shelter to live in
  • d) Naming all God's creatures and Plants

46. Sin was born out of Satan's?

  • a) Lust
  • b) Anger
  • c) Rib
  • d) Head

47. For inspiration in writing the poem, Milton says he depends on____?

  • a) Wine
  • b) The holy spirit
  • c) His Pen
  • d) son

48. What is Adam's and mankind's punishment for eating the apple?

  • a) Begging
  • b) To produce Children
  • c) To eat vegetables
  • d) Getting food from the earth will be difficult. (Also mortality, expulsion from Eden, pain in childbirth for Eve)

49. Surprisingly, by the time Milton finally started writing Paradise Lost, he was already?

  • a) Blind
  • b) Deaf
  • c) Paralyzed
  • d) Dwarfed

50. Satan praises Eve's?

  • a) Kindness
  • b) Spirituality
  • c) Beauty
  • d) Cunningness

51. Eve is surprised when....

  • a) She sees Satan
  • b) She sees the Snake speaking
  • c) She sees Beelzebub
  • d) She sees Michael

52. Shall that be shut to man, which to the beast is open? Is said by:

  • a) Gabriel
  • b) Raphael
  • c) Satan
  • d) Adam

53. Satan is delighted to find _____alone.

  • a) Adam
  • b) Beelzebub
  • c) Michael
  • d) Eve

54. Satan tells her in enticing language that he gained the speech by:

  • a) By Practicing
  • b) By Blessing
  • c) Eating the fruit
  • d) None

55. Satan flatters Eve by saying that eating the apple has made him ___:

  • a) praise & worship her beauty
  • b) fall in love with her
  • c) see her real beauty

56. Earth felt the wound: and nature from her seat, sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe that all was lost. These lines are from:

  • a) Book 6
  • b) Book 9
  • c) Book 3
  • d) Book 1

57. Hope never comes, that comes to all. Lines are taken from:

  • a) Book 6
  • b) Book 9
  • c) Book 3
  • d) Book 1

58. Solitude sometimes is the best society. Lines are taken from?

  • a) Book 12
  • b) Book 6
  • c) Book 1
  • d) Book 9

59. Thou profoundest hell, receive thy new possessor! Lines are from:

  • a) Book X
  • b) Book VIII
  • c) Book IX
  • d) Book l

60. Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven. Lines are taken from:

  • a) Book l
  • b) Book VIII
  • c) Book IX
  • d) Book X

61. Satan, in book 1, gathers his army again using forceful:

  • a) Voice
  • b) Words
  • c) Weapons
  • d) Gimmicks

62. Satan, in book 1, shows ______quality.

  • a) Leadership
  • b) Deceiving
  • c) Befooling
  • d) management

63. Satan vows to betray God by force or________.

  • a) Trick
  • b) Fraud
  • c) Bribe
  • d) None of these

64. Satan is afraid of God's:

  • a) Wrath
  • b) Power
  • c) Thunder
  • d) Angels

65. Before the battle, Satan did not anticipate God’s?

  • a) Power
  • b) Thunder
  • c) Wrath
  • d) None of these

66. "Farthest from Him is the best" is said by Satan in:

  • a) book 9
  • b) book 12
  • c) book 3
  • d) book 1

67. Eve, after eating fruit, ______ Adam to eat it.

  • a) Makes
  • b) Forces
  • c) Suggests
  • d) None of these

68. Satan's shield is as big as ______?

  • a) The Earth
  • b) The Moon
  • c) The sun
  • d) The Sea

69. Satan's spear is as big as the tallest _______?

  • a) Maple Tree
  • b) Pine Tree
  • c) Cedar Tree
  • d) Willow Tree

Chapter 27: THE WAY OF THE WORLD

1. Who is the protagonist of the way of the world?

  • a) Mirabell
  • b) Fainall
  • c) Foible
  • d) Mincing

2. Which character is in love with Mirabell but is force to marry someone else?

  • a) Fainall
  • b) Witwoud
  • c) Millamant
  • d) Marwood

3. Which character presents to be sir Rowland in order to deceive lady Wishfort

  • a) Fainall
  • b) Marwood
  • c) Mirabell
  • d) Waitwell

4. Who is the playwright of the play the way of the world?

  • a) Richard B. Sheridan
  • b) William Congreve
  • c) William Wycherley
  • d) George Etherege

5. What is the main theme of the way of the world?

  • a) Love and marriage
  • b) marriage and divorce
  • c) Betrayal
  • d) war and violence

6. What is the genre of the way of the world?

  • a) Romance
  • b) Tragedy
  • c) Comedy of manners
  • d) Love

7. Which character is a young woman known for her wit and intelligence?

  • a) Millamant
  • b) Marwood
  • c) Mrs. Fainall
  • d) Harriet

8. Who is Mirabell’s servant who plays a key role in his plan to marry Millamant?

  • a) Waitwell
  • b) Wilfull Witwoud
  • c) Witwoud
  • d) Foible

9. Which character is Lady Wishfort’s servant who helps to deceive her mistress?

  • a) Waitwell
  • b) Wilfull Witwoud
  • c) Witwoud
  • d) Foible

10. What is the relationship between Lady Wishfort and Fainall?

  • a) Uncle and aunt
  • b) Mother-in-Law and Son-in-Law
  • c) Mother and Son
  • d) Husband and Wife

11. What is the social class of the main characters in the play the way of the world?

  • a) Aristocracy
  • b) Middle class
  • c) Lower class
  • d) Upper middle class

12. Who exposes Mirabell’s deceitful plan to Fainall?

  • a) Waitwell
  • b) Wilfull Witwoud
  • c) Witwoud
  • d) Mrs. Marwood

13. Which character is the object of Petulant unrequited love?

  • a) Millamant
  • b) Wilfull Witwoud
  • c) Witwoud
  • d) Mirabell (Petulant is in love with Millamant, but she doesn't reciprocate)

14. Who is the character that Millamant initially thinks he is the perfect man for her?

  • a) Millamant
  • b) Wilfull Witwoud
  • c) Witwoud
  • d) Mirabell

15. Who is the character that Lady Wishfort wants to marry Millamant?

  • a) Sir Wilfull Witwoud
  • b) Witwoud
  • c) Mirabell
  • d) Petulant

16. Which character is revealed to be the mastermind behind the plays intricate plot?

  • a) Millamant
  • b) Mirabell
  • c) Petulant
  • d) Waitwell

17. The way of the world is about two lovers?

  • a) Mirabell and Millamant
  • b) Fainall and Lady Wishfort
  • c) Waitwell and Millamant
  • d) Witwoud and Mincing

18. To protect her from the scandal in the event of pregnancy, Mirabell has helped engineer her marriage to?

  • a) Mr. Fainall
  • b) Petulant
  • c) Foible
  • d) Witwoud

19. ______ married the young widow because he coveted her fortune to support his affair with Mrs. Marwood.

  • a) Mr. Fainall
  • b) Petulant
  • c) Foible
  • d) Witwoud

20. Half of Millamant's fortune was under her control but the other half ______ was controlled by Lady Wishfort.

  • a) 6,000 pounds
  • b) 60,000 pounds
  • c) 9,00ect="false">d) 40,000 pounds

21. ______ has arranged for a pretended uncle (his valet, Waitwell) to woo and win Lady Wishfort.

  • a) Mr. Fainall
  • b) Petulant
  • c) Foible
  • d) Mirabell

22. When the play opens ______ is impatiently waiting to hear that Waitwell is married to Foible.

  • a) Mr. Fainall
  • b) Petulant
  • c) Foible
  • d) Mirabell

23. Mrs. Fainall is Mirabell’s former:

  • a) Guest
  • b) Mistress
  • c) Sister
  • d) None of these

24. Millamant says that she will marry Sir Wilfull to save her own:

  • a) Fortune
  • b) Life
  • c) Family
  • d) None of these

25. To gain Wishfort’s favour for ____, Mirabell flatters Wishfort and lavashes much attention in her:

  • a) Mirabell
  • b) Petulant
  • c) Waitwell
  • d) Millamant

26. Arabella's first husband Languish has died and left her his:

  • a) House
  • b) Children
  • c) Nothing
  • d) Fortune

27. Mirabell hints that he knows that Fainall and _____ has an affair:

  • a) Marwood
  • b) Petulant
  • c) Foible
  • d) Mirabell

28. William Congreve was an English playwright and poet of the ___ age:

  • a) Georgian period
  • b) Romantic period
  • c) Restoration
  • d) Colonial

29. He was also a minor political figure in the British ____ party:

  • a) Whig
  • b) Labor Party
  • c) Scottish National Party
  • d) Liberal Democrats

30. He is known for his clever, satirical and influence on the comedy of manners style of that period:

  • a) Plot
  • b) Dialogue
  • c) Witty characters
  • d) Theme

Chapter 28: HEARTBREAK HOUSE

1. Heartbreak House has ………. plays by G.B Shaw

  • a)3
  • b)4 (It's a single play, but often seen in connection with three other plays by Chekhov)
  • c)5
  • d)2

2. Heartbreak House was published in

  • a)1919
  • b)1819
  • c)1920
  • d)1925

3. The Play’s subtitle “A fantasia in the Russian manner on English themes” acknowledges it's resemblance to

  • a)Anton Chekhov’s The cherry orchard
  • b)Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull
  • c)G.B. Shaw’s My Fair lady
  • d)None of the above

4. The action takes place in the decidedly household of the elderly Captain Shotover, a dabbler in mysticism

  • a)Bohemian
  • b)Rhapsody
  • c)Both a and b
  • d)None of the above

5. The play begins as, her father, and her fiancé are invited to one of Hesion Hushabye's infamous dinner parties

  • a)Ellie Donne
  • b)Shotover
  • c)Billy Donne
  • d)Both a and b

6. The party is being held at the house of her eccentric father…… whose house is built in the shape of the stern of a ship

  • a)Randall
  • b)Captain Shotover
  • c)Utterwood
  • d)Mazzini

7. …….. is an inventor well into his eighties who is trying to create a sort of "psychic ray" that will destroy dynamite.

  • a)Captain Shotover
  • b)Billy Donn
  • c)Randall
  • d)Mazzini

8. When Ellie arrives at the house, she finds that no one is there to greet her, and so she sits and reads …… until eventually, she dozes off .

  • a)George Bernard Shaw
  • b)Shakespeare
  • c)Ben Johnson
  • d)Christopher Marlow

9. Shaw was primarily a:

  • a)Poet
  • b)Dramatist
  • c)Playwright
  • d)Philosopher

10. At least in one respect Shaw was a greater dramatist than Shakespeare

  • a)Shaw was social critic than Shakespeare
  • b)Shaw was economic critic
  • c)Shaw was political critic
  • d)None of the above

11. Nobel prize was given to Shaw as a literary figure in …. for literature

  • a)1920
  • b)1922
  • c)1925
  • d)1928

12. One important thing to do when studying plays of George Bernard Shaw such as Heartbreak House is to read the ….. quite carefully

  • a)Preface
  • b)Prologue
  • c)Both a and b
    • d)None

13. In the preface to the play Shaw acknowledges his debt to….. in particular to The Cherry Orchard.

  • a)Chekov
  • b)G.B Shaw
  • c)Shakespeare
  • d)T.S Eliot

14. George Bernard Shaw's play Heartbreak House is a comedy about the deceptions and meaningless pursuits of England's …… class

  • a)Ruling class
  • b)Middle class
  • c)Lower class
  • d)Lower-middle class

15. In this play, Shaw shows his…… of money, industry, marriage, politics, and the war.

  • a)Criticism
  • b)Disappointment
  • c) Marriage
  • d)Knowledge

16. The title of the play is significant because it represents the idea that the wealthy and privileged characters in the play, who are gathered together in a country house, are living in a state of emotional and spiritual…..

  • a)Love
  • b)Disillusionment
  • c)Hope
  • d)Blissful

17. The term "....... " suggests a sense of disappointment, betrayal, and loss, which are all prevalent themes in the play

  • a)Heartbreak House
  • b)Cherry orchard
  • c)Seagull
  • d)Heartbreak

18. The characters in "Heartbreak House" are dealing with…… love, failed marriages, and shattered dreams, and the title reflects the emotional turmoil that they experience

  • a)Unrequited
  • b)Unanswered
  • c)Unreciprocated
  • d)All

19. The country house where the action takes place represents the ……. aristocracy and the societal norms and values that it embodies.

  • a)American
  • b)British
  • c)Anglo Saxons
  • d)None

20. What is the setting of Heartbreak House?

  • a)Urban
  • b)A Country house
  • c)Metropolitan
  • d)All

21. Though the play takes place on the eve of ….. but the characters , too absorbed in the intrigues are unaware that the war is about to begin

  • a)World war 1
  • b)World war 2
  • c)Both
  • d)None

22…….. is in the play is the character in British army

  • a)Shotover
  • b)Mazzini
  • c)Utterwood
  • d)All (there are military characters and connections)

23. What is the relationship between Ellie Dunn and Captain Shotover?

  • a)They are engaged to be married
  • b)They are daughter and father (Ellie is engaged to Mangan, but later considers marrying Shotover for his money and wisdom)
  • c)They are married
  • d)None

24. Who ultimately inherits the Heartbreak House?

  • a)Captain Shotover
  • b)Hasting
  • c)Emilia
  • d)Billy Dunn (His wife, Nurse Guinness, is the housekeeper)

25……..a white-bearded retired sea captain, the master of Heartbreak House

  • a)Sir Hasting Utterwood
  • b)Captain Shotover
  • c)Mrs. Hesione
  • d)Hector

26. He is…. years old, rather eccentric, and represents England's past glory

  • a)88
  • b)85
  • c)89
  • d)90

27…….. presides over a household of characters like a monarch over his empire.

  • a)Hector Hushaby
  • b)Captain Shotover
  • c)Alfred boss
  • d)Billy Dunn

28. Lady Ariadne (Addy) Utterword, captain Shotover's youngest daughter’age:

  • a)42
  • b)43
  • c)44
  • d)45

29. She is married to a character frequently mentioned but never seen in the play

  • a)William Franks
  • b)Sir Hasting Utterwood
  • c)Captain Shotover
  • d)Mrs. Hesione

30. They have been living ……. for more than twenty- three years

  • a)Country side
  • b)Over seas
  • c)Near village
  • d)In the city

31. Mrs…….. (Hessy) Hushabye, captain Shotover's eldest daughter, some two years older than Ariadne.

  • a)Hesione
  • b) Ellie Dunn
  • c) Hector Husabye
  • d) none

32. She was the one who invited …….to the house

  • a)Hector Hushabye
  • b)Ellie Dunn
  • c)Bronte
  • d)Manga

33. Hesione's husband, in his fifties, somewhat of a dandy, a heroic but very shy man.

  • a)Captain Shotover
  • b)Hector
  • c)Marcus Darnley
  • d)Alfred Mangan

34. Ellie Dunn, a young singer, in love with ………who later turns out to be Hector Hushabye- but engaged to be married to M. Mangan

  • a)Marcus Darnley
  • b)Hector Hushabye
  • c) Ariadne
  • d)Billy Dunn

35. Her disappointment in men leads her to get engaged to the

  • a)Dunn
  • b)Ellie
  • c)Captain
  • d)Alfred boss (Mangan)

36. Alfred (Boss) Mangan, fifty-five, businessman, engaged to be married to…… , he confesses to her that he is not in fact a rich man

  • a)Ellie Dunn
  • b)Mrs. Hesione
  • c)Lady Ariadne
  • d)None

37. He is killed during the air raid when he hides in the where he has stored all his dynamite.

  • a)Billy Dunn
  • b)Mangan
  • c)Captain
  • d)None

38………gets killed during the air raid when he hides together with Mangan

  • a)Billy Dunn
  • b)Captain
  • c)Mangan
  • d)None

39……… casual and impudent, she is the captain's housekeeper and, as turns out later, Billy Dunn's wife

  • a)Nurse Guinness
  • b)Lady Ariadne
  • c)Mrs. Hesione
  • d)None

40…….. is a burglar in the play

  • a)Dunn
  • b)Hathaway
  • c)Ellie Donn
  • d)None

Chapter 29: THE CARETAKER

1. The caretaker_________act play by Harold Pinter, published and first produced in 1960.

  • a) 3
  • b) 5
  • c) 6
  • d) 7

2. _________is Pinter’s second full-length play and it concerns the delicate balance between trust and betrayal in familial relationship.

  • a) The Birthday Party
  • b) The Caretaker
  • c) The Home Coming
  • d) Betrayal

3. The action of the play occurs in the flat of Aston and ________, two brother.

  • a) Davies
  • b) Marston
  • c) Mick
  • d) David

4. What is the name of the protagonist in “The Caretaker”.

  • a) Aston
  • b) Davies
  • c) Both A and B
  • d) Mick

5. ________In his early thirties but he is physically and mentally handicapped after his psychiatric treatment.

  • a) Aston
  • b) Davies
  • c) Mick
  • d) A and C only

6 Aston is working as a _______in his younger brothers house

  • a) Uncle
  • b) None
  • c) Caretaker
  • d) Both

7. _______Aston’s younger brother, is in his late twenties.

  • a) Davies
  • b) Mick
  • c) David
  • d) John

8. _________is a tradesman and owns a van. He buys old houses, renovates them and sells them.

  • a) Mick
  • b) Davies
  • c) Aston
  • d) Gregory

9. Pinter uses the cliches and patterns of everyday conversation to express the ______sense of man’s insecurity, aggressiveness or hypocrisy. He also uses pauses and silences.

  • a) Positive
  • b) Darker
  • c) Both A and B
  • d) None of these

10. The caretaker which is divided into three acts, is a well-constructed play. It has a _____plot.

  • a) Round
  • b) Complex
  • c) Simple
  • d) Sub

11. The play begins with the entry of______ as a guestin the attic room occupied by Aston.

  • a) Mick
  • b) John Gregory
  • c) Davies
  • d) Davies

12. The play ends with his leaving the room and way _____came there as a guest

  • a) Davies
  • b) Mick
  • c) Aston
  • d) Noe of these

13. The trouble in play arises when Davies is brought by___and he is allowed to stay in the room.

  • a) Davies
  • b) Mick
  • c) Both A and B
  • d) Aston

14. Tension gradually rises as ____tries to ocuupy the room by playing tricks on both Aston and Mick.

  • a) Davies
  • b) Mick
  • c) Aston
  • d) All of these

15. The entire action of the play takes place in the _____room.

  • a) Mick’s
  • b) Store room
  • c) Attic
  • d) Upstairs

16. There are unities of place and _____in the play.

  • a) Time
  • b) None
  • c) Action
  • d) Both A and C

17. Mick is the owner of the house. Davies is proposed______ of the house.

  • a) Guest
  • b) Caretaker
  • c) Owner
  • d) Temporary owner

18. The tramp Davies in _or the wandering jew, or may be the tempter in a modern everyman play.

  • a) Dionysus
  • b) Oedipus
  • c) Seneca
  • d) Homer

19. The play interprets characters as a dark angel and bright angel, namely the brothers Mick and _____

  • a) Davies
  • b) Aston
  • c) Mick
  • d) Hardy

20. Perhaps, Aston is the carpenter building his _____in the form of the garden shed.

  • a) Church
  • b) Mosque
  • c) Charity home
  • d) Shelter

21. In terms of the Freudian psychology, the play is a story of two_____to replace their father.

  • a) Brothers
  • b) Sisters
  • c) Sons
  • d) Friends

22. ________can be seen to feel, a filial responsibility for Davies

  • a) Joe
  • b) Mick
  • c) Aston
  • d) Kim

23. _______finally decides that he must reject Davies in order to complete his own growth

  • a) Mick
  • b) Creon
  • c) Fingram
  • d) Aston

24. In the mythical terms, the play deals with the theme of_____ of a son by his father

  • a) Nature
  • b) Understanding
  • c) Helping
  • d) Expulsion

25. This play is about _____games and it is in the shifting delicacy of the balance that Pinter’s naturalistic dialogue excels

  • a) Power
  • b) Brotherhood
  • c) Friendship
  • d) Loyalty

26. When they snatch a bag of old clothes from each other, we see a compelling physical manifestation of the ______structure

  • a) Positivity
  • b) Negativity
  • c) Longing
  • d) Power

27. “The Caretaker is a classic_____ play by Harold Pinter

  • a) Tragi-comedy
  • b) Tragedy
  • c) Comedy
  • d) Humour

28. Pinter received the______Nobel prize for literature.

  • a) 2006
  • b) 2004
  • c) 2007
  • d) 2005

29. _______is short tempered and ambitious

  • a) Davies
  • b) Mick
  • c) Aston
  • d) All of these

30. He doesn’t have time for ______and puts up with him because there’s nowhere else for him to go

  • a) Aston
  • b) David
  • c) Mick
  • d) Marlowe

31. ___________has grand dreams, but he wants instant results, so he ends up never getting what he wants.

  • a) Mick
  • b) John
  • c) None of these
  • d) Davies

32. When the play opens, Aston invites______ home. He’s saved Davies from a bar brawl and wants to look after him.

  • a) Mick
  • b) Aston
  • c) Orlando
  • d) Davies

33. When ___gets to the flat, the first thing he does in complain about how messy and neglected it is

  • a) Aston
  • b) William
  • c) Ruskin
  • d) Davies

34. Its so untidy that Aston struggles to find any clothes to give _________

  • a) Davies
  • b) Mick
  • c) David
  • d) Daud

35. Finally Aston and Davies continue to fight with each other until_________ tells Davies to leave.

  • a) Davies
  • b) Cornwal
  • c) Edward
  • d) Aston

Chapter 30: THE RAPE OF THE LOCK

1. “The Rape of the Lock” is ______ satire.

  • a) Political
  • b) Social
  • c) Bitter
  • d) None of these

2. The problem aroused between two ______ families.

  • a) Catholic
  • b) Protestant
  • c) Jewish
  • d) Indian

3. ______ was the friend & well-wisher of both families.

  • a) Swift
  • b) John Caryll
  • c) Pope
  • d) None of these

4. Baron in The Rape of the Lock represents ______. (Lord Peter)

  • a) Lord Petre

5. Belinda in The Rape of the Lock represents ______. (Arabella Fermor)

  • a) Arabella Fermor

6. Divine Machinery is taken from ______ doctrine.

  • a) Aristotle’s
  • b) Plato’s
  • c) Rosicrucian
  • d) None of These

7. The real incident of cutting hair took place in ______.

  • a) 1710
  • b) 1711
  • c) 1712
  • d) 1713

8. “Rape of the Lock” was first published in ______. (initial version)

  • a) 1710
  • b) 1711
  • c) 1712
  • d) 1713

9. “What ______ offence from amorous causes springs”.

  • a) Trivial
  • b) Huge
  • c) Dire
  • d) Small

10. “What mighty contests rise from ______ things.”

  • a) Trivial
  • b) Huge
  • c) Dire
  • d) Small

11. Belinda’s eyes first open at ______. (This refers to what she sees first after waking)

  • a) Perfumes
  • b) Love latter
  • c) Cosmetics
  • d) Ariel

12. Divine machinery is not governed by ______. (What kind of laws does it transcend?)

  • a) Mortal laws
  • b) Ambition
  • c) Emotions
  • d) God

13. Florio and Damon were ______. (They are mentioned as part of Belinda's dream)

  • a) Princes
  • b) Kings
  • c) Imaginary
  • d) Servants

14. “A watchful sprite, and ______ is my name.”

  • a) shock
  • b) Baron
  • c) Ariel
  • d) None of these

15. Dressing of Belinda reminds about ______ in epic.

  • a) Make up
  • b) Preparation of hero
  • c) Tension
  • d) Climax

16. Divine machinery reminds about ______ of epic.

  • a) Heroes
  • b) gods & goddesses
  • c) Both of them

17. The best thing in Belinda’s personality was ______. (This is ambiguous, but in the context of the plot, it's about what causes the central conflict)

  • a) Pair of eyes
  • b) Pair of shoe
  • c) Pair of locks
  • d) Pair of scissors

18. “Phoebus” means ______. (Mythological reference)

  • a) Sun god
  • b) Moon god
  • c) Spleen
  • d) None of these

19. Belinda’s travel on boat represents ______ of epic.

  • a) War
  • b) Long Travel
  • c) Magic
  • d) Woods

20. Baron made altar to please ______. (Whom was he sacrificing to in order to achieve his goal?)

  • a) Zeus
  • b) Apollo
  • c) Cupid
  • d) Belinda

21. Belinda, after humiliation, sat with ________.

  • a) Clarissa
  • b) Betty
  • c) Baron
  • d) Thalestris

22. _________ came to get back hair for Belinda.

  • a) Baron
  • b) Sir Plume
  • c) Clarissa
  • d) None of these

23. Poll was Belinda’s _________.

  • a) Parrot
  • b) Husband
  • c) dog
  • d) friend

24. Lock was preserved in Baron’s _________.

  • a) Locket
  • b) Key-chain
  • c) Ring
  • d) Wallet

25. Umbriel was a _________.

  • a) Gnome
  • b) Sylph
  • c) Salamander
  • d) Nymph

26. Spleen lived in a _________.

  • a) Palace
  • b) Hut
  • c) Cave
  • d) Hotel

27. “Cupid’s flames” means _________.

  • a) Fire of hate
  • b) Fire of lust
  • c) Fire of love
  • d) None

28. Finally, the lock went to _________.

  • a) Water
  • b) Fire
  • c) Sky
  • d) Earth

29. “Galileo’s Eyes” means _________.

  • a) Telescope
  • b) Telefilm
  • c) Glasses
  • d) Lenses

30. Pope was born in _________.

  • a) 1686
  • b) 1687
  • c) 1688
  • d) 1689

31. Spleen is queen of _________.

  • a) Well wishes
  • b) Bad tempers
  • c) Dirt
  • d) None of these

32. Supreme spirits took care of _________.

  • a) Human beings
  • b) Spheres /Stars
  • c) Fashion
  • d) None of These

33. Humbler kind of spirits dealt with _________.

  • a) Humans
  • b) Stars
  • c) Fashion
  • d) Magic

34. Ariel was a _________.

  • a) Sylph
  • b) Nymph
  • c) Gnome
  • d) Hero

35. The Name “Ariel” was taken from the play of _________.

  • a) Marlowe
  • b) Shakespeare
  • c) Ibsen
  • d) Sophocles

36. Pope was a good friend of _________.

  • a) Peter
  • b) Swift
  • c) Dickens
  • d) Eliot

Chapter 31: BEOWULF

1. Beowulf’s personal reason for coming to Denmark is his

  • a) loyalty to Welthow
  • b) desire for lasting fame
  • c) friendship for Hrothgar
  • d) obedience to his leader’s orders

2. Referring to Grendel as "that shadow of death" is an example of a

  • a) boast
  • b) simile
  • c) caesura
  • d) kenning

3. In Beowulf, Grendel dies after his

  • a) head is severed
  • b) arm is torn from its socket
  • c) armour yields to Wayland’s steel
  • d) heart is pierced by Beowulf’s sword

4. Prior to Beowulf’s coming to their assistance against Grendel, Hrothgar’s people

  • a) fought among themselves
  • b) Thought about escaping by sea
  • c) made sacrifices to the old stone gods
  • d) Made plans to construct another mead hall

5. In Beowulf, the visitors to the Danish mead hall are

  • a) Geats
  • b) Scyldings
  • c) English warriors
  • d) Relatives from UK

6. Beowulf defeats Grendel with his

  • a) shield
  • b) sword
  • c) Powerful grip
  • d) Loyal followers

7. Beowulf’s followers are unable to harm Grendel because

  • a) they are sleeping soundly
  • b) they lack sufficient courage
  • c) Grendel proves too powerful
  • d) Grendel has put a spell on their weapons

8. What does Beowulf do when he meets Hrothgar?

  • a) He begs for assistance
  • b) He boasts of his exploits
  • c) He gives the king a sword
  • d) He greets the king humbly

9. Where is Beowulf from?

  • a) Angle-Land
  • b) Denmark
  • c) Geatland
  • d) Heorot

10. Who was Beowulf’s father?

  • a) Breca
  • b) Ecgtheow
  • c) Hrothgar
  • d) Hygelac

11. Who rules Geatland at the beginning of the poem?

  • a) Beow
  • b) Ecgtheow
  • c) Hygelac
  • d) Offa

12. What is a scop?

  • a) A Poet
  • b) A Ship
  • c) A Necklace
  • d) A Weapon

13. Who are the Scyldings?

  • a) Demigods
  • b) Enemies of Geatland from Norway
  • c) Hrothgar's warriors
  • d) Swamp monsters

14. The first night that Grendel attacked the mead-hall, Heorot, how many Scyldings did he kill?

  • a) 2
  • b) 7
  • c) 14
  • d) 30

15. How did Hrothgar know of Beowulf?

  • a) Beowulf had saved Hrothgar's daughter from a dragon
  • b) Hrothgar had done a favor for Beowulf's father
  • c) Hrothgar was Beowulf's uncle
  • d) A scop had written a poem about Beowulf that made him famous

16. What jealous character taunts Beowulf during the festivities in Heorot?

  • a) Hrothulf
  • b) Aeschere
  • c) Offa
  • d) Unferth

17. In Heorot, Beowulf relates the tale of how he defeated his childhood friend, Breca, in what kind of competition?

  • a) A wrestling match
  • b) foot race
  • c) Swimming race
  • d) Hneftfl game

18. How does Beowulf kill Grendel?

  • a) He buries an axe in Grendel's head.
  • b) He chops off Grendel's head
  • c) He runs his sword through Grendel's heart
  • d) He tears off Grendel's arm at the shoulder with his bare hands.

19. What is Grendel’s mother’s name?

  • a) Gretyl
  • b) Hygd
  • c) Modthryth
  • d) She was never named

20. Grendel's mother abducted and decapitated Aeschere. Who was Aeschere?

  • a) Beowulf's closest companion
  • b) Hrothgar's most trusted advisor
  • c) Hrothgar's nephew
  • d) Unferth's brother

Chapter 32: JOHN DONNE

1. Donne was born and died in:

  • a) 1571-1630
  • b) 1570-1625
  • c) 1572-1631
  • d) 1565- 1615

2. In "Lovers' Infiniteness" what does the speaker demand?

  • a) That he be heard
  • b) That God listens to his prayer
  • c) All of his lady's love
  • d) A song

3. In Donne's "The Indifferent" which is the only quality that the narrator dislikes in a Woman?

  • a) Disloyalty
  • b) Cleverness
  • c) Truthfulness
  • d) Cunningness

4. As he wrote " Good Friday,1613, Riding Westward" where was Donne actually going?

  • a) Scotland
  • b) Ireland
  • c) Wales
  • d) London

5. What author named a book after a line from Donne?

  • a) Theodore Dreiser
  • b) Soren Kierkegaard
  • c) Ernest Hemingway
  • d) Alfred Lore Tennyson

6. John Donne held what office at St. Paul's?

  • a) Priest
  • b) Rector
  • c) Dean
  • d) Vicar

7. What illness did Donne suffer from before writing the Meditations?

  • a) Bubonic Plague
  • b) Pneumonia
  • c) Spotted Fever
  • d) Influenza

8. What was the occupation of Donne's father?

  • a) An Ironmonger
  • b) A Priest
  • c) A Chancellor
  • d) A Lawyer

9. Where did Donne fight as a soldier?

  • a) Paris, France
  • b) Gettysburg, United States
  • c) Cadiz, Spain
  • d) Glasgow, Scotland

10. "Death be not Proud" is part of what group of poems?

  • a) The Devotions
  • b) The Holy Sonnets
  • c) The Songs
  • d) The Epithalamions

11. In "The Sunne Rising" the poet calls the sun what?

  • a) A Crazy Old Man
  • b) A silly old woman
  • c) A Busy old Fool
  • d) A Celestial Orb

12. In "The Sunne Rising" the poet compares himself with?

  • a) The Sea
  • b) The Sky
  • c) The Earth
  • d) Half of the world

13. What was the name of the poet who created the term "Metaphysical Poets"?

  • a) John Dryden
  • b) Dr. Johnson
  • c) Eliot
  • d) Donne

14. In______work did Samuel Johnson use the term Metaphysical Poets?

  • a) Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets
  • b) The Patriot
  • c) Dictionary of the English Language
  • d) The Literary Magazine

15. From the following poets________ said about John Donne, " He affects the metaphysics, not only in his satires but in his amorous verses, where nature only should reign"...?

  • a) Samuel Johnson
  • b) John Dryden
  • c) Andrew Marvell
  • d) Henry Vaughan

16. _________ term is related to metaphysical poetry that proposes the tendency of these poets to display their learning in poetry?

  • a) Conceit
  • b) Discordia Concors
  • c) Wit
  • d) Metaphysical

17. ______poets associated soul with a drop of dew in one of his poems?

  • a) Donne
  • b) Andrew Marvell
  • c) Cowley
  • d) Henry Vaughan

18. In Donne's "The Apparition", which of the following symbols insinuates the death of the woman who the narrator is in love with?

  • a) Quicksilver
  • b) Skull
  • c) Scythe
  • d) Crow

19. John Donne was married to?

  • a) Margret More
  • b) Anne More
  • c) Mary More
  • d) Anne Hathaway

20. John Donne was born into a family that was _______, but he became a(n) _______ priest.

  • a) Angelican, Roman, Lutheran
  • b) Roman, Catholic, Anglican
  • c) Puritan, Lutheran
  • d) Agnostic, Angelican

21. John Donne was on the path to success. He was a private secretary to a high court official, Sir Thomas Egerton. How did he ruin his Career?

  • a) He eloped with Egerton's niece
  • b) It was discovered that he was a Catholic
  • c) He wrote a private critical poem about Queen Elizabeth
  • d) He basically made a pass at Egerton's Wife

22. Henry Vaughan experienced a spiritual awakening inspired by the poems of what metaphysical poet?

  • a) His Own
  • b) George Herbert
  • c) Thomas Carew
  • d) Donne

23. The metaphysical poets employed many extended comparisons, also known as:

  • a) Similes
  • b) Paradoxes
  • c) Comparisons
  • d) Conceits

24. He wrote both " A Divine Mistress" and " A Cruel Mistress".

  • a) Thomas Carew
  • b) Donne
  • c) Richard Crashaw
  • d) Henry Vaughan

25. What Donne poem contains these lines" If ever any beauty I did see, /which I desired and Got, 'twas but a dream of thee"

  • a) The Sunne Rising
  • b) The Flea
  • c) TheLove
  • d) The Good-Morrow

26. "_____be not proud, though some have called thee mighty and dreadful" fill in the missing word from this Donne sonnet.

  • a) Satan
  • b) Death
  • c) Snake
  • d) Magic

27. What Donne poem is a play on Marlowe's " Passionate Shepherd to His Love".

  • a) The Ecstasy
  • b) Song
  • c) The Funeral
  • d) The Bait

28. This poem by John Donne was probably about his wife's death.

  • a) A Nocturnal Upon Saint Lucy's Day
  • b) The Flea
  • c) A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
  • d) The Funeral

29. John Donne dedicated his holy sonnets to whose mother?

  • a) Crashaw's
  • b) His Own
  • c) Andrew Marvell's
  • d) George Herbert's

30. John Donne's "The Anniversaries" is a/an_________?

  • a) An Elegy in Two parts
  • b) An Epic in three parts
  • c) A ballad in four parts
  • d) None of these

31. Donne's father died when he was just____ years old and his mother remarried.

  • a) 6
  • b) 4
  • c) 3
  • d) 5

32. The life of John Donne coincided with the reign of which absolutist monarch?

  • a) Elizabeth I, James I and Charles I
  • b) Mary I, Elizabeth I and James I
  • c) James I, Charles I and Charles II
  • d) Charles I, Charles II and James II

33. In Valediction: Forbidding Mourning, how does Donne describe the death of virtuous people?

  • a) Silent
  • b) Slow
  • c) Painful
  • d) Clamorous

34. Which of the following words is missing from the first verse of The Canonization by John Donne " For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me.........?

  • a) Speak
  • b) Love
  • c) Write
  • d) Be

35. The first and last stanzas of Donne's "Batter my Heart" include a large number of which of the following word classes?

  • a) Nouns
  • b) Verbs
  • c) Adjectives
  • d) Adverbs

36. John Donne's love poetry is written at _________levels.

  • a) 4
  • b) 6
  • c) 3
  • d) 9

37. "The Good Morrow" refers to ______ of true love.

  • a) Night
  • b) Dawn
  • c) Afternoon
  • d) Midnight

38. "The Good Morrow" includes the religious conceit of?

  • a) Crucifixion
  • b) Easter
  • c) Christmas
  • d) Seven Sleeper's Den

39. Despite his great education and poetic talents, Donne lived in______for several years, relying heavily on wealthy friends.

  • a) Grief
  • b) Poverty
  • c) Happiness
  • d) None of these

40. Donne secretly married ______ with whom he had twelve children.

  • a) Margret More
  • b) Anne More
  • c) Mary More
  • d) Anne Hathaway

41. John Donne was appointed chief secretary to Lord keeper of the great seal, _____.

  • a) Sir Noel Coward
  • b) Sir Henry Irving
  • c) Sir Thomas Egerton
  • d) Sir Michael Caine

42. In 1615, Donne was awarded an honorary doctorate in divinity from ________

  • a) Oxford university
  • b) Cambridge university
  • c) University of Westminster
  • d) University of Birmingham

43. John Donne's satires dealt with common Elizabethan topics, such as:

  • a) Corruption in the political system
  • b) Corruption in legal system
  • c) Pompous Courtiers
  • d) None of these

44. Blasted with sighs, and surrounded with tears, /Hither I come to seek the spring, /And at mine eyes, and at mine ears, /Receive such balms as else cure every thing; These lines are taken from:

  • a) The Flea
  • b) The Good Morrow
  • c) The Song
  • d) Twickenham Garden

45. In Twickenham Garden, Dinner calls love as _______,

  • a) Friendly Love
  • b) Spider Love
  • c) Heavenly Love
  • d) Spiritual Love

46. The spider turns_____to _____.

  • a) Human to ghost
  • b) Manna to gall
  • c) Fox to Sheep
  • d) None of these

47. Song: Go and Catch a Falling star has theme of:

  • a) Scrupulousness of Women
  • b) Disloyalty of Women
  • c) Weakness of Women
  • d) Beauty of Women

48. John Donne, Anne Donne, undone was said by:

  • a) John Donne
  • b) Anne Moore
  • c) No One

49. Lives a woman true, and fair. These lines refer to the:

  • a) Weakness of Women
  • b) Cunningness of Women
  • c) Scrupulousness of Women
  • d) Disloyalty of Women

50. And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die. These lines are taken from:

  • a) Nocturnal Upon Saint Lucy's Day
  • b) Holly Sonnet: Death, be Not Proud
  • c) A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
  • d) The Funeral

Chapter 33: PRIDE AND PREJUDICE

1. It was written in

  • a) 1813
  • b) 1815
  • c) 1816
  • d) 1817

2. It is truth universally acknowledge that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a:

  • a) Sister-in-law
  • b) Wife
  • c) Lady
  • d) Women

3. The Bennet family lives in the village of:

  • a) Pemberley
  • b) Rosings
  • c) Longbourn house
  • d) London

4. The Bennet family has __________ daughters:

  • a) 3
  • b) 2
  • c) 5
  • d) 6

5. Mrs. Bennet is always worried for _________:

  • a) for her husband
  • b) for her house rent
  • c) for marriage of her daughters
  • d) for her job

6. Mr. Bingley, when he attends the ball in the meryton, seems to be quite taken with:

  • a) Jane
  • b) Charlotte
  • c) Elizabeth
  • d) Lydia

7. How much money does Mr. Bingley have:

  • a) €2000
  • b) €3000
  • c) €5000
  • d) €6000

8. _______ is major theme of Pride and Prejudice

  • a) Money
  • b) Military
  • c) Spying
  • d) Arguments

9. How does Mr. Darcy offend Elizabeth at the first ball?

  • a) He insults her father
  • b) He dances with Jane too often
  • c) He slaps her
  • d) He refuses to dance with her

10. What does he say about Elizabeth:

  • a) “She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me”
  • b) she is bad

11. This develops a _______ in Elizabeth heart

  • a) pride
  • b) prejudice
  • c) love
  • d) respect

12. Darcy is an example of:

  • a) prejudice
  • b) pride
  • c) humanity
  • d) love

13. Elizabeth’s best friend is named:

  • a) Charlotte Collins
  • b) Lady Catherine
  • c) Lydia Bennet

14. What does it mean that Mr. Bennet’s property is entailed:

  • a) Lady Catherine de Bourgh gave it to him
  • b) He rents from Sir William Lucas
  • c) It can only be inherited by a male
  • d) It comes from his wife’s family

15. What reason does Wickham give Elizabeth for his dislike of Darcy?

  • a) Darcy killed his cousin in a duel
  • b) Darcy wouldn’t let Wickham marry his sister
  • c) Darcy betrayed his country
  • d) Darcy cheated him out of an inheritance

16. To which Bennet daughter does Mr. Collins propose marriage?

  • a) Elizabeth
  • b) Jane
  • c) Mary
  • d) Lydia

17. Whom does Mr. Collins marry?

  • a) Jane
  • b) Lydia
  • c) Miss Bingley
  • d) Charlotte Lucas

18. Why does Miss Bingley dislike Elizabeth?

  • a) She is jealous of Darcy’s growing attraction to Elizabeth
  • b) Elizabeth insulted Miss Bingley at the ball
  • c) Wickham has told Miss Bingley lies about Elizabeth’s character
  • d) Darcy is constantly speaking ill of Elizabeth

19. Where do the Bingleys and Darcy go for the winter?

  • a) Pemberley
  • b) London
  • c) Netherfield
  • d) France

20. In March, Elizabeth goes to visit

  • a) Miss Darcy
  • b) Charlotte Lucas
  • c) Wickham
  • d) Miss Bingley

21. Lady Catherine de Bourgh is Darcy’s ...

  • a) Aunt
  • b) Sister
  • c) Mother
  • d) First wife

22. When Darcy first proposes to Elizabeth, he spends most of the proposal dwelling on

  • a) Her beauty
  • b) How socially unsuitable a match she is for him
  • c) How much he adores her family
  • d) How much money he will lavish on her

23. How does Elizabeth respond to it?

  • a) Accepts
  • b) Rejects
  • c) Feels Happy
  • d) Feels Sad

24. When does she start liking Darcy?

  • a) after he Sends her a letter explaining his actions
  • b) Fights a duel with Wickham
  • c) when he Sends money to Jane
  • d) after marries Miss Bingley

25. Darcy’s estate is called:

  • a) Rosings
  • b) London
  • c) Pemberley
  • d) Brighton

26. Mrs. Bennet is always thinking of _____ of her daughters

  • a) Marriage
  • b) Studies
  • c) Work
  • d) Job

27. Who does Caroline want Mr. Bingley to marry?

  • a) Jane
  • b) Georgina Darcy
  • c) Elizabeth

28. Who is pregnant by the end of the novel?

  • a) Mrs. Collins
  • b) Elizabeth
  • c) Jane
  • d) Mrs. Bennet

29. Where does Lydia spend the summer, and why?

  • a) Netherfield, to be near Darcy
  • b) London, because she enjoys the opera
  • c) Brighton, to be near the militia regiment
  • d) Barbados, for her health

30. With whom does Lydia go to Brighton

  • a) Elizabeth
  • b) Darcy
  • c) Wickham
  • d) Mr. Forster

31. What socially disastrous romantic decision does Lydia make?

  • a) She marries Bingley
  • b) She Elopes with Wickham
  • c) She rejects Mr. Collins’s proposal
  • d) She runs away to France with a lover

32. Who spearheads the search for Lydia after Mr. Bennet returns home in defeat?

  • a) Mr. Gardiner
  • b) William Lucas
  • c) Charlotte Lucas
  • d) Mrs. Phillips

33. Who pays off Wickham, convincing him to marry Lydia?

  • a) Bingley
  • b) Darcy
  • c) Mr. Gardiner
  • d) Mr. Collins

34. What does Lady Catherine forbid Elizabeth to do?

  • a) Marry Bingley
  • b) Visit Rosings
  • c) Marry Darcy
  • d) See Wickham

35. The novel ends with

  • a) Darcy marrying Elizabeth, and Bingley marrying Miss Darcy
  • b) Darcy marrying Elizabeth, and Wickham marrying Jane
  • c) Bingley marrying Jane, and Elizabeth marrying Wickham
  • d) Bingley marrying Jane, and Darcy marrying Elizabeth

Chapter 34: EMMA BY JANE AUSTEN

1. What is the name of Mr. Knightley’s estate?

  • a) Hartfield
  • b) Maple Grove
  • c) Donwell Abbey
  • d) Brunswick Square

2. Which of the following men does Harriet NOT fall in love with?

  • a) Mr. Elton
  • b) Mr. Weston
  • c) Mr. Martin
  • d) Mr. Knightley

3. Whose wedding has just taken place when the novel begins?

  • a) The Knightleys’
  • b) The Eltons’
  • c) The Sucklings’
  • d) The Westons’

4. What is Jane Fairfax’s connection to Miss Bates?

  • a) Jane is Miss Bates’s sister
  • b) Jane is Miss Bates’s niece
  • c) Jane is Miss Bates’s childhood friend
  • d) Jane is Miss Bates’s mother-in-law.

5. Where did Mr. and Mrs. Elton meet?

  • a) In Bath
  • b) In Bristol
  • c) In Highbury
  • d) In London

6. Why does Emma tell Harriet not to marry Mr. Martin?

  • a) Emma is in love with Mr. Martin
  • b) Emma thinks Harriet is socially above Mr. Martin
  • c) Emma thinks Mr. Martin is insincere
  • d) Emma thinks Mr. Martin is a scoundrel

7. Regarding personality, whom does Isabella most resemble?

  • a) Emma
  • b) Mr. Weston
  • c) Mrs. Weston
  • d) Her father

8. What was the first Mrs. Weston’s maiden name?

  • a) Campbell
  • b) Churchill
  • c) Taylor
  • d) Woodhouse

9. What will be Jane’s profession if she doesn’t marry?

  • a) Secretary
  • b) Nurse
  • c) Governess
  • d) Housemaid

10. Why does Frank flirt with Emma?

  • a) He wants to marry her
  • b) He wants to conceal his preference for another
  • c) He wants to conceal the fact that he is gay
  • d) He’s bored

11. From whom does Frank rescue Harriet?

  • a) Gypsies
  • b) A rapist
  • c) Robert Martin
  • d) Mrs. Elton

12. Who provides for Jane Fairfax’s education?

  • a) Mrs. Bates
  • b) Frank Churchill
  • c) Mr. Knightley
  • d) Colonel Campbell

13. Which of the couples who get engaged at the end of the novel is the first to get married?

  • a) Frank and Jane
  • b) Emma and Knightley
  • c) Harriet and Mr. Martin
  • d) Mr. Woodhouse and Miss Bates

14. Who gives birth to a baby girl?

  • a) Isabella
  • b) Emma
  • c) Mrs. Weston
  • d) Mrs. Elton

15. Who owns the property where the Martins live?

  • a) Mr. Knightley
  • b) Woodhouse
  • c) Mr. Weston
  • d) Mr. John Knightley

16. What is the name of the estate where Emma lives?

  • a) Abbey-Mills Farm
  • b) The vicarage
  • c) Donwell Abbey
  • d) Hartfield

17. Who first suspects that Frank and Jane have a secret attachment?

  • a) Emma
  • b) Mrs. Weston
  • c) Mr. Knightley
  • d) Miss Bates

18. What is the second Mrs. Weston’s relationship to Frank?

  • a) She is his stepmother
  • b) She is his mother-in-law
  • c) She is his aunt
  • d) She is his former governess.

19. What is the name of the man Mr. Woodhouse relies on for medical advice?

  • a) Mr. Wingfield
  • b) Mr. Suckling
  • c) Mr. Perry
  • d) Mr. Cole

20. Where does the ball take place?

  • a) The Crown Inn
  • b) Randalls
  • c) The Legion Club
  • d) Hartfield

21. How many proposals does Emma receive over the course of the novel?

  • a) Three
  • b) None
  • c) One
  • d) Two

22. Where is Emma’s mother?

  • a) In Bath for her health
  • b) She died long ago
  • c) She has left Mr. Woodhouse
  • d) Visiting her sister

23. For whom does Emma believe Harriet has fallen after she gets over Mr. Elton?

  • a) Mr. Knightley
  • b) Mr. Cox
  • c) Frank Churchill
  • d) Mr. Coles

24. Who insults Miss Bates at the Box Hill picnic?

  • a) Mrs. Elton
  • b) Harriet
  • c) Emma
  • d) Mr. Weston

25. Who does Mrs. Weston initially think has feelings for Jane?

  • a) Frank Churchill
  • b) Emma
  • c) Mr. Weston
  • d) Mr. Knightley

26. What words are used to describe Emma in the opening of the novel?

  • a) Poor, stupid and ignorant
  • b) Clever, rich and handsome
  • c) Smart, rich and beautiful
  • d) Smart, wealthy and pretty

27. What is Miss Taylor's Christian name?

  • a) Caroline
  • b) Katherine
  • c) Elizabeth
  • d) Anne

28. Mr Knightley is Emma's?

  • a) father
  • b) cousin
  • c) brother-in-law
  • d) brother

29. Harriet Smith has been educated by?

  • a) Mrs Elton
  • b) Miss Taylor
  • c) Mr. and Mrs. Smith
  • d) Mrs. Goddard

30. Frank Churchill's father is?

  • a) Mr. Woodhouse
  • b) Walter Elliot
  • c) Mr. Darcy
  • d) Mr. Weston

31. How old is Emma at the start of the novel?

  • a) 20
  • b) 25
  • c) 19
  • d) 17

32. What is Mr. Woodhouse's apothecary's name?

  • a) Mr Porter
  • b) Mr Wickham
  • c) Thomas
  • d) Mr. Perry

33. What is the name of the local store in Highbury?

  • a) Grey's
  • b) Ford's
  • c) Allen's
  • d) Jones'

34. Mrs. Elton's maiden name is?

  • a) Henry
  • b) Hensley
  • c) Harrington
  • d) Hawkins

35. The picnic takes place at?

  • a) Mansfield Hill
  • b) Red Hill
  • c) Box Hill
  • d) Cranley Hill

36. What does Frank Churchill claim he is going into London to get?

  • a) Some boots
  • b) A haircut
  • c) A horse
  • d) A barouche

37. What relationship is Jane Fairfax to Miss Bates?

  • a) Cousin
  • b) Daughter
  • c) Niece
  • d) Sister

38. Why can't Harriet go to the Christmas party?

  • a) She is in London
  • b) She is not invited
  • c) Mrs. Goddard is ill
  • d) She is ill

39. What is Mr Knightley's estate called?

  • a) Donwell Abbey
  • b) Combe Magna
  • c) Northanger Abbey
  • d) Pemberley

40. In how many volumes was 'Emma' first published?

  • a) Two
  • b) Three
  • c) One
  • d) Four

41. What article once belonging to Mr Elton does Harriet make a treasure of?

  • a) Button
  • b) Handkerchief
  • c) A pencil
  • d) A lock of hair

42. What book does Harriet encourage Mr Martin to read?

  • a) The Mysteries of Udolpho
  • b) The Italian
  • c) Pamela
  • d) The Romance of the Forest

43. What present does Jane Fairfax receive from an anonymous person?

  • a) A Saddle
  • b) A Ball Gown
  • c) A Jewelry Box
  • d) A musical instrument

44. Who dies, allowing Frank and Jane to marry?

  • a) Mrs. Churchill
  • b) Mrs Bates
  • c) Mr Woodhouse
  • d) Mr. Cole

45. What is Mr. Knightley's Christian name?

  • a) Harold
  • b) Charles
  • c) George
  • d) Fitzwilliam

Chapter 35: FRANKENSTEIN

1. Who is convicted of the murder of Victor’s younger brother, William?

  • a) Alphonse Frankenstein
  • b) Victor Frankenstein
  • c) Justine Moritz
  • d) Frankenstein’s monster

2. Who is accused of the murder of Henry Clerval?

  • a) Victor Frankenstein
  • b) Robert Walton
  • c) Frankenstein’s monster
  • d) Justine Moritz

3. To whom is Victor taken after Henry is murdered?

  • a) M. Kempe
  • b) His father
  • c) Waldman
  • d) Mr. Kirwin

4. What is the name of the professor at Ingolstadt who first teaches Victor the methods of modern science?

  • a) Krempe
  • b) Clerval
  • c) Waldman
  • d) Beaufort

5. With what is Walton obsessed?

  • a) Creating life
  • b) Reaching the North Pole
  • c) Finding a passage to the East
  • d) Discovering the source of the Earth’s magnetism

6. Where does Victor first have a conversation with his monster?

  • a) In Victor’s apartment in Ingolstadt
  • b) In a field outside of Geneva
  • c) On a desolate island off Scotland
  • d) In a hut on a glacier near Montanvert

7. What does the monster want Victor to do to heal his loneliness?

  • a) Create a female monster to be his companion
  • b) Accept him into his family
  • c) Destroy him
  • d) Work to make him appear less hideous

8. How does Walton meet Victor?

  • a) They work in the same laboratory on an island off Scotland
  • b) Walton escorts Victor northward in pursuit of the monster
  • c) Walton finds Victor on the northern ice and nurses him back to health
  • d) They are students together at Ingolstadt

9. How does Victor’s mother die?

  • a) She drowns in a river
  • b) The monster strangles her
  • c) She catches scarlet fever from Elizabeth
  • d) Executed for Murder

10. Who takes care of Victor when he falls ill after creating the monster?

  • a) Elizabeth
  • b) Henry
  • c) Alphonse
  • d) M. Waldman

11. How does the monster learn to speak?

  • a) By listening to Felix teach Safie his language
  • b) By reading Victor’s journal of his creation of the monster
  • c) By learning from Victor
  • d) He doesn’t; he is born knowing how to speak

12. To which character(s) in Paradise Lost does the monster compare himself?

  • a) Adam and Eve
  • b) Satan
  • c) Adam
  • d) Adam and Satan

13. Why does Victor accompany Henry Clerval on a voyage to England and Scotland?

  • a) For entertainment
  • b) To track down and destroy the monster
  • c) To work on creating a female monster
  • d) To study science

14. What does the monster think causes Felix, Agatha, and De Lacey to be unhappy?

  • a) The death of De Lacey’s wife
  • b) The loss of Safie
  • c) Poverty
  • d) His own presence

15. Which of the following is not one of the alchemists whom Victor studies in his adolescence?

  • a) Cornelius Agrippa
  • b) Lucretius
  • c) Albertus Magnus
  • d) Paracelsus

16. What do Elizabeth and Alphonse assume is the source of Victor’s unhappiness?

  • a) Disappointment in his studies at Ingolstadt
  • b) Guilt about creating a monster
  • c) Grief over the death of Beaufort
  • d) Lack of desire to marry Elizabeth

17. How does Victor react to seeing Henry’s corpse?

  • a) He has no reaction
  • b) He denies that he is the murderer
  • c) He cries
  • d) He falls into a long, feverish illness

18. To whom does Walton address his letters?

  • a) Victor Frankenstein
  • b) Margaret Saville
  • c) Elizabeth Lavenza
  • d) Justine Moritz

19. The Frankensteins’ family home is in

  • a) Luxembourg
  • b) Geneva
  • c) Chamounix
  • d) Ingolstadt

20. Victor Frankenstein attends university in

  • a) Ingolstadt
  • b) Geneva
  • c) Edinburgh
  • d) Paris

21. Which of the following books is not one of those read by the monster?

  • a) Paradise Lost
  • b) The Sorrows of Werter
  • c) Plutarch’s Lives
  • d) The Inferno

22. Why are Felix, Agatha, and De Lacey so poor?

  • a) They were born poor
  • b) Safie’s father stripped them of their fortune.
  • c) The French court took their fortune and exiled them from France for helping Safie’s father escape from prison
  • d) Felix spent the family’s money courting Safie

23. What is the monster’s reward for saving a girl from drowning?

  • a) He is shot
  • b) He is given a meal and a room and place to stay.
  • c) He is beaten and chased away
  • d) He is cursed and ignored

24. Why doesn’t Victor protect his wife, Elizabeth, from the monster’s attack on the night of their wedding?

  • a) He does not think that the monster will come
  • b) He thinks that Elizabeth can protect herself
  • c) He misunderstands the monster’s warning
  • d) He doesn’t love Elizabeth anymore

25. What does Walton do after Victor dies?

  • a) He continues toward the North Pole
  • b) He remains stuck in the Arctic ice
  • c) He returns to England
  • d) He pursues Frankenstein’s monster

26. What is the subtitle of Frankenstein?

  • a) "Or, A Tale of Horror"
  • b) "Or, The Modern Prometheus"
  • c) "Or, The Creature"
  • d) "Or, A Tale of the Grotesque

27. Why is Justine accused of murder?

  • a) she confesses her guilt
  • b) the picture of Caroline is found in her dress
  • c) she is caught in a lie about her whereabouts on the evening of the murder
  • d) her diary reveals that she secretly has plotted to kill members of the family

28. To whom does Walton address his letters?

  • a) Victor Frankenstein
  • b) Margaret Saville
  • c) Elizabeth Lavenza
  • d) The Royal Academy

29. Victor's greatest sin is

  • a) yearning for great scientific knowledge
  • b) wanting to be a great man
  • c) making the creature
  • d) abandoning the Creature

30. Where does Walton find Victor Frankenstein?

  • a) high in the Alps
  • b) on a piece of ice floating in the ocean
  • c) at the bottom of the ship, stowing away
  • d) at Ingolstadt

31. Walton is the first narrator in Frankenstein. Who are the other two?

  • a) Elizabeth and Victor
  • b) Victor and Henry
  • c) Victor and the Creature
  • d) William and Victor

32. Ultimately, Victor's schooling results in his being obsessed with

  • a) money
  • b) romantic poetry
  • c) knowledge
  • d) the supernatural

Chapter 36: DAVID COPPERFIELD

1. David was born in?

  • a) Limestone Aviary
  • b) Blunderstone
  • c) Yarmouth Boathouse
  • d) Salem house

2. Which of the following is not a characteristic of David’s birth?

  • a) He was born on Saturday
  • b) He began crying right at the stroke of midnight
  • c) He was born with a caul
  • d) Everyone thought that he would be a girl

3. Why did Miss Betsey storm out on the night David as born?

  • a) She was shocked by the young age of her brother’s widow
  • b) She was offended by a comment made by David’s mother
  • c) She found the doctor to be very rude and insulting
  • d) She was upset that David turned out to be a boy

4. During his first stay in Yarmouth, David stays where?

  • a) A boat
  • b) A hotel
  • c) A cabin
  • d) A large hall

5. What does Dora asked David to call her?

  • a) Child-wife
  • b) Little-wife
  • c) Young-wife
  • d) Simple-wife

6. Mr. Wickfield suffers from what?

  • a) Cancer
  • b) Alcoholism
  • c) Chronic illness
  • d) Insomnia

7. Dora always has the following at her side:

  • a) Flowers
  • b) Her guitar
  • c) Her paints
  • d) Her dog

8. David eventually decides that he wants to be what?

  • a) A lawyer
  • b) A proctor
  • c) A professor
  • d) A writer

9. Dr. Strong is writing what kind of book?

  • a) History
  • b) Biography
  • c) Dictionary
  • d) Autobiography

10. Mr. Creakle ends up as what?

  • a) A sailor
  • b) School master
  • c) A mortician
  • d) A magistrate

11. What is the last thing Steerforth asks of David?

  • a) To visit his mother one more time
  • b) To throw a dinner party
  • c) To tell little Emily he loves her
  • d) To remember him at his best

12. How dose Miss Murdstone know Dora?

  • a) She is her tutor
  • b) She is her hired companion
  • c) She is her stepmother
  • d) She is her babysitter

13. Mr. Dick is Miss Betsey’s what?

  • a) Live-in housemate
  • b) Husband
  • c) Tutor
  • d) Cook

14. What does the sign that David is forced to wear during his stay at boarding school say?

  • a) Take care of him
  • b) Beware of dogs
  • c) Take care of him. He bites
  • d) Beware, I bite

15. What trait does Mr. Murdstone stress to Clara constantly?

  • a) Firmness
  • b) Clarity
  • c) Cruelty
  • d) Forgiveness

16. David’s earliest memory is of what?

  • a) His home
  • b) Peggotty and his mother
  • c) His father
  • d) His aunt, Miss Trotwood

17. Where does Mr. Mell’s mother live?

  • a) In a selected house
  • b) In a boat
  • c) In a poorhouse
  • d) In a mansion

18. Which of the following does not die at sea?

  • a) Little Emily’s father
  • b) Mr. Bakris
  • c) Ham
  • d) Steerforth

19. How did Miss Dartle get her scar?

  • a) From fainting and falling down
  • b) From an accident out at sea
  • c) From a fight with Mrs. Steerforth
  • d) From Steerforth throwing a hammer at her

20. What does not go to Australia at the end of the novel?

  • a) Mr. Omer
  • b) Mr. Peggotty
  • c) Martha
  • d) Mrs. Grummidge

21. Miss Betsey is obsessed with which of the following?

  • a) Money
  • b) Keeping donkeys off her grass
  • c) Proper etiquette
  • d) Sailing and the sea

22. Who is Jack Maldon?

  • a) Annie’s cousin
  • b) Dr. Strong’s son
  • c) David’s schoolmate
  • d) Mr. Wickfield’s nephew

23. What does Miss Mowcher suffer from?

  • a) Rheumatism
  • b) Cancer
  • c) Alcoholism
  • d) Dwarfism

24. How many times is Mr. Micawber thrown in jail for his debts?

  • a) Once
  • b) Four times
  • c) Twice
  • d) Three times

25. Who is with Dora when she dies?

  • a) Agnes
  • b) Mr Spenlow
  • c) Her aunts
  • d) David

26. How does the opening sentence start?

  • a) “In consideration of the day and hour of my birth”
  • b) “To begin my life with the beginning of my life”
  • c) “Whether I shall turn out to be the gero of my own life”
  • d) “I was born at Blunderstone, in Suffolk”

27. How old was david when his father died?

  • a) Six months
  • b) Ten years
  • c) Two years
  • d) He wasn’t born yet

28. What P.S does David send to Peggotty in a letter from Salem house?

  • a) Barkis is willing
  • b) I forgive Jane
  • c) Emily is a sweetheart
  • d) I hate Mr. Murdstone

29. Who is the only boy in Salem house whom Mr. Creakle never lays a hand on?

  • a) George Demple
  • b) James Steerforth
  • c) David Copperfield
  • d) Tommy Traddles

30. Chapter 9 is called “I have a memorable birthday”. What makes it so memorable?

  • a) He meets Agnes for the first-time
  • b) He’s locked up in Salem house
  • c) His mother and little brother are buried
  • d) He writes his first short story

31. What did Charles Dickens have in common with his “favorite child” David Copperfield?

  • a) He was born in March
  • b) He was married twice
  • c) His first job was to label bottles
  • d) He bit his step father’s finger

32. David’s aunt asks Mr. Dick what she should do with the boy. What’s his advice?

  • a) Wash him
  • b) Give him a job
  • c) Break his ribs
  • d) Send him back home

33. What is the ironic nickname of Miss Mowcher?

  • a) The beauty
  • b) The giantess
  • c) The nightingale
  • d) Old soldier

34. Who is Jip?

  • a) Mr. Wickfield’s clerk
  • b) Dora’s dog
  • c) Mr. Omer’s partner
  • d) Steerforth’s servant

35. Whom does Uriah Heep want to marry?

  • a) Dora Spenlow
  • b) Martha Endell
  • c) Emily Peggotty
  • d) Agnes

36. Mr peggotty travels through Europe in search of Emily. Where does he finally find her?

  • a) London
  • b) Italy
  • c) Switzerland
  • d) France

37. Where does David see Uriah (and littimer) for the last time?

  • a) At the bench
  • b) In a coffin
  • c) At the gallows
  • d) In prison

38. Who still lives at the end of the novel?

  • a) Dora
  • b) Emily
  • c) Steerforth
  • d) Ham

39. The novel DAVID COPPERFIELD was published in a book form in

  • a) 1850
  • b) 1951
  • c) 1960
  • d) 1961

40. The novel DAVID COPPERFIELD was written by:

  • a) Oliver Twist
  • b) Hardy
  • c) Charles Dickens
  • d) Oscar Wilde

Chapter 37: CHARLES DICKENS

1. To which literary Age did Dickens's belong?

  • a) To the Victorian Age
  • b) To the Pre-Romantic Age
  • c) To the Augustan Age
  • d) To the Romantic Age

2. Where was Dickens born?

  • a) Portsmouth
  • b) Derbeyfield
  • c) Yorkshire
  • d) London

3. Dickens was the first editor of one of the following newspapers. So, Which?

  • a) The Daily News
  • b) The Quarterly Review
  • c) The London Magazine
  • d) Blackwood’s Magazine

4. Which was the first novel of Charles Dickens?

  • a) Pickwick Papers
  • b) Oliver Twist
  • c) Hard Times
  • d) Christmas Carols

5. Which is the most autobiographical novel of Charles Dickens?

  • a) David Copperfield
  • b) A Tale of Two Cities
  • c) Hard Times
  • d) Dombey and Son

6. One of the following novels is only an episodic novel. Which one?

  • a) Pickwick Paper
  • b) American Notes
  • c) Christmas Carols
  • d) The Uncommercial Traveler

7. Dickens treats the laws delay in:

  • a) Little Dorrit
  • b) Nicholas Nickleby
  • c) Oliver Twist
  • d) Hard Times

8. One of the following novels of Dickens is generally called ‘the most worthless’ Which of the following?

  • a) The Child’s History of England
  • b) American Notes
  • c) Hard Times
  • d) Little Dorrit

9. Dickens portrays the degradation and suffering of the poor in the English workhouse. In which of the following novels does he do so?

  • a) Oliver Twist
  • b) Little Dorrit
  • c) Great Expectations
  • d) David Copperfield

10. Which of Dickens's novels deal with the life of a circus child named Sissy Jupe?

  • a) Hard Times
  • b) Martin Chuzzlewit
  • c) Little Dorrit
  • d) Bleak House

11. Charles Dickens's novel A Tale of Two Cities can be considered as

  • a) Historical Novel
  • b) Picaresque Novel
  • c) Regional Novel
  • d) Sociological Novel

12. Which are the two cities dealt with in Dickens's novel A Tale of Two Cities?

  • a) London & Paris
  • b) England & America
  • c) Paris & Rome
  • d) Paris

13. Dicken’s novel A Tale of Two Cities shows an influence of Carlyle’s

  • a) French Revolution
  • b) Sartor Resartus
  • c) The Life of Schiller
  • d) Italian Revolution

14. Dickens left one novel unfinished. Which of these?

  • a) Edwin Drood
  • b) Dombey and Son
  • c) Our Mutual Friend
  • d) Little Dorrit

15. Dickens said about one of the novels “I like this the best” Which novel was he referring to?

  • a) David Copperfield
  • b) Great Expectations
  • c) A Tale of Two Cities
  • d) Oliver Twist

16. Charles Dickens's Characters are generally

  • a) Flat
  • b) Round
  • c) Humorous
  • d) Humanitarian

17. In which of Dickens novel a memorable character named Gradgrind figures appear?

  • a) Hard Times
  • b) Pickwick Papers
  • c) A Tale of Two Cities
  • d) Oliver Twist

18. Who compared Dickens with Shakespeare in making “A character as real as flesh and blood”?

  • a) T.S Eliot
  • b) Matthew Arnold
  • c) I.A Richards
  • d) F.R Leavis

19. Which of Dickens's novel do we find a character named Miss Pross?

  • a) A Tale of Two Cities
  • b) David Copperfield
  • c) Hard Times
  • d) Dombey and Son

20. Anthony Trollope satirizes Dickens in the Character of

  • a) Mr.Popular sentiment
  • b) Mr.Chatting Hardwood
  • c) Dr.Pessimist Anticant
  • d) Dr.Charles Reformer

21. Which of the following novel is not written by Dickens?

  • a) Vanity Fair
  • b) Our Mutual Friend
  • c) Little Dorrit
  • d) Hard Times

22. “The great humorists of the world can be counted on the fingers of a hand, and Dickens is of that choice company”’ who says this?

  • a) George Sampson
  • b) T.S Eliot
  • c) Sainsbury
  • d) W.H Hudson

23. Who has written the best biography of Charles Dickens

  • a) Edgar Johnson His Tragedy and Triumph
  • b) John Forster
  • c) Arthur Miller
  • d) J.B Priestley

24. Dickens is the thoroughly familiar with parliamentary procedure. Why?

  • a) As a newspaper reporter he was allowed to enter the House of Commons
  • b) He was the editor of a news paper called Daily News
  • c) He was the editor of a news paper
  • d) His father was a member of the Parliament

25. ”His novels belong entirely to the humanitarian movement of the Victorian era” Who holds this view?

  • a) W.H Hudson
  • b) I.A Richard
  • c) F.R Leavis
  • d) George Sampson

26. Charles Dickens born in:

  • a) 1812
  • b) 1814
  • c) 1815
  • d) 1816

27. Charles Dickens was a:

  • a) Victorian Novelist
  • b) Critic
  • c) Wrestler
  • d) None

28. Pickwick Paper was written by:

  • a) Charles Dickens
  • b) Thackery
  • c) Wordsworth
  • d) None

29. What problem has health with Dickens's Bleak House?

  • a) Laws Delay
  • b) Working Condition of Weare House
  • c) Abuse of Charity School
  • d) None

30. Which novel of Dickens is called “the most worthless”?

  • a) The Child History of England
  • b) Little Dorrit
  • c) Hard Times
  • d) None

31. Whose novel throws lights on miseries of poor orphan children?

  • a) Dickens
  • b) Jane Austen
  • c) Fielding
  • d) Thackery

32. Most Dickens's character are generally?

  • a) Flat
  • b) Comic
  • c) Round
  • d) None

33. Anthony Trollop satirizes Dickens in the character of:

  • a) Popular Sentiment
  • b) Brownlow
  • c) Love
  • d) Biswas

34. Almost all of Dickens novel shows his preoccupation with—- problems.

  • a) Social
  • b) Cultural
  • c) Mental
  • d) None

35. Who has written Pickwick Paper?

  • a) Charles Dickens
  • b) Thackery
  • c) Monty
  • d) None

36. Charles Dickens was a:

  • a) Novelist
  • b) Dramatist
  • c) Poet
  • d) Critic

37. Lady Deadlock Character occurs in Dickens:

  • a) Bleak House
  • b) David Copperfield
  • c) Hard Times
  • d) A Tale of Two Cities

38. The Last Book Dickens wrote was:

  • a) The Mystery of Edwin Drood
  • b) A Christmas Carol
  • c) The Uncommercial Traveler
  • d) Bleak House

39. Charles Dickens’ best work:

  • a) David Copperfield
  • b) Bleak House
  • c) A Tale of Two Cities
  • d) None

40. Which character in Dickens’ novel kept waiting for ‘something to turn up’?

  • a) Mr. Micawber
  • b) Sydney Carton
  • c) Oliver Twist
  • d) None

41. Charles Dicken’ novels largely deal with

  • a) Contemporary Social Condition
  • b) Divine Matters
  • c) Business Matters
  • d) War Affairs

42. Who is the most furious character in ____ in Dickens’s Oliver Twist?

  • a) Fagin
  • b) Chitlting
  • c) Doger
  • d) Bates

43. ‘Philip Pirrpi’ is a character in Charles Dickens’ novel:

  • a) Great Expectation
  • b) Oliver Twist
  • c) David Copperfield
  • d) None

44. “Love is not feeling to pass away. Like the blemy breath of a summer day”

  • a) Lucy’s Song
  • b) A Child Hymn
  • c) The Ivy Green
  • d) None

45. “In love of home, the love of country has its rise”. These lines occur in:

  • a) Old Curiosity Shop
  • b) Great Expectation
  • c) Oliver Twist
  • d) None

46. What is the name of Sissy’s father’s dog

  • a) Merry legs
  • b) Bandylegs
  • c) Both
  • d) None

47. Who robs banks?

  • a) Tom
  • b) Stephen
  • c) Sissy
  • d) None

48. What is the common name for poor Cocktown factory workers?

  • a) Hands
  • b) Scum
  • c) Cogs
  • d) Proles

49. Mrs. Pegler is the mother of which character

  • a) Bounderby
  • b) Sissy
  • c) Grandgrin
  • d) None

Chapter 38: JANE EYRE

1. Under what pen name Jane Eyre was published?

  • a) Acton Bell
  • b) Currer Bell
  • c) Ellis Bell
  • d) Acton Aris

2. Which character is in love with Rosamond?

  • a) St. John
  • b) Rochester
  • c) John Reed
  • d) Mr. Mason

3. Who sets the fire in Rochester’s bedroom?

  • a) Jane
  • b) Bertha
  • c) Mrs. Fairfax
  • d) Grace Poole

4. How many chapters are there in total in Charlotte Brontë's "Jane Eyre"?

  • a) 34 chapters
  • b) 32 chapters
  • c) 38 chapters
  • d) 42 chapters

5. Which character is based on the Reverend Carus Wilson, a figure from Charlotte Brontë’s childhood?

  • a) St. John Rivers
    • c) Mr. Brocklehurst
  • b) Rochester
  • d) Mr. Lloyd

6. Who writes to St. John regarding Jane’s inheritance from John Eyre?

  • a) Mr. Briggs
  • b) Mr. Mason
  • c) Mr. Brocklehurst
  • d) Mrs. Reed

7. How does John Reed apparently die?

  • a) He falls from the roof of Thornfield
  • b) He is killed in a fire
  • c) He has a stroke
  • d) He commits suicide

8. Where did Rochester marry Bertha Mason?

  • a) Jamaica
  • b) Madeira
  • c) St. Kitts
  • d) Bermuda

9. Who first suggests that Jane be sent away to school?

  • a) Mrs. Reed
  • b) Mr. Brocklehurst
  • c) Mr. Lloyd
  • d) John Reed

10. What is the nationality of Jane’s pupil at Thornfield?

  • a) Spanish
  • b) German
  • c) Jamaican
  • d) French

11. What does Rochester lose in the fire at Thornfield?

  • a) His hand and his eyesight
  • b) His eyesight and his fortune
  • c) His eyesight and his dog
  • d) His fortune and his fiancée

12. Which teacher is kind to Jane at Lowood?

  • a) Mrs. Scatcherd
  • b) Miss Temple
  • c) Mr. Brocklehurst
  • d) Miss Ames

13. What does Miss Temple give Jane and Helen to eat?

  • a) Bundt cake
  • b) Strawberries
  • c) Cookies
  • d) Seed cake

14. How does Jane earn a living after leaving Thornfield?

  • a) She paints
  • b) She writes and sells short stories
  • c) She becomes a governess at a different manor house
  • d) St. John Rivers finds her a teaching job in the town of Morton

15. With whom does Jane believe Rochester is in love for most of her time at Thornfield?

  • a) Herself
  • b) Blanche Ingram
  • c) Georgianna Reed
  • d) Celine Varens

16. What does Jane do with the inheritance she receives from her uncle John Eyre?

  • a) She divides it equally among her cousins the rivers
  • b) She starts a school in the town of Morton
  • c) She sends it to Gateshead to comfort the Reeds for the death of their mother
  • d) She buys ball gowns and jewelry for herself

17. When was Jane Eyre published?

  • a) October 1847
  • b) December 1874
  • c) December 1856
  • d) March 1863

18. What does Mr. Brocklehurst do to one of Jane’s classmates to rid her of her “vanity”?

  • a) He makes her wear a dunce cap
  • b) He has her naturally curly hair cut short so as to make it lie straight
  • c) He forces her to write “I am a very silly girl” 100 times
  • d) He puts a curtain over her bedroom mirror

19. How does Jane’s Aunt Reed punish her for fighting with her bullying cousin John?

  • a) She makes her sleep outside in the cold
  • b) She makes her eat only burnt porridge
  • c) She makes her shine John’s shoes for a week
  • d) She locks her in the red-room

20. To which destination does St. John Rivers want Jane to accompany him as his wife and fellow missionary?

  • a) India
  • b) China
  • c) The Congo
  • d) Ireland

21. What is the name of the Riverses’ servant?

  • a) Alice
  • b) Bertha
  • c) Hannah
  • d) Persephone

22. What does Jane do immediately after finishing her studies at Lowood?

  • a) She answers an advertisement for a governess at Thornfield
  • b) She becomes a teacher there
  • c) She burns down the building
  • d) She is forced to wander penniless and starving across the moors

23. Who wears the disguise of a gypsy woman?

  • a) Blanche Ingram
  • b) Rochester
  • c) Lady Ingram
  • d) Lady Bartholomew

24. What happens within the first ten years of Jane and Rochester’s marriage?

  • a) Rochester falls in love with Jane’s cousin
  • b) A son is born
  • c) They divorce
  • d) None of the above

25. What is the subject of the book Jane is reading at the beginning of the novel?

  • a) Fish
  • b) British royalty
  • c) Fairies and knights
  • d) Birds

26. Why does Mrs. Reed resent Jane?

  • a) Because of her beauty
  • b) Because her husband favored Jane
  • c) Jane is mean to her children
  • d) Jane has a huge inheritance

27. What is the color of the room Jane is locked in at Gateshead?

  • a) Green
  • b) Fuchsia
  • c) Red
  • d) Blue

28. Who is the servant at Gateshead?

  • a) Mrs. Reed
  • b) Mrs. Fairfax
  • c) Georgiana
  • d) Bessie

29. Whose ghost does Jane believe she sees while at Gateshead?

  • a) Her Sister's
  • b) Her Uncle's
  • c) Her Mother's
  • d) Her Father's

30. What religious movement is Mr. Brocklehurst a part of?

  • a) Stoicism
  • b) Evangelicalism
  • c) Victorianism
  • d) Buddhism

31. What student befriends Jane at Lowood?

  • a) Diana Rivers
  • b) Miss Temple
  • c) Mary Rivers
  • d) Helen Burns

32. An outbreak of what disease spreads throughout Lowood?

  • a) Pneumonia
  • b) Chicken Pox
  • c) Typhus
  • d) Leprosy

33. What does Mr. Brocklehurst do with the money meant for Lowood school?

  • a) Fund his political causes
  • b) Publish books
  • c) Create a second school
  • d) Indulge his own family

34. Who is Adèle's mother?

  • a) Miss Ingram
  • b) Céline Varens
  • c) Bertha Mason
  • d) Mrs. Fairfax

35. Who is Jane's rival for Mr. Rochester's affections?

  • a) Miss Ingram
  • b) Bertha Mason
  • c) Céline Varens
  • d) Mrs. Fairfax

36. What is Jane's position at Thornfield?

  • a) Governess
  • b) Seamstress
  • c) Cook
  • d) Maid

37. What is Grace Poole's ostensible position at Thornfield?

  • a) Cook
  • b) Maid
  • c) Governess
  • d) Seamstress

38. What is the real reason for Grace Poole's employment?

  • a) To brainwash Jane
  • b) To guard Bertha Mason
  • c) To kill any intruders
  • d) To act as Rochester's mistress

39. What disguise does Mr. Rochester put on at one point?

  • a) Solicitor
  • b) Magician
  • c) Fortune-teller
  • d) Musician

40. To whom does Mr. Rochester constantly attribute the demonic laughter from the third story?

  • a) Adele
  • b) Grace Poole
  • c) Bertha Mason
  • d) Mrs. Fairfax

41. Why did Mr. Rochester marry Bertha Mason?

  • a) For her wealth
  • b) As a favor to her brother
  • c) For her madness
  • d) For her beauty

42. Whom does Mr. Rochester first tell Jane that he wants to marry?

  • a) Bertha Mason
  • b) Miss Ingram
  • c) Mrs. Fairfax
  • d) Jane

43. Where did Jane's uncle seek his fortune?

  • a) Amsterdam
  • b) Madeira
  • c) Barcelona
  • d) Berlin

44. What item of Jane's clothing does Bertha Mason rip one night?

  • a) Her stockings
  • b) Her bonnet
  • c) Her wedding-veil
  • d) Her corset

45. What two natural elements are important symbols in the novel?

  • a) Water and air
  • b) Fire and ice
  • c) Fire and water
  • d) Earth and water

46. What are the names of the servants who care for Rochester at Ferndean?

  • a) John and Mary
  • b) Reginald and Mrs. Fairfax
  • c) Mrs. Fairfax and Grace Poole
  • d) John and Clara

47. What has just happened to Mr. Mason the first time we encounter him?

  • a) He has fallen from the roof
  • b) He has been injured
  • c) He has been poisoned
  • d) He has fallen in love

48. What makes Bessie different from other figures in Jane’s early life?

  • a) Her independence
  • b) Her cruelty
  • c) Her kindness
  • d) Her spirituality

Chapter 39: JUDE THE OBSCURE

1. When was “Jude the Obscure” first published?

  • a) 2006
  • b) 1936
  • c) 1896
  • d) 1996

2. What job does Mr. Phillotson have when he is first introduced into the text?

  • a) Butcher
  • b) Banker
  • c) Mayor
  • d) Schoolmaster

3. Where does the novel first take place when it begins?

  • a) Paris
  • b) Marygreen
  • c) Christminster
  • d) London

4. What is Jude’s full name?

  • a) Jude Funton
  • b) Jude Phillotson
  • c) Fawley
  • d) No one knows; he is always referred to as “Jude the Obscure.”

5. The boy, Jude Fawley, has been living with his aunt Drusilla who is a :

  • a) Chemist
  • b) Baker
  • c) Doctor
  • d) Nurse

6. What kind of business does Jude’s aunt run?

  • a) A hospital
  • b) A bakery
  • c) A pub
  • d) A library

7. Where do Jude and his aunt live when he is young?

  • a) They drift from place to place
  • b) In the bakery
  • c) In the church basement
  • d) In the backhouse of someone’s farm

8. As a youth, Jude teaches himself Classical Greek and ___ in his spare time

  • a) Latin
  • b) English
  • c) German
  • d) Spanish

9. What city is referred to as “The New Jerusalem”?

  • a) Manchester
  • b) Christminster
  • c) London

10. Who is in the picture at the inn Jude and Arabella visit?

  • a) Samson and Delilah
  • b) Jesus and Mary
  • c) Apollo and Venus
  • d) Abbott and Costello

11. Who hangs the babies?

  • a) Jude
  • b) Sue
  • c) Father Time
  • d) Phillotson

12. What are Jude and Sue restoring in the church when Jude is asked to leave his job?

  • a) Crucifix
  • b) Ten Commandments
  • c) Statue of Jesus
  • d) The pews

13. What job does Phillotson have when Jude finds him in Christminster?

  • a) Bishop
  • b) Professor
  • c) School teacher
  • d) Headmaster

14. Jude Fawley, the novel’s protagonist, longs to become a------------ . Circumstances force him instead to become a------------.

  • a) Doctor; butcher
  • b) Painter; gravedigger
  • c) Lawyer; merchant
  • d) Scholar; stonemason

15. How does Arabella trap Jude into marrying her the first time?

  • a) She feigns pregnancy
  • b) She threatens his life
  • c) She steals his money
  • d) She gets him drunk

16. On their wedding night, what physical attribute of Arabella does Jude discover to be false?

  • a) Her teeth
  • b) Her pregnancy
  • c) Her dimples
  • d) Her hair

17. Where does Jude first see Sue?

  • a) In a shop at Christminster
  • b) In a portrait owned by his aunt Drusilla
  • c) In church during a sermon
  • d) In the stonemason’s yard

18. What statues does Sue buy from the street vendor?

  • a) Christ and the Virgin Mary
  • b) Mars and Cupid
  • c) Venus and Apollo
  • d) St. Peter and St. Mary Magdalen

19. How are Jude and Sue related?

  • a) They are siblings
  • b) They are cousins
  • c) he is her uncle
  • d) She is his aunt

20. Who introduces Sue to Phillotson?

  • a) Arabella
  • b) Jude
  • c) Drusilla
  • d) Phillotson

21. Where does Jude encounter Arabella for the first time since she has left him?

  • a) At a bar in Christminster
  • b) At Sue’s wedding
  • c) At Drusilla’s funeral
  • d) At an inn in Melchester

22. What event causes Phillotson to consent to Sue’s desire to leave him for Jude?

  • a) Sue asks Phillotson if he will allow her to go to Jude
  • b) Sue threatens to kill Phillotson if he will not allow her to leave
  • c) Phillotson discovers Sue is pregnant by Jude
  • d) Sue jumps out of a window to escape Phillotson

23. Why does Arabella grant Jude a divorce?

  • a) She wants to cut all ties in England and move to Australia
  • b) She feels sorry for Jude and Sue
  • c) She wants to marry another man
  • d) She discovers that Jude has been unfaithful

24. According to the legend told by the Widow Edlin, what happened to Jude’s and Sue’s common ancestor?

  • a) He was hanged
  • b) He killed his wife
  • c) He divorced three times
  • d) He never married and died alone

25. Why doesn’t Sue want to marry Jude, even after they are already living together?

  • a) She is worried about societal opinion of her marrying a relative
  • b) She thinks that Jude is in love with Arabella
  • c) is really in love with Phillotson
  • d) She feels it will destroy their happiness

26. Why is Drusilla opposed to Jude marrying?

  • a) Because she wants him to stay in Marygreen and work for her
  • b) Because she feels no woman is good enough for Jude
  • c) Because she wants Jude to be a scholar
  • d) Because their family had badluck with marriage.

27. Little Father Time is the son of which couple?

  • a) Jude and Arabella
  • b) Phillotson and Sue
  • c) Jude and Sue
  • d) No one knows who his parents are

28. What event precipitates the marriage of Jude and Sue?

  • a) The arrival of Little Father Time
  • b) The divorce of Jude and Arabella
  • c) The divorce of Sue and Phillotson
  • d) They never marry

29. Choose the correct order of marriages and divorces as they occur in the novel.

  • a) Jude and Arabella marry, Jude and Arabella divorce, Jude and Sue marry, Jude and Sue divorce, Jude and Arabella marry, Sue and Phillotson marry
  • b) Jude and Arabella marry, Sue and Phillotson marry, Jude and Arabella divorce, Sue and Phillotson divorce, Sue and Phillotson marry, Jude and Arabella marry
  • c) Jude and Arabella marry, Sue and Phillotson marry, Sue and Phillotson divorce, Jude and Arabella divorce, Phillotson and Arabella marry, Jude and Sue marry
  • d) Sue and Phillotson marry, Sue and Phillotson divorce, Sue and Phillotson marry, Jude and Arabella marry, Sue and Phillotson divorce, Jude and Arabella divorce

30. On what special day do Jude, Sue, and their family return to Christminster?

  • a) Remembrance Day
  • b) Easter Sunday
  • c) Christmas Day
  • d) St. George’s Feast Day

31. What happens to Jude’s three oldest children?

  • a) They are sent to an orphanage
  • b) They run away
  • c) They die of the plague
  • d) They commit suicide

32. How does Sue react to the fates of her children?

  • a) She prays for God to send her more children
  • b) She renounces her ties to Jude
  • c) She joins a convent
  • d) She decides to leave the country

33. According to Jude, what are his two greatest weaknesses?

  • a) Ambition and pride
  • b) Impatience and laziness
  • c) Naivete and stupidity
  • d) Women and alcohol

34. On the eve of her second marriage to Phillotson, what does the Widow Edlin advise Sue?

  • a) To pray for God’s forgiveness
  • b) To go back to Jude
  • c) To show up for the wedding
  • d) Not to marry Phillotson

35. How does Arabella get Jude to marry her the second time?

  • a) She feigns pregnancy
  • b) She steals his money
  • c) She threatens Sue’s life
  • d) She gets him drunk

36. What is Sue’s fate?

  • a) She consummates her marriage with Phillotson
  • b) She is rejected by Phillotson and Jude
  • c) She commits suicide
  • d) She goes insane

37. When Arabella discovers that Jude is dead, which of these does she do first?

  • a) She summons the coroner
  • b) She goes to see the boat races
  • c) She writes a letter to Sue
  • d) She covers Jude’s body with a sheet

38. Jude meets his cousin _____ and tries not to fall in love with her.

  • a) Phillotson
  • b) Jude
  • c) Arabella
  • d) Sue

Chapter 40: ADAM BEDE BY GEORGE ELIOT

1. Real name of George Eliot was:

  • a) Mary Ann Evans
  • b) Howard Allen
  • c) Lousia May Alcott
  • d) Agatha Mary

2. Adam Bede was published in:

  • a) 1856
  • b) 1857
  • c) 1859
  • d) 1858

3. Adam Bede was Eliot’s ___ Novel.

  • a) Third
  • b) First
  • c) Last
  • d) Second last

4. The novel follows ___ characters’ rural lives.

  • a) Three
  • b) Five
  • c) One
  • d) Four

5. The novel is set in fictional place:

  • a) Hayslope
  • b) Blackhouse
  • c) Bunbury
  • d) London

6. Most villagers are:

  • a) Nonconformists
  • b) Lutherans
  • c) Anglicans
  • d) Catholics

7. When does the story begin?

  • a) 1799
  • b) 1798
  • c) 1899
  • d) 1898

8. What is Adam Bede’s profession?

  • a) Mason
  • b) Peasant
  • c) Painter
  • d) Carpenter

9. What religion is Dinah Morris?

  • a) Lutheran
  • b) Catholic
  • c) Methodist
  • d) Nonconformist

10. The Poysers are:

  • a) Peasants
  • b) Dairy Farmers
  • c) Chapmen
  • d) Carpenters

11. Where does Dinah Morris live for the majority of the novel?

  • a) Snowfield
  • b) Hall Farm
  • c) Ireland
  • d) Stoniton

12. What is Adam’s mother’s name?

  • a) Rachel
  • b) Dinah
  • c) Lisbeth
  • d) Hetty

13. Who stays with Adam during the trial?

  • a) Seth
  • b) Bartle Massey
  • c) Donnithorne
  • d) Dinah

14. Who is the old Squire’s heir?

  • a) Dinah
  • b) Seth
  • c) Hetty
  • d) Arthur Donnithorne

15. Hetty’s main vice is:

  • a) Arrogance
  • b) Envy
  • c) Vanity
  • d) Sloth

16. Hetty has a passion for:

  • a) Shoes
  • b) Jewelry
  • c) Clothes
  • d) Money

17. Dinah turns down Seth’s offer of marriage:

  • a) Because she does not want to marry
  • b) Because she loves Adam
  • c) Because she loves Captain Donnithorne
  • d) Because she thinks that she is called to help others

18. What is Captain Donnithorne recovering from at the beginning of the novel?

  • a) Broken Arm
  • b) Broken leg
  • c) Head Injury
  • d) Bruised ribs

19. Whom does Adam marry?

  • a) Hetty
  • b) Rachel
  • c) Dinah Morris
  • d) Emma

20. What is outcome of Hetty’s trial?

  • a) She is innocent
  • b) She is convicted and sentenced to die
  • c) 10 years jail
  • d) 7 years jail

21. What does Captain Donnithrone give to Hetty?

  • a) Necklace
  • b) Watch
  • c) Ring
  • d) A locket with his hair in it

22. Why doesn’t Adam go to Ireland?

  • a) He finds out Hetty is in jail
  • b) Due to workload
  • c) Because of head injury
  • d) To complete some work

23. What is Adam’s dog’s name?

  • a) Yap
  • b) Tommy
  • c) Gyp
  • d) Gig

24. Whom does Adam beat up?

  • a) Poyser
  • b) Captain Donnithorne
  • c) Seth
  • d) Thias

25. Where does Hetty meet Captain Donnithorne for the first time?

  • a) At the Bedes
  • b) At Dinah’s place
  • c) At his own house
  • d) At the Poysers

26. Dinah will not marry until she believes it is___.

  • a) God’s will
  • b) Her Uncle and Aunt’s will
  • c) Lisbeth Bede’s will
  • d) Her own will

27. Despite her shame, who does Hetty believe will help her with her pregnancy?

  • a) Adam
  • b) Aunt Rachel
  • c) Dinah
  • d) Captain Donnithorne

28. What is Hetty’s child’s name?

  • a) Jones
  • b) We don’t know
  • c) Smith
  • d) Daniel

29. Where does Captain Donnithorne go after Hetty’s trial?

  • a) London
  • b) At Poysers
  • c) To join the army
  • d) Thebes

30. Adam Bede is an example of which school of writing?

  • a) Modernism
  • b) Romanticism
  • c) Naturalism
  • d) Realism

31. Why does Dinah go to Stoniton?

  • a) For some church work
  • b) To preach people
  • c) To visit her aunt
  • d) To visit Hetty

32. When her exile from England is over, why does Hetty not return to Hayslope?

  • a) She did not want to return
  • b) She went to France
  • c) She died
  • d) She went to her aunt

Chapter 41: TESS OF D’URBERVILLES

1. Which of the following does John Durbeyfield learn at the beginning of the novel?

  • a) That he has lost his job
  • b) That he is from an aristocratic family
  • c) That he won the lottery
  • d) That he is a prince

2. The ancient name of Tess’s family is, as the title stipulates, d’Urbervilles. However, the family uses a different form of the name. What is it?

  • a) Durbeyfield
  • b) Brooks
  • c) Cross
  • d) Evans

3. Angel and Tess first see each other at:

  • a) The market
  • b) The May Day dance
  • c) Trantridge
  • d) Talbothays Dairy

4. How many siblings does Tess have?

  • a) Five
  • b) Six
  • c) Seven
  • d) Four

5. Who tells Angel that Tess has gone to Sandbourne?

  • a) Mrs. Brooks
  • b) Reverend Clare
  • c) Alec
  • d) Mrs. Durbeyfield

6. After Angel picks up Tess while sleepwalking, where does he place her?

  • a) In a coffin
  • b) In their bed
  • c) On a rock
  • d) On a bridge

7. Which musical instrument does Angel play?

  • a) The harpsichord
  • b) The accordion
  • c) The harp
  • d) The guitar

8. In what town did Tess grow up?

  • a) Kingsbere
  • b) Trantridge
  • c) Sandbourne
  • d) Marlott

9. Their horse, ____ faces accident and dies.

  • a) Prince
  • b) King
  • c) Albert
  • d) Essex

10. Where does Tess go?

  • a) To Mrs. d’Urberville
  • b) To Reverend Clare
  • c) To Mrs. Brooks
  • d) To the market

11. Alec is an ____ person.

  • a) Passionate
  • b) Rational
  • c) Immoral
  • d) Emotional

12. Why can’t Mr. Durbeyfield make the trip to the market?

  • a) He is too sick
  • b) He is too tired
  • c) He is too old
  • d) He is too drunk

13. What name does Tess choose for her baby?

  • a) Sinful
  • b) Sorrow
  • c) Snobbish
  • d) Sparrow

14. What advice does Mrs. Durbeyfield give Tess?

  • a) Not to tell Angel her secret
  • b) Not to tell Alec her secret
  • c) To leave Alec
  • d) To marry Alec

15. After the death of her child, Tess begins to work for a mild couple of:.

  • a) Mr. and Mrs. Crick
  • b) Mr. and Mrs. Brooks
  • c) Mr. and Mrs. Durbeyfield
  • d) Mr. and Mrs. Brookfield

16. After the death her child Tess leaves her village to find a job as a dairymaid. How many other people apart from Tess and the Cricks live in the house?

  • a) Three
  • b) Five
  • c) Six
  • d) Four

17. How much money does Angel give to Tess?

  • a) 50 shillings
  • b) 100 pounds
  • c) 25 pounds
  • d) 50 shillings

18. What part of the house do the Durbeyfields need to repair?

  • a) The floor
  • b) The wall
  • c) The roof
  • d) The door

19. Who is primarily responsible for Prince’s death?

  • a) Parson Tringham
  • b) Abraham
  • c) Tess
  • d) Mr. Durbeyfield

20. Angel leaves England to farm where?

  • a) America
  • b) Italy
  • c) Brazil
  • d) Argentina

21. What is the stone monument called on which Alec makes Tess swear?

  • a) Stonehenge
  • b) Man’s Pass
  • c) Cross-in-Hand
  • d) The Rosetta

22. What does Tess confess to Angel on their wedding night?

  • a) That she lied about her age
  • b) That she does not love him
  • c) That she is not a virgin
  • d) That she ran away from home

23. How does Alec die?

  • a) Commits suicide
  • b) Angel kills him
  • c) Tess kills him
  • d) None

24. How does Tess die?

  • a) Pneumonia
  • b) She is hanged
  • c) Angel kills her
  • d) Heartache

25. What does Angel confess to Tess on their wedding night?

  • a) That he had an affair
  • b) That he lied about his age
  • c) That he does not love her
  • d) That he lied about himself

Chapter 42: THE MILL ON THE FLOSS

1. Real name of George Eliot was:

  • a) Erika Leonard
  • b) Gloria Jean Watkins
  • c) Mary Ann Evans
  • d) Nora

2. What does Mr. Tulliver seek Mr. Riley’s advice about?

  • a) Maggie’s uncanny intelligence
  • b) Tom’s business
  • c) Tom's education
  • d) Tulliver’s disputes with the Dodsons

3. Why does Tom first get angry at Maggie when he comes home from school in Book First?

  • a) Because she won't curl her hair
  • b) Because she doesn't play fair at Heads or Tails
  • c) Because she has forgotten to feed his rabbits and they've died
  • d) Because she speaks badly of Lucy

4. Why does Tom break off his friendship with Bob Jakin?

  • a) Because Bob does not play fairly
  • b) Because Bob is better at trapping rabbits than Tom
  • c) Because Bob is not intelligent
  • d) Because Bob has stolen Tom's pocketknife

5. What impulsive action does Maggie take during the visit of her aunts and uncles in Book First?

  • a) She falls in the mud
  • b) She eats Tom's dessert
  • c) She steps on a cake
  • d) She cuts her own hair

6. What do Mrs. Glegg and Mr. Tulliver have a disagreement over?

  • a) Table linens
  • b) Tom's education
  • c) The 500 pounds Mrs. Glegg has lent Mr. Tulliver
  • d) Maggie's behavior

7. Why does Mr. Tulliver ultimately decide not to press his sister for the money she owes him?

  • a) Because he thinks of Maggie dependent upon Tom after his own death
  • b) Because he sees her eight children
  • c) Because Mr. Moss convinces him to lay off
  • d) Because another investment of his makes good

8. What are Maggie's intentions towards the gypsies?

  • a) To use them to make her family pity her
  • b) To learn their language
  • c) To teach them and be their queen
  • d) To teach them how to cook

9. What was St. Ogg's profession?

  • a) A farmer
  • b) A miller
  • c) A priest
  • d) A ferryman

10. Who insists upon the repayment of the 500 pounds between Mr. Tulliver and Mrs. Glegg?

  • a) Mrs. Glegg
  • b) Mr. Tulliver
  • c) Mrs. Tulliver
  • d) Mr. Glegg

11. Who is Tom's only playmate during his first term with Mr. Stelling?

  • a) Poulter
  • b) Bob Jakin
  • c) Laura Stelling
  • d) Yap

12. Why is Christmas dreary after Tom's first term with Mr. Stelling?

  • a) Because Maggie has become religiously ascetic
  • b) Because Tom hates school
  • c) Because the Dodsons refuse to visit
  • d) Because Mr. Tulliver is preoccupied with litigation over the river water

13. How does Philip Wakem first win Tom's respect?

  • a) His singing
  • b) His drawing skills
  • c) His intelligence
  • d) His self-assured demeanor

14. What feature of Maggie's draws Philip to her?

  • a) Her eyes
  • b) Her hair
  • c) Her linguistic prowess
  • d) Her rashness

15. What is Philip's first thought when Tom drops a sword on his own foot?

  • a) That Tom deserved it
  • b) That Tom might fear he will be lame for life
  • c) That Tom is headstrong and stupid
  • d) That warfare is wrong

16. With whom does Maggie go to boarding school?

  • a) Her mother
  • b) Miss Guest
  • c) Tom
  • d) Lucy Deane

17. What is Mr. Tulliver reading when he has a stroke?

  • a) A decision against him in the court case over the water power
  • b) A notice from his lawyer, Mr. Gore, that he is bankrupted
  • c) A letter stating that the mortgage of the mill has been transferred to Wakem
  • d) A letter from Maggie saying she will be home soon

18. Why does Maggie become angry at her aunts and uncles during her father's illness?

  • a) Because they are insulting Tom about the benefits of his education
  • b) Because they will not offer to buy any of the family's furniture
  • c) Because they are insulting to Mrs. Moss
  • d) Because they have befriended Lawyer Wakem

19. What causes Lawyer Wakem to buy the mill?

  • a) The transference of Tulliver's mortgage to him
  • b) Mrs. Tulliver's visit to him
  • c) Mr. Riley's recommendation
  • d) Tom's proud behavior

20. What does Mr. Tulliver make Tom write in the family Bible?

  • a) notice that Maggie will never marry
  • b) A notice that Wakem is not forgiven
  • c) The occasion of Tom's repayment of the family debts
  • d) The formal transference of power from Tulliver to Tom

21. How does Tom manage to pay off the family debt?

  • a) By saving his wages at Guest & Co
  • b) Through an entrepreneurial scheme with Bob Jakin
  • c) By appealing to Mr. Glegg for money
  • d) By selling his own goods

22. What is Stephen Guest's relationship to Lucy Deane?

  • a) They are engaged
  • b) Married
  • c) Courting
  • d) Friends Only

23. What is the significance of Maggie's sewing?

  • a) It shows that she is accomplished in female arts
  • b) It shows her love of handicraft
  • c) It signifies nothing
  • d) It shows that she has been in financial difficulty

24. Why does Maggie become angry when Stephen kisses her arm at the dance?

  • a) Because Lucy might have seen
  • b) Because Maggie is engaged to Philip
  • c) Because he is drunk
  • d) Because it shows that Stephen thinks lightly of her

25. Which of the following is not a reason that Maggie decides to leave Stephen in Mudport and return to St. Ogg's?

  • a) Because she feels her life with Stephen wouldn't be noble
  • b) Because she feels the pull of the past on her
  • c) Because she knows that St. Ogg's will never accept her as Stephen's wife
  • d) Because she sympathizes with Lucy's and Philip's positions

Chapter 43: GEORGE ELIOT

1. George Eliot was born in:

  • a) 1809
  • b) 1819
  • c) 1829
  • d) 1807

2. George Eliot’s favorite author was:

  • a) Charles Dickens
  • b) Sir Walter Scott
  • c) Shakespeare
  • d) Virginia Woolf

3. How many years did George Eliot spend in Midlands?

  • a) 13
  • b) 20
  • c) 30
  • d) 40

4. The real name of George Eliot was:

  • a) Robert Thackery
  • b) Marry Anne Evans
  • c) Robert Evans
  • d) None of these

5. The First Novel of George Eliot was:

  • a) Adam Bede
  • b) The mill on the Floss
  • c) Romola
  • d) Silas Marner

6. Why did Mary Anne Evans write under the name George Eliot?

  • a) At that time writing was considered a male profession
  • b) She was afraid
  • c) She considered herself inferior
  • d) She wanted equality for men and women

7. Which magazine did Mary Anne Evans edit for two years?

  • a) Wall Street Journal
  • b) Current
  • c) Imprint
  • d) Westminster Review

8. Who steals gold in Silas Marner?

  • a) Godfrey
  • b) Dunstan
  • c) Molly
  • d) Eppie

9. Which novel of Mary Anne Evans is considered her greatest?

  • a) The Mill on the Floss
  • b) Silas Marner
  • c) Middlemarch
  • d) Romola

10. When did Mary Anne Evans die?

  • a) 31 December 1900
  • b) 22 December 1880
  • c) 15 August 1860
  • d) 19 March 1865

11. What theme/trope really drives George Eliot's work?

  • a) Realism
  • b) Both realism and a focus on rural life
  • c) Gender equality
  • d) Class conflict

12. What is George Eliot's epic, eight-book pastoral novel?

  • a) Middlemarch
  • b) Silas Marner
  • c) Adam Bede
  • d) Romola

13. Which book of Ludwig Feuerbach was translated by Mary Anne Evans and published in 1854?

  • a) The Kingdom of God
  • b) Smiles
  • c) Essence of Christianity
  • d) Christian

14. Whom did Mary Anne Evans marry?

  • a) George Lewes
  • b) John Cross
  • c) John Chapman
  • d) John Stuart Mill

15. George Eliot was:

  • a) Novelist
  • b) Journalist
  • c) Translator
  • d) All of the above

16. How many novels did George Eliot write?

  • a) 5
  • b) 7
  • c) 6
  • d) 8

17. The Mill on the Floss was written in the year

  • a) 1859
  • b) 1858
  • c) 1860
  • d) 1861

18. Which among this is not a novel written by Mary Ann Evans?

  • a) Silas Marner
  • b) Romola
  • c) Daniel Deronda
  • d) Pride and Prejudice

19. Mary Eliot's father's name was

  • a) John Evans
  • b) Dayne Evans
  • c) Robert Evans
  • d) Ben Evans

20. Mary Ann Evans husband John Cross was

  • a) English philosopher
  • b) English Critic
  • c) Amateur Physiologist
  • d) All of the above

21. The poem 'In a London Drawing-room' was written in the year?

  • a) 1865
  • b) 1867
  • c) 1869
  • d) 1866

22. George Eliot died of throat infection coupled with?

  • a) kidney disease
  • b) cancer
  • c) heart disease
  • d) high fever

23. Where was Mary Anne Evans buried?

  • a) Westminster Abbey
  • b) Highgate Cemetery
  • c) National Cemetery
  • d) Ireland

24. The Napoleonic War ended ____ years before the birth of George Eliot.

  • a) 5
  • b) 6
  • c) 4
  • d) 8

25. George Eliot was born in:

  • a) Warwick Shire
  • b) Chelsa
  • c) Dublin
  • d) None

26. How many copies of Silas Marner were sold at once?

  • a) 2200
  • b) 3300
  • c) 2500
  • d) 3500

27. What was Silas Marner’s Profession?

  • a) Gardner
  • b) Writer
  • c) Weaver
  • d) Teacher

28. George Eliot could speak in:

  • a) 1 Language
  • b) 3 Languages
  • c) 4 Languages
  • d) 5 Languages

29. George Eliot believed that a work of art must have ____ influence:

  • a) Ethical
  • b) Educational
  • c) Liberal
  • d) Every

30. How is Silas' appearance described?

  • a) Crippled
  • b) Old
  • c) Pale with large brown eyes
  • d) Tall

Chapter 44: THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE

1. Thomas Hardy was born and died in:

  • a) 1840-1928
  • b) 1842-1930
  • c) 1844-1932
  • d) 1846-1934

2. Thomas Hardy’s novels include:

  • a) Imperialism
  • b) Fatalism
  • c) Fascism
  • d) Realism

3. Thomas Hardy’s novels are also called:

  • a) Wessex Novels
  • b) Limerick Novels
  • c) Psychological Novels
  • d) Romantic Novels

4. The action of the novel takes place in what area of England?

  • a) London
  • b) Limerick
  • c) Wessex
  • d) Cambridge

5. What is the name of Mrs. Yeobright's house?

  • a) Howard's End
  • b) Blooms-End
  • c) Rainbarrow
  • d) Mistover Knapp

6. Mrs. Yeobright is mother of:

  • a) Clym Yeobright
  • b) Susan Nonsuch
  • c) James Will
  • d) John Bright

7. Clym returned from:

  • a) London
  • b) Paris
  • c) Wessex
  • d) Italy

8. Apart from people, ____ is also a major character of the novel.

  • a) Heath
  • b) Campo
  • c) Moor
  • d) Tundra

9. What was Clym's occupation in Paris?

  • a) Editor
  • b) Banker
  • c) Schoolteacher
  • d) Diamond Merchant

10. ____ selflessly protects Thomasin throughout the novel despite the fact that she refused to marry him two years ago.

  • a) Grandfer
  • b) Sam
  • c) Diggory Venn
  • d) Johnny

11. ____ was Eustacia’s former lover and Thomasin’s first husband.

  • a) Damon Wildeve
  • b) Sam
  • c) Diggory Venn
  • d) Johnny

12. What is "reddle"?

  • a) Blood
  • b) Clay used for making pots
  • c) A dialect mispronunciation of "riddle"
  • d) A dye used for marking sheep

13. What is the name of the servant who falls in love with Eustacia?

  • a) Charley
  • b) Hummerkin
  • c) Little Pete
  • d) Sam

14. What is a "barrow"?

  • a) A ghost that haunts the heath
  • b) A kind of thorny plant that grows on the heath
  • c) A primitive burial-mound
  • d) A kind of wagon

15. What title does Hardy give Eustacia?

  • a) Queen of Night
  • b) Lady of Passion
  • c) Empress of Despair
  • d) Duchess of the Heath

16. Mrs. Yeobright doesn't like Eustacia because:

  • a) Eustacia is not a lady
  • b) Captain Vye once insulted Mrs. Yeobright
  • c) Mrs. Yeobright believes that Eustacia is a witch
  • d) Her natural women's intuition tells her not to like the girl

17. Eustacia's great dream is to move to:

  • a) Egdon Heath
  • b) London
  • c) Milan
  • d) Paris

18. ____ reappears; he has unexpectedly inherited a large sum of money.

  • a) Wildeve
  • b) Clym
  • c) Diggory
  • d) Grandfer

19. Clym married ____ without his mother’s consent.

  • a) Angeline
  • b) Eustacia
  • c) Susan
  • d) Thomasin

20. Eustacia remains disloyal to her husband ____

  • a) Sam
  • b) Wildeve
  • c) Clym
  • d) Diggory

21. Eustacia wants ____ more than emotions.

  • a) Money
  • b) Attention
  • c) Gold
  • d) Determination

22. Who comes at Eustacia’s house when she has her lover inside?

  • a) Susan Nonsuch
  • b) Mrs. Yeobright
  • c) Olly Dowden
  • d) Christian Cantle

23. How does Mrs. Yeobright die?

  • a) She is bitten by a snake
  • b) She is shot by Diggory Venn
  • c) She hangs herself
  • d) She drowns

24. What sign does Eustacia use to indicate to Damon Wildeve that she wants to see him?

  • a) She throws a stone in the pool
  • b) She lights a bonfire
  • c) She sends him a message through Christian Cantle
  • d) She throws gravel at his window

25. How does Damon Wildeve die?

  • a) He is bitten by a snake
  • b) He is shot by Diggory Venn
  • c) He hangs himself
  • d) He drowns

26. What misfortune prevents Clym from pursuing his studies to become a schoolteacher?

  • a) His oldest child dies
  • b) He damages his eyesight
  • c) His mother forbids him to study
  • d) His cottage burns down

Chapter 45: A TALE OF TWO CITIES

1. French Revolution came in:

  • a) 1789
  • b) 1787
  • c) 1788
  • d) 1748

2. Which two cities does the title refer to?

  • a) Paris and Rome
  • b) Paris and Berlin
  • c) Paris and London
  • d) Paris and Liverpool

3. Mr. Lorry is a:

  • a) Barrister
  • b) Teacher
  • c) Solicitor
  • d) Banker

4. What is the message that Mr. Lorry sends via the messenger from Tellson's Bank?

  • a) Abort Mission
  • b) Continue as planned
  • c) Recalled to Life
  • d) Turn Around ON

5. Who delivers the message to Mr. Lorry?

  • a) SYDNEY CARTON
  • b) DR. MANETTE
  • c) JERRY CRUNCHER
  • d) MR. STRYVER

6. Why are the drivers of the Dover mail coach hesitant to stop for Jerry Cruncher's message?

  • a) They fear that stopping will put them behind schedule for delivering the mail in a timely fashion
  • b) They have been charged with the safety of Jarvis Lorry, one of the coach’s passengers
  • c) Jerry Cruncher’s troublesome reputation precedes him
  • d) They fear that he is a highwayman attempting to rob the passengers

7. What does Mr. Lorry tell Lucie Manette?

  • a) He doesn't love her
  • b) Her father is still alive
  • c) She is to inherit a large sum of money
  • d) She is to be tried for treason

8. How long was Doctor Manette imprisoned in the Bastille?

  • a) 25 YEARS
  • b) 8 YEARS
  • c) 18 YEARS
  • d) A Day

9. What object does Doctor Manette keep during his imprisonment in order to escape “in spirit”?

  • a) A picture of his wife and daughter
  • b) The Bible
  • c) A keg of wine
  • d) A lock of his wife’s hair

10. By what name do the men in Defarge’s wine shop call their fellow revolutionaries?

  • a) Jacques
  • b) Pierre
  • c) Jasper
  • d) Xavier

11. What skill did Doctor Manette develop in order to pass the time during his incarceration?

  • a) Drawing
  • b) Whittling
  • c) Shoemaking
  • d) Storytelling

12. What symbol does Dickens use to portend the bloodshed of the French Revolution?

  • a) The Dover mail coach
  • b) The broken wine cask
  • c) Tellson’s Bank
  • d) Madame Defarge’s malevolent stare

13. What does Gaspard write on the wall in wine and mud?

  • a) I am hungry
  • b) Wine
  • c) His name
  • d) Blood

14. What is Charles Darnay tried for in England?

  • a) Murder
  • b) TREASON
  • c) Pretty theft
  • d) Robbery

15. During her testimony, to whom does Lucie claim that Charles Darnay alluded on the boat A- ride from Calais to Dover?

  • a) George Washington
  • b) Louis XVI
  • c) John Adams
  • d) Napoleon Bonaparte

16. Why is Darnay acquitted?

  • a) He has an alibi
  • b) He proves that he is not French
  • c) He has a brilliant defense lawyer
  • d) He resembles Carton

17. Where do Darnay and Carton go together after the trial?

  • a) the Thames
  • b) A tavern
  • c) The Manettes' house
  • d) Paris

18. After Darnay’s acquittal, why does Sydney Carton claim to dislike him?

  • a) Darnay is unattractive and mean-spirited
  • b) Darnay abuses the love of Lucie Manette
  • c) Darnay reminds him of how far he has fallen and everything he might have been
  • d) Even though he has been acquitted, Darnay is a traitor

19. To which animal does Dickens compare Sydney Carton?

  • a) A jackal
  • b) A lion
  • c) A weasel
  • d) A sloth

20. What image does Dickens frequently use to describe Lucie Manette?

  • a) Earth-bound angel
  • b) A golden thread
  • c) Tiger lily
  • d) A Bee

21. What sound does Lucie often hear echoing off the street when she is in her home?

  • a) footsteps
  • b) Brawling
  • c) The yells of the crowd at public executions
  • d) A choir singing

22. Which of the following characters is related to the Marquis, whose carriage runs down a small child?

  • a) Doctor Manette
  • b) Sydney Carton
  • c) Charles Darnay
  • d) Miss Pross

23. What does "Monseigneur'' mean?

  • a) My lord
  • b) Oh god
  • c) my mom
  • d) the creator

24. What does not happen on the Marquis's way home in his carriage?

  • a) He runs over a little boy
  • b) He stops for a meal
  • c) He refuses to erect a gravestone for a woman's husband
  • d) He gives Defarge a coin

25. Monseigneur is murdered by

  • a) MR. LORRY
  • b) DR. MANETTE
  • c) CHARLES DARNAY
  • d) SOMEONE Called JACQUE

26. Charles Darnay renounces his:

  • a) Renounce his Aristocratic Title
  • b) His job
  • c) He is getting married
  • d) He is going to abroad

27. Who does Miss Pross believe is the ideal suitor for Lucie Manette?

  • a) Sydney Carton
  • b) Charles Darnay
  • c) Her brother, Solomon
  • d) She believes that no man is good enough for Lucie

28. What does Mr. Lorry try to persuade Mr. Stryver not to do?

  • a) Propose to Lucie Manette
  • b) Invest his money in Tellson’s Bank
  • c) Drop Sydney Carton as a business colleague
  • d) Visit Paris at a time of political turmoil

29. What does Jerry Cruncher frequently go out to do at night?

  • a) Raid Tellson’s Bank
  • b) Deliver messages to prisoners in the Bastille
  • c) Dig up bodies in the cemetery
  • d) Meet with other revolutionaries to plan uprisings

30. Who informs the Defarge that Lucie Manette has married Charles Darnay?

  • a) The mender of roads
  • b) Jarvis Lorry
  • c) Gaspard
  • d) John Barsad

31. On the night after Lucie and Charles are married, what does Doctor Manette do?

  • a) He prepares to join them on their honeymoon
  • b) He reverts to his prison pastime of making shoes
  • c) He confesses to Miss Pross that he thinks Lucie has made a terrible mistake
  • d) He writes a letter to Defarge, asking him to spare Darnay’s life

32. During the storming of the Bastille, who decapitates the fortress’s guard?

  • a) Defarge
  • b) An anonymous Jacques
  • c) John Barsad
  • d) Madame Defarge

33. Why does the Paris mob kill Foulon?

  • a) Because he is a spy
  • b) Because he suggested that starving people should eat grass
  • c) Because his carriage ran down a child in the street
  • d) Because he collected high taxes from the peasants

34. What is the duration of Manette’s psychological relapse after Lucie leaves for her honeymoon?

  • a) Nine days
  • b) Four days
  • c) A fortnight
  • d) 15 Months

35. Main theme of "A Tale of Two Cities" was:

  • a) Sacrifice
  • b) Resurrection
  • c) Revenge
  • d) Love

36. Carton------saved Darnay's Life.

  • a) Once
  • b) Twice
  • c) Thrice
  • d) Many Times

37. What did Mr. Cruncher's son find his father doing one night?

  • a) Opening a coffin
  • b) Beating his mother
  • c) Taking drugs
  • d) Crying

38. What crime did Charles's father and uncle commit against Mrs. Defarge’s sister?

  • a) Hang
  • b) Rape
  • c) Slap her
  • d) Torture

39. What hobby did a large majority of the women of St. Antoine have?

  • a) Knitting
  • b) Whittling
  • c) Shoemaking
  • d) Storytelling

40. What was the occupation of Monsieur Manette?

  • a) Banking
  • b) Shop owner
  • c) shoemaking
  • d) Doctor

41. Where did Mr. Lorry work?

  • a) HSBC Holdings
  • b) Barclays
  • c) Coutts
  • d) Tellson Bank

42. What instrument was used to kill aristocrats?

  • a) Knife
  • b) Pistol
  • c) Guillotine
  • d) Hammer

43. Which place was attack first by revolutionaries?

  • a) Bastille
  • b) French
  • c) England
  • d) Liverpool

44. Which famous king was killed in this revolution?

  • a) Louis XVI
  • b) Marie II
  • c) Charles I
  • d) Jean Amilcar

45. What affectionate nick name Mrs. Pross have for Lucie?

  • a) Ladybird
  • b) Ladybug
  • c) Locusts
  • d) Monsters

Chapter 46: AMERICAN POETRY

1. “Self Portrait of a Convex Mirror” won _______award?

  • a) Pulitzer
  • b) Edgar
  • c) Nebula
  • d) None

2. Parmigianino Was a Painter of Which Era.?

  • a) Romantic
  • b) Modern
  • c) Elizabethan
  • d) Renaissance

3. John Ashbery is a/an ______ Poet?

  • a) American
  • b) Russian
  • c) Irish
  • d) French

4. According to Ashbery which place should be the vacuum of a dream.?

  • a) House
  • b) Room
  • c) Bar
  • d) None of These

5. Where is painting lying Today.?

  • a) Vienna
  • b) New York
  • c) London
  • d) Milan

6. According to narrator whose argument had begun to grow pale.?

  • a) Francesco
  • b) Giorgio Vassari
  • c) Sydney Freedberg
  • d) None

7. What is the narrative style of poem.?

  • a) Free Verse
  • b) Closed Verse
  • c) Ballad
  • d) None of These

8. Parmigianino was artist of which country?

  • a) Italy
  • b) England
  • c) America
  • d) France

9. What is structure of Poem.?

  • a) Post Modern
  • b) Modern
  • c) Romantic
  • d) None of these

10. How many stanzas has this Poem.?

  • a) Six
  • b) Seven
  • c) Eight
  • d) Five

11. What is the major theme of the Poem.?

  • a) Self Reflection
  • b) Beauty of Art
  • c) Art is compulsory for soul
  • d) None of These

12. In which stanza Concentration of Poet is broken.?

  • a) Second
  • b) Seven
  • c) Eight
  • d) Five

13. Syringa is written by

  • a) John Ashbery
  • b) Adrienne Rich
  • c) Heaney
  • d) Sylvia Plath

14. John Ashbery died in ______?

  • a) 1998
  • b) 2000
  • c) 2019
  • d) 2017

15. Ashbery through his poetry invokes his _____?

  • a) Youth
  • b) Old Age
  • c) Marriage
  • d) Childhood unhappiness

16. From its first line the poem suggests a dissatisfaction not only with the past but with the stories poet tell to make sense of the ____?

  • a) Youth
  • b) Past
  • c) Future
  • d) Marriage

17. Orpheus is mythological ____?

  • a) Warrior
  • b) Singer
  • c) Painter
  • d) Dancer

18. Orpheus went to underworld for ____?

  • a) Eurydice
  • b) Europa
  • c) Athena
  • d) Hera

19. Ashbery Poems grapple with this of the ____?

  • a) Future
  • b) Present
  • c) Youth
  • d) Irrecoverable Past

20. Eurydice vanished into ____?

  • a) Sky
  • b) Shade
  • c) Heaven
  • d) Cave

21. John Ashbery’s first book, Some Trees Won?

  • a) Yale Younger Poets Prize
  • b) National Book Award
  • c) Pulitzer Prize
  • d) National Book Critics Circle Award

22. Which book is not included in John Ashbery’s collection?

  • a) Some Trees
  • b) Ariel
  • c) Court Oath
  • d) Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror

23. Which book is John Ashbery’s masterpiece?

  • a) Some Trees
  • b) Ariel
  • c) Court Oath
  • d) Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror

24. One of main subject of John Ashbrey’s poetry is.?

  • a) Nihilism
  • b) Surrealism
  • c) The Nature of the Creative Act
  • d) Human Suffering

25. John Ashbery’s poetry took shape under the influence of

  • a) Hellenism
  • b) Existentialism
  • c) Abstract Expressionism
  • d) Greek Mythology

26. Abstract expressionism was the movement in modern American painting stressing nonrepresentational method of picturing

  • a) Landscape
  • b) Human Suffering
  • c) Reality
  • d) None

27. ______ was the first and most powerful influence on John Ashbery?

  • a) Surrealism
  • b) Existentialism
  • c) Modern Act
  • d) Greek Myth

28. Ashbery’s poems are a _____ upon which the poet freely applies the technique of expressionism.?

  • a) Method
  • b) Toolbox
  • c) Verbal Canvas
  • d) Concrete Ideas

29. Which of the following is John Ashbery’s Style of Writing?

  • a) Self Reflexive
  • b) Vaguely Narrative
  • c) Pop Culture & High illusions
  • d) All of the Above

30. How old was Sylvia Plath when she had her first poem published.?

  • a) Fourteen
  • b) Twelve
  • c) Ten
  • d) Eight

31. In Several Poems, including ‘Lady Lazarus’ and ‘Daddy’, Plath used the ‘Holocaust’ as a metaphor. Why.?

  • a) To Provoke Controversy
  • b) To Symbolize Oppression
  • c) To Highlight her Jewish Background
  • d) To Encourage Remembrance

32. In which of the poems does Sylvia Plath talks about her Poetry?

  • a) A Suicide off Egg Rock
  • b) A birthday Present
  • c) Stillborn
  • d) Lady Lazarus

33. How many poetries did Plath published in her life time.?

  • a) Two
  • b) Four
  • c) Three
  • d) One

34. When Sylvia Plath published “The Bell Jar” in 1963, what name did she published it under.?

  • a) Her own name – Sylvia Plath
  • b) Freida Hughes
  • c) Esther Greenwood
  • d) Victoria Lucas

35. In the short story “Superman and Paula Brown’s New Snowsuit”, When the children are at the movies a war film is shown before the main feature. What was the main feature called?

  • a) Fantasia
  • b) Dumbo
  • c) Snow White and the seven Dwarfs
  • d) Pinocchio

36. In which of the following Poems does Sylvia not Mention Children?

  • a) Nick and the Candlestick
  • b) I want, I want
  • c) Balloons
  • d) Electra on Azalea Plath

37. How did Plath eventually commit suicide?

  • a) Hanging
  • b) Firearms
  • c) Overdosing on Pills
  • d) Carbon monoxide Poisoning

38. Which institution did Sylvia attend in 1950?

  • a) Boston University
  • b) Newnham College
  • c) Smith College
  • d) Yale University

39. Several of Sylvia’s poems have a month in their title which of these months is never used as the title of any of her poems?

  • a) November
  • b) February
  • c) July
  • d) October

40. “Tulips” was written after receiving some flowers during a stay in hospital. Why was she in hospital at the time.?

  • a) Broken Leg
  • b) Suicidal Urges
  • c) Appendectomy
  • d) Miscarriage

41. In the poem “Fox” metaphorically stands for:

  • a) Night
  • b) Forest
  • c) Thinking
  • d) Enmity

42. In the poem night is described as:

  • a) Starry
  • b) Cloudy
  • c) Gloomy
  • d) Starless

43. In the poem the poet describes:

  • a) Creative Process
  • b) His Biography
  • c) Poetic Devices
  • d) None

44. Towards the end of the poem, the speaker concentrates on an image of the fox’s

  • a) Paw Prints
  • b) nose
  • c) Shadow
  • d) Eyes

45. Poem “The Thought Fox” is written by

  • a) E.M Foster
  • b) Ted Hughes
  • c) Sylvia Plath
  • d) Keats

46. In the Poem “The Thought Fox” everything is still and quite except the sound of

  • a) Fox
  • b) Poet
  • c) Water
  • d) The Clock

47. The blank page in Ted Hughes’s Poem “The Thought Fox”

  • a) remains blank
  • b) Is printed
  • c) burns
  • d) losts

48. Poem “The Thought Fox” was first published in Ted Hughes’s poetry collection

  • a) The hawk in the rain
  • b) The remain of helmet
  • c) From the life and the songs of the crow
  • d) New Selected Poems

49. “The Forest” in the poem the thought fox symbolizes

  • a) Poet’s house
  • b) House of the fox
  • c) Loneliness
  • d) Poet’s Mind

50. “Something else is _____/ Beside the clock’s loneliness” (The Thought Fox)

  • a) Silent
  • b) Lurking
  • c) Alive
  • d) Breathing

51. The Poem September shows the relationship of poet with

  • a) Sylvia Plath
  • b) Jane Austen
  • c) Anne
  • d) J.K. Rowling

52. The weather is described in poem (September)

  • a) Winter
  • b) Midsummer
  • c) Summer
  • d) Spring

53. There is no telling where……… is. (September)

  • a) Time
  • b) Star
  • c) Moon
  • d) Watch

54. “No …………… Now Needs” (September)

  • a) Time
  • b) Clock
  • c) Money
  • d) Watch

55. In the poem (September), the poet describes about the repetition of

  • a) Kisses
  • b) Failure
  • c) Emotion
  • d) None

56. “Under the silk of the wrist ……….” (September)

  • a) A Sea
  • b) An Ocean
  • c) A River
  • d) A Lake

57. The theme of September is ……..

  • a) Hate
  • b) Love
  • c) Revolt
  • d) None of these

58. The poem September Contains _____ Stanzas

  • a) Five
  • b) Three
  • c) Two
  • d) Four

59. God tries to teach the word to crow ____ (Crow’s First Lesson)

  • a) Love
  • b) Hate
  • c) Cruelty
  • d) Humanity

60. The Crow is presented as being the ____ character created by GOD

  • a) First
  • b) Second
  • c) Third
  • d) Fourth

61. When Ted Hughes was appointed as poet laureate in November

  • a) 1983
  • b) 1984
  • c) 1986
  • d) 1987

62. Ted Hughes started writing poetry when he was about ___?

  • a) 10 Years old
  • b) 12 years old
  • c) 15 Years old
  • d) 17 Years old

63. Ted Hughes’s first wife was?

  • a) Maya Angelou
  • b) Jane Austen
  • c) Sylvia Plath
  • d) Susin Guber

64. Which bird does Hughes often use as symbol of the dark ??

  • a) Parrot
  • b) Pigeon
  • c) Crow
  • d) Hawk

65. Where in 965, Hughes met the American poet, Sylvia Plath .?

  • a) Michigan University
  • b) Boston University
  • c) Oxford University
  • d) Cambridge University

66. In a cool small evening ____ To a dog bark & the clank of a? (Full Moon and Little Frieda)

  • a) Wring, quiet
  • b) Stillness, Wind
  • c) Dog, Clank
  • d) Shrunken & Bucket

67. In the end of poem, who cries suddenly, “Moon! Moon!”? (Full Moon and Little Frieda)

  • a) Maya Angelou
  • b) Queen Victoria
  • c) Sylvia Plath
  • d) Frieda

68. A dark ___ of blood, many boulders balancing unspilled milk? (Full Moon and Little Frieda)

  • a) Stream
  • b) River
  • c) Lake
  • d) Sea

Chapter 47: ADREINNE RICH

1. Adrienne rich born on………

  • a) 1929
  • b) 1829
  • c) 1930
  • d) 1830

2. Adrienne Rich died on

  • a) 2000
  • b) 1950
  • c) 1961
  • d) 2012

3. Adrienne Rich was an-----poet, scholar, teacher and critic.

  • a) American
  • b) British
  • c) Australian
  • d) Turkish

4. Who was awarded by National Book Award?

  • a) W.H. Auden
  • b) Adrienne Rich
  • c) Maya Angelou
  • d) Woolf

5. Who got Bollingen Prize 2003?

  • a) W. H. Auden
  • b) Adrienne Rich
  • c) Elif shafaq
  • d) Maya Angelou

6. Whose poetry was chosen by W. H. Auden fire publication in the Yale Younger?

  • a) Carol Ann Duffy
  • b) Maya Angelou
  • c) W. H. Auden
  • d) Adrienne Rich

7. Adrienne Rich’s poem: “The diamond cutters was about”?

  • a) Brother-in-law
  • b) Mother
  • c) Father-in-law
  • d) Daughter in law

8. Who’s poems express anger at the societal conception of womanhood?

  • a) Carol Ann Duffy
  • b) Maya Angelou
  • c) W. H. Auden
  • d) Adrienne Rich

9. Adrienne Rich stuck to…… style for all of her life?

  • a) Different styles
  • b) Two styles
  • c) Prose style
  • d) One style

10. Which of the following did not influence Adrienne Rich’s career?

  • a) Her brother's death
  • b) Her political activism
  • c) Being a lesbian
  • d) Being a wife and mother

11. Which work of Adrienne Rich won the “National Book Award”?

  • a) A change of world
  • b) Blood bread and poetry
  • c) Diving into the wreck
  • d) Snapshots of a daughter-in-law

12. Why did Adrienne Rich declined to accept the National Book Award?

  • a) Because she was against politics
  • b) She disapproved winners
  • c) She got sick
  • d) She wanted to share it with other female authors

13. Which of the following is Adrienne Rich’s theme?

  • a) LGBTQ
  • b) Politics
  • c) Education
  • d) Children

14. In her poems, Adrienne Rich speaks from the perspective of.

  • a) Third person
  • b) First person
  • c) Second person
  • d) Through dialogue

15. Adrienne Rich was interested in……

  • a) Meri Curie’s research on radium
  • b) female scientists
  • c) Dangers of technology
  • d) Nuclearization

16. Adrienne Rich reject….. prize for political reasons?

  • a) The National Book Award
  • b) National Medal of Arts
  • c) The Pulitzer Prize
  • d) Dark Guggenheim Fellowship

17. Adrienne Rich was not a…..

  • a) Lesbian
  • b) Feminist
  • c) Jewish
  • d) Person of color

18. “Diving into the wreck” by Adrienne Rich is about….

  • a) Her mother
  • b) Her dying brother
  • c) Marie Curie
  • d) A Mermaid and A Merman

19. “Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers” is a poem by the poet….

  • a) Adriana rich
  • b) Carol Ann Duffy
  • c) Maya Angelou
  • d) W. H. Auden

20. Who was called “one of the most widely read and influential poets of the second half of the 20th century”?

  • a) Adriana rich
  • b) Carol Ann Duffy
  • c) Maya Angelou
  • d) W. H. Auden

21. …….was credited with Being the operation of women and lesbians to the forefront of poetic discourse.

  • a) Adriana rich
  • b) Carol Ann Duffy
  • c) Maya Angelou
  • d) W. H. Auden

22. Adrienne Rich was a poet, essayist and

  • a) Fiction writer
  • b) Non-fiction writer
  • c) Politician
  • d) Scientist

23. --------is notable work of Adrienne Rich.

  • a) A change of world
  • b) Blood bread and poetry
  • c) Diving into the wreck
  • d) Snapshots of a daughter-in-law

24. …… poetry of the 1970s and 1980s served as central text for the second wave family movement.

  • a) Adriana rich
  • b) Carol Ann Duffy
  • c) Maya Angelou
  • d) W. H. Auden

25. Adrienne Rich was criticized for

  • a) politics
  • b) For declining awards
  • c) For her harsh depictions of men

26. Adrienne Rich uses _____ experiences

  • a) personal
  • b) Political
  • c) Professional
  • d) Writing

27. “Midnight Salvage: Poems” is a quiet recollection that focuses on.

  • a) The quest for personal happiness
  • b) engaging in politics
  • c) declining awards
  • d) promoting LGBTQ

28. “National Book Critics Circle Award” won by

  • a) Adriana rich
  • b) Carol Ann Duffy
  • c) Maya Angelou
  • d) W. H. Auden

29. Adrienne Rich wrote more than …. books of poetry

  • a) 30
  • b) 15
  • c) 20
  • d) 7

30. …….won the first Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize for career achievement.

  • a) Adriana rich
  • b) Carol Ann Duffy
  • c) Maya Angelou
  • d) W. H. Auden

31. What is Adrienne Rich’s most famous poem?

  • a) A change of world
  • b) Blood bread and poetry
  • c) Diving into the wreck
  • d) Snapshots of a daughter-in-law

Chapter 48: THE CRUCIBLE

1. Salem which trails is embarrassing episode of:

  • a) England
  • b) French history
  • c) Colonial America's history
  • d) Indian history

2. One might only view Miller's work as a vivid account of the ___ of America’s late seventh century

  • a) Tragedy
  • b) Witches
  • c) Magic
  • d) Theocracy

3. The crucible is allergy to:

  • a) McCarthyism
  • b) Nationalism
  • c) American war
  • d) Liberty of America

4. McCarthyism started in the early:

  • a) 1940's
  • b) 1950's
  • c) 1960s
  • d) 1970's

5. McCarthyism was governmental accusations with:

  • a) Complete Evidence
  • b) Some Evidence
  • c) No Evidence
  • d) None of these

6. Joseph McCarthy started doing trails on those he thought Were:

  • a) Capitalist
  • b) puritans
  • c) Aliens
  • d) Communist

7. Arthur Miller wrote The Crucible in response to:

  • a) McCarthyism
  • b) Death of a salesman
  • c) American Revolution
  • d) American Dream

8. The crucible is written about:

  • a) Catholic
  • b) Puritans
  • c) Protestants
  • d) Anglicans

9. Author Miller chronicles the horror of the __ which trails.

  • a) English
  • b) Salem
  • c) French
  • d) Victorian

10. The crucible is written by:

  • a) Arthur miller
  • b) Eugene O' Neil
  • c) Thomas hardy
  • d) Ernest Hemingway

11. Puritans Were:

  • a) Easy Going
  • b) Polite
  • c) Strict in laws
  • d) Unbiased

12. Other red Indians were forced to seek refuge in:

  • a) Washington DC
  • b) Forests
  • c) Mountains
  • d) England

13. They __ some of the Red Indians

  • a) Converted
  • b) Forgave
  • c) Caught
  • d) Deported

14. Puritans established their rule and church in:

  • a) New York
  • b) LA
  • c) Chicago
  • d) New England

15. The girls were___ spirits.

  • a) Watching
  • b) Avoiding
  • c) Conjuring
  • d) Not conjuring

16. Abigail drank__

  • a) Water
  • b) Wine
  • c) Blood
  • d) None of these

17. ___ was the leader of the girls dancing in the forest.

  • a) Betty
  • b) Abigail
  • c) Ruth
  • d) Marry

18. Their children were not allowed to___.

  • a) Run
  • b) Play
  • c) Dance
  • d) Read

19. The people fought among themselves over___ in The Crucible.

  • a) Economy
  • b) Bible
  • c) Lands
  • d) Mountains

20. Puritans captured the__ of Red Indians.

  • a) Kids
  • b) Elders
  • c) Lands
  • d) Girls

21. There was no ___ among puritans.

  • a) Barber
  • b) Novelist
  • c) Literate
  • d) Illiterate

22. The forest was known as __ abode.

  • a) Devil's
  • b) Puritan's
  • c) Farmer's
  • d) Worker's

23. The setting of The Crucible in

  • a)1692
  • b) 1695
  • c) 1698
  • d)1700

24. __ and his brother John had borroughs jailed for debts the men did not owe

  • a) Hail
  • b) Thomas Putnam
  • c) Proctor
  • d) Parris

25. The people of Salem were__.

  • a) Appreciated
  • b) Superstitious
  • c) Talented
  • d) United

26. Reverend__ was the Priest of the church.

  • a) Parris
  • b) Hale
  • c) Proctor
  • d) Earnest

27. She is sick because she was.

  • a) Tired
  • b) afraid
  • c) Infected
  • d) Bewitched

28. __ is the theme of The Crucible.

  • a) justice
  • b) Vengeance
  • c) Individual vs society
  • d) All

29. When the play open, Parris is.

  • a) Playing
  • b) Praying
  • c) Pouring
  • d) Peeping

30. His daughter __ is sick.

  • a) Betty
  • b) Abigail
  • c) Susana
  • d) Marry

31. Thomas Putnam's daughter __ was also sick because of the same reason.

  • a) Betty
  • b) Abigail
  • c) Ruth
  • d) Marry

32. She was afraid as Parris saw her and other girls __ in the forest.

  • a) Reading
  • b) Eating
  • c) Dancing
  • d) Sleeping

33. __ was the leader of the girls dancing in the forest.

  • a) Betty
  • b) Abigail
  • c) Ruth
  • d) Marry

34. The girls were__ spirits

  • a) Watching
  • b) Avoiding
  • c) Conjuring
  • d) Not conjuring

35. “Goody" means:

  • a) Mr-----
  • b) Good Girl
  • c) Mrs./ Wife of
  • d) Bad

36. Abigail alleged Goody__ as "Gossiping Liar"

  • a) Arthur
  • b) Proctor
  • c) Putnam
  • d) Good

37. Parris questions Abigail about her _ in society.

  • a) Name/ Reputation
  • b) Business
  • c) Intelligence
  • d) Dancing

38. The Doctor suggested to probe into:

  • a) Unnatural causes/Magic
  • b) Another Doctor
  • c) Another patient
  • d) His fee Issue

39. What happened in the forest was _

  • a) Sport
  • b) Magic
  • c) Unnatural
  • d) Acceptable

40. Abigail confesses that.

  • a) They conjured
  • b) She Drank Blood
  • c) She Flew
  • d) They Danced

41. Abigail suggests Parris to.

  • a) Stay silent
  • b) Fight people
  • c) Go Down and Deny
  • d) None

42. The crucible here means:

  • a) A pot
  • b) Pressure Cooker
  • c) Unbiased
  • d) Ruthless & Biased Judicial System to test the truth

43. Hale has __ Intentions

  • a) Worst
  • b) Not bad
  • c) Vindictive
  • d) No

44. Hale caught a witch in Beverly. That was

  • a) True
  • b) Witnessed
  • c) Authentic
  • d) Believed but false

45. Hale so far is convinced about the presence of ____

  • a) Parris
  • b) Angles
  • c) Spirits
  • d) Putnam

46. The court Believes in __

  • a) The girls
  • b) Innocent
  • c) Proctor
  • d) Police women

47. __ can save Elizabeth

  • a) Judge
  • b) Proctor
  • c) Marshal
  • d) Mary warren

48. Marry ___ to harm Elizabeth

  • a) Did not want
  • b) Planned
  • c) Trickled
  • d) Wanted

49. Marry warren is __

  • a) Friendly
  • b) Coward
  • c) Brave
  • d) Old

50. Elizabeth like a rabbit is trapped in ___ net's

  • a) Parris
  • b) Abigail
  • c) Thomas
  • d) Marry warren

51. Proctor ___ to convince his wife that he is now loyal

  • a) Unable
  • b) Able
  • c) About
  • d) Ready

52. Abigail Stuck a ___ in puppet which led to the arrest of Elizabeth

  • a) Needle
  • b) Thread
  • c) Pencil
  • d) None of these

53. Giles and Proctor bring signed__ in court

  • a) Certificates
  • b) Letters
  • c) Cards
  • d) Deposition

54. This now becomes a game for the people in a power to take revenge from

  • a) Men
  • b) Babies
  • c) Individuals
  • d) Church

55. Elizabeth is arrested because __ denounced her

  • a) Abigail
  • b) Susana
  • c) Marry warren
  • d) Proctor

56. Thomas Putnam, using his daughter, blames on------------

  • a) Proctor and Giles
  • b) Martha and Rebecca
  • c) Elizabeth and Martha
  • d) None of these

57. Marry warren _______ to testify that poppet belonged to her

  • a) Denies
  • b) Rejects
  • c) Promises
  • d) None of these

58. Proctor is unable to recall the last_________

  • a) Order
  • b) Incident
  • c) Meeting
  • d) Commandment

59. “The Command” he forget, addresses____________

  • a) Lechery
  • b) Theft
  • c) Truth
  • d) Prayers

60. Elizabeth is arrested for the ______ in her house

  • a) Proctor
  • b) Puppet
  • c) Hail
  • d) Kids

61. Marry warren give Elizabeth a ________

  • a) Cake
  • b) Puppet
  • c) Coat
  • d) Pen

62. _____arrives and investigates proctor and his wife.

  • a) Parris
  • b) Eugene
  • c) Putnam
  • d) Hale

63. The girls are now _____ of court against witchcraft

  • a) Official witness
  • b) Culprits
  • c) Criminals
  • d) Police women

64. Marry warren is their_____

  • a) Friend
  • b) Daughter
  • c) Servant
  • d) Sister

65. Oh, Elizabeth, your justice would freeze beer’’ is said by:

  • a) Parris
  • b) Proctor
  • c) Thomas Hail

66. She comes late and is now having _______ in her voice.

  • a) Softness
  • b) Movement
  • c) Dwindling
  • d) Authority

67. Act 2 is about _____’s house

  • a) Arthur
  • b) Eugene
  • c) Thomas
  • d) Proctor

68. Proctor’s Wife has been cold with him since proctor’s ___was detected

  • a) Affair
  • b) Father
  • c) Injury
  • d) Scalp

69. This also means that girls are now saved and the ______will be hanged.

  • a) Men
  • b) Babies
  • c) Alleged
  • d) Church people

70. Betty names____________

  • a) Goody Osburn
  • b) Goody Proctor
  • c) Good Nurse
  • d) George Jacobs

71. The girls Take almost ______ names before the end of first act.

  • a) 9
  • b) 12
  • c) 14
  • d) 16

72. This means that the girls have confessed they were ____by these women

  • a) Arrested
  • b) Bewitched
  • c) Seen
  • d) Seduced

73. The girls start naming them first who are:

  • a) Religious
  • b) Poor
  • c) Wealthy

74. Abigail is inspired and testifies the both names and adds name of:

  • a) Goody Osburn
  • b) Goody Putnam
  • c) Martha Corey
  • d) Bridget Bishop

75. Tituba first blames____

  • a) Goody Osburn
  • b) Goody Proctor
  • c) Goody Nurse
  • d) Goody Good/Sarah Good

76. Then next she blames:

  • a) Goody Osburn
  • b) Goody proctor
  • c) Goody Nurse
  • d) Goody Good/Sarah Good

77. Tituba Was brought from Barbados where Parris once was a ___:

  • a) Priest
  • b) Thief
  • c) Merchant
  • d) None of these

78. Abigale Blames _____ for the blood she drank.

  • a) Ruth
  • b) Tituba
  • c) Herself
  • d) Devil

79. Rebecca suggests them not to go for__________

  • a) England Tour
  • b) History
  • c) Unnatural Things
  • d) Blame

80. Rebecca Nurse ______ the presence of witchcraft

  • a) Confirms
  • b) Denies
  • c) Ignores
  • d) Smells

81. She confesses to ___________ herself

  • a) Save
  • b) Name
  • c) Beat
  • d) Kill

82. ___________ is beaten and she confesses to have seen the devil

  • a) Abigail
  • b) Tituba
  • c) Thomas
  • d) Proctor

83. Hail Investigates and Tituba and girls learn that they can be saved if they confess and ______ others

  • a) Blame
  • b) Forgive
  • c) Forget
  • d) Ignore

84. Betty Understands through discussion that one under devil’s influence does not listen to ___’s name

  • a) Parris
  • b) Proctor
  • c) Christ
  • d) Satan

85. ‘’The Psalm! The Psalm! She cannot bear to hear the lord’s name’’ Says:

  • a) Proctor
  • b) Abigail
  • c) Thomas Putnam
  • d) Mrs. Putnam

86. Hail comes with ______books

  • a) Many
  • b) Some
  • c) Science
  • d) Three

87. Abigale__________ proctor and they had an affair

  • a) Hates
  • b) Kills
  • c) Suspects
  • d) Wants

88. Proctor’s wife knew it and she turned Abigail out. Abigail was their

  • a) Servant
  • b) Master
  • c) Relative
  • d) Friend

89. Abigail_____ proctor as he comes to see betty

  • a) Slaps
  • b) Holds
  • c) Kisses
  • d) Calls

90. Proctor lives ______ miles away from Salem

  • a) 4
  • b) 5
  • c) 6
  • d) 7

91. Abigail Parents were killed by:

  • a) Red Indians
  • b) Parris
  • c) Putnam
  • d) Hail

92. He did all this for his______

  • a) Daughter
  • b) Land Lust
  • c) Brother-in-law
  • d) Wife

93. His ______ also cried out names of Salem people

  • a) Daughter
  • b) Wife
  • c) Brother
  • d) Mother

94. Abigail ______ all the girls

  • a) Loves
  • b) Hates
  • c) Calls
  • d) Threatens

95. This shows Putnam’s _______ Nature

  • a) Polite
  • b) Harsh
  • c) Vindictive
  • d) Sweet

96. ______ was elected a Minister instead of James Bayley

  • a) George Burroughs
  • b) Eugene
  • c) Thomas Putnam
  • d) Reverend Parris

97. Accusations Against many people in Salem were in handwriting of:

  • a) Arthur
  • b) Thomas Putnam
  • c) Eugene
  • d) Thomas Beckett

98. He regarded himself as the __superior of most of the people around him.

  • a) Morally
  • b) Politically
  • c) Ethically
  • d) Intellectual

99. Mercy Lewis was _____ in the forest

  • a) Singing
  • b) Eating
  • c) Naked
  • d) Jumping

100. _______ and his brother john had Burroughs jailed for debts the men did not owe:

  • a) Hail
  • b) Thomas Putnam
  • c) Proctor
  • d) Parris

101. James Bayley was ___________

  • a) Turned down as a Minister
  • b) Reputed
  • c) Loved
  • d) In debts

102. Ruth is also ___________

  • a) Sick
  • b) Afraid & Faking
  • c) French
  • d) Sleeping

103. Why does Parris plead Putnam to stop talking about witchcraft:

  • a) Because he started magic
  • b) Because of Salem’s History
  • c) Because He will be dismissed
  • d) Because of Red Indians

104. Thomas Putnam was ______ son of the richest man in the Village

  • a) Youngest
  • b) Only
  • c) Eldest
  • d) Best

105. Bayley was qualified but a fraction stopped his acceptance. This is referred to:

  • a) Parris
  • b) Rebecca Nurse’s Clan
  • c) Giles
  • d) Proctor

106. Mr. Putnam’s Brother-in-Law was_______

  • a) Proctor
  • b) Proctor
  • c) Wizard
  • d) James Bayley

107. Betty’s eyes are closed but _______’s are open

  • a) Ruth
  • b) Eugene
  • c) Thomas
  • d) Susanna

108. They want to ______ others to save themselves for they danced

  • a) Blame
  • b) Save
  • c) Tell
  • d) Forgive

109. The Line shows her ______ nature

  • a) Firm
  • b) Superstitious
  • c) Rational
  • d) Sensible

110. Mr. Collins saw _______ flying

  • a) Arthur
  • b) Betty
  • c) Tituba
  • d) Ruth

111. How high did she fly, how high? Was said by:

  • a) Mrs. Putnam
  • b) Goody Proctor
  • c) Goody Nurse
  • d) Goody Good

112. Betty and Abigail are:

  • a) Ignoring everything
  • b) Hating everything
  • c) Denying Everything
  • d) Listening planning and understanding the things

113. _______ is sure about the presence and work of spirits

  • a) Mrs. Putnam
  • b) Goody Proctor
  • c) Goody Nurse
  • d) Goody Good

114. A ceramic or metal container in which metal and other substances may be melted or subjected to very high temperature is called:

  • a) Tea pot
  • b) A cup
  • c) Crucible
  • d) None of these

115. Parris saw________ waving her arms in the forest:

  • a) Abigail
  • b) Tituba
  • c) Marry warren
  • d) Ruth

116. Why is Parris denying the unnatural causes:

  • a) He is a minister of church
  • b) His own daughter is involved
  • c) The village is already against him
  • d) All of these

117. Abigail alleged Goody _____ as Gossiping liar?

  • a) Arthur
  • b) Proctor
  • c) Putnam
  • d) Good

118. Abigail ________ proctor and they had an affair

  • a) Hates
  • b) Kills
  • c) Suspects
  • d) Wants

119. The Crucible is linked with ________

  • a) Capitalism
  • b) Socialism
  • c) Communism
  • d) Dictatorship

120. ___________is another theme of the crucible

  • a) Mass management
  • b) Mass hysteria
  • c) People in power
  • d) Pen the Just

121. Nathaniel Hawthorne added a ____ in his name to distance himself from his ancestor

  • a) Pride
  • b) Sadness
  • d) W

122. Nathaniel Hawthorne author of ‘’The Scarlet Letter’’ was:

  • a) Great Great Grandson of judge Hawthorne
  • b) Son
  • c) Grandson
  • d) Great Grand son

123. John Hawthorne was later known as:

  • a) Friendly judge
  • b) Killing Judge
  • c) Hanging Judge
  • d) None

124. Among all authorities _______ was sensible

  • a) Parris
  • b) Hale
  • c) Hawthorne
  • d) Danforth

125. Salem witchcraft trials are symbols of _____

  • a) Worst Examples of biased decision
  • b) Best example of justice
  • c) Best example of exposing witches
  • d) None of these

126. Abigail stole _____from Parris’ safe

  • a) Documents
  • b) Seals
  • c) Papers
  • d) Money

127. Abigail William_____ in the end

  • a) Died
  • b) Hanged herself
  • c) Ran away
  • d) Surrendered

128. ____gained maximum profit from these unjust trials

  • a) Proctor
  • b) Putnam
  • c) Abigail
  • d) Marry

129. There was _____ witchcraft in Salem in 1692

  • a) No
  • b) Clear
  • c) Ample
  • d) Prevailing

130. The court realizes in the end that it was____

  • a) Right
  • b) True
  • c) Misled
  • d) Perfect

131. Proctor in the end_____

  • a) Commits Suicide
  • b) Run away
  • c) Dies
  • d) None

132. Elizabeth tries to protect the name of proctor but it ______him

  • a) Saved
  • b) Goes against him
  • c) Alerts
  • d) Deceives

133. Rebecca nurse in the end is______

  • a) Hanged
  • b) Saved
  • c) Rescued
  • d) Disappeared

134. He dies under a weighty stone and says:

  • a) I am sorry
  • b) Forgive me
  • c) I am the Devil
  • d) More Weight

135. If Giles Accepts the blame, his ___will be confiscated and Putnam will have it

  • a) Life
  • b) Purse
  • c) Land
  • d) Reputation

136. Proctor Loses his ______ and that goes in vain.

  • a) Reputation
  • b) Purse
  • c) Wife
  • d) Daughter

137. Proctor Tells the court everything but doesn’t give in_____

  • a) Hope
  • b) Movement
  • c) Pride
  • d) Writing

138. Elizabeth trial is postponed as she is____

  • a) Friendly
  • b) Sick
  • c) Pregnant
  • d) Happy

139. Marry warren is ____ and changes her statement

  • a) Afraid
  • b) Stern
  • c) Truthful
  • d) Helping proctor

140. _____ listens to Giles, fancies and proctor

  • a) Everyone
  • b) The court
  • c) Thomas Putnam
  • d) No one

141. The Justice in Salem was highly____

  • a) Fair
  • b) Unbiased
  • c) Biased
  • d) Remarkable

142. Hale assures proctor that

  • a) Elizabeth will be hanged
  • b) She will be safe
  • c) She will speak truth
  • d) She will die

143. Abigail ______ Elizabeth

  • a) Love
  • b) Admire
  • c) Hates
  • d) None of these

144. Abigail, through this wants to have _____

  • a) Devil
  • b) Wealth
  • c) Proctor
  • d) Escape

145. Martha is arrested for ____

  • a) Reading magic books
  • b) Reading Novels
  • c) Reading Psalms
  • d) Reading Nothing

146. The Court Summons_______

  • a) All the people who signed depositions
  • b) 12
  • c) 14
  • d) 16

Chapter 49: DEATH OF A SALESMAN BY ARTHUR MILLER

1. The play is written by

  • a) Tony Kushner
  • b) Thornton Wilde
  • c) Arthur Miller
  • d) Ibsen

2. The main character is a salesman. What is his name?

  • a) Biff Loman
  • b) Willy Loman
  • c) Charley
  • d) Stanley

3. Who is Willy’s wife?

  • a) Miss Forsythe
  • b) Letta
  • c) The Woman
  • d) Linda

4. Who are Biff and Happy?

  • a) Sons of Stanley
  • b) Sons of Willy
  • c) Sons of Charley
  • d) Sons of Howard

5. Both Biff and Happy are

  • a) Successful
  • b) Hardworking
  • c) Failure
  • d) None

6. In the first scene with Linda, Willy contradicts himself. About what did he contradict?

  • a) He called Biff hardworking but latter called him lazy
  • b) He called Biff intelligent but latter called him unintelligent
  • c) He called Biff lazy and later called him hardworking

7. What does Biff want from Bill Oliver?

  • a) He want to buy a ranch
  • b) He want to buy a house
  • c) He want to buy a car
  • d) None

8. Why did Biff stop working for Bill Oliver?

  • a) Biff suspected that Bill Know that he stole some money
  • b) Biff suspected that Bill knows that he stole basketball
  • c) Biff suspected that Bill knows that he stole a ranch

9. Who says “I don’t know what to do about him (Willy), it’s getting embarrassing”.?

  • a) Happy
  • b) Biff
  • c) Linda
  • d) Charley

10. Where did Biff get the football when he was a high school student?

  • a) Biff had bought it from the market
  • b) Biff had stolen it from the shop
  • c) Biff had stolen it from the school

11. What was Willy’s reaction to it?

  • a) He became very happy
  • b) He became very angry
  • c) He did not take it seriously
  • d) He did take it seriously

12. What does Willy tell Linda about his business?

  • a) People he does business with seem to give him great respect
  • b) People he does business with seem to like him very much
  • c) People he does business with don’t seem to like him

13. Who is The Woman?

  • a) Willy’s Mistress
  • b) Bill’s Mom
  • c) Biff’s Friend
  • d) None

14. Willy says” The man knew that what he wanted and went out and got it! Walked into a jungle, and comes out, at the age of 21 and his rich…” About whom it he is talking?

  • a) His friend Charley
  • b) Ben
  • c) Biff
  • d) Howard

15. Who is Charley?

  • a) Willy’s old friend
  • b) Willy’s cousin
  • c) Howard’s old friend
  • d) Slave

16. Where did Biff go early in the morning?

  • a) He went to see Mr. Olive
  • b) He went to see his Father
  • c) He went to see his girl friend
  • d) He went to see his mother

17. What did Willy resolve to talk about with Howard?

  • a) He resolved to talk about his new business
  • b) He resolved to talk about the Washington job
  • c) He resolved to talk about the New York job

18. What is the result of Willy’s conversation with Howard?

  • a) He got promotion
  • b) He is fired
  • c) he got allowance
  • d) A & C

19. Where does Willy go after his conservation with Howard?

  • a) He goes to Charley for some money
  • b) He goes to Ben for some money
  • c) He goes to Linda to tell her about his conversation with his boss
  • d) None

20. Why does Willy not work for Charley?

  • a) He feels reluctance
  • b) He feels Insulted
  • c) He feels uncomfortable
  • d) Charley does not allow him

21. Charley’s son Bernard is now a successful:

  • a) Doctor
  • b) Businessman
  • c) Carpenter
  • d) Lawyer

22. Willy always wanted to make his son:

  • a) Well educated
  • b) Well Lawyer
  • c) well liked
  • d) well doctor

23. Who never thought his son to work hard?

  • a) Charley
  • b) Ben
  • c) Howard
  • d) Willy

24. When in past there are no…… on the stage

  • a) Walls
  • b) Lights
  • c) Actors
  • d) Spectacles

25. Stockings are symbol of

  • a) Biff’s affair
  • b) Howard’s affair
  • c) Willy’s affair
  • d) Stanley’s affair

26. Why did Biff leave study?

  • a) He failed Math in his senior year
  • b) He was not good enough in study
  • c) He saw his father with The Woman
  • d) All

27. Where does Biff find Willy with The Woman?

  • a) In New York
  • b) In the Park
  • c) In Boston
  • d) In his house

28. What did young Bernard often come to request Biff?

  • a) To play football
  • b) To play cards
  • c) For some money
  • d) To study

29. What subject did Biff fail in High School?

  • a) Math
  • b) Chemistry
  • c) Philosophy
  • d) Medicine

30. What did Biff take from Bill Olive?

  • a) He stole a pen
  • b) He stole money
  • c) Stole a football
  • d) None

31. For what region is Willy responsible in his sale?

  • a) Massachusetts
  • b) Maine
  • c) Connecticut
  • d) All

32. How old is Happy?

  • a) 34 years
  • b) 40 years
  • c) 32 years
  • d) 30 years

33. What did Willy’s father sell?

  • a) Flute
  • b) Violin
  • c) Piano
  • d) Drum Set

34. Where did Willy’s father go after abandoned his family?

  • a) New England
  • b) Alaska
  • c) California
  • d) France

35. Where did Ben end up when he went looking for his father?

  • a) Alaska
  • b) New England
  • c) Europe
  • d) Africa

36. How much money did Charley usually give Willy each week?

  • a)70$
  • b) 50$
  • c) 40$
  • d) 100$

37. What does Howard show Willy In his office?

  • a) A wire recorder
  • b) A violin
  • c) A drum set
  • d) A piano

38. What does Biff allow Bernard to carry Ebbits Field game?

  • a) His shoulder pads
  • b) His lunch box
  • c) His football
  • d) None

39. What symbolizes Willy’s best year, the year in which he felt most successful?

  • a) A red 1938 Chevy
  • b) A red 1918 Chevy
  • c) A red 1928 Chevy

40. Willy took money from…. To pay his house rent?

  • a) Howard Wagner
  • b) Charley
  • c) Ben
  • d) Stanley

41. I made the last payment on the house today, dear. And there’ll be nothing home.” Who says this?

  • a) Linda
  • b) The Woman
  • c) Miss Forsythe
  • d) Letta

Chapter 50: NOVELS OF ERNEST HEMINGWAY

1. Hemingway was born in 1899 in Oak Park, in which US State?

  • a) Illinois
  • b) Idaho
  • c) Ohio
  • d) Alaska

2. After World War one, Hemingway took a job on which Canadian newspaper?

  • a) Montreal Gazette
  • b) Toronto Star
  • c) National Post
  • d) The Province

3. What is the name of the fisherman in the 1952 Novella ‘The Old Man and the Sea’?

  • a) Santiago
  • b) Martin
  • c) Manolin
  • d) Perico

4. Hemingway committed suicide at the age of 61. What type of gun did he use?

  • a) Pistol
  • b) Rifle
  • c) Revolver
  • d) Shotgun

5. Published in 1924, what is the title of the Hemingway’s first novel, which was not a great success?

  • a) The Torrents of Spring
  • b) A farewell to Arms
  • c) The Old Man and the Sea
  • d) In Our Time

6. Hemingway served as a red cross ambulance driver during the World War one. In which country was he wounded?

  • a) Italy
  • b) Spain
  • c) Mexico
  • d) US

7. Hemingway’s 1940 novel for whom the Bell Tolls is set during which war?

  • a) World War 1
  • b) English War
  • c) Spanish Civil war
  • d) The Anarchy

8. What was the title of Hemingway’s 1932 nonfiction work about the traditions and ceremony of Spanish bullfighting?

  • a) Death in the Afternoon
  • b) Green Hills of Africa
  • c) A Moveable Feast
  • d) Hemingway, The Wild Years

9. In what year did Hemingway win the Nobel prize in literature?

  • a) 1958
  • b) 1953
  • c) 1954
  • d) 1960

10. Hemingway’s novels are his:

  • a) Thesis
  • b) Biography
  • c) All
  • d) Autobiography

11. In later life, what nicknames did Hemingway assume to convey a sense of strength, wisdom, and master?

  • a) Rabbit
  • b) Bumbus
  • c) Papa
  • d) None

12. Hemingway’s novels include?

  • a) Nihilism
  • b) Marxism
  • c) Romanticism
  • d) Realism

13. The idea of ‘Lost Generation’ was used in novels by?

  • a) Danielle Steel
  • b) B. Cartland
  • c) Fielding
  • d) Hemingway

14. The term lost generation was coined by?

  • a) W.B Yeats
  • b) Hemingway
  • c) Gertrude Stein
  • d) J. Dos Passos

15. Which novel of Hemingway includes ‘You are all a lost generation” in the epigraph.

  • a) For Whom the Bell Tolls
  • b) The Sun Also Rises
  • c) A farewell to Arms
  • d) The Old Man and the Sea

16. The Sun Also Rises was published in.

  • a) 1922
  • b) 1923
  • c) 1926
  • d) 1927

17. In which sport did Robert Cohn participate at Princeton?

  • a) Bullfighting
  • b) Fishing
  • c) Boxing
  • d) Teaching

18. Where does the Fiesta occur?

  • a) Spain
  • b) France
  • c) Italy
  • d) Russia

19. What is Cohn’s profession?

  • a) Doctor
  • b) Teacher
  • c) Writer
  • d) Speaker

20. In what war was Jake injured?

  • a) World War 1
  • b) World War 2
  • c) Spanish War
  • d) England War

21. Who knows the most about Bullfighting?

  • a) Mark
  • b) Jake
  • c) Cohn
  • d) Brett

22. What country does Jake come from?

  • a) Spain
  • b) Italy
  • c) USA
  • d) England

23. What is Brett’s title?

  • a) Papa
  • b) Rabbit
  • c) Lady
  • d) None

24. Who wins the fight between Mike and Cohn?

  • a) Cohn
  • b) Jake
  • c) Mike
  • d) All

25. What is the name of the owner of hotel where Jake stays during Fiesta?

  • a) Montoya
  • b) Bogota
  • c) Makao
  • d) Salento

26. Who is Count Mippipopolous?

  • a) A wealthy Greek expatriate living in Paris
  • b) A poor Greek living in Paris
  • c) A wealthy Italian expatriate living in Greece
  • d) None of the above

27. Who is Expatriate?

  • a) A person who lives outside their native country
  • b) A person who lives in the native country
  • c) A person who settles in the native country
  • d) None of the above

28. How does Brett and Romero’s relationship end?

  • a) Romero forces Brett to leave
  • b) Brett forces Romero to leave
  • c) Romero and Brett decide through mutual understanding
  • d) Jack asks Romero to leave

29. Which character is physically impotent?

  • a) Bill
  • b) Romero
  • c) Jake Barnes
  • d) Mike

30. In what sport do Jake and Bill engage while in Spain?

  • a) Fishing
  • b) Boxing
  • c) Horse Riding
  • d) Football

31. How good a bullfighter is Pedro Romero?

  • a) He is the best around
  • b) He is the worst
  • c) He only has training
  • d) He is not a bullfighter

32. Who is Hemingway hero in this novel?

  • a) Romero
  • b) Brett
  • c) Jake
  • d) Mike

33. Who is code hero in this novel?

  • a) Jake
  • b) Brett
  • c) Bill Gorton
  • d) Pedro Romero

34. How does Cohn react to the bullfight?

  • a) It makes him happy
  • b) It makes him lonely
  • c) Cohn does not bullfight
  • d) It makes him sick

35. Where did Brett and Jake meet?

  • a) In the Park
  • b) At hospital during World War 1
  • c) In college during Spanish War
  • d) In the park during World War 1

36. Who introduces Brett to Romero?

  • a) Jake
  • b) Mike
  • c) Bill
  • d) None of these

37. What does Cohn ask Romero to do after Cohn beats him up?

  • a) Hug him
  • b) Shake his hand
  • c) Beat him
  • d) Kill him

38. What is Cohn’s girlfriend’s name?

  • a) Brett Ashley
  • b) Montoya
  • c) Frances
  • d) Georgette

39. With whom does Brett secretly go to San Sabastian?

  • a) Jake
  • b) Robert Cohn
  • c) Romero
  • d) Mike

40. Aficionado is

  • a) A person who is very knowledgeable and enthusiastic about an activity, subject or pastime
  • b) A person who is apathetic
  • c) Pessimist
  • d) Adversary

41. For Whom the Bell Tolls was published in

  • a) 1940
  • b) 1920
  • c) 1935
  • d) 1942

42. Who was the Hemingway hero?

  • a) Anselmo
  • b) Pilar
  • c) Robert Jorden
  • d) Primitivo

43. Jorden was basically a?

  • a) Doctor
  • b) College Teacher
  • c) Sportsman
  • d) Bullfighter

44. He came to fight in?

  • a) Spanish Civil War
  • b) English Civil War
  • c) War of Spanish Succession
  • d) Anglo-Spanish war

45. What is Robert Jordan’s nickname for Maria?

  • a) Bunny
  • b) Lady
  • c) Rabbit
  • d) Papa

46. Maria was a

  • a) Victim of plague
  • b) Victim of rape at the hands of Fascists
  • c) Victim of target killing at the hands of Fascists
  • d) None of the above

47. Why does Maria have short hair?

  • a) Because her boyfriend loved short hair
  • b) Fascists cut it when they pillaged her town
  • c) Because she liked them
  • d) Because her parents wanted

48. How did Pilar’s relationship with the Toreador Finito end?

  • a) Finito married Pilar
  • b) Both left each other
  • c) Finito died as a result of complications from injuries in a bullfight
  • d) Pilar found another boyfriend

49. How do the Guerrilla fighters store their wine?

  • a) In hollowed-out animal skins
  • b) In trunks
  • c) In bottles
  • d) In Coffin

50. What does Maria say that prompts Robert Jordan to tell her that he loves her?

  • a) That she will end the relationship
  • b) That she will marry someone else
  • c) That she will kill herself
  • d) That she should not sleep with him if he does not love her

51. What is Anderes’s brother name?

  • a) Jake
  • b) Primitivo
  • c) Bill Gorton
  • d) Robert Cohn

52. To whom dos Pablo whisper affectionately on the night that Robert Jordan arrives at the Guerrilla camp?

  • a) His girlfriend
  • b) His mother
  • c) His horse
  • d) His bull

53. Which member of the Guerrilla camp are at least partly of Gypsy descent?

  • a) Pablo and Pilar
  • b) Eladio and Pilar
  • c) Maria and Rafael
  • d) Rafael and Pilar

54. Which characters are referred to as ‘old’?

  • a) Anselmo and Primitivo
  • b) Rafael and Pilar
  • c) Primitivo and Fernando
  • d) Anselmo and Agustin

55. Who fights on the fascist side?

  • a) Paco Berrendo
  • b) Primitivo
  • c) Pilar
  • d) Anselmo

56. Who warns Robert Jordan to take Maria’s love seriously?

  • a) Pilar
  • b) El Sordo
  • c) Agustin
  • d) Eladio

57. Jorden’s mission was to

  • a) Marry
  • b) Do War
  • c) Kill Enemy
  • d) Blow the Bridge

58. What happens at the very end of the novel?

  • a) Robert Jordan forgives the approaching lieutenant
  • b) Robert Jordan leaves the country
  • c) Robert Jordan waits to shoot the approaching lieutenant
  • d) Robert Jordan dies

59. ‘A farewell to Arms’ was published in

  • a) 1928
  • b) 1930
  • c) 1929
  • d) 1939

60. At the beginning of the novel, Henry Reports that seven thousand soldiers have died due to what?

  • a) Plague
  • b) Small pox
  • c) Black Death
  • d) Cholera

61. Immediately before Henry kisses Catherine for the first time, they make a pact to do what?

  • a) Marry
  • b) To run away
  • c) Forget about war
  • d) All of these

62. Before the trench mortar wounds him, why does Henry leave the Dugout?

  • a) To get food for his drivers
  • b) To get food for himself
  • c) To sleep
  • d) To meet someone

63. How does Mrs. Walker greet Henry upon his arrival at the American hospital in Milan?

  • a) She becomes happy to see him
  • b) She becomes frazzled because she cannot arrange a room for him without a doctor’s orders.
  • c) She goes from there because she does not want to meet him
  • d) She does not greet him

64. What is the name of the good-natured doctor who agrees to operate on Henry’s leg?

  • a) Dr. Valentini
  • b) Dr. Helen
  • c) Gino
  • d) Ralph

65. Why does Catherine decide to bet on a certain horse in a race that she believes has been fixed?

  • a) It was her horse
  • b) She trained the horse
  • c) The original horse ran away
  • d) The horse has been dyed a different colour

66. How does Catherine respond to the news that Henry has received three weeks of convalescent leave?

  • a) She becomes sad
  • b) She asks him to go for vacation
  • c) She tells him that she is pregnant
  • d) She invites friends for party

67. What characteristic makes Ettore Moretti a good contrast to lieutenant Henry?

  • a) Ettore is stingy
  • b) Ettore is humble
  • c) Ettore is inconspicuous
  • d) Ettore is a braggart

68. How is Henry wounded after he crawls out of the river?

  • a) A fish bites him
  • b) He fells on a stone at the shore of river
  • c) While attempting to hide on a train, he cuts his head
  • d) While attempting to hide on train, he is killed by someone

69. In Milan, who lends Henry a suit of civilian clothing?

  • a) Rinaldi
  • b) Helen
  • c) Ralph Simmons
  • d) Priest

70. What is Helen Ferguson’s reaction upon seeing Henry in Stresa?

  • a) She is angry that he has complicated Catherine’s life by seducing her and getting her pregnant.
  • b) She feels happy and goes to meet him
  • c) She kills him
  • d) She is guilty

71. Why do the Swiss guards argue in front of Catherine and Henry?

  • a) They disagree over what city offers the best winter sports
  • b) They disagree over what city offers the best spring sports
  • c) They disagree over what country offers best summer sports
  • d) They disagree over what country offers best autumn sports

Chapter 51: JAZZ

1. Who went with Violet to Palestine in order to work and earn money?

  • a) Her sisters
  • b) Her aunt
  • c) Her brother
  • d) Her parents

2. What kind of tree did Joe sleep in?

  • a) Walnut
  • b) Orange tree
  • c) Pine
  • d) Acer

3. In which month did Joe officially meet Dorcas?

  • a) November
  • b) October
  • c) April
  • d) May

4. Which novel is written in stream of consciousness?

  • a) Jazz
  • b) Pride and Prejudice
  • c) The Saint
  • d) Jane Eyre

5. What was Violet's nickname?

  • a) Rose
  • b) Villy
  • c) Vinny
  • d) Violent

6. In what year did the ST. Louis Riots take place?

  • a) 1817
  • b) 1807
  • c) 1917
  • d) 1970

7. What phrase did Violet's parrot repeat?

  • a) I hate you
  • b) I love you
  • c) I want you
  • d) I like you

8. What other crazy thing was Violet known for?

  • a) sitting in the middle of the street
  • b) shouting on neighbor
  • c) murdering
  • d) torturing the birds

9. According to Joe, how many times has he "reinvented" himself?

  • a) 5
  • b) 7
  • c) 6
  • d) 9

10. What is the name of the night club where Dorcas and Joe meet?

  • a) Avalon
  • b) Mayfair
  • c) Maddox
  • d) Mexico

11. Where did Joe work before selling cosmetics?

  • a) a shop
  • b) a beauty salon
  • c) a hotel
  • d) Nowhere

12. How much did Malvonne charge Joe for the use of a room?

  • a) $2 a month
  • b) $2 a day
  • c) $2 a week
  • d) $3 a month

13. For how long does Joe and Dorcas' love affair last?

  • a) 3 months
  • b) 3 weeks
  • c) 6 months
  • d) 1 year

14. What did Alice Manfred keep stacked in her room?

  • a) directories
  • b) magazines
  • c) newspapers
  • d) books

15. Who gave Wild her name?

  • a) Henry Lestroy
  • b) Hunters Hunter
  • c) Joe
  • d) Alice

16. Who helps Henry Lestroy deliver Wild's baby?

  • a) Rose Dear
  • b) Alice Manfred
  • c) Joe
  • d) Honor

17. Where do Joe and Violet head before New York?

  • a) London
  • b) Palestine
  • c) Baltimore
  • d) Stratford

18. Where does Joe first see Dorcas?

  • a) In a nightclub
  • b) In Alice Manfred's house
  • c) In a hotel
  • d) In a Pub

19. How does Dorcas' mother die?

  • a) in a fire
  • b) jumped into well
  • c) car accident
  • d) drowned in river

20. Why is Joe's name Joe Trace?

  • a) because he keeps tracing his pet
  • b) because he keeps tracing his parents
  • c) because he keeps tracing new cities
  • d) because he keeps tracing his siblings

21. Who threw herself into a well?

  • a) Alice
  • b) Dorcas
  • c) Rose Dear
  • d) Violet

22. Alice is Dorcas' ___ and guardian.

  • a) friend
  • b) grandma
  • c) mother
  • d) aunt

23. Alice wants Dorcas wear ___ clothes

  • a) unattractive
  • b) attractive
  • c) fancy
  • d) silly

24. ___ is Dorcas' best friend.

  • a) Violet
  • b) Felice
  • c) Rose
  • d) Joe

25. Dorcas is ___ by boys in club.

  • a) attracted
  • b) liked
  • c) ignored
  • d) loved

26. Violet once ___ someone's baby and went out.

  • a) hit
  • b) murdered
  • c) beat
  • d) picked

27. Violet was ___ hairdresser.

  • a) licensed
  • b) unlicensed
  • c) professional
  • d) bad

28. The mother of Golden Gray was

  • a) Vera Louise Gray
  • b) Alice Manfred
  • c) Wild
  • d) Honor

29. The father of Golden Gray was

  • a) Joe Trace
  • b) Wordsworth Gray
  • c) Henry Lestroy
  • d) None

30. The father of Vera Louise Gray:

  • a) Henry Lestroy
  • b) Col. Wordsworth Gray
  • c) Joe Trace
  • d) None

31. Vera Louise Gray after being pregnant was:

  • a) appraised
  • b) murdered
  • c) beaten
  • d) exiled

32. Vera Louise Gray was accompanied by:

  • a) True Belle
  • b) Rose Dear
  • c) Violet
  • d) Wild

33. True Belle was mother of:

  • a) Rose Dear
  • b) Vera Louise
  • c) Violet
  • d) Wild

34. Husband of Rose Dear was:

  • a) concerned about family
  • b) dutiful
  • c) careless about family
  • d) responsible person

35. ___ tried to smash the dead body of Dorcas with a knife.

  • a) Felice
  • b) Joe
  • c) Rose Dear
  • d) Violet

36. ___ brought both Joe and Violet together again.

  • a) a neighbor
  • b) a relative
  • c) Felice
  • d) Malvonne

37. Joe had shot Dorcas in

  • a) shoulder
  • b) head
  • c) leg
  • d) heart

38. Felice informed that ___

  • a) Dorcas instantly died after being shot
  • b) Dorcas didn't want an ambulance
  • c) Dorcas insisted on calling ambulance
  • d) Dorcas shot herself

Chapter 52: OLD MAN AND THE SEA

1. The Old Man and the Sea is a?

  • a) Tragedy
  • b) Fiction
  • c) Prose
  • d) Short story

2. In what year was The Old Man and the Sea published?

  • a) 1950
  • b) 1951
  • c) 1952
  • d) 1953

3. What happens to make Santiago curse the treachery of his own body?

  • a) He gets seasick
  • b) He has diarrhea
  • c) He has cramp on his hand
  • d) He needs to sleep

4. The great Joe DiMaggio suffers from what affliction?

  • a) Alcoholism
  • b) Failing eyesight
  • c) A bone spur
  • d) A ruined knee

5. How does Santiago finally kill the marlin?

  • a) He stabs it between the eyes
  • b) He lashes it to the inside of the boat
  • c) He harpoons it through the hear
  • d) He bashes its head with his club

6. Manolin’s parents fear that Santiago is “salao.” What does “salao” mean?

  • a) Greedy
  • b) Unlucky
  • c) Immature
  • d) Crazy

7. How many days had Santiago gone without catching a fish?

  • a) 50
  • b) 84
  • c) 86
  • d) 184

8. Who does Santiago idolize?

  • a) Charles Lindberg
  • b) Joe Frazier
  • c) Blackbeard
  • d) Joe DiMaggio

9. What does Santiago affectionately call the sea?

  • a) Mi amor
  • b) His mistress
  • c) La Mar
  • d) The siren

10. How much money does Santiago feel the fish might be worth?

  • a) 100 dollars
  • b) 1500 dollars
  • c) 300 dollars
  • d) 50 dollars

11. The story takes place in and off the coast of?

  • a) Cuba
  • b) Haiti
  • c) Florida
  • d) California

12. Santiago was an -----man?

  • a) Pessimistic
  • b) Optimistic
  • c) Educated
  • d) Illiterate

13. The Old man was the victim of ________?

  • a) Loneliness
  • b) Struggle
  • c) Disease
  • d) All of these

14. The Old Man's eyes show what?

  • a) Defeat
  • b) Hope and struggle
  • c) Happiness
  • d) Loneliness

15. What did sea represent in the play?

  • a) Success
  • b) Living being
  • c) Hope
  • d) Defeat

16. How much money did the old man always borrow?

  • a) Two dollars and a half
  • b) Three dollars and a half
  • c) Two dollars
  • d) Three dollars

17. After how many days people called him a person with bad luck?

  • a) Eighty-four days
  • b) Eighty-five days
  • c) Ninety-four days
  • d) Ninety-five days

18. The protagonist of the novel The Old man and the sea was?

  • a) Human being
  • b) Sharks
  • c) Fishes
  • d) Sea

19. For how many days the boy had been with the old man?

  • a) Eighty
  • b) Forty
  • c) Eighty-Four
  • d) Forty-Eight

20. What are the hostile forces of nature?

  • a) Sea
  • b) Humans
  • c) Fishes
  • d) Sharks

21. Which of the following did old man not battle against while at the sea?

  • a) Fatigue
  • b) Pain
  • c) Thirst
  • d) Loneliness

22. Which of these conflict does not occur in novel?

  • a) Man vs society
  • b) Man vs animal
  • c) Man vs nature
  • d) Man vs self

23. How does Hemingway describe Santiago’s eyes in the novel?

  • a) They are full of pain
  • b) They and blank with defeat
  • c) They betray the weariness of his soul
  • d) They are the color of the sea

24. What defeated the old man?

  • a) His loneliness
  • b) Sharks
  • c) His hand scars
  • d) His weapons

25. In how much time does the sharks come and attack on the Marlin?

  • a) One hour
  • b) Two hours
  • c) Three hours
  • d) Four hours

26. The weight of the fish marlin was?

  • a) 500 pounds
  • b) 150 pounds
  • c) 1500 pounds
  • d) 50 pounds

27. How many times did Santiago dream about lions at play on the beaches of Africa?

  • a) Two
  • b) Three
  • c) Four
  • d) Many times

28. Why does Santiago not let his lines drift like the other fishermen?

  • a) He is a stubborn man who prefers the old-fashioned way of fishing
  • b) He believes it is imprecise, and he strives always to be exact
  • c) It is dangerous, as he might become tangled with another boat
  • d) He is no longer strong and young enough to control a drifting line

29. What does the weary warbler that lands on Santiago’s fishing line make the old man think of?

  • a) The probability that he like the bird will never make it back to land
  • b) The predatory hawks that await the bird’s arrival near land
  • c) The hidden strength of the weak
  • d) The beauty of the natural world

30. On the night before he promises Manolin to go “far out” to sea, of what does Santiago dream?

  • a) A great storm
  • b) A beautiful woman
  • c) Lions on the beach
  • d) Sharks

31. After the shark attack, Santiago reflects that destruction is inevitable. How does he articulate this philosophy?

  • a) The world is such an inhospitable place that no death should be mourned
  • b) Out, out brief candle
  • c) Even the worthiest opponent must fall
  • d) Everything in the world kills everything else in someway

Chapter 53: MOURNING BECOMES ELECTRA BY EUGENE O’NEIL

1. The play is written by?

  • a) Tony Morrison
  • b) William Faulkner
  • c) Eugene O’ Neill
  • d) Ibsen

2. Eugene O’Neill was the first American dramatist to win

  • a) Booker Prize
  • b) Pulitzer Prize
  • c) Caldecott Medal
  • d) Nobel Prize

3. The play consists of ………parts?

  • a) One
  • b) Two
  • c) Three
  • d) Four

4. The story is based on the Aeschylus’s play

  • a) Agamemnon
  • b) The Libation Bearers
  • c) The Eumenides
  • d) All

5. Agamemnon from Oresteia becomes

  • a) Abner Small
  • b) Orin Manon
  • c) Ezra Manon
  • d) None

6. Clytemnestra from the Oresteia becomes

  • a) Emma Borden
  • b) Christine
  • c) Lavinia
  • d) None

7. Electra from the Oresteia becomes

  • a) Christine
  • b) Emma Borden
  • c) Lavinia
  • d) None

8. Orestes from the Oresteia becomes

  • a) Seth Beckwith
  • b) Adam Brant
  • c) Orin Manon
  • d) None

9. Aegisthus from the Oresteia becomes

  • a) Adam Brand
  • b) Ezra Manon
  • c) Orin Manon
  • d) None

10. Trojan War from Oresteia becomes

  • a) French War
  • b) American Civil War
  • c) WW1
  • d) WW2

11. What is the name of Brant’s ship?

  • a) Millennium Falcon
  • b) The Flying Trade
  • c) Executor
  • d) None

12. What is the name of the Manon’s Servant?

  • a) Minnie
  • b) Amos Ames
  • c) Joe Silva
  • d) Seth

13. From where does Christine get the name of the poison that kills Ezra?

  • a) Her father’s book
  • b) From the kitchen
  • c) Shop
  • d) none

14. Christine often goes to New York to see her father and meet

  • a) Joe Silva
  • b) Ezra
  • c) Amos Ames
  • d) Adam Brant

15. Brant’s mother was in love with

  • a) David
  • b) Joe Silva
  • c) Ezra
  • d) Amos Ames

16. The name of the Brant’s mother was

  • a) Hazel Niles
  • b) Marie Brantome
  • c) Emma
  • d) Louisa Ames

17. Brant’s mother was a…… by profession

  • a) A Lawyer
  • b) A Nurse
  • c) A Teacher
  • d) None

18. In her last declaration of love to Peter, whose name does Lavinia cry?

  • a) Adam Brant
  • b) Orin
  • c) Ezra
  • d) Christine

19. Lavinia also loves

  • a) Joe Silva
  • b) Abner Small
  • c) Dr. Joseph
  • d) Adam Brant

20. Lavinia unconsciously loves Brant because he takes after her

  • a) Mother
  • b) Father
  • c) Friend
  • d) None

21. How is Brant related to Ezra?

  • a) He is his cousin
  • b) He is his Father
  • c) He is his uncle
  • d) None

22. Where does Lavinia follow her mother to spy on her?

  • a) New York
  • b) Arizona
  • c) California
  • d) Colorado

23. Every character even the house seems to be wearing a

  • a) Mask
  • b) Hat
  • c) Gloves
  • d) None

24. What is Lavinia’s nickname?

  • a) Olivia
  • b) Emma
  • c) Ava
  • d) Vinnie

25. Seth says that Brant must be a son of

  • a) Dr. Joseph Black
  • b) Josiah Borden
  • c) David
  • d) None

26. The play is influenced by the work of

  • a) Erik Erikson
  • b) Sigmund Freud
  • c) Jean Piaget
  • d) Carl Jung

27. The Manon’s are often described as

  • a) Cis gander
  • b) Heterosexual
  • c) Queer
  • d) None

28. Who does Lavinia love the most

  • a) Abner Small
  • b) Joe Silva
  • c) Ezra
  • d) Seth

29. Whose idea to kill Ezra?

  • a) Christine
  • b) Orin
  • c) Lavinia
  • d) Brant

30. Ezra Manon is suffering from disease?

  • a) Diabetes
  • b) Stroke
  • c) Heart problem
  • d) Alzheimer

31. Who wanted everyone to know about Ezra’s heart problem?

  • a) Lavinia
  • b) Brant
  • c) Seth
  • d) Christine

32. Who can best be described as manipulator?

  • a) Christine
  • b) Emma Borden
  • c) Joe Silva
  • d) Orin

33. Christine dress color was?

  • a) Red
  • b) Blue
  • c) Green
  • d) Yellow

34. Who suggest going to remote islands?

  • a) Ezra
  • b) Christine
  • c) Orin
  • d) Lavinia

35. Christine tells her truth about

  • a) Adam Brant
  • b) Joe Silva
  • c) David
  • d) Seth

Chapter 54: LIFE AND POETRY OF ROBERT FROST AND EMILY DICKINSON

1. Emily Dickenson was -------------- known in her life:

  • a) Little
  • b) Considerable
  • c) Large
  • d) Significantly

2. Evidence suggests that Dickenson lived much of her life in:

  • a) Massachusetts
  • b) Amherst
  • c) Isolation
  • d) Boston

3. She developed penchant for ----------clothing and was known for her reluctance to greet guests:

  • a) Red
  • b) White
  • c) Yellow
  • d) Pink

4. Her first collection of poetry was published in --------:

  • a) 1890
  • b) 1899
  • c) 1898
  • d) 1897

5. A common theme used by Dickenson was----------:

  • a) Nature
  • b) Beauty
  • c) Death
  • d) All of these

6. Her famous poem, Because I could not Stop for --------:

  • a) Life
  • b) Death
  • c) Bus
  • d) None

7. What two images does Dickenson use to symbolize ‘success’ in “success is counted sweetest”:

  • a) The nectar and the victorious army
  • b) Diamonds and Jewels
  • c) Peace and Solace
  • d) Sorest need and struggle

8. What does the poet describe as ‘’The Door ajar ‘’ in I cannot live with you:

  • a) Food
  • b) River
  • c) Lakes
  • d) The ocean

9. Who entombed near the speaker of ‘’ I died for beauty’’:

  • a) One who died for love
  • b) One who died for truth
  • c) One who died for beauty
  • d) None of these

10. Dickenson was --------- friend with any important poets:

  • a) Best
  • b) Childhood
  • c) Not
  • d) A and B

11. In “I heard a fly buzz” what cuts the speaker off from the light:

  • a) The fly’s head
  • b) The fly’s thorax
  • c) A and B
  • d) The fly’s wing

12. How many poems were discovered among belongings of Dickenson:

  • a) Nearly 1800
  • b) Nearly 1850
  • c) Nearly 1900
  • d) 1750

13. Dickenson was a -------writer:

  • a) Unproductive
  • b) Prolific
  • c) Rich
  • d) Poor

14. What intoxicates the speaker in “I can wade grief”:

  • a) Grief
  • b) Joy
  • c) Irritation
  • d) None

15. How long has it been since the speaker in “Because I could not stop for death” died?

  • a) Decades
  • b) Days
  • c) Centuries
  • d) Months

16. Death in ‘’Because I could not Stop for Death ‘’ is personified as:

  • a) Kindly Gentleman
  • b) Unkindly man
  • c) Moderate man
  • d) None of these

17. “Because I could not stop for Death” tells about ------of death:

  • a) uncertainty
  • b) Inevitability
  • c) Avoidable
  • d) All of these

18. In “I heard a fly buzz when I died” the light from the windows -------:

  • a) Keep pace
  • b) Keep step
  • c) Faded Away
  • d) None of these

19. The poem’s title originally comes from a line in Shakespeare’ s play Macbeth which poem is it:

  • a) The gift outright
  • b) Mending wall
  • c) I’m nobody! who are you?
  • d) Out Out

20. What are common themes much of frost’ s poetry:

  • a) Truth, Fame, Grief
  • b) Death, conflict, escapism, nature, frost, loneliness
  • c) Love, Faith, Truth
  • d) Pessimism, Death, Loneliness

21. In “Home Burial” what is the mother’ s name:

  • a) Rachel
  • b) Emma
  • c) Sophy
  • d) Amy

22. Something there is that doesn’t love a wall is a line from Mending Wall. What is something that mentioned:

  • a) Beauty
  • b) Ice
  • c) Nature
  • d) Flood

23. Frost committed suicide:

  • a) No
  • b) Yes
  • c) Drowned in sea
  • d) None of these

24. What actually bends the birches down to stay in Frosts’ poem Birches:

  • a) Hailstorms
  • b) Ice Storms
  • c) Rainstorms
  • d) Wind storms

25. Frost s poem Birches is a poem on -----:

  • a) Reality
  • b) Hedonism
  • c) Eroticism
  • d) Escapism

26. Frost’s poem “Birches” depicts the life of a boy away from -------:

  • a) Parents
  • b) Friends
  • c) City life & friends
  • d) None

27. Frost compares trailing branches of tree with:

  • a) Hanging ropes
  • b) A woman drying her hair in sun
  • c) Hanging light strips
  • d) None of these

28. “The Road Not Taken” is a poem of ----------:

  • a) One Choice
  • b) 3 Choices
  • c) 2 Choices
  • d) 4 Choices

29. Stopping by Woods on Snowy Evening is a poem of:

  • a) Edward Thomas
  • b) Coleridge
  • c) G. Eliot
  • d) Robert Frost

30. It tells about a traveler and his ------:

  • a) House
  • b) Horse
  • c) Imagination
  • d) All

31. The Horse represents his:

  • a) Ride
  • b) Conscience
  • c) Alarm
  • d) B & C

32. The Woods are Lovely Dark and ----------:

  • a) Abstracted
  • b) Deep
  • c) Mysterious
  • d) All of these

33. The only sound except that of wind is:

  • a) Soldier
  • b) Rain
  • c) Streams
  • d) Of snow flakes

34. The rider doesn’t stop long as:

  • a) He wanted to go somewhere
  • b) He wanted to return
  • c) He has promises to keep
  • d) He want to meet someone

35. Sleeps represents:

  • a) Nap
  • b) Ignorance, Death
  • c) Sickness
  • d) Laziness

36. In Death of Hired Man, name of a Hired Man is:

  • a) Alvis
  • b) Loki
  • c) Silas
  • d) Isidora

37. This is --------- poem:

  • a) Lyric
  • b) Dramatic
  • c) Narrative
  • d) None of these

38. Silas fault is:

  • a) Swearing
  • b) Gossiping
  • c) Bad Temper
  • d) That he runs away from job

39. Silas’ Brother is:

  • a) A Poor person
  • b) A rich person
  • c) middle class
  • d) None of these

40. Silas gets help from his brother:

  • a) Yes
  • b) Show of hand
  • c) No
  • d) None of these

41. Silas in end:

  • a) Safe
  • b) Dies
  • c) Injured
  • d) None of these

42. Mending Wall is about:

  • a) Wealth
  • b) Love
  • c) Death
  • d) Nationalism and Internationalism

43. The young neighbor doesn’t want a wall because:

  • a) He hates walls
  • b) It is needless
  • c) Fear of its fall
  • d) None of these

44. The old neighbor loves a wall because:

  • a) It provides him security
  • b) It is useful for him
  • c) His elders suggested wall
  • d) None of these

45. He repeats the saying of his father that is:

  • a) It is better to be safe than sorry
  • b) Good Fences Makes Good Neighbour
  • c) Better late than never
  • d) Actions speak louder than words

46. The old man has --------- trees in his farm:

  • a) Pear
  • b) Peach
  • c) Fig
  • d) Pine

47. The young neighbour has ----------orchard:

  • a) Clonal
  • b) Apple
  • c) Cherries
  • d) Pear

48. The Desert Places is about:

  • a) Barrenness
  • b) Inner loneliness
  • c) Tranquility
  • d) None

49. In Desert Places the writer is unconscious about:

  • a) Peace
  • b) Hatred
  • c) Outer loneliness
  • d) None

50. Home Burial tells about a woman’s:

  • a) Journey
  • b) Complain
  • c) Success
  • d) None of these

51. She is surprised as how could her husband:

  • a) Slap his own son
  • b) Bury his own son
  • c) Punish his own son
  • d) None of these

52. An old Man Winters Night is about:

  • a) Truth
  • b) Natural and Human order
  • c) Love
  • d) Loneliness

53. Nothing Gold can Stay is about:

  • a) Wealth
  • b) Inevitability
  • c) Temporariness
  • d) Love

54. For nature, the hardest color to hold is:

  • a) White color
  • b) Red color
  • c) Green color
  • d) Golden color

55. In Acquainted with the Night -------- is Luminary Clock:

  • a) Sun
  • b) Moon
  • c) Stars
  • d) None of these

56. In “Acquainted with the Night” the main theme is:

  • a) Death
  • b) Love
  • c) Loneliness
  • d) Nature

57. In “Acquainted with the Night” the inner is most obvious than outer:

  • a) Beauty
  • b) Love
  • c) Peace
  • d) Loneliness

58. Frost is known as___ poet:

  • a) Country
  • b) Regional
  • c) Continental
  • d) Rural

59. 4 times Robert Frost has received the:

  • a) Award
  • b) Sword
  • c) Pulitzer Prize
  • d) None of these

60. Robert Frost’s poem --------written in 1916, often read at graduation ceremonies across the United State:

  • a) Mending Walls
  • b) Birches
  • c) Home Burial
  • d) The Road Not Taken

61. As a special guest at John F. Kennedy s inauguration Frost became a poetic force and the unofficial -------of United States:

  • a) Prime minister
  • b) Poet Laureate
  • c) Minister for Art
  • d) None of these

62. During his life time, Frost received more than--------- degrees:

  • a) 45
  • b) 35
  • c) 50
  • d) 40

Chapter 55: POETICS BY ARISTOTLE

1. Which contains a mix of direct and indirect narratives:

  • a) Virgil Epic
  • b) Homeric Epic
  • c) Chaucer’s Poetry
  • d) Euripides Epics

2. Which one is not included in Aristotle unities for a play:

  • a) Unity of time
  • b) Unity of action
  • c) Unity of Character
  • d) Unity of Place

3. Aristotle gave maximum importance to:

  • a) Diction
  • b) Thought
  • c) Dialogue
  • d) Plot

4. Aristotle gave least importance to:

  • a) Dialogue
  • b) Diction
  • c) Spectacle
  • d) Action

5. Which is the unity that Aristotle most insists upon:

  • a) Unity of time
  • b) Unity of action
  • c) Unity of place
  • d) Unity of Theme

6. Which genre has the same plot structure as tragedy:

  • a) Epic Poetry
  • b) Fiction
  • c) Narrative
  • d) Article

7. There may be a tragedy in an epic but not an epic in:

  • a) Article
  • b) Tragedy
  • c) Narrative
  • d) Review

8. Biography and …………. has an episodic structures:

  • a) History
  • b) Review
  • c) Article
  • d) Lament

9. A complex plot must have anagnorisis and:

  • a) Hamartia
  • b) Peripeteia
  • c) Aside
  • d) Mourn

10. Peripeteia means:

  • a) Refrain
  • b) Defense
  • c) Reversal
  • d) Odd

11. Anagnorisis means:

  • a) Cut off
  • b) Hide
  • c) Catharsis
  • d) Discovery

12. What does “Dramitas” means:

  • a) Drama of sorrow
  • b) Drama of tragedy
  • c) Drama of norms
  • d) Drama of action

13. Aristotle has not addressed ……. in his book “The Poetics”:

  • a) Revision process for poetry
  • b) Revision process for catharsis
  • c) Revision process for prose
  • d) Revision process for dialogue writing

14. Tragedy presents men ……. than they are:

  • a) Worse
  • b) Better
  • c) Dead
  • d) Obnoxious

15. Comedy presents men ………. than they are:

  • a) Worse
  • b) Better
  • c) Dead
  • d) Obnoxious

16. Anagnorisis is best shown with the recognition of:

  • a) Signs and indications
  • b) Diction
  • c) Plot
  • d) Themes

17. Which genre begins with the imitation of a “meaner man”:

  • a) Tragedy
  • b) Comedy
  • c) Article
  • d) Poetry

18. Which genre was, at first, not taken seriously:

  • a) Narrative Fiction
  • b) Poetry
  • c) Comedy
  • d) Fiction

Chapter 56: SIR FRANCIS BACON

1. Sir Francis Bacon was born in_____

  • a) 626
  • b) 1561
  • c) 1420
  • d) 1961

2. Bacon is one of the______ of renaissance.

  • a) Kings
  • b) Leaders
  • c) Champions
  • d) Soldiers

3. Bacon was a_____________

  • a) Lawyer
  • b) Statesman
  • c) Essayist
  • d) All

4. When bacon was elected a member of the British parliament?

  • a) 1584
  • b) 1684
  • c) 1784
  • d) 1750

5. According to Bacon the chief use of study for delight is in __________ and retiring.

  • a) Privateness
  • b) Business
  • c) Hopelessness
  • d) Nothingness

6. To spend too much time in studies is:

  • a) Crazy
  • b) Lazy
  • c) Studious
  • d) Sloth

7. Natural abilities are like natural plants that need _______ by study.

  • a) Growing
  • b) Lightening
  • c) Pruning
  • d) Cutting

8. According to Bacon who uses studies?

  • a) Crafty men
  • b) Simple men
  • c) Wise men
  • d) Educated men

9. Writing maketh _____ man.

  • a) A full
  • b) A handsome
  • c) An exact
  • d) A cunning

10. History makes men wise; poetry ______; mathematics_______ and natural philosophy deep.

  • a) Shallow, deep
  • b) Witty, subtle
  • c) Intense, subtle
  • d) Low, witty

11. Gentle walking is good for______

  • a) Brain
  • b) Kidneys
  • c) Stomach
  • d) None of the above

12. If a person is not able to call upon things and to prove and illustrate another, let him study the

  • a) Course books
  • b) Logics
  • c) Theories
  • d) Lawyer’s cases

13. If a man’s wit be wandering let him study the______

  • a) Biology
  • b) Mathematics
  • c) English
  • d) Philosophy

14. Every defect of mind may have a special _____

  • a) Reason
  • b) Resources
  • c) Reaction
  • d) Receipt

15. If a man writes little, he had need have a great______

  • a) Memory
  • b) Book
  • c) Strength
  • d) Wit

16. The study of logic and ______ develop a man’s debating

  • a) Rhetoric
  • b) Language
  • c) Literature
  • d) None

17. If a man confers little, he had need have a ______ wit.

  • a) Strong
  • b) Powerful
  • c) Sharp
  • d) Present

18. Of parents and Children
According to Bacon, a man shall see that the noblest works and foundations have proceeded from____

  • a) Childless man
  • b) Widows
  • c) Orphans
  • d) Servants

19. Children sweeten______

  • a) Nature
  • b) Labour
  • c) Love
  • d) Honey

20. What do children make more bitter?

  • a) Tears
  • b) Lights
  • c) Misfortunes
  • d) Sickness

21. According to Bacon, care of posterity is more in them who no ______

  • a) Parents
  • b) Wealth
  • c) Health
  • d) Posterity

22. Salomon saith A wise son rejoiceth the______

  • a) Father
  • b) Mother
  • c) Uncle
  • d) Aunt

23. An ungracious son shames the _______

  • a) Aunt
  • b) Mother
  • c) Father
  • d) Brother

24. According to Bacon, who is respected in a house full of children?

  • a) One or two of the eldest
  • b) Servant
  • c) Youngest
  • d) Step brother

25. The illiberality of parents in allowance towards their children is a:

  • a) Act of love
  • b) Wise thing
  • c) Harmful error
  • d) Mistake

26. Emulation between brothers during childhood leads to________

  • a) Hate
  • b) Hope
  • c) Love
  • d) Discord

27. Who make little difference between their children and those of their kins?

  • a) Pakistanis
  • b) Italian
  • c) French
  • d) Spanish

28. Among Italians, sometimes a nephew resembles an uncle more than his own:

  • a) Son
  • b) Wife
  • c) Parents
  • d) Daughter

29. Let parents chose:

  • a) Grocery
  • b) Cloths
  • c) Spouses
  • d) Vocations

30. Younger brothers are commonly

  • a) Fortunate
  • b) Helpless
  • c) Loving
  • d) Annoying

31. Of Truth When was “Of Truth” published?

  • a) 1627
  • b) 1625
  • c) 1620
  • d) 1616

32. In the essay “Of Truth” truth is compared with

  • a) Diamond
  • b) Silver
  • c) Gold
  • d) Pearls

33. Supply the missing word in the essay “Of Truth” truth is a naked and_______

  • a) Light
  • b) Moon light
  • c) Open day light
  • d) Right

34. Who is the author of the essay “Of Truth”?

  • a) Charles Lamb
  • b) Francis Bacon
  • c) Jonathan Swift
  • d) J.S. Mill

35. In “Of Truth” lie is compared with a _______ light.

  • a) Sun
  • b) Star
  • c) Candle
  • d) Moon

36. “It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships toss upon the sea. “ This line is taken from?

  • a) Gulliver’s Travels
  • b) Of Marriage
  • c) Of Studies
  • d) Of Truth

37. What is the Venium Demonum in “Of Truth”?

  • a) God’s power
  • b) Devil’s wine
  • c) Spirit’s power
  • d) Pure wine

38. How many types of truth are described in “Of Truth”?

  • a) 2
  • b) 4
  • c) 6
  • d) 8

39. Truth is ever instilled into man’s mind by________

  • a) Honesty
  • b) The good nature
  • c) The holy spirit
  • d) Thinking positive

40. Of Marriage and Single life According to Bacon which person enjoys more freedom?

  • a) Unmarried
  • b) Married
  • c) Soldier
  • d) Divorced

41. Francis Bacon advises______ to not marry

  • a) Students
  • b) Scholar
  • c) Philosopher
  • d) Churchmen

42. Marriage is beneficial for

  • a) Soldier
  • b) Officer
  • c) Businessman
  • d) Sportsman

43. According to Bacon who is cruel and hard-hearted person

  • a) Married
  • b) Unmarried
  • c) Bachelor
  • d) Lover

44. Who is more beneficial for the society?

  • a) Married
  • b) Unmarried
  • c) Widows
  • d) Orphan

45. _______people don’t like their soldier should marry

  • a) Turkish
  • b) Russian
  • c) Chinese
  • d) American

46. In middle age wife works for husband as:_______

  • a) Mistress
  • b) Companion
  • c) Nurse
  • d) Lover

47. Wife works for her husband as a nurse in _______age

  • a) Younger
  • b) Middle age
  • c) Old age
  • d) None

48. A married man cannot do

  • a) A noble deed
  • b) Wicked deed
  • c) Great enterprises
  • d) All

49. The great achievements made by human history are by

  • a) Married men
  • b) Married women
  • c) Single People
  • d) Woman

50. Some wealthy persons wittingly do not go for

  • a) Children
  • b) Wealth
  • c) Honor
  • d) Generosity

51. The soldiers committed to great job are

  • a) Single
  • b) Married
  • c) Married and have children
  • d) Unmarried

52. The women are happier with the smallest gesture of happy

  • a) A married woman
  • b) Unmarried woman
  • c) Single woman
  • d) Having tyrannical husband

53. Of Great Place, Men in great place are ______ servants.

  • a) Once
  • b) Twice
  • c) Thrice
  • d) None

54. A _______ shows the man: and if shows some to the better and some to the worse.

  • a) Place
  • b) Power
  • c) Progress
  • d) All

55. The rising unto place is ______

  • a) Pleasant
  • b) Joyful
  • c) Laborious
  • d) Easy

56. Standing on great place is ______

  • a) Easy
  • b) Hard
  • c) Slippery
  • d) All

57. Men in great place need to borrow other men’s opinions to think themselves______

  • a) Great
  • b) Sorrow
  • c) Happy
  • d) Save

58. Men in great fortunes are stranger to______

  • a) Themselves
  • b) Relatives
  • c) Friends
  • d) Parents

59. All rising to great place is by a_______

  • a) Money
  • b) Education
  • c) Power
  • d) Winding stair

60. Who says, to respect persons is not good; for such a man will transgress for a piece of bread?

  • a) Aristotle
  • b) Newton
  • c) Solomon
  • d) Thomas

Chapter 57: BACON’S ESSAYS

1. When do children become source of delight for their parents?

  • a) When they grow up
  • b) When they achieve success
  • c) When they earn
  • d) When they marry

2. Bacon discusses the subjects in a purely------way

  • a) Subjective
  • b) Objective
  • c) Critical
  • d) Humorous

3. Noblest works have proceeded from?

  • a) Rich men
  • b) Wise men
  • c) Childless men
  • d) Old men

4. An ungracious son shames the

  • a) Mother
  • b) His grand parents
  • c) Father
  • d) Himself

5. According to Bacon ‘A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind

  • a) Monotheism
  • b) Spiritualism
  • c) Atheism
  • d) All of above

6. is the remark of scientific revolution

  • a) Empiricism
  • b) Nihilism
  • c) Spiritualism
  • d) Both a and b

7. According to Bacon, wife and children are

  • a) Source of delight
  • b) Obstacle in great enterprises
  • c) Source of depression
  • d) All of above

8. Bacon reminded in --------- after the collapse of his political carrier

  • a) Paris
  • b) Roman church
  • c) St. Albans
  • d) Trinity college

9. According to Bacon, what should parents choose for their children/

  • a) Spouse
  • b) Home
  • c) Let children have liberty
  • d) Vocation

10. According to Bacon how many purposes of study are/

  • a) 5
  • b) 4
  • c) 9
  • d) 3

11. Renaissance means

  • a) Death
  • b) Rebirth
  • c) Extinction
  • d) None of these

12. To spend too much time in studies is

  • a) Wise
  • b) Pretense
  • c) Sloth
  • d) Fun

13. Studies perfect

  • a) Nature
  • b) Human
  • c) Ethics
  • d) Speech

14. What do crafty men do with the studies

  • a) Educate others
  • b) Appreciate
  • c) Condemn
  • d) Love

15. Admiring studies does not mean

  • a) Gain
  • b) Desiring it
  • c) Preach
  • d) All of above

16. Conference maketh a-----man

  • a) Strong
  • b) Respectful
  • c) Ready
  • d) Obedient

17. Bacon says that Mathematics is good for ____ minds.

  • a) Sharp
  • b) Wandering
  • c) Dull
  • d) Boring

18. Books reviewed by others lose their

  • a) Essence
  • b) Curiosity
  • c) Rhythm
  • d) Philosophy

19. Bacon describes poets as

  • a) Cunning
  • b) SAD
  • c) Witty
  • d) Spiritual

20. ‘Of Parents and Children’ is a

  • a) Persuasive essay
  • b) Argumentative essay
  • c) Simple essay
  • d) Suggestive essay

21. Bacon was a selfish

  • a) Utilitarian
  • b) Son
  • c) Husband
  • d) Monarch

22. Who is called the father of Empiricism

  • a) Hemingway
  • b) Shelley
  • c) Bacon
  • d) Aristotle

23. The word ‘rein’ used by Bacon in his essay ‘of studies’ means

  • a) Kidney
  • b) High seat
  • c) Lungs
  • d) Kingdom

24. According to Bacon, an unmarried man has

  • a) Peace
  • b) Wisdom
  • c) Mistress
  • d) Freedom

25. To which government office was Francis Bacon appointed in 1618

  • a) Advocate in chief
  • b) Lord chancellor
  • c) Principal auditor
  • d) Prime minister

26. With what logical method is Bacon associated

  • a) Exclusion
  • b) Convection
  • c) Deception
  • d) Induction

27. Bacon called his essay

  • a) Dispersed meditation
  • b) Practical wisdom
  • c) Condensed style
  • d) Argumentative approach

28. Which philosophy does Bacon call a ‘childish delusion’

  • a) Plato’s philosophy
  • b) Aristotle’s philosophy
  • c) Roman’s philosophy
  • d) Pope’s philosophy

29. When was Bacon Lord Chancellor of England

  • a) 1588- 1594
  • b) 1618-1621
  • c) 1594- 1598
  • d) 1602-1614

30. How much fine Francis Bacon had to pay when he was found guilty of corruption

  • a) 20,000 POUNDS
  • b) 40, 000 POUNDS
  • c) 60,000 POUNDS
  • d) 80,000 POUNDS

31. Bacon got married at the age of

  • a) 35
  • b) 30
  • c) 40
  • d) 45

32. When was essay ‘of truth’ published

  • a) 1597
  • b) 1612
  • c) 1625
  • d) 1605

33. Truth is compared to

  • a) Pearls
  • b) Diamonds
  • c) Gold
  • d) Shell

34. According to bacon lie is like diamond and

  • a) Day light
  • b) Candle light
  • c) Bright light
  • d) Pearl

35. ‘Vinum demonum’ is

  • a) Devil’s wine
  • b) Light and dark
  • c) Truth and lie
  • d) Demon and angel

36. Bacon symbolizes liar as

  • a) Bear
  • b) Tiger c
  • c) Snake
  • d) Crocodile

37. What does Bacon call mixture of falsehood

  • a) Gold and diamond
  • b) Gold and silver
  • c) Alloy of gold and silver
  • d) Silver and bronze

38. It is impossible to move a man’s mind-----------

  • a) To rest in providence
  • b) Have better nerves
  • c) To have strong heart
  • d) To have divine spirit

39. The subject matter of Bacon is

  • a) Love
  • b) Beauty
  • c) Nature
  • d) Man

40. How many types of truth are described in essay

  • a) 1
  • b) 2
  • c) 3
  • d) 4

41. ‘Of Marriage and Single Life’ is the essay of his

  • a) First edition
  • b) 2nd edition
  • c) Third edition
  • d) Fourth edition

42. Bacon says that wife and children to some unmarried people are

  • a) Responsibility
  • b) Burden
  • c) Risk
  • d) Bills of charges

43. According to Bacon soldiers should be

  • a) Married
  • b) Unmarried
  • c) Young
  • d) Old

44. Wives serve in young age for their husbands as;

  • a) Companion
  • b) Utility
  • c) Mistress
  • d) Nurse

45. Wives serve in old age as

  • a) Mistress
  • b) Nurse
  • c) Utility
  • d) Companion

46. says ‘he had a great brain –not great soul’ about Bacon

  • a) Rickett
  • b) Blake
  • c) Shakespeare
  • d) James

47. Called the Bacon the wisest, brightest and meanest of mankind

  • a) Alexander Pope
  • b) Swift
  • c) Elizabeth
  • d) Rickett

48. Bacon’s third edition consists of books

  • a) 10
  • b) 38
  • c) 56
  • d) 58

49. Bacon dedicated his first edition to

  • a) Prince of Wales
  • b) Antony
  • c) Duke of Buckingham
  • d) Sir john

50. Bacon spent days in jail

  • a) 1
  • b) 2
  • c) 3
  • d) 4

51. Bacon was man of -------

  • a) Character
  • b) His words
  • c) Augustan age
  • d) Renaissance

52. Bacon was admirer of

  • a) Pride and prejudice
  • b) The happy prince
  • c) The prince
  • d) Rape of lock

53. The prince was written by

  • a) Niccolò Machiavelli
  • b) Jane Austin
  • c) Pope
  • d) Francis bacon

54. Bacon was-------moralist

  • a) A
  • b) Not
  • c) Staunch
  • d) Great

55. Bacon talks about-----success

  • a) Devine
  • b) Worldly
  • c) Staunch
  • d) Religious

56. Some books are to be tasted, others are to be swallowed and some few to be-----and digested

  • a) Divine
  • b) Read
  • c) Chewed
  • d) Religious

57. Bacon was without doubt one of the most influential men in the establishment

  • a) English
  • b) French
  • c) German
  • d) All of above

58. Bacon was an English author, philosopher, statesmen and public speaker who lived between

  • a) 1550 to 1590
  • b) 1561 to 1626
  • c) 1500 to 1570
  • d) 1645 to 1690

59. He propounded the two-pronged approach which consisted of being skeptical and

  • a) Credulous
  • b) Believing
  • c) Methodical
  • d) Easy going

60. Bacon contribution in different fields earned him a knighthood from king

  • a) Henry 4
  • b) James 2
  • c) James 1
  • d) Richard 2

61. MEN in great place are--------servants

  • a) Twice
  • b) Bright
  • c) Thrice
  • d) Govt

62. It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose

  • a) Liberty
  • b) Dignity
  • c) Detention
  • d) Influence

63. The standing in slippery and the regress is either a downfall or at least an

  • a) Auspicious light
  • b) Important thing
  • c) End
  • d) Eclipse

64. Certainly, great persons had need to borrow other men’s____to think themselves happy

  • a) Bearings
  • b) Opinion
  • c) Car
  • d) Wealth

65. For a lie faces god, and shrinks from

  • a) Man
  • b) Angels
  • c) Sky
  • d) Satan

66. People speak lies for the sake of

  • a) Truth
  • b) Hidden love for lies
  • c) Advantage
  • d) Beauty

67. Developing a competition among children is

  • a) Dignity
  • b) Detention
  • c) Good
  • d) Harmful

68. Young brothers are commonly fortunate but seldom or never where the elder are

  • a) Present
  • b) Disinherited
  • c) Dominating
  • d) Dead

69. Unmarried men are best friends, best masters, best servants but not always best

  • a) Subjects
  • b) Parents
  • c) Sons
  • d) Nephews

70. Bacon dazzled everyone including queen with his intellect

  • a) Victoria
  • b) Elizabeth
  • c) Ann
  • d) Marry
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Chapter 58: CULTURE AND IMPERIALISM

1. Edward Said born and died in

  • a) 1935-2003
  • b) 1941-2000
  • c) 1936-2001
  • d) 1976-2013

2. Culture and Imperialism was a continuation of the thought in his popular work.

  • a) Out of place (1999)
  • b) Orientalism (1978)
  • c) Covering of Islam (1981)
  • d) On late style (1998)

3. Culture and Imperialism is defined by --------- as “A more general pattern of relationships between the modern metropolitan west and its overseas territories.

  • a) Jane Austen
  • b) Edward Said
  • c) Lord Byron
  • d) Shakespeare

4. The title thought to be a response to two works preceding the publishing of his own.

  • a) Culture and Anarchy (1867) by Mathew Arnold and Culture and society (1958 by Raymond Williams
  • b) True Kite Runner and Americana
  • c) Home going and The Joy Luck Club
  • d) A Thousand Splendid suns and The Mountaineers Echoed

5. Said explores a connection between ------- of imperialist and colonist culture.

  • a) Democracy
  • b) Philosophy
  • c) Literature
  • d) Dramatic

6. He was ---- as aa famous literary example on narratives.

  • a) Lord Byron
  • b) Williams Shakespeare
  • c) Jane Austen
  • d) Robinson Crusoe

7. Demonstrate the ideas of foreign occupation acquired dominion, and erasure of as native narrative entirely.

  • a) Lord Byron
  • b) Robinson Crusoe
  • c) Shakespeare
  • d) Jane Austen

8. Said defines imperialism as “the practice the theory, and the attitude of dominating Metropolitan center-------.

  • a) rule by an emperor
  • b) a policy of extending a country's power
  • c) Ruling a distant territory
  • d) control of other territories and peoples

9. These growing nation, or ‘empire’ Said argues, ------ prepare for their dominating role over another society.

  • a) Culturally
  • b) Socially
  • c) Morally
  • d) politically

10. Imperialism effectively ended following the ------- as colonized people achieved independence.

  • a) 1st world war
  • b) 3rd world war
  • c) 2nd world war
  • d) 9/11 incident

11. Said offense the ideas that imperialism is a cultural force as much as it is one of ---------.

  • a) Militant oppression
  • b) Militant crimes
  • c) Government rulers
  • d) People oppression

12. Cultural control, Said explains is another form of --------------.

  • a) Inferiority
  • b) Inability
  • c) Surrender
  • d) Domination

13. --------------------- is a more suitable malicious force.

  • a) Cultural control
  • b) Regional control
  • c) Terrorism control
  • d) Defense Control

14. Imperialism --------------- the native culture.

  • a) Aggressiveness
  • b) Impudence
  • c) Humilities
  • d) directness

15. Ruling the -------------- is more important than ruling the people.

  • a) Religion
  • b) Politics
  • c) Parties
  • d) Culture

16. The rule realizes the expected --------------- of their culture.

  • a) Alive
  • b) Near to dead
  • c) Existing
  • d) Extinction

17. ------------- brings imperialism.

  • a) Culture
  • b) Religion
  • c) Politics
  • d) Independence

18. -----------Fights Imperialism.

  • a) Religion
  • b) Politics
  • c) Culture
  • d) Independence

19. Heart of darkness is example of ------------.

  • a) Imperialism
  • b) Anti-State
  • c) Pacifism
  • d) Rudeness

Chapter 59: GULLIVER’S TRAVELS

1. Gulliver’s Travels is written by:

  • a) Wordsworth
  • b) Jonathan Swift
  • c) Dickens
  • d) Jane Austen

2. Gulliver’s Travels is a on humanity.

  • a) Bitter Satire
  • b) Mild satire
  • c) Dedication
  • d) Focus

3. Gulliver’s Travels is also an:

  • a) Allegory
  • b) Irony
  • c) Both
  • d) None

4. Lemuel Gulliver first travelled to:

  • a) Laputa
  • b) Houyhnhnms
  • c) Lilliput
  • d) Brobdgingnag

5. Gulliver is by profession?

  • a) Engineer
  • b) Teacher
  • c) Manager
  • d) Doctor

6. Gulliver spent most of his time.

  • a) In forest
  • b) In water
  • c) In cave
  • d) In ship

7. Gulliver decided to settle in and practice medicine.

  • a) London
  • b) America
  • c) Asia
  • d) Europe

8. The ship, taking Gulliver to South for his first voyage, was:

  • a) Titanic
  • b) Voyage ship
  • c) Antelope
  • d) Sailor ship

9. In his voyage 1, who is the captain of the boat?

  • a) Robert
  • b) William Pritchard
  • c) Alexander
  • d) Dickens

10. What is Gulliver’s rule on his first voyage?

  • a) Captain
  • b) Surgeon
  • c) Sailor
  • d) Passenger

11. Antelope was destroyed and Gulliver to a shore.

  • a) Ran
  • b) Walked
  • c) Swam
  • d) Sailed

12. Gulliver was-------- and he slept.

  • a) Happy
  • b) Sad
  • c) Tired
  • d) Sailed

13. When he woke up, he was-----------.

  • a) In England
  • b) Chained
  • c) Sad
  • d) Weeping

14. There were---------who took everything from him.

  • a) Dwarfs
  • b) Giants
  • c) Pirates
  • d) Criminals

15. Only-----remained unnoticed in his pocket.

  • a) Watch
  • b) Spectacles
  • c) Ring
  • d) Pistol

16. Gulliver was taken to ------city.

  • a) London
  • b) Metropolitan
  • c) French
  • d) New York

17. Lilliputians give the title of-----to Gulliver.

  • a) Physician
  • b) Big creature
  • c) Man Mountain (quinbus flestnsn)
  • d) Alexander the great

18. Activities of Lilliputians include:

  • a) Awarding silken thread
  • b) Rope dancing
  • c) Language
  • d) Both A&B

19. What did “Big Endians” Stand for in Gulliver’s Travels?

  • a) For Catholics
  • b) For Protestants
  • c) For Muslims
  • d) For Jews

20. What did “Small Endians” Stan for in Gulliver’s Travels?

  • a) For Catholics
  • b) For Protestants
  • c) For Jews
  • d) For Muslims

21. Gulliver learnt their------ .

  • a) Customs
  • b) Language
  • c) Rules
  • d) All of these

22. Who is the wife of Gulliver?

  • a) Elizabeth
  • b) Cathleen
  • c) Mary
  • d) Alice

23. How tall are the Lilliputians?

  • a) Giant
  • b) 7 to 8 inches
  • c) 5 to 6 inches
  • d) 6 Feet

24. How does Gulliver learn to speak the Lilliputians language?

  • a) Young girl teaches him
  • b) Six scholars were hired to teach him
  • c) Beautiful women taught him
  • d) Old man teaches him

25. Gulliver is submissive to the dwarfs. This is:

  • a) Symbolic
  • b) Metaphoric
  • c) Irony
  • d) Satire

26. Lilliputians got from Blefuscudians by the support of Gulliver.

  • a) Victory
  • b) Defeat
  • c) Peace treaty
  • d) Treasure

27. Gulliver pulled the enemy’s _____.

  • a) Fleet
  • b) Canons
  • c) King
  • d) Treasure

28. Secret conspiracy was made by two pigmies-------against Gulliver.

  • a) Mary and Albert
  • b) Filmnap and Bolgolam
  • c) Common people
  • d) Queen and king

29. Lilliputians thought that if they keep feeding this giant they will soon become.

  • a) Rich
  • b) Lords
  • c) Civilized
  • d) Bankrupt

30. The Emperor of Lilliput Represents.

  • a) George I (King of England)
  • b) George II
  • c) Henry
  • d) None of these

31. The Princess of Lilliput Represents.

  • a) Elizabeth I
  • b) Queen Anne (Queen of England before George I)
  • c) Elizabeth II
  • d) None of these

32. Lilliput Represents.

  • a) England
  • b) France
  • c) Greece
  • d) None

33. Blefuscu Represents

  • a) England
  • b) France
  • c) Greece
  • d) None

34. The Sea between Blefuscu and Lilliput Represents

  • a) The English Channel
  • b) The French Channel
  • c) Both A&B
  • d) None of these

35. Rope Dancing Represents.

  • a) Revolutionary Tactics
  • b) Parliamentary Tactics
  • c) Both A&B
  • d) None of these

36. One of King’s Cushions Represents.

  • a) One of George II’s mistresses
  • b) One of Henry’s mistresses
  • c) One of George I’s mistresses
  • d) None of these

37. Filmnap Represents.

  • a) Robert Walpole (1st English PM)
  • b) Henry
  • c) George
  • d) All of them

38. High Heals Represents

  • a) Low Church Parties
  • b) High Church Parties (Tories)
  • c) Medium Church Parties
  • d) None of these

39. Low Heals Represents.

  • a) Low Church Parties (Whigs)
  • b) High Church Parties
  • c) Medium Church Parties
  • d) None of these

40. Big Endians Represents.

  • a) Muslims
  • b) Jews
  • c) Protestants
  • d) Catholics

41. Small Endians Represents.

  • a) Muslims
  • b) Jews
  • c) Protestants
  • d) Catholics

42. Extinguishing the Fire Represents.

  • a) A Tale of a Tub (Satirical work on religion by Swift)
  • b) War of Spanish Succession
  • c) extinguishing also stands for peace between Bolingbroke and Earl of Oxford

43. Impeachment of Gulliver Represents.

  • a) Bolingbroke
  • b) Earl of Oxford
  • c) Bolingbroke and Earl of Oxford
  • d) None of these

44. Bolgolam Represents

  • a) Bolingbroke
  • b) Earl of Nottingham
  • c) Earl of Oxford
  • d) All of them

45. Silken Threads Represents.

  • a) Green (Order of the Thistle, received by Queen Anne 1703)
  • b) Red (Order of the Bath, received by George I in 1725)
  • c) Blue (Order of the Garter, given to Walpole 1726, also given a title Sir Blue- String)

46. Gulliver’s Affair Represents.

  • a) Affair of the wife of Walpole and also of Bolingbroke’s affair with Duchess of Kendal who was Walpole’s ally

47. Reldresal Represents.

  • a) Lord Carteret (Charles)
  • b) George
  • c) Henry
  • d) All of them

48. Gulliver’s ending the War Represents.

  • a) Bolingbroke’s (Secretary of the State) ending the through the treaty of Utrecht. He was then accused of treason by meeting a French Ambassador.

49. Lilliputians suggest:

  • a) Killing Gulliver
  • b) Keeping Gulliver
  • c) Blinding him
  • d) Setting him on fire

50. Dwarfs Represents.

  • a) The Tiny Human with Giant Aims
  • b) Defeated Humanity
  • c) Peaceful Species
  • d) A Treasure

51. The King of Brobdingnag Represents.

  • a) Mouthpiece of George
  • b) Mouthpiece of Henry
  • c) Mouthpiece of Swift himself
  • d) Mouthpiece of Charles

52. Gulliver in Second Voyage is caught by:

  • a) A Dwarf
  • b) A Fairy
  • c) A Giant
  • d) A Lion

53. Gulliver is a -------in front of giants.

  • a) Dwarf
  • b) Defeated Soldier
  • c) Peaceful Fighter
  • d) Treasure

54. Gulliver is taken by the Farmer into Metropolitan City for .

  • a) Selling
  • b) Beating
  • c) Exhibition
  • d) Meat

55. Gulliver’s health after so many performances in a day.

  • a) Shatters
  • b) Improves
  • c) Betters
  • d) Increase

56. Gulliver is sold to the -------.

  • a) The King
  • b) Queen of Brobdingnag
  • c) Clown
  • d) Treasure

57. Gulliver has several ------.

  • a) Adventures
  • b) Friends
  • c) Misadventures
  • d) Rules

58. Queen is impressed but the king ------.

  • a) Dislikes Gulliver and his kind
  • b) Is also impressed
  • c) Respects him
  • d) Sells him

59. Gulliver lives in:

  • a) A Doll’s house
  • b) The Queen’s Room
  • c) The Clown’s Chamber
  • d) The Church

60. The King hates ------.

  • a) Adventures
  • b) Friends
  • c) Gulliver’s Kind / Humans
  • d) Rules

61. Brobdingnag has books on ------- topics.

  • a) Selected
  • b) All
  • c) Three
  • d) Immense

62. A bird ------ the house of Gulliver when he is out for a walk with king and queen.

  • a) Drops
  • b) Destroys
  • c) Carries
  • d) Fires

63. Laputa is a:

  • a) Land
  • b) Capital
  • c) City
  • d) Flying Island

64. What do “flappers” do for the people of Laputa?

  • a) Protect them from birds
  • b) Keep them engaged in conversation
  • c) Introduce them to other people
  • d) Cook food for them

65. In Laputa, tutor is arranged for Gulliver to teach him:

  • a) Geometry
  • b) Language
  • c) Music
  • d) Dance

66. Gulliver stayed in Laputa for:

  • a) 1 month
  • b) 5 months
  • c) 3 months
  • d) 2 months

67. What controls the movement of the island of Laputa?

  • a) Magnetic Force
  • b) Magic
  • c) A motor
  • d) The wind

68. People of Laputa are obsessed with:

  • a) Geometry
  • b) Music
  • c) Astronomy
  • d) All of above

69. Laputa is floating island above:

  • a) Brobdgingnag
  • b) Sea
  • c) Balnibarbi
  • d) Houyhnhnms

70. What is different about struldbrugs of luggnagg?

  • a) They are blind
  • b) They are immortal
  • c) They have no need to consume food
  • d) They have no capacity for memory

71. What are experiments called that the academies of Balnibarbi perform?

  • a) Dissertations
  • b) Grants
  • c) Projects
  • d) Studies

72. The cave at the centre of island of Laputa is dedicated to:

  • a) Doctors
  • b) Horses
  • c) Astronomers
  • d) Musicians

73. On which island Gulliver is given the opportunity to summon the shades of dead?

  • a) Lagado
  • b) Glubbdubdrib
  • c) Laputa
  • d) Luggnagg

74. During his visit with the governor of Glubbdubdrib, which historical figure’s spirit does Gulliver meet?

  • a) Aristotle
  • b) Hitler
  • c) Genghis Khan
  • d) Alexander the great

75. What does the Academy of projects symbolize?

  • a) Better Inventions
  • b) Creative Inventions
  • c) Fruitful Inventions
  • d) Useless Inventions

76. What is the significance of the Ghosts?

  • a) Ghosts tell him that history is distorted
  • b) They tell that philosophy is faulty
  • c) They tell that books don’t convey authentic Knowledge
  • d) All of these

77. How long it took Gulliver to reach Japan?

  • a) 4 weeks
  • b) 10 weeks
  • c) 3 weeks
  • d) 5 weeks

78. What is the name of the ship in which Gulliver travels to Houyhnhnms?

  • a) Antelope
  • b) Adventure
  • c) Laputa
  • d) Tonquin

79. Which of the following concepts were not seen in Houyhnhnms?

  • a) Lying
  • b) Truth
  • c) Falsehood
  • d) Both a & c

80. Who coined the word “Yahoo” and “Lilliput”?

  • a) Bacon
  • b) Jonathan Swift
  • c) Lamb
  • d) Hardy

81. Gulliver returns to England from Houyhnhnms on:

  • a) 5th Nov, 1715
  • b) 6th Nov, 1715
  • c) 5th Nov, 1716
  • d) None

82. Yahoos are:

  • a) Cunning
  • b) Revengeful
  • c) Coward
  • d) All

83. What is the most important trait of Gulliver’s personality

  • A) Cunning
  • b) Confidence
  • c) Intelligent
  • d) Enthusiasm and curiosity

84. Which is the following language was not known by Gulliver?

  • a) German
  • b) Spanish
  • c) Italian
  • d) Dutch

85. What is the primary engine for Gulliver travels?

  • A) Ingenuity
  • b) Custom
  • c) Languages
  • d) Both b & c

86. Houyhnhnms represents:

  • a) Warfare
  • b) Dystopia
  • c) Perfection of nature
  • d) None

87. How much time does Gulliver take to learn the language of Houyhnhnms?

  • a) 5 weeks
  • b) 3 weeks
  • c) 9 weeks
  • d) 10 weeks

88. Who saved Gulliver in an unknown country?

  • a) Cat
  • b) Mouse
  • c) Horse
  • d) Dog

89. Houyhnhnms are?

  • a) Cat
  • b) Horses
  • c) Mouse
  • d) Rates

90. Yahoos are as:

  • a) Cats
  • b) Humans should be
  • c) Humans are
  • d) Rats are

91. Houyhnhnms are as:

  • a) Cats
  • b) Humans should be
  • c) Humans are
  • d) Rats are

92. Yahoos like----- stones.

  • a) Worthless
  • b) Shining
  • c) Black
  • d) Sea Stones

93. Gulliver-------wants to leave the land of Houyhnhnms.

  • a) Surely
  • b) Does not
  • c) At once
  • d) Timely

94. Gulliver is now convinced that Humans are:

  • a) Dogs
  • b) Worst Species
  • c) Improving
  • d) Perfect

95. Horses consider Gulliver as a Yahoo with -------.

  • a) Horns
  • b) Sense and Dress
  • c) Hair
  • d) Rats

96. Gulliver is forcibly ------.

  • a) Detained
  • b) Sent Back
  • c) Imprisoned
  • d) Declared a Horse

97. Gulliver after reaching London:

  • a) Spends time with his family
  • b) Spends with Horses
  • c) Starts working as a teacher
  • d) Starts loving Rats

98. Gulliver’s Travels is a ------tale for kids.

  • a) True
  • b) Fancy
  • c) Horror
  • d) Unbelievable

99. Gulliver was a--------but Swift was not.

  • a) Thropist
  • b) Misanthropist
  • c) Philanthropist
  • d) Writer

Chapter 60: THE REDRESS OF POETRY

1. The Redress of poetry was written by

     
  • a) Seamus Heaney
    •  
  • b) Jane Austen
    •  
  • c) Robinson Crusoe
    •  
  • d) William Blake

2. Redress means:

     
  • a) Pain
    •  
  • b) Suffering
    •  
  • c) Remedy or Relief
    •  
  • d) Consciousness

3. Heaney defines Redress as:

     
  • a) To “Restore” or Re-establish”
    •  
  • b) To “Cover”
    •  
  • c) To “Enhance”
    •  
  • d) To “Gain”

4. For Heaney, Poetry’s most important function is:

     
  • a) To covey message
    •  
  • b) The attraction power
    •  
  • c) The wording of poetry
    •  
  • d) The restorative power of poetry

5. Heaney cities a poem by Frost called “Directive” to show that poetry is an:

     
  • a) Reality of human life
    •  
  • b) Imaginative transformation of human life
    •  
  • c) Modernity of human life
    •  
  • d) Bad impact of human life

6. McDonagh hated British Empire but:

     
  • a) Did reject the social tradition of Britain
    •  
  • b) Did not reject the poetic tradition of Britain
    •  
  • c) Did reject the poetic tradition of Britain
    •  
  • d) Did not reject the rules of Britain

7. This means to set poetry apart from:

     
  • a) Politics
    •  
  • b) Culture
    •  
  • c) Religion
    •  
  • d) Friendship

8. Heaney wishes to preserve the -------- and joy that poetry provides.

     
  • a) Predictable
    •  
  • b) Unsurprising
    •  
  • c) Occasion
    •  
  • d) Surprise

9. The celebrated poems that chance wrote in this ------- don’t represent him.

     
  • a) Madness and poverty
    •  
  • b) Love and privacy
    •  
  • c) People and government
    •  
  • d) Happiness and loyalty

10. Heaney believes that the poems of Clare are those on nature, such as:

     
  • a) Ode to Autumn
    •  
  • b) Daffodils
    •  
  • c) The Tiger
    •  
  • d) Mouse’s nest

11. Heaney sees Clare as a possible model for a ------- poetry.

     
  • a) Acrostic
    •  
  • b) Postmodern
    •  
  • c) Sonnets
    •  
  • d) Free Verse

12. The poets take us to the ------.

     
  • a) Ideal
    •  
  • b) Real
    •  
  • c) Bad
    •  
  • d) Attainable

13. poets are the unacknowledged of the world(shelly).

     
  • a) Atypical
    •  
  • b) Follower
    •  
  • c) Non-representative
    •  
  • d) Legislators

14. if poetry becomes practical, according to Heaney, it will not remain poetry, it will become a:

     
  • a) Propaganda
    •  
  • b) Honesty
    •  
  • c) Secrecy
    •  
  • d) fact

15. Heaney believes the poetry is ------------- in literature

     
  • a) Non-essential
    •  
  • b) Indispensable
    •  
  • c) Dispensable
    •  
  • d) superfluous

16. Poets convey what we can only:

     
  • a) Imagine
    •  
  • b) Reality
    •  
  • c) Dream
    •  
  • d) Fantasy

Chapter 61: LORD OF THE FLIES

1. Lord of the Flies a 1954 novel by Nobel Prize winning British author:

     
  • a) George Orwell
    •  
  • b) G. Greene
    •  
  • c) E.M. Forster
    •  
  • d) William Golding

2. Lord of the Flies refers to:

     
  • a) Beelzebub, another name for the devil
    •  
  • b) Civilization
    •  
  • c) The Conch Shell
    •  
  • d) The Fire

3. Lord of the Flies also called:

     
  • a) Lord of Wrath
    •  
  • b) Lord of Greed
    •  
  • c) Lord of Filth and Dung
    •  
  • d) Lord of Pride

4. The book focuses on a group of ---- boys stranded on an uninhabited island:

     
  • a) American
    •  
  • b) Australian
    •  
  • c) Canadian
    •  
  • d) British

5. The book begins with the boys arriving on the island after their plane has been---- during World War III:

     
  • a) Crashed
    •  
  • b) Flew Away
    •  
  • c) Shot Down
    •  
  • d) Drowned

6. Some of the marooned characters are ordinary students, while others arrive as -----under an established leader:

     
  • a) A Football Team
    •  
  • b) A Musical Choir
    •  
  • c) Actors
    •  
  • d) Soldiers

7. ---- AND ---- meet each other when the novel begins:

     
  • a) Ralph & Piggy
    •  
  • b) Piggy & Simon
    •  
  • c) Simon & Ralph
    •  
  • d) Jack & Simon

8. Ralph is:

     
  • a) Tall and Black
    •  
  • b) Lean and Tall
    •  
  • c) Chubby and Small
    •  
  • d) Handsome and Fair-haired

9. Piggy is:

     
  • a) Intelligent & Asthmatic
    •  
  • b) Handsome and Fair-haired
    •  
  • c) Funny and Active
    •  
  • d) Brave and Jolly

10. They found a ---- which is used to produce sound:

     
  • a) Guitar
    •  
  • b) Bell
    •  
  • c) Conch
    •  
  • d) Drum

11. The sound of conch ----rest of the deserted boys here:

     
  • a) Irritates
    •  
  • b) Hurt
    •  
  • c) Gathers
    •  
  • d) Scatter

12. Ralph is elected as -----:

     
  • a) A Leader
    •  
  • b) A Player
    •  
  • c) A Hunter
    •  
  • d) A Member

13. Whose responsibility is to maintain the first signal fire:

     
  • a) Jack and Ralph
    •  
  • b) Jack and Simon
    •  
  • c) The Hunters’
    •  
  • d) Piggy and Jack

14. What is Ralph’s first act upon being elected leader:

     
  • a) To Blow the Fire
    •  
  • b) Ask Them to Gather at One Place
    •  
  • c) Naming Jack the Leader of the Hunters
    •  
  • d) To Free Everyone

15. The leader of the hunters is:

     
  • a) Piggy
    •  
  • b) Ralph
    •  
  • c) Simon
    •  
  • d) Jack

16. Why is fire necessary:

     
  • a) To Heat Up the Things
    •  
  • b) To Be Rescued
    •  
  • c) To Cook the Food
    •  
  • d) To Burn Things

17. ----- were used to light the fire:

     
  • a) Sticks
    •  
  • b) Stones
    •  
  • c) Piggy’s glasses
    •  
  • d) Gun powder

18. What powers does Jack ascribe to the beast after Simon’ murder?

     
  • a) Strong and Big
    •  
  • b) Can Eat Everything
    •  
  • c) Intelligent and Can Break Everything
    •  
  • d) Immortality and the Power to Change the Shape

19. How does the first boy disappear?

     
  • a) He Burns to Death When the Signal Fire Ignites the Forest
    •  
  • b) Killed By the Animals
    •  
  • c) He Ran Away from the Forest
    •  
  • d) Drowned in the Sea

20. Who is the first boy to disappear?

     
  • a) Jack
    •  
  • b) A littlun
    •  
  • c) Piggy
    •  
  • d) Simon

21. Where does the beast go during the day, according to one of the littlun?

     
  • a) Into the Forest
    •  
  • b) Into the Ocean
    •  
  • c) To his Home
    •  
  • d) To the Earth

22. Who sees the dead parachutist first?

     
  • a) Sam and Eric
    •  
  • b) Jack and Simon
    •  
  • c) A Littlun
    •  
  • d) Simon and Ralph

23. Which character speaks to The Lord of the Flies?

     
  • a) Ralph
    •  
  • b) Jack
    •  
  • c) Simon
    •  
  • d) Piggy

24. When ------ appears and attempts to explain the true identity of the beast, the boys mistake him for the beast and attack and kill him:

     
  • a) Piggy
    •  
  • b) Jack
    •  
  • c) Ralph
    •  
  • d) Simon

25. The conch was symbol of:

     
  • a) Bravery and War
    •  
  • b) Intelligence and Leadership
    •  
  • c) Discipline and Leadership
    •  
  • d) Civilization

26. Whom does Jack strike shortly after his first kill?

     
  • a) Piggy
    •  
  • b) Simon
    •  
  • c) Ralph
    •  
  • d) Eric

27. How did Piggy die:

     
  • a) By a Gun Fire
    •  
  • b) By the Conch Shell
    •  
  • c) By a Huge Boulder
    •  
  • d) By Hitting

28. When Piggy is killed, what else is destroyed?

 
     
  • a) The Island
    •  
  • b) The Conch Shell
    •  
  • c) The Boat
    •  
  • d) The Forest

29. The death of ----- symbolizes the complete destruction of civility qne rationality of the island:

     
  • a) Simon
    •  
  • b) Jack
    •  
  • c) Piggy
    •  
  • d) Eric

30. It also means --- is on his own to contend with Jack and his barbaric tribe:

     
  • a) Jack
    •  
  • b) Ralph
    •  
  • c) Sam
    •  
  • d) Eric

31. What lures the navy ship to the island?

     
  • a) Sound of the Conch
    •  
  • b) The Voices of the Boys
    •  
  • c) The Beast
    •  
  • d) The Fire in the Jungle

32. What object does Ralph clutch when he talks about Simon’s murder?

     
  • a) A Gun
    •  
  • b) A Knife
    •  
  • c) The Burning Stick
    •  
  • d) The Conch Shell

33. Who is the only boy to kill someone on the island by himself?

     
  • a) Simon
    •  
  • b) Piggy
    •  
  • c) Roger
    •  
  • d) Jack

34. What does Jack suggest the boys use as the “pig” in their dance-like reenactment of the hunt?

     
  • a) A littlun
    •  
  • b) Piggy
    •  
  • c) Roger
    •  
  • d) Eric

35. Which boy treats the littluns with the most kindness?

     
  • a) Ralph
    •  
  • b) Jack
    •  
  • c) Simon
    •  
  • d) Piggy

36. Which boy would rather hunt than build huts?

     
  • a) Simon
    •  
  • b) Jack
    •  
  • c) Ralph
    •  
  • d) Roger

37. What is the boy’s home country?

     
  • a) England
    •  
  • b) America
    •  
  • c) Australia
    •  
  • d) Russia

38. Who knocks the Lord of the flies to the ground?

     
  • a) Ralph
    •  
  • b) Jack
    •  
  • c) Simon
    •  
  • d) Roger

39. On what obstruction does the dead parachutist become tangled?

     
  • a) Tree Branches
    •  
  • b) An Old Boat
    •  
  • c) Jagged Rocks
    •  
  • d) In the Ropes

40. Who tells Jack where Ralph is hiding in chapter 12?

     
  • a) Sam and Eric
    •  
  • b) Ralph and Simon
    •  
  • c) Roger and Simon
    •  
  • d) Piggy and Ralph

41. Which boy does not dance at Jack’s first feast?

     
  • a) Ralph
    •  
  • b) Piggy
    •  
  • c) Simon
    •  
  • d) Sam & Eric

Chapter 62: THE SEA BY EDWARD BOND

1. The play “The Sea” is written by

     
  • a) Shakespeare
    •  
  • b) Woolf
    •  
  • c) Arthur Miller
    •  
  • d) Edward Bond

2. Who has appointed Hatch as a Coast Guard

     
  • a) Willy
    •  
  • b) Mr. Rafi
    •  
  • c) Mrs. Rafi
    •  
  • d) Colin

3. Mrs. Rafi questions to Hatch where he was when the man named ……… was drowned.

     
  • a) Willy
    •  
  • b) Colin
    •  
  • c) Alien
    •  
  • d) Mr. Rafi

4. “The Sea” basically belongs the genre of……………

     
  • a) Tragedy
    •  
  • b) Comedy
    •  
  • c) Satire
    •  
  • d) Autobiography

5. Who tells Mrs. Rafi in detail of what happened at the sea?

     
  • a) Colin
    •  
  • b) Willy
    •  
  • c) Hatch
    •  
  • d) all of them

6. Mrs. Rafi is rehearsing ………..to perform for raising coast guard funds

     
  • a) A play
    •  
  • b) A song
    •  
  • c) A poem
    •  
  • d) A satire

7. Who sees the dead body of Colin?

     
  • a) Mrs. Rafi
    •  
  • b) Willy
    •  
  • c) Hatch
    •  
  • d) None

8. Who believes that aliens reside inside the dead or alive once they have captured them.

     
  • a) Willy
    •  
  • b) Mrs. Rafi
    •  
  • c) Colin’s fiancé
    •  
  • d) Hatch

9. The play “The Sea” draws some of the themes of Shakespeare’s ………………….

     
  • a) Hamlet
    •  
  • b) Twelfth Night
    •  
  • c) As You Like It
    •  
  • d) The Tempest

10. The play “The Sea” was set in…………….

     
  • a) 1906
    •  
  • b) 1907
    •  
  • c) 1908
    •  
  • d) 1909

11. IS THE MOST IMPORTANT SYMBOLIC SIGNIFICANCE OF THE TITLE "THE SEA".

     
  • a) Mysteriousness
    •  
  • b) Love
    •  
  • c) Hate
    •  
  • d) Criticism

12. THE PLAY STARTS ON SEA SHORE THAT IS LOCATED IN A SMALL TOWN AT THE FEET OF:

     
  • a) England
    •  
  • b) Scotland
    •  
  • c) Africa
    •  
  • d) Australia

13. WILLY AND HIS FRIEND ………ARE SET OUT ON A BOAT THAT SUDDENLY, THIS BOAT GOES DOWN.

     
  • a) Colin
    •  
  • b) Hatch
    •  
  • c) Golin
    •  
  • d) John

14. EVENS DOESN'T HELP AS HE IS:

     
  • a) Drunk
    •  
  • b) Injured
    •  
  • c) Slept
    •  
  • d) Afraid

15. ACCORDING TO …………. WILLY HAS killed HIS Killed FRIEND COLIN.

     
  • a) Mrs. Rafi
    •  
  • b) Hatch
    •  
  • c) Colin’s fiancé
    •  
  • d) Mr. Rafi

16. HOLLARCUT IS………. 'S FRIEND

     
  • a) Hatch
    •  
  • b) Willy
    •  
  • c) Colin
    •  
  • d) Mrs. Rafi

17. HATCH attacks………. AND RUNS AWAY

     
  • a) Willy
    •  
  • b) Colin
    •  
  • c) Mrs. Rafi
    •  
  • d) Hollarcut

Chapter 63: THINGS FALL APART

1. Things Fall Apart is written by:

     
  • a) Chinua Achebe
    •  
  • b) W. B Yeasts
    •  
  • c) John Milton
    •  
  • d) John Keats

2. It is split into _____ parts

     
  • a) 3
    •  
  • b) 2
    •  
  • c) 4
    •  
  • d) 5

3. It is about

     
  • a) All
    •  
  • b) OKONKWO’s family and culture
    •  
  • c) OKONKWO’S family respect
    •  
  • d) About currency

4. Its second part is about?

     
  • a) Colonialism
    •  
  • b) Post Colonialism
    •  
  • c) Both
    •  
  • d) None

5. Its third part is about

     
  • a) Christian Missionaries
    •  
  • b) Hunt
    •  
  • c) Cheating
    •  
  • d) Amazon

6. Things Fall Apart was followed by a sequel

     
  • a) No longer at ease
    •  
  • b) Darkness
    •  
  • c) Life
    •  
  • d) Death

7. What is the name of OKONKWO’S motherland:

     
  • a) Mbanta
    •  
  • b) Bhera
    •  
  • c) Mbona
    •  
  • d) Mambta

8. What Holy animal does OKONKWO'S clan suspect the Christians have killed and eaten?

     
  • a) A Python
    •  
  • b) A Snake
    •  
  • c) A Lizard
    •  
  • d) A Snail

9. What is the name of the first missionary who comes to UMUOFIA?

     
  • a) Mr. Brown
    •  
  • b) Mr. Lewis
    •  
  • c) Peter
    •  
  • d) Thomas

10. How many villages does UMUOFIA comprise?

     
  • a) Nine
    •  
  • b) Six
    •  
  • c) Seven
    •  
  • d) Three

11. Each village is represented by an

     
  • a) Egwugwu
    •  
  • b) Orange
    •  
  • c) Egg
    •  
  • d) Ant

12. Who is Egwugwu in Things Fall Apart?

     
  • a) Gods of Umuofia
    •  
  • b) Servants of Umuofia
    •  
  • c) Friends of Umuofia
    •  
  • d) None

13. Whom did OKONKWO beat in his legendary wrestling match?

     
  • a) Amalinze the cat
    •  
  • b) Amalinze the dog
    •  
  • c) Both
    •  
  • d) None

14. In which country does Things Fall Apart take place?

     
  • a) Nigeria
    •  
  • b) Russia
    •  
  • c) America
    •  
  • d) None

15. ______ happened as a peace settlement between UMUOFIA and another clan after Ikemefuna's fathe’ killed an Umuofia woman

     
  • a) Ikemefuna was taken by Mbanta clan
    •  
  • b) Insult
    •  
  • c) Earthquake

16. OKONKWO ______ Ikemefuna but does not show?

     
  • a) Loves
    •  
  • b) Hates
    •  
  • c) Respects
    •  
  • d) None

17. The boy looks up to Okonkwo and considers him A:

     
  • a) Second father
    •  
  • b) Step brother
    •  
  • c) Step uncle
    •  
  • d) None

18. The oracle of Umuofia eventually pronounces that the boy must be

     
  • a) Killed
    •  
  • b) Punished
    •  
  • c) Both
    •  
  • d) None

19. What does Okonkwo do even though he is advised not to?

     
  • a) Help kill Ikemefuna
    •  
  • b) Cheat
    •  
  • c) Steal
    •  
  • d) Insult

20. Okonkwo falls into a great depression after:

     
  • a) Killing Ikemefuna
    •  
  • b) Punishing Ikemefuna
    •  
  • c) Both
    •  
  • d) None

21. What do the inhabitants of Mabnta believe responsible for the white Man’s miraculous survival after having built his church in the evil forest?

     
  • a) His eyeglasses
    •  
  • b) Dress
    •  
  • c) Watch
    •  
  • d) Leg

22. What kind of child is Ogbanje?

     
  • a) Wicked
    •  
  • b) Cute
    •  
  • c) Innocent
    •  
  • d) Naughty

23. What does Okonkwo constantly wish Ezinma had been?

     
  • a) A son
    •  
  • b) A friend
    •  
  • c) A cousin
    •  
  • d) None

24. Okonkwo's son ____ starts getting curious about the missionaries and the new religion

     
  • a) Nwoye
    •  
  • b) Ekmewi
    •  
  • c) Nwoyal
    •  
  • d) Nwayat

25. After he is ____ by his father for the last time, he decides to leave his family behind and live independently?

     
  • a) Beaten
    •  
  • b) Betrayed
    •  
  • c) None
    •  
  • d) Both

26. What does a palm tapper tap?

     
  • a) A tree for wine
    •  
  • b) A tree for juice
    •  
  • c) Both
    •  
  • d) None

27. What are the outcasts required to do before they may join the church?

     
  • a) Shave their heads
    •  
  • b) Shave their beards
    •  
  • c) None
    •  
  • d) Both

28. What is the name of OKONKWO’s second wife?

     
  • a) Ekwefi
    •  
  • b) Ewerti
    •  
  • c) Ehuel
    •  
  • d) Ekmei

29. Where Are the Christian women forbidden to go when the clan hears of the killings of a Royal Python?

     
  • a) To the stream
    •  
  • b) To the river
    •  
  • c) To the sea
    •  
  • d) None

30. What crop is king for the Igbo?

     
  • a) Yam
    •  
  • b) Corn
    •  
  • c) Chicken
    •  
  • d) Peas

31. What is “iron horse”?

     
  • a) A Bicycle
    •  
  • b) A bike
    •  
  • c) A car
    •  
  • d) None

32. What is the polite name for Leprosy among the Igbo?

     
  • a) The White skin
    •  
  • b) The dark skin
    •  
  • c) Both
    •  
  • d) None

33. In the allegory of Tortoise, what do the birds give to Tortoise?

     
  • a) Feathers
    •  
  • b) Beak
    •  
  • c) Insect
    •  
  • d) Nail

34. What does Enoch do to provoke the rage of the clan?

     
  • a) He unmasks an Egwugwu
    •  
  • b) Kills
    •  
  • c) Kicks
    •  
  • d) Runs

35. How does Okonkwo die?

     
  • a) He hangs himself
    •  
  • b) He cuts his throat
    •  
  • c) He breaks his head
    •  
  • d) None

36. Why are the villagers happy when the locusts arrive?

     
  • a) Because they taste good
    •  
  • b) They are free
    •  
  • c) They are sour

37. What does Okonkwo fear most?

     
  • a) Becoming like his father
    •  
  • b) Becoming like his uncle
    •  
  • c) Becoming like his brother
    •  
  • d) None

38. Okonkwo's father was

     
  • a) Coward and lazy
    •  
  • b) Smart
    •  
  • c) Honest
    •  
  • d) None

39. The title Things Fall Apart is taken from A poem by

     
  • a) William Butler Yeasts
    •  
  • b) Home
    •  
  • c) Exile
    •  
  • d) Door

Chapter 64: ULYSSES (Novel)

1. Who haunts Stephen throughout Ulysses?

     
  • a) His father
    •  
  • b) His mother
    •  
  • c) Shakespeare
    •  
  • d) Ulysses

2. What does Stephen perceive Buck to be?

     
  • a) Lover
    •  
  • b) Muse
    •  
  • c) Savior
    •  
  • d) Usurper

3. With whom is Stephen not identified?

     
  • a) Odysseus
    •  
  • b) Telemachus
    •  
  • c) Hamlet
    •  
  • d) Shakespeare

4. Which of the following least characterizes Bloom?

     
  • a) Empathetic
    •  
  • b) Antagonistic
    •  
  • c) Masochistic
    •  
  • d) Optimistic

5. Which of the following does not describe Bloom’s reaction to Molly’s infidelity?

     
  • a) Resignation
    •  
  • b) Jealousy
    •  
  • c) Arousal
    •  
  • d) Anger

6. According to Stephen, with which character from Hamlet does Shakespeare identify?

     
  • a) The ghost
    •  
  • b) Prince Hamlet
    •  
  • c) Claudius
    •  
  • d) Gertrude

7. Who attacks Bloom in Episode Twelve?

     
  • a) Stephen
    •  
  • b) The citizen
    •  
  • c) Boylan
    •  
  • d) Simon

8. Who fantasizes about Bloom in Episode Thirteen?

     
  • a) Boylan
    •  
  • b) Mina Purefoy
    •  
  • c) Molly
    •  
  • d) Gertie MacDowell

9. What does Bloom request from Molly before going to bed?

     
  • a) Breakfast
    •  
  • b) Love
    •  
  • c) Housekeys
    •  
  • d) Money

10. Who was Molly’s first love?

     
  • a) Lt. Mulvey
    •  
  • b) Boylan
    •  
  • c) Bloom
    •  
  • d) Lt. Gardner

11. When was James Joyce born?

     
  • a) 1872
    •  
  • b) 1882
    •  
  • c) 1892
    •  
  • d) 1902

12. What did Joyce go to Paris to study?

     
  • a) Medicine
    •  
  • b) History
    •  
  • c) Music
    •  
  • d) Painting

13. Where were the first episodes of Ulysses originally published?

     
  • a) Times Literary Supplement
    •  
  • b) Little Review
    •  
  • c) Southwest Review
    •  
  • d) New Letters

14. Ulysses acts as a kind of sequel to which Joyce novel?

     
  • a) Stephen Hero
    •  
  • b) Exiles
    •  
  • d) Portrait of The Artist as a Young Man
    •  
  • d) Finnegans Wake

15. During the same year that the novel was published, the ___ Free State was formed.

     
  • a) German
    •  
  • b) Italian
    •  
  • c) French
    •  
  • d) Irish

16. What is Deasy's editorial letter about?

     
  • a) Irish independence
    •  
  • b) Shakespeare's plays
    •  
  • c) Diseases in cattle
    •  
  • d) Solar eclipses

17. Who is Molly Bloom having an affair with?

     
  • a) Stephen Dedalus
    •  
  • b) Blazes Boylan
    •  
  • c) Simon Dedalus
    •  
  • d) Denis Breen

18. Bantam Lyons mistakenly believes that Bloom has given him a tip on a horse named ___ for the afternoon's Gold Cup race.

     
  • a) Throwaway
    •  
  • b) Newsprint
    •  
  • c) Cold Shoulder
    •  
  • d) Daydream

19. Whose funeral do the characters attend?

     
  • a) Charles Parnell
    •  
  • b) Mary Dedalus
    •  
  • c) Paddy Dignam
    •  
  • d) Rudolph Bloom

20. When Gertie McDowell subtly reveals her legs to Bloom, what does he do?

     
  • a) Closes his eyes
    •  
  • b) Laughs
    •  
  • c) Tips his hat
    •  
  • d) Masturbates

21. What does Haines study at Oxford?

     
  • a) Medicine
    •  
  • b) Music
    •  
  • c) Law
    •  
  • d) Folklore

22. How old is Leopold Bloom's daughter, Millie?

     
  • a) Nine
    •  
  • b) Eleven
    •  
  • c) Thirteen
    •  
  • d) Fifteen

23. E. is the pseudonym of which famous Irish poet?

     
  • a) George Russell
    •  
  • b) Patrick MacGill
    •  
  • c) Yeats
    •  
  • d) Thomas McDonagh

24. What is the name given to the older Irish xenophobic nationalist who was formerly an athlete?

     
  • a) The citizen
    •  
  • b) The patriot
    •  
  • c) The soldier
    •  
  • d) The philosopher

25. What is the current job of the Nameless Narrator of Episode Twelve?

     
  • a) Crab fisher
    •  
  • b) Bootmaker
    •  
  • c) Debt collector
    •  
  • d) Law clerk

26. How old is Leopold Bloom?

     
  • a) Twenty-eight
    •  
  • b) Thirty-three
    •  
  • c) Thirty-eight
    •  
  • d) Forty-three

27. How did Bloom's father die?

     
  • a) Suicide
    •  
  • b) Killed by his wife
    •  
  • c) Liver failure
    •  
  • d) Drowning

28. Where was Molly Bloom raised?

     
  • a) Paris
    •  
  • b) New York
    •  
  • c) Gibraltar
    •  
  • d) Sydney

29. How old is Stephen Dedalus?

     
  • a) Seventeen
    •  
  • b) 22
    •  
  • c) 27
    •  
  • d) 32

30. Whose ghost and memory haunt Stephen?

     
  • a) His sister's
    •  
  • b) His brother's
    •  
  • c) His mother's
    •  
  • d) His father's

31. On one basic level, Ulysses is about Bloom's search for a ___.

     
  • a) Son
    •  
  • b) Father
    •  
  • c) Daughter
    •  
  • d) Mother

32. What is the meaning of the religious term "agenbite of inwit" that comes to Stephen's mind repeatedly?

     
  • a) Fear of death
    •  
  • b) Remorse of conscience
    •  
  • c) Innocence of a child
    •  
  • d) Surety of purpose

33. What makes Bloom extraordinary?

     
  • a) His singing ability
    •  
  • b) His literary wit
    •  
  • c) His capacity for sympathy
    •  
  • d) His sense of timing

34. When Bloom returns home at the end of his day, he finds crumbs of what food?

     
  • a) Brown bread
    •  
  • b) Potted meat
    •  
  • c) Goat cheese
    •  
  • d) Dried herring

35. Stephen wears a ___ that is associated with the student district of Paris.

     
  • a) Jacket
    •  
  • b) Scarf
    •  
  • c) Ring
    •  
  • d) Hat

36. Stephen was awakened in the night because Haines was having a nightmare about ___.

     
  • a) A strange feast
    •  
  • b) A vast desert
    •  
  • d) A black panther
    •  
  • d) A storm of ice

37. What does Buck call the sea?

     
  • a) Widowmaker
    •  
  • b) Great mother
    •  
  • c) Silent witness
    •  
  • d) Ireland's bully

38. Moths ago, Stephen heard Buch referring to Stephen's mother as ___.

     
  • a) Ungenerously spirited
    •  
  • b) Mentally starved
    •  
  • c) Fantastically stupid
    •  
  • d) Beastly dead

39. When Haines speaks ___ to the milk woman, she thinks he's speaking French.

     
  • a) Irish
    •  
  • b) Greek
    •  
  • c) Italian
    •  
  • d) Latin

40. What does Stephen claim are the two masters that stand in the way of his free-thinking?

     
  • a) His mother and father
    •  
  • b) Time and fear
    •  
  • c) England and the Catholic Church
    •  
  • d) Drink and gambling

41. Stephen is teaching a class on which Greek figure?

     
  • a) Xenophon
    •  
  • b) Demosthenes
    •  
  • c) Lysicles
    •  
  • d) Pyrrhus

42. Stephen tells his students about a fox burying ___ under a bush.

     
  • a) A hedgehog
    •  
  • b) Gold coins
    •  
  • c) His grandmother
    •  
  • d) A bible

43. Deasy remarks that ___ greatest pride is the ability to claim he has paid his own way and owes nothing.

     
  • a) A Frenchman's
    •  
  • b) An Englishman's
    •  
  • c) A Scotsman's
    •  
  • d) An Irishman's

44. Who does Deasy seem to blame for the corruption and destruction of national economies?

     
  • a) Jews
    •  
  • b) Industrialists
    •  
  • c) The Pope
    •  
  • d) Immigrants

45. Stephen proposes that God is nothing more than a ___.

     
  • a) Childhood comfort
    •  
  • b) Shout in the street
    •  
  • c) Abusive father
    •  
  • d) Name for uncertainty

46. When Stephen notices Mrs. Florence MacCabe and another woman, what does he imagine one of them has in her bag?

     
  • a) A talking bird
    •  
  • b) A miscarried fetus
    •  
  • c) A wooden foot
    •  
  • d) A dog's head

47. Stephen's father is disgusted with his sister Sara's ___.

     
  • a) Husband
    •  
  • b) Cooking
    •  
  • c) Children
    •  
  • d) Housekeeping

48. Stephen's disgust for his family brings which writer to his mind?

     
  • a) W.B Yeats
    •  
  • b) Oscar Wilde
    •  
  • c) George Bernard Shaw
    •  
  • d) Jonathan Swift

49. While Stephen is sitting on a rock by the beach, he sees the carcass of a ___.

     
  • a) Dog
    •  
  • b) Whale
    •  
  • c) Homeless man
    •  
  • d) Horse

50. The night before the novel, Stephen dreamed that a man holding a ___ was leading Stephen on a red carpet.

     
  • a) Wine bottle
    •  
  • b) Mask
    •  
  • c) Melon
    •  
  • d) Scepter

51. When Leopold Bloom gets up in the morning and fixes breakfast, what does he ponder?

     
  • a) A cat
    •  
  • b) A dog
    •  
  • c) A crab
    •  
  • d) A sparrow

52. Bloom carries a lucky ___ with him.

     
  • a) Potato
    •  
  • b) Rabbit's foot
    •  
  • c) Crucifix
    •  
  • d) Whiskey flask

53. What does Bloom purchase at the butcher's shop?

     
  • a) Liver
    •  
  • b) Heart
    •  
  • c) Kidney
    •  
  • d) Tongue

54. What word does Molly ask Bloom about?

     
  • a) Synecdoche
    •  
  • b) Onomatopoeia
    •  
  • c) Diachronic
    •  
  • d) Metempsychosis

55. What magazine does Bloom take to the outhouse with him?

     
  • a) Fortnight
    •  
  • b) Titbits
    •  
  • c) Chit Chat
    •  
  • d) Lad's Week

56. What is Bloom's pseudonym for writing letters to his erotic pen pal?

     
  • a) Henry Flower
    •  
  • b) Thomas Gates
    •  
  • c) Richard Long
    •  
  • d) Jonathan Shore

57. When Bloom opens his letter, who accosts him before he has a chance to read it?

     
  • a) Lyons
    •  
  • b) Hornblower
    •  
  • c) McCoy
    •  
  • d) Molly

58. Who is Bloom's erotic pen pal?

     
  • a) Josie Breen
    •  
  • b) Cissy Caffrey
    •  
  • c) Gerty MacDowell
    •  
  • d) Martha Clifford

59. Bloom wonders why priests don't use ___ to wash out the wine chalice used in communion.

     
  • a) Wine
    •  
  • b) Seawater
    •  
  • c) Guinness
    •  
  • d) Milk

60. As Bloom is leaving the chemist's shop, who does he run into?

     
  • a) Best
    •  
  • b) Lyons
    •  
  • c) Deasy
    •  
  • d) Egan

61. Bloom wonders why there are no tramlines specifically for ___.

     
  • a) Women
    •  
  • b) Cattle
    •  
  • c) Children
    •  
  • d) Dogs

62. Who is the moneylender that the men curse as they pass him in their carriage?

     
  • a) Corny Kelleher
    •  
  • b) Ruben Dodd
    •  
  • c) Thomas W. Lyster
    •  
  • d) Hugh Boylan

63. What does Jack power believe is the worst death?

     
  • a) Suicide
    •  
  • b) Drowning
    •  
  • c) Burning
    •  
  • d) Murder

64. How does Bloom think it would be more efficient to bury bodies?

     
  • a) In pieces
    •  
  • b) Six to a grave
    •  
  • c) Without coffins
    •  
  • d) Vertically

65. What does Bloom think would prevent the horror of being buried alive?

     
  • a) Bells tied to corpses
    •  
  • b) Autopsies
    •  
  • c) Telephones in coffins
    •  
  • d) Cremation

66. What is the name of the newspaper that Bloom visits?

     
  • a) The Independent
    •  
  • b) The National
    •  
  • c) The Freeman
    •  
  • d) The Watch

67. Who is the print foreman at the newspaper?

     
  • a) Malachi Mulligan
    •  
  • b) City Councilor Nanetti
    •  
  • c) Patrick Dignam
    •  
  • d) John Henry Menton

68. MacHugh argues that the ___ and the Irish are similar because they were dominated by spiritually inferior cultures.

     
  • a) Vikings
    •  
  • b) Romans
    •  
  • c) Egyptians
    •  
  • d) Greeks

69. What was the name of the group that claimed responsibility for the murder of a British chief secretary and under-secretary?

     
  • a) The Tyrants
    •  
  • b) The Quiet Few
    •  
  • c) The Invincibles
    •  
  • d) The People's Army

70. As the men are leaving the newspaper, who holds Crawford behind to ask him for a loan, which he doesn't get?

     
  • a) O'Molloy
    •  
  • b) Lenehan
    •  
  • c) Lambert
    •  
  • d) Hynes

71. What does Bloom see on a flyer that he momentarily mistakes for his own name?

     
  • a) "Bathroom"
    •  
  • b) "Land boom"
    •  
  • c) "Legendary Barroom"
    •  
  • d) "Blood of the Lamb"

72. What was written on the cryptic note card that Mr. Breen received in the morning?

     
  • a) U.p:up
    •  
  • b) HyPnOs
    •  
  • c) [{()}]
    •  
  • d) UNvvvER

73. What about the Burton restaurant immediately disgusts Bloom?

     
  • a) A dead rat
    •  
  • b) The un-cleared dirty dishes
    •  
  • c) The boiled cabbage smell
    •  
  • d) Ill-mannered men eating

74. What does Bloom vow to do to the statues of goddesses at the National Museum later in the day?

     
  • a) Pray to them
    •  
  • b) Write poems about them
    •  
  • c) Look up their robes
    •  
  • d) Moon them

75. Who does Bloom see that causes him to duck hastily into the gates of the National Museum?

     
  • a) Molly
    •  
  • b) Boylan
    •  
  • c) Simon Dedalus
    •  
  • d) Father John Conmee

76. Stephen has a theory that in the play Hamlet, Shakespeare did not associate himself with Hamlet, but with ___ instead.

     
  • a) Polonius
    •  
  • b) Hamlet's father
    •  
  • c) Claudius
    •  
  • d) Laertes

77. Who is a librarian at the National Library?

     
  • a) Mr. Best
    •  
  • b) John Eglinton
    •  
  • c) Ned Lambert
    •  
  • d) Ben Dollard

78. Stephen is resentful not to be included in the ___ that A.E. is setting up among his social circle.

     
  • a) Hunting club
    •  
  • b) Dinner plans
    •  
  • c) Poetry collection
    •  
  • d) Public reading

79. Who is the library patron who has come to look for the Kilkenny People?

     
  • a) Bloom
    •  
  • b) Lyster
    •  
  • c) Haines
    •  
  • d) Buck

80. Stephen believes that Shakespeare's wife cheated on Shakespeare with:

     
  • a) A duke
    •  
  • b) A rival playwright
    •  
  • c) Another woman
    •  
  • d) His brothers

81. Who travels to a suburban school to try to get Patrick Dignam's son admitted for free?

     
  • a) Sir Andrew Horne
    •  
  • b) City Councilor Nanetti
    •  
  • c) John Henry Menton
    •  
  • d) Father John Conmee

82. Who throws a coin out of a window to a one-legged sailor?

     
  • a) Stephen
    •  
  • b) Molly
    •  
  • c) Bloom
    •  
  • d) Mulligan

83. Almidano Artifoni is Stephen's ___.

     
  • a) French roommate
    •  
  • b) Swimming instructor
    •  
  • c) Voice teacher
    •  
  • d) Fencing partner

84. What. does Tom Rochford's new invention do?

     
  • a) Splits bar tabs
    •  
  • b) Caches stray cats
    •  
  • c) Tracks horse-race betting
    •  
  • d) Turns newspapers into mulch

85. What book does Bloom buy for Molly?

     
  • a) Sweets of Sin
    •  
  • b) The Island of Night
    •  
  • c) Among the Pharaohs
    •  
  • d) Sunshine Blooms

86. Lydia Douce and Mina Kennedy are barmaids at what hotel?

     
  • a) Ormond
    •  
  • b) The Mercantile
    •  
  • c) Devonshire
    •  
  • d) The Wayrest

87. At the hotel bar, Simon Dedalus is encouraged to sing a tenor's song from what opera?

     
  • a) Rob-Roy
    •  
  • b) Martha
    •  
  • c) Sérafine
    •  
  • d) Alice

88. Bloom thinks that Simon Dedalus's vocal talent is wasted by ___.

     
  • a) Smoking
    •  
  • b) Age
    •  
  • c) Drinking
    •  
  • d) Disuse

89. This song "The Croppy Boy" is about a young Irish rebel who is tricked by a British man disguised as a ___.

     
  • a) Girl
    •  
  • b) Sheep
    •  
  • c) Nobleman
    •  
  • d) Priest

90. What phallic object does Bloom watch Miss Douce run her hand around?

     
  • a) A beer pull
    •  
  • b) A wine bottle
    •  
  • c) A billiards cue
    •  
  • d) A door handle

91. What is the name of the citizen's dog?

     
  • a) Dinsmore
    •  
  • b) Eamon
    •  
  • c) Flannery
    •  
  • d) Garryowen

92. When the citizen notices Bloom pacing outside the bar, he refers to him as a ___.

     
  • a) Freemason
    •  
  • b) Shriner
    •  
  • c) Illuminati
    •  
  • d) Rosicrucian

93. The Unnamed Narrator of Episode Twelve is bitter that ___ will not by rounds of drinks.

     
  • a) Cunningham
    •  
  • b) The citizen
    •  
  • c) Power
    •  
  • d) Bloom

94. Which horse wins the Gold Cup race?

     
  • a) Ladylike
    •  
  • b) Throwaway
    •  
  • c) Dirge
    •  
  • d) Scep

95. A biblical passage at the end of Episode Twelve compares Bloom to which biblical figure?

     
  • a) Moses
    •  
  • b) Noah
    •  
  • c) Joshua
    •  
  • d) Elisha

96. What is the name of the church where the men's temperance retreat is held?

     
  • a) Star of the Sea
    •  
  • b) Land's End
    •  
  • c) Chapel Among the Waves
    •  
  • d) West Watch

97. When Gertie first sees Bloom, what does she fantasize that he might be?

     
  • a) A mourning foreigner
    •  
  • b) A disgraced nobleman
    •  
  • c) An escaped convict
    •  
  • d) A wealthy philosopher

98. When Cissy asks Bloom for the time, why doesn't he tell her?

     
  • a) He's fallen asleep
    •  
  • b) He's lost his watch
    •  
  • c) He's ignoring her
    •  
  • d) His watch has stopped

99. Bloom feels shock and pity when he realizes that Gertie is ___.

     
  • a) Pregnant
    •  
  • b) Lame in one foot
    •  
  • c) Blind
    •  
  • d) Missing her left hand

100. When Bloom starts to write a message in the sand to Gertie, what does he write before he gives up?

     
  • a) WHO DO YOU
    •  
  • b) MY NAME IS
    •  
  • c) I AM A
    •  
  • d) DO YOU WANT

101. Who runs the Holles Street maternity hospital?

     
  • a) Nurse Callan
    •  
  • b) Sir Andrew Horne
    •  
  • c) The Sisters of Mercy
    •  
  • d) John Henry Menton

102. Who has Bloom come to check on at the maternity hospital?

     
  • a) Mrs. Purefoy
    •  
  • b) Millie
    •  
  • c) Mina Kennedy
    •  
  • d) Lydia Douce

103. Stephen is truly frightened by a ___ that he interprets as evidence of God's anger.

     
  • a) Dropped bedpan
    •  
  • b) Thunderclap
    •  
  • c) Screaming hospital patient
    •  
  • d) Gust of cold wind

104. Who does Bloom remember as a child, exchanging reproachful glances with his mother?

     
  • a) Crotthers
    •  
  • b) Costello
    •  
  • c) Lenehan
    •  
  • d) Stephen

105. Who buys the first round at Burke's?

     
  • a) Bloom
    •  
  • b) Dixon
    •  
  • c) Stephen
    •  
  • d) Bannon

106. What is Dublin's red-light district called?

     
  • a) The Chase
    •  
  • b) Ladies Way
    •  
  • c) Nighttown
    •  
  • d) Stick Alley

107. In one of Bloom's hallucinatory visions, he is coronated as the leader of what new city?

     
  • a) Bloomusalem
    •  
  • b) Bloomopolis
    •  
  • c) Bloomburg
    •  
  • d) Bloomtown

108. Who leads Bloom inside Bella Cohen's brothel?

     
  • a) Florry
    •  
  • b) Kitty
    •  
  • c) Zoe
    •  
  • d) Birdie

109. When Zoe reads Bloom's palm, what does she declare him to be?

     
  • a) An underappreciated wit
    •  
  • b) A henpecked husband
    •  
  • c) A doomed soul
    •  
  • d) A below-average lover

110. Who does British Army Private Carr knock out?

     
  • a) Corny
    •  
  • b) Bloom
    •  
  • c) Lynch
    •  
  • d) Stephen

111. Who does Stephen half-seriously advise to apply for Stephen's soon-to-be-vacant post at Deasy's school?

     
  • a) Kelly
    •  
  • b) Murphy
    •  
  • c) Gumley
    •  
  • d) Corley

112. The crabman's shelter is rumored to be owned by ___ Fitzharris.

     
  • a) Skin-the-Goat
    •  
  • b) Drink-the-Blood
    •  
  • c) Fire-the-Cannon
    •  
  • d) Drown-the-Rat

113. A sailor at the crabman's shelter describes seeing an ___ knife a man in the back.

     
  • a) Australian
    •  
  • b) Italian
    •  
  • c) American
    •  
  • d) Egyptian

114. In the newspaper article about the funeral, how is Bloom's name misspelled?

     
  • a) Broom
    •  
  • b) Boom
    •  
  • c) Bloon
    •  
  • d) Bluhm

115. After they leave the crabman's shelter, Stephen and Bloom are watched by a ___ as they walk arm in arm into the night.

     
  • a) Beggar
    •  
  • b) Night watchman
    •  
  • c) Street sweeper
    •  
  • d) Burglar

116. When he arrives home, Bloom is frustrated to find that he is forgotten what?

     
  • a) His hat
    •  
  • b) His wallet
    •  
  • c) His newspaper
    •  
  • d) His key

117. Who is a hydrophobe?

     
  • a) Simon Dedalus
    •  
  • b) Bloom
    •  
  • c) Molly
    •  
  • d) Stephen

118. When Stephen and Bloom retire to Bloom's house, what do they drink in silence?

     
  • a) Cocoa
    •  
  • b) Bourbon
    •  
  • c) Wine
    •  
  • d) Tea

119. What do Stephen and Bloom do in the yard together while looking at the night sky?

     
  • a) Sing
    •  
  • b) Compose poetry
    •  
  • c) Urinate
    •  
  • d) Point out constellations

120. How long has it been since Bloom and Molly have had sexual intercourse?

     
  • a) Over 10 days
    •  
  • b) Over 10 weeks
    •  
  • c) Over 10 months
    •  
  • d) Over 10 yrs

121. Molly is surprised and annoyed that Bloom has asked her to ___.

     
  • a) Wash the bedding
    •  
  • b) Bring his newspaper
    •  
  • c) Serve breakfast in bed
    •  
  • d) Weed the yard

122. Where are Molly and Boylan planning to take a trip together?

     
  • a) Belfast
    •  
  • b) London
    •  
  • c) Edinburgh
    •  
  • d) Galway

123. Who was Molly's first love letter from?

     
  • a) Bloom
    •  
  • b) Lieutenant Mulvey
    •  
  • c) Boylan
    •  
  • d) Wogger Stanhope

124. Molly plans to read and study so that ___will not think her stupid.

     
  • a) Bloom
    •  
  • b) Stephen
    •  
  • c) Boylan
    •  
  • d) Mulligan

125. The novel ends with Molly fondly remembering ___.

     
  • a) Her first kiss
    •  
  • b) Her musical training
    •  
  • c) Her afternoon affair
    •  
  • d) Her marriage proposal

126. At the graveside where Paddy Dignam is to be buried, the mysterious man in a Macintosh coat turns out to be

     
  • a) a distant relative of Dignam
    •  
  • b) a former lover of Molly Bloom
    •  
  • c) an insurance salesman
    •  
  • d) unidentified throughout the entire novel

127. Bloom is unable to eat lunch at the Burton Hotel dining room because

     
  • a) he gets into an argument with another patron
    •  
  • b) he is disgusted by the eating habits of the patrons
    •  
  • c) he is refused service by an anti-Semitic waiter
    •  
  • d) the food is non-Kosher

128. Buck Mulligan’s aunt forbid him to remain Stephen’s friend because

     
  • a) like Bloom, Stephen is part Jewish
    •  
  • b) Stephen comes from a low-class family
    •  
  • c) Stephen drinks too much
    •  
  • d) Stephen refused to pray at his dying mother’s bedside

129. In the “Hades” section, Bloom is portrayed as in the “Hades” section, Bloom is portrayed as

     
  • a) a devoted friend of the deceased Dignam
    •  
  • b) a man respected for his scientific interests
    •  
  • c) a shrewd financial speculator
    •  
  • d) a total outsider

130. In the “Scylla and Charybdis” segment, Joyce makes it clear that Stephen is

     
  • a) accepted by the literary figures only because of Buck Mulligan’s influence
    •  
  • b) as much of an outsider in Dublin as Bloom is
    •  
  • c) resented because of his brutal honesty
    •  
  • d) well thought of by the Irish Literary Renaissance movement

131. Ulysses is essentially a(n)

     
  • a) anti-English diatribe
    •  
  • b) comic novel
    •  
  • c) philosophical investigation
    •  
  • d) tribute to Irish literarure

132. Stephen considers his explication of Shakespeare, given in the National Library, to be

     
  • a) a covert indictment of Irish nationalism
    •  
  • b) a result of considerable thought and research
    •  
  • c) his key to getting a better teaching job
    •  
  • d) mere performance

133. Stephen’s distaste for the headmaster, Garrett Deasey, is in large part because Deasey

     
  • a) cannot speak Latin
    •  
  • b) gets his facts all wrong
    •  
  • c) speaks with a lisp
    •  
  • d) takes the British position on all matters

134. The design of Ulysses suggests a connection between Stephen’s headmaster, Mr. Deasey, and what character from The Iliad?

     
  • a) Achilles
    •  
  • b) Hector
    •  
  • c) King Priam
    •  
  • d) Nestor

135. The narrative tone of Ulysses is best described as

     
  • a) academic
    •  
  • b) mock heroic
    •  
  • c) operatic
    •  
  • d) reverential

136. The students in Stephen’s class

     
  • a) are excellent Latin scholars
    •  
  • b) are impatient to learn about Pyrrhus
    •  
  • c) working to win scholarships
    •  
  • d) would rather listen to riddles and jokes

137. To emphasize Stephen’s inward turnings, Joyce withholds which vital bit of information about Stephen until late in the novel?

     
  • a) Stephen broke his glasses the day before Ulysses begins
    •  
  • b) Stephen has been studying Oriental philosophies
    •  
  • c) Stephen has resumed his earlier religious beliefs
    •  
  • d) Stephen is left-handed

138. When Bloom meets Mrs. Breen, she tells him

     
  • a) about her desire to open a dress shop
    •  
  • b) her husband has gone half mad
    •  
  • c) she wants Bloom to do her a great favor
    •  
  • d) she wants to meet him alone in private

139. Who said the following: “He is going to write something in ten years.”

     
  • a) Blazes Boylan
    •  
  • b) Buck Mulligan
    •  
  • c) Father Conmee
    •  
  • d) Stephen Dedalus

140. Who said the following: “O greasy eyes! Imagine being married to a man like that. . . .”

     
  • a) Lydia Douce
    •  
  • b) Martha Clifford
    •  
  • c) Mina Purefoy
    •  
  • d) Molly Bloom

141. Joyce’s novel ’Ulysses’ takes place over what period of time?

     
  • a) A week
    •  
  • b) 24 hours
    •  
  • c) A lifetime
    •  
  • d) 6 months

142. Who says “history is like a nightmare from which I must awake”?

     
  • a) Leopold Bloom
    •  
  • b) Little Chandler
    •  
  • c) Joe Donnelly
    •  
  • d) Stephen Dedalus

143. Which character says “wasn’t she the downright villain to go and do a thing like that”?

     
  • a) Molly Bloom
    •  
  • b) Mrs. Mooney
    •  
  • c) Mrs. Sinico
    •  
  • d) Gerty MacDowell

144. Which best describes Bloom’s attitude towards nationalism?

     
  • a) he is deeply invested in the nationalist cause
    •  
  • b) he hopes to join the IRB
    •  
  • c) he is disinterested in nationalism
    •  
  • d) he is opposed to the nationalist cause

145. In Ulysses, with which mythical character does Stephen best correspond?

     
  • a) Odysseus
    •  
  • b) Telemachus
    •  
  • c) Nestor
    •  
  • d) Nausicaa

146. In Ulysses, which experimental technique(s) does Joyce use?

     
  • a) puns
    •  
  • b) parodies
    •  
  • c) unconventional syntax
    •  
  • d) All

147. In Ulysses, which character best exemplifies anti-Semitism?

     
  • a) Leopold Bloom
    •  
  • b) Mr. Deasy
    •  
  • c) Gabriel Conroy
    •  
  • d) Molly Ivors

148. In Ulysses, to what does Bloom often compare life?

     
  • a) a newspaper
    •  
  • b) a stream
    •  
  • c) a law
    •  
  • d) a book

149. How does Joyce parallel Leopold and Stephen?

     
  • a) both are mature
    •  
  • b) both tend to be cheerful
    •  
  • c) both are artists
    •  
  • d) both dislike music

150. Who says “forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race?

     
  • a) Leopold Bloom
    •  
  • b) Molly Bloom
    •  
  • c) Gabriel Conroy
    •  
  • d) Stephen Dedalus

151. In Ulysses, Joyce retells which ancient story?

     
  • a) Homer’s The Iliad
    •  
  • b) Homer’s The Odyssey
    •  
  • c) Virgil’s The Aeneid
    •  
  • d) Sophocles’s Antigone

152. James Joyce’s famous novel_____________?

     
  • a) Roots
    •  
  • b) Ulysses
    •  
  • c) Tom Jones
    •  
  • d) Rebecca

James Joyce's Ulysses was published in:

     
  • a) 1916
    •  
  • b) 1922
    •  
  • c) 1926
    •  
  • d) 19

Chapter 65: DUBLINERS

1. In “Araby” the narrator travels to where at the end of the story?

     
  • a) Arabia
    •  
  • b) Buenos Aires
    •  
  • c) Nowhere—he stays at home
    •  
  • d) A bazaar held in Dublin

2. According to the newspaper article in the story, what causes Mrs. Sinico’s death in “A Painful Case”?

     
  • a) Old age
    •  
  • b) Shock or heart failure
    •  
  • c) Mr. Duffy’s political theories
    •  
  • d) A train accident

3. Which Irish national figure is celebrated in “Ivy Day in the Committee Room”?

     
  • a) James Joyce
    •  
  • b) Bono
    •  
  • c) Charles Stuart Parnell
    •  
  • d) Leopold Bloom

4. What does Maria lose in “Clay”?

     
  • a) Her train ticket
    •  
  • b) A plum cake
    •  
  • c) A bundle of clay for Halloween games
    •  
  • d) Her memory

5. Who narrates “An Encounter”?

     
  • a) A boy named Mangan
    •  
  • b) Father Flynn
    •  
  • c) A strange, anonymous man
    •  
  • d) An unnamed young boy

6. In “A Little Cloud,” what does Little Chandler dream about becoming?

     
  • a) A poet
    •  
  • b) A newspaper reporter in London
    •  
  • c) A legal copier
    •  
  • d) A weather forecaster

7. In “The Sisters,” what does Father Flynn hold in his hands?

     
  • a) Sherry and biscuits
    •  
  • b) A bouquet of ivy
    •  
  • c) A chalice
    •  
  • d) Nothing

8. What does the narrator liken Eveline to when she freezes on the docks in “Eveline”?

     
  • a) A paralyzed priest
    •  
  • b) A helpless animal
    •  
  • c) An angry creature
    •  
  • d) A brown figure

9. Where is Charles Ségouin from in “After the Race”?

     
  • a) Just outside of Dublin
    •  
  • b) England
    •  
  • c) The west of Ireland
    •  
  • d) France

10. What does Corley procure from his date in “Two Gallants”?

     
  • a) A gold coin
    •  
  • b) A harp
    •  
  • c) Fancy cigars
    •  
  • d) Food

11. What does Miss Ivors call Gabriel when they dance together in “The Dead”?

     
  • a) A poor dancer
    •  
  • b) A loyal Irishman
    •  
  • c) A West Briton
    •  
  • d) A good writer

12. Where does Tom Kernan fall in “Grace”?

     
  • a) At church
    •  
  • b) From a carriage
    •  
  • c) From his bed
    •  
  • d) Down the stairs at a pub

13. What captures Gretta’s attention while the other guests leave the Morkan party in “The Dead”?

     
  • a) Her husband
    •  
  • b) The snow
    •  
  • c) Freddy Malins
    •  
  • d) A song

14. Who is referred to as “The Madam” in “The Boarding House”?

     
  • a) Mrs. Kearney
    •  
  • b) Mrs. Mooney
    •  
  • c) Kate Morkan
    •  
  • d) Mangan’s sister

15. What does Maria do at the end of “Clay” that makes Joe Donnelly cry?

     
  • a) She sings a song
    •  
  • b) She chooses the plate of clay in the game
    •  
  • c) She talks about his brother
    •  
  • d) She loses the corkscrew

16. What does Farrington do when he returns home in “Counterparts”?

     
  • a) He prepares dinner for his wife
    •  
  • b) He prays the “Hail Mary”
    •  
  • c) He beats his son
    •  
  • d) He puts out the fire

17. In “A Painful Case,” what does Mr. Duffy see in the park by his house?

     
  • a) The ghost of Mrs. Sinico
    •  
  • b) A newspaper
    •  
  • c) Two lovers
    •  
  • d) A strange old man

18. In “A Mother,” why does Mrs. Kearney storm out of the final concert with her daughter when it is only halfway through?

     
  • a) She was offended by the nudity
    •  
  • b) The piano was out of tune
    •  
  • c) The audience booed
    •  
  • d) The organizers refused to pay the full fee they’d agreed on

19. Why does Farrington’s boss yell at him at the beginning of “Counterparts”?

     
  • a) He sneaked out of the office to drink a beer
    •  
  • b) He failed to complete a copying assignment
    •  
  • c) He pawned his boss’s watch
    •  
  • d) He insulted a client

20. What does Gabriel look at outside of his hotel window in “The Dead”?

     
  • a) Snow
    •  
  • b) A graveyard
    •  
  • c) Children playing a game
    •  
  • d) Traffic

21. What does Gabriel do in “The Dead” that no one else does during the party meal?

     
  • a) Eats
    •  
  • b) Delivers a speech
    •  
  • c) Gets drunk
    •  
  • d) Tells a story about his childhood

22. What is one of the words that the boy of “The Sisters” thinks of when he looks through Father Flynn’s window?

     
  • a) Begorrah
    •  
  • b) Corpse
    •  
  • c) Chalice
    •  
  • d) Paralysis

23. What sound in “Eveline” suddenly makes Eveline determined to escape her domestic life?

     
  • a) A ship horn
    •  
  • b) The voice of Frank
    •  
  • c) A street organ
    •  
  • d) The voice of her father

24. How does Jimmy Doyle spend all of his money with his friends in “After the Race”?

     
  • a) Betting on car racing
    •  
  • b) Playing cards
    •  
  • c) Arm wrestling
    •  
  • d) Treating his friends to drinks

25. In “A Mother,” what does Mrs. Kearney insist her daughter learn, in addition to piano?

     
  • a) The Irish language
    •  
  • b) The street map of Dublin
    •  
  • c) Contract law
    •  
  • d) Irish dance

26. When was James Joyce born?

     
  • a) 1862
    •  
  • b) 1882
    •  
  • c) 1902
    •  
  • d) 1922

27. When Joyce moved to Paris after graduating college, what career was he planning to pursue?

     
  • a) Law
    •  
  • b) Shipping
    •  
  • c) Medicine
    •  
  • d) Accounting

28. Joyce's books Ulysses and Finnegan's Wake represent what signature style found in Joyce's later writing?

     
  • a) Short, direct sentences structures
    •  
  • b) Magical realism
    •  
  • c) Epistolary frame stories
    •  
  • d) Stream-of-consciousness prose

29. What ruined the success of the nationalist Charles Stewart Parnell, the so-called Uncrowned King of Ireland?

     
  • a) Alcoholism
    •  
  • b) A gambling addiction
    •  
  • c) An adulterous affair
    •  
  • d) Lack of intelligence

30. The events in the fifteen portraits of life in The Dubliners are varied, but all share the quality of being ___.

     
  • a) Intensely personal
    •  
  • b) Existentially profound
    •  
  • c) Generally uplifting
    •  
  • d) Unusually strange

31. Which story shares the name of its protagonist?

     
  • a) Eveline
    •  
  • b) Grace
    •  
  • c) Araby
    •  
  • d) Clay

32. Which story centers on the death of a priest?

     
  • a) Eveline
    •  
  • b) The Sisters
    •  
  • c) Grace
    •  
  • d) The Dead

33. Which story has a political setting?

     
  • a) Eveline
    •  
  • b) The Sisters
    •  
  • c) A Painful Case
    •  
  • d) Ivy Day in the Committee Room

34. Which story takes place at a party?

     
  • a) "A Painful Case"
    •  
  • b) "A Little Cloud"
    •  
  • c) "An Encounter"
    •  
  • d) "The Dead"

35. Which story centers on a young woman planning to elope with her lover?

     
  • a) "Eveline"
    •  
  • b) "Two Gallants"
    •  
  • c) "A Painful Case"
    •  
  • d) "Grace"

36. Who is Mr. Doran's lover in "The Boarding House"?

     
  • a) Polly
    •  
  • b) Eveline
    •  
  • c) Maria
    •  
  • d) Lily

37. Who reads the poem about Parnell in "Ivy Day in the Committee Room"?

     
  • a) John Henchy
    •  
  • b) Joe Hynes
    •  
  • c) Tom Kernan
    •  
  • d) Jack Power

38. Which two characters are con men?

     
  • a) Lenehan and Corley
    •  
  • b) Gallaher and Little Chandler
    •  
  • c) Hynes and Henchy
    •  
  • d) Gabriel and Gretta Conroy

39. In "A Painful Case," who does Mr. Duffy regret shunning?

     
  • a) Molly Ivors
    •  
  • b) Mrs. Kearney
    •  
  • c) Mrs. Sinico
    •  
  • d) Mrs. Mooney

40. Who is the antagonist of "Counterparts," who exacerbates the main character's rage?

     
  • a) Mr. Power
    •  
  • b) Mr. Doran
    •  
  • c) Mr. Holohan
    •  
  • d) Mr. Alleyne

41. Who is the only character in Dubliners to voice his unhappiness at living in Ireland?

     
  • a) Gabriel Conroy
    •  
  • b) Eveline
    •  
  • c) Farrington
    •  
  • d) Mr. Doran

42. In "Eveline," Eveline is a character whose choices are driven by ___.

     
  • a) Desire to be happy
    •  
  • b) Ambition
    •  
  • c) Selfishness
    •  
  • d) Fear of the unknown

43. Which of Farrington's traits set him apart from other Dubliners characters?

     
  • a) His explosive, violent rage
    •  
  • b) His desire for happiness
    •  
  • c) His regretted marriage
    •  
  • d) His loneliness

44. Which character is so driven by a need for routine that he sacrifices love for familiarity?

     
  • a) Farrington
    •  
  • b) Mr. Duffy
    •  
  • c) Mr. Doran
    •  
  • d) John Henchy

45. The narrator of "Araby" is caught on the threshold between ___ and ___.

     
  • a) Wealth/poverty
    •  
  • b) Love/hate
    •  
  • c) Childhood/adulthood
    •  
  • d) Good/evil

46. The characters in Dubliners are often depicted as being entrapped by ___.

     
  • a) The government
    •  
  • b) Routine
    •  
  • c) Poverty
    •  
  • d) Social mores

47. What is the great, unrealized yearning of most character in Dubliners?

     
  • a) To escape unhappiness
    •  
  • b) To make money
    •  
  • c) To commit crimes
    •  
  • d) To fall in love

48. "The Sisters" and "The Dead" bookend the collection of stories in Dubliners, emphasizing the intersection of ___ and ___.

     
  • a) Good/evil
    •  
  • b) Wealth/poverty
    •  
  • c) Life/death
    •  
  • d) Crime/punishment

49. The Dublin depicted in Dubliners is defined by what characteristic?

     
  • a) Rain
    •  
  • b) Darkness
    •  
  • c) Sunlight
    •  
  • d) Snow

50. What object often appears in Dubliners as a symbol of both anticipation and reflection?

     
  • a) A mirror
    •  
  • b) A fallow field
    •  
  • c) A confessional booth
    •  
  • d) A window

51. At the start of "The Sisters," what is the protagonist watching for that will indicate Father Flynn's death?

     
  • a) A black shroud
    •  
  • b) A black flag
    •  
  • c) Candlelight
    •  
  • d) White smoke

52. What word does the protagonist of "The Sisters" think of every time he passes Father Flynn's house?

     
  • a) Metamorphosis
    •  
  • b) Paralysis
    •  
  • c) Confession
    •  
  • d) Necrosis

53. According to Eliza's recollection in "The Sisters", which action marked the beginning of Father Flynn's odd behavior?

     
  • a) Dropping a chalice
    •  
  • b) Throwing a bible
    •  
  • c) Breaking a window
    •  
  • d) Developing stigmatic wounds

54. Which character in "The Sisters" describes Father Flynn as "a peculiar case"?

     
  • a) the protagonist
    •  
  • b) Father O'Rourke
    •  
  • c) Nannie
    •  
  • d) Old Cotter

55. In "The Sisters," who kneels beside the protagonist at the priest's open coffin?

     
  • a) Nannie
    •  
  • b) Eliza
    •  
  • c) Father O'Rourke
    •  
  • d) Old Cotte

56. In "An Encounter," what do the boys surreptitiously bring to school to share with each other?

     
  • a) Liquor
    •  
  • b) Adventure magazines
    •  
  • c) Photography
    •  
  • d) Tobacco

57. In "An Encounter," what is The Pigeon House?

     
  • a) A bird sanctuary
    •  
  • b) A power station
    •  
  • c) A pub
    •  
  • d) A brothel

58. When the narrator of "An Encounter" walks through North Dublin, he and Mahony are insulted by boys who think they're ___.

     
  • a) Protestants
    •  
  • b) Catholics
    •  
  • c) Thieves
    •  
  • d) Sinners

59. In "An Encounter," the old man who approaches the narrator and his friend surprises them by asking if they have ___.

     
  • a) A match
    •  
  • b) A dollar
    •  
  • c) A map
    •  
  • d) Girlfriends

60. What fake name does the narrator of "An Encounter" use to call his friend at the end of the story?

     
  • a) McFadden
    •  
  • b) Mahoney
    •  
  • c) Murphy
    •  
  • d) McCann

61. Who died in the house where the narrator of "Araby" now lives?

     
  • a) A priest
    •  
  • b) A baby
    •  
  • c) A criminal
    •  
  • d) A family of 5

62. What is Araby?

     
  • a) A storefront
    •  
  • b) A city
    •  
  • c) A carnival
    •  
  • d) A bazaar

63. What does the narrator of "Araby" need from his uncle?

     
  • a) A map
    •  
  • b) A ride
    •  
  • c) Train fare
    •  
  • d) Permission to go out

64. In "Araby," what time is it when the narrator's uncle finally returns home?

     
  • a) 7pm
    •  
  • b) 8pm
    •  
  • c) 9pm
    •  
  • d) 10pm

65. What does the narrator of "Araby" buy for Mangan's sister at the end of the story?

     
  • a) A china horse
    •  
  • b) A bag of nuts
    •  
  • c) A tortoiseshell comb
    •  
  • d) Nothing

66. What is the profession of Eveline's lover?

     
  • a) Doctor
    •  
  • b) Lawyer
    •  
  • c) Sailor
    •  
  • d) Engineer

67. What is Eveline holding in her lap as she looks out the window at the start of "Eveline"?

     
  • a) Letters to her family
    •  
  • b) A white cat
    •  
  • c) A china horse
    •  
  • d) A bowl of soup

68. What sound does Eveline hear that reminds her of mother's death?

     
  • a) A pigeon cooing
    •  
  • b) A train whistle
    •  
  • d) A street organ
    •  
  • c) A breaking glass

69. What did Eveline promise to do before her mother's death?

     
  • a) Maintain the family home
    •  
  • b) Get an education
    •  
  • c) Marry a nice man
    •  
  • d) Poison her father's soup

70. How does Eveline intend to leave Dublin to elope with her lover?

     
  • a) By boat
    •  
  • b) By train
    •  
  • c) On foot
    •  
  • d) In a carriage

71. In "After the Race," where did Jimmy originally meet his friend Ségouin?

     
  • a) In America
    •  
  • b) In France
    •  
  • c) In Dublin
    •  
  • d) At Cambridge

72. What is the profession of Jimmy's father?

     
  • a) Butcher
    •  
  • b) Baker
    •  
  • d) Carpenter
    •  
  • c) Sailor

73. What topic nearly sparks an argument between Jimmy and Routh during dinner at Ségouin's hotel?

     
  • a) Marriage
    •  
  • b) Religion
    •  
  • c) Politics
    •  
  • d) Cars

74. In "After the Race," who plays the piano on Farley's yacht?

     
  • a) Farley
    •  
  • b) Villona
    •  
  • c) Jimmy
    •  
  • d) Ségouin

75. The men end the night by playing card game: who is the winner?

     
  • a) Farley
    •  
  • b) Villona
    •  
  • c) Routh
    •  
  • d) Jimmy

76. In "Two Gallants," how old is Lenehan?

     
  • a) 19
    •  
  • b) 25
    •  
  • c) 31
    •  
  • d) 38

77. In "Two Gallants," Corley wistfully recalls a former lover who is now ___.

     
  • a) Dead
    •  
  • b) Married to someone else
    •  
  • c) A wealthy widow
    •  
  • d) A prostitute

78. What is Corley's lady friend wearing when Lenehan first encounters her?

     
  • a) A boa
    •  
  • b) A silk scarf
    •  
  • c) A ballgown
    •  
  • d) A leather mask

79. What does Lenehan eat before his rendezvous with Corley?

     
  • a) Shepherd's pie
    •  
  • b) Fisherman's pie
    •  
  • c) Fish and chips
    •  
  • d) Peas and ginger beer

80. What object does Corley show Lenehan at the end of the story?

     
  • a) A silver cufflink
    •  
  • b) A gold coin
    •  
  • c) A brass paperweight
    •  
  • d) A china horse

81. In "The Boarding House," Mrs. Mooney is known by her lodgers as ___.

     
  • a) The Mistress
    •  
  • b) The Madame
    •  
  • c) The Empress
    •  
  • d) The Old Cow

82. What is Mr. Doran's occupation?

     
  • a) Clerk
    •  
  • b) Solicitor
    •  
  • c) Sailor
    •  
  • d) Musician

83. On what day does Mrs. Mooney speak with Mr. Doran about his relationship with Polly?

     
  • a) Sunday
    •  
  • b) Monday
    •  
  • c) Friday
    •  
  • d) Saturday

84. What does Mr. Doran do on the evening before his meeting with Mrs. Mooney?

     
  • a) Consider suicide
    •  
  • b) Flee the country
    •  
  • c) Write to his wife
    •  
  • d) Confess to a priest

85. What is Mrs. Mooney's desired outcome?

     
  • a) Reuniting with her husband
    •  
  • b) To see Polly married
    •  
  • c) To blackmail Mr. Doran
    •  
  • d) To leave Dublin

86. In "A Little Cloud," what is the occupation of Chandler's friend Gallaher?

     
  • a) Hunting guide in Kenya
    •  
  • b) Writing for English newspapers
    •  
  • c) Exploring the Arctic
    •  
  • d) Fashion designer in France

87. What did Chandler once love that he gave up when he got married?

     
  • a) Painting
    •  
  • b) Riding horses
    •  
  • c) Poetry
    •  
  • d) Baking

88. How many glasses of whiskey do Chandler and Gallaher consume during their meeting?

     
  • a) 2
    •  
  • b) 3
    •  
  • c) 4
    •  
  • d) 5

89. What does Chandler forget to bring home due to his excitement about seeing Gallaher?

     
  • a) Diapers
    •  
  • b) Milk
    •  
  • c) Eggs
    •  
  • d) Coffee

90. Who is the author whose work Chandler reads and is briefly inspired by?

     
  • a) Keats
    •  
  • b) Byron
    •  
  • c) Shelley
    •  
  • d) Bacon

91. What is Farrington's occupation in "Counterparts"?

     
  • a) Solicitor
    •  
  • b) Realtor
    •  
  • c) Copy clerk
    •  
  • d) Merchant

92. Who is Miss Delacour?

     
  • a) A law firm client
    •  
  • b) Farrington's mistress
    •  
  • c) Mr. Alleyne's wife
    •  
  • d) A local prostitute

93. What is the name of the acrobat Farrington meets at a pub?

     
  • a) Flynn
    •  
  • b) Leonard
    •  
  • c) O'Halloran
    •  
  • d) Weathers

94. How many children does Farrington have?

     
  • a) 4
    •  
  • b) 5
    •  
  • c) 6
    •  
  • d) 7

95. What does Tom promise to recite for Farrington if he stops beating him?

     
  • a) The Lord's Prayer
    •  
  • b) A Hail Mary
    •  
  • c) An Our Father
    •  
  • d) An epic poem

96. What holiday is Maria preparing for at the start of "Clay"?

     
  • a) Bastille Day
    •  
  • b) Christmas
    •  
  • c) New Year's Eve
    •  
  • d) Halloween

97. What is barmbrack?

     
  • a) A spiced bread
    •  
  • b) A type of beer
    •  
  • c) A traditional song
    •  
  • d) A derogatory term

98. Where does Joe suggest Maria probably lost the plum cake?

     
  • a) At home
    •  
  • b) At work
    •  
  • c) On the train
    •  
  • d) In the street

99. In the game Maria plays with the children, what does the mound of wet clay foretell?

     
  • a) A pious life
    •  
  • b) An early death
    •  
  • c) A bad marriage
    •  
  • d) A surprise visitor

100. What object does Joe ask his wife to locate at the end of the story?

     
  • a) A corkscrew
    •  
  • b) A saucer
    •  
  • c) A prayer book
    •  
  • d) A plum cake

101. In "A Painful Case," what is Mr. Duffy's occupation?

     
  • a) Copy clerk
    •  
  • b) Bank cashier
    •  
  • c) Merchant ship captain
    •  
  • d) Journalist

102. What is the occupation of Mrs. Sinico's husband?

     
  • a) Copy clerk
    •  
  • b) Bank cashier
    •  
  • c) Merchant ship captain
    •  
  • d) Journalist

103. Where does the final meeting between Mrs. Sinico and Mr. Duffy take place?

     
  • a) At Mrs. Sinico's home
    •  
  • b) At Mr. Duffy's home
    •  
  • c) At a library
    •  
  • d) At a cake shop

104. How many years pass between Mr. Duffy's final meeting with Mrs. Sinico and her death?

     
  • a) 2
    •  
  • b) 4
    •  
  • c) 5
    •  
  • d) 10

105. What does Mr. Duffy see in the park, making him realize the depth of his loss?

     
  • a) A pair of lovers
    •  
  • b) A dead dog
    •  
  • c) A flowering tree
    •  
  • d) A ladies' glove

106. In "Ivy Day in the Committee Room," what is the date of Ivy Day?

     
  • a) October 6
    •  
  • b) October 16
    •  
  • c) November 5
    •  
  • d) November 17

107. Who is the pub owner running for the office of Lord Mayor?

     
  • a) Charles Stuart Parnell
    •  
  • b) Mat O'Connor
    •  
  • c) Richard Tierney
    •  
  • d) John Henchy

108. What is the name of the party that supports an independent Ireland?

     
  • a) Nationalist
    •  
  • b) Labour
    •  
  • c) Green
    •  
  • d) Social Democrats

109. Who was Henry Charles Sirr?

     
  • a) A British Army officer
    •  
  • b) An Irish pub owner
    •  
  • c) An English journalist
    •  
  • d) A politician

110. What do the men do after the poem is read?

     
  • a) light
    •  
  • b) Applaud
    •  
  • c) Leave
    •  
  • d) Throw tomatoes

111. In "A Mother," what is the meaning of Eire Abu?

     
  • a) Ireland to Victory
    •  
  • b) Death to Traitors
    •  
  • c) Free Ireland
    •  
  • d) Live Free or Die

112. What instrument does Mrs. Kearney's daughter play?

     
  • a) Violin
    •  
  • b) Trumpet
    •  
  • c) Glass harp
    •  
  • d) Piano

113. What is the price Mrs. Kearney secures for her daughter's performance?

     
  • a) 7 guineas
    •  
  • b) 8 guineas
    •  
  • c) 9 guineas
    •  
  • d) 10 guineas

114. How many concerts is Mrs. Kearney's daughter originally contracted to perform in?

     
  • a) 2
    •  
  • b) 3
    •  
  • c) 4
    •  
  • d) 5

115. What does Mrs. Kearney angrily demand before her daughter plays?

     
  • a) Top billing
    •  
  • b) A private dressing room
    •  
  • c) A limousine
    •  
  • d) Payment in full

116. At the beginning of "Grace," what has just happened to Mr. Kernan?

     
  • a) He fell downstairs
    •  
  • b) He crashed his car
    •  
  • c) He stole a horse
    •  
  • d) He lost his wallet

117. Who assures Mr. Kernan's wife that he will help Mr. Kernan to reform?

     
  • a) Mr. Fogarty
    •  
  • b) Mr. Kernan
    •  
  • c) Mr. Power
    •  
  • d) Mr. Cunningham

118. What is Mr. Kernan's former religion revealed to be?

     
  • a) Hindu
    •  
  • b) Presbyterian
    •  
  • c) Protestant
    •  
  • d) Baptist

119. Which character is the proprietor of a grocery store?

     
  • a) Mr. Fogarty
    •  
  • b) Mr. Kernan
    •  
  • c) Mr. Power
    •  
  • d) Mr. Cunningham

120. What part of the church service does Mr. Kernan decline to participate in?

     
  • a) Taking Communion
    •  
  • b) Lighting candles
    •  
  • c) Confessing his sins
    •  
  • d) Singing hymns

121. In what month does "The Dead" take place?

     
  • a) January
    •  
  • b) February
    •  
  • c) March
    •  
  • d) April

122. What does Gretta tease Gabriel about, to his annoyance?

     
  • a) His hair
    •  
  • b) His table manners
    •  
  • c) His galoshes
    •  
  • d) His job

123. Where does Miss Ivors invite Gabriel to visit during the summer?

     
  • a) The Aran Isles
    •  
  • b) Skellig Michael
    •  
  • c) Buenos Aires
    •  
  • d) The European continent

124. Who embarrasses and irritates Gabriel by questioning his lack of interest in Ireland?

     
  • a) Kate
    •  
  • b) Julia
    •  
  • c) Mary Jane
    •  
  • d) Miss Ivors

125. Who is Michael Furey?

     
  • a) An Irish nationalist
    •  
  • b) Gretta's dead ex-boyfriend
    •  
  • c) A drunk party guest
    •  
  • d) Gabriel's favorite nephew

126. Which of the following does Joyce address thematically in The Dubliners?

     
  • a) the positive side of war with Germany
    •  
  • b) the supremacy of Britain
    •  
  • c) Irish nationalism
    •  
  • d) the Irish nation’s inability to survive without England’s help

127. In The Dubliners, how does Joyce use epiphanies?

     
  • a) they sometimes clarify the connection between death and life
    •  
  • b) they are often coupled with resignation, sadness, and frustration
    •  
  • c) they create a system of hope, followed by passive acceptance
    •  
  • d) All of the Above

128. In The Dubliners, which literary style is used?

     
  • a) realism
    •  
  • b) impressionism
    •  
  • c) fantasy
    •  
  • d) gothic

129. In The Dubliners, which best describes the order of the story arc?

     
  • a) adolescence, maturity, childhood
    •  
  • b) childhood, maturity, adolescence
    •  
  • c) childhood, adolescence, maturity, public life
    •  
  • d) childhood, adolescence, maturity

130. Which writer arranged for the publication of The Dubliners?

     
  • a) Ezra Pound
    •  
  • b) W.B. Yeats
    •  
  • c) Ernest Hemmingway
    •  
  • d) Virginia Woolf

131. In The Dubliners, which negative characteristic(s) does Joyce associate with Dublin as a place?

     
  • a) commonness
    •  
  • b) boredom
    •  
  • c) backwardness
    •  
  • d) All

132. In The Dubliners, what do most critics say is the function of paralysis?

     
  • a) it is represented in a way that implies collective activity is needed
    •  
  • b) it reveals the sense of imprisonment that comes from routine
    •  
  • c) it reveals characters’ literal inability to move away from Ireland
    •  
  • d) All of the Above

133. According to critics, what is the function of The Dubliners’ third person narration?

     
  • a) it counters the sense of unrequited love
    •  
  • b) it is used only to disrupt the more prominent first-person narration
    •  
  • c) it makes the stories seem more impersonal
    •  
  • d) it breaks through the sense of paralysis

134. What was the title of the collection of Joyce's short stories published in 1914?

     
  • a) Dubliners
    •  
  • b) Londoners
    •  
  • c) New Yorkers
    •  
  • d) Parisiennes

135. Before the start of “The Sisters,” Father Flynn died of what cause?

     
  • a) A heart attack
    •  
  • b) A stroke
    •  
  • c) Pneumonia
    •  
  • d) Scarlet fever

136. Eveline’s fiancé lives where?

     
  • a) Argentina
    •  
  • b) Australia
    •  
  • c) Berlin
    •  
  • d) London

137. Dubliners takes place in Dublin, Ireland, at roughly what time?

     
  • a) 1800
    •  
  • b) 1850
    •  
  • c) 1900
    •  
  • d) 1950

138. In “A Painful Case,” how does Mr. Duffy find out about Mrs. Sinico’s suicide?

     
  • a) A telegram from her sister
    •  
  • b) In the newspaper
    •  
  • c) Overheard in conversation at the pub
    •  
  • d) The note left for him by Mrs. Sinico

139. In “The Boarding House,” Mr. Doran is tricked into doing what?

     
  • a) Deceiving Mrs. Mooney’s husband
    •  
  • b) Marrying Mrs. Mooney’s daughter
    •  
  • c) Paying double rent
    •  
  • d) Taking the blame for a recent robbery

140. In “The Dead,” what memory makes Gretta Conroy cry?

     
  • a) An argument with her beloved father
    •  
  • b) Her brother’s suicide
    •  
  • c) The death of her first lover
    •  
  • d) The discovery of her husband’s infidelity

141. Little Chandler in “A Little Cloud” dreams of becoming what?

     
  • a) A journalist
    •  
  • b) A poet
    •  
  • c) A portrait painter
    •  
  • d) A teacher

142. The protagonist of “Araby” falls in love with whom?

     
  • a) A beautiful nun
    •  
  • b) Eveline
    •  
  • c) Mangan’s sister
    •  
  • d) The narrator’s own half-sister

143. The unnamed main character of “An Encounter” plays hooky from school in hopes of traveling where?

     
  • a) The Dublin market
    •  
  • b) The Pigeon House
    •  
  • c) The race track
    •  
  • d) The shore of the River Liffey

144. Which character fits the following description: “She set her white face to him, passive, like a helpless animal. Her eyes gave him no sign of love or farewell or recognition.”

     
  • a) Eveline who is prevented by paralysis from leaving Ireland with her fiancé
    •  
  • b) Kathleen who is humiliated when she is forced to abandon her concert
    •  
  • c) Maria, a poor unmarried woman who represent Ireland itself
    •  
  • d) Mrs. Mooney who is left spiritually dead after being attacked by her husband

145. Who said the following: "Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age."

     
  • a) Father James Flynn in “The Sisters”
    •  
  • b) Gabriel Conroy in “The Dead”
    •  
  • c) James Duffy in “A Painful Case”
    •  
  • d) Jimmy in “After the Race”

146. Who said the following: “I wanted real adventures to happen to myself. But real adventures, I reflected, do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad.”

     
  • a) Gabriel Conroy in “The Dead”
    •  
  • b) Mr. Holohan in “A Mother”
    •  
  • d) The narrator of “An Encounter”
    •  
  • c) The narrator of “Araby”

147. Who said the following: “Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger.”

     
  • a) Corley in “Two Gallants”
    •  
  • b) Joe Hynes in “Ivy Day in the Committee Room”
    •  
  • c) The narrator of “Araby”
    •  
  • d) The narrator of “The Sisters”

148. The boy narrator of "The Sisters" has befriended a

     
  • a) Nun
    •  
  • b) Priest
    •  
  • c) Frenchman
    •  
  • d) Stray dog

149. Father Flynn, before his death, suffered from

     
  • a) Both paralysis and madness
    •  
  • b) The gout
    •  
  • c) Paralysis
    •  
  • d) Madness

150. Father Flynn's siblings say that his problems started when he

     
  • a) Broke the sacred chalice
    •  
  • b) Had an affair with a married woman
    •  
  • c) Became a priest
    •  
  • d) Became a follower of Charles parnell

151. In "An Encounter," Joe Dillon introduces the boys to

     
  • a) The wild west
    •  
  • b) Necrophilia
    •  
  • c) Buddhism
    •  
  • d) Bees

152. The boy narrator of "An Encounter" could best be described as

     
  • a) Dumb and malicious
    •  
  • b) Intelligent and malicious
    •  
  • c) Dumb and gentle
    •  
  • d) Intelligent and gentle

153. In "Araby," the theme of the bazaar is

     
  • a) America
    •  
  • b) France
    •  
  • c) The exotic Islamic world
    •  
  • d) China

154. The ending line of "Araby" is full of

     
  • a) Disappointment and self-contempt
    •  
  • b) Joy and hope
    •  
  • c) Christian grace
    •  
  • d) Love of mankind

155. The title character of "Eveline" is

     
  • a) A French prostitute
    •  
  • b) A 19-year-old girl
    •  
  • c) A drag queen
    •  
  • d) A ship

156. At the end of "Eveline," Eveline

     
  • a) Leaves for France
    •  
  • b) Sinks
    •  
  • c) Cannot leave ireland
    •  
  • d) Is beaten by tourists

157. The title of "After the Race" refers not only to the automobile race but to

     
  • a) The great train race
    •  
  • b) The beginnings of anthropology
    •  
  • c) The death of the irish race
    •  
  • d) The race for empire

158. The protagonist of "After the Race," Jimmy Doyle, has a family that could best be described as

     
  • a) Fallen aristocracy
    •  
  • b) Nouveau riche
    •  
  • c) Poor
    •  
  • d) Philanthropic

159. Ségouin, Jimmy's charismatic friend from Cambridge, is

     
  • a) A wealthy Frenchman
    •  
  • b) A british citizen
    •  
  • c) A mystic
    •  
  • d) A social-climber and a french-canadian

160. A “slavey” is

     
  • a) A prostitute
    •  
  • b) A bodyguard
    •  
  • c) A house servant
    •  
  • d) A laundress

161. Corley's slavey is probably making extra money as

     
  • a) A house servant
    •  
  • b) A bodyguard
    •  
  • c) A prostitute
    •  
  • d) A laundress

162. Lenehan characterizes his friends and lovers as

     
  • a) Beautiful
    •  
  • b) Unclean
    •  
  • c) Unreliable
    •  
  • d) Vital to his soul

163. In "The Boarding House," the boarding house is run by

     
  • a) Mr. Doran
    •  
  • b) Polly mooney
    •  
  • c) Mrs. Mooney
    •  
  • d) Jack mooney

164. Mr. Doran has an excellent job as a

     
  • a) Mechanic
    •  
  • b) Trusted employee of a wine seller
    •  
  • c) Boarding house manager
    •  
  • d) Butcher

165. At the end of "The Boarding House," Mr. Doran is cornered into

     
  • a) Leaving Dublin
    •  
  • b) Selling the boarding house
    •  
  • c) Marrying polly
    •  
  • d) Fighting jack mooney

166. In "A Little Cloud," Chandler is also known as

     
  • a) Eire abu
    •  
  • b) The big wind
    •  
  • c) Kagemusha
    •  
  • d) Little chandler

167. In "A Little Cloud," Gallagher has relocated to

     
  • a) Rome
    •  
  • b) London
    •  
  • c) Paris
    •  
  • d) New York

168. At the end of "A Little Cloud," Chandler expels his frustrations on

     
  • a) Himself
    •  
  • b) His wife
    •  
  • c) Gallagher
    •  
  • d) His infant child

169. In "Counterparts," Farrington works as a

     
  • a) Salesman
    •  
  • b) Butler
    •  
  • c) Scrivener
    •  
  • d) Butcher

170. Farrington has a problem with

     
  • a) Drinking
    •  
  • b) Corruption
    •  
  • c) Art
    •  
  • d) Gambling

171. Farrington is beaten by Weathers in a contest of

     
  • a) Drinking
    •  
  • b) Wits
    •  
  • c) Strength
    •  
  • d) Artistic skill

172. At the end of "Counterparts," Farrington expels his frustrations on

     
  • a) Mr. Alleyne
    •  
  • b) His son
    •  
  • c) His wife
    •  
  • d) Weathers

173. This story is the last in 'Dubliners' and was written several years after the others.

     
  • a) ‘The Sisters'
    •  
  • b) ‘A Painful Case'
    •  
  • c) ‘Grace'
    •  
  • d) ‘The Dead'

Chapter 66: THE DOLL’S HOUSE

1. Whom did Mrs. Linde abandon for a richer man?

     
  • a) Torvald
    •  
  • b) Dr. Rank
    •  
  • c) Krogstad
    •  
  • d) Her nanny’s father

2. Which of the following nicknames is not a nickname Torvald uses for Nora?

     
  • a) Squirrel
    •  
  • b) Skylark
    •  
  • c) Silly girl
    •  
  • d) Peaches

3. How did Dr. Rank get his disease?

     
  • a) He inherited it from his mother
    •  
  • b) He inherited it from his father
    •  
  • c) He caught it during the war
    •  
  • d) He caught from a very ill patient

4. What does Nora eat against Torvald’s wishes?

     
  • a) Dates
    •  
  • b) Bacon
    •  
  • c) Shellfish
    •  
  • d) Macaroons

5. Where is the play set?

     
  • a) Dr. Rank’s study
    •  
  • b) The Helmer homes
    •  
  • c) Krogstad’s house
    •  
  • d) Mrs. Linde’s apartment

6. Whose signature did Nora forge?

     
  • a) Krogstad’s
    •  
  • b) Torvald’s
    •  
  • c) Her father’s
    •  
  • d) Her daughter’s

7. What is Mrs. Linde’s first name?

     
  • a) Kristine
    •  
  • b) Diane
    •  
  • c) Henrik
    •  
  • d) Hedda

8. To what does Nora compare herself at the end of the play?

     
  • a) A squirrel
    •  
  • b) A slave
    •  
  • c) A prisoner
    •  
  • d) A doll

9. Whom did Mrs. Linde work many years to support?

     
  • a) Her dying mother
    •  
  • b) Her children
    •  
  • c) Her husband
    •  
  • d) Her mad uncle

10. What crime earned Krogstad his bad reputation?

     
  • a) Forgery
    •  
  • b) Murder
    •  
  • c) Robbery
    •  
  • d) Counterfeiting

11. With whom is Dr. Rank secretly in love?

     
  • a) Helene
    •  
  • b) Nora
    •  
  • c) Krogstad
    •  
  • d) Mrs. Linde

12. During what holiday is the play set?

     
  • a) All Hallow’s Eve
    •  
  • b) New Year’s
    •  
  • c) Easter
    •  
  • d) Christmas

13. What does Nora do too wildly and too violently for Torvald’s taste?

     
  • a) Play with her children
    •  
  • b) Cook and clean
    •  
  • c) Dance
    •  
  • d) Argue with Krogstad

14. How does Torvald learn about Nora’s forgery?

     
  • a) Krogstad’s letter informs him
    •  
  • b) Mrs. Linde tells him
    •  
  • c) He overhears a conversation between Dr. Rank and Nora
    •  
  • d) Nora tells him

15. How does Nora feel about Dr. Rank?

     
  • a) She thinks that he is boring
    •  
  • b) She thinks that he is creepy
    •  
  • c) She doesn’t know him very well
    •  
  • d) She likes him very much

16. What does Torvald tease Nora about at the beginning of the play?

     
  • a) Losing her purse
    •  
  • b) Spending too much money
    •  
  • c) Forgetting to do the laundry
    •  
  • d) Mispronouncing the word “metempsychosis”

17. What will be the benefit of Torvald’s new job at the bank?

     
  • a) He will work shorter hours
    •  
  • b) He will earn more money
    •  
  • c) He will be able to take more vacations
    •  
  • d) He will be able to spend more time at home, taking care of the kids

18. What is the last thing the audience of A Doll’s House hears?

     
  • a) A door slamming
    •  
  • b) A gunshot
    •  
  • c) A train whistles
    •  
  • d) A dog barking

19. For whom did the Nurse work for before taking care of Nora's children?

     
  • a) NO ONE
    •  
  • b) MRS. LINDE AND HER CHILDREN
    •  
  • c) NORA'S FATHER AND LITTLE NORA
    •  
  • d) DR. SKEIN AND LITTLE HELMER

20. Which of the following events is the subject of discussion at the very beginning of the play?

     
  • a) TORVALD'S PROMOTION TO MANAGER OF THE BANK
    •  
  • b) NORA'S DEAL WITH KROGSTAD
    •  
  • c) KROGSTAD AND CHRISTINE'S MARRIAGE
    •  
  • d) TORVALD AND NORA'S TRIP TO ITALY

21. Dr. Rank is dying from what?

     
  • a) CONSUMPTION OF THE SPINE
    •  
  • b) FEVER OF THE BRAIN
    •  
  • c) DYSENTERY
    •  
  • d) DISEASED LIVER

22. How are Nora and Mrs. Linde related?

     
  • a) AS CHILDHOOD FRIENDS
    •  
  • b) AS SISTERS
    •  
  • c) AS MOTHER AND DAUGHTER
    •  
  • d) AS OLD ENEMIES

23. Which of the following is used as a metaphor throughout the play?

     
  • a) LIGHT
    •  
  • b) MUSIC
    •  
  • c) CUTLERY
    •  
  • d) GLASS FIGURINES

24. Mrs. Linde's character symbolizes all of the following except

     
  • a) NORA'S POTENTIAL FUTURE
    •  
  • b) THE POTENTIAL EMPTINESS OF MOTHERHOOD
    •  
  • c) THE PITFALLS OF MARRYING FOR MONEY
    •  
  • d) MORAL PERFECTION

25. The tarantella symbolizes all of the following except

     
  • a) NORA'S ROLE AS PERFORMER FOR TORVALD
    •  
  • b) NORA'S DESIRE TO RETAIN TORVALD'S ATTENTION
    •  
  • c) THE EQUALITY OF NORA AND TORVALD'S MARRIAGE
    •  
  • d) NORA'S DESIRE TO RID HERSELF OF THE POISON THAT HAS DEVELOPED OUT OF HER TRANSACTION WITH KROGSTAD

26. A Doll's House was considered a theatrical innovation because it altered the well-made play to include

     
  • a) AN UNRAVELING
    •  
  • b) A MORAL
    •  
  • c) A CLIMAX
    •  
  • d) A DISCUSSION

27. Which one of these does Nora not explicitly question at the end of the play?

     
  • a) RELIGION
    •  
  • b) THE LOVE OF HER CHILDREN
    •  
  • c) HER MARRIAGE
    •  
  • d) HER FATHER'S LOVE

28. Which character complains that society is being turned into a "sick house"?

     
  • a) MRS. LINDE
    •  
  • b) TORVALD
    •  
  • c) DR. RANK
    •  
  • d) KROGSTAD

29. What does Nora try to prevent Torvald from doing?

     
  • a) Going away on business
    •  
  • b) Having an affair
    •  
  • c) Reading the mail
    •  
  • d) Driving a car

30. Nora is raised by her:

     
  • a) Mother
    •  
  • b) Father
    •  
  • c) Nanny
    •  
  • d) Aunt

31. What does the black cross on Dr. Rank’s calling card mean?

     
  • a) He will die soon
    •  
  • b) He is an undertaker
    •  
  • c) He practices black magic
    •  
  • d) He is not a Christian

32. Torvald forbids Nora to eat:

     
  • a) At the table
    •  
  • b) Cheese
    •  
  • c) Macaroons
    •  
  • d) Chocolate

33. How does Nora envision her death?

     
  • a) Heart attack
    •  
  • b) Strangled by Torvald
    •  
  • c) Being run over by horses
    •  
  • d) Drowning in the icy river

34. Dr. Rank is secretly in love with:

     
  • a) Torvald
    •  
  • b) Mrs. Linde
    •  
  • c) Nora
    •  
  • d) Helene

35. What excuse does Nora give to explain why she did not have any ornaments?

     
  • a) THE MAID ACCIDENTALLY THREW THEM AWAY
    •  
  • b) SHE GAVE THEM TO THE LESS-FORTUNATE
    •  
  • c) THE CAT TORE THEM UP
    •  
  • d) THE DOG TORE THEM UP

36. Which one of the following reasons does Mrs. Linde not give for coming to town?

     
  • a) TO RECONNECT WITH KROGSTAD
    •  
  • b) TO REENTER SOCIETY
    •  
  • c) TO FIND SOMETHING TO FILL THE EMPTINESS OF HER LIFE
    •  
  • d) TO SEEK EMPLOYMENT

37. Which one of the following does Torvald not identify Nora with?

     
  • a) A SQUIRREL
    •  
  • b) HER FATHER
    •  
  • c) A CHILD
    •  
  • d) A PUPPY

38. How does Dr. Rank inform Nora that he has reached the final stages of his illness?

     
  • a) HE LEAVES A BLACK CROSS ON HIS VISITING CARD
    •  
  • b) HE ASKS TORVALD TO TELL HER
    •  
  • c) HE TELLS HER WHILE THEY ARE DANCING
    •  
  • d) HE SENDS HER A NOTE

39. Mrs. Linde and Torvald both call Nora

     
  • a) A SPENDTHRIFT
    •  
  • b) A ROBIN
    •  
  • c) A LARK
    •  
  • d) A BUTTERCUP

40. Torvald and Nora are preparing the house for what?

     
  • a) CHRISTMAS
    •  
  • b) NORA'S BIRTHDAY
    •  
  • c) EASTER
    •  
  • d) THANKSGIVING

Chapter 67: PYGMALION BY GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Pygmalion MCQs

1. Pygmalion is written by______.

  • a) Shakespeare
  • b) George Bernard Shaw
  • c) Higgins
  • d) Marlowe

2. Pygmalion has ______ Acts.

  • a) 5
  • b) 4
  • c) 6
  • d) 3

3. Eliza Doolittle is a/an______.

  • a) Duchess
  • b) Uneducated flower girl
  • c) Phonetician
  • d) Owner of flower shop

4. Henry Higgins was specialized in______.

  • a) Phonetics
  • b) Literature
  • c) Mathematics
  • d) Chemistry

5. Colonel Pickering is a______.

  • a) Chemist
  • b) Author of the spoken Sanskrit
  • c) Author of Pygmalion
  • d) Eliza’s guardian

6. _______ was courteous and polite to Eliza.

  • a) Professor Higgins
  • b) Col Pickering
  • c) Clara
  • d) Mr. Doolittle

7. Alfred Doolittle was a______.

  • a) Dustman
  • b) Clerk
  • c) Owner of flower shop
  • d) Housekeeper

8. Clara Eynsford was_____.

  • a) Dull and Lazy girl
  • b) Rival of Eliza
  • c) Admirer of Eliza
  • d) Modern , snobbish girl

9. Freddy Eynsford Hill was______.

  • a) Phonetician
  • b) Professor
  • c) Eliza’s teacher
  • d) Pleasant young boy, attracted towards Eliza

10. Who was enchanted by Eliza upon first social meeting?

  • a) Pickering
  • b) Higgins
  • c) Freddy
  • d) No one

11. Mrs. Pearce was____.

  • a) Higgins’ housekeeper
  • c) Higgins’ guardian
  • c) Higgins’ mother
  • d) Higgins’ aunt

12. What is the significance of the title “Pygmalion”? Who was Pygmalion?

  • a) Historian
  • b) Ancient Greek sculptor who made beautiful statue of woman
  • c) God of Love
  • d) Well known phonetician

13. Why Alexander Melville Bell, Tito Pagliardini and Henry Sweet were heroes to Shaw?

  • a) Because they were admirer of women
  • b) Because they wanted to reform the language
  • c) Because they were historians
  • d) Because they were writers

14. Alexander Melville Bell was the father of_______.

  • a) Professor Higgins
  • b) Alexander Graham Bell
  • c) Colonel Pickering
  • d) G.B Shaw

15. What does Freddy do at the beginning of Act 1 that shows his poor manners?

  • a) He steals the money of flower girl
  • b) He knocks over the flower girl and doesn’t offer to pay for the flowers he ruined.
  • c) He uses abusive language
  • d) None of these

16. Flower girl was_______ years old.

  • a) 18 to 20
  • b) 16 to 18
  • c) 20 to 22
  • d) 25 to 27

17. Why did Eliza want to learn the sophisticated way of speaking?

  • a) So she can boast in her surroundings
  • b) So she can marry a rich man
  • c) So she can work at indoor flower shop
  • d) So she can be phonetician

18. What is Freddy looking for in the beginning of Act 1?

  • a) For a cab
  • b) For flowers
  • c) For restaurant
  • d) For umbrella

19. Where does Eliza tell the taxi driver to take her?

  • a) Buckingham palace
  • b) To Mrs. Higgins’ house
  • c) To Pickering’s house
  • d) To Freddy’s house

20. What does Professor Higgins bet the will transform the flower girl into?

  • a) An English teacher
  • b) A Chemist
  • c) To make her speak better than a duchess
  • d) Detective

21. How was the weather during the opening of the Act 1?

  • a) Rainy night
  • b) Snowstorm
  • c) Windy
  • d) Sunny day

22. Professor Higgins is_______.

  • a) Ugly mathematician around 30
  • b) Very serious chemist around 45
  • c) An attractive and rude phonetician around 40
  • d) Author of Sanskrit

23. Why does Eliza’s father come to see Higgins?

  • a) To blackmail Higgins for his daughter’s honor
  • b) For learning English
  • c) For presenting a gift
  • d) To see his daughter Eliza

24. Who was note-taker?

  • a) Higgins
  • b) Pickering
  • c) Freddy
  • d) Eliza

25. Where is the Act 1 of the play set?

  • a) In a park
  • b) In the living room
  • c) At bus stop
  • d) In front of a church

26. What is the first thing Higgins noticed about Eliza?

  • a) Her smartness
  • b) Her beauty
  • c) Her Cockney accent
  • d) Her poverty

27. Eliza was a______.

  • a) Shy and timid girl
  • b) Bold and defiant girl
  • c) Modern and snobbish girl
  • d) Dull and lazy girl

28. Which character of the play created the comedy?

  • a) Freddy
  • b) Eliza
  • c) Pickering
  • d) Higgins

29. What does the flower girl do at the end of Act 1 that shows she has a sense of pride?

  • a) She tells the cab driver to take her to Buckingham palace
  • b) She gives extra coins to cab driver
  • c) She gives flowers for free
  • d) She gives back the money Higgins gives him

30. What does Eliza likely mean when she says “I am a good girl, I am”?

  • a) That she is not willing to sell herself
  • b) That she is obedient
  • c) That she is a good student
  • d) That she is not a thief

31. Higgins called________ “Presumptuous insect”.

  • a) Freddy
  • b) Pickering
  • c) Eliza
  • d) Alfred Doolittle

32. Mrs. Higgins worries that the experiment will lead to________ once it is ended.

  • a) Innovation
  • b) Success
  • c) Problems
  • d) Excitement

33. Who was Nepommuck?

  • a) A former pupil of Higgins
  • b) Ambassador
  • c) Eliza’s teacher
  • d) Eliza’s lover

34. What do Nepommuck and the Ambassador’s wife conclude about Eliza?

  • a) That Eliza is Hungarian princess
  • b) Eliza is uneducated girl
  • c) Eliza is a flower girl
  • d) Eliza is a phonetician

35. How many languages Nepommuck could speak?

  • a) 32
  • b) 10
  • c) 12
  • d) 9

36. How was the behavior of Higgins towards Eliza?

  • a) Rude and strict
  • b) Loving and caring
  • c) Attracted towards her beauty
  • d) Shy and non-serious

37. Eliza called Higgins______.

  • a) A great bully
  • b) A kind hearted man
  • c) A great teacher
  • d) A great phonetician

38. Higgins rushes to his mother, in a panic because Eliza has_______.

  • a) Run away
  • b) Died
  • c) Committed suicide
  • d) Been shy

39. Eliza’s father becomes unhappily rich from the_______ of a deceased millionaire.

  • a) Trust
  • b) Death
  • c) Suicide
  • d) Fraud

40. Mrs. Higgins was hiding Eliza________.

  • a) Upstairs
  • b) In Cellar
  • c) In Kitchen
  • d) In Jail

41. Mrs. Higgins chides the two of them for playing with the girl’s______.

  • a) Toys
  • b) Affections
  • c) Friends
  • d) Laughter

42. Eliza thanks_______ for always treating her like a lady.

  • a) Higgins
  • b) Pickering
  • c) Mrs. Higgins
  • d) Freddy

43. _______ threatens Higgins that she will go work with Nepommuck.

  • a) Mrs. Pearce
  • b) Eliza
  • c) Mrs. Higgins
  • d) Clara

44. Higgins expects Eliza to_______.

  • a) Run
  • b) Return
  • c) Go
  • d) Marry

45. Eliza bumps into Freddy and they_______.

  • a) Return
  • b) Kiss
  • c) Go
  • d) Marry

46. Near the end, Eliza’s father is_______ again.

  • a) Returning
  • b) Marrying
  • c) Drinking
  • d) Begging

47. Pygmalion is a legendary figure of Cyprus in_______ mythology.

  • a) Celtic
  • b) Norse
  • c) Greek
  • d) No

48. Pygmalion was a king and a______.

  • a) Roman God
  • b) Sculptor
  • c) Celtic Hero
  • d) Norse Demigod

49. Pygmalion was more familiar from________.

  • a) Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales
  • b) Ovid’s narrative poem Metamorphoses
  • c) Celtic Myths
  • d) Norse Mythologies

Chapter 68: The Cherry Orchard

The Cherry Orchard MCQs

1. The Cherry Orchard is a/an -----------------:

  • a) Poem
  • b) Play
  • c) Essay
  • d) Theme

2. The Cherry Orchard is written by ----------------:

  • a) Arthur Miller
  • b) Beckett
  • c) Anton Chekhov
  • d) Chaucer

3. Drowned in a river:

  • a) Trofimov
  • b) Mrs.Ranevsky
  • c) Anya
  • d) Grisha

4. Trofimov was the Grisha's -----------------:

  • a) Doctor
  • b) Tutor
  • c) Servant
  • d) usband

5. Varya is Mrs.Ranevsky's:

  • a) Niece
  • b) Daughter
  • c) Adopted daughter
  • d) Student

6. Suggested Ranevsky to cut the Cherry Orchard:

  • a) Trofimov
  • b) Lopakhin
  • c) Grisha
  • d) None of these

7. The suggestion was to build on the land of Cherry Orchard:

  • a) Cottages
  • b) Hospitals
  • c) School
  • d) Shelter house

8. Lopakhin is the------of their old servant:

  • a) Nephew
  • b) Uncle
  • c) Cousin
  • d) Son

9. While looking out at the orchard through the window, Ranevsky believes she sees her:

  • a) Father
  • b) Aunty
  • c) Mother
  • d) Sister

10. The orchard is a symbol of ______for Ranevsky.

  • a) Childhood
  • b) Teenage
  • c) School
  • d) Mother

11. The Cherry Orchard is a symbol of–––––because of the revolution.

  • a) England
  • b) Russia
  • c) Germany
  • d) France

12. has travelled abroad.

  • a) Grisha
  • b) Trofimov
  • c) Yasha
  • d) Yephikodov

13. What according to Trofimov, is the main problem with Russian intellectuals?

  • a) They talk about their past
  • b) They belong to modern society
  • c) They don't want to leave their comfort
  • d) They talk about ideas but never act

14. Who walks by playing the guitar just before the "sound of a breaking string" is heard for the first time?

  • a) Grisha
  • b) Trofimov
  • c) Yephikodov
  • d) Mrs.Ranevsky

15. The "sound of a snapping string" was heard for the-------time just before the serfs were freed.

  • a) First
  • b) Second
  • c) Third
  • d) Last

16. Firs was a-------.

  • a) Doctor
  • b) Old servant
  • c) Tutor
  • d) Friend

17. What does Firs represent in the play?

  • a) Past
  • b) Present
  • c) Future
  • d) Revolution

18. Madame Ranevsky had a bad habit of------.

  • a) Killing others
  • b) Stealing
  • c) Extravagance
  • d) Smoking

19. Who sends Madame Ranevsky telegrams?

  • a) Her father
  • b) Her servant
  • c) Her mother
  • d) Her lover

20. Who does everyone expect Lopakhin to propose to?

  • a) Mrs.Ranevsky
  • b) Varya
  • c) Anya
  • d) Dashenka

21. --------------- and-------in the play with debts are:

  • a) Mrs.Ranevsky and Grisha
  • b) Grisha and Varya
  • c) Pishtchik and Varya
  • d) Pishtchik and Mrs.Ranevsky

22. Mrs.Ranevsky went to---------after the death of her husband and son.

  • a) France
  • b) England
  • c) Germany
  • d) Russia

23. purchases the orchard.

  • a) Dashenka
  • b) Anya
  • c) Lopakhin
  • d) Pishtchik

24. The most emotionless character in the play is:

  • a) Grisha
  • b) Yasha
  • c) Anya
  • d) Varya

25. Bourgeoisie is a---------word.

  • a) Russian
  • b) Greek
  • c) Latin
  • d) French

26. Who was peasant turned businessman!

  • a) Lopakhin
  • b) Firs
  • c) Pishtchik
  • d) none

27. Gayev is Mrs.Ranevsky's-----.

  • a) Uncle
  • b) Father
  • c) Brother
  • d) Lover

28. What sound serves as an auditory symbol of forgetting?

  • a) A lawn mower
  • b) Axes and chopping wood
  • c) A violin chord
  • d) Snapping String

29. Who are anxious to get out of the house and start new lives?

  • a) Anya,Tasha,Gayev
  • b) Yasha,Anya,Pishtchik
  • c) Trofimov,Anya,Tasha
  • d) Yasha,Gayef,Firs

30. Who was locked inside the house when they all depart?

  • a) Lopakhin
  • b) Yasha
  • c) Trofimov
  • d) Firs

31. Mrs.Ranevsky's reluctance to chop down the Cherry Orchard symbol:

  • a) Her anxieties about the social change
  • b) The pleasure to go to another place
  • c) The past
  • d) None of these

Chapter 69: WAITING FOR GODOT

Waiting for Godot MCQs

1. Waiting for Godot is from ______.

  • a) Theatre of Absurd
  • b) Classical period
  • c) Modern dramas
  • d) Romantic period

2. Waiting for Godot is written by _____.

  • a) Samuel Beckett
  • b) Charles Dickens
  • c) John Dryden
  • d) Ben Jonson

3. Waiting for Godot was originally written in _____language.

  • a) French
  • b) English
  • c) Latin
  • d) Greek

4. Didi is nickname of _____.

  • a) Vladimir
  • b) Estragon
  • c) Pozzo
  • d) Lucky

5. Gogo is nickname of ____.

  • a) Estragon
  • b) Vladimir
  • c) Pozzo
  • d) Lucky

6. Two men, Vladimir and Estragon, meet near a _____.

  • a) Leafless Tree
  • b) Hotel
  • c) Bench
  • d) Hut

7. Estragon spent the previous night lying in a ____ and receiving a beating from some unnamed assailants.

  • a) Ditch
  • b) Box
  • c) Hut
  • d) Desert

8. Both of them are Waiting for:

  • a) Godot
  • b) messenger
  • c) Pozzo
  • d) God

9. They have never seen ____ yet.

  • a) Godot
  • b) Messenger
  • c) Pozzo
  • d) None

10. They are waiting or him because:

  • a) They don’t know why
  • b) They have already met him
  • c) He asked them to wait for him
  • d) They need a favor

11. What is Godot going to give them:

  • a) They are not sure
  • b) A house
  • c) Clothes
  • d) Nothing

12. What is the time for Godot to come?

  • a) They have no idea
  • b) Morning
  • c) Night
  • d) Evening

13. They talk aimlessly, exchange hats, share jokes to:

  • a) Kill the time
  • b) Utilize the time
  • c) Tease each other
  • d) None of the above

14. Two other characters who show up are:

  • a) Pozzo and his slave
  • b) Lucky and his slave
  • c) Teacher with his student
  • d) Pozzo and his twin brother

15. Pozzo is going to market because:

  • a) Pozzo intends to sell lucky
  • b) He wants to buy hats
  • c) He is a businessman
  • d) He wants to buy a slave

16. Who is a beast of burden:

  • a) Lucky
  • b) Pozzo
  • c) Vladimir
  • d) Estragon

17. Lucky performs a dance and

  • a) Monologue
  • b) Speeches
  • c) Sings song
  • d) Nothing else

18. A boy comes at the end of act one and tells:

  • a) That Godot is not coming
  • b) Godot is coming
  • c) Godot is on his way
  • d) Godot will come tomorrow

19. There is ____ of dialogue in theatre of Absurd.

  • a) Repetition
  • b) Number
  • c) Less number
  • d) No need

20. What has happened to Pozzo when he and lucky return on the second night?

  • a) He was blind
  • b) He lost one leg
  • c) He lost his hat
  • d) He was poor

21. The change in settings of act two was a change in:

  • a) Leaves
  • b) Place
  • c) Weather
  • d) Tree

22. What do Estragon and Vladimir do after deciding to leave at the end of the play

  • a) Nothing
  • b) They sleep
  • c) They leave the stage
  • d) They start crying

23. Estragon and Vladimir are both _____.

  • a) Tramps
  • b) Beggars
  • c) Businessmen
  • d) Philosophers

24. In act one, Pozzo is ______ of Lucky.

  • a) Master
  • b) Slave
  • c) Friend
  • d) Father

25. In act two, Pozzo is ______ on Lucky.

  • a) Depending
  • b) Riding
  • c) Sitting
  • d) None

26. The play exhibits repetition and _______ in life.

  • a) Monotonous
  • b) Change
  • c) New things
  • d) None

27. The boy in act 1, a local lad, assures Vladimir that this is the ____ time he has seen him.

  • a) First
  • b) Second
  • c) Third
  • d) Fourth

28. He confirms that he works for Mr. Godot as a:

  • a) Goatherd
  • b) Secretary
  • c) Housekeeper
  • d) Messenger

29. His brother, whom Godot beats, is a:

  • a) Shepherd
  • b) Farmer
  • c) Chef
  • d) Driver

Chapter 70: ROBERT BROWNING

ROBERT BROWNING MCQs

1. Life – Span of Browning:

  • a) 1820 - 1880
  • b) 1920-1980
  • c) 1712 – 1789
  • d) 1812-1889

2. Browning was born in:

  • a) America
  • b) London
  • c) Italy
  • d) France

3. Browning married?

  • a) Elizabeth Barret
  • b) Deana
  • c) Jennifer
  • d) Loiza

4. Robert Browning and Elizabeth lived until her death in?

  • a) China
  • b) France
  • c) Italy
  • d) Washington

5. Browning’s wife Elizabeth died in?

  • a) 1861
  • b) 1902
  • c) 1880
  • d) 1872

6. Browning was famous for his mastery of?

  • a) Tragedy
  • b) Essay
  • c) Dramatic Monologue
  • d) Comedy

7. Browning belongs to?

  • a) Victorian period
  • b) Elizabethan Period
  • c) Metaphysical Period
  • d) Medieval Period

8. Browning’s view of life usually was:

  • a) Pessimistic
  • b) Full of joy
  • c) Mournful
  • d) Optimistic

9. What is the common feature of Browning’s poetry and Eliot poetry?

  • a) Writing Style
  • b) Plot Setting
  • c) Psychological Analysis
  • d) Diction

10. The number of his poem dealing with painting is?

  • a) 10
  • b) 05
  • c) 15
  • d) 20

11. Who believes that “God is in his heaven, all is right with the world”.?

  • a) John Done
  • b) Robert Browning
  • c) Geoffrey Chaucer
  • d) John Keats

12. Browning’s mother was of ______ origin:

  • a) German and Scotch
  • b) American and British
  • c) France and Italy
  • d) Pakistan and India

13. His great work was:

  • a) La Bella
  • b) Kubla khan
  • c) The Ring and the book
  • d) way of life

14. His great poetic technique was?

  • a) Soul Dissection
  • b) Dramatic Monologue
  • c) Both A & B
  • d) Satire & Irony

15. Soul dissection is linked with:

  • a) Psychology
  • b) Dramatic monologue
  • c) Self Exploration
  • d) Satire & Irony

16. Browning’s wrote his poetry in _______ style?

  • a) Essay
  • b) Complex
  • c) Subjective
  • d) Objective

17. Where is Browning’s settle after his wife death?

  • a) England
  • b) Italy
  • c) Germany
  • d) France

18. Which is not a play by Browning’s:

  • a) Colombo’s Birthday
  • b) Pippa Passes
  • c) The pied piper of Hamelin
  • d) The patriot

19. Browning’s died at the age of;

  • a) 60 years
  • b) 77 years
  • c) 99 years
  • d) 88 years

20. Browning’s paid tribute to Shelly’s work in his poem

  • a) Prospice
  • b) way of life
  • c) Ozymandias
  • d) Pauline

21. What is the theme of Browning’s poem “Death in the Desert”

  • a) Politics
  • b) Economy
  • c) Religion
  • d) Destruction

22. Who said “Browning is the voice of Anglo Saxon”

  • a) W.J Long
  • b) Blake
  • c) George Eliot
  • d) John Keats

23. Browning’s work Pauline appeared in?

  • a) 1885
  • b) 1875
  • c) 1903
  • d) 1883

24. Pippa Passes was Published in?

  • a) 1845
  • b) 1832
  • c) 1841
  • d) 1842

25. Fra Lippo Lippi was a?

  • a) Friar
  • b) Painter
  • c) Both A & B
  • d) A Thief

26. Who took Fra Lippo Lippi to church?

  • a) A Friar
  • b) A Teacher
  • c) Aunt Mona Lapaccia
  • d) Pope

27. Fra Lippo Lippi mostly painted?

  • a) Soul
  • b) Saints
  • c) Human Bodies
  • d) None of these

28. The Fairs _____ Fra Lippo Lippi.

  • a) Helped
  • b) Liked
  • c) Disliked
  • d) None of these

29. Fra Lippo Lippi wanted to be a devoted Friar.

  • a) True
  • b) False
  • c) Somewhat
  • d) At Average Level

30. Fra Lippo Lippi joined church as he was______

  • a) hungry
  • b) Not having a house
  • c) Nor having warm dress
  • d) All

31. The Duchess in “My last Duchess” Was_______.

  • a) hungry
  • b) killed
  • c) Alive
  • d) happy

32. The Duchess in “My last Duchess” Was killed by:

  • a) Friar
  • b) her Husband
  • c) Her Father
  • d) Herself

33. “My last Duchess” reflect:

  • a) A renaissances
  • b) Authoritative attitude of Husband
  • c) His greed
  • d) All of these

34. “Patriot into Traitor” reflect:

  • a) change of time
  • b) change of fortune
  • c) change of Attitude
  • d) All of these

35. “Patriot into Traitor” also reflect:

  • a) Blessing
  • b) victory
  • c) Good life
  • d) Downfall of the speaker

36. Poetic style of Browning was charged with?

  • a) obscurity
  • b) emotions
  • c) passions
  • d) pain

37. Browning’s genius is predominantly?

  • a) Fictional
  • b) closer
  • c) Dramatic
  • d) sonnets

38. Which work did Browning dedicate to his wife?

  • a) Pauline
  • b) way of life
  • c) Prospice
  • d) Men and Women

39. Who said Browning is preeminently the poet of the word

  • a) Rickett
  • b) Chaucer
  • c) George
  • d) P.B Shelly

40. Browning paid tribute to Shelly’s work in his poem

  • a) Prospice
  • b) way of life
  • c) Ozymandias
  • d) Pauline

41. Browning’s narrator in “Patriot into Traitor” was yesterday a_______.

  • a) Traitor
  • b) Villain
  • c) king
  • d) hero

42. “Patriot into Traitor” shows narrator’s_______.

  • a) Excitement
  • b) Biography
  • c) Success
  • d) Frustration

43. This poem is a criticism of politics and people’s

  • a) Opinions
  • b) Votes
  • c) Selection
  • d) Demands

44. My Last Duchess” is narrated by the;

  • a) Duke of Ferrara
  • b) Duck of France
  • c) Duck of Italy
  • d) Duck of Washington

45. The Duck in this poem talks an envoy of___.

  • a) Another nobleman
  • b) His Friend
  • c) France
  • d) Germany

46. The portrait of Duchess was painted by;

  • a) Fra Lippo Lippi
  • b) Fra Michael Angelo
  • c) Fra Pandolf
  • d) None of these

47. Fra Pandolf was a Painter and a_____.

  • a) Singer
  • b) Monk
  • c) Novelist
  • d) Dancer

48. The Duck uses a ____ tone while discussing the Duchess.

  • a) Harsh Tone
  • b) Romantic
  • c) Sweet
  • d) Satirical

49. “My Last Duchess” was published in _____.

  • a) 1839
  • b) 1840
  • c) 1841
  • d) 1842

50. The Duke’s amorality can be understood in terms of.

  • a) Mildness
  • b) love
  • c) Aristocracy
  • d) Diction

51. The Duck’s life seems to be made of ______ gestures.

  • a) Helping
  • b) Linking
  • c) Repeated
  • d) None of these

52. “Andrea del Sarto” is ____.

  • a) Sonnet
  • b) Blank Verse
  • c) Epic
  • d) None

53. “Andrea del Sarto” represents:

  • a) Browning himself
  • b) Fra Lippo
  • c) Fra Michael
  • d) Andrea d’Angolo

54. Andrea d’Angolo was a _____artist.

  • a) Victorian
  • b) Medieval
  • c) Elizabethan
  • d) Renaissance

55. The historical del Sarto was born in____:

  • a) Dublin
  • b) Florence
  • c) England
  • d) Greece

56. Andrea buys the house from ____money.

  • a) Collected
  • b) Earned
  • c) Gifted
  • d) Stolen

57. Andrea in his house is seen ___.

  • a) Drinking
  • b) Enjoying
  • c) Spending Money
  • d) Lamenting

58. Andrea laments because he could not do justice with being a/an____.

  • a) Singer
  • b) Ruler
  • c) Speaker
  • d) Artist

59. Andrea talks to _____ about successes and failure.

  • a) Lucrezia
  • b) his own self
  • c) shadow in mirror
  • d) friends

60. Lucrezia was his ______.

  • a) enemy
  • b) friend
  • c) wife
  • d) Mistress

61. Andrea was ______painter.

  • a) freelance
  • b) Bad
  • c) Royal
  • d) Honest

62. For Andrea painting is reducing to a means to make _______.

  • a) Name
  • b) Money
  • c) Fame
  • d) Amends

63. Andrea cannot focus on painting well because of______ of his wife

  • a) Love
  • b) Companionship
  • c) disloyalty
  • d) nagging

64. His wife all the time______

  • a) in politics
  • b) loving
  • c) demanding
  • d) helping

65. Resting place of Browning?

  • a) Westminster Abbey
  • b) Westminster Bridge
  • c) Tintern Abbey
  • d) France

66. The Ring and the Book was story of a?

  • a) Murder
  • b) poet
  • c) Farmer
  • d) Doctor

67. Browning’s father was a______.

  • a) Doctor
  • b) bishop
  • c) farmer
  • d) clerk

68. Browning was ______ in his poems?

  • a) present
  • b) everywhere
  • c) no where
  • d) thief

69. Fra Lippo Lippi is seen talking to ______ in the poem.

  • a) A Friar
  • b) a Teacher
  • c) Policemen
  • d) a Pope

70. Fra Lippo Lippi was________ by the policemen.

  • a) respected
  • b) beaten
  • c) caught
  • d) none of these

71. Fra Lippo Lippi invites policemen after 6 months to see his _____.

  • a) Power
  • b) people
  • c) painting
  • d) None of these

Chapter 71: WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH MCQs

1. Life-span of William Wordsworth is-----?

  • a) 1680-1755
  • b) 1770-1850
  • c) 1740- 1811
  • d) 1787-1853

2. What was the name of Wordsworth’s sister----?

  • a) Ruth
  • b) Lucy
  • c) Dorothy
  • d) Eliza

3. Wordsworth was the poet of------

  • a) Beauty
  • b) Love
  • c) Nature
  • d) Spirituality

4. Complete Wordsworth’s definition of poetry: “Poetry is a spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings. It takes its origin from emotions recollected in-------

  • a) Serenity
  • b) Tranquility
  • c) Brevity
  • d) Prolixity

5. Which of the following is the Birth place of Wordsworth------?

  • a) Cockermouth
  • b) Stratford-on-Avon
  • c) Wittenberg
  • d) Sussex

6. “Preface to Lyrical Ballad” was written by------

  • a) Coleridge
  • b) Wordsworth and Southey
  • c) Wordsworth
  • d) Coleridge and Wordsworth

7. Which one of the following poems was a part of Lyrical Ballads-----?

  • a) Immortality
  • b) Kubla Khan
  • c) Ode to Nightingale
  • d) Tintern Abbey

8. Wordsworth was appointed as Laureate of England in----- till his death.

  • a) 1843
  • b) 1842
  • c) 1845
  • d) 1841

9. The number of sonnets written by Wordsworth -------

  • a) 156
  • b) 253
  • c) 523
  • d) 326

10. Which of the following verse form was not employed by Wordsworth?

  • a) Sonnet
  • b) Ode
  • c) Lyric
  • d) Heroic couplet

11. Which family member does the poet address in the fifth section of ‘Tintern Abbey’ ------?

  • a) Brother
  • b) Mother
  • c) Sister
  • d) Grandmother

12. The river symbolizes-------. (Tintern Abbey)

  • a) Spirituality
  • b) Love
  • c) Beauty
  • d) Both B and C

13. Which section appeals the sense of sight in ‘Tintern Abbey’------?

  • a) Section 1
  • b) Section 2
  • c) Section 3
  • d) Section 4

14. What are the themes of ‘Tintern Abbey’-------?

  • a) Influence of Nature
  • b) Power of Human mind
  • c) Past memory
  • d) A, B and C

15. William Wordsworth wants to be remembered as the worshipper of-----?

  • a) Nature
  • b) God
  • c) Woman
  • d) The River

16. ------- is called the spiritual autobiography of William Wordsworth.

  • a) Ode on Imitation of Immortality
  • b) Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey
  • c) Lines Composed Upon Westminster Bridge
  • d) None of these

17. What type of meter does Wordsworth use in ‘Tintern Abbey’-----?

  • a) Dactylic Meter
  • b) Trochaic Meter
  • c) Iambic pentameter
  • d) Iambic tetrameter

18. Which of the following is a notable adjective use to describe the river ------? (Tintern Abbey)

  • a) Roaring
  • b) Dry
  • c) Terrifying
  • d) Sylvan

19. What is the name of the river mentioned in ‘Tintern Abbey’------?

  • a) The River Thames
  • b) The River Liffey
  • c) The River Wye
  • d) None of these

20. What sort of Verse is ‘Tintern Abbey’ written in-------?

  • a) Rhyming verse
  • b) Blank verse
  • c) Free verse
  • d) Couplet

21. What year was the poem (Tintern Abbey) composed------?

  • a) 1750
  • b) 1800
  • c) 1698
  • d) 1798

22. How long has it been since the last time the speaker toured the river? (Tintern Abbey)

  • a) Three years
  • b) Four years
  • c) Five years
  • d) Six years

23. What does the speaker imagine is responsible for the smoke rising above the trees------?

  • a) Forest fire
  • b) Bakery
  • c) A hermit
  • d) A factory

24. What is the speaker of the poem (Tintern Abbey) reflecting on------?

  • a) His old job
  • b) His past
  • c) His marriage
  • d) A camping trip

25. What is the overall theme of the poem --------- (Tintern Abbey)?

  • a) Memory and past
  • b) Nature and God are one
  • c) Man vs. the natural world
  • d) How people’s views change over time

26. The main theme of the poem is immortality of------.

  • a) Childhood
  • b) Life
  • c) Old age
  • d) Soul

27. The language used in this poem (ode on intimations) is------.

  • a) Difficult
  • b) Quite Poetic
  • c) Royale
  • d) Common

28. The poet ------ on not being able to see the glory of his childhood.

  • a) Laments
  • b) Prayers
  • c) Curses
  • d) Yearns

29. “Ode on Intimations of Immortality” was written in parts in 1803 and:

  • a) 1804
  • b) 1805
  • c) 1806
  • d) 1807

30. The child’s entire life will necessarily be “------imitation”.

  • a) Endless
  • b) Radical
  • c) Philosophical
  • d) Pessimistic

31. The poet beholds------ year’s boy imitating some plans.

  • a) Two
  • b) Six
  • c) Seven
  • d) Eight

32. Which specific month is mentioned in the poem ‘Ode on the intimations of immorality…….?

  • a) February
  • b) May
  • c) June
  • d) July

33. The waterfalls and echoes of mountain restored him to------?

  • a) Lamentation
  • b) Nature
  • c) Immortality
  • d) Strength

34. In poet’s views, the life is sleep and -----.

  • a) Awaking
  • b) Forgetting
  • c) Marrying
  • d) Materialistic

35. Wordsworth is known as worshipper of------.

  • a) Fire
  • b) Heather
  • c) Nature
  • d) None

36. In tenth stanza of “Ode on Intimation of immortality”, the poet is urges ------ to sing.

  • a) Cuckoo bird
  • b) Nightingale
  • c) Bird
  • d) None of these

37. Wordsworth creates the picture of ------ fading in the sky.

  • a) The sun
  • b) The moon
  • c) Childhood
  • d) Rainbow

38. Who does the speaker refer to as a prophet in the eighth stanza------ (Ode On Intimation of Immorality)

  • a) The birds
  • b) Himself
  • c) The earth
  • d) The child

39. Intimation of Immortality is-------.

  • a) Long narrative poem
  • b) Lyric poem
  • c) Ode
  • d) Natural poem

40. Which of the following is not a natural feature listed in the first line of “Intimation of Immortality” ------?

  • a) Stream
  • b) Sea
  • c) Grove
  • d) Meadow

41. The poem “Lines composed upon Westminster Bridge” is written by----

  • a) Thomas Camion
  • b) William Wordsworth
  • c) John Keats

42. The poem “Lines Composed upon Westminster Bridge” was written in?

  • a) September 5, 1802
  • b) September 6, 1802
  • c) September 3, 1802
  • d) September 4, 1802

43. “Dear God!” is exclaimed by the poet as an expression of------ (Lines Composed upon Westminster Bridge)

  • a) Disgust
  • b) Shame
  • c) Fear
  • d) Wonder

44. London is described is a ----- in the final line of the poem “Line Composed Upon Westminster Bridge”

  • a) Weak Heart
  • b) Sorrowful Heart
  • c) Mighty Heart
  • d) Poor Heart

45. Sonnet is a poem of------ lines.

  • a) Fifteen
  • b) Sixteen
  • c) Fourteen
  • d) Seventeen

46. The form of sonnet came from ------ in English literature.

  • a) Italy
  • b) France
  • c) Britain
  • d) Poland

47. Dull would he be of------- who could pass by.

  • a) Eye
  • b) Soul
  • c) Ear
  • d) Body

48. The beauty of the morning is compared to-------

  • a) The sun
  • b) The ornament
  • c) A bright face of girl
  • d) A garment

49. One of the themes of the poem “Lines Composed Upon Westminster Bridge” is -------

  • a) Man and his worries
  • b) Nature vs. civilization
  • c) Indifference towards worldly affairs
  • d) Love of humanity

50. The houses of London seem -----

  • a) Shaken and tattered
  • b) Asleep
  • c) Amazed
  • d) Awake

Chapter 72: S.T. COLERIDGE

SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE MCQs

1. When was Coleridge born?

  • a) 1772
  • b) 1762
  • c) 1753
  • d) 1722

2. What is the most powerful of human senses according to Coleridge?

  • a) Smelling
  • b) Touching
  • c) Hearing
  • d) Imagination

3. Who was the Vicar of Ottery and headmaster of the local grammar school?

  • a) Coleridge’s Mother
  • b) Coleridge’s Brother
  • c) Coleridge’s Father
  • d) Coleridge’s Sister

4. When did he enter Jesus College, Cambridge?

  • a) 1781
  • b) 1791
  • c) 1765
  • d) 1792

5. When did he marry?

  • a) October 1795
  • b) October 1796
  • c) October 1785
  • d) October 1786

6. Who was his wife?

  • a) Sara Fricker
  • b) Katherine
  • c) Elsa
  • d) Anna Hitson

7. What was the middle name of Coleridge?

  • a) Taylor
  • b) Samuel
  • c) Swift
  • d) Hitson

8. Who wrote The Nightingale?

  • a) Mertin
  • b) Shakespeare
  • c) Coleridge
  • d) William

9. Coleridge was famous for his eyes. What color were they?

  • a) Blue
  • b) Green
  • c) Brown
  • d) Grey

10. Which periodical was published by Coleridge?

  • a) The Watchman
  • b) Good housekeeping
  • c) Esquire
  • d) The Economist

11. In which poem Coleridge refers to ‘’ My shaping spirit of imagination’’?

  • a) Detection: An ode
  • b) Frost at Midnight
  • c) Christable
  • d) Easter Holidays

12. In The Rime of The Ancient Mariner, what color was nightmare life-in-death’s-skin?

  • a) White
  • b) Grey
  • c) Skin
  • d) Black

13. Who wrote Dejection: An Ode?

  • a) Coleridge
  • b) William Shakespeare
  • c) William Wordsworth
  • d) John Keats

14. What name was assumed by Coleridge when he joined Army?

  • a) John Milton
  • b) Geoffrey Chaucer
  • c) Silas Tompkin Comberbache
  • d) T.S Eliot

15. How many poems did Coleridge contribute to lyrical Ballads?

  • a) five
  • b) four
  • c) six
  • d) seven

16. In The Rime of The Ancient Mariner, how many crew were dead?

  • a) 100
  • b) 200
  • c) 300
  • d) 400

17. With whom did Coleridge devise a plan to create a pantisocracy?

  • a) Robert Southey
  • b) Robert Whitaker
  • c) Robert hook
  • d) William Wordsworth

18. Which poem was written by Coleridge after his sister Anne died in 1791?

  • a) Frost at Midnight
  • b) Christable
  • c) Monody
  • d) Easter Holidays

19. Coleridge died of?

  • a) lung cancer
  • b) heart failure
  • c) kidney damage
  • d) hepatitis

20. Which college did Coleridge attend?

  • a) Jesus College
  • b) Cambridge College
  • c) Imperial College
  • d) Birmingham College

21. Who wrote Fears in Solitude?

  • a) Coleridge
  • b) William
  • c) Shakespeare
  • d) Keats

22. What was Coleridge’s Father?

  • a) Doctor
  • b) Engineer
  • c) Pilot
  • d) A Vicar

23. With which famous writer Coleridge became friends with in Christ’s hospital?

  • a) Charles lamb
  • b) Shakespeare
  • c) Wordsworth
  • d) John Keats

24. Who is the American transcendental Philosopher who was much influenced by Coleridge?

  • a) Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • b) John Dewey
  • c) William James
  • d) Richard Rorty

25. In which year Coleridge met poet William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy which later contributed Romantic movement to the English literature?

  • a) 1789
  • b) 1795
  • c) 1756
  • d) 1785

26. What was responsible for Coleridge’s mental decline?

  • a) His addiction to opium
  • b) Addiction to Alcohol
  • c) Addiction to medicine
  • d) Addiction to cigarettes

27. The special domain of Coleridge was?

  • a) Supernaturalism
  • b) Art in the public
  • c) Brockley comb
  • d) A Tombless Epitaph

28. What was the name of Coleridge’s son?

  • a) David Hartley Coleridge
  • b) Plato Hartley Coleridge
  • c) Socrates Hartley Coleridge
  • d) Kant Hartley Coleridge

29. How many parts are there in The Rime of The Ancient Mariner?

  • a) six
  • b) seven
  • c) eight
  • d) ten

30. Coleridge died in?

  • a) Jul 25, 1834
  • b) Jul 25, 1896
  • c) Jul 25, 1876
  • d) Jul 25, 1854

31. How many lines are there in his poem Kubla Khan?

  • a) 53
  • b) 54
  • c) 56
  • d) 57

32. Who convinced Coleridge to publish the incomplete ‘Kubla Khan’?

  • a) Lord Byron
  • b) John Keats
  • c) Shakespeare
  • d) Wordsworth

33. Coleridge had ____ willpower.

  • a) Great
  • b) Less
  • c) Both
  • d) None

34. What mountain did the maid sing of in Kubla Khan?

  • a) Mount Abora
  • b) Mount Scafell
  • c) Mount Helvellyn
  • d) Mount Great gable

35. Coleridge belongs to the group of?

  • a) sad poet
  • b) funny poet
  • c) conservative poet
  • d) older romantic poet

Chapter 73: PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY MCQs

1. When was Shelley born?

  • a) 1792
  • b) 1762
  • c) 1753
  • d) 1722

2. Shelley is famous for ____ ideas.

  • a) Supernatural
  • b) Natural
  • c) Typical
  • d) Revolutionary

3. _____ was known as son and singer of revolution.

  • a) Keats
  • b) Shelley
  • c) Wordsworth
  • d) None

4. Who wrote “Adonis”.

  • a) Keats
  • b) Shelley
  • c) Wordsworth
  • d) None

5. Shelley was alleged of:

  • a) Atheism
  • b) Theft
  • c) Conspiracy
  • d) Treason

6. Shelley lost custody of his two children by Harriet because of his adherence to the notion of ____.

  • a) Free Love
  • b) Hatred
  • c) Revolt
  • d) Morbidity

7. In 1817, Shelley produced Laon and Cythna, a long narrative poem that, because it contained references to ___ as well as attacks on religion, was withdrawn after only a few copies were published

  • a) Greed
  • b) Marxism
  • c) Incest
  • d) Hitson

8. 'Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world' was said by:

  • a) Heaney
  • b) Shakespeare
  • c) Shelley
  • d) Aristotle

9. Harriet Shelley drowned herself in _____.

  • a) France
  • b) Dublin
  • c) Edinburgh
  • d) London

10. The Witch of Atlas was composed by:

  • a) Shelley
  • b) Keats
  • c) Byron
  • d) Coleridge

11. Mont Blanc was:

  • a) An ode
  • b) An Epic
  • c) A Novel
  • b) An Essay

12. Hymn to Intellectual Beauty was published in:

  • a) 1817
  • b) 1819
  • c) 1890
  • d) 1900

13. After death, Shelley’s body was identified due to ___ in his pocket.

  • a) Passport
  • b) Hamlet
  • c) Lamia by Keats
  • d) Opium

14. “I despair of rivalling Byron” was said by:

  • a) Byron
  • b) Keats
  • c) Shelley
  • d) T.S Eliot

15. "A Defence of Poetry" was published _____.

  • a) In Shelley’s life
  • b) By Keats
  • c) posthumously

16. "A Defence of Poetry" is an ____ by the English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, written in 1821

  • a) Epic
  • b) Idea
  • c) Essay
  • d) Analogy

17. Prometheus Unbound is a long dramatic poem inspired by ___ retelling of the Prometheus myth

  • a) Sophocles’
  • b) Aeschylus'
  • c) Euripides’
  • d) Wordsworth’s

18. _____ (1818) is a poem in twelve cantos composed by Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1817.

  • a) Frost
  • b) The Revolt of Islam
  • c) Ozymandias
  • d) Easter

19. Shelley took part in the literary and political circle of ___ , and during this period he met William Hazlitt and John Keats.

  • a) Byron
  • b) Leigh Hunt
  • c) Wordsworth
  • d) None

20. In May 1814, Shelley began visiting his mentor Godwin daily, and soon fell in love with ___, the 16-year-old daughter of Godwin.

  • a) Mary
  • b) Elizabeth
  • c) Linda
  • d) Lizzi

21. To a Skylark is replete with poetic device ______.

  • a) Simile
  • b) Alliteration
  • c) Assonance
  • d) Pun

22. Queen Mab was published in _____ cantos.

  • a) 9
  • b) 10
  • c) 11
  • d) 12

23. ___ was expelled from a famous university after writing Necessity of Atheism.

  • a) Shelley
  • b) Shakespeare
  • c) William Wordsworth
  • d) John Keats

24. Shelley wrote Necessity of Atheism when he was in ____ university.

  • a) Oxford
  • b) Cambridge
  • c) Birmingham
  • d) Leeds

25. Shelley’s wife wrote novels. Her famous work was:

  • a) Franklin
  • b) Frankenstein
  • c) The Horror
  • d) Lies

26. Ode to the West Wind has ____ cantos.

  • a) Five
  • b) Four
  • c) Six
  • d) Eight

27. Ode to the West Wind is about _____ revolution.

  • a) French
  • b) Russian
  • c) Glorious
  • d) English

28. Prometheus stole ____ from gods.

  • a) Fire
  • b) Food
  • c) Water
  • d) Honour

29. Prometheus Unbound (1820) is a four-act lyrical drama by ____ .

  • a) Coleridge
  • b) Shelley
  • c) Keats
  • d) Homer

30. Shelley wrote:

  • a) To a Skylark
  • b) Daffodils
  • c) Ode to a Nightingale
  • d) None

31. Ozymandias was a Greek name for the pharaoh ______.

  • a) Ramesses I
  • b) Ramesses II
  • c) Ramesses III
  • d) None

32. Shelley wrote Adonis in memory of:

  • a) Lord Byron
  • b) John Keats
  • c) Shakespeare
  • d) Wordsworth

33. Ozymandias is a ____ written by the Romantic poet P.B. Shelley.

  • a) Sonnet
  • b) Ballad
  • c) Lyric
  • d) Dirge

34. Shelley was often quoted by Martin Luther Jr. and ______?

  • a) Gandhi
  • b) Nehru
  • c) Jinnah
  • d) Iqbal

35. Shelley died of:

  • a) TB
  • b) Gun Shot
  • c) Grief
  • d) Drowning

Chapter 74: JOHN KEATS

1. John Keats was born in------.

  • a) 1795
  • b) 1770
  • c) 1740
  • d) 1798

2. John Keats died in_______.

  • a) 1830
  • b) 1840
  • c) 1850
  • d) 1821

3. John Keats was a poet of--------.

  • a) Beauty
  • b) Love
  • c) Nature
  • d) Romance

4. John Keats died from--------.

  • a) Cancer
  • b) Tuberculosis
  • c) Heart disease
  • d) Liver disease

5. Most important and mature work of John Keats is-----------.

  • a) Ode to nightingale
  • b) The Eve of St. Agnes
  • c) Sleep and poetry
  • d) Fancy

6. Incomplete work of John Keats is_______.

  • a) Fancy
  • b) Hyperion
  • c) To Lord Byron
  • d) Ode to Autumn

7. John Keats most inspired by which personality?

  • a) Leigh hunt
  • b) Edmund Spenser
  • c) Shakespeare
  • d) Wordsworth

8. Who recognized John Keats’s work first and foremost?

  • a) P. B Shelly
  • b) Geoffrey Chaucer
  • c) John Milton
  • d) Wordsworth

9. John Keats is also a--------.

  • a) Sensuous poet
  • b) Nature poet
  • c) Love poet
  • d) None of them

10. John Keats poetry is characterized by a style--------.

  • a) Heavily loaded with sensualities
  • b) Natural beauties
  • c) Romanticism
  • d) None of these

11. The poem “Ode to a Nightingale” was composed in-------.

  • a) 1820
  • b) 1819
  • c) 1818
  • d) 1817

12. “Ode to a Nightingale” is an example of--------.

  • a) Pindaric ode
  • b) Cowleyan ode
  • c) Horatian ode
  • d) None of these

13. “My heart aches”- the poet feels a painful sensation because----------. (Ode to a Nightingale)

  • a) He had drunk hemlock
  • b) He remembers his own sorrowful existence
  • c) He listens to the Nightingale’s song
  • d) Narcotic’s effect

14. The main theme of the poem “Ode to a Nightingale” is--------.

  • a) Nightingale and its melodious song
  • b) Nature
  • c) Conflict between temporary and permanence
  • d) Truth

15. Most of the lines of “Ode to a Nightingale” are written in--------.

  • a) Iambic pentameter
  • b) Iambic tetrameter
  • c) Iambic trimester
  • d) Alexandrine line

16. “The blushful Hippocrene”- ‘Hippocrene’ was the name of a----------. (Ode to a Nightingale)

  • a) Mountain
  • b) Fountain
  • c) Horse of sun god
  • d) Goddess of flowers

17. “Not charioted by Bacchus and his pards”. The expression ‘Bacchus and his pards’ metaphorically suggests. (Ode to a Nightingale)

  • a) Dionysus
  • b) Leopards
  • c) Wine
  • d) Opium

18. In “Ode to a Nightingale”, John Keats proposed the contemplation of beauty as a way of delaying the inevitability of_______.

  • a) Life
  • b) World
  • c) Death
  • d) All of these

19. “That thou, light winged Dryad of trees” figure of speech-------.

  • a) Personification
  • b) Alliteration
  • c) Simile
  • d) Imagery

20. Who is “Flora”? (Ode to a Nightingale)

  • a) Horse of sun god
  • b) The goddess of fire
  • c) The goddess of flowers
  • d) None of these

21. John Keats belongs to _______.

  • a) Romantic period
  • b) Victorian period
  • c) Augustan period
  • d) Transitional period

22. John Keats belongs with _______.

  • a) Young generation of romantic poets
  • b) Old generation of romantic poets
  • c) Lake poets
  • d) None of the above

23. “Ode to Nightingale” was published in _______.

  • a) Annals of the fine
  • b) Fanny Brown
  • c) Tom Keats
  • d) None of the above

24. While writing “Ode to Nightingale” John Keats was residing in the house of________.

  • a) Charles Armitage Brown
  • b) Fanny Brown
  • c) Tom Keats
  • d) None

25. “Where beauty cannot keep her lustrous eyes” figure of speech----------.

  • a) Personification
  • b) Metaphor
  • c) Simile
  • d) Consonance

26. The real cause of John Keats’s numbness____. (Ode to a Nightingale)

  • a) His envy of nightingale’s happy lot
  • b) His being too happy in nightingale’s happiness
  • c) Both A&B
  • d) None of the above

27. “And Lethe-wards had sunk” what is Lethe? (Ode to a Nightingale)

  • a) A river in the southern England
  • b) A river in the northern England
  • c) A river in Celtic mythology
  • d) None of these

28. John Keats wants wine to______. (Ode to a Nightingale)

  • a) Be drunked
  • b) Be unconscious of the sufferings of the world
  • c) To transport himself to the ideal world of the nightingale
  • d) All of the above

29. “Light-winged Dryad” Dryad means----------. (Ode to a Nightingale)

  • a) River nymph
  • b) Sea nymph
  • c) Forest nymph
  • d) Bad nymph

30. The Nightingales signets of ____. (Ode to a Nightingale)

  • a) Summer
  • b) Winter
  • c) Spring
  • d) Autumn

31. The poem “Ode on a Grecian Urn” was published in---------.

  • a) 1821
  • b) 1820
  • c) 1818
  • d) 1817

32. “Ode on a Grecian Urn” is a------.

  • a) Epic poem
  • b) Lyrical ballad
  • c) Narrative poem
  • d) None

33. The poem “Ode on a Grecian Urn” is written to praise the beauty of__.

  • a) Nature
  • b) Beloved
  • c) Greek Urn
  • d) World

34. The poem “Ode on a Grecian Urn” has _______ stanzas.

  • a) Three
  • b) Five
  • c) Six
  • d) Seven

35. “Urn” for John Keats is a sign of_______. (Ode on a Grecian Urn)

  • a) Life
  • b) Happiness
  • c) Grief
  • d) Immortality

36. Themes of the poem “Ode on a Grecian Urn” are________.

  • a) Life vs. Art
  • b) Immortality
  • c) Beauty and truth
  • d) All of these

37. “Bride of quietness”- figure of speech________.

  • a) Symbolism
  • b) Anaphora
  • c) Personification
  • d) Alliteration

38. Most of the lines of the poem “Ode on a Grecian Urn” are written in___.

  • a) Iambic pentameter
  • b) Iambic tetrameter
  • c) Iambic trimester
  • d) None of these

39. In the poem “Ode on a Grecian Urn” – ‘Urn’ is a symbol of________.

  • a) Nature
  • b) Reality
  • c) Beauty
  • d) All of these

40. In the poem “Ode on a Grecian Urn”, whom does John Keats refer as “Sylvan historian”?

  • a) Grecian Urn
  • b) Arcady
  • c) Labelle
  • d) None of these

41. From where does John Keats take inspiration for his poem “Ode on a Grecian”?

  • a) Benjamin Haydon
  • b) Lord Scotland
  • c) Lord Chester
  • d) All of these

42. In the poem “Ode on a Grecian Urn”, ‘the urn’ is a foster child of silence and ______.

  • a) Sound
  • b) Imagination
  • c) Civilization
  • d) Slow time

43. In the poem “Ode on a Grecian Urn”, who is the unravished bride of quietness?

  • a) Imagine
  • b) Urn
  • c) Leda
  • d) Una

44. In the poem “Ode on a Grecian Urn”, the poet addresses ‘Urn’ as an_______ shape.

  • a) Round
  • b) Landscape
  • c) Attic
  • d) Horizontal

45. What does ‘citadel’ mean in the context of the poem “Ode on a Grecian Urn”?

  • a) Fortress
  • b) Wood podium
  • c) Coarse die
  • d) None of these

46. Which animal is sacrificed in the fourth stanza of the poem “Ode on a Grecian Urn”?

  • a) Pig
  • b) Lamb
  • c) Cow
  • d) Horse

47. The overall tone of the poem “Ode on a Grecian Urn” can be described as_______.

  • a) Mournful
  • b) Emotional
  • c) Vulgar
  • d) Sarcastic

48. In the poem “Ode on a Grecian Urn”, the Urn is a piece of ancient _______ sculpture.

  • a) Greek
  • b) Roman
  • c) Egypt
  • d) Italian

49. The form of the “Ode on a Grecian Urn” is typically a verse from _______.

  • a) Greek
  • b) Hebrew
  • c) Rome
  • d) Latin

50. The boughs of the trees carved on the urn are always _______. (Ode on a Grecian Urn)

  • a) Green
  • b) Happy
  • c) Sad
  • d) Wet

Chapter 75: THE WASTE LAND BY T.S ELIOT

1. Which month is cruelest?

  • a) April
  • b) June
  • c) December
  • d) March

2. Where is Steinberger Sea?

  • a) Near Munich
  • b) In London
  • c) In Paris
  • d) In Michigan

3. The river sweats….

  • a) Oil and Tar
  • b) Fumes and Fire
  • c) Saffron and Lilac
  • d) Water

4. Who is Demobbed?

  • a) Madam Sosostris
  • b) Lil’s husband
  • c) Sweeney
  • d) Prufrock

5. Demobbed means….

  • a) Killed
  • b) Lunched
  • c) Released from Army
  • d) Awarded with The Medal of Honor

6. What Battle did Stetson supposedly participate in?

  • a) The battle of Britain
  • b) Waterloo
  • c) Mylae
  • d) The battle of the bulge

7. By the waters of ……… I sat down and wept.

  • a) The Theme
  • b) Then Nile
  • c) The seine
  • d) Leman

8. Which of the following cities is mentioned in “The Waste Land”.

  • a) Timbuktu
  • b) Vienna
  • c) Marseilles
  • d) Novgorod

9. The opening section of “The Waste Land “is entitled.

  • a) Death by Water
  • b) The Fire Sermon
  • c) Shantih
  • d) The Burial of the Death

10. Who Visit the typist

  • a) Mrs. Porter
  • b) The Young Man Carbuncular
  • c) Prufrock
  • d) A Bradford Millionaire

11. Who witnesses the visit?

  • a) Vivienne
  • b) Tiresias
  • c) Madam Sosostris
  • d) Ezra Pound

12. The clairvoyant is named….

  • a) Aldous Huxley
  • b) Vivienne
  • c) Madam Sosostris
  • d) Mrs.Porter

13. Mr. Eugenides invites the narrator...

  • a) The Canon Street Hotel
  • b) The Plaza
  • c) The Ritz Carlton
  • d) Venice

14. The ……...hour

  • a) Turquoise
  • b) Violet
  • c) Indigo
  • d) Aqua

15. Who is the “throbbing between two lives”?

  • a) Mr. Eugenides
  • b) Phlebas
  • c) Tiresias
  • d) The typist

16. The narrator said that he should fear death by:

  • a) Fire
  • b) starvation
  • c) Water
  • d) Disease

17. When lovely Woman stoops to folly “is an allusion to:

  • a) The Bible
  • b) Ovid’s Metamorphosis
  • c) Oliver Goldsmith’s Vicar of the Wakefield
  • d) Hamlet

18. Who rapes Philomela?

  • a) Tereus
  • b) Odysseus
  • c) Zeus
  • d) The typist

19. Translate “Oed Und leer das meer”.

  • a) Isolde is lost forever
  • b) Desolate and Empty is the sea
  • c) A kiss is just a kiss
  • d) The ship has arrived

20. Which of the following works of literature does Eliot not cite?

  • a) Hamlet
  • b) The Spanish tragedy
  • c) On the road
  • d) The inferno

21. In what city is Queen Victoria Street (in the poem)

  • a) Boston
  • b) London
  • c) Manchester
  • d) New York

22. What does the narrator know when confronted with the hyacinth girl?

  • a) Nothing
  • b) The reason he is in love
  • c) The machine of life
  • d) The way of restore fruitfulness to the Eastland

23. Who is “known to be the wisest woman in the Europe, with a wicked pack of cards”

  • a) Madam Sosostris
  • b) Mrs. Porter
  • c) The typist
  • d) Cleopatra

Chapter 76: ROMANTIC LITERATURE

1. Keats’ Endymion has

  • a) 3,000 lines
  • b) 4,000 lines
  • c) 2500 lines
  • d) 4,500 lines

2. Which is the pair of lovers Endymion does not meet in Keats’ Endymion?

  • a) Venus and Adonis
  • b) Romeo and Juliet
  • c) Glaucus and Scylla
  • d) Arcthusa and Alpheus

3. Who wrote the famous Preface to the Lyrical Ballads?

  • a) Coleridge
  • b) Southey
  • c) Wordsworth
  • d) Byron

4. When were the Lyrical Ballads published?

  • a) 1797
  • b) 1798
  • c) 1800
  • d) 1801

5. The Lyrical Ballads opens with

  • a) Kubla Khan
  • b) Ode to Duty
  • c) Rime of the Ancient Mariner
  • d) Immortality Ode

6. The Lyrical Ballads closes with

  • a) Kubla Khan
  • b) Immortality Ode
  • c) Cristobel
  • d) Lines Written above Tin tern Abbey

7. Who was the third person with Coleridge and Wordsworth at Quantico Hills when the Lyrical Ballads were composed?

  • a) Robert Southey
  • b) Walter Scott
  • c) Dorothy Wordsworth
  • d) Mary Lamb

8. William Wordsworth was born in

  • a) 1770
  • b) 1771
  • c) 1768
  • d) 1769

9. Who of the following is known for his Hellenic Spirit?

  • a) Lord Byron
  • b) RB. Shelley
  • c) Southey
  • d) John Keats

10. Who wrote: "Our Sweetest songs are those that tell our saddest thoughts"?

  • a) Shelley
  • b) Southey
  • c) Newman
  • d) Coleridge

11. How do we classify Shelley's Prometheus Unbound? As

  • a) an epic
  • b) True Tale
  • c) Myth
  • d) a lyrical drama

12. Who wrote this: "He prayed well, who loved well both man and bird and beast"?

  • a) Wordsworth
  • b) Coleridge
  • c) Leigh Hunt
  • d) Cardinal Newman

13. Name the journal to which Southey contributed regularly.

  • a) The Quarterly Review
  • b) The Backwoods Magazine
  • c) The Edinburgh Review
  • d) The Westminster Review

14. Sir Walter Scott collected Scottish ballads, and published them along with his own, in

  • a) The Lay of the Last Minstrel
  • b) Marion
  • c) Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border
  • d) The Lord of the Isles

15. How old was Byron when he published Hours of Idleness, a collection of poems in heroic couplet?

  • a) 19
  • b) 29
  • c) 18
  • d) 30

16. When Hours of Idleness was criticized by the Edinburgh Review, Lord Byron retaliated by writing a satiric piece. What was the title of this satire?

  • a) The Vision of Judgment
  • b) Mazeppa
  • c) The Giaour
  • d) English Bards and Scotch Reviewers

17. How many cantos could Byron complete of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage during his two years tour of the continent?

  • a) All four
  • b) First two
  • c) One and three
  • d) Only one

18. The first two cantos of Childe Harold take a reader to

  • a) Spain
  • b) Portugal
  • c) Greece and Albania
  • d) All

19. What is the tone of the ending of the second canto of Childe Harold?

  • a) Joyous
  • b) Melancholy
  • c) Self-pitying
  • d) Optimistic

20. In which canto does the description of the "Battle of Waterloo" appear?

  • a) Canto I
  • b) It is an independent poem
  • c) Canto III
  • d) Canto IV

21. Who is the hero of Childe Harold?

  • a) Nature
  • b) An unnamed traveler
  • c) A legendary king
  • d) The poet himself

22. "Michael", "The Solitary Reaper," "To a Highland Girl" - all these poems depict

  • a) the poet's joy at the beauty of nature
  • b) simple common folk
  • c) poet's awe at the spiritual presence
  • d) deep sense of music

23. What was Wordsworth's professed aim in the Lyrical Ballads?

  • a) Purge poetry of all conceit
  • b) Simplicity of diction
  • c) Make it intelligible to common people
  • d) All of the above

24. Which work inspired Coleridge's Kubla Khan?

  • a) Holinshed's Chronicle
  • b) Plutarch's Lives
  • c) Travels in Scotland
  • d) Purchas's Pilgrimage

25. The name of the prisoner of Chillon was

  • a) Beppo
  • b) Giaour
  • c) Francois de Bonnivard
  • d) Pasha

26. The Vision of Judgment is

  • a) an attack on Jeffrey, the editor
  • b) satire on Southey
  • c) satire on a young man of Seville
  • d) satire on society

27. Don Juan has

  • a) 5 cantos
  • b) 15 cantos
  • c) 16 cantos
  • d) 20 cantos

28. Who is Halide in Don Juan?

  • a) Wife of Don Alfonso
  • b) Daughter of an old pirate
  • c) Princess of Constantinople
  • d) A Duchess

29. Where do we find these lines? "Man's love is of man's life a thing apart, "Tis woman's whole existence...."?

  • a) Don Juan
  • b) Bipod
  • c) Childe Harold
  • d) Lara

30. Where do we meet these characters? Don Alfonso, Julia, Sultana? In

  • a) Lara
  • b) Don Juan
  • c) Childe Harold
  • d) Beppo

31. When he wrote Queen Mab, Shelley was only

  • a) 19
  • b) 18
  • c) 21
  • d) 22

32. Which of Shelley's poems has a story from Greek mythology?

  • a) Prometheus Unbound
  • b) Alastor
  • c) Queen Mab
  • d) Julian and Maddalo

33. Which poem was inspired by the Greek proclamation of independence, followed by Greek revolt against Turkish rule?

  • a) Epipsychidion
  • b) Queen Mab
  • c) Hellas
  • d) Prometheus

34. Who is Adonais of the poem Adonais?

  • a) Byron
  • b) Keats
  • c) Shelley himself
  • d) None

35. We meet characters such as Asia, Hercules, Jupiter in

  • a) Hellas
  • b) Prometheus Unbound
  • c) Adonais
  • d) Queen Mab

36. In which novel Scott projects Scotland under Robert Bruce, King and national hero?

  • a) Quentin Durward
  • b) Kenilworth
  • c) Castle Dangerous
  • d) St. Ronan's Well

37. Which of the following is not written by Walter Scott?

  • a) The Black Dwarf
  • b) The Legend Montrose
  • c) The Talisman
  • d) None of the above

38. What is the background of Ivanhoe?

  • a) The first crusade of Constantinople
  • b) Contemporary life in the Scottish span of St. Ronan's well
  • c) Enmity of Saxon and Norman
  • d) Wales under Henry II

39. Who wrote the following? Castle Rackrent, the Absentee, Ormond?

  • a) Fanny Burney
  • b) Jane Poster
  • c) Thomas Peacock
  • d) Maria Edge worth

40. This woman novelist wrote "Scotch" novels: Thaddeus of Warsaw and The Scottish Chiefs. Who is she?

  • a) Jane Porter
  • b) Susan Ferrier
  • c) Marry Russell Mitford
  • d) Maria Edge worth

41. Who wrote Headlong Hall, Maid Marian, Melincourt, Nightmare Abbey, Misfortunes of Elphin, Crotchet Castle and Gryll Grange?

  • a) Thomas Peacock
  • b) G.P.R. James
  • c) George Meredith
  • d) Charles Lever

42. One of the following was not associated with the 'Edinburgh Review'. Identify him.

  • a) Sidney Smith
  • b) William Blackwood
  • c) Henry Brougham
  • d) Francis Jeffrey

43. One of the characters of Jane Austen remarks, "A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment." Who said this and in which novel?

  • a) Mr. Woodhouse in Emma
  • b) Darcy in Pride and Prejudice
  • c) Catherine in Northanger Abbey
  • d) None of the above

44. His sonnet was rejected by a magazine Gem, on the plea that it would "shock mothers". At this he wrote to a friend, "I am born out of time .... When my sonnet was rejected, I exclaimed 'Hang the age, I will write for antiquity.' Who is he?

  • a) Thomas Peacock
  • b) Hazlitt
  • c) Charles Lamb
  • d) Leigh Hunt

45. This patriotic song is often prescribed for school anthologies in India: "Breathes there the man, with soul so dead who never to himself hath said, this is my own, my native land." Who is the poet?

  • a) Robert Southey
  • b) Walter Scott
  • c) Lord Byron
  • d) William Wordsworth

46. Where do we find Bingley?

  • a) Pride and Prejudice
  • b) Sense and Sensibility
  • c) Mansfield Park
  • d) Persuasion

47. When was the unfinished dream poem 'Kubla Khan' published?

  • a) 1816
  • b) 1810
  • c) 1820
  • d) 1821

48. Read the line: "About thirty years age, Miss Maria Ward of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram ". This is the beginning of a novel by Jane Austen. Which one?

  • a) Mansfield Park
  • b) Emma
  • c) Sense and Sensibility
  • d) Northanger Abbey

49. "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good for-tune must be in want of a wife." Which of Jane Austen's novels begins with these words?

  • a) Sense and Sensibility
  • b) Northanger Abbey
  • c) Pride and Prejudice
  • d) Emma

50. Which of Scott's novels depicts the conflict between the Puritans, the Covenanters, and the royal forces under Culverhouse"?

  • a) Old Morality
  • b) Castle Dangerous
  • c) Heart of Midlothian
  • d) Talisman

Chapter 77: LITERARY CRITICISM

1. Aristotle and Plato belonged to______ phase of criticism

  • a) Greco-Roman
  • b) Hellenistic
  • c) Renaissance
  • d) Romantic

2. Who said "art is twice removed from reality''

  • a) Aristotle
  • b) Plato
  • c) Socrates
  • d) Dr. Johnson

3. "On translating homer'' is written by?

  • a) Mathew Arnold
  • b) Dr. Johnson
  • c) Plato
  • d) Aristotle

4. Who Proposed That Poets Should Be Banished from Ideal Republic

  • a) Aristotle
  • b) Plato
  • c) Socrates
  • d) Dr. Johnson

5. Who said that poetry is mother of evils?

  • a) Aristotle
  • b) Plato
  • c) Socrates
  • d) Dr. Johnson

6. "Symposium" Was Written By

  • a) Greco-Roman
  • b) Hellenistic
  • c) Renaissance
  • d) Romantic

7. Who Proposed That Poets Should Be Banished from Ideal Republic

  • a) Aristotle
  • b) Plato
  • c) Socrates
  • d) Dr. Johnson

8. According to Plato, what is the moral purpose of art?

  • a) To connect human beings with a higher ideal
  • b) To entertain those who enjoy it
  • c) To criticize society through satire
  • d) To bring to light social oppressions
  • e) All of the above answers are correct

9. How does literary theory resemble the practice of philosophy as it was developed by Plato and Aristotle?

  • a) Literary theory engages with theoretical rather than real-world issues
  • b) Literary theory asks fundamental questions about literary interpretation, and at the same time builds specific systems of literary interpretation
  • c) Literary theory relies totally on speculation rather than history
  • d) Literary theory is detached from the reality of politics and the economy.
  • e) All of the above answers are correct

10. Modern literary theory began with the work of which theorist?

  • a) Claude Lévi-Strauss
  • b) Ferdinand de Saussure
  • c) Viktor Shklovsky
  • d) Roland Barthes
  • e) Michel Foucault

11. What is mimesis?

  • a) Reversal
  • b) An imitation
  • c) A satire
  • d) A poetic metaphor
  • e) A Spectacle

12. What is the main function of literary theory?

  • a) To understand the importance of the formal elements of literary structure
  • b) To formulate relationships among an author, a reader, and a literary work
  • c) To understand the role of sexuality, gender, race, and ethnicity in literary study
  • d) To evaluate the role of historical context in the interpretation of literature
  • e) All of the above answers are correct

13. Which of the following best describes the difference between literary criticism and literary theory?

  • a) Literary: criticism is concerned only with the meaning of a literary work, while literary theory is concerned only with the structure of a literary work
  • b) Literary criticism draws upon research derived from sources outside literature, while literary theory draws upon sources within a text
  • c) Literary criticism is concerned with how characters in a text act, while literary theory is concerned with why characters act
  • d) Literary theory is concerned with the method used to interpret a work, while literary criticism is the application of literary theory
  • e) All of the above answers are correct

14. Which of the following literary theorists is most closely associated with the concept that became known as liberal humanism?

  • a) Aristotle
  • b) Viktor Shklovsky
  • c) Cleanth Brooks
  • d) Stanley Fish
  • e) Toni Morrison

15. WHICH THEORIST IS MOST CLOSELY ASSOCIATED WITH THE IDEA OF ART AS IMITATION?

  • a) Jacques Derrida
  • b) Jacques Lacan
  • c) Edward Said
  • d) Stephen Greenblatt
  • e) Plato

16. What is humanism?

  • a) An idea traditionally associated with the Renaissance
  • b) A humanity-centered view of the universe
  • c) A school of theory devoted to the revival of Classical (ancient Greek and Roman) literature
  • d) A theory that values restraint, form, and imitation
  • e) All of the above answers are correct

17. WHICH SCHOOL OF LITERARY THEORY SHOWS A PARTICULAR INTEREST IN THE ROLE OF TESTIMONY IN LITERATURE?

  • a) Trauma theory
  • b) Eco theory
  • c) Chaos theory
  • d) Formalism
  • e) Marxist theory

18. Detractors argue that such an approach can be too "judgmental." some believe literature should be judged primarily (if not solely) on its artistic merits. What approach possess this disadvantage?

  • a) Psychological
  • b) Formalism/New Criticism
  • c) Moral/Philosophical
  • d) Historical/Biographical

19. Plato used the word mimesis in relation to literature with the meaning?

  • a) Copying
  • b) Criticism of life
  • c) Representation
  • d) Interpretation

20. HORACE WAS A ________.

  • a) Greek writer
  • b) Roman Writer
  • c) Italian writer
  • d) English writer

21. In Dryden’s essay of dramatic poesy there are four interlocuters representing four different ideologies. Which of them expresses Dryden’s own views?

  • a) Lisideius
  • b) Eugenius
  • c) Neander
  • d) Crites

22. What do many contemporary theorists find problematic about the literary canon?

  • a) It includes too few works by non- European writers
  • b) It includes too few works by non-white writers
  • c) It includes too few works by women
  • d) All of the above answers are correct

23. What did Sigmund Freud believe about the unconscious?

  • a) It contains secret instincts and desires that are repressed
  • b) It is the only significant aspect of the human psyche
  • c) It can never be accessed
  • d) All of the above answers are correct

24. In her essay "the poem as event," Louise m. Rosenblatt sees the reader as performing what function?

  • a) The reader participates in a transaction with the text
  • b) The reader is acted upon by the text
  • c) The reader acts upon the text
  • d) All of the above answers are correct

25. How did the new critics view literature?

  • a) As an aesthetic object that is independent of historical context
  • b) As an aesthetic object that is influenced by historical context
  • c) As a historical object that is also aesthetic
  • d) As a historical object that is not necessarily aesthetic

26. What do structuralist and formalist critics have in common?

  • a) Both sets of critics reject the importance of historical context in studying literature
  • b) Both sets of critics look for an objective way to view texts
  • c) Both sets of critics study the underlying forms of texts
  • d) Both sets of critics focus on evaluating literature in a scientific manner
  • e) All of the above answers are correct

27. What is affective fallacy?

  • a) A term first used by literary theorists William Wimsatt and Monroe Beardsley
  • b) A term that suggests that a critic should study the structural and thematic elements of a poem rather than the effect it has on the emotions of the reader
  • c) A term that describes the confusion between a poem and its result
  • d) An important term in the field of New Historicism
  • e) All of the above answers are correct

28. Which of the following descriptions best defines the literary theory known as formalism?

  • a) An approach that emphasizes literary devices in a text
  • b) An approach that emphasizes the historical context of a text
  • c) An approach that emphasizes the biographical intent of a text
  • d) An approach that emphasizes racial issues in a text
  • e) An approach that emphasizes the representation of economy in a text

29. Which of the following figures is considered to be the father of the linguistic theory known as structuralism?

  • a) Cleanth Brooks
  • b) Ferdinand de Saussure
  • c) Karl Marx
  • d) Sigmund Freud
  • e) Toni Morrison

30. Which of the following texts is the best example of the argument that a work's meaning does not come entirely from the imagination of the author?

  • a) Plato's The Republic
  • b) T.S. Eliot's "Tradition and the Individual Talent"
  • c) Jacques Derrida’s of Grammatology
  • d) Roland Barthes’s “The Death of the Author
  • e) Jacques Lacan's "The Mirror Stage "

31. Which of the following texts provides the best example of defamiliarization?

  • a) Aristotle's Poetics
  • b) Leo Tolstoy's The Kreutzer Sonata
  • c) John Keats's "Ode on a Grecian Urn"
  • d) Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness
  • e) W.E.B. Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk

32. Which of the following theorists is associated with formalism?

  • a) Viktor Shklovsky
  • b) Cleanth Brooks
  • c) Terry Eagleton
  • d) Judith Butler
  • e) Mikhail Bakhtin

33. Which school of literary theory is associated with the phrase "to make the stones stonier"?

  • a) Humanism
  • b) Formalism
  • c) Structuralism
  • d) Poststructuralism
  • e) Marxism

34. What is the central idea of Ferdinand de Saussure’s course in general linguistics?

  • a) Language is inseparable from its historical context
  • b) There are five phases of linguistic development
  • c) Language can be analyzed as a formal system of elements
  • d) Linguistics is too complicated to be distilled to a formula
  • e) All of the above answers are correct

35. According to Jacques Lacan, the mirror stage is the point at which a child:

  • a) refuses maternal bonds
  • b) is able to separate the "I" from the "Other."
  • c) looks into a mirror for the first-time
  • d) first engages with speech
  • e) All of the above answers are correct

36. To what idea does the ancient Greek term aporia refer in terms of deconstruction theory?

  • a) The ability of a text to contain truth
  • b) The "undecidability" and essentially unstable nature of a text
  • c) The idea that a text has a specific meaning that can be understood through a process of deconstruction
  • d) Jacques Derrida’s style of writing
  • e) All of the above answers are correct

37. Ultimately, the literary theory of deconstruction argues that:

  • a) the meaning of a text always relies on context
  • b) texts are always heterogeneous
  • c) the instability of a text is actually evident in the text itself
  • d) any system for the production of meaning is inevitably bound by context, yet also limitless
  • e) All of the above answers are correct

38. The most important element of a tragedy, in Aristotle’s view, is

  • a) Catharsis
  • b) Plot
  • c) Characters
  • d) Diction

39. Which academy colleague left with Aristotle after Plato’s death and accompanied him in some of his travels?

  • a) Xenocrates
  • b) Pixodarus
  • c) Antipater
  • d) Hermeias

40. Aristotle is considered the founder of what?

  • a) Modern Biology
  • b) Modern Chemistry
  • c) Modern Physics
  • d) Modern Anatomy

41. Who made a difference between 'poetry' and 'poem'

  • a) Coleridge
  • b) Addison
  • c) Arnold
  • d) Milton

42. Wordsworth's preface to the lyrical ballads is believed to be the preamble to romantic criticism. In which year was it published?

  • a) 1798
  • b) 1800
  • c) 1801
  • d) 1802

43. 'Gynocriticism’ Is Associated With

  • a) Elaine Showalter
  • b) Ellen Moors
  • c) Julia Kristeva
  • d) Kate Millet

44. "The end of writing is to instruct; the end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing." whose view is this?

  • a) Wordsworth's
  • b) Coleridge's
  • c) Dr. Johnson's
  • d) Matthew Arnold's

45. Poetic diction was taken to be the standard language for poetry in:

  • a) The Elizabethan Age
  • b) The Neo-Classical Age
  • c) The Romantic Age
  • d) The Victorian Age

46. The term Electra complex has originated from a tragedy entitled Electra. Who 1s the author of this tragedy?

  • a) Aeschylus
  • b) Sophocles
  • c) Euripides
  • d) Seneca

47. Who remarked, "no Spenser no language."

  • a) Pope
  • b) Arnold
  • c) Dr. Johnson
  • d) Ben Jonson

48. Who was the most illustrious disciple of Socrates?

  • a) Sophocles
  • b) Plautus
  • c) Plato
  • d) Critus

49. From where has the term Oedipus complex originated?

  • a) Oedipus Rex
  • b) Oedipus at Colonus
  • c) Antigone

50. Aristotle believed, unlike Plato, that art is__________.

  • a) Greco-Roman
  • b) Imitation
  • c) Classic
  • d) Romantic

51. According to aristotle, tragedy came from the efforts of poets to present men as 'nobler,' or 'better'than they are in_________.

  • a) Imagination
  • b) Real Life
  • c) Heaven
  • d) Hades

52. Comedy, On the Other Hand, Shows A 'Lower Type' Of Person, And Reveals Humans to Be_____ Than They Are In Average

  • a) Better
  • b) Greater
  • c) Worse
  • d) Romantic

53. Aristotle Lays Out_________ Elements of Tragedy

  • a) 2
  • b) 4
  • c) 6
  • d) 8

54. 6 ELEMENTS ARE PLOT, CHARACTER, DICTION, THOUGHT, ____, AND SONG.

  • a) Theme
  • b) Story
  • c) Spectacle
  • d) Review

55. According To Aristotle, Plot Is The_______Of Tragedy

  • a) Theme
  • b) Story
  • c) Soul
  • d) Review

56. According to Aristotle, plot must have____________.

  • a) Beginning, Middle, End
  • b) Middle, End
  • c) Beginning, Middle

57. According to Aristotle, peripeteia means____________.

  • a) Reversal
  • b) Discovery
  • c) Song
  • d) Situation

Chapter 78: DECONSTRUCTION

1. Deconstruction was originated by the philosopher ------ (1930-2004)

  • a) Jacques Derrida
  • b) Heidegger
  • c) Paul de Man
  • d) Ernesto Laclau

2. Deconstruction can be regarded as a criticism of ----- and the idea of true forms, or essences, which take precedence over appearances

  • a) Platonism
  • b) Neoplatonism
  • c) Aristotelianism
  • d) Stoicism

3. ------ instead places the emphasis on appearance, or suggests, at least, that essence is to be found in appearance

  • a) Deconstruction
  • b) Synthesis
  • c) Combination
  • d) Aggregation

4. Derrida would say that the difference is “----“, in that it cannot be discerned in everyday experiences.

  • a) Undecidable
  • b) Unpredictable
  • c) Undeterminable
  • d) Decidable

5. Deconstruction argues that language, especially in ideal concepts such as truth and justice, is irreducibly ------- unstable, or impossible to determine.

  • a) Complex
  • b) Unique
  • c) Simple
  • d) Complicated

6. Derrida wrote Difference, Speech and Phenomena, and --------

  • a) Speech and difference
  • b) Writing and difference
  • c) Oral and difference
  • d) Writing and Oral

7. In Deconstruction, meaning is never Obvious, but has to be ---------

  • a) Searched
  • b) Found
  • c) Learned
  • d) Dissolved

8. Deconstruction was sometimes used pejoratively to suggest nihilism and frivolous ---

  • a) Belief
  • b) Faith
  • c) Skepticism
  • d) Conviction

9. In popular usage the term has come to mean a critical ------ of tradition and traditional modes of thought.

  • a) Building
  • b) Assembling
  • c) Restoring
  • d) Dismantling

10. Derrida coined the term difference, meaning both a difference and an act of ------

  • a) Disobey
  • b) Deferring
  • c) Respect
  • d) Reshape

11. In deconstruction, text doesn’t have a single -----

  • a) Antonym
  • b) Translation
  • c) Meaning
  • d) Synonym

12. In deconstruction, in the process of ------- the hierarchies, uncover the whole process of making hierarchies.

  • a) Reversing
  • b) Replacing
  • c) Arranging
  • d) Ordering

13. It’s the point at which the ------ has hit a brick wall when it comes to meaning.

  • a) Poem
  • b) Content
  • c) Text
  • d) Verse

14. Phonocentrism is the belief that ----- and speech are inherently superior to, or more primary than, written language.

  • a) Sounds
  • b) Sign
  • c) Vibration
  • d) Mute

15. Those who espouse phonocentric views maintain that ------ language is the primary and most fundamental method of communication.

  • a) Written
  • b) Spoken
  • c) Sign
  • d) None of these

16. According to Derrida, “logocentrism” is the attitude that logos is the central principle of ------- and philosophy.

  • a) Language
  • b) Sound
  • c) Text
  • d) All

17. In logocentrism, logos (Greek Word) means:

  • a) Writing and reason
  • b) Sound, thought and theory
  • c) Reason only
  • d) Speech, thought, law or reason

18. Derrida and others identified phonocentrism, or the prioritizing of speech over writing, as an integral part of ------.

  • a) Phallogocentrism
  • b) Phallogocentrique
  • c) Phallocentric
  • d) Benignant

19. Jacques Derrida used the concept of TRACE in two of his early books, namely Writing and Difference and Of ----------

  • a) Variable
  • b) Grammatology
  • c) Revelry
  • d) Reason

20. -------- is the absent part of the sign’s presence.

  • a) Intimacy
  • b) Speck
  • c) Discover
  • d) Trace

21. The term deconstruction refers to approaches to understanding the relationship between ____ and meaning

  • a) Man
  • b) Text
  • c) Trace
  • d) Language

22. Hauntology is a concept referring to the return or persistence of elements from past, as in the manner of a -----

  • a) Corporeality
  • b) Organism
  • c) Ghost
  • d) All

23. It is a neologism first introduced by French philosopher Jacques Derrida in his 1993 book ---------

  • a) Margins of philosophy
  • b) The Work of Mournina
  • c) The politics of friendship
  • d) Spectra of Marx

24. Deconstruction’s reception was coloured by its intellectual predecessors, most notably structuralism and -------

  • a) New criticism
  • b) Unskilled
  • c) Banned
  • d) All

Chapter 79: FEMINIST CRITICISM

1. Feminist criticism is concerned with “the ways in which literature reinforce or undermines the economic, political, social and psychological oppression of

  • a) Men
  • b) Transgender
  • c) Women
  • d) Countrymen

2. A dislike, or ingrained prejudice against women is called

  • a) Misogyny
  • b) Ogyny
  • c) Love
  • d) Fondness

3. Feminist criticism is also concerned with less obvious forms of marginalization e.g. ----- of women writers from the literary canon.

  • a) Exclusion
  • b) Transgender
  • c) Women
  • d) Countrymen

4. Women are oppressed by ----- economically, politically, socially and psychologically;

  • a) Patriarchy
  • b) Ogyny
  • c) Love
  • d) Fondness

5. Woman is marginalized, defined by her ----from male norms and values.

  • a) Similarity
  • b) Difference
  • c) both
  • d) Fondness

6. Western civilization is deeply rooted in patriarchal ideology, for example, in the Biblical portrayal of -------- as the origin of sin and death in the world.

  • a) Eve
  • b) Transgender
  • c) Women
  • d) Countrymen

7. While biology determines our sex. ------- determines our gender.

  • a) Values
  • b) Traditions
  • c) Rights
  • d) Culture

8. All feminist activity, including feminist theory and literary criticism, has as its ultimate goal to change the world by prompting ------ equality.

  • a) Gender
  • b) Age
  • c) Culture
  • d) Youth

9. Late 1700s – early 1900s was the ----- wave of feminism.

  • a) First
  • b) Second
  • c) Third
  • d) Fourth

10. Early 1960s – late 1970s was the----- wave of feminism.

  • a) First
  • b) Second
  • c) Third
  • d) Fourth

11. 1990s was the -------- wave of feminism.

  • a) First
  • b) Second
  • c) Third
  • d) Fourth

12. Currently it’s the ----- wave of feminism.

  • a) First
  • b) Second
  • c) Third
  • d) Fourth

13. Feminism is one of the ------- movements in global history.

  • a) Oldest
  • b) Modern
  • c) Newest
  • d) Fourth

Chapter 80: LITERARY CRITICISM

1. Aristotle and Plat belong to --------phase of criticism?

  • a) Hellenic
  • b) Hellenistic
  • c) Renaissance
  • d) Graeco-Roman

2. Who said that art is twice removed from reality?

  • a) Plato
  • b) Aristotle
  • c) Shakespeare
  • d) Milton

3. Who considered poetry as mother of lies?

  • a) Aristotle
  • b) Plato
  • c) Pope
  • d) Stephen Gosson

4. Aristotle’s critical work is entitled as?

  • a) Ars Poetica
  • b) Poetics
  • c) De Arte Poetica
  • d) Art Poetique

5. “discoveries” is a work of?

  • a) Pope
  • b) Plato
  • c) Ben Johnson
  • d) Stephen gosson

6. “Poetry is emotions recollected in tranquility” who has defined poetry in these words?

  • a) Shelley
  • b) Wordsworth
  • c) Shelley
  • d) S. T. Coleridge

7. Horas was a friend of -----?

  • a) Emperor Augustus
  • b) Anubis
  • c) Seth
  • d) Thoth

8. What approach to literary criticism requires to critic to know about the author’s life and time?

  • a) Neoclassical
  • b) Classical
  • c) Historical
  • d) Romantic

9. Formalist critics believe that the value of work cannot be determined by the author’s intension. What term do they use when speaking of the belief?

  • a) The pathetic fallacy
  • b) The intentional fallacy
  • c) The affective fallacy
  • d) The objective correlative

10. What poet popularized the term objective corrective, which is often used in formalist criticism?

  • a) Virginia Woolf
  • b) C.S. Lewis
  • c) T.S. Eliot
  • d) Matthew Arnold

11. In a Freudian approach to literature, concave images are usually seen as;

  • a) Female symbols
  • b) Phallic symbols
  • c) Male symbols

12. He was an influential force in archetypical criticism,

  • a) Freud
  • b) Tate
  • c) Richards
  • d) Jung

13. Sevan is an archetypical associated with;

  • a) Death
  • b) Evil
  • c) Perfection
  • d) Birth

14. This feminist critic proposed that all female characters in literature are in at least in one of the following stages of development; at the feminine, feminist, or female stage.

  • a) Virginia Woolf
  • b) Elaine Showalter
  • c) Mary Wolstencraft
  • d) Ellen Mores

15. A critic argues that in john Milton’s “Samson agonistes” the sharing of the samson’s locks in symbolic of his castration at the hands of Delilah. What kind of critical approach is this critic using?

  • a) Mimetic approach
  • b) Formalist approach
  • c) Historical approach
  • d) Psychological approach

16. One of the disadvantages of this school of criticism is that it tends to make reading too subjective;

  • a) Structuralist criticism
  • b) Reader Response Criticism
  • c) Formalist Criticism
  • d) DE- Formalist criticism

17. Michael Foucault was the major practitioner of this school of criticism.

  • a) Formalist Criticism
  • b) Deconstructionism
  • c) Structuralism
  • d) Mimetic Criticism

18. This critical approach assumes that language does not refer to any external reality. It can assert several, contradictory interpretation of one next.

  • a) Deconstructionism
  • b) Formalist Criticism
  • c) Structuralism
  • d) Mimetic Criticism

19. Detractors argue that such an approach can be too “Judgmental”. Some believe literature should be judged primarily (if not solely) on its critics merits. What approach possess this advantages?

  • a) Psychological
  • b) Formalism/New Criticism
  • c) Moral/Philosophical
  • d) Historical/Biographical

20. Modern literary theory began with the work of which of theorist?

  • a) Ferdinand de Saussure
  • b) Viktor Shklovsky
  • c) Roland Barthes
  • d) Michel Foucault

21. One archetype in literature in the scapegoat. Which literary character serves that purpose?

  • a) Billy Budd
  • b) Hamlet
  • c) Captain Ahab
  • d) Ophelia

22. Plato used the word mimesis in relation to literature with the meaning?

  • a) Copying
  • b) Criticism of life
  • c) Representation
  • d) Interpretation

23. What approach is described by paragraph “user of this approach believes that all information essential to the interpretation of a work must be found within the work of itself; there is no need to bring in outside information about the history, politics, or society of the time, or about the author’s life?

  • a) Formalism
  • b) Psychological Approach
  • c) Moral/ Philosophical Approach
  • d) Immoral/philosophical Approach

24. Who proposed that poets should be banished from the ideal public?

  • a) Plato
  • b) Aristotle
  • c) Sir Philip Sidney
  • d) Sir Thomas More

25. Horace was a -------?

  • a) Roman writer
  • b) Russian writers
  • c) American writer
  • d) None of these

26. A critic examining Pope’s “An essay on a man” asks herself. How well does this poem accord with a real world?

  • a) Is this accurate?
  • b) Is this moral?
  • c) She is most likely a critic?
  • d) Mimetic

27. New trends in literary theory tend to do?

  • a) Reject all previous modes of literary theory
  • b) Focus on a return to traditional critical methods
  • c) Make use of different literary theories in order to develop new theories
  • d) Work only with ideas developed by post- Marxist theorists

28. In Dryden’s essay of romantic poesy there are four interlocuters four different ideologies. which of them expresses Dryden’s own views?

  • a) Lisideius
  • b) Eugenius
  • c) Neander
  • d) Crites

29. What did Sigmund Freud believe about unconsciousness?

  • a) It contains secret instincts and desire that are repressed
  • b) The unconscious contains contents that are unacceptable or unpleasant, such as feelings of pain, anxiety, or conflict
  • c) Both A&B
  • d) None of these

30. Which text is considered the first example of postcolonial criticism?

  • a) Harold Bloom’s “An Elegy for the Canon”
  • b) Jacques Lacan’s “The Mirror Stage.”
  • c) Cleanth Brooks’s “Keats’s Sylvan Historian”
  • d) Edward Said’s Orientalism

31. Which literary theorist argues that” there is nothing outsider the text”

  • a) Eliot
  • b) Jacques Lacan
  • c) Jacques Derrida
  • d) Stanley Fish

32. Which of the following writers might be considered one of the early founders of the first waves feminism?

  • a) Hélène Cixous
  • b) Judith Butler
  • c) Lucy Irigaray
  • d) Mary Wollstonecraft

33. The poetic diction was taken to be the standard language for poetry in -------?

  • a) The Elizabethan Age
  • b) The Neo-Classical Age
  • c) The Romantic Age
  • d) The Victorian Age

34. With which theorist is phenomenology associated?

  • a) Edmund Husserl
  • b) Wolfgang Iser
  • c) Jean-Paul Sartre
  • d) All

35. What does Sidney say about the observance of the three dramatic unities in drama?

  • a) They must be observed
  • b) It is not necessary to observe them
  • c) He favors the observance of the Unity of Action only
  • d) Their observance depends upon the nature of the theme of the play

36. What is phenomenology?

  • a) The examination of structures informing our conscious experience
  • b) The examination of desires informing our consciousness
  • c) The examination of our unconscious experience
  • d) The examination of intricate structures within our unconscious

37. Who said “theatre is not a hospital”?

  • a) A. F.L. Lucas
  • b) J K Atkins
  • c) Derrida
  • d) Hillis Miller

38. In general, what is Judith butler’s concept of gender?

  • a) Women’s gender is artificial, while men’s gender is not
  • b) While gender is not real, the stereotypes that accompany it are true.
  • c) Gender is largely a cultural construct
  • d) All of the above answers are correct

39. Arnold’s views on poetry and criticism are discussed in?

  • a) Preface to the Poems
  • b) On translating Homer
  • c) “Scholar Gypsy”
  • d) Culture and Anarchy

40. Which theorist is associated with formalism?

  • a) Viktor Shklovsky
  • b) Cleanth Brooks
  • c) Judith Butler
  • d) Mikhail Bakhtin

41. This poet might be described as a moral or philosophical critic for arguing that works must have “high seriousness” is said by:

  • a) Mathew Arnold
  • b) Cleanth Brooks
  • c) Judith Butler
  • d) Mikhail Bakhtin

42. In of grammatology, Jacques Derrida argues what about literature?

  • a) No fixed, stable meaning is possible
  • b) Language must be studied in conjunction with history in order to create meaning
  • c) There is no potential for multiple and differing meanings in a work of literature
  • d) Literature is timeless, and thus meaning does not change

43. In which chapter of Biographia Literaria Coleridge criticize the language of Wordsworth?

  • a) 12
  • b) 23
  • c) 14
  • d) 11

44. What is the original meaning the term of hamartia?

  • a) To miss the mark
  • b) Sin
  • c) Tragic flaw
  • d) Flaws

45. The term “collectiveness unconscious” is coined by----?

  • a) Curled Jung
  • b) T.S Eliot
  • c) Arthur miller
  • d) None of these

46. Who originated the term” objective correlative” which is often used in formalist criticism?

  • a) T. S Eliot
  • b) Mathew Arnold
  • c) Cleanth Brooks
  • d) Judith Butler

47. Who accused article of the social of the snobbishness and arrogance?

  • a) Willy Loman
  • b) Arthur Miller
  • c) Henry James
  • d) David

48. With which feminist theorist is gynocriticism most closely associated?

  • a) Elaine Showalter
  • b) Julia Kristeva
  • c) Lucy Irigaray
  • d) Louise M. Rosenblatt

49. How did the new critics new view literature?

  • a) As an aesthetic object that is independent of historical context
  • b) As an aesthetic object that is influenced by historical context
  • c) As a historical object that is also aesthetic
  • d) As a historical object that is not necessarily aesthetic

50. This literary critic coined the term “fancy”?

  • a) S.T Coleridge
  • b) Julia Kristeva
  • c) Lucy Irigaray
  • d) None of these

51. Who is author of symposium?

  • a) Aristotle
  • b) Dante
  • c) Longinus
  • d) Plato

52. Name of the author of the new criticism?

  • a) F. R. Leavis
  • b) Allen Tate
  • c) John Crowe Ransom
  • d) R. P. Blackmur

53. Plato’s republic is written in the form of -----?

  • a) Drama
  • b) Narrative mode
  • c) Poetry
  • d) Dialogue

54. With which theorists is the term implied reader associated?

  • a) Wolfgang Iser
  • b) William Wimsatt
  • c) Cleanth Brooks
  • d) Harold Bloom

55. Which of the following critics preferred Shakespeare’s comedies to his tragedies?

  • a) Dryden
  • b) Pope
  • c) Dr. Johnson
  • d) Addison

56. Which literary theory would must directly explore the questions of the role of spatial sitting the poem?

  • a) Trauma theory
  • b) Ecotheory
  • c) Game theory
  • d) Marxist theory

57. What which theorist is the concept imaginative geography associated?

  • a) Julia Kristeva
  • b) Fredric Jameson
  • c) Terry Eagleton
  • d) Edward Said

58. Complete name of Karl Marx was Karl-------Marx?

  • a) Karl Henrick Marx
  • b) Karl Thomas Marx
  • c) Karl Simon Marx
  • d) All of these

59. Karl Marx was-----?

  • a) German
  • b) Russian
  • c) American
  • d) Chinese

60. Marx’s critical theories collectively understood as_____ hold that human societies develop through class conflict.

  • a) Socialism
  • b) Structuralism
  • c) Marxism
  • d) None of these

61. Marx was ____ capitalism?

  • a) Against
  • b) Favor
  • c) Referred
  • d) Both A&C

62. His work in economics laid the basis for some current theories about labor and its relation to _____?

  • a) Capital
  • b) Socialism
  • c) Structuralism
  • d) Marxism

63. His father was a successful ____?

  • a) Lawyer
  • b) Businessman
  • c) Politician
  • d) Philosopher

64. Marx studies law in Bonn and Berlin, but he was introduced to the ideas of______ the Feuerbach?

  • a) Hegel
  • b) Eleanor
  • c) Laura
  • d) Ludwig

65. Marx met ____in Paris?

  • a) Fredrich Engels
  • b) Lura Engels
  • c) Heinrich Marx
  • d) Both A&B

66. Expelled from France, Marx spent two years in____?

  • a) India
  • b) America
  • c) Brussels
  • d) Germany

67. Marx and Engels authored a revolutionary word named?

  • a) “The communist manifesto”
  • b) The labor
  • c) A&B
  • d) The German Ideology

68. The communist manifesto was published in?

  • a) 1841
  • b) 1849
  • c) 1848
  • d) 1860

69. Marx emerged from his political and spiritual isolation and produced his most important body of work?

  • a) Das Kapital
  • b) Communist manifesto
  • c) The German ideology
  • d) All of these

70. A theory or system of social organization in which everything is owned by the Govt. and each person contributes and received according to their ability and needs is called?

  • a) Communism
  • b) Formalism
  • c) Dictatorship
  • d) Democracy

71. Communism is thus a form of____ higher and more advanced form, according to its advocates?

  • a) Socialism
  • b) Formalism
  • c) Dictatorship
  • d) Democracy

72. _____ tend to use the terms communication and socialism interchangeably?

  • a) Karl Marx
  • b) Angles
  • c) Lenin
  • d) Stalin

73. Marx identified _____ two phases of communism that would follow the predicated overthrow of capitalism?

  • a) Two
  • b) Three
  • c) Four
  • d) None of these

74. The first would be a transitional system in which the working class would control the _____?

  • a) Govt. economic
  • b) Govt
  • c) Rule
  • d) Life

75. “From each according to his ability, to each according to his___?

  • a) needs
  • b) Ability
  • c) Economic
  • d) Both A&B

76. Marx derived his views in the part of philosophy of______, who conceived of history as the dialectical self-development ‘Spirit’

  • a) G.F.W Hegel
  • b) Charles Fourier
  • c) Robert Owen
  • d) Both A&C

77. In the Marxist history theory, ______ is the belief that the arrangement of the bourgeoise owing the means of production and the proletariat working for the interests for the bourgeoise is legitimate?

  • a) False consciousness
  • b) left realism
  • c) postmodern criminology
  • d) false realism

78. ____focuses on how racial issues have determined quality of justice that has been available to people of the color in north America?

  • a) Racial criminology
  • b) Critical race theory
  • c) Feminist criminology
  • d) Left realism

79. ______ begin to engage in antisocial behavior at an early age and continue to commit acts that harms others throughout their lives?

  • a) Adolescent-limited offenders
  • b) Life-course persistent offenders
  • c) Juvenile delinquents
  • d) Serial killers

80. Marx called the economic condition of life the_____ or infrastructure.

  • a) Base
  • b) Structure
  • c) Superstructure
  • d) All of these

81. In Marxist theory, the _____ is working class?

  • a) Proletariat
  • b) Wealthy
  • c) Bourgeoisie
  • d) nihilists

82. In literary theory, a____ interpretation reads the text as an expression of contemporary class struggle?

  • a) Marxist
  • b) Socialist
  • c) Structuralist
  • d) feminist

83. Literature is not simply a matter of personal expression or taste; it somehow relates to social and______ conditions of time?

  • a) Political
  • b) Nonpolitical
  • c) Historical
  • d) All of these

84. The economics base has a powerful effect on the ____ Marxist term for society, culture, and the world of ideas.

  • a) Superstructure
  • b) Base
  • c) Structure
  • d) None of these

85. Marx himself often treated literature as a simple propaganda for the _____ class?

  • a) Ruling
  • b) Upper class
  • c) Middle class
  • d) All of these

86. Marxist criticism is mostly about_____ in literary work.

  • a) Class struggle
  • b) Gender study
  • c) Economical condition
  • d) A&C

Chapter 81: FORMALISM

1. _________is a school of literary criticism and literary theory having mainly to do with structural purposes of particular text.

  • a) Formalism
  • b) Structuralism
  • c) New historicism
  • d) Psychoanalytic criticism

2. _______is the study of text without taking into account any outside influence.

  • a) New criticism
  • b) Formalism
  • c) Feminist criticism
  • d) Reader response criticism

3. Formalism rejects or sometimes simply brackets” notions of culture or societal influence, authorship and content, and instead focuses on modes, genres, ______, and forms

  • a) Pragmatics
  • b) Semantic
  • c) Discourse
  • d) Style

4. In literary theory, formalism refers to critical approaches that analyze, interpret, or evaluate the inherent features of a _____

  • a) Text
  • b) Context
  • c) Co – text
  • d) Spelling rules

5. These features include not only grammar and____ but also literary devices such as meter and tropes.

  • a) Metaphor
  • b) Simile
  • c) Syntax
  • d) Phonetics

6. The formalistic approaches reduce the importance of a text historical, biographical, and cultural ______.

  • a) Context
  • b) Text
  • c) Co-text
  • d) Imperialism

7. Formalism rose to prominence in the early______ century as reaction against Romanticist theories of literature.

  • a) 18
  • b) 20
  • c) 16
  • d) 13

8. Two school of formalist literary criticism developed Russian formalism and soon after Anglo- American ____

  • a) Historicism
  • b) Imperialism
  • c) New criticism
  • d) Realism

9. Formalism was the dominant mode of academic literary study in the US at least from the end of the____ through the 1970s

  • a) A-Second World War
  • b) First World War
  • c) American revolution
  • d) French revolution

10. Russian Formalism refers to the work of the society for the study of poetic language (OPOYAZ) founded in ____ in St. Petersburg

  • a) 1920
  • b) 1915
  • c) 1980
  • d) 1925

11. The society for the study of Poetic Language (OPOYAZ) was founded by:

  • a) Boris Eichenbaum
  • b) Viktor Shklovsky
  • c) Yury Tynyanov
  • d) All of above

12. Moscow linguistic circle was founded in

  • a) 1912
  • b) 1915
  • c) 1913
  • d) 1916

13. Formalism was important in the Soviet Union until ____

  • a) 1925
  • b) 1933
  • c) 1924
  • d) 1929

14. Formalism in literary studies was not merely about formal elements of literature, through it stressed the importance of studying _____

  • a) Form
  • b) Style
  • c) Narration
  • d) None of above

15. It proclaimed the unity of form and ____ by emphasizing that in a literary work the former cannot properly be understood when separated from the latter and vice versa.

  • a) Content
  • b) Co-text
  • c) Text
  • d) All of above

16. At the same time, formalism stressed the need to view _____ as an autonomous verbal art, one that is oriented toward itself.

  • a) Literature
  • b) Linguistics
  • c) Both
  • d) None of above

17. Thus, formalism addressed the____of literature and established the basis for the origins and development of structuralism in literary studies.

  • a) Language
  • b) Literature
  • c) Linguistics
  • d) Genres

18. Yet despite its early indigenous beginnings, formalism in Poland had to wait until the mid-1930s to take concrete shape as the Polish____ School

  • a) Formalist
  • b) Structuralist
  • c) Feminist
  • d) Historians

19. According to formalism, the background of literature and other extra literary phenomena do not belong to ____ scholarships

  • a) Literary
  • b) Language
  • c) Art
  • d) None of above

20. _____ is a feature that distinguishes literature from other human creations and is made of certain artistic techniques or devices (priemy), employed in literary works.

  • a) Language
  • b) Literary devices
  • c) Literariness
  • d) Literariness and Language

21. One of the most important devices with which the formalists dealt was the device of _______ (ostranenie)

  • a) Defamiliarization
  • b) Personification
  • c) Antithesis
  • d) Irony

22. Which country is most associated with the theory of Formalism?

  • a) America
  • b) Russia
  • c) England
  • d) Thailand

23. Which of these features of a text would a Formalist be most interested in?

  • a) Style
  • b) Structure
  • d) B & C
  • c) Word order

24. Which type of text would be the most useful when applying Formalism?

  • a) Poem
  • b) Story
  • c) Essay
  • d) Novel

25. What is the term Formalist use to describe a text that exhibits a specific use of language?

  • a) Literariness
  • b) Hyperbole
  • c) Metaphor
  • d) Simile

26. Which of these people is connected with defamiliarization, a feature of some Formalist texts?

  • a) Victor Shklovsky
  • b) Ted Hughes
  • c) Sylvia Plath
  • d) A & C

27. An easy one for you! In which of these possible modules of an English literature course you would be most likely to study Formalism?

  • a) Theory
  • b) Practice
  • c) Theory and Practice
  • d) Hypothesis

28. Formalism can be easily applied to most texts.

  • a) Yes
  • b) No
  • c) To some extent
  • d) On moderate level

29. In which essay does Roman Jakobson talk about literariness”?

  • a) On Language
  • b) On Realism in Art
  • c) Language in Literature
  • d) None of Above

30. Franz Kafka uses defamiliarization” in the opening passage of which work of fiction?

  • a) The Metamorphosis
  • b) The Trial
  • c) The Castle
  • d) The Judgment

Chapter 82: PSYCHOANALYTICAL THEORY

1. Psychoanalytic criticism adopts the method of “reading” employed by ___________________ and later theorists to interpret texts.

  • a) Erik Erikson
  • b) Freud
  • c) Carl Jung
  • d) Karl Marx

2. It is argued that literary texts, like _________________ , express the secret unconscious desires and anxieties of the author, that a literary work is manifestation of the author’s own neuroses.

  • a) slips of the tongue
  • b) Dreams
  • c) Hallucination
  • d) Intuition

3. One may psychoanalyze a particular character within a literary work, but it is usually assumed that all such characters are projection of the author’s ____________________

  • a) Psyche
  • b) Personality
  • c) Ego
  • d) Experience

4. The _______________ which we first come across as we proceed with our analysis often strike us by the unusual form in which they are expressed.

  • a) Character
  • b) Event
  • c) Dream – Thought
  • d) Conflict

5. Despite the importance of the author here, psychoanalytic criticism is similar to _____________ in not concerning itself with “what the author intended.”

  • a) Binary opposition
  • b) Speculation
  • c) New Criticism
  • d) Self-Reflection

6. But what the author never ______ (that is, repressed) is sought through it.

  • a) experience
  • b) project
  • c) deny
  • d) Intended

7. Psychoanalytical criticism emerged in _________________ century.

  • a) 12th century
  • b) 17th century
  • c) 20th century
  • d) 19th century

8. Psychoanalysis is not only a theory of the human mind, but a practice for curing those who are considered ____________.

  • a) Ill mannered
  • b) Dull minded
  • c) unintelligent
  • d) Mentally ill & disturbed

9. The ____________ is the repository of traumatic experiences, emotions, unadmitted desires, fears, libidinal derives, unresolved conflicts etc.

  • a) Superego
  • b) Unconscious
  • c) Sub-conscious
  • d) Thanatos

10. This unconscious comes into being at _____________ age.

  • a) Middle
  • b) Early
  • c) Chronological
  • d) Old

11. Repression does not ___________________ our fears, anxieties and derives, but it gives them force by making them the organizers of our current experience.

  • a) Operate
  • b) Eliminate
  • c) Enhance
  • d) Push

12. Expunging of unhappy psychic events from the consciousness, is a process which Freud terms “__________”

  • a) Repression
  • b) Regression
  • c) Displacement
  • d) Reaction – formation

13. Through a similar process called __________________, the repressed material is promoted into something grander or is disguised as something noble.

  • a) Rationalism
  • b) Sublimation
  • c) Displacement
  • d) Construction

14. We cope desires we cannot fulfil is by ____________ them, by which Freud means directing them towards a more socially valued end.

  • a) Directing
  • b) Sublimating
  • c) Repressing
  • d) Organizing

15. The place to which we relegate the desires we are unable to fulfil is known as the _______________

  • a) Unconscious
  • b) Preconscious
  • c) Eros
  • d) Conscious

16. The small baby will suck its mother’s breast for milk, but will discover in doing so that this biologically essential activity is also pleasurable; and this for Freud, is the first dawning of______________

  • a) Sexuality
  • b) Consciousness
  • c) Morality
  • d) Affection

17. Repressed desires emerge in disguised forms; dreams and _______

  • a) Language
  • b) Fears
  • c) Symbols
  • d) Desires

18. ________Provide our main, but not our only, access to the unconscious.

  • a) Dreams
  • b) Superego
  • c) Archetypes
  • d) Shadow

19. There are also what Freud calls _____________ unaccountable slips of the tongue, failures of memory, bunglings, mis readings and misanalysing which can be traced to unconscious wishes and intentions.

  • a) Projection
  • b) Neologism
  • c) Expunge
  • d) Parapraxes

20. The presences of the unconscious are also betrayed in _______________, which for Freud have a largely libidinal, anxious or aggressive content.

  • a) Desires
  • b) Emotions
  • c) Actions
  • d) Jokes

21. A well-known example of this is the Freudian slips, whereby repressed material in the unconscious finds an outlet through such everyday phenomena as ________ of the tongue, pen or unintended actions.

  • a) Twist
  • b) Cut
  • c) Slips
  • d) Syndrome

22. Thus, for _______________, the unconscious is not passive reservoir of neutral data; rather it is a dynamic entity that engages us at the deepest level of our being.

  • a) Psychosexual
  • b) Cathexis
  • c) Neurosis
  • d) Psychoanalysis

23. Model of the psyche divides it into Id, Ego and________

  • a) Libido
  • b) Chora
  • c) Superego
  • d) Conscious

24. The__________, being entirely in the unconscious is the most inaccessible and obscured part of our personality.

  • a) Ego
  • b) Animus
  • c) Ego-ideal
  • d) Id

25. Id is the receptacle of our__________, the primary source of our psychic energy.

  • a) Libido
  • b) Erotogenic Zone
  • c) Life drive
  • d) Conscious

26. Its function is to fulfill the primordial life principle, which is the _____ principle

  • a) Pleasure
  • b) Entropy
  • c) Reaction
  • d) True

27. _______________, Governed by the reality principle, is defined as the national governing force of the psyche

  • a) Self-analysis
  • b) Mind
  • c) Ego
  • d) Id

28. It is mostly conscious and protects the individual from the Id, it is the site of reason and introspection. It is the intermediary between the world within and the world outside.

  • a) Ego
  • b) Thanatos
  • c) Mind’s eye
  • d) Superego

29. The _____________, which is another regulatory agent, protects the society from Id.

  • a) Superego
  • b) Psyche
  • c) Conscious
  • d) Mind

30. ____________ is partly conscious and in moral parlance, can be called as the conscious of the individual.

  • a) Id
  • b) Superego
  • c) Neurons
  • d) Ego

31. It is governed by the “___________principle" and represses the incestual, sexual passions, aggressiveness etc.

  • a) Reality
  • b) Tranquility
  • c) Pleasure
  • d) Morality

32. Many of Freud's ideas are concerned with aspects of libido, human sexual drive, which he calls____________

  • a) Oedipus complex
  • b) Penis envy
  • c) Eros
  • d) Thanatos

33. Freud puts Eros in opposition to_____________ the death drive.

  • a) Animosity
  • b) Fetish
  • c) Life drive
  • d) Thanatos

34. Eros has_____________as primary motive.

  • a) Morality
  • b) Patience
  • c) Sex
  • d) Religion

35. Thanatos is ______________instinct.

  • a) Constructive
  • b) Destructive
  • c) Operational
  • d) Sharp

36. Under this instinct (Thanatos) people have strong wish to________

  • a) Enjoy
  • b) Fly
  • c) Sex
  • d) Die

37. Eros seeks_____________and Thanatos seeks aggression.

  • a) Knowledge
  • b) Pleasure
  • c) Interaction
  • d) Survival

38. Freud believes that sexuality arrives not at puberty physical maturing, but in infancy, especially with the infant's relationship with______

  • a) God
  • b) Father
  • c) Other infants
  • d) Mother

39. Freud proposes his theory of________________development in which the infant passes through a series of stages, each defined by an erogenous zone of the body.

  • a) Psychosexual
  • b) Psychanalysis
  • c) Personality
  • d) Mind

40. If the Infant is _________________ or unable to move from one stage to another, s/he is said to be fixated at the stage of development.

  • a) Reluctant
  • b) Able
  • c) Active
  • d) Interested

41. A person fixated at this stage will be prone to obsession with_______________ activities (like eating, drinking, smoking, kissing, etc.) and or excessive pessimism, hostility etc.

  • a) Mental
  • b) Interactive
  • c) Physical
  • d) Oral

42. Oral stage ends at the time of weaning and the infant's focus is ____

  • a) Shifted
  • b) Sharpen
  • c) Deep
  • d) Still

43. The oral stage as Freud calls it, is the first phase of_______________life and is associated with the drive to incorporate objects.

  • a) Sexual
  • b) Mortal
  • c) Student
  • d) Marital

44. In____________stage, anus is the prime source of pleasure.

  • a) Phallic
  • b) Oral
  • c) Last
  • d) Anal

45. Elimination of faces gives pleasure to the child, but with the onset of toilet training s/he is forced to postpone or delete this________

  • a) Activity
  • b) Pleasure
  • c) Task
  • d) Training

46. A______at this stage is identified as the reason for the development of an "anal retentive" personality described as being stubborn and stingy.

  • a) Revival
  • b) Training
  • c) Disorder
  • d) Fixation

47. In_____stage children aged from 3 to 6 years seem to spend a good deal of time exploring and manipulating the genitals their own and others.

  • a) oral
  • b) Phallic
  • c) Preoperational
  • d) Adolescence

48. _______________ is derived from the phallic region, through behaviours such as masturbation and through fantasies.

  • a) Pleasure
  • b) Hope
  • c) Emotions
  • d) Logic

49. The basic conflict of the Phallic stage centers around the unconscious ____________ desire of the child for the parents of the opposite sex.

  • a) Incestuous
  • b) Sexual
  • c) Strong
  • d) Vengeance

50. It is corollary with the child's desire to replace or ___________the parent of the same sex.

  • a) Suppress
  • b) Hate
  • c) Fix
  • d) Kill

51. Out of this conflict, arises one of Freud's theoretical pivots, the____________

  • a) Freudian slip
  • b) Oedipus complex
  • c) Castration anxiety
  • d) Freudian neologism

52. 'Phallic' stage begins to focus the child's libido (or sexual drive) on the genitals, but is called phallic rather than ______________

  • a) Oral
  • b) Anal
  • c) Latency
  • d) Genital

53. Male child's desire to replace his father is accompanied by the ______of his father which Freud explains in genital terms ‘Castration anxiety.’

  • a) Love
  • b) Animus
  • c) Rival
  • d) Fear

54. One of the significant offshoots of Oedipus complex is formation of the:

  • a) Superego
  • b) Shadow
  • c) Persona
  • d) Conscious

55. ____________Complex, the female version of the phallic conflict (about which Freud was less clear) is more complicated.

  • a) Cassandra
  • b) Electra
  • c) Phaedra
  • d) Oedipal

56. In electric complex, a girl gradually has a desire for her father and____________for her mother.

  • a) Longing
  • b) Affection
  • c) Hatred
  • d) Indifference

57. If a child is fixated at the Phallic stage or if s/he has an unresolved Oedipal / Electra complex, such a condition will lead to_______________, and in turn to a more adverse psychosis.

  • a) Somatization
  • b) Neurosis
  • c) Exhibitionistic
  • d) Psychosis

58. Penis Envy on part of a girl refers to the ____________of this organ by father and its absence in her mother.

  • a) Possession
  • b) Identification
  • c) Confrontation
  • d) Transference

59. ______________is the final stage of psychosexual development beginning at the time of puberty.

  • a) Phallic stage
  • b) Anal stage
  • c) Genital Stage
  • d) Latency stage

60. Freud described ___________as the Royal Road to the unconscious.

  • a) Defense mechanism
  • b) Ego
  • c) Dreams
  • d) Fantasy

61. According to him, dreams are symbolic ______________ which need to be deciphered since the watchful Ego is at work even when we are dreaming.

  • a) Representation
  • b) Graphs
  • c) Insinuation
  • d) Texts

62. The _____________scrambles and censors the messages as the unconscious itself adds to this obscurity by its particular modes of functioning.

  • a) Ego
  • b) Id
  • c) Preconscious
  • d) Dreams

63. Three parts of Dream work are; condensation, ____________ and secondary elaboration

  • a) Displacement
  • b) Confrontation
  • c) Association
  • d) Fixation

64. The dream work includes ____________ , where by one person or event is represented by another which is someway associated with it.

  • a) Condensation
  • b) Displacement
  • c) Countertransference
  • d) Assimilation

65. The purpose of devices like condensation and displacement are_____

  • a) Nothing
  • b) Many
  • c) Entertaining
  • d) Two-fold

66. Primarily they disguise the ___fears and desires contained in the dream.

  • a) Organized
  • b) Associated
  • c) Haunted
  • d) Repressed

67. Secondary, they fashion this material into something which can be represented in a____________ , i.e., images, symbols, metaphors.

  • a) Book
  • b) Reality
  • c) Magazine
  • d) Dream

68. When many ideas appear in a dream as one, this is called: _______

  • a) Condensation
  • b) Fantasy
  • c) Fixation
  • d) Countertransference

69. ______are invented by the Ego to resolve conflicts between Id and superego.

  • a) Principles
  • b) Archetypes
  • c) Defense mechanism
  • d) Functions

70. Othello's___________ that make him think twice about making this decision as he asks for "ocular proof."

  • a) Superego
  • b) Id
  • c) Conscious
  • d) Preconscious

71. Othello probably _______________ after someone else. But he fails to express. In order to defend his ego, he projected this desire onto his wife.

  • a) Runs
  • b) There
  • c) Lusts
  • d) Hates

72. Jacques-Marie-Emile Lacan (April 13, 1901--- September 9, 1981) was a psychoanalyst, psychiatrist, and doctor.

  • a) British
  • b) Irish
  • c) Swiss
  • d) French

73. Lacan's Freudian reading primarily involves the realization that the_____________ is to be understood as intimately tied to the functions and dynamics of language.

  • a) Theory
  • b) Unconscious
  • c) Concept
  • d) Conscious

74. The central pillar of Lacan's psychoanalytic theory is that "the unconscious is structured like a____________ ", which he substantiates in the essay The Insistence of the Letter in the Unconscious.

  • a) Language
  • b) Signifier
  • c) Function
  • d) Conscious

75. ___work is rather abstract, and almost always difficult to understand.

  • a) Lacan's
  • b) Jakobson’s
  • c) Whorf’s
  • d) Forrester’

Chapter 83: STRUCTURALISM BY FERDINAND DE SAUSSURE

1. The process of getting down to the deep structure of things is known as:

  • a) Structuralism
  • b) Marxism
  • c) Psycho Analysis
  • d) Deconstruction

2. Structuralism, is a way of perceiving the world in terms of:

  • a) Construction
  • b) Structures
  • c) Whole
  • d) Construction

3. The essence of structuralism is the belief that “things cannot be understood in”:

  • a) Facts
  • b) Whole
  • c) Structures
  • d) Isolation

4. The theory “Structuralism” was given by a linguistic Professor:

  • a) John Lyons
  • b) Chomsky
  • c) Ferdinand De Saussure
  • d) Edward Said

5. Structuralism was popularized till the late of:

  • a) 1940s
  • b) 1950s
  • c) 1960s
  • d) 1970s

6. Before Saussure, language was studied………. that is in term of history of changes in individual word over time:

  • a) Commonly
  • b) Synchronically
  • c) Diachronically
  • d) Automatically

7. Traditionally, it was believed that the words somehow …………. the objects from which they stand for:

  • a) Differ
  • b) Imitated
  • c) Stated
  • d) Rejected

8. Saussure realized that we need to understand language:

  • a) Commonly
  • b) Synchronically
  • c) Diachronically
  • d) Automatically

9. Structure is a conceptual system that carries the following properties except one:

  • a) Self-Regulation
  • b) Wholesomeness
  • c) Transformation
  • d) Needlessness

10. ……….. simply mean that a system functions as a unit, it is not a collection of independent items:

  • a) Self-Regulation
  • b) Wholesomeness
  • c) Transformation
  • d) Needlessness

11. ……….. simply means that the transformations of which a structure is capable never lead beyond its own structural system:

  • a) Self-Regulation
  • b) Wholesomeness
  • c) Transformation
  • d) Needlessness

12. ………… means that the structure is not static, it is dynamic, capable of change:

  • a) Self-Regulation
  • b) Wholesomeness
  • c) Transformation
  • d) Needlessness

13. For structuralism, the ………. consists of two levels, one visible and the other is invisible:

  • a) Meaning
  • b) Structure
  • c) Choice
  • d) World

14. Visible world or structures consist of what might be called…… phenomenon:

  • a) Meaning
  • b) Surface
  • c) World
  • d) Structure

15. The invisible world also called …….. structure consist of all structures that underlie and organize all surface phenomenon:

  • a) Open
  • b) Vibrant
  • c) Deep
  • d) World

16. Deep structure relatively ……… whereas surface structures are innumerable:

  • a) Few
  • b) Much
  • c) Vibrant
  • d) Open

17. Structuralism identifies and analyses the structure that underlie all ………. and not just language and literature:

  • a) Cultural Phenomenon
  • b) Vibrant Phenomenon
  • c) Open Phenomenon
  • d) Hidden Phenomenon

18. Roman Jacobson was a………. linguist:

  • a) Swiss
  • b) American
  • c) Russian
  • d) British

19. Highly inspired by Saussure, he took up the techniques of examining the language in:

  • a) Isolation
  • b) Big Pieces
  • c) Whole
  • d) Little Pieces

20. Claude Lévi-Strauss a/an ……………took ideas from structural linguistics and applied them to culture:

  • a) Linguist
  • b) Anthropologist
  • c) Astrologer
  • d) Chemist

21. Vladimir Prop was the …………. theorist who applied the structural approach to the study of narratives:

  • a) First
  • b) Second
  • c) Third
  • d) Fourth

22. Vladimir Prop analyzed ………. Folk tales and tried to break them down into their basic narrative component:

  • a) British
  • b) Russian
  • c) Swiss
  • d) Irish

23. Ronald Barthes was one of the earliest and the most important of the ……….. literary theorists:

  • a) Marxism
  • b) Deconstruction
  • c) Structuralist
  • d) Feminism

24. Ronald Barthes applied structuralism on ……….. and other forms of cultural and social phenomenon:

  • a) Language
  • b) Linguistics
  • c) Structures
  • d) Literature

25. A French word referring to the deep structure (or grammar) underneath language is:

  • a) Parole
  • b) Langue
  • c) Signifier
  • d) Garcon

26. This French word refers to the variety of utterances and speech acts:

  • a) Parole
  • b) Langue
  • c) Jargon
  • d) Garcon

27. A marker (like a word) that refers to a specific concept is:

  • a) Parole
  • b) Jargon
  • c) Signifier
  • d) None of the above

28. The concept that the signifier refers to is called:

  • a) Signifier
  • b) Register
  • c) Langue
  • d) Signified

29. A ………. is made up of both, signifier and the signified:

  • a) Register
  • b) Sign
  • c) Jargon
  • d) langue

30. Concepts that are opposite in meanings are ___ opposition:

  • a) Sign
  • b) Binary
  • c) Langue
  • d) Jargon

31. The decline of …………. began when post-structuralist took over:

  • a) Marxism
  • b) Feminism
  • c) Structuralism
  • d) Langue & Parole

32. ….relates to why a sign was chosen instead of some related synonym:

  • a) Synchrony
  • b) Synchronize
  • c) Syntagmatic
  • d) Paradigmatic

33. ……….. expressed the function of signs in terms of syntax:

  • a) Synchrony
  • b) Synchronize
  • c) Syntagmatic
  • d) Paradigmatic

34. ………….. studies the evolution of sign through time:

  • a) Synchronic
  • b) Diachronic
  • c) Parameter
  • d) Paradigmatic

35. ………….. studies the evolution of sign in point of time:

  • a) Synchronic
  • b) Diachronic
  • c) Parameter
  • d) Paradigmatic

36. ……….. is a chain relationship.

  • a) Synchronic
  • b) Diachronic
  • c) Syntagmatic
  • d) Paradigmatic

37. ……….. is a choice relationship.

  • a) Synchronic
  • b) Diachronic
  • c) Syntagmatic
  • d) Paradigmatic

38. Claude Lévi-Strauss gave a structural reading of which story:

  • a) Oedipus Rex
  • b) Antigone
  • c) King Lear
  • d) Othello

Chapter 84: NEW HISTORICISM

1. ___ is the form of literary theory which aims to understand intellectual history through literature and literature through its cultural contexts.

  • a) Ethnic studies
  • b) Structuralism
  • c) New historicism
  • d) Cultural materialism

2. ___ follows the 1950’s field of history of ideas and refers to itself as a form of “cultural poetics”.

  • a) ethnic studies
  • b) New historicism
  • c) New criticism
  • d) cultural materialism

3. Its first developed in

  • a) 1980
  • b) 1960
  • c) 1979
  • d) 1989

4. It first developed through the work of the critic:

  • a) Stephen king
  • b) Stephen George
  • c) Stephen johns
  • d) Stephen Greenblatt

5. ___ coined the new term “New Historicism”.

  • a) Greenblatt
  • b) George Orwell
  • c) Sigmund Freud
  • d) Lorenz

6. ___ introducing an anthology for essays, The New Historicism (1989) noted some key assumptions that continually reappear in new historicism:

  • a) Harold Aram Veeser
  • b) Greenblatt
  • c) Eric Erikson
  • d) All of them

7. He said that every expressive ____ is embedded in a network of material practice:

  • a) Act
  • b) Scene
  • c) Incident
  • d) None of above

8. He said that every act of ___ critique and opposition uses the tools it condemns and risks falling prey to the practices it exposes:

  • a) Masking
  • b) Unmasking
  • c) Hidden
  • d) Professional

9. He assumed that literary and non-literary “texts” ___ inseparably.

  • a) Stream
  • b) Roam
  • c) Spread
  • d) Circulate

10. He assumed that no discourse imaginative or archival gives access to unchanging _____, nor expresses inalterable human nature:

  • a) Lie
  • b) Truth
  • c) False
  • d) None

11. He method and assumed that a critical method and a language adequate to describe ____ under capitalism participate in the economy the describe:

  • a) Norms
  • b) Values
  • c) Ethnic values
  • d) Culture

12. New historicism is a literary theory based on the idea that literature should be studied and interpreted within the context of both history of the author and the history of

  • a) Critic
  • b) Critics
  • c) Both
  • d) None

13. Philosophy of ____ also influenced New Historicism.

  • a) Greenblatt
  • b) Saussure
  • c) Michel Foucault
  • d) Lacan

14. New Historicism acknowledges not only that the work of literature is influenced by its author’s time and circumstances but that the critics ____ to the work is also influenced by his environment, beliefs, and prejudices.

  • a) Response
  • b) Criticism
  • c) Statements
  • d) Reaction

15. A ___ looks at literature in a wider historical context, examining both how the writer’s times affected the work and how the work reflects the writer’s times, in turn recognizing he current cultural context color that critic’s conclusions.

  • a) New critics
  • b) New structuralists
  • c) New Historicists
  • d) All

16. For example, when studying Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice, one always comes to the question of whether the play shows Shakespeare to be

  • a) Anti- Semitic
  • b) Anti-Muslim
  • c) Anti- Zionist
  • d) None

17. The New Historicist recognize that this isn’t a simple yes – or – no answer that can be teased out by studying the:

  • a) Outlines
  • b) Text
  • c) News
  • d) Books

18. The New Historicist also acknowledges that his examination of ___ is “tainted” by his own culture and environment.

  • a) Literature
  • b) Linguistics
  • c) text
  • d) None

19. Studying the history reveals more about the text; studying the text reveals more about the ___

  • a) Gender studies
  • b) History
  • c) Ethnic studies
  • d) None

20. New Historicism underscores the impermanence of literary ___.

  • a) Criticism
  • b) Text
  • c) Modules
  • d) None

21. Current literary criticism is affected by and reveals the beliefs of our times in the same way that literature reflects and is reflected by its own ___ contexts.

  • a) Philosophical
  • b) Structural
  • c) Historical
  • d) Cultural

22. New historicism acknowledges and embraces the idea that, as ___ change so will our understanding of great literature.

  • a) Environment
  • b) Literacy rate
  • c) Time
  • d) Intellect

23. Who compares the behavior of apes to characters in a Shakespeare play?

  • a) Daniel Nettle
  • b) Shakespeare
  • c) Saussure
  • d) T.S Eliot

24. The ideas of the “political unconscious” and “subject-positions” are those of

  • a) Frederic Jameson
  • b) Daniel Nettle
  • c) Shakespeare
  • d) Eliot

25. Who is the critic most interested in how those in power police the behavior and thoughts of those without power in his books Discipline and punish: The birth of the Prison and The History of Sexuality?

  • a) Bernard Berenson
  • b) Arthur Danto
  • c) Michel Foucault
  • d) Michael Fried

26. Michel Foucault uses the term ___ in a specialized sense to mean the historical, non-temporal, a priori knowledge that grounds truth and discourse, thus representing the condition of their possibility within a particular epoch.

  • a) Episteme
  • b) Cliché
  • c) Both
  • d) None

27. New Historicism assumed that every work is a product of the ___ moment that created it.

  • a) Literature
  • b) Historic
  • c) Present
  • d) None

28. A helpful way o considering New Historical theory, ___ explains is to think about the retelling of history itself

  • a) Saussure
  • b) Daniel
  • c) Tyson
  • d) Eliot

29. New historicism has been hugely influential approach to literature especially in studies of___ works and literature of the Early modern period.

  • a) Louis Tyson
  • b) William Shakespeare
  • c) Ferdinand de Saussure
  • d) George Bernard Shaw

30. ____ is characterized by a parallel reading of a text with its socio-cultural and historical conditions, which form the co-text.

  • a) New Historicism
  • b) New Criticism
  • c) Formulism
  • d) Structuralism

31. New Historicism, as Louis Montrose suggested, deals with the “ ___ of history and the historicity of texts.”

  • a) Textuality
  • b) Contexts
  • c) Publishes
  • d) None

32. Textuality of history refers to the ideas that history is constructed and:

  • a) Fictionlised
  • b) Non fictionlised
  • c) Both a and b
  • d) None

Chapter 85: INDIAN-ENGLISH WRITERS

1. Indian-English literature is also referred as:

  • a) IWE
  • b) Indo-Anglian Literature
  • c) Indo-Englian Literature
  • d) Both a & b

2. Who is the father of English literature in India?

  • a) Sri Aurobindo
  • b) Sarojini Naidu
  • c) Nissim Ezekie
  • d) D-R.C Dutt

3. Who is the father of literature?

  • a) Geoffrey Chaucer
  • b) Toru Dutt
  • c) William Wordsworth
  • d) Alexander

4. India’s first English newspaper was published in:

  • a) 1780
  • b) 1870
  • c) 1790
  • d) 1890

5. India’s first English newspaper was published by:

  • a) Henry joseph
  • b) James Augustus Hicky
  • c) Ezra Pound
  • d) Harte Crane

6. The first Indian novel in English appeared in :

  • a) 1854
  • b) 1864
  • c) 1874
  • d) 1884

7. The first Indian novel in English was written by:

  • a) Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
  • b) Salman Rushdie
  • c) Ramojhan’s Wife
  • d) Anandmatha

8. Who called the first Indian English novel “Ramojhan’s Wife” a ‘dud’?

  • a) Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
  • b) Salman Rushdie
  • c) Ramojhan’s Wife
  • d) Anandmatha

9. Who is the poet of ‘The Shair’ and ’Ministrel’?

  • a) Kasiprasad Ghose
  • b) Derozio
  • c) Harindranth Chattopadhyaya
  • d) Aurobindo Ghose

10. ‘The Captive Lady’ is written by;

  • a) Kasiprasad Ghose
  • b) Derozio
  • c) Harindranth Chattopadhyaya
  • d) Michael Madhusudan Dutt

11. ‘The Lake of Palm’ was published in __________.

  • a) 1902
  • b) 1909
  • c) 1912
  • d) 1919

12. ‘The Lake of Palm’ was published by __________.

  • a) Romesh Chandra Dutt
  • b) Derozio
  • c) Harindranth Chattopadhyaya
  • d) Aurobindo Ghose

13. Who is the writer of ‘The Fatal Garland’?

  • a) Kasiprasad Ghose
  • b) Derozio
  • c) Harindranth Chattopadhyaya
  • d) Swarna Ghoshal

14. Rabindranath Tagore was a:

  • a) Writer
  • b) Poet
  • c) Painter
  • d) All of these

15. The theme of Aurobindo’s writing was:

  • a) Beautiful in Divine
  • b) Beautiful in Man
  • c) Beautiful in Nature
  • d) All of these

16. Tagore got Nobel Prize in literature in:

  • a) 1912
  • b) 1913
  • c) 1914
  • d) 1915

17. Following are the writings of RabindranathTagore except:

  • a) The home and the World
  • b) The Wreck
  • c) Gitanjali
  • d) Dive for Death

Note: Dive for Death was written by T. Ramakrishna

18. The Big Three of Indian English writing were:

  • a) Sri Aurobindo, C-Sarojini Naidu, Nissim Ezekie
  • b) Mulk Raj Anand, R.K. Narayan and Raja Rao
  • c) Kasiprasad Ghose, Derozio, Harindranth Chattopadhyaya
  • d) Kasiprasad Ghose, Derozio and Raja Rao

19. Mulk Raj Anand started his career with the novel:

  • a) The Wreck
  • b) Gitanjali
  • c) Dive for Death
  • d) Untouchable

20. The hero of novel “Untouchable” by Mulk Raj Anand was

  • a) Chandragupta
  • b) Bakha
  • c) Balu
  • d) Bindu

21. R.K. Narayan’s first book was:

  • a) Swami and Friends (1935)
  • b) The Dark Room (1938)
  • c) The Guide (1958)
  • d) Kanthapura (1938)

22. Who was the writer of Kanthapura (1938)?

  • a) R.K. Narayan
  • b) Raja Rao
  • c) Tagore
  • d) Gandhi

23. The Guide (1958) was one of his most appreciated works of:

  • a) R.K. Narayan
  • b) Raja Rao
  • c) Tagore
  • d) Gandhi

24. Kanthapura is the story of _______ town that is affected by the Civil Disobedience Movement.

  • a) North-African
  • b) South African
  • c) North-Indian
  • d) South Indian

25. Who is the author of ‘A Fine Balance’?

  • a) R.K. Narayan
  • b) Rohinton Mistry
  • c) Salman Rushdie
  • d) Jhumpa Lahiri

26. Which of the following is written by Jhumpa Lahiri?

  • a) The Interpreter of Maladies
  • b) A Suitable Boy
  • c) God of Small Things
  • d) The Glass Pala

27. ‘A Suitable Boy is written by:

  • a) Salman Rushdie
  • b) Jhumpa Lahiri
  • c) Vikram Seth
  • d) Arundhati Roy

28. Which of the following is a gem of Salman Rushdie?

  • a) The Guide
  • b) A Fine Balance
  • c) Midnight's Children
  • d) The Glass Pala

29. “Midnight’s Children” received the reward:

  • a) “Booker Prize” in 1981
  • b) “Booker of Bookers” Prize in 1993
  • c) “Booker of Bookers” Prize in 2008
  • d) All of these

30. Which of the following book is included in 100 best novels of all time?

  • a) Midnight's Children
  • b) The Guide
  • c) A Fine Balance
  • d) The Glass Pala

31. Which book won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in year 2000?

  • a) The Interpreter of Maladies
  • b) The Guide
  • c) A Fine Balance
  • d) The Glass Pala

32. Which one is of the longest novels ever published in a single volume in the English Language?

  • a) A Fine Balance
  • b) The Glass Pala
  • c) A Suitable Boy
  • d) The Guide

Note: consists of 1349 pages

33. Manmohan Ghose was the elder brother of

  • a) Sri Aurobindo
  • b) ICR Ghose
  • c) R.G Dutt
  • d) S.C Dutt

34. Savitri an epic in blank verse was written by

  • a) Sri Aurobindo
  • b) R.N Tagore
  • c) Toru Dutt
  • d) Sarojini Naidu

35. K.N Daruwalla was awarded the Sahitya Academy Award for __ in 1984?

  • a) The Keeper of the Dead
  • b) Landscape
  • c) B-Crossing of Rivers
  • d) D-Apparition in April

36. Which of Mahatma Gandhi’s works is one of the imperishable classics of our time?

  • a) The story of My Experiments with Truth
  • b) Hind Swaraj
  • c) Young India
  • d) None

37. Who is the author of Glimpses of World history and the discovery of India?

  • a) J.L Nehru
  • b) MK Gandhi
  • c) Rajgopalchari
  • d) B.G Tilak

38. In which year Khuswant Singh’s Truth, Love, and A little Malice appeared?

  • a) 2002
  • b) 1999
  • c) 2000
  • d) None

39. David Davidar in his debut novel The House of Blue Mangoes created a fictional region known as

  • a) Chevathar
  • b) Malgudi
  • c) Hark Pradesh
  • d) Brij Bhumi

40. Who among the following dramatists introduced documentary and critic technique in Indian English drama?

  • a) Asif Currimbhoy
  • b) G.V Gesani
  • c) J.M Billimoria
  • d) Nissim Ezekiel

41. Bianca was written by

  • a) Toru Dutt
  • b) Aru Dutt
  • c) R.C Dutt
  • d) S.C Dutt

42. Who is the author of Bye-bye Blackbird?

  • a) Anita Desai
  • b) Kalama Das
  • c) Ruth P Jhabvala
  • d) Kamala Markandya

43. R.K Narayan created the region known as

  • a) Malgudi
  • b) Lake District
  • c) Waverly
  • d) Wessex

44. Who among the following novelists pioneered the regional novel in the Indian English novel?

  • a) R.K Narayan
  • b) K.S. Venkatraman
  • c) Mulkraj Anand
  • d) None

45. Who was the winner of the first Sahitya Academy Award?

  • a) R.K Narayan
  • b) Raja Rao
  • c) K.S Venkatraman
  • d) Mulkraj Anand

46. Which is the debut novel written in 1935 by Mulkraj Anand?

  • a) The Untouchable
  • b) The Road
  • c) Coolie
  • d) Two Leaves and A Bud

Chapter 86: SOUTH ASIAN LITERATURE

1. “A Case of Exploding Mangoes” is written by:

  • a) Mohammed Hanif
  • b) Malala Yousafzai
  • c) Kamila Shamsie
  • d) Mohsin Hamid

2. The author name of “Nuskha-ha-e-Wafa” is:

  • a) Sameena Peer Zada
  • b) Umera Ahmad
  • c) M. Salahuddin Khan
  • d) Faiz Ahmad Faiz

3. Which author wrote the book “Pakistan between Mosque and Military”?

  • a) Nadeem Aslam
  • b) Allama Iqbal
  • c) Kamila Shamsie
  • d) Hussain Haqqani

4. Which one of these books is written by Uzma Aslam Khan?

  • a) Thinner Than Skin
  • b) Dastak Na Do
  • c) Nuskha-ha-e-Wafa
  • d) Ishq Ka Ain

5. Which one of these books is written by Abdullah Hussein?

  • a) In the Line of Fire
  • b) Udaas Naslain
  • c) Ek Derecha Ek Chirag
  • d) Nuskha-ha-e-Wafa

6. The book “The rise and fall of Benazir” is written by:

  • a) Faiz Ahmad Faiz
  • b) Matloob Ahmad Waraich
  • c) Fakeer Muhammad
  • d) Professor Ghafoor Ahmed

7. Which one of these is famous book by “Maulana Yousaf Ludhyanvi”?

  • a) “Jahan-e-deeda Aur Tarashe”
  • b) “Akhri Chitan Aur Akhri Marika”
  • c) ‘Muqadas Moorti Aur Cha-e-babul”
  • d) “Ikhtilaf-e-ummat Aur Sirat-e-Mustaqeem”

8. The Pakistani writer Musharraf Ali Farooqi received award for best literary for:

  • a) Thinner Than Skin
  • b) Black Flower
  • c) Between Clay and Dust
  • d) Goat Days

9. “In the Line of Fire” book is written by:

  • a) Abdullah Hussein
  • b) Pervez Musharraf
  • c) M. Salahuddin Khan
  • d) Sameena Peer Zada

10. Which one of these books is written by Parveen Shakir?

  • a) Goat Days
  • b) Kaf-e-Aaina
  • c) Thinner Than Skin
  • d) A Golden Age

11. Which one of the following wrote the book “Anarkali”?

  • a) Ayad Akhtar
  • b) Fatima Bhutto
  • c) Ashfaq Ahmad
  • d) Imtiaz Ali Taj

12. Which one of these books is written by Musharraf Ali Farooqi?

  • a) Ishq Ka Ain
  • b) Salar Jang’s passion
  • c) Dastak Na Do
  • d) Umrao Jaan Ada

13. Which one of these books is written by Ashfaq Ahmed?

  • a) Shahabnama
  • b) Zaviya
  • c) Mann Chalay Ka Sauda
  • d) Ek Derecha Ek Chirag

14. Twilight in Delhi was first published in:

  • a) 1930
  • b) 1935
  • c) 1940
  • d) 1945

15. The Loss of India, The Violent West and The Murder of Aziz Khan are the works of:

  • a) Ahmad Ali
  • b) Attia Hussain
  • c) Hanif Kureishi
  • d) Zulfikar Ghose

16. Hanif Kureishi’s _____was Pakistani.

  • a) Father
  • b) Mother
  • c) Both
  • d) None

17. A collection of short stories by Ahmad Ali and his friends was banned by British government in India. What was the name of collection?

  • a) The Loss of India
  • b) The Violent West
  • c) Angare
  • d) First Voices

18. His first play, Soaking the Heat, his film My Son the Fanatic, his novel The Buddha of Suburbia, his collection of stories Love in a Blue Time, who is he?

  • a) Ahmad Ali
  • b) Hanif Kureishi
  • c) Zulfikar Ghose
  • d) Muhammad Hanif

19. The Budha of Suburbia won for Hanif Qureshi.

  • a) Prime Minister’s Award for Literature
  • b) Hemingway Award
  • c) Whitebread First Novel Award
  • d) South Asian Novel Award

20. Which of the following Pakistani English writer involved in translation of ghazals of Mirza Asaduulah Khan Ghalib into English? (Collection name: Epistemologies of Elegance)

  • a) Tariq Ali
  • b) Sara Suleri
  • c) Kamila Shamsie
  • d) Mohsin Hamid

21. Meatless Days is written by:

  • a) Tariq Ali
  • b) Sara Suleri
  • c) Kamila Shamsie
  • d) Mohsin Hamid

22. Who presented a paper on “The English Novel in Pakistan”.

  • a) Muneeza Shamsie
  • b) Sara Suleri
  • c) Kamila Shamsie
  • d) Mohsin Hamid

23. “The City by the Sea” written by Kamila Shamsie won-------------in Pakistan.

  • a) Patras Bukhari Award
  • b) Prime Minister Award for Literature
  • c) Manto Award
  • d) First Novel Award

24. Moth Smoke and The Reluctant Fundamentalist are the best-known works of

  • a) Tariq Ali
  • b) Sara Suleri
  • c) Kamila Shamsie
  • d) Mohsin Hamid

25. Mention a novel which shows failure of love affair and attacks of 9/11, has been translated into more than 20 languages.

  • a) Maps for Lost Lovers by Nadeem Aslam
  • b) Salt and Saffron by Kamila Shamsie
  • c) Sunlight on the Broken Column by Attia Hussain
  • d) Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid

26. Who among the following translated Ismat Chughtai and Saadat Hasan Manto’s work into English?

  • a) Bina Shah
  • b) Tahira Naqvi
  • c) Mohsin Hamid
  • d) Nadeem Aslam

27. Maps for Lost Lovers and Season of Rainbirds are the novels by:

  • a) Bina Shah
  • b) Tahira Naqvi
  • c) Mohsin Hamid
  • d) Nadeem Aslam

28. Who became the head of BBC’s Urdu Service in London?

  • a) Uzma Aslam Khan
  • b) Muhammad Hanif
  • c) Ameer Hussain
  • d) Alamgeer Hashmi

29. Who is the hero of The Budha of Suburbia?

  • a) Rahim
  • b) Karim
  • c) Salim
  • d) Nadim

30. Who among the following Pakistani writers, portrays the lives of social outcasts, loners, losers, the deprived and the dispossessed?

  • a) Uzma Aslam Khan
  • b) Muhammad Hanif
  • c) Adam Zameenzad
  • d) Alamgir Hashmi

31. Animal Medicine and A Love Affair with Lahore are the works of:

  • a) Bina Shah
  • b) Tahira Naqvi
  • c) Mohsin Hamid
  • d) Nadeem Aslam

Chapter 87: LINGUISTICS

1. A term introduced by the linguist SAUSSURE which refers to the state of a language as it exists at any given time

  • a) Synchrony
  • b) Diachrony
  • c) Paradigmatic
  • d) N. O. T

2. What is the scientific Study of Language?

  • a) Syntax
  • b) Linguistics
  • c) Morphology
  • d) Phonetics
  • e) Semantics
  • f) Sociolinguistics
  • g) Psycholinguistics

3. What is the Study of Sentence Construction?

  • a) Syntax
  • b) Linguistics
  • c) Morphology
  • d) Phonetics

4. __________ is the study of words, how they are formed, and their relationship to others in the same language.

  • a) Syntax
  • b) Linguistics
  • c) Morphology
  • d) Phonetics
  • e) Semantics

5. Study of human speech sounds is ___________.

  • a) Syntax
  • b) Linguistics
  • c) Morphology
  • d) Phonetics

6. Study of meaning is _________.

  • a) Syntax
  • b) Linguistics
  • c) Morphology
  • d) Phonetics
  • e) Semantics

7. Study of Language in Social Interaction is?

  • a) Syntax
  • b) Linguistics
  • c) Morphology
  • d) Sociolinguistics

8. ___________ is the study of interrelation between linguistic factors and psychological aspects.

  • a) Syntax
  • b) Linguistics
  • c) Morphology
  • d) Phonetics
  • e) Semantics
  • f) Sociolinguistics
  • g) Psycholinguistics

9. Language might be started by the imitation of sounds which early men and women heard around them. This describes:

  • a) Ye-heave ho theory
  • b) Bow-wow theory
  • c) Oral-gesture theory
  • d) Divine source theory

10. Biological basis of formation/development of human language is called:

  • a) Glossogenetics
  • b) Biogenetics
  • c) Physogentics
  • d) Morphology

11. Human beings can talk about their present, past and future. This property of language is called

  • a) Duality
  • b) Arbitrariness
  • c) Displacement
  • d) Productivity

12. There is no connection between a linguistic form and its meaning describe:

  • a) Duality
  • b) Arbitrariness
  • c) Displacement
  • d) Productivity

13. We can utter new and novel words and sentence but animals can’t. It describes which property?

  • a) Duality
  • b) Arbitrariness
  • c) Displacement
  • d) Productivity

14. A little change in sound can change the meaning describes which property of human language?

  • a) Duality
  • b) Displacement
  • c) Discreetness
  • d) Cultural Transmission

15. The general study of characteristics of speech sound is called:

  • a) Phonetics
  • b) Phonology
  • c) Articulatory Phonetics
  • d) Auditory Phonetics

16. The study of movement of speech organs in articulation of speech or the study of how the speech sounds are made is called

  • a) Phonetics
  • b) Phonology
  • c) Articulatory Phonetics
  • d) Auditory Phonetics

17. The study of perception of speech sound is called:

  • a) Phonetics
  • b) Phonology
  • c) Articulatory Phonetics
  • d) Auditory Phonetics

18. The use of the verb Google in the phrase “google it” represents case of word formation via

  • a) Borrowing
  • b) Coinage
  • c) Conversion
  • d) Derivation

19. Acoustic phonetics is the study of

  • a) The production of speech sounds in languages
  • b) The generation of speech sounds by robots
  • c) The physical properties of speech sounds
  • d) The perception of speech sounds by humans

20. The study of sings is termed as ____________?

  • a) Semiotics
  • b) Semantics
  • c) Paradigmatic
  • d) Parole

21. The bound morpheme er acts as an inflectional morpheme in

  • a) Actor
  • b) Character
  • c) Quieter
  • d) Writer

22. If a syntactic rule is applied more than once in generating sentence then this is known as

  • a) movement
  • b) Transformation
  • c) Recursion
  • d) Complementation

23. When the meaning of one form id=s included in another, the relationship between them is described as:

  • a) Antonymy
  • b) Synonymy
  • c) Hyponymy
  • d) Polysemy

24. The knowledge of the physical context of the speaker is necessary to make sense of

  • a) Deictic expression
  • b) Presupposition
  • c) Reference
  • d) Entailment

25. In its general sense it refers to the creative capacity of language users to produce an endless number of new sentences, in contrast to the communication systems of animals is called?

  • a) Productivity
  • b) Langue
  • c) Paradigmatic
  • d) Parole

26. _________ is term introduced by CHOMSKY to describe ‘the actual use of language in concrete situations’

  • a) Performance
  • b) Parole
  • c) Paradigmatic
  • d) N.O.T

27. The system of communication within a community:

  • a) Langue
  • b) Parole
  • c) Paradigmatic
  • d) N. O.T

28. A pair of terms introduced by Noam Chomsky in 1965 to describe native speaker’s intuitions about grammatical correctness or otherwise of sentences.

  • a) Both b and c
  • b) Diachrony/Synchrony
  • c) Acceptable/Unacceptable
  • d) N.O.T

29. The study of language and mind, which has greatly advanced our understanding of the way in which we acquire language is _____________?

  • a) Sociolinguistic
  • b) Psycholinguistics
  • c) Biolinguistics
  • d) None

30. Who argues that language is a unique evolutionary development of the human species and distinguished from modes of communication used by any other animal species?

  • a) Ferdinand de Saussure
  • b) Albert Chomsky
  • c) Noam Chomsky
  • d) Noah Webster

31. Which one is the following is a feature of speakers rather than their speech

  • a) Cohesion
  • b) Coherence
  • c) Entailment
  • d) Deictic expressions

32. There are ______________ consonant sounds in English IPA.

  • a) 22
  • b) 23
  • c) 24
  • d) 25

33. The term interlanguage refers to

  • a) A language which is a mixture of two languages
  • b) A system of rules used by the speakers of a language
  • c) A system of rules designed to be used by the learners of L2
  • d) A system of rules generated by the speakers of L1 who are learning L2

34. Which one of the following constitutes an adjacency pair in conversation analysis?

  • a) Two similar questions asked in rapid succession
  • b) A mechanism used to repair an embarrassing mistake
  • c) An interview and interviewee sitting next to each other
  • d) Two linked phrases of conversation

35. Which one of the following statements is true of discourse?

  • a) Discourse could be found in interview data
  • b) Discourse is how language operates in real life communicative events
  • c) Discourse is language at a level which is broader than a sentence
  • d) All of these

36. The co-existence of two different varieties of languages in a society which differ in their social status is known as

  • a) Multiculturalism
  • b) Pidginization
  • c) Linguistic relativity
  • d) Diglossia

37. A hybrid language which develops its own grammar and vocabulary and also acquires the status of the native language of a group of speakers is known as

  • a) Pidgin
  • b) Sign language
  • c) Anti-language
  • d) Creole

38. The cult of seeing postmodernism as the converse of the ideals of the enlightenment is opposed by

  • a) Jean Francois Lyotard
  • b) Roland Brathes
  • c) Jurgen Habermas
  • d) Michel Foucault

39. Which of the following lived during the age of Romantic Art in the history of English Literature?

  • a) John Clare
  • b) Richard Hooker
  • c) Allan Ramsey
  • d) Samuel Richardson

40. When the vocal cords are spread apart and the air from the lungs passes between them unimpeded {without any stoppage] the sound is called:

  • a) Unvoiced
  • b) Voiceless
  • c) Both
  • d) Voiced

41. When there is some vibration in vocal cord while producing sound, the sound will be:

  • a) Voiced
  • b) Unvoiced
  • c) Voiceless
  • d) None

42. Total number of vowel and consonant sounds in English respectively:

  • a) 24,20
  • b) 20,24
  • c) 22,22
  • d) 419,25

43. The sounds in English language are classified as Bilabials, Dentals, Alveolar etc., it is according to their:

  • a) Place of articulation
  • b) Manner of articulation
  • c) Both
  • d) None

44. The sounds which are formed using both upper and lower lips [/m/,/b/,/w/] are called

  • a) Bilabials
  • b) Labiodentals
  • c) Dentals
  • d) Alveolar

45. /f/ and /v/ are:

  • a) Bilabials
  • b) Labiodentals
  • c) Dentals
  • d) Alveolar

46. /t/, /d/, /s/, /n/ and /z/ are called _____________ because they are pronounced with the front part of the tongue on the:

  • a) Alveolar ridge
  • b) Bilabials
  • c) Labiodentals
  • d) Dentals
  • e) Alveolar

47. /k/ and /g/ are called:

  • a) Bilabials
  • b) Velars
  • c) Dentals
  • d) Alveolar

48. /p/, /b/, /t/, /d/, /k/ and /g/ are 6:

  • a) Plosives
  • b) Nasals
  • c) Liquids
  • d) Fricatives

49. The consonants having the air push through the narrow opening are called?

  • a) Plosives
  • b) Nasals
  • c) Liquids
  • d) Fricatives

50. Find out liquid consonants

  • a) /l/, /r/
  • b) /l/, /m/
  • c) /l/, /n/
  • d) /t/, /p/

51. In American English if /t/ occurs between vowels, it is pronounced as /d/ ; for example, writer as rider and metal and medal. Name this term.

  • a) Flapping
  • b) Taping
  • c) Stopping
  • d) Mashing

52. The only lateral sound is:

  • a) /l/
  • b) /t/
  • c) /b/
  • d) /h/

53. The _________ sounds are mostly articulated with obstruction in the local cart.

  • a) Vowel
  • b) Consonant
  • c) Abstract
  • d) Diphthongs

54. The sounds which are pronounced without any obstruction in air passage, and are produced with a free flow of air are called:

  • a) Vowel
  • b) Consonant
  • c) Abstract
  • d) Diphthongs

55. Mark the number of monophthongs and diphthongs respectively:

  • a) 12,8
  • b) 8,12
  • c) 14,6
  • d) 14,8

56. The study of speech pattern is called:

  • a) Phonetics
  • b) Phonology
  • c) Morphology
  • d) Pragmatics

57. The smallest unit of speech is called:

  • a) Morpheme
  • b) Phoneme
  • c) Lexeme
  • d) Allophone

58. A sound pronounced with one puff of air of called [a sound with one vowel sound]:

  • a) Vowel
  • b) Consonant
  • c) Syllable
  • d) Coda

59. Syllable consists of onset and rime while rime is further divided into:

  • a) Onset and nucleus
  • b) Onset and coda
  • c) Nucleus and onset
  • d) Nucleus and coda

60. The consonants after the nucleus are called:

  • a) Rime
  • b) Onset
  • c) Coda
  • d) Syllable

61. The syllables having onset and nucleus but not coda are called:

  • a) Open syllables
  • b) Closed syllables
  • c) Light syllables
  • d) Heavy syllables

62. The syllables having nucleus and coda but no onset are called:

  • a) Open syllables
  • b) Closed syllables
  • c) Light syllables
  • d) Heavy syllables

63. The one or more consonants before or after nucleus which describes:

  • a) Consonant cluster
  • b) Elision
  • c) Assimilation
  • d) Syllable

64. The omission or deletion of some sound from a word is known as:

  • a) Consonant cluster
  • b) Elision
  • c) Assimilation
  • d) Syllable

65. When the name of a company becomes the name of its product, it is called:

  • a) Coinage
  • b) Calques
  • c) Blending
  • d) Compounding

66. Which one part of a word is joined with other part of other word, we get a new word. This process is known as:

  • a) Coinage
  • b) Calques
  • c) Blending
  • d) Compounding

67. Which one part of a word is joined with other part of other word, such type of words in linguistics terminology are called:

  • a) Acronyms
  • b) Portmanteau/ blending
  • c) Palindrome
  • d) Slang

68. If a word more than one syllable is reduced to a shorten form [e.g.; laboratory to lab, gasoline to gas, advertisement to ad] this process will be termed as:

  • a) Compounding
  • b) Clipping
  • c) Hypocorism
  • d) Conversion

69. If a long word is reduced to single syllable and then ‘’y’’ or ’’íe’’ is added to end to make new words[ e.g. handkerchief to hankie and breakfast to breaky] the process:

  • a) Compounding
  • b) Clipping
  • c) Hypocorism
  • d) Conversion

70. A change in the function of a word, when a noun is used or a verb is used as a noun, it is called:

  • a) Compounding
  • b) Clipping
  • c) Hypocorism
  • d) Conversion

71. NASA, NATOUNESO are the example of:

  • a) Abbreviations
  • b) Acronyms
  • c) Compounding
  • d) Mixing

72. To form new words by attaching affixes with existing words is called:

  • a) Abbreviations
  • b) Acronyms
  • c) Conversion
  • d) Derivation

73. The study of forms [words] is called:

  • a) Phonetics
  • b) Phonology
  • c) Morphology
  • d) Assimilation

74. Originally, morphology is a:

  • a) Linguistic term
  • b) Literary term
  • c) Biological term
  • d) Mathematical term

75. A minimal unit of meaning or grammatical function or a minimum unit of word is called:

  • a) Phoneme
  • b) Morpheme
  • c) Lexeme
  • d) Phone

76. A word or a group of word which has one meaning is called:

  • a) Phoneme
  • b) Morpheme
  • c) Lexeme
  • d) Phone

77. The morpheme which are independent to give meaning and they can stand by as single words are called:

  • a) Free morphemes
  • b) Bound morphemes
  • c) Inflectional morphemes
  • d) Derivational morphemes

78. The morphemes which are dependent to other words give meaning and they cannot sand by as single words are called:

  • a) Free morphemes
  • b) Bound morphemes
  • c) Inflectional morphemes
  • d) Derivational morphemes

79. All affixes in English are:

  • a) Free morphemes
  • b) Bound morphemes
  • c) lexical morphemes
  • d) Derivational morphemes

80. The word to which affixes are attached is technically known as:

  • a) Phoneme
  • b) Morpheme
  • c) Stem
  • d) Lexeme

81. Lexical and functional morphemes are two types of:

  • a) Free morphemes
  • b) Bound morphemes
  • c) Derivational morphemes
  • d) Inflectional morphemes

82. Nouns, verbs and adjectives come under:

  • a) Lexical morphemes
  • b) Functional morphemes
  • c) Derivational morphemes
  • d) Inflectional morphemes

83. Articles, pronouns and prepositions cover

  • a) Lexical morphemes
  • b) Functional morphemes
  • c) Derivational morphemes
  • d) Inflectional morphemes

84. Which type of morphemes is used to indicate the grammatical function of a word:

  • a) Lexical morphemes
  • b) Functional morphemes
  • c) Derivational morphemes
  • d) Inflectional morphemes

85. There are total ________ inflectional morphemes in English Language.

  • a) 5
  • b) 6
  • c) 8
  • d) 10

86. The study of rules of a language cover:

  • a) Grammar
  • b) Syntax
  • c) Semantics
  • d) Pragmatics

87. ‘’I shot an elephant in my pajamas’’ is an example of”

  • a) Surface structure
  • b) Deep structure

88. The information given about the subject in a sentence is called:

  • a) Infinitive
  • b) Gerund
  • c) Participle
  • d) Predicate

89. Painting, smoking, fishing are examples of:

  • a) Infinitive
  • b) Gerund
  • c) Participle
  • d) Predicate

90. Class, team and committee are the examples of:

  • a) Proper noun
  • b) Material noun
  • c) Collective noun
  • d) concrete noun

91. Following two languages are considered classical languages:

  • a) Arabic and Greek
  • b) Greek and Latin
  • c) Greek and English
  • d) Latin and Dutch

92. Which of the following approaches deals with the set of grammar rules and focus on the teaching of grammars rules?

  • a) Descriptive Approach
  • b) Prescriptive Approach
  • c) Generative Approach
  • d) Mystic Approach

93. Mention the approach which discourages the too much focus on the rules of language, according to it, how language is used is important rather than how language should be used:

  • a) Descriptive Approach
  • b) Prescriptive Approach
  • c) Generative Approach
  • d) mystic Approach

94. Syntax is originally taken from a _______ word:

  • a) Greek
  • b) Latin
  • c) German
  • d) Russian

95. The study of order or arrangements of words is called:

  • a) Grammar
  • b) Syntax
  • c) Semantics
  • d) Pragmatics

96. The study of meaning of forms is called:

  • a) Grammar
  • b) Syntax
  • c) Semantics
  • d) Pragmatics

97. ‘’ The table was listening to the music’’. This sentence syntactically is correct, but ___________ wrong

  • a) Semantically
  • b) Grammatically
  • c) Pragmatically
  • d) Morphologically

98. When meaning of one form is included in the meaning of another form it is called:

  • a) Hyponymy
  • b) Polysemy
  • c) Homonymy
  • d) Prototypes

99. Horse is ________ of animal:

  • a) Hyponym
  • b) Co-hyponym
  • c) Homonym
  • d) Homophone

100. When two words have different spellings have same pronunciations [ e.g., meet, meat, flour, flower] they are called:

  • a) Homonyms
  • b) Homophones
  • c) Hyponyms
  • d) Metonyms

101. When one word has two or more meanings or two words have two different meanings but same spellings are called. [ e.g. bank -of river, a financial institution].

  • a) Homonyms
  • b) Homophones
  • c) Hyponyms
  • d) Metonyms

102. Which one form have different meanings which are all related by extension, the term is named:

  • a) Hyponymy
  • b) Polysemy
  • c) Homonymy
  • d) Prototypes

103. Words frequently occurring together are termed as [examples; husband and wife, salt and pepper]

  • a) Synecdoche
  • b) Metonym
  • c) Collocation
  • d) Polysemy

104. When a part represents the whole entity it is known as:

  • a) Synecdoche
  • b) Metonym
  • c) Collocation
  • d) Polysemy

105. The study of intended speaker meaning is called:

  • a) Semantics
  • b) Syntax
  • c) Pragmatics
  • d) Grammar

106. The set of words used in the same phrase or sentence is called linguistic context. It is also known as:

  • a) Co-text
  • b) Dixie
  • c) Anaphora
  • d) Inference

107. Words that cannot be interpreted at all without the physical context of the speaker are called:

  • a) Co-text
  • b) Dixies
  • c) Anaphora
  • d) Inference

108. Any additional information used by the listener to connect what is said to what must be meant is called:

  • a) Co-text
  • b) Dixie
  • c) Anaphora
  • d) Inference

109. A subsequent reference to an already introduced entity is called:

  • a) Co-text
  • b) Dixie
  • c) Anaphora
  • d) Inference

110. Linking of ideas in a text is called

  • a) Cohesion
  • b) Coherence
  • c) Anaphora
  • d) Co-text

111. A conventional knowledge structure which exists in memory is called:

  • a) Cohesion
  • b) Anaphora
  • c) Dixie
  • d) Schema

112. When we feel extreme difficulty in production of speech which part of our brain is damaged?

  • a) Arcuate fasciculus
  • b) Motor cortex
  • c) Wernicke’s area
  • d) Broca’s area

113. Damage in Wernicke’s area of brain causes difficulty in:

  • a) Speech production
  • b) Speech comprehension
  • c) Speech monitoring
  • d) Speech listening

114. Which part of the brain controls the articulatory muscles, jaw, tongue and larynx?

  • a) Broca’s area
  • b) Motor cortex
  • c) Wernicke’s area
  • d) Arcuate fasciculus

115. Which part forms a crucial connection between Broca’s area and Wernicke’s area?

  • a) Vex area
  • b) Motor cortex
  • c) Arcuate fasciculus

116. Language ability is located in -------- of the brain:

  • a) Right hemisphere
  • b) Left hemisphere
  • c) Both
  • d) None

117. The ability to produce or comprehend the speech because of damage to certain parts of brain is called:

  • a) Anaphora
  • b) Aphasia
  • c) Cataphora
  • d) Deixis

118. When the baby is three months old, he can produce sounds of vowels /i/ and /u/ , this stage is known as

  • a) Cooing
  • b) Babbling
  • c) Holophrastic
  • d) Telegraphic

119. Babies can produce nasal and fricatives sounds at the age of 6 months; this stage is known as

  • a) Babbling
  • b) Cooing
  • c) Holophrastic
  • d) Telegraphic

120. What is the difference between learning a language and acquiring a language?

  • a) Learning is natural while acquiring is conscience effort
  • b) Acquisition focuses on grammar while learning focuses on structure
  • c) Both
  • d) None

121. Which one is traditional method of learning a language?

  • a) GTM
  • b) Drilling
  • c) Silent
  • d) Audio-lingual

122. When you mix L1 and L2 it makes:

  • a) Interlanguage
  • b) Fore language
  • c) Post language
  • d) Code mixing

123. While speaking one language if we shift to another language, it is called:

  • a) Code mixing
  • b) Code switching
  • c) Bilingualism
  • d) Multilingualism

124. If we use the words of 2 languages, it is called:

  • a) Code mixing
  • b) Code switching
  • c) Encoding
  • d) None

125. English is derived from

  • a) German
  • b) Latin
  • c) Greek
  • d) French

126. A particular form of language which is peculiar to a specific region:

  • a) Accent
  • b) Dialect
  • c) Standard language
  • d) Bilingualism

127. Accent is peculiar to a -------- of a specific group of people:

  • a) Grammar
  • b) Spelling
  • c) Pronunciation
  • d) Tenses

128. A variety of language developed for some practical purpose among people who don’t know the language of each other

  • a) Pidgin
  • b) Creole
  • c) Dialect
  • d) Accent

129. When a language developed for some practical purpose goes beyond that particular purpose and becomes the first language of community:

  • a) Pidgin
  • b) Creole
  • c) Dialect
  • d) Accent

130. The personal dialect of each individual person is called:

  • a) Register
  • b) Jargon
  • c) Dialect
  • d) Idiolect

131. Variations in a language according to use in specific situation is called:

  • a) Register
  • b) Jargon
  • c) Dialect
  • d) Idiolect

132. Technical vocabulary associated with a specific group or field is called:

  • a) Register
  • b) Jargon
  • c) Dialect
  • d) Idiolect

133. When we speak two varieties of one language in a society, one is formal and other is informal, it is called:

  • a) Register
  • b) Jargon
  • c) Dialect
  • d) Idiolect

134. The study of language in relation to brain is called:

  • a) Sociolinguistics
  • b) Psycholinguistics
  • c) Neurolinguistics
  • d) Linguistics

135. According to Chomsky, the native speaker knowledge of his language, the system of rules he has mastered, his ability to produce and understand a vast number of new sentences:

  • a) Competence
  • b) Performance
  • c) Both
  • d) None

136. Who gave the concept of competence and performance:

  • a) Chomsky
  • b) Sapir
  • c) Saussure
  • d) Watson

137. The concept of language and parole is given by:

  • a) Chomsky
  • b) Sapir
  • c) Saussure
  • d) Watson

138. The set of all possible grammatical sentences in the language is called:

  • a) Langue
  • b) Grammar
  • c) Parole
  • d) None

139. The set of all utterances that have actually been produced in a language is called:

  • a) Langue
  • b) Parole
  • c) Competence
  • d) None

140. The major themes related to the theory of behaviorism is:

  • a) Chomsky and Saussure
  • b) Watson and Skinner
  • c) Freud ad Chomsky
  • d) Saussure and Watson

141. "Big" and "small" are the examples of - - - - - antonyms:

  • a) Gradable
  • b) Non grade able
  • c) Both
  • d) None

142. According to - - - - - we perceive the world as our language used to perceive it:

  • a) Sapir Whorf hypothesis
  • b) Behaviorism
  • c) Langue
  • d) Performance

143. The originator of theory of structuralism is:

  • a) Saussure
  • b) Chomsky
  • c) Skinner
  • d) Watson

144. Study of language through its history is called:

  • a) Diachronic study
  • b) Synchronic study
  • c) Both
  • d) None

145. Omission of a word or more from a sentence is called:

  • a) Elision
  • b) Ellipsis
  • c) Analogy
  • d) Assimilation

146. The study of a text in regard to their linguistic and literary style is called:

  • a) Sociolinguistics
  • b) Stylistics
  • c) Historical linguistics
  • d) Psycholinguistics

147. The concept of LAD was given by:

  • a) Chomsky
  • b) Skinner
  • c) Saussure
  • d) Watson

Chapter 88: MORE ON LINGUISTICS

1. Grammar based on how people currently use a language rather than on past usage and grammar is called:

  • a) Schema Theory
  • b) Descriptive Grammar
  • c) Grammar Translation
  • d) Prescriptive Grammar

2. A language form with non-standard usage and pronunciation that's only heard in one area is:

  • a) Local dialect
  • b) Native language
  • c) Semantic language
  • d) Received Pronunciation

3. Which of these people perceives language as a means to interpret human experience?

  • a) Anthropologist
  • b) Sociologist
  • c) Philosopher
  • d) Students of literature

4. Which of these finds out how a certain set of people use a language at a given time?

  • a) Diachronic Linguistics
  • b) Comparative Linguistics
  • c) Synchronic Linguistics
  • d) Historical Linguistics

5. Which of the following definitions best describes "language acquisition"?

  • a) The process by which a society's vernacular varies
  • b) The process by which linguistics are applied to sociology
  • c) The process by which the linguistic ability develops in a human

6. Which among the following is not an aim of linguistics_______________?

  • a) To establish a theory of language
  • b) To study the nature of language
  • c) To propound stories of the origin of language
  • d) To describe a language and all languages

7. Which among the following does not constitute the scientific nature of linguistics_____________?

  • a) Determination of causal relationship between facts
  • b) Systematic gathering and analysis of data
  • c) Chronological presentation of data
  • d) Verification, validation and generalization

8. From the 1960s to the early 1990s, ____ linguistics dominated the linguistics landscape

  • a) Generative
  • b) Historical
  • c) Socio
  • d) Psycho

9. _____________refers to the linguistic norm specific to a geographical area, social class or status affecting mutual intelligibility?

  • a) Dialect
  • b) Register
  • c) Idiolect
  • d) Slang

10. Which among the following implies the underlying rules governing the combination and organization of the elements of language?

  • a) Parole
  • b) Language
  • c) Competence
  • d) Both langue and Competence

11. It is possible to write down spoken language and read aloud the written material. This property of language is called______________ ?

  • a) Duality of structure
  • b) Displacement
  • c) Recursiveness
  • d) Transference

12. Using a finite set of rules, a speaker can produce innumerable grammatical utterances. This property of language is called______________?

  • a) Displacement
  • b) Recursiveness
  • c) Duality of structure
  • d) Transference

13. Etymology is the study of the history of words. Which of the following does not deal with etymology?

  • a) How a word's meaning has changed over time
  • b) When a word entered a language
  • c) What source a word is from
  • d) These all deal with etymology

14. The purpose of examining the structural components of a language through Applied Linguistics is to understand that language profoundly to teach it better.

  • a) True
  • b) False

15. There are two types communication in a language: conversational and academic.

  • a) True
  • b) False

16. Which among the following is not a characteristic feature of language?

  • a) Language is arbitrary
  • b) Language is systematic
  • c) Language is dynamic
  • d) Language is instinctive

17. Who defined language as “a set or (finite or infinite) sentences, each finite in length and constructed out of a finite set of elements”?

  • a) Noam Chomsky
  • b) Edward Sapir
  • c) Ferdinand de Saussure
  • d) None of the above

18. Immersion is supposed to be one of the most adequate approaches to teach a second language.

  • a) True
  • b) False

19. All languages remain the same irrespective of time and contextual factors.

  • a) True
  • b) False

20. There is no agreement among researchers on what is the best method to teach a second language.

  • a) True
  • b) False

21. Syntax, semantics, morphology, phonology, pragmatics are structural components of a language.

  • a) True
  • b) False

22. Applied linguistics is an interdisciplinary field which identifies, investigates, and offers solutions to language-related real-life problems.

  • a) Phonetics
  • b) Applied Linguistics
  • c) Sociolinguistics
  • d) None

23. Major branches of ___ include bilingualism and multilingualism

  • a) Psycholinguistics
  • b) Morphology
  • c) Applied Linguistics
  • d) None

24. Applied linguistics first concerns itself with principles and practices on the basis of:

  • a) Linguistics
  • b) Phonology
  • c) Phonology and Phonetics
  • d) Morphology

25. In the ____, however, applied linguistics was expanded to include language assessment, language policy, and second language acquisition

  • a) 1950s
  • b) 1960s
  • c) 1970s
  • d) None of these

26. In the United States, applied linguistics also began narrowly as the application of insights from ____ linguistics

  • a) Historical
  • b) Structural
  • c) Descriptive
  • d) Prescriptive

27. The International Association of Applied Linguistics was founded in ____ in 1964

  • a) England
  • b) France
  • c) Germany
  • d) None of these

28. “Applied Linguistics is the theoretical and empirical investigation of real-world problems in which language is a central issue” is said by:

  • a) Chomsky
  • b) Saussure
  • c) Chris Brumfit
  • d) Bloomfield

29. Find the odd one out____________________?

  • a) Edward Sapir
  • b) Saussure
  • c) Bloomfield
  • d) Gundert

30. The word “sheep” (plural) as ___ morpheme/s.

  • a) 1
  • b) 2
  • c) 3
  • d) None of These

31. The word “fish” (Plural) has ____ morph/s.

  • a) 1
  • b) 2
  • c) 3
  • d) 4

Chapter 89: PHONETICS & PHONOLOGY

1. A branch of Linguistics which studies the sounds in a language is called:

  • a) Literature
  • b) Phonetics
  • c) Consonants
  • d) Vowels

2. --------is a scientific study of language.

  • a) Linguistics
  • b) Sounds
  • c) Phonetics
  • d) Diphthongs

3. The mechanism that takes place in production of sounds is known as:

  • a) Pulmonic mechanism
  • b) Air - stream mechanism
  • c) Pulmonic air - stream mechanism
  • d) Pulmonic aggressive air - stream mechanism

4. Sounds produced with a stricture of complete closure and sudden release are a called------.

  • a) Plosives
  • b) Flaps
  • c) Nasals
  • d) Affricates

5. The air from the lungs which escapes through the mouth------ is known as vowels.

  • a) Noisy
  • b) Without friction
  • c) Vibration
  • d) Friction

6. In order to speak the air flows through the-------and then escapes through the mouth or nose.

  • a) Larynx
  • b) Heart
  • c) Vocal cord
  • d) esophagus

7. The air from the lungs which escapes through the mouth with friction is known as------.

  • a) Consonants
  • b) Phonetics
  • c) Vowels
  • d) Speech Sounds

8. For the production of speech sounds the air starts from the-------.

  • a) Lungs
  • b) Liver
  • c) Heart
  • d) Stomach

9. The Vowels articulated with eight tongue positions are called------.

  • a) Diphthongs
  • b) Pure vowels
  • c) Monophthongs
  • d) Cardinal vowels

10. There are -------sounds in English.

  • a) 24
  • b) 34
  • c) 44
  • d) 26

11. consists of two processes inspiration and expiration.

  • a) Speech process
  • b) Respiration
  • c) Gliding
  • d) Production

12. We use the air that we breathe------for the production of most speech sounds of the world.

  • a) Out
  • b) In and Out
  • c) Out and In
  • d) In

13. The-------system consists of a few organs in our head and neck.

  • a) Pulmonary
  • b) Phonatory
  • c) Articulatory
  • d) Sound

14. During normal breathing, the vocal cords move far away from each other and therefore the-----is wide open.

  • a) Lungs
  • b) Nasal cavity
  • c) Mouth
  • d) Glottis

15. All the-------------of English are VOICED.

  • a) Consonants
  • b) Vowels
  • c) Alphabets
  • d) Pure Vowels

16. ------------out of the twenty - four consonants in English are VOICELESS.

  • a) Ten
  • b) Twenty
  • c) Nine
  • d) Fourteen

17. The rate at which the vocal cords vibrate determines the--------of our voice

  • a) Voiced
  • b) Sound
  • c) Intonation
  • d) Pitch

18. When the vocal cords vibrate-------------, our pitch is LOW and when they vibrate-------, our pitch is HIGH.

  • a) Paced/Slow
  • b) Slowly/Rapidly
  • c) Slow/Paced
  • d) Medium/Highly

19. We need some --------to articulate our speech sounds.

  • a) Knowledge
  • b) Patience
  • c) Energy
  • d) Air

20. When we articulate--------sounds, the air from the lungs escapes, freely, continuously and through the mouth.

  • a) Voiced
  • b) Voiceless
  • c) Vowel
  • d) Consonants

21. The sound that begins the English word 'best' is a -------sound.

  • a) Vowel
  • b) Consonant
  • c) Unarticulated
  • d) Voiced

22. -------is the space between the two vocal cords when they are drawn far away from each other.

  • a) Upper palate
  • b) Consonant
  • c) Glottis
  • d) Lower palate

23. By the expression----------mechanism we mean a moving current of air.

  • a) Air – stream
  • b) Gliding
  • c) Pitch
  • d) Intonation

24. If the soft palate is------------, it comes away from the back wall of the Pharynx.

  • a) Lowered
  • b) Raised
  • c) Moving
  • d) Vibrating

25. The air from the lungs escapes only through the mouth and such sounds are called------sounds.

  • a) Voiced
  • b) Standard
  • c) Oral
  • d) Voiceless

26. The air from the lungs will escape simultaneously through the mouth and the nose. Such sounds are called sounds.

  • a) Nasalized
  • b) Oral
  • c) Voiced
  • d) Voiceless

27. There are------------vowel symbols in English.

  • a) 40
  • b) 44
  • c) 20
  • d) 26

28. The front of the tongue is the ---------.

  • a) Stricture
  • b) Passive articulator
  • c) Articulator
  • d) Active articulator

29. How many front vowels are in English?

  • a) 4
  • b) 6
  • c) 9
  • d) 2

30. ---------- palate is situated behind the teeth ridge.

  • a) Strong
  • b) Weak
  • c) Hard
  • d) Soft

31. There are----------back vowels in English.

  • a) Four
  • b) Three
  • c) Two
  • d) Five

32. -----vowels make the back of the tongue to move towards soft palate

  • a) Back
  • b) Middle
  • c) Front
  • d) Upper

33. In English there are-------- central vowels.

  • a) 1
  • b) 6
  • c) 4
  • d) 3

34. The main positions of vowels are called------------.

  • a) Open vowel position
  • b) Closed vowel position
  • c) Central vowel position
  • d) Cardinal vowel position

35. -----------vowels have four positions.

  • a) Medium
  • b) Back
  • c) Front
  • d) Center

36. When the front of the tongue moves very close to the hard palate and produces sound they are called as

  • a) Open vowels
  • b) Close vowels
  • c) Half open vowels
  • d) Half close vowels

37. How many main positions are there for vowel sounds?

  • a) 4
  • b) 45
  • c) 8
  • d) 24

38. The vowels produced in open positions are known as-----------.

  • a) Open vowels
  • b) Half open vowels
  • c) Back vowels
  • d) Central vowels

39. We have------positions for front vowels.

  • a) Three
  • b) Two
  • c) Five
  • d) Four

40. Diphthong vowels are known as--------------.

  • a) Double vowels
  • b) Single vowels
  • c) Monophthongs
  • d) Pure vowels

41. Diphthong consists of --------------.

  • a) One vowel
  • b) Two double vowels
  • c) Two single vowels
  • d) No vowels

42. Diphthongs are also known as----------.

  • a) Pure vowels
  • b) Slides
  • c) Monophthongs
  • d) Glides

43. The patterns of variation of the pitch of the voice constitute the------of a language.

  • a) Stress
  • b) Intonation
  • c) Rhythm
  • d) Syllable

44. A syllable that ends in a consonant is called a-------syllable.

  • a) Arresting
  • b) Releasing
  • c) Closed
  • d) Open

45. A syllable which is said on a level tone, high or low is said to have a-----tone.

  • a) Static
  • b) Pitch
  • c) Kinetic
  • d) Voiced

46. The rate at which the--------- vibrate is called frequency of vibration.

  • a) Glottis
  • b) Uvula
  • c) Tongue
  • d) Vocal cords

47. Voiceless sounds are also known as-------sounds.

  • a) Open
  • b) Closed
  • c) Breathed
  • d) Breathless

48. A syllable that ends in a vowel is called an-----syllable.

  • a) Arresting
  • b) Open
  • c) Closed
  • d) Releasing

49. During the normal Speech, in the case of an adult male, the vocal cords vibrate between times a second.

  • a) 10 and 100
  • b) 80 and 120
  • c) 50 and 100
  • d) 150 and 200

50. During the normal Speech, in the case of an adult female, the vocal cords vibrate between-----times a second.

  • a) 150 and 200
  • b) 80 and 120
  • c) 10 and 100
  • d) 50 and 120

51. When the pitch falls from mid to very low, then the tone is-----------.

  • a) High fall
  • b) Low fall
  • c) High rise
  • d) Low rise

52. When the pitch rises from very low to very high, then the tone is--------.

  • a) High fall
  • b) Low fall
  • c) High rise
  • d) Low rise

53. When the pitch rises from low to mid, then the tone is--------.

  • a) High fall
  • b) Low fall
  • c) High rise
  • d) Low rise

54. When the pitch falls from about mid to low and then rises again to mid, then the tone is ------.

  • a) Fall rise
  • b) Rise fall
  • c) High rise
  • d) Low rise

55. When the pitch rises from low to about mid and then falls again to low, then the tone is -------

  • a) Fall rise
  • b) Rise fall
  • c) High rise
  • d) Low rise

56. The biggest difference between Speech and Writing is that Speech consists of----------.

  • a) Reading
  • b) Writing
  • c) Words
  • d) Sounds

57. The syllable between the head and the nucleus constitutes the----------.

  • a) Pre – head
  • b) Body
  • c) Tail
  • d) Tone

58. The Syllables after the nucleus constitute the------of the tone group.

  • a) Pre – head
  • b) Body
  • c) Tail
  • d) Tone

59. For the articulation of most speech sounds of most languages --------air is used.

  • a) Oral
  • b) Lung
  • c) Nasal
  • d) Wind – pipe

60. There are --------- main air - stream mechanisms.

  • a) 1
  • b) 2
  • c) 3
  • d) 4

61. The vowel in a syllable is its central element and is called the--------of a syllable.

  • a) Nucleus
  • b) Syllabi
  • c) Intonation
  • d) Stress

62. --------language tends to be more conservative and old - fashioned.

  • a) Spoken
  • b) Written
  • c) Sign
  • d) Reading

63. In -----------comprehension the listener needs to understand what the speaker means and not to think about the language too much.

  • a) Listening
  • b) Reading
  • c) Writing
  • d) Speaking

64. ------------may sound stronger or weaker according to the tone they bear.

  • a) Syllable
  • b) Pitch
  • c) Stress
  • d) Accent

65. In English-----------is most dramatically realized on focused or accented words.

  • a) Syllable
  • b) Pitch
  • c) Stress
  • d) Accent

66. Unstressed syllables typically have a ------which is closer to a neutral position, while stressed are more fully realized.

  • a) Consonant
  • b) Diphthong
  • c) Nasal
  • d) Vowel

67. Intonation and----------are two main elements of linguistics prosody.

  • a) Syllable
  • b) Pitch
  • c) Stress
  • d) Accent

68. In English, the position of--------can change the meaning of a word.

  • a) Syllable
  • b) Pitch
  • c) Stress
  • d) Accent

69. Choose the correct spelling of the word.

  • a) Rythm
  • b) Rhythm
  • c) Rytham
  • d) Rythem

70. Choose the correct spelling of the word.

  • a) Homogenus
  • b) Homogenius
  • c) Homogeneous
  • d) Hommogenius

71. Choose the correct Prefix for the word - Biography.

  • a) Re
  • b) An
  • c) Anti
  • d) Auto

72. Choose the correct Prefix for the word - Power.

  • a) Em
  • b) En
  • c) Im
  • d) Mis

73. Interaction between two people is------

  • a) Dyadic communication
  • b) Group Discussion
  • c) Symposium
  • d) Conference

74. In all nasal consonants the-----------is lowered.

  • a) Soft palate
  • b) Hard palate
  • c) Uvula
  • d) Vocal cords

75. There are------ nasal sounds in English.

  • a) 1
  • b) 2
  • c) 3
  • d) 4

76. Soft palate is also known as----------.

  • a) Tongue
  • b) Glottis
  • c) Uvula
  • d) Velum

77. The fleshy structure hanging loose at the extreme end of the roof of the mouth is called----.

  • a) Velum
  • b) Soft palate
  • c) Tongue
  • d) Uvula

78. The Tongue is divided into------different positions.

  • a) Two
  • b) Four
  • c) Five
  • d) Three

79. The extreme edge of the tongue is called------.

  • a) Back of the tongue
  • b) Blade of the tongue
  • c) Tip of the tongue
  • d) Uvula

80. The number of Primary Cardinal Vowels are ---------.

  • a) 7
  • b) 5
  • c) 6
  • d) 8

81. ------------of the English Consonants are Plosives.

  • a) 6
  • b) 4
  • c) 3
  • d) 5

82. -----------is commonly called the Adam's Apple?

  • a) The Glottis
  • b) The Larynx
  • c) Epiglottis
  • d) Vocal cords

80. There are------- pure vowels.

  • a) 24
  • b) 12
  • c) 10
  • d) 20

84. The ‘center’ of the tongue is raised during the articulation of a --- vowel.

  • a) Lateral
  • b) Central
  • c) Back
  • d) Front

85. Which is Passive articulator?

  • a) Lower Lip
  • b) Upper Lip
  • c) Tongue
  • d) Uvula

86. Speech sounds can be classified into---------types.

  • a) Three
  • b) Four
  • c) Six
  • d) Two

87. The Velic closure is affected by raising the -------.

  • a) Velum
  • b) Upper Lip
  • c) Lower Lip
  • d) Tongue

88. Choose the correct spelling of the word.

  • a) Carburretor
  • b) Carpurator
  • c) Carburetor
  • d) Carburettor

89. Choose the correct spelling of the word - Disguise.

  • a) Caemouflage
  • b) Caemauflage
  • c) Kamaouflage
  • d) Camouflage

90. Choose the correct spelling of the word - Spicy.

  • a) Chilly
  • b) Chily
  • c) Chillii
  • d) Chili

91. Stressed syllables tend to be--------than unstressed syllables.

  • a) Weak
  • b) Strong
  • c) Louder
  • d) Silent

92. Stressed syllables are often perceived as being more forceful than----------syllables.

  • a) Unstressed
  • b) Accented
  • c) Strong
  • d) Weak

93. The Consonant that begins with a syllable is called the-------consonant.

  • a) Arresting
  • b) Releasing
  • c) Stable
  • d) Central

94. The Consonant that comes at the end of a syllable is called the -------consonant.

  • a) Central
  • b) Releasing
  • c) Arresting
  • d) Stable

95. When the Pitch falls from very high to very low, then the tone is-------.

  • a) High fall
  • b) Low fall
  • c) High rise
  • d) Low rise

96. The most prominent syllable in tone group on which a pitch movement takes place is called the-----.

  • a) Head
  • b) Body
  • c) Tail
  • d) Nucleus

97. The first accented syllable in a tone group is called the--------.

  • a) Tail
  • b) Head
  • c) Nucleus
  • d) Body

98. When we pronounce the front vowels both the lips are-----.

  • a) Rounded
  • b) Half rounded
  • c) Spread
  • d) Half spread

99. The back vowels are----------vowels.

  • a) Spread vowels
  • b) Rounded vowels
  • c) Cardinal vowels
  • d) Unrounded vowels

100. The Central vowels are---------vowels.

  • a) Round vowels
  • b) Unrounded vowels
  • c) Cardinal vowels
  • d) Neutral vowels

101. Choose the correct Prefix for the word - -genics

  • a) In
  • b) Eu
  • c) Non
  • d) Dis

102. Choose the correct Prefix for the word - -skeleton.

  • a) Eu
  • b) Extro
  • c) Dis
  • d) Exo

103. Choose the correct Prefix for the word - -focals.

  • a) Im-
  • b) Un-
  • c) Bi-
  • d) De-

104. Choose the correct Prefix for the word - -tropical.

  • a) Sub-
  • b) Extra-
  • c) Un-
  • d) In-

105. Choose the correct Prefix for the word - -annual.

  • a) Un-
  • b) Semi-
  • c) By-
  • d) Auto-

106. Choose the correct spelling of the word meaning - a raised platform in church.

  • a) Alter
  • b) Atlar
  • c) Altar
  • d) Ultar

107. Choose the correct spelling of the word meaning – causing difficulty

  • a) Awkward
  • b) Akward
  • c) Aukward
  • d) akwarde

108. Choose the correct spelling of the word meaning - an incident or an event.

  • a) Occurrence
  • b) Ocurrence
  • c) Occurrence
  • d) Ocurence

109. Choose the correct spelling of the word meaning - cause.

  • a) Relief
  • b) Releaf
  • c) Releave
  • d) Relieve

110. Choose the correct one-word substitution for - Extreme Physical or mental sufferings.

  • a) Agony
  • b) Pain
  • c) Injury
  • d) Illness

111. Choose the correct one-word substitution for - The acts of disrespect towards sacred things.

  • a) Abuse
  • b) Blasphemy
  • c) Profanity
  • d) Indignity

112. Choose the correct one-word substitution for - A man of free and easy habits.

  • a) Gypsy
  • b) Bohemian
  • c) Free bird
  • d) Rebel

113. Choose the correct one-word substitution for - Cultivation and study of trees or shrubs.

  • a) Horticulture
  • b) Gardening
  • c) Arboriculture
  • d) Agronom

114. Choose the correct one-word substitution for - Broadcast report or news.

  • a) Announcement
  • b) Notice
  • c) Publication
  • d) Bulletin

115. Choose the correct one-word substitution for – A written statement on oath.

  • a) Vow
  • b) Affidavit
  • c) Draft
  • d) Promise

116. Choose the correct one-word substitution for - One who can use both his/her right and left hands.

  • a) Multi – tasker
  • b) Double – dealing
  • c) Disingenuous
  • d) Ambidextrous

117. Choose the correct one-word substitution for - An extremely deep crack or opening in the ground.

  • a) Chasm
  • b) Pit
  • c) Aperture
  • d) Ditch

118. Choose the correct Suffix for the word – Social

  • a) -hood
  • b) -ship
  • c) -ism
  • d) -ry

119. Choose the correct Suffix for the word – Hard

  • a) -dom
  • b) -ship
  • c) -ful
  • d) -ism

120. Choose the correct Suffix for the word – Fail

  • a) -er
  • b) -est
  • c) -ism
  • d) -ure

121. Choose the correct Suffix for the word – Post

  • a) -ment
  • b) -age
  • c) -ry
  • d) -ard

122. Choose the correct Suffix for the word – Brave

  • a) -ry
  • b) -acy
  • c) -ment
  • d) -y

123. "The smallest unit of words" is called--------.

  • a) Phoneme
  • b) Allophone
  • c) Morpheme
  • d) Uncture

124. Defective pronunciation in India prevails as-----------.

  • a) There is dearth of books on phonetics
  • b) No firm rules for pronunciation
  • c) Both A and B
  • d) None of the above

125. According to phonetic method, the unit of a word is--------.

  • a) Sentence
  • b) Word
  • c) Sound
  • d) Letter

126. What is the full form of IPA?

  • a) Indian Phonetic Alphabet
  • b) International Phonetic Alphabet
  • c) International Phonetic Agreement
  • d) Indian Phonetic Agreement

127. What does the sign / / represent?

  • a) Phonetic transcription
  • b) Centralization
  • c) Voiced bilabial nasal
  • d) Rising- falling pitch

128. The ability of human language to produce messages in different times and places from the objects or events that they refer to is known as

  • a) Productivity
  • b) Arbitrariness
  • c) Displacement
  • d) Duality of patterning

129. Both gorillas and chimpanzees seem to be able to------ in a rudimentary way, although they do not seem to do so in the wild.

  • a) Understand and Manipulate symbols
  • b) Form human verbal sounds
  • c) Produce syntax
  • d) Understand video-taped or recorded call systems

130. Currently, most researchers believe that speech capability had developed in human ancestors by---------- years ago.

  • a) 200,000 to 250,000
  • b) 300,000 to 400,000
  • c) 50,000 to 75,000
  • d) 100,000 to 150,000

131. The study of how language changes according to social context is:

  • a) Cultural anthropology
  • b) Sociolinguistics
  • c) Historical linguistics
  • d) Intercultural communication studies

132. Changing from one language or dialect to another according to the context in which one is speaking is known as----------.

  • a) Code switching
  • b) Ethno semantics
  • c) Syntax
  • d) Creolization

133. Orthography is the--------.

  • a) The pronunciation of a word that represents the alphabetics spelling
  • b) The production of any speech
  • c) The study of the phonetics symbols
  • d) The alphabetic spelling of words that represents the way they are pronounced

134. What was the language in which the first Alphabet ever used?

  • a) The Greek
  • b) The Hebrew
  • c) The Latin
  • d) Wessex

135. How many kinds of Consonants are there?

  • a) 2
  • b) 1
  • c) 3
  • d) 0

136. The letters represent no sound of their own are-----------.

  • a) S, W and Q
  • b) C, S and W
  • c) None
  • d) C, Q, and X

137. The letters representing no sound of their own are called as-------.

  • a) Voiceless letters
  • b) Sound less letters
  • c) Redundant Letters
  • d) Superfluous

138. What letters are called the Twins?

  • a) Q and U
  • b) U and W
  • c) S and Q
  • d) U and S

139. What are the Natural Divisions of Consonants?

  • a) Voiced and Voiceless
  • b) Sound and soundless
  • c) Voicing, Place & Manner
  • d) Vocals and nasals

140. What Combination is both Aspirate and Subvocal?

  • a) au
  • b) d
  • c) a
  • d) Th

141. The letters whose sound cannot be prolonged are called as-----------.

  • a) Cognate
  • b) Explodents
  • c) Quiescent
  • d) Silent

142. A sound that is modified by the soft palate is called as ------------.

  • a) Vocal sound
  • b) Articulate sound
  • c) Coalescent sound
  • d) Guttural sound

143. That science which treats of the classification of words into parts of speech is called as-------.

  • a) Orthogeny
  • b) Etymology
  • c) Syntax
  • d) Prosody

144. That branch of etymology which treats of the division of words into syllables is called as---------.

  • a) Orthogeny
  • b) Morphology
  • c) Syllabication
  • d) None

145. -------are considered as the building blocks of words.

  • a) Syllable
  • b) Phoneme
  • c) Morpheme
  • d) A.O.T

146. ----------sounds are produced when the tongue us curled back.

  • a) Retroflex
  • b) Lateral
  • c) Nasal
  • d) Stops

147. Pronunciation of the word 'Church' is composed of----- phonemes.

  • a) 5
  • b) 2
  • c) 8
  • d) 3

148. In English, replacing one phoneme with another cause-----------.

  • a) No change
  • b) Only Pronunciation change
  • c) Pronunciation and meaning change
  • d) Meaning change

149. The word that contain many syllables are called as-----------.

  • a) Mono – syllable
  • b) Di – syllable
  • c) Poly- syllable
  • d) Tri – syllable

150. The study of possible Phoneme combinations in a language is called as--------.

  • a) Phonology
  • b) Phonotactics
  • c) Prosody
  • d) Polyphonemic

Chapter 90: MORPHOLOGY & SYNTAX

1. What is the study of sentence construction called?

  • a) Syntax
  • b) Phonetics
  • c) Semantics
  • d) Sociolinguistics

2. __________is the study of words, how they are formed, and their relationship to other words in the same language.

  • a) Linguistics
  • b) Morphology
  • c) Phonetics
  • d) Semantics

3. The use of the verb google in the phrase ‘GOOGLE IT ‘represents a case of word formation via

  • a) Borrowing
  • b) Coinage
  • c) Derivation
  • d) Conversion

4. The bound morpheme are acts as an inflectional morpheme in

  • a) Actor
  • b) Character
  • c) Quieter
  • d) Writer

5. If a syntactic rule is applied more than once in generating a sentence then this is known as

  • a) Movement
  • b) Transformation
  • c) Recursion
  • d) Complementation

6. Which one of the following constitute an adjacency pair in conversation analysis?

  • a) Two similar questions asked in rapid succession
  • b) A mechanism used to repair an embarrassing mistake
  • c) An interviewer and interviewee sitting next to each other
  • d) Two linked phases of conversation

7. When the name of company becomes the name of its product, it is called:

  • a) Calques
  • b) Compounding
  • c) Coinage
  • d) Blending

8. When one part of the word is joined with other part of other word, we get a new word. This process is known as:

  • a) Calques
  • b) Compounding
  • c) Coinage
  • d) Blending

9. When one part of the word is joined with other part of other word, we get a new word. Such type of word in linguistics terminology are called:

  • a) Acronyms
  • b) Portmanteau/Blending
  • c) Palindrome
  • d) Slang

10. If a word of more than one syllable is reduced to a shorten form (for example; laboratory to lab, gasoline to gas, advertisement to ad) this process will be termed as:

  • a) Compounding
  • b) Clipping
  • c) Hypocorism
  • d) Conversion

11. If a long word is reduced to single syllable and then “Y” or “IE” is added to end to make new words (example handkerchief to hankie, and breakfast to breaky) the process is called:

  • a) Compounding
  • b) Clipping
  • c) Hypocorism
  • d) Conversion

12. A change in the function of a word, when a noun is used as verb or a verb is used as a noun it is called:

  • a) Compounding
  • b) Clipping
  • c) Hypocorism
  • d) Conversion

13. NASA, NATO, UNESCO are the example of:

  • a) Abbreviations
  • b) Acronyms
  • c) Compounding
  • d) Mixing

14. To form new words by attaching affixes with existing words is called:

  • a) Abbreviation
  • b) Acronym
  • c) Conversion
  • d) Derivation

15. The study of forms (words) is called:

  • a) Phonetics
  • b) Morphology
  • c) Phonology
  • d) Assimilation

16. Originally, morphology is a:

  • a) Linguistic term
  • b) Literary term
  • c) Biological term
  • d) Mathematical term

17. A minimal unit of meaning or grammatical function or a minimal unit of word is called:

  • a) Phoneme
  • b) Morpheme
  • c) Lexeme
  • d) Phone

18. A word or a group of word which has one meaning is called:

  • a) Phoneme
  • b) Morpheme
  • c) Lexeme
  • d) Phone

19. The morpheme which are independent to give meaning and they can stand by as single words are called:

  • a) Free morpheme
  • b) Bound morpheme
  • c) Inflectional morpheme
  • d) Derivational morpheme

20. The morpheme which are dependent to other words give meaning and they cannot stand by as single words are called:

  • a) Free morpheme
  • b) Bound morpheme
  • c) Lexical morpheme
  • d) Derivational morpheme

21. All the affixes in English are:

  • a) Free morpheme
  • b) Bound morpheme
  • c) Lexical morpheme
  • d) Independent morpheme

22. The word to which affixes are attached is technically known as:

  • a) Phoneme
  • b) Morpheme
  • c) Stem
  • d) Lexeme

23. Lexical and functional morphemes are two types of:

  • a) Free morpheme
  • b) Bound morpheme
  • c) Inflectional morpheme
  • d) Derivational morpheme

24. Noun, verbs and adjectives come under:

  • a) Functional morpheme
  • b) Inflectional morpheme
  • c) Derivational morpheme
  • d) Lexical morpheme

25. Articles, pronouns and prepositions cover:

  • a) Functional morpheme
  • b) Inflectional morpheme
  • c) Derivational morpheme
  • d) Lexical morpheme

26. Which type of morpheme is used to indicate the grammatical function of a word:

  • a) Functional morpheme
  • b) Inflectional morpheme
  • c) Derivational morpheme
  • d) Lexical morpheme

27. There are total ____________ inflectional morphemes in English language.

  • a) 5
  • b) 6
  • c) 8
  • d) 10

28. The study of rules of a language cover:

  • a) Grammar
  • b) Syntax
  • c) Semantics
  • d) Pragmatics

29. “I shot an elephant in my pajamas” is example of:

  • a) Surface structure
  • b) Deep structure
  • c) Grammar
  • d) Semantics

30. The information given about the subject in a sentence is called:

  • a) Infinitive
  • b) Gerund
  • c) Participle
  • d) Predicate

31. Painting, smoking, fishing are the example of:

  • a) Infinitive
  • b) Gerund
  • c) Participle
  • d) Predicate

32. Class, team and committee are the examples of:

  • a) Collective noun
  • b) Proper noun
  • c) Material noun
  • d) Concrete noun

33. Following two languages are considered classical languages:

  • a) Arabic and Greek
  • b) Greek and Latin
  • c) Greek and English
  • d) Latin and Dutch

34. Which of the following approaches deals with the set of grammar rules and focuses on the teaching of grammar rules?

  • a) Descriptive approach
  • b) Prescriptive approach
  • c) Generative approach
  • d) Mystic approach

35. Mention the approach which discourages the too much focus on rules of language, according to it how language is used is important rather than how language should be used.

  • a) Descriptive approach
  • b) Prescriptive approach
  • c) Generative approach
  • d) Mystic approach

36. Syntax is originally taken from a__________ word:

  • a) Greek
  • b) Latin
  • c) German
  • d) Russian

37. The study of order or arrangements of a words is called:

  • a) Grammar
  • b) Syntax
  • c) Semantics
  • d) Pragmatics

38. Which best describes the English language?

  • a) English has complex morphology and less rigid syntax.
  • b) English has less complex morphology and more rigid syntax
  • c) English has complex morphology and rigid syntax
  • d) English has less complex morphology and rigid syntax

39. How many different lexemes are there in the following list? Man, men, girls, mouse

  • a) 1
  • b) 3
  • c) 2
  • d) 5

40. Which sentence describes inflectional morphology?

  • a) Adding a morpheme to produce a new word but the same lexeme
  • b) Adding a morpheme to produce a new word but the different lexeme
  • c) Adding a morpheme to produce a same word but the different lexeme
  • d) Adding a morpheme to produce a same word but the same lexeme

41. Which sentence describes derivational morphology?

  • a) Adding a morpheme to produce a new word but the same lexeme
  • b) Adding a morpheme to produce a new word but the different lexeme
  • c) Adding a morpheme to produce a same word but the different lexeme
  • d) Adding a morpheme to produce a same word but the same lexeme

42. _________ allow the grammatical inflection of words and are used to change the syntactic class of words.

  • a) Syntax
  • b) Morpheme
  • c) Derivations
  • d) Lexeme

43. Expressions to which affixes are attached are called:

  • a) Morphs
  • b) Bases
  • c) Morpheme
  • d) Lexeme

44. English (like all languages) has many ____________ Forms.

  • a) Regular forms
  • b) Irregular forms
  • c) Impressive forms
  • d) Mistakes

45. Change of part of speech without any corresponding formal change is called

  • a) Blending
  • b) Conversions
  • c) Coinage
  • d) Reduction

46. The term ___________ is often used for a set of words that are related to each other derivationally or inflectionally, though the term is also used to refer to any set of words that rhyme with each other.

  • a) Blending
  • b) Conversions
  • c) Coinage
  • d) Word family

47. Fog lamp is a kind of lamp: that is the head names the type, and the compound names the subtype. These are called compounds.

  • a) Endocentric
  • b) Conversions
  • c) Exocentric
  • d) Coinage

48. The case of deadhead, redhead and pickpocket this other word is person. So, a deadhead is a person who is an enthusiastic fan of the band the grateful dead. These are called ___________ compounds.

  • a) Endocentric
  • b) Conversions
  • c) Exocentric
  • d) Coinage

49. __________ is the creation of new words without reference to the existing morphological resources of the language.

  • a) Blending
  • b) Conversions
  • c) Coinage
  • d) Word family

50. ___________ involves the shortening of existing words to create other words, usually informal versions of the originals.

  • a) Blending
  • b) Conversions
  • c) Coinage
  • d) Abbreviations

51. We may use the first letter of each word in a phrase to create a new expression called ___________.

  • a) Acronym
  • b) Blending
  • c) Conversions
  • d) Coinage

52. ____________ involves copying a word that originally belonged in one language into another language.

  • a) Borrowing
  • b) Blending
  • c) Conversions
  • d) Coinage

Chapter 91: SOCIOLINGUISTICS

1. Variety of a language used for a particular purpose or in a particular social setting is _______.

  • a) Social Dialect
  • b) Diglossia
  • c) Register
  • d) Language variation

2. Frozen register is called______?

  • a) Dynamic register
  • b) Static register
  • c) Passive register
  • d) Both a and c

3. How many registers of language are in sociolinguistics?

  • a) Two
  • b) Three
  • c) Four
  • d) Five

4. A variety of a language which has different Pronunciation, grammar or vocabulary than the standard language of culture is called_________.

  • a) Pidgin
  • b) Creole
  • c) Dialect
  • d) Slang

5. At the risk of slight over simplification, We may say that dialect shows:

  • a) What are you doing?
  • B) What is your society?
  • c) Who you are?
  • d) All of these

6. The term Diglossia was introduced into the English Literature on Sociolinguistics by:

  • a) William Labov
  • b) Baker
  • c) Charles Ferguson
  • d) None

7. ..............is relatively stable language situation in which, in addition to the primary dialects of a language, there is a very divergent, highly codified superposed variety.

  • a) Register
  • b) Diglossia
  • c) Creole
  • d) Pidgin

8. Diglossia is relatively a............… language.

  • a) Standard
  • b) non-stable
  • c) Common
  • d) Stable

9. Which is intermediate varieties

  • a) Basilect
  • b) Mesolect
  • c) Acrolect
  • d) None of these

10. Different kinds and degrees of structural repair may be necessary to make ……

  • a) Creole
  • b) Jargon
  • c) Pidgin
  • d) All of these

11. Social Dialect is also known as:

  • a) idiolect
  • b) Dialect
  • c) Diglossia
  • d) Sociolect

12. Difference in use of language due to social class discrepancies is:

  • a) Social dialect
  • b) Regional dialect
  • c) Both a and b
  • d) None

13. Isogloss means:

  • a) Semi vocabulary
  • b) Same tongue
  • c) Same grammar
  • d) Same pronunciation

14. Not Standard words that are used by a certain group of people:

  • a) Basilect
  • b) Vulgar
  • c) Acrolect
  • d) Slang

15. A distinctive way of pronouncing a language especially one associated with particular country or a social class is known as:

  • a) Accent
  • b) Dialect
  • c) Idiolect
  • d) Sociolect

16. The matter of vocabulary syntax and morphology is referred is.

  • a) RP
  • b) AP
  • c) All of these
  • d) None of these (This question seems incomplete or phrased unusually. "None of these" is the most likely answer given the options.)

17. Simplified language derived from two or more language is called…

  • a) Pidgin
  • b) Creole
  • c) Dialect
  • d) None

18. _____ is a way for who don't not share a common language to communicate

  • a) Sociolect
  • b) Pidgin
  • c) Regional
  • d) Minority dialect

19. Pidgin is a language

  • a) Stable
  • b) Unstable
  • c) Complex
  • d) Simple

20. Pidgin develops into………when transferred from generation to generation?

  • a) Creole
  • b) Idioglass
  • c) Diglossia
  • d) None

21. Conventions for use of language structures in particular social situations

  • a) Sociolinguistic norms
  • b) Makers
  • c) Variety
  • d) Lingua franca

22. A linguistic variable that is noticeable to the listener (same as salient)

  • a) Markers
  • b) Variety
  • c) Lingua franca
  • d) Borrowing

23. A cover term used to refer to language used by a particular speech community; it merely implies that some set of sociolinguistic norms is present

  • a) Variety
  • b) Makers
  • c) Borrowing
  • d) Lingua franca

24. The systematic alternation between language systems in discourse

  • a) Code-switching
  • b) Makers
  • c) Variety
  • d) Lingua franca

25. A source of language change that involves adopting aspects of one language into another

  • a) Borrowing
  • b) Makers
  • c) Variety
  • d) Lingua franca

26. A language used for the primary purpose of communicating across speech communities whose members speak different languages usually the second language of all speakers involved

  • a) Lingua franca
  • b) Makers
  • c) Variety
  • d) Borrowing

27. Social distinctions in studies of industrialized societies (how people are ranked like upper class, middle, lower class etc.

  • a) class
  • b) Code
  • c) Makers
  • d) Variety

28. Quality of a social network that indicates the degree to which social network connections are made on the basis of many different kinds of social relationships

  • a) Multiplex
  • b) Makers
  • c) Variety
  • d) Lingua franca

29. The variety most closely approximating the one that is considered standard in a creole speech community

  • a) Acrolect
  • b) Makers
  • c) Variety
  • d) Lingua franca

30. The variety that shows the greatest number of differences from the standard language in a Creole speech community

  • a) Basilect
  • b) Mesolect
  • c) Acrolect
  • d) none

31. The degree to which speakers believe that their own variety is not standard

  • a) linguistic insecurity
  • b) Makers
  • c) Variety
  • d) Lingua franca

32. Prestige that is not part of a society's widely expressed and approved belief system

  • a) Covert prestige
  • b) Overt prestige
  • c) Prestige
  • d) None

33. Any social interaction or expression involving language

  • a) Discourse
  • b) Makers
  • c) Variety
  • d) Lingua franca

34. Specific type of utterance by one speaker is followed by a specific type by someone else

  • a) Adjacency pair
  • b) Makers
  • c) Variety
  • d) Lingua franca

35. The modification of speech patterns to match those of other participants in a discourse

  • a) Accommodation
  • b) Makers
  • c) Variety
  • d) Lingua franca

36. Beliefs and feelings that an individual may have about a particular language variety

  • a) Attitudes
  • b) Makers
  • c) Variety
  • d) Lingua franca

37. Official policy with the goal of increasing or limiting the domain of use of a particular language or languages

  • a) language planning
  • b) Makers
  • c) Variety
  • d) Lingua franca

38. The situation in which there are no more speakers of a particular language

  • a) Language death
  • b) Language shift
  • c) Language planning
  • d) None

39. A situation in which the interviewer creates a dialog in which vernacular may not be used

  • a) Observer's Paradox
  • b) language death
  • c) Language shift
  • d) Language planning

40. …..............is one English accent that has achieved a certain eminence.

  • a) Received Pronunciation
  • b) Cockney
  • c) British
  • d) American

41. .........is speaking or using two languages

  • a) Bilingual
  • b) Monolingual
  • c) Polylingual
  • d) None

42. The quality or state of being different or diverse; the absence of uniformity or monotony.

  • a) Variety
  • b) Makers
  • c) Lingua franca
  • d) Accent

43. Is the mixing of two or more languages or language varieties in speech.

  • a) Code-mixing
  • b) Makers
  • c) Lingua franca
  • d) Accent?

44. The act of creating a new word or phrase that other people begin to use

  • a) Coinage
  • b) Makers
  • c) Lingua franca
  • d) Accent

45. The process of inventing a word or phrase

  • a) Coinage
  • b) Makers
  • c) Lingua franca
  • d) Accent

46. A person’s ability to communicate information and ideas in a foreign language

  • a) Communicative competence
  • b) Makers
  • c) Lingua franca
  • d) Accent

47. Relating to the way a language has developed over time.

  • a) Diachronic
  • b) Synchronic
  • c) Makers
  • d) Lingua franca

48. Relating to a language as it is at a particular point in time.

  • a) Synchronic
  • b) Diachronic
  • c) Makers
  • d) Lingua franca

49. Words or expressions used by a particular profession.

  • a) Jargon
  • b) Makers
  • c) Lingua franca
  • d) Accent

50. Is the phenomenon by which permanent alterations are made in the features and the use of a language over time

  • a) Language change
  • b) Jargon
  • c) Makers
  • d) Lingua franca

51. The process whereby members of a community in which more than one language is spoken abandon their original vernacular language in favor of another.

  • a) Language shift
  • b) Jargon
  • c) Makers
  • d) Lingua franca

52. Is a single word, a part of a word, or a chain of words that forms the basic elements of a language's lexicon.

  • a) lexical item
  • b) Jargon
  • c) Makers
  • d) Lingua franca

53. In register (informal language that may cause offence) is__________.

  • a) Humorous
  • b) Archaic
  • c) Vulgar slang
  • d) Rare

54. Depending on the relations between participants in register is ____.

  • a) Tenor
  • b) Mode
  • c) Field
  • d) All of these

55. _________ is the purpose and subject matter of the communication on in register is.

  • a) Mode
  • b) Tenor
  • c) Field
  • d) None of these

56. ________is used with intention of sounding funny or playful in register.

  • a) Humorous
  • b) Archaic
  • c) Rare
  • d) Vulgar slang

57. One of the most analyzed areas where the use of language is determined by the situation is called _______?

  • a) Creole
  • b) Pidgin
  • c) Formality scale
  • d) Dialect

58. One way participation, no interruption, technical vocabulary or exact definition are important include presentation are introduction between strangers is called______

  • a) Consultative
  • b) Casual
  • c) Formal
  • d) Frozen

59. The word “language” describes from Latin word?

  • a) Langya
  • b) Lingua
  • c) Lange
  • d) Linge

60. How many main components of language?

  • a) 2
  • b) 4
  • c) 3
  • d) 5

Chapter 92: PSYCHOLINGUISTICS

1. _____________ is the study of the interrelation between linguistic factors and psychological aspects.

  • a) Morphology
  • b) Phonetics
  • c) Semantics
  • d) Sociolinguistics
  • e) Psycholinguistics

2. When the baby is 3 months old, they can produce velar sounds /k/, /g/, and vowels /i/ and /u/ this stage is known as:

  • a) Cooing
  • b) Babbling
  • c) Holophrastic
  • d) Telegraphic

3. By the 6 months, a baby can produce nasal and fricative sounds. This stage is called:

  • a) Cooing
  • b) Babbling
  • c) Holophrastic
  • d) Telegraphic

4. What is the difference between acquisition of a language and learning of a language?

  • a) Learning is natural while acquisition is conscious way of getting language
  • b) Acquisition is natural and learning is conscious effort to get language
  • c) Acquisition focuses on grammar while learning not
  • d) None

5. Which one is a traditional method of learning a language?

  • a) GTM (Grammar-Translation Method)
  • b) Audio Lingual
  • c) Silent
  • d) Drill Method

6. The McGurk effect demonstrates that which two processes are not synchronized.

  • a) Activation and processing
  • b) Spelling and grammar
  • c) Perceptual and attentional processing
  • d) Visual and auditory perception
  • e) Writing and speaking

7. When you mix L1 and L2 and make another language is called:

  • a) Interlanguage
  • b) Forelangue
  • c) Post Language
  • d) Coding

8. ___________ is the study of the processes by which people use language.

  • a) Interlanguage
  • b) Psycho Linguistics
  • c) Post Language
  • d) Coding

9. Psycholinguistics was launched in _________________.

  • a) 1900
  • b) 1920
  • c) 1940
  • d) 1960

10. Psycholinguistics was launched in 1900 with the publication of Wilhelm Wundt’s_________.

  • a) Die Sprache (Language)
  • b) The Psychology of language
  • c) The study of post Language
  • d) Coding

11. Which of the following terms are assigned to the 13 properties identified by Hockett (1960)?

  • a) Universal scripts
  • b) Linguistics Universals
  • c) Relative Scripts
  • d) linguistics Nodes
  • e) Schemas

12. Which of Hockett’s (1960) principles can be defined as ‘A small set of phonemes can be combined and recombined into an infinitely large set of meanings’?

  • a) Duality of function
  • b) Discreteness
  • c) Broadcast Transmission
  • d) Arbitrariness
  • e) Interchangeability

13. Which of the following is the smallest unit within a language system?

  • a) Sentence
  • b) Morpheme
  • c) Phoneme
  • d) Word
  • e) Grapheme

14. Which of the following definitions are consistent with discourse?

  • a) The smallest meaningful unit of speech
  • b) Rules for putting words together in sentences
  • c) Analysis of language beyond the level of the sentence
  • d) The smallest unit in language
  • e) None of the above

15. Which of the following was the first stage of modern psycholinguistics?

  • a) Linguistic period
  • b) Contemporary linguistics
  • c) Behaviorism
  • d) Structuralism
  • e) Cognitive Period

16. Hermann Paul (1886) argued that the most basic building block of language was which of the following?

  • a) Semantics
  • b) Words
  • c) Phoneme
  • d) Lexeme
  • e) Morpheme

17. The Term Psycholinguistics was first used in which period?

  • a) Cognitive period
  • b) Pre-paradigm period
  • c) Formative Period
  • d) Contemporary linguistic period
  • e) linguistics period

18. Who was the main contributor to the linguistic period?

  • a) Gestalt Theologians
  • b) Hermann Paul
  • c) Piaget
  • d) Wundt
  • e) Chomsky

19. Which two names are often associated with the cognitive period of modern linguistics?

  • a) Wundt and Cattell
  • b) Bartlett and Ainsworth
  • c) Bowlby and Erikson
  • d) Hermann Paul and Chomsky
  • e) Fodor and Slobin

20. Which of the following are not aspects of Dell (1986) and Dell and O’ Seaghdha’s (1991) theories?

  • a) Morphological level
  • b) Spreading activation
  • c) Syntactic level
  • d) Semantic level
  • e) Phonological level
  • f) All of these (This question is tricky. The options a, c, d, e ARE aspects. So "All of these" means that none of them are NOT aspects. Therefore, if the question is "Which are NOT aspects," and all the listed options are aspects, then "All of these" is the correct answer indicating that none of them are *not* aspects.)

21. What is the nature of processing in the spreading activation model?

  • a) Cascading processing
  • b) Dual processing
  • c) Parallel processing
  • d) Based on Heuristics
  • e) All of these

22. What is the correct definition of WEAVER++?

  • a) It is a form of sign language
  • b) it is diagrammatic representation of language
  • c) Word-form Encoding by Activation and Verification model
  • d) It is a form of spoken language
  • e) None of these

23. What is Lemma?

  • a) A type of phoneme
  • b) A type of Morpheme
  • c) The abstract form of a word containing information relating to the meaning of a word
  • d) A phonological representation of a word
  • e) None of these

24. What is the correct name for a physical plan of movement of the vocal tract?

  • a) Gestural score
  • b) Vocal map
  • c) Vocal schema
  • d) Phototropic map
  • e) Taciscope

25. Foulke and Sticht (1969) estimated that individuals can understand how many words per minute in a familiar language?

  • a) 100
  • b) 1000
  • c) 250
  • d) 600
  • e) 50

26. Liberman (1967) argued for which view of speech perception?

  • a) The special view
  • b) The ordinary view
  • c) The modeling perspective
  • d) The spreading activation perspective
  • e) The semantic view

27. Marslen- Wilson (1984, 1987) proposed which of the following models?

  • a) Connectionist model of written language comprehension
  • b) TRACE model of speech perception
  • c) WEAVER++
  • d) Semantic model of sentence meaning
  • e) COHORT model of word recognition

28. Elis and young (1988) proposed which of the following models?

  • a) Semantic model of lexical representation
  • b) Spreading activation model
  • c) Dual route model of reading
  • d) WEAVER++
  • e) Trace model

29. The TRACE model incorporates which forms of processing?

  • a) Only semantic processing
  • b) A variety of bottom-up and top-down processing
  • c) Only sensory processing
  • d) Only bottom-up processing
  • e) Only schema driven processing

30. The notion of ___________claims that all learning is the result of operant conditioning.

  • a) Behaviorism
  • b) Cognitivism
  • c) Mentalism
  • d) Connectionism
  • e) None of these

Chapter 93: PRAGMATICS

1. Pragmatics is meaning in _____

  • a) Context
  • b) Literal Context
  • c) Supposition
  • d) Real

2. What a speaker (or writer) assumes is true or known by listener (or reader)

  • a) Presupposition
  • b) Spatial Deixis
  • c) Supposition
  • d) Pragmatics

3. According to Austin (1962) in his speech acts theory, there are _____ actions related to speech acts

  • a) 3
  • b) 4
  • c) 5
  • d) 6

4. The first act is _____ act which is the basic production of meaningful utterance

  • a) Illocutionary Act
  • b) Locutionary Act
  • c) Perlocutionary Act
  • d) None

5. The performance of an utterance and its meaning is _____

  • a) Illocutionary Act
  • b) Locutionary Act
  • c) Perlocutionary Act
  • d) None

6. This act is much related to the _____

  • a) Speaker
  • b) Hearer
  • c) Writer
  • d) None of these

7. If the hearer fails to understand what the speaker is saying then the speaker has failed to do a _____

  • a) Illocutionary Act
  • b) Locutionary Act
  • c) Perlocutionary Act
  • d) None

8. In uttering a sentence or word, one must have a certain _____

  • a) Situation
  • b) Intention
  • c) Experience
  • d) None of these

9. A/an _____ is accomplished via utterance with a communicative intention

  • a) Illocutionary Act
  • b) Locutionary Act
  • c) Perlocutionary Act
  • d) None

10. A speaker may perform illocutionary act to make a promise, offer, etc, which is as proposed by Austin as _____

  • a) Illocutionary Force
  • b) Locutionary Force
  • c) Perlocutionary Force
  • d) None of these

11. _____ talks about producing the effect of the meaningful, intentional utterance.

  • a) Illocutionary Act
  • b) Perlocutionary Act
  • c) Locutionary Act
  • d) None

12. While making utterance that intent to make someone to drink coffee is successfully performed, the effect is that someone actually drink the coffee is also known as perlocutionary effect.

  • a) Illocutionary Act
  • b) Locutionary Act
  • c) Perlocutionary Act
  • d) None

13. The effect on the listener; persuading, convincing, inspiring, scaring; can be intended or not is:

  • a) Illocutionary Act
  • b) Locutionary Act
  • c) Perlocutionary Act
  • d) None

14. The study of intended speaker meaning is called:

  • a) Semantics
  • b) Syntax
  • c) Pragmatics
  • d) Grammar

15. The set of words used in the same phrase or sentence is called Linguistics Context. It is also known as:

  • a) Co-Text
  • b) Deixis
  • c) Anaphora
  • d) Inference

16. Words that cannot be interpreted at all without the physical context of the speaker are called:

  • a) Co-Text
  • b) Deixis
  • c) Anaphora
  • d) Inference

17. Any additional information used by the listener to connect what is said to what must be meant is called:

  • a) Co-Text
  • b) Deixis
  • c) Anaphora
  • d) Inference

18. A subject reference to an already introduced entity is called:

  • a) Co-Text
  • b) Deixis
  • c) Speech act
  • d) Anaphora

19. Linkage of ideas in a text is called:

  • a) Co-Text
  • b) Deixis
  • c) Speech act
  • d) Coherence

20. A conventional knowledge structure which exists in memory is called:

  • a) Co-Text
  • b) Deixis
  • c) Schema
  • d) Speech act

21. A conventional knowledge “invisible meaning” what is meant even when it isn’t actually said or written

  • a) Context
  • b) Face
  • c) Words
  • d) Contextual

22. Your public self-image; the emotional and social sense of self that everyone has and expect everyone else to recognize

  • a) Context
  • b) Face
  • c) Words
  • d) Contextual

23. The need to be connected, to belong, to be a member or the group

  • a) Negative Face
  • b) Positive Face
  • c) Words
  • d) Contextual

24. Subsequent reference to an already introduced entity; “referring back”

  • a) Negative Face
  • b) Anaphora
  • c) Words
  • d) Contextual

25. Uses typical syntactic form; when an interrogative structure is used with the function of a question (can you ride a bicycle?)

  • a) Negative Face
  • b) Positive Face
  • c) Direct speech act
  • d) Contextual

26. Used to point to time: (temporary, that day, overmorrow, last year)

  • a) Negative Face
  • b) Temporal Deixis
  • c) Personal Deixis
  • d) Spatial Deixis

27. Used to point to things (it, this, these) and people (him, those idiots)

  • a) Negative Face
  • b) Place Deixis
  • c) Personal Deixis
  • d) Spatial Deixis

28. Used to point to places (here, there, yonder)

  • a) Negative Face
  • b) Temporal Deixis
  • c) Personal Deixis
  • d) Spatial Deixis

29. Words do not refer to something____ do

  • a) Things
  • b) Deixis
  • c) People
  • d) Signals

30. _____ is an important aspect of language for both children and adults. It involves both verbal & non-verbal communication.

  • a) Semantics
  • b) Morphology
  • c) Pragmatics
  • d) Signals

31. Out Interpretation of the “meaning” of the sign is not based solely on the _____, but on what we think the writer intended to communicate

  • a) Allusions
  • b) Symbols
  • c) Words
  • d) Signals

32. The word that pronounces refer back to; first mention (--> Allie likes --> her coach. --> she has learned a lot from --> her.)

  • a) Allusions
  • b) Anaphora
  • c) Antecedent
  • d) Signals

33. Showing awareness and consideration of another person’s face

  • a) Allusions
  • b) Face
  • d) Politeness

34. The set of the other words used in the same phrase or sentence (bank with steep or overgrown)

  • a) Allusions
  • b) Face
  • c) Antecedent
  • d) Linguistic Context/Co-Text

35. The need to be independent and free from imposition

  • a) Positiveness
  • b) Face
  • c) Linguistic Context/ Co-Text
  • d) Negative Face

36. Additional information used by the listener to create a connection between what is said and what must be meant (she’s wearing Calvin Klein.) ;

  • a) Preference
  • b) Face
  • c) Linguistic Context/ Co-Text
  • d) Inference

37. Reverses the antecedent-anaphora relationship by beginning with a pronoun, then later revealing more specific information (-->it suddenly appeared. --> an enormous grizzly bear.)

  • a) Reference
  • b) Face
  • c) Linguistic Context/ Co-Text
  • d) Cataphora

38. If you say something that referents a threat to another person’s self-image (give me the paper)

  • a) Face saving act
  • b) Face threatening act
  • c) Linguistic Context/Co-Text
  • d) Cataphora

39. An act by which a speaker (or writer) uses language to enable a listener (or reader) to identify something

  • a) Inference
  • b) Reference
  • c) Linguistic Context/Co-Text
  • d) Cataphora

40. “Baby and toddler sale, heated attendant parking” are example of:

  • a) Inference
  • b) Invisible meaning
  • c) Linguistic Context/Co-Text
  • d) Cataphora

41. Actions such as “requesting,” “commanding,” “questioning,” “or “informing”; the action performed by a speaker with an utterance

  • a) Inference
  • b) Speech act
  • c) Speech
  • d) Acts

42. Co-Text is also called _____.

  • a) Inference
  • b) Linguistic Context
  • c) Speech act
  • d) Speech time

43. Presupposition of the following sentence is; “My car broke down.”

  • a) I will repair the car now
  • b) Mechanic will repair the car now
  • c) The car needs repair
  • d) I have a car

44. Entailment of the following sentence is; “My car broke down.”

  • a) I will repair my car now
  • b) The car needs repair
  • c) This is my car
  • d) I have a car

45. In Linguistics, a relative emphasis or prominence given to a certain syllable in a word, or to a certain word in a phrase or sentence:

  • a) Inference
  • b) Connotation
  • c) Stress
  • d) Reference

Chapter 94: GENERAL LINGUISTICS

1. We communicate with language by:

  • a) Writing or Reading
  • b) Speaking or listening
  • c) Both

2. A system of more or less permanent marks used to represent an utterance is:

  • a) Writing system
  • b) Alphabetic system
  • c) Human language system

3. Types of writing systems vary in how many ______ a character represent.

  • a) Sounds
  • b) Symbols
  • c) Styles

4. The same ______ can be used for different languages.

  • a) Writing system
  • b) Phonetic system
  • c) Symbolic system

5. There are ____ different writing systems commonly used for human languages.

  • a) Two
  • b) Three
  • c) Four

6. Arabic script is the example of

  • a) Alphabetic system
  • b) Syllabic system
  • c) Logographic system

7. The Syllabic system is categorized into:

  • a) Abjads
  • b) Abugida
  • c) Syllabary
  • d) Both b and c

8. _____ system has sensory characteristics.

  • a) Braille
  • b) Latin
  • c) Burmese

9. A symbol that represents a unit of meaning as opposed to a unit of sound is:

  • a) Alphabet
  • b) Logograph
  • c) Syllable

10. The simplest way of encoding semantic meaning into a symbol is:

  • a) Pictograph
  • b) Pictograms
  • c) Both

11. Chinese language is the example of ______ system

  • a) Alphabetic system
  • b) Logographic system
  • c) Syllabic system

12. The symbols with a meaning element and a Phonetic element are called:

  • a) Semantic Phonetic compounds
  • b) Pictogram
  • c) Logographs

13. The Braille system works by using patterns of raised dots arranged in _____ configuration.

  • a) 3x2
  • b) 2x4
  • c) 3x3

14. There is ____ correspondence between a writing system and a language.

  • a) No
  • b) Clear
  • c) Simple

15. The writing system for _____ is a hybrid system

  • a) Korean
  • b) Chinese
  • c) Braille

16. _______ was first written in Arabic script.

  • a) Chinese
  • b) Azeri
  • c) English

17. Azeri takes _____ alphabets these days.

  • a) Latin
  • b) Arabic
  • c) English

18. Tamil and Thai come under category in _____

  • a) Abugida
  • b) Abjads
  • c) IPA

19. The ______ represent abstract ideas.

  • a) Ideograph
  • b) Compounds
  • c) Syllables

20. When two or more pictographs and ideographs are combined together to form a new symbol, it is known as:

  • a) Compounds
  • b) Semantic Phonetic compounds
  • c) Abjads

21. The information on a computer is stored in_____

  • a) Bytes
  • b) Binary digits
  • c) Bits
  • d) Sequences

22. The most significant bit is the leftmost one

  • a) Little Endian
  • b) Big Endian
  • c) Byte
  • d) Hexadecimal

23. The notation in which numbers can be represent?

  • a) Byte
  • b) Binary
  • c) Bit
  • d) Little Endian

24. Information that is part of the regular message, and tell us something about that message is called?

  • a) Binary information
  • b) Bit information
  • c) ASCII
  • d) Meta information

25. The process in which neighboring sounds affect the way a sound is uttered is called?

  • a) Place of articulation
  • b) Manner of articulation
  • c) Co-articulation
  • d) Transcribe

26. Branch of Linguistics which studies that how sounds are produced in vocal tract is called?

  • a) Computational linguistics
  • b) Corpus linguistics
  • c) Articulatory phonetics
  • d) Acoustic phonetics

27. To record sound the sampling rate is measured in samples per second, commonly referred to as

  • a) Hertz
  • b) Loudness
  • c) Amplitude
  • d) Frequency

28. ________ is the classifying sound waves into individual speech sounds.

  • a) Loudness
  • b) Amplitude
  • c) Pitch
  • d) Frequency

29. The rise and fall in pitch is called?

  • a) Pitch
  • b) Frequency
  • c) Intonation
  • d) Sound wave

30. The graph which is used to represent the frequencies of speech over time is called?

  • a) Oscillogram
  • b) Spectrogram
  • c) Measuring graph
  • d) Frequency graph

31. The process by which a computer converts a speech signal to text.

  • a) TTS
  • b) ASR
  • c) MIME
  • d) ASCII

32. Which system work for any speaker of a given variety of a language?

  • a) Speaker-adaptive
  • b) Speaker-independent
  • c) Speaker-dependent
  • d) All of the above

33. Systems which start out as independent systems but begin to adapt to a single speaker in order to improve accuracy.

  • a) Speaker-adaptive
  • b) Speaker-independent
  • c) Speaker-dependent
  • d) All of the above

34. The process in which speech samples are converted into measurable units is called?

  • a) Articulatory signal processing
  • b) Acoustic signal processing
  • c) Information loss
  • d) Automatic speech recognition

35. Two-sound segments are called?

  • a) Allophone
  • b) Unicode
  • c) Diphone
  • d) Bytes

36. Which systems work for a single speaker?

  • a) Speaker-adaptive
  • b) Speaker-independent
  • c) Speaker-dependent
  • d) All of the above

37. The amount of energy a sound has.

  • a) Loudness
  • b) Amplitude
  • c) Frequency
  • d) Loudness and amplitude

38. _______ give unique character to each vowel.

  • a) Intonation
  • b) Pitch
  • c) Amplitude
  • d) Overtones

39. Which of the following is the first encodings for storing English text used only 7 bits, thus allowing for 128 possible characters?

  • a) TTS
  • b) ASR
  • c) MIME
  • d) ASCII

40. Which of the notation is rightmost significant bit?

  • a) Little Endian
  • b) Big Endian
  • c) Byte
  • d) Hexadecimal

Chapter 95: CORPUS LINGUISTICS

1. ____ linguistics encompasses the compilation and analysis of collections of spoken and written texts

  • a) Corpus
  • b) Neuro
  • c) Discourse
  • d) None of These

2. ------- linguistics studies the “real word” text.

  • a) Corpus
  • b) Neuro
  • c) Discourse
  • d) None of These

3. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory was founded in ___ by Stefan Th. Gries and Anatol Stefanowitsch

  • a) 2006
  • b) 2005
  • c) 2009
  • d) 2011

4. _____ is important tool for corpus linguistic research.

  • a) Word Smith
  • b) Sketch Engine
  • c) AntConc
  • d) All

5. The corpus-____ approach typically has existing theory as a starting point and corrects and revises such theory in the light of corpus evidence.

  • a) Based
  • b) Driven
  • c) Formed
  • d) None

6. Corpus______ linguistics rejects the characterisation of corpus linguistics as a method and claims instead that the corpus itself should be the sole source of our hypotheses about language.

  • a) Based
  • b) Driven
  • c) Formed
  • d) None

7. _____ are major corpora available for investigation.

  • a) BNC
  • b) ANC
  • c) COCA
  • d) All

8. ____ is famous expert of corpus linguistics.

  • a) Douglas Biber
  • b) Chomsky
  • c) David Crystal
  • d) All

9. _____ is very important aspect to analyse a corpus.

  • a) Morphology
  • b) Semantics
  • c) Collocations
  • d) All

10. COCA comprises ______ words.

  • a) One Billion
  • b) One Million
  • c) 10 Million
  • d) None

Chapter 96: DISCOURSE ANALYSIS

1. Discourse analysis, or discourse studies, is an approach to the analysis of ____, vocal, or sign language use, or any significant semiotic event.

  • a) Written
  • b) Seen
  • c) Heard
  • d) Accent

2. The objects of discourse analysis are variously defined in terms of coherent sequences of _____, propositions, speech, or turns-at-talk.

  • a) Sentences
  • b) Words
  • c) Errors
  • d) None

3. Norman Fairclough is the father _____.

  • a) IPA
  • b) CDA
  • c) Corpus
  • d) All of these

4. Many writers have contributed to the field of discourse analysis, but two of the most prominent are Norman Fairclough and ____.

  • a) J. Thomson
  • b) T. Hudson
  • c) M. Smith
  • d) Michel Foucault

5. _____ is an interdisciplinary approach to the study of discourse that views language as a form of social practice.

  • a) CDA
  • b) Form Analysis
  • c) DA
  • d) Aphasia

6. CDA is an application of _____.

  • a) Semantics
  • b) Morphology
  • c) DA
  • d) None

7. ___ discussed the term CDA in his book Language and Power

  • a) Foucault
  • b) Fairclough
  • c) Chomsky
  • d) None

8. A popular way of viewing discourse is as language used in specific __ contexts.

  • a) Content
  • b) Economic
  • c) Social
  • d) Political

9. ___ is used to conduct research on the use of language in context.

  • a) DA
  • b) Novelty
  • c) Description
  • d) Form Analysis

10. DA posits that social reality is _____ constructed.

  • a) Socially
  • b) Never
  • c) Rarely
  • d) Politically

11. How the language is actually used is:

  • a) Linguistics
  • b) Descriptive grammar
  • c) Prescriptivism
  • d) Style checking

12. How one is supposed to use a language is:

  • a) Style
  • b) Stylistics
  • c) Prescriptivism
  • d) Descriptive grammar

13. Never to use a preposition in the end of the sentence is the example of:

  • a) Style checkers
  • b) Stylistics
  • c) Prescriptivism
  • d) Descriptivism

14. The purpose of discourse analysis is to investigate the functions of _____.

  • a) Society
  • b) Language
  • c) Documents
  • d) Style

15. Prescriptivism is followed in:

  • a) Descriptive grammar
  • b) Style checkers
  • c) Grammar checkers
  • d) Spelling checkers

16. The question of what grammar is discussed in:

  • a) Grammar checkers
  • b) Descriptive grammar
  • c) Spelling checkers
  • d) Both a and b

17. Discourse analysis can also tell you a lot about ____ and power imbalances, including how this is developed and maintained, how this plays out in real life (for example, inequalities because of this power), and how language can be used to maintain it.

  • a) Text
  • b) Power
  • c) Words
  • d) Prescriptivism

18. There are two main approaches to discourse analysis. These are the language-in-use (also referred to as socially situated text and talk) approaches and the socio-political approaches (most commonly ____)

  • a) CDA
  • b) DA
  • c) Corpus
  • d) Stylistics

19. In the view of ____ , language is power and, if we want to understand power dynamics and structures in society, we must look to language for answers.

  • a) CDA
  • b) DA
  • c) Linguistics
  • d) Stylistics

20. Analyzing the use of language can help us understand the social context, especially the power ____.

  • a) CDA
  • b) Politics
  • c) Dynamics
  • d) Stylistics

Chapter 97: DICTION

1- “The sooner we move out of this (home, dump),” said Jack, “the happier I’II be.”

  • a) Dump
  • b) Leave
  • c) Home
  • d) All of these

2- Boos Reed and his (cronies, employees) have controlled the Politics in this city for more than twenty years. I certainly hope the other party wins this year!

  • a) Employees
  • b) Buddhism
  • c) Cronies
  • d) No of above

3- It was a beautiful spring day, and the (stench, scent) of Apple blossoms filled the whole yard.

  • a) Romans
  • b) Scent
  • c) Stench
  • d) None

4- I hope I don’t have to share an office with Janice. Sandra told me how (curious, nosy) she can be.

  • a) Irritating
  • b) Curious
  • c) Noise
  • d) Nosy

5- You’re lucky to have Wilma on your committee. She has lots of (original, crazy) ideas.

  • a) Crazy
  • b) Original
  • c) Clumsy
  • d) None

6- This cell phone is (expensive, overpriced), but I don’t mind paying extra because it has so many useful features.

  • a) Expensive
  • b) Overpriced
  • c) All of these
  • d) None of these

7- I think Fay is an excellent president,” said the principal. “She really knows how to (manage, meddle).

  • a) Manage
  • b) Meddle
  • c) All of these
  • d) None

8- Will you plese turn your stereo off? I can’t concentrate with all that (music, noise).

  • a) Music
  • b) Christian
  • c) Noise
  • d) None

9- What makes Jim such an excellent storyteller is his knack for (invention, lying).

  • a) Invention
  • b) Lying
  • c) Creativity
  • d) Skill

10- Can you please ask the new saleswoman not to be so ( Enthusiastic, pushy)? She is scaring away the customers.

  • a) Enthusiastic
  • b) Pushy
  • c) Pathetic
  • d) All of these

11- The body of words you know and understand is called________.

  • a) Sentence
  • b) Vocabulary
  • c) Syntax
  • d) Semantics

12- The practice of choosing how to use those words is called______.

  • a) Diction
  • b) Style
  • c) Pitch
  • d) All of these

13- In writing.____is the strategic choice of words based on the audience, context, or situation.

  • a) Genre
  • b) Figurative language
  • c) Diction
  • d) setting

14- The words you’d choose in an Email to your teacher or work colleague are____from the words you’d choose when speaking to a close friend.

  • a) Different
  • b) Difficult
  • c) both A and B
  • d) None

15- In writing’____ refers to the words the writer chooses to use.

  • a) Genre
  • b) Style
  • c) Diction
  • d) Speech

16- _______ diction comes across as more serious and professional.

  • a) Formal
  • b) Informal
  • c) Poetic
  • d) Neutral

17- ________ diction involves the playful use of words. Including jokes and wordplay.

  • a) Elevated
  • b) Informal
  • c) Pedantic
  • d) All of these

18- ________ Diction comes across as arrogant in real life, but its nonetheless useful as a writing tool.

  • a) Pedantic
  • b) Pedestrian
  • c) Colloquial
  • d) Abstract

19- Instead of trying to sound smart, ______ diction tries to sound normal or common.

  • a) Concrete
  • b) Poetic
  • c) Pedantic
  • d) Pedestrian

20- Diction with, ______. An extension of informal diction, encompasses words and phrases that only a particular type of person understands.

  • a) Slang
  • b) dialect
  • c) Vocabulary
  • d) Idioms

21- ___________ is a type of language consisting of words and phrases that are informal, and is more common in speech than writing.

  • a) Diction
  • b) Vocabulary
  • c) Jargon
  • d) Slang

22- Similar to slang, _________ diction refers to specific words or phrase used in particular geographical locations.

  • a) Jargon
  • b) Pitch
  • c) Colloquial
  • d) Slang

23- __________ diction can also represent dialects if a language.

  • a) Colloquial
  • b) Slang
  • c) Idioms
  • d) None

24- ________diction refers to discussing something intangible, like an idea or emotion.

  • a) Abstract
  • b) Poetry
  • c)Genre
  • d) All

25- The opposite of abstract diction is ______ diction, which uses specific and direct language with minimal ambiguity.

  • a) Horror
  • b) Concrete
  • c) Epic
  • d) Wisdom

26- Diction makes use of rhymes, rhythm, and phonetics to make words sound pleasing together.

  • a) Lyrical
  • b) Poetic
  • c) Heroic
  • d) Alliterative

27- A__________ involves making a direct comparison between two unrelated things to suggest a similarity.

  • a) Conceit
  • b) Metaphor
  • c) Simile
  • d) Paradox

28- A_______ also involves comparison, but it uses “like” or “as” to establish the connection.

  • a) Metaphor
  • b) Assonance
  • c) Simile
  • d) None of these

29- _________ gives human Qualities or attributes to non-human entities, animals, or abstract concepts.

  • a) Personification
  • b) Anaphora
  • c) hyperbole
  • d) Irony

30- Hyperbole involves deliberate_______ for emphasis or effect.

  • a) Irony
  • b) Exaggeration
  • c) Paradox
  • d) All of these

31- _______is the repetition of initial consonant sounds in a series of words.

  • a) Alliteration
  • b) Antithesis
  • c) Pun
  • d) Metonymy

32- ________ is the repition of Vowel sounds within words in close proximity.

  • a) Onomatopoeia
  • b) Allusion
  • c) Assonance
  • d) All

33- ________is a literary device that involves the repetition of consonant sounds in close proximity within a sequence of words or at the end of words.

  • a) Consonance
  • b) Alliteration
  • c) Anaphora
  • d) None

34- ________Contributes to the musical and rhythmic quality of language, adding a sense of harmony and creating memorable patterns of sound.

  • a) Assonance
  • b) Consonance
  • c) All of these
  • d) None

35- Unlike Alliteration, which repeats initial consonant sounds at any position with in words

  • a). Consonance
  • b) Assonance
  • c) Repetition
  • d) All

36- ________Involves using words that imitate the sounds they describe.

  • a) Anaphora
  • b) Onomatopoeia
  • c) Alliteration
  • d) Assonance

37- An ________is a combination of contradictory or opposing words to create a paradoxical effect.

  • a) Paradox
  • b) Oxymoron
  • c) Metaphor
  • d) Simile

38- _______ Involves saying the opposite of what is meant or expressing a situation that contrasts with what’s expected.

  • a) Hyperbole
  • b) Irony
  • c) Pun
  • d) Satire

39- _______is a literary and rhetorical device used to criticize, mock, or ridicule individuals, institution, ideas, or societal norms.

  • a) Satire
  • b) Irony
  • c) Hyperbole
  • d) All

40- It often uses humor, Irony, and wit to point out flaws and absurdities without harshly attacking individuals or institutions.

  • a) Juvenalian satire
  • b) Horatian Satire
  • c) Manippean Satire
  • d).All

41- It uses scorn, invective, and exaggeration to attack and expose the vices, corruption, and injustice of society.

  • a) Juvenalian satire
  • b) Manippean satire
  • c) Horatian satire
  • d) None of these

42- A _______is a milder or less direct way of expressing something that might be considered harsh. Unpleasant, or inappropriate.

  • a) Euphemism
  • b) Satire
  • c) hyperbole
  • d) All of these

43- _________ involves using an object, person, place, or concept to represent something beyond its literal meaning.

  • a) Imagery
  • b) Symbolism
  • c) Allegory
  • d) Colours

44- An ______ is a literary device in which characters, events, and settings arw used to symbolically represent broader concept, themes, or moral massage.

  • a) Allegory
  • b) Imagery
  • c) Symbol
  • d) Imitation

45- An _______is a literary device that involves making a brief and indirect reference to a person, place, things, event or work of literature, art, history, or culture.

  • a) Allusion
  • b) Allegory
  • c) both A and B
  • d) None of these

46- “In examination of your stance, I have identified some critical errors that I will now expound on” is an example of:

  • a) Diction
  • b) Vocabulary
  • c) Pedantic diction
  • d) Poetic diction

47- “ Respectfully, I must disagree.” Is an example of:

  • a) Formal diction
  • b) Informal
  • c) Pedantic
  • d) Concrete diction

48- “ I understand what you’re saying, but there’s something very important that you’re missing. Is an example of.

  • a) Pedestrian diction
  • b) pedantic
  • c) formal
  • d) Concrete diction

49- “ what you said doesn’t feel right.” Is an example of.

  • a) Abstract diction
  • b) Concrete
  • c) Pedantic
  • d) formal diction

50- “ Time is a thief” is an example of.

  • a) Metaphor
  • B) Simile
  • c) Irony
  • d) Pun

51- “Her smile is an bright as the sun” is an example of.

  • a) Metaphor
  • b) Simile
  • c) personification
  • d) conceit

52- “ The wind whispered through the trees” is an example of.

  • a) Personification
  • b) Metaphor
  • c) Assonance
  • d) simile

53- “ I’m so hungry I could eat a horse” is an example of;

  • a) Pun
  • b) Metaphor
  • c) Simile
  • d) Hyperbole

54- “ Peter piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.”

  • a) Alliteration
  • b) Assonance
  • c) Oxymoron
  • d) Simile

55- “ The rain in Spain falls mainly in the plain” is an example of

  • a) Oxymoron
  • b) Assonance
  • c) paradox
  • d) hyperbole

56- “Scratch, screech, cuckoo, boom, bash, etc.” are an example.

  • a) Onomatopoeia
  • b) Assonance
  • c) consonance
  • d) Alliteration

57- “Bittersweet” is an example of.

  • a) Irony
  • b) personification
  • c) metaphor
  • d) Oxymoron

58- Orwell’s 1984 is an example of;

  • a) Juvenalian satire
  • b) Horatian satire
  • c) Satire
  • d) All of these

59- The Adventures of huckleberry Finn is an example of.

  • a) Incongruity
  • b) Menippean Satire
  • c) Horatian Satire
  • d) None

60- The flowers are dancing. Which device is used in this sentence?

  • a) Personification
  • b) Assonance
  • c) consonance
  • d) Alliteration

Chapter 98: ACADEMIC READING AND WRITING

1. We can increase our vocabulary by _______ the new words

  • a) Reading
  • b) Repeating
  • c) Listening
  • d) Identifying

2. Phrases and clauses join to make ________

  • a) Proverbs
  • b) Sentences
  • c) Morphemes
  • d) Lexical Items

3. In vocabulary teaching "deriving" means______

  • a) Consulting Dictionary
  • b) Asking words
  • c) Practicing meaning
  • d) Guessing Meanings

4. Running on wet floor is an example of _______

  • a) Noun
  • b) Verb
  • c) Preposition
  • d) Adjective

5. The yellow house is example of __________ phrase

  • a) Noun
  • b) Verb
  • c) Preposition
  • d) Adverb

6. Thinking about topic before writing is called ______

  • a) Sequencing
  • b) Brain storming
  • c) Labeling
  • d) Jumbling

7. The organization of arguments and ideas in paragraph is an important aspect of

  • a) Writing Essays
  • b) Writing memos
  • c) Writing Stories
  • d) Writing Personal letters

8. We use figurative language more in _____ essays.

  • a) Argumentative
  • b) Descriptive
  • c) Narrative
  • d) None of these

9. In writing essays, we move from _______ to specific.

  • a) Particular
  • b) Bottom
  • c) General
  • d) Ideas

10. Narrative essays are usually written in ______ tense/

  • a) Present
  • b) Future
  • c) Past
  • d) All of the above

11. Reading means_________

  • a) Recognition
  • b) Observing Text
  • c) Seeing
  • d) Recognition and Comprehension

12. Beautiful is a/an_______

  • a) Adverb
  • b) Verb
  • c) Noun
  • d) Adjective

13. Searching for required information is called_____

  • a) Skimming
  • b) Scanning
  • c) Intensive reading
  • d) Extensive reading

14. In SQ3R, Q stands for ______

  • a) Quotation
  • b) Quarter
  • c) Question
  • d) Quota

15. "See the time and tell the break time" is an example of_____

  • a) Skimming
  • b) Scanning
  • c) Intensive reading
  • d) Extensive reading

16. Interpreting charts, we primarily need to have good ______ skills.

  • a) Reading
  • b) Speaking
  • c) Listening
  • d) None of the above

17. _______ helps a lot in carrying out instructions for tasks.

  • a) Reading
  • b) Speaking
  • c) Listening
  • d) None of the above

18. The words we can use when we speak come from our ____ vocabulary.

  • a) Stagnant
  • b) Active
  • c) Passive
  • d) None of the above

19. Topic sentence works as a______ in an essay.

  • a) Heading
  • b) Conclusion
  • c) Middle
  • d) An end

20. Active skills are______

  • a) Reading
  • b) Writing
  • c) Listening
  • d) Reading and writing

21. Language is primarily ______ and non-instinctive.

  • a) Human
  • b) Animal
  • c) All of the above
  • d) None of the above

22. The rise and fall of human speech is called_______

  • a) Stress
  • b) Intonation
  • c) Elision
  • d) Assimilation

23. _______ is not used in descriptive essay.

  • a) Simile
  • b) Prejudice
  • c) Metaphor
  • d) Understatement

24. _________ is not a type of essay.

  • a) Descriptive
  • b) Elaborative
  • c) Argumentative
  • d) Narrative

25. 100-200 words per minute is ______ reading speed.

  • a) Good
  • b) Bad
  • c) Acceptable
  • d) Satisfactory

26. 800+ words per minute is called _______

  • a) Good Reader
  • b) Skim Reader
  • c) Acceptable
  • d) Satisfactory

27. Proposal is always written in _______ tense

  • a) Future
  • b) Past
  • c) Present
  • d) All of the above

28. Reports are written after a thorough ______

  • a) Research
  • b) Writing
  • c) Observing
  • d) Collection

29. _______ of meeting keep a record of the meeting

  • a) Description
  • b) Hours
  • c) Minutes
  • d) Attendance

30. Reading more than one word at a time is called_____

  • a) Regression
  • b) Reading in chunks
  • c) Scanning
  • d) Intensive Reading

31. In SQ3R, S stands for______

  • a) See
  • b) Scientific
  • c) Survey
  • d) Systematic

32. ________ is reading in detail.

  • a) Skimming
  • b) Scanning
  • c) Intensive reading
  • d) Extensive reading

33. ______ is suggested to be read first before the whole book

  • a) Review
  • b) Question
  • c) Scanning
  • d) Editorial

34. A job application has ______ parts

  • a) 3
  • b) 4
  • c) 5
  • d) 6

35. First part of job application letter's body is about

  • a) Introduction
  • b) Saying thanks
  • c) Telling how you come to know about the job
  • d) None of the above

36. Second part of job application letter's body is about

  • a) Introduction
  • b) Saying thanks
  • c) Telling how you come to know about the job
  • d) Talking about your skills

37. Third part of job application letter's body is about

  • a) Introduction
  • b) Saying thanks
  • c) Telling how you come to know about the job
  • d) None of the above

38. Official font style of writing is ______

  • a) Times New Roman
  • b) Calibri
  • c) Arial
  • d) None of the above

39. Official font size of writing is____

  • a) 10
  • b) 11
  • c) 12
  • d) 14

40. "subject" in official emails/letters/application is about ____ of the text

  • a) Ending
  • b) Gist
  • c) Reply
  • d) Reference

41. _______ is necessary for job application

  • a) Information
  • b) Cover letter
  • c) Certificates
  • d) References

42. In the verb "Record" se stress ____ syllable

  • a) 1st
  • b) 2nd
  • c) 3rd
  • d) 4th

43. In the noun "Record" se stress ____ syllable

  • a) 1st
  • b) 2nd
  • c) 3rd
  • d) 4th

44. ______ informs about the paragraph

  • a) Topic sentence
  • b) Essay
  • c) Outline
  • d) None of the above

45. _______ should be there to connect paragraphs

  • a) Connecting hooks
  • b) Similes
  • c) Adjectives
  • d) None of the above

46. One paragraph should address ____ thought/thoughts

  • a) 1
  • b) 2
  • c) 3
  • d) 4

47. Outlines should be equal to the number of _____ in an essay

  • a) Paragraphs
  • b) Sentences
  • c) Thoughts
  • d) References

Chapter 99: LANGUAGE IN USE

1. The study of rules of a language covers

  • a) Grammar
  • b) Syntax
  • c) Semantics
  • d) Pragmatics

2. Following two languages are considered classical languages

  • a) Arabic and Greek
  • b) Greek and Latin
  • c) Greek and English
  • d) Latin and Dutch

3. English followed ----------- language for making rules of grammar

  • a) Greek
  • b) Latin
  • c) Dutch
  • d) Scottish

4. Which of the following approaches deals with the set of grammar rules and focuses on the teaching of grammar rules?

  • a) Descriptive Approach
  • b) Prescriptive Approach
  • c) Generative Approach
  • d) Mystic Approach

5. Mention the approach which discourages the too much on rules of language, according to it, how language is used is important rather than how language should be used.

  • a) Descriptive Approach
  • b) Generative Approach
  • c) Mystic Approach
  • d) Prescriptive Approach

6. Syntax is originally taken from a ------------- word.

  • a) Greek
  • b) Latin
  • c) German
  • d) Russian

7. The study of order or arrangements of words is called.

  • a) Grammar
  • b) Syntax
  • c) Semantics
  • d) Pragmatics

8. A meaningful combination of letters is called.

  • a) Alphabet
  • b) Word
  • c) Clause
  • d) Sentence

9. A group of words that forms part of a sentence and has a subject and predicate of its own is called.

  • a) Phrase
  • b) Sentence
  • c) Clause
  • d) Word

10. A group of words which makes complete sense is called.

  • a) Clause
  • b) Phrase
  • c) Subject
  • d) Sentence

11. A sentence that makes a statement or assertion is called

  • a) Declarative sentence
  • b) Assertive sentence
  • c) Both A and B
  • d) Exclamatory sentence

12. A sentence that expresses a command or entreaty is called.

  • a) Declarative sentence
  • b) assertive sentence
  • c) Imperative sentence
  • d) Exclamatory sentence

13. A sentence that expresses strong feelings is called.

  • a) Declarative sentence
  • b) Assertive sentence
  • c) Imperative sentence
  • d) Exclamatory sentence

14. There is basically two parts of a sentence, those are.

  • a) Subject and object
  • b) Subject and verb
  • c) Subject and predicate
  • d) Verb and object

15. The name of a person, place , thing or animal about which some information in a sentence

  • a) Predicate
  • b) Subject
  • c) Verb
  • d) Phrase

16. The information given about the subject in a sentence is called

  • a) Object
  • b) Verb
  • c) Predicate
  • d) Clause

17. A group of words which makes sense, but does not make complete sentence is called.

  • a) Phrase
  • b) Clause
  • c) Sentence
  • d) Verb

18. Words are divided into different kinds or classes according to their use. These categories are called.

  • a) Phrases
  • b) Clauses
  • c) Sentences
  • d) Parts of speech

19. An ---------------is a word used to add something to the meaning of a noun.

  • a) Adverb
  • b) Adjective
  • c) Verb
  • d) Pronoun

20. A word used instead of a noun is called.

  • a) Adverb
  • b) Adjective
  • c) Verb
  • d) Pronoun

21. A ------------is a word used to express an action or state.

  • a) Adverb
  • b) Adjective
  • c) Verb
  • d) Pronoun

22. A word that is used to add something to the meaning of a verb, an adjective or another adverb is called

  • a) Adverb
  • b) Noun
  • c) Preposition
  • d) Interjection

23. A word that is used to join to words, phrases, clauses, etc is called.

  • a) Preposition
  • b) Conjunction
  • c) Interjection
  • d) Verb

24. A word that shows the relation of a noun or pronoun with other noun or pronoun is called

  • a) Preposition
  • b) Conjunction
  • c) Interjection
  • d) Verb

25. A word that shows some sudden feeling is called

  • a) Conjunction
  • b) Preposition
  • c) Interjection
  • d) Verb

26. The words which determine or limit the meaning of the noun that follow are called

  • a) Determiners
  • b) Syntax
  • c) Semantics
  • d) Pragmatics

27. A noun the consists of persons, things etc. taken as one whole is called.

  • a) Abstract noun
  • b) Collective noun
  • c) Concrete noun
  • d) Material noun

28. A noun that denotes a thing that is neither male nor female is said to be.

  • a) Masculine gender
  • b) Feminine gender
  • c) Common gender
  • d) Neuter gender

29. When a noun is used as the subject of a verb it is said to be in the --------

  • a) Genitive case
  • b) Nominative case
  • c) Dative case
  • d) Accusative case

30. When a noun is used as the object of a verb it is said to be in the----------

  • a) Genitive case
  • b) Nominative case
  • c) Dative case
  • d) Accusative case

31. The noun used to show ownership or possession is said to be in ------

  • a) Genitive case
  • b) Dative case
  • c) Nominative case
  • d) Accusative case

32. Which of the following degree of the adjectives is used when two things, persons are compared

  • a) Positive
  • b) Comparative
  • c) Superlative
  • d) All

33. Which of the following is called definite article?

  • a) A
  • b) The
  • c) An
  • d) A, An, The

34. Indefinite article “An “is used before the words beginning with--------

  • a) Vowel letters
  • b) Vowel sounds
  • c) Consonant letters
  • d) Consonant sounds

35. “It rains”. ‘It’ in this sentence is.

  • a) Impersonal pronoun
  • b) Reflexive pronoun
  • c) Personal pronoun
  • d) Relative pronoun

36. Which of the following are sometime called pronominal adjectives?

  • a) Numeral adjectives
  • b) Demonstrative adjectives
  • c) Possessive adjectives
  • d) Distributive adjectives

37. Himself, herself, myself, ourselves, etc. is called

  • a) Reflexive pronouns
  • b) Relative pronouns
  • c) Personal pronouns
  • d) Demonstrative pronouns

38. The adjectives showing numbers, cardinals or ordinals are called

  • a) Demonstrative adjectives
  • b) Numeral adjectives
  • c) Distributive adjectives
  • d) Exclamatory adjectives

39. What an idea! In which category of parts of speech word What falls?

  • a) Interjection
  • b) Adjective
  • c) Noun
  • d) Conjunction

40. An adjective that points out to something is called

  • a) Distributive adjective
  • b) Demonstrative adjective
  • c) Interrogative adjective
  • d) Proper adjective

41. A verb which needs an object after it to give complete meaning is called

  • a) Transitive verb
  • b) Intransitive verb
  • c) Regular verb
  • d) Irregular verb

42. God bless you! identify the mood of verb in this sentence.

  • a) Subjunctive mood
  • b) Indicative mood
  • c) Imperative mood
  • d) Exclamatory mood

43. The word “tense” from a ------- word Tempus which means time.

  • a) German
  • b) Greek
  • c) Latin
  • d) French

44. A word which is partly a verb and partly an adjective is called.

  • a) Participle
  • b) Gerund
  • c) Infinitive
  • d) Inference

45. When first form of verb is used after “to” it may be called

  • a) Participle
  • b) Infinitive
  • c) Gerund
  • d) Inference

46. Form of the verb which ends in__ing and has the force of a noun and a verb is called

  • a) Gerund
  • b) Infinitive
  • c) Anaphora
  • d) Participle

47. The verb whose second and third form is made just adding by __ed at the end of the first form (work, worked, worked) is called

  • a) Regular verb
  • b) Irregular verb
  • c) Transitive verb
  • d) Intransitive verb

48. Is, are, am, was, were, etc. are usually the examples of.

  • a) Model verbs
  • b) Helping verbs
  • c) Auxiliary verbs
  • d) Both B and C

49. The model verbs can, could, may, might, shall, should, are also termed as

  • a) Helping verbs
  • b) Defective verbs
  • c) Irregular verbs
  • d) Impersonal verbs

50. “Go there” which type of adverb is used in this sentence?

  • a) Adverb of place
  • b) Adverb of time
  • c) Adverb of manner
  • d) Adverb of frequency

51. Conjunctions which are used in pairs like, neither –nor, either –or etc. are called

  • a) Co-coordinating conjunctions
  • b) Correlative conjunctions
  • c) Sub-ordinating conjunctions
  • d) Relative conjunctions

52. The conjunction that joins the statements of equal rank or importance is called

  • a) Co-coordinating conjunctions
  • b) Correlative conjunctions
  • c) Sub-ordinating conjunctions
  • d) Relative conjunctions

Chapter 100: PPSC PAST PAPER 1

1. The first tragedy written in English:

  • a) King Lear
  • b) Edward
  • c) Hamlet
  • d) Gorbuduc

2. Queen Elizabeth had been reigning nearly ______ years when Shakespeare was born.

  • a) Six
  • b) Eight
  • c) Ten
  • d) Twelve

3. When were Theaters closed in England?

  • a) 1623
  • b) 1642
  • c) 1616
  • d) 1650

4. Edmund Spenser's " The Shepherd's Calendar " was written in:

  • a) 1579
  • b)1660
  • c) 1597
  • d) 1507

5. Who has been called the poet's port?

  • a) Sidney
  • b) Shakespeare
  • c) Spenser
  • d) Ben Jonson

6. Sackville's Gorbuduc treats of an episode in:

  • a) National History
  • b) Philosophy
  • c) Witchcraft
  • d) Politics

7. Who was the scholarly translator of " Iliad, Odyssey and Hymns?

  • a) Massinger
  • b) Webster
  • c) Chapman
  • d) Middleton

8. The earliest morality play was:

  • a) The Castle of Perseverance
  • b) Everyman
  • c) The Trial of Treasure
  • d) New Custom

9. Who completed Marlow’s Hero and Leander?

  • a) Shakespeare
  • b) Chapman
  • c) Ben Jonson
  • d) Heywood

10. Tamburlaine is the story of:

  • a) A Sailor
  • b) A French Soldier
  • c) A Roman Soldier
  • d) A Scythian Shepherd

11. Marlow's The Jew of Malta is a dramatic presentation of:

  • a) A King
  • b) A Duke
  • c) A scholar
  • d) Machiavellian Man

12. The most popular of Kyd’s plays is:

  • a) Cornelia
  • b) Jeronimo
  • c) The Spanish Tragedy
  • d) Solyman and Perseda

13. Who was the first great realist who graphically depicted contemporary London life and its manners?

  • a) Thomas Nash
  • b) Thomas Deloney
  • c) Robert Greene
  • d) Thomas Sackville

14. The Arraignment of Paris, Edward |, The Battle of Alcazar and The Old Wives Tale are authored by:

  • a) Thomas Kyd
  • b) Thomas Nash
  • c) John Lyly
  • d) George Peele

15. Which work of Robert Greene gave the plot to Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale?

  • a) Groat's Worth of Wit
  • b) Pandosto
  • c) Orlando Furioso
  • d) Friar Bacon

16. Holinshed's Chronicle was used by which Elizabethan dramatis?

  • a) Shakespeare
  • b) Marlow
  • c) Heywood
  • d) Dekker

17. Venus and Adonais and The Rape of Lucrece are:

  • a) Love Poems
  • b) Tragedies
  • c) Comedies
  • d) Novels

18. Shakespeare's First Folio was published in:

  • a) 1600
  • b)1610
  • c) 1620
  • d) 1623

19. The lines: "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars. But in ourselves that we are underlings" are said by:

  • a) Brutus
  • b) Cassius
  • c) Caesar
  • d) None of these

20. Mythology, folklore and magic find their way in to Shakespeare's?

  • a) Tragedies
  • b) Comedies
  • d) Last plays
  • c) None of these

21. Sydney's Arcadia is drawn by Shakespeare in:

  • a) King Lear
  • b) Macbeth
  • c) The Winter's Tale
  • d) The Tempest

22. Whose words are these? "Drink to me only with thine eyes"

  • a) Shakespeare
  • b) Ben Johnson
  • c) Milton
  • d) Marlow

23. Jonson's first important and successful play was:

  • a) Volpone
  • b) The silent Woman
  • c) Everyman in His Humour
  • d) Everyman out of His Humour

24. The Fox is the sub-title of:

  • a) The Alchemist
  • b) Volpone
  • c) Everyman in His Humour
  • d) None of these

25. The only one of the plays of John Webster presented on the modern stage was:

  • a) The White Devil
  • b) The Duchess of Malfi
  • c) The Devil's Law Case
  • d) Appuis and Virginia

26. Who described Thomas Haywood as a sort of prose Shakespeare?

  • a) Charles Lamb
  • b) Johnson
  • c) Coleridge
  • d) Middleton

27. Francis Bacon was born in:

  • a) 1561
  • b) 1665
  • c) 1550
  • d) 1500

28. New Atlantis is modeled on:

  • a) More’s Utopia
  • b) Jonson's Epigramme
  • c) Marlow's Hero and Leander
  • d) None of these

29. Which work of Bacon was left incomplete due to his sudden death?

  • a) Sylva Sylvarum
  • b) Novum Organum
  • c) New Atlantis
  • d) None of these

30. Who said? "Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man and writing an exact man”.

  • a) Bacon
  • b) Deloney
  • c) Montaigne
  • d) Lodge

31. What do you mean by Syntax?

  • a) Study of speech sounds
  • b) Study of meaning of words
  • c) Study of constructing sentence
  • d) Constructing passage

32. What do you mean by Phonetics?

  • a) Study of speech sounds
  • b) Study of language and rules
  • c) Study of insects
  • d) Study of meaning and Syntax

33. Who was considered the" Father of Linguistics", a Swiss guy, who authored the seminal book entitled "Course in General Linguistics"

  • a) Noam Chomsky
  • b) William James
  • c) Ferdinand de Saussure
  • d) Leonard Bloomfield

34. What is the smallest segment of sound, that comprises the basic building blocks of a language?

  • a) Phoneme
  • b) Metameme
  • c) Morpheme
  • d) Termeme

35. What is the term for unchanging, gliding vowels; which can be either consonant-based or vowel-based?

  • a) Complementary pairs
  • b) Variations
  • c) Diphthongs
  • d) Morpheme pairs

36. The Morpheme is the smallest syntactical unit. How many Morphemes would the word "antidisestablishmentarianism" have?

  • a) 1
  • b) 6
  • c) 7
  • d) 5

37. A process by which a sound becomes more like a nearby sound in terms of some feature.

  • a) Phonology
  • b) Phonemes
  • c) Assimilation
  • d) Complementary

38. How many Morphs are there in "fish"

  • a) 1
  • b) 2
  • c) 3
  • d) 4

39. How many Morphemes are there in "fish"

  • a) 1
  • b) 2
  • c) 3
  • d) 4

40. A word that names a person, place or thing.

  • a) Noun
  • b) Adjective
  • c) Adverb
  • d) Verb

41. Two words which are in some way opposite in meaning.

  • a) Synonymy
  • b) Homonymy
  • c) Antonyms
  • d) Complementary pairs

42. A pattern of pitch across a phrase of utterance.

  • a) Rhythm
  • b) Intonation
  • c) Tempo
  • d) None of these

43. Pitch, intensity, duration, sound quality, and pause/tempo are elements are of:

  • a) Tempo
  • b) Intonation
  • c) Stress
  • d) All of these

44. Variation in speech and language patterns across groups of people:

  • a) Rhythm
  • b) Intonation
  • c) Dialects
  • d) None of these

45. Which of the following is another name for historical linguistics?

  • a) Diachronic linguistics
  • b) Psycho-Historic
  • c) Histolinguism
  • d) All of these

46. Which of the following is the study of languages as spoken/written in samples of real text, rather than of grammar rules?

  • a) Syntax
  • b) Corpus linguistics
  • c) Postulate linguistics
  • d) None of these

47. What is the name of the branch of linguistics concerned with speech sounds?

  • a) Chronology
  • b) Astrology
  • c) Phonology
  • d) Philology

48. What is the term given to the study of language and society?

  • a) Pragmatics
  • b) Bilingualism
  • c) Socialism
  • d) Sociolinguistics

49. What is "Semantics"?

  • a) The branch of linguistics concerned with Hebrew, Arabic and Aramaic
  • b) The study of verbal nervous twitches
  • c) The study of male language
  • d) The branch of linguistics and logic concerned with meaning

50. What major linguistics change occurred in middle English?

  • a) The adoption of new Germanic loan words
  • b) The great vowel shift
  • c) The introduction of new spelling rules
  • d) It became northern English

51. What part of speech is "to" in the phrase "he drove quickly to her house"?

  • a) A preposition
  • b) An indicator
  • c) An adverb
  • d) A possessive determiner

52. From which language were the following borrowed: "Government”, " Peasant”, "prisoner"?

  • a) Greek
  • b) German
  • c) French
  • d) Klingon

53. Which term best describes the irregular plurals "Men" and "Oxen"?

  • a) Oxymoron
  • b) Incorrect word formation
  • c) Inanimate nouns
  • d) Inflections

54. Which of the following is an example of "onomatopoeia"?

  • a) Cuckoo
  • b) Duck
  • c) Pigeon
  • d) Dodo

55. Grammar consists of:

  • a) Morphology
  • b) Syntax
  • c) Phonology
  • d) A & B

56. Dialects develop:

  • a) More often in small-scale societies with few people
  • b) More often in large-scale societies with many people
  • c) Equally often in small-scale and large-scale societies
  • d) None of these

57. A pidgin is:

  • a) Dialect like Black English in North America
  • b) The mother tongue, or principle language of a society
  • c) A simplified makeshift language that develops to fulfill the communication needs of peoples who have no language in common
  • d) A common species of birds

58. When a pidgin language becomes the mother tongue of a population, linguistics refers to it as (n):

  • a) Gullah
  • b) Creole
  • c) Ebonics
  • d) All of these

59. Chose the best description for the first sound in the American pronunciation of the word "teeth".

  • a) Alveolar
  • b) Velar
  • c) Labiodentals
  • d) Alveolar palatal

60. Syntax is the study of_______.

  • a) Word formation
  • b) How language is used to communicate
  • c) Linguistic meaning
  • d) Phrases, clauses, and sentences

61. Find out the error in a sentence: Our friend, as well as our group, are planning to enroll in this course

  • a) Our friend
  • b) As well as our group
  • c) Are planning
  • d) To enroll in this group
  • e) No error

62. Find out the error in a sentence: Neither our coach nor the captain have ever played in this ground.

  • a) Neither
  • b) Our coach nor
  • c) The captain have
  • d) Ever played in this ground
  • e) No error

63. Find out the error in a sentence: One of the factors responsible for poverty is unemployment.

  • a) One of the factors
  • b) Responsible
  • c) For poverty
  • d) Is unemployment
  • e) No error

64. Find out the error in a sentence: The is the worst which we can except.

  • a) The is the worst
  • b) Which
  • c) We can
  • d) Except
  • e) No error

65. Find out the error in a sentence: Parrot is only bird which can talk.

  • a) Parrot is
  • b) Only bird
  • c) Which
  • d) Can talk
  • e) No error

66. Find the suitable synonym: DISTASTEFUL

  • a) Not delicious
  • b) Tasteless
  • c) Unpleasant
  • d) Useless

67. Find the suitable synonym: ACQUIESCE

  • a) Consonant
  • b) Something liquid
  • c) Watery
  • d) To know someone

68. Find the suitable synonym: ESCALATE

  • a) Retard
  • b) Step up
  • c) Hamper
  • d) Oppose

69. Find the suitable synonym: FRACAS

  • a) Disagree
  • b) Debate
  • c) Exchange
  • d) Quarrel

70. Find the suitable synonym: BUCOLIC

  • a) Quite
  • b) Simple
  • c) Hidebound
  • d) Rural

71. Find the suitable antonym: MULTIFARIOUS

  • a) Uniform
  • b) Inconsistent
  • c) Separate
  • d) Homogeneous

72. Find the suitable antonym: APPOSITE

  • a) Competent
  • b) Inappropriate
  • c) Liable
  • d) Connected

73. Find the suitable antonym: PLUMMET

  • a) Climb
  • b) Propel
  • c) Release
  • d) Shake

74. Find the suitable antonym: FLORID

  • a) Fancy
  • b) Busy
  • c) Loud
  • d) Simple

75. Find the suitable synonym: PALLID

  • a) Wasted
  • b) Colorless
  • c) Neutral
  • d) Dark

76. Find the analogy of pair of words: Alleviate: Aggravate:

  • a) Joke: Worry
  • b) Elevate: Agree
  • c) Elastic: Rigid
  • d) Level: Grade

77. Find the analogy of Pair of words: Escape: Abscond:

  • a) Freedom: Intendance
  • b) Endless: Eternal
  • c) Weaken: Strengthen
  • d) Exult: Jubilate

78. Find the analogy of Pair of words: Harm: Damage:

  • a) Sweet: Sour
  • b) Stout: Weak
  • c) Injure: Incapacitate
  • d) Hook: Crook

79. Find the analogy of Pair of words: Biased: Partial:

  • a) Partisan: Prejudiced
  • b) Built-in: Included
  • c) Axle: Wheel
  • d) Learning: Yield

80. Find the analogy of Pair of words: Blurred: Confused:

  • a) Muddled: Unclear
  • b) Dangerous: Adequate
  • c) Scam: Clarity
  • d) Abatement: Significant

81. Find the suitable meaning of Idioms/Phrases: To cry wolf.

  • a) To give false alarm
  • b) To turn pale
  • c) To ruin over self
  • d) To overcome someone

82. Find the suitable meaning of the Idioms/Phrases: To have an axe to grind.

  • a) To work for both sides
  • b) To have selfish interest to serve
  • c) To criticize
  • d) To fail to arouse interest

83. Find the suitable meaning of the Idioms/ Phrases: To hit the right nail on the head

  • a) To do things right
  • b) To announce one's fixed views
  • c) To destroy one's reputation
  • d) To teach a lesson

84. Find the suitable meaning of Idioms/ Phrases: To be at cross-purposes.

  • a) Missed each other
  • b) Work against teach other
  • c) Dislike each other
  • d) Misunderstand each other

85. Find the suitable meaning of Idioms/ Phrases: To the ends of the earth.

  • a) Up to a certain limit
  • b) Everywhere
  • c) Till losing one's interest
  • d) Till losing one's patience

86. Correct spellings are:

  • a) Acquaintence
  • b) Acquantance
  • c) Acquaintance
  • d) Acquentence

87. Correct spellings are:

  • a) Accomdate
  • b) Accommodate
  • c) Accommodate
  • d) Accommodate

88. Correct spellings are:

  • a) Occurred
  • b) Ocurred
  • c) Occurrd
  • d) Ocurrd

89. Correct spellings are:

  • a) Erroniously
  • b) Erroneusly
  • c) Erroneously
  • d) Erroniosly

90. Correct spellings are:

  • a) Demmurage
  • b) Demurrage
  • c) Demmarrage
  • d) Demurage

91. Which country is the third biggest producer of uranium?

  • a) Kazakhstan
  • b) Canada
  • c) Pakistan
  • d) Australia

92. The first European to reach India by sea was_____?

  • a) John Cabot
  • b) Marco Polo
  • c) Christopher Columbus
  • d) Vasco da Gama

93. What is the name of Capital of Nigeria?

  • a) Helsinki
  • b) Niamey
  • c) Abuja
  • d) Ulaanbaatar

94. Saladin took back Jerusalem after the Battle of_____?

  • a) Ajnadin
  • b) Zama
  • c) Ain u Jalloot
  • d) Hittin

95. India's financial capital Mumbai is located in its which state?

  • a) Bihar
  • b) Gujrat
  • c) Indhra Pardesh
  • d) Maharashtra

96. Who has been appointed as Deputy Governor of SBP on 20 Jan, 2020?

  • a) Murtaza Syed
  • b) Murtaza Wahab
  • c) Murtaza Raheel
  • d) Murtaza Saffi

97. Who is The Current Chief Election Commissioner of Pakistan?

Answer should be given according to recent knowledge

The current Chief Election Commissioner of Pakistan is **Sikandar Sultan Raja**. His term was set to expire in January 2025, but as of July 2025, he is still listed as the incumbent.

98. Which US Diplomat reached Pakistan on January 19, 2020 for four-day visit?

  • a) Alice Wells
  • b) Mike Pompeo
  • c) Alexander
  • d) George W.T

99. Hazrat Ali (R.A) was martyred in_____ hijrah?

  • a) 36
  • b) 38
  • c) 40
  • d) 42

100. Siha e Sitta are _____ books of Hadith?

  • a) 5
  • b) 6
  • c) 7
  • d) 8

Chapter 101: PPSC PAST PAPER 2 446

1. The first tragedy written in English:

  • a) King Lear
  • b) Edward
  • c) Hamlet
  • d) Gorbuduc

2. Queen Elizabeth had been reigning nearly ______ years when Shakespeare was born.

  • a) Six
  • b) Eight
  • c) Ten
  • d) Twelve

3. When were Theaters closed in England?

  • a) 1623
  • b) 1642
  • c) 1616
  • d) 1650

4. Edmund Spenser's " The Shepherd's Calendar " was written in:

  • a) 1579
  • b)1660
  • c) 1597
  • d) 1507

5. Who has been called the poet's port?

  • a) Sidney
  • b) Shakespeare
  • c) Spenser
  • d) Ben Jonson

6. Sackville's Gorbuduc treats of an episode in:

  • a) National History
  • b) Philosophy
  • c) Witchcraft
  • d) Politics

7. Who was the scholarly translator of " Iliad, Odyssey and Hymns?

  • a) Massinger
  • b) Webster
  • c) Chapman
  • d) Middleton

8. The earliest morality play was:

  • a) The Castle of Perseverance
  • b) Everyman
  • c) The Trial of Treasure
  • d) New Custom

9. Who completed Marlow’s Hero and Leander?

  • a) Shakespeare
  • b) Chapman
  • c) Ben Jonson
  • d) Heywood

10. Tamburlaine is the story of:

  • a) A Sailor
  • b) A French Soldier
  • c) A Roman Soldier
  • d) A Scythian Shepherd

11. Marlow's The Jew of Malta is a dramatic presentation of:

  • a) A King
  • b) A Duke
  • c) A scholar
  • d) Machiavellian Man

12. The most popular of Kyd’s plays is:

  • a) Cornelia
  • b) Jeronimo
  • c) The Spanish Tragedy
  • d) Solyman and Perseda

13. Who was the first great realist who graphically depicted contemporary London life and its manners?

  • a) Thomas Nash
  • b) Thomas Deloney
  • c) Robert Greene
  • d) Thomas Sackville

14. The Arraignment of Paris, Edward |, The Battle of Alcazar and The Old Wives Tale are authored by:

  • a) Thomas Kyd
  • b) Thomas Nash
  • c) John Lyly
  • d) George Peele

15. Which work of Robert Greene gave the plot to Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale?

  • a) Groat's Worth of Wit
  • b) Pandosto
  • c) Orlando Furioso
  • d) Friar Bacon

16. Holinshed's Chronicle was used by which Elizabethan dramatis?

  • a) Shakespeare
  • b) Marlow
  • c) Heywood
  • d) Dekker

17. Venus and Adonais and The Rape of Lucrece are:

  • a) Love Poems
  • b) Tragedies
  • c) Comedies
  • d) Novels

18. Shakespeare's First Folio was published in:

  • a) 1600
  • b)1610
  • c) 1620
  • d) 1623

19. The lines: "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars. But in ourselves that we are underlings" are said by:

  • a) Brutus
  • b) Cassius
  • c) Caesar
  • d) None of these

20. Mythology, folklore and magic find their way in to Shakespeare's?

  • a) Tragedies
  • b) Comedies
  • d) Last plays
  • c) None of these

21. Sydney's Arcadia is drawn by Shakespeare in:

  • a) King Lear
  • b) Macbeth
  • c) The Winter's Tale
  • d) The Tempest

22. Whose words are these? "Drink to me only with thine eyes"

  • a) Shakespeare
  • b) Ben Johnson
  • c) Milton
  • d) Marlow

23. Jonson's first important and successful play was:

  • a) Volpone
  • b) The silent Woman
  • c) Everyman in His Humour
  • d) Everyman out of His Humour

24. The Fox is the sub-title of:

  • a) The Alchemist
  • b) Volpone
  • c) Everyman in His Humour
  • d) None of these

25. The only one of the plays of John Webster presented on the modern stage was:

  • a) The White Devil
  • b) The Duchess of Malfi
  • c) The Devil's Law Case
  • d) Appuis and Virginia

26. Who described Thomas Haywood as a sort of prose Shakespeare?

  • a) Charles Lamb
  • b) Johnson
  • c) Coleridge
  • d) Middleton

27. Francis Bacon was born in:

  • a) 1561
  • b) 1665
  • c) 1550
  • d) 1500

28. New Atlantis is modeled on:

  • a) More’s Utopia
  • b) Jonson's Epigramme
  • c) Marlow's Hero and Leander
  • d) None of these

29. Which work of Bacon was left incomplete due to his sudden death?

  • a) Sylva Sylvarum
  • b) Novum Organum
  • c) New Atlantis
  • d) None of these

30. Who said? "Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man and writing an exact man”.

  • a) Bacon
  • b) Deloney
  • c) Montaigne
  • d) Lodge

31. What do you mean by Syntax?

  • a) Study of speech sounds
  • b) Study of meaning of words
  • c) Study of constructing sentence
  • d) Constructing passage

32. What do you mean by Phonetics?

  • a) Study of speech sounds
  • b) Study of language and rules
  • c) Study of insects
  • d) Study of meaning and Syntax

33. Who was considered the" Father of Linguistics", a Swiss guy, who authored the seminal book entitled "Course in General Linguistics"

  • a) Noam Chomsky
  • b) William James
  • c) Ferdinand de Saussure
  • d) Leonard Bloomfield

34. What is the smallest segment of sound, that comprises the basic building blocks of a language?

  • a) Phoneme
  • b) Metameme
  • c) Morpheme
  • d) Termeme

35. What is the term for unchanging, gliding vowels; which can be either consonant-based or vowel-based?

  • a) Complementary pairs
  • b) Variations
  • c) Diphthongs
  • d) Morpheme pairs

36. The Morpheme is the smallest syntactical unit. How many Morphemes would the word "antidisestablishmentarianism" have?

  • a) 1
  • b) 6
  • c) 7
  • d) 5

37. A process by which a sound becomes more like a nearby sound in terms of some feature.

  • a) Phonology
  • b) Phonemes
  • c) Assimilation
  • d) Complementary

38. How many Morphs are there in "fish"

  • a) 1
  • b) 2
  • c) 3
  • d) 4

39. How many Morphemes are there in "fish"

  • a) 1
  • b) 2
  • c) 3
  • d) 4

40. A word that names a person, place or thing.

  • a) Noun
  • b) Adjective
  • c) Adverb
  • d) Verb

41. Two words which are in some way opposite in meaning.

  • a) Synonymy
  • b) Homonymy
  • c) Antonyms
  • d) Complementary pairs

42. A pattern of pitch across a phrase of utterance.

  • a) Rhythm
  • b) Intonation
  • c) Tempo
  • d) None of these

43. Pitch, intensity, duration, sound quality, and pause/tempo are elements are of:

  • a) Tempo
  • b) Intonation
  • c) Stress
  • d) All of these

44. Variation in speech and language patterns across groups of people:

  • a) Rhythm
  • b) Intonation
  • c) Dialects
  • d) None of these

45. Which of the following is another name for historical linguistics?

  • a) Diachronic linguistics
  • b) Psycho-Historic
  • c) Histolinguism
  • d) All of these

46. Which of the following is the study of languages as spoken/written in samples of real text, rather than of grammar rules?

  • a) Syntax
  • b) Corpus linguistics
  • c) Postulate linguistics
  • d) None of these

47. What is the name of the branch of linguistics concerned with speech sounds?

  • a) Chronology
  • b) Astrology
  • c) Phonology
  • d) Philology

48. What is the term given to the study of language and society?

  • a) Pragmatics
  • b) Bilingualism
  • c) Socialism
  • d) Sociolinguistics

49. What is "Semantics"?

  • a) The branch of linguistics concerned with Hebrew, Arabic and Aramaic
  • b) The study of verbal nervous twitches
  • c) The study of male language
  • d) The branch of linguistics and logic concerned with meaning

50. What major linguistics change occurred in middle English?

  • a) The adoption of new Germanic loan words
  • b) The great vowel shift
  • c) The introduction of new spelling rules
  • d) It became northern English

51. What part of speech is "to" in the phrase "he drove quickly to her house"?

  • a) A preposition
  • b) An indicator
  • c) An adverb
  • d) A possessive determiner

52. From which language were the following borrowed: "Government”, " Peasant”, "prisoner"?

  • a) Greek
  • b) German
  • c) French
  • d) Klingon

53. Which term best describes the irregular plurals "Men" and "Oxen"?

  • a) Oxymoron
  • b) Incorrect word formation
  • c) Inanimate nouns
  • d) Inflections

54. Which of the following is an example of "onomatopoeia"?

  • a) Cuckoo
  • b) Duck
  • c) Pigeon
  • d) Dodo

55. Grammar consists of:

  • a) Morphology
  • b) Syntax
  • c) Phonology
  • d) A & B

56. Dialects develop:

  • a) More often in small-scale societies with few people
  • b) More often in large-scale societies with many people
  • c) Equally often in small-scale and large-scale societies
  • d) None of these

57. A pidgin is:

  • a) Dialect like Black English in North America
  • b) The mother tongue, or principle language of a society
  • c) A simplified makeshift language that develops to fulfill the communication needs of peoples who have no language in common
  • d) A common species of birds

58. When a pidgin language becomes the mother tongue of a population, linguistics refers to it as (n):

  • a) Gullah
  • b) Creole
  • c) Ebonics
  • d) All of these

59. Chose the best description for the first sound in the American pronunciation of the word "teeth".

  • a) Alveolar
  • b) Velar
  • c) Labiodentals
  • d) Alveolar palatal

60. Syntax is the study of_______.

  • a) Word formation
  • b) How language is used to communicate
  • c) Linguistic meaning
  • d) Phrases, clauses, and sentences

61. Find out the error in a sentence: Our friend, as well as our group, are planning to enroll in this course

  • a) Our friend
  • b) As well as our group
  • c) Are planning
  • d) To enroll in this group
  • e) No error

62. Find out the error in a sentence: Neither our coach nor the captain have ever played in this ground.

  • a) Neither
  • b) Our coach nor
  • c) The captain have
  • d) Ever played in this ground
  • e) No error

63. Find out the error in a sentence: One of the factors responsible for poverty is unemployment.

  • a) One of the factors
  • b) Responsible
  • c) For poverty
  • d) Is unemployment
  • e) No error

64. Find out the error in a sentence: The is the worst which we can except.

  • a) The is the worst
  • b) Which
  • c) We can
  • d) Except
  • e) No error

65. Find out the error in a sentence: Parrot is only bird which can talk.

  • a) Parrot is
  • b) Only bird
  • c) Which
  • d) Can talk
  • e) No error

66. Find the suitable synonym: DISTASTEFUL

  • a) Not delicious
  • b) Tasteless
  • c) Unpleasant
  • d) Useless

67. Find the suitable synonym: ACQUIESCE

  • a) Consonant
  • b) Something liquid
  • c) Watery
  • d) To know someone

68. Find the suitable synonym: ESCALATE

  • a) Retard
  • b) Step up
  • c) Hamper
  • d) Oppose

69. Find the suitable synonym: FRACAS

  • a) Disagree
  • b) Debate
  • c) Exchange
  • d) Quarrel

70. Find the suitable synonym: BUCOLIC

  • a) Quite
  • b) Simple
  • c) Hidebound
  • d) Rural

71. Find the suitable antonym: MULTIFARIOUS

  • a) Uniform
  • b) Inconsistent
  • c) Separate
  • d) Homogeneous

72. Find the suitable antonym: APPOSITE

  • a) Competent
  • b) Inappropriate
  • c) Liable
  • d) Connected

73. Find the suitable antonym: PLUMMET

  • a) Climb
  • b) Propel
  • c) Release
  • d) Shake

74. Find the suitable antonym: FLORID

  • a) Fancy
  • b) Busy
  • c) Loud
  • d) Simple

75. Find the suitable synonym: PALLID

  • a) Wasted
  • b) Colorless
  • c) Neutral
  • d) Dark

76. Find the analogy of pair of words: Alleviate: Aggravate:

  • a) Joke: Worry
  • b) Elevate: Agree
  • c) Elastic: Rigid
  • d) Level: Grade

77. Find the analogy of Pair of words: Escape: Abscond:

  • a) Freedom: Intendance
  • b) Endless: Eternal
  • c) Weaken: Strengthen
  • d) Exult: Jubilate

78. Find the analogy of Pair of words: Harm: Damage:

  • a) Sweet: Sour
  • b) Stout: Weak
  • c) Injure: Incapacitate
  • d) Hook: Crook

79. Find the analogy of Pair of words: Biased: Partial:

  • a) Partisan: Prejudiced
  • b) Built-in: Included
  • c) Axle: Wheel
  • d) Learning: Yield

80. Find the analogy of Pair of words: Blurred: Confused:

  • a) Muddled: Unclear
  • b) Dangerous: Adequate
  • c) Scam: Clarity
  • d) Abatement: Significant

81. Find the suitable meaning of Idioms/Phrases: To cry wolf.

  • a) To give false alarm
  • b) To turn pale
  • c) To ruin over self
  • d) To overcome someone

82. Find the suitable meaning of the Idioms/Phrases: To have an axe to grind.

  • a) To work for both sides
  • b) To have selfish interest to serve
  • c) To criticize
  • d) To fail to arouse interest

83. Find the suitable meaning of the Idioms/ Phrases: To hit the right nail on the head

  • a) To do things right
  • b) To announce one's fixed views
  • c) To destroy one's reputation
  • d) To teach a lesson

84. Find the suitable meaning of Idioms/ Phrases: To be at cross-purposes.

  • a) Missed each other
  • b) Work against teach other
  • c) Dislike each other
  • d) Misunderstand each other

85. Find the suitable meaning of Idioms/ Phrases: To the ends of the earth.

  • a) Up to a certain limit
  • b) Everywhere
  • c) Till losing one's interest
  • d) Till losing one's patience

86. Correct spellings are:

  • a) Acquaintence
  • b) Acquantance
  • c) Acquaintance
  • d) Acquentence

87. Correct spellings are:

  • a) Accomdate
  • b) Accommodate
  • c) Accommodate
  • d) Accommodate

88. Correct spellings are:

  • a) Occurred
  • b) Ocurred
  • c) Occurrd
  • d) Ocurrd

89. Correct spellings are:

  • a) Erroniously
  • b) Erroneusly
  • c) Erroneously
  • d) Erroniosly

90. Correct spellings are:

  • a) Demmurage
  • b) Demurrage
  • c) Demmarrage
  • d) Demurage

91. Which country is the third biggest producer of uranium?

  • a) Kazakhstan
  • b) Canada
  • c) Pakistan
  • d) Australia

92. The first European to reach India by sea was_____?

  • a) John Cabot
  • b) Marco Polo
  • c) Christopher Columbus
  • d) Vasco da Gama

93. What is the name of Capital of Nigeria?

  • a) Helsinki
  • b) Niamey
  • c) Abuja
  • d) Ulaanbaatar

94. Saladin took back Jerusalem after the Battle of_____?

  • a) Ajnadin
  • b) Zama
  • c) Ain u Jalloot
  • d) Hittin

95. India's financial capital Mumbai is located in its which state?

  • a) Bihar
  • b) Gujrat
  • c) Indhra Pardesh
  • d) Maharashtra

96. Who has been appointed as Deputy Governor of SBP on 20 Jan, 2020?

  • a) Murtaza Syed
  • b) Murtaza Wahab
  • c) Murtaza Raheel
  • d) Murtaza Saffi

97. Who is The Current Chief Election Commissioner of Pakistan?

Answer should be given according to recent knowledge

The current Chief Election Commissioner of Pakistan is **Sikandar Sultan Raja**. His term was set to expire in January 2025, but as of July 2025, he is still listed as the incumbent.

98. Which US Diplomat reached Pakistan on January 19, 2020 for four-day visit?

  • a) Alice Wells
  • b) Mike Pompeo
  • c) Alexander
  • d) George W.T

99. Hazrat Ali (R.A) was martyred in_____ hijrah?

  • a) 36
  • b) 38
  • c) 40
  • d) 42

100. Siha e Sitta are _____ books of Hadith?

  • a) 5
  • b) 6
  • c) 7
  • d) 8

Chapter 102: PPSC PAST PAPER 2022

1. When did Keats write his Odes?

  • A. 1817
  • B. 1819
  • C. 1820
  • D. 1822

2. A figure of speech that includes exaggeration but is not taken in the literal meaning

  • A. Oxymoron
  • B. Hyperbole
  • C. Hypophora
  • D. Asterismos

3. Who wrote the Novel “Antic Hay” ?

  • A. Aldous Huxley
  • B. George Orwell
  • C. H. G. Wells
  • D. Ray Bradbury

4. Who wrote the History of Pendennis?

  • A. Charles Dickens
  • B. William Makepeace
  • C. George Eliot
  • D. Thomas Hardy

5. Where does the ”David” in the play ”Caretaker” want to go?

  • A. Blackfen
  • B. Sidcup
  • C. Orpington
  • D. New Eltham

6. Red Letters’ Day

  • A. The worst day
  • B. A gloomy day
  • C. A day of great Joy
  • D. A writing day

7. What is the name of Bertolt Brecht’s theatre?

  • A. Royal National
  • B. Epic theatre
  • C. The Old Vic
  • D. None of these

8. Who said “Dryden” father of Criticism?

  • A. James Boswell
  • B. Dr Johnson
  • C. Elizabeth Johnson
  • D. Pope

9. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them (a quote taken from which of the following works)?

  • A. Twelfth Night
  • B. Hamlet
  • C. Romeo & Juliet
  • D. Julius Caesar

10. Falstaff is a clown (described in)

  • A. Twelfth Night
  • B. Hamlet
  • C. Romeo & Juliet
  • D. In Henry IV, Part 1 and Henry IV, Part 2

11. Charles Lamb’s “Dream Children” is notable for its:

  • A. Crushing tragedy
  • B. Humor
  • C. Whimsical Pathos
  • D. Cynicism

12. What is the name of the First poem of ”Lyrical Ballads”?

  • A. The Prelude
  • B. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
  • C. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
  • D. Tintern Abbey

13. Restoration age is represented as?

  • A. Comedy of Manners
  • B. Comedy of Morals
  • C. Romantic Comedy
  • D. Comedy of Humors

14. Robert Browning’s poem has the characteristics of:

  • A. Dramatic Monologue and Optimist
  • B. Dramatic Monologue and Pessimist
  • C. Dramatic Monologue and Misogynist
  • D. All of these

15. Low-born person’s adventure on road?

  • A. Romantic
  • B. Historical
  • C. Action
  • D. Picaresque

16. What is common in Wordsworth, Byron and Keats’s poetry?

  • A. Reform
  • B. Philosophy
  • C. War
  • D. Love

17. Deformed Character in the play “Tempest”

  • A. Prospero
  • B. Ariel
  • C. Sycorax
  • D. Caliban

18. Imogen is a “female” character in which play?

  • A. The Winter’s Tale
  • B. Cymbeline
  • C. Macbeth
  • D. As You Like It

19. Swift is a misanthrope because?

  • A. He envies people
  • B. He hates people.
  • C. He loves animals
  • D. None

20. Who wrote wedding in flood?

  • A. Taufiq Rafat
  • B. Maki Kureishi
  • C. Alamgir Hashmi
  • D. Kaleem

21. Who wrote Hamlet and Oedipus?

  • A. Karl Abraham
  • B. Earnest Jones
  • C. Wilhelm Fliess
  • D. Melanie

22. Why was Donne imprisoned?

  • A. Clandestine Marriage
  • B. Theft
  • C. Murder
  • D. Heresy

23. After Shakespeare European drama was promoted by?

  • A. Eliot
  • B. Gower
  • C. Dryden
  • D. Ibsen

24. Sign and Sign Handling (Study of Signs)

  • A. Semiotics
  • B. Syntax
  • C. Semantics
  • D. Morphology

25. What form was used in Divine Comedy?

  • A. Blank Verse
  • B. Free Verse
  • C. Haiku
  • D. Terza Rima

26. What is the Literacy Genre of Sun Rising?

  • A. Allegory
  • B. Ballad
  • C. Blason
  • D. Aubade

27. The title of Attia Hussian’s Novel?

  • A. Sunlight on a Broken Column
  • B. Sunlight on a Glass
  • C. Sunlight on a Stream
  • D. Sunlight on a Broken Wood

28. Who wrote “Murder of Aziz Khan”?

  • A. Maya Angelou
  • B. Salman Rushdie
  • C. Zulfiqar Ghose
  • D. None

29. Orientalism concept was expiated and expanded by?

  • A. Frantz Fanon
  • B. Edward Said
  • C. Bacon
  • D. Swift

30. Sophonisba is a _______written by James Thomson.

  • A. Comedy
  • B. Fantasy
  • C. Tragedy
  • D. Sci-fi

31. What is the cause of Sylvia Plath’s death?

  • A. Firearms
  • B. Sleeping Pills
  • C. Poisoning
  • D. Suffocation

32. The Clerk in the ”Prologue to the Canterbury Tales” has been portrayed as:

  • A. Ironically
  • B. Ideally
  • C. Realistically
  • D. All of these

33. The epic poem Beowulf is shorter than Homer’s Illiad having_______lines

  • A. 3182
  • B. 3820
  • C. 3082
  • D. None of These

34. Who wrote grammarian funeral?

  • A. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • B. Robert Browning
  • C. Matthew Arnold
  • D. William Wordsworth

35. The current poet Laureate was appointed as the first professor of poetry in which university?

  • A. University of Oxford
  • B. Leeds University
  • C. Cambridge University
  • D. King’s College

36. JACOBIAN theatre and drama were associated with?

  • A. James I
  • B. Elizabeth
  • C. Charles I
  • D. Charles II

37. Who wrote Lolita?

  • A. Vladimir Nabokov
  • B. Nabokov
  • C. Dostoevsky
  • D. Franz Kafka

38. The ”Deserted Village” by Oliver Goldsmith is a/an ______Poem.

  • A. Tragedy
  • B. Drama
  • C. Comedy
  • D. Elegy

39. How many types of Phonetic Transcription are used?

  • A. Two
  • B. Three
  • C. Four
  • D. One

40. How many days did it take for Satan to finally speak to Beelzebub?

  • A. 9
  • B. 7
  • C. 6
  • D. 4

41. Who is the pioneer (originator) of Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood?

  • A. Dante Gabriel Rossetti
  • B. John Everett Millais
  • C. William Holman Hunt
  • D. Christina Rossetti

42. Nature’s first green is gold, her hardest hue to hold is a poem by?

  • A. Emily Dickinson
  • B. Robert Frost
  • C. Maya Angelou
  • D. Walt Whitman

43. Who wrote Das Capital?

  • A. Karl Marx
  • B. Friedrich Engels
  • C. Lenin
  • D. Weber

44. Who is the writer of ”Piers the Ploughman”?

  • A. William Langland
  • B. John Gower
  • C. Wright
  • D. Walter William Skeat

45. The bourgeoisie tragedy is attributed to which class by Raymond Williams?

  • A. Middle Class
  • B. Working Class
  • C. Lower Class
  • D. Elite

46. The German playwright Bertot Brecht proposed which contrasting idea as opposed to mimetic theatre of Aristotle?

  • A. Diegetic
  • B. Problematic
  • C. Apocalyptic
  • D. Prophetic

47. What was the profession of Mr Ramsay in the novel “To the Light House”?

  • A. Metaphysical philosopher
  • B. A Doctor
  • C. A poet
  • D. None of these

48. In valediction forbidding mourning, John Donne alludes to the growing field in the renaissance. Which field was growing at that time?

  • A. geometry
  • B. astrology
  • C. Cartography
  • D. Medicine

49. Florizel’s servant Autolycus has the role of?

  • A. Clown
  • B. A protagonist
  • C. An antagonist
  • D. None of these

50. Some reflections upon marriage (1706) initiated a powerful strain of modern feminism by?

  • A. Mary Astell
  • B. Wollstonecraft
  • C. Macaulay
  • D. John Locke

51. Who was the first Poet Laureate to serve 10 years fixed period?

  • A. Andrew Motion
  • B. Philip Larkin
  • C. Blake Morrison
  • D. John Keats

52. Alamein to Zem Zem by?

  • A. Keith Douglas
  • B. Tennyson
  • C. Wordsworth
  • D. Sylvia Plath

53. What is the complete name of Earl of Surrey?

  • A. Henry Howard
  • B. Thomas Wyatt
  • C. Stafford
  • D. None of these

54. Who is a modern-day corpus linguist?

  • A. Noam Chomsky
  • B. Ferdinand de Saussure
  • C. John Sinclair
  • D. Edward Sapir

55. Who introduced Structural grammar/associated with it?

  • A. Noam Chomsky
  • B. Ferdinand de Saussure
  • C. John Sinclair
  • D. Edward Sapir

56. What is the prestigious dialect?

  • A. Basilect
  • B. Acrolect
  • C. Mesolect
  • D. None of these

56. What is the minimum unit of the meaningful word?

  • A. Consonant Cluster
  • B. Syllable
  • C. Morpheme
  • D. Phoneme

57. Words with multiple meanings (word senses)

  • A. Polysemy
  • B. Metonymy
  • C. Homosemy
  • D. All of these

58. A person who has equal efficiency in many languages?

  • A. Polyglot
  • B. Multilingual
  • C. Bilingual
  • D. All of these

59. She has______ coins.

  • A. Many
  • B. Much
  • C. More
  • D. All of these

60. After creolization the new founded language takes up its______ from the lower prestige.

  • A. Vocabulary
  • B. Dialect
  • C. Accent
  • D. All of these

61. The first and second sounds of ”I” in Little are an example of:

  • A. Allophone
  • B. Homophonic variation
  • C. Minimal Pair
  • D. Allomorph

62. Paradigmatic Relation is based upon:

  • A. Axis of chain
  • B. Axis of choice
  • C. Both of these
  • D. None of these

63. Whom the doctor blames for the disease ”polio” was brought in?

  • A. British
  • B. American
  • C. Indian
  • D. French

64. Who said, ”unconsciousness is structured like a language”?

  • A. Sigmund Freud
  • B. Lacan
  • C. Slavoj Žižek
  • D. Jacques-Alain Miller

65. Function of Language directive, informative______?

  • A. Expressive
  • B. Interrogative
  • C. Exclamatory
  • D. Denotative

66. What is the first and foremost function of a literary critic?

  • A. To get full value out of literary quality
  • B. To satisfy the readers
  • C. To distinguish between a good book and a bad book
  • D. None

67. Communicative competence requires that speakers be aware of which two aspects of their language?

  • A. linguistic and syntactic
  • B. linguistic and pragmatic
  • C. semantic and syntactic
  • D. pragmatic and semantic

68. An adjective that is used to express relative positions in space and time is known as

  • A. Demonstrative Adjective
  • B. Descriptive Adjective
  • C. Quantitative Adjective
  • D. Possessive Adjective

69. The use of forms whose obsoleteness or obsolescence is manifest …

  • A. Realism
  • B. lmagism
  • C. Archaism
  • D. obsoletism

70. Pedagogical grammar is grammatical analysis and instructions designed for?

  • A. Native Speakers
  • B. Bilingual
  • C. Second Language Learners
  • D. All

71. A string of letters that provide us with a meaningful unit?

  • A. Morpheme
  • B. Phoneme
  • C. Lexis
  • D. Word

72. What Is Orthography?

  • A. The study of spelling
  • B. The Study of Grammar
  • C. The Study of Science
  • D. The Study of Signs

73. Philology can be defined as?

  • A. Historical Development
  • B. Physical Development
  • C. Mind Development
  • D. Thought development

74. Opposite of Diligent

  • A. Austere
  • B. Firm
  • C. Studious
  • D. Lazy

75. Slides sorter is an option on which ribbon in MS Power point?

  • A. View
  • B. Review
  • C. Insert
  • D. Design

76. AND, NANO AND XOR operations are called?

  • A. Logical
  • B. Electromagnetic
  • C. Acoustic
  • D. None of these

77. Potala Palce is located in:

  • A. Tibet
  • B. Nepal
  • C. Bhutan
  • D. Mongolia

78. Industrial revolution coincides with?

  • A. Modernity
  • B. Globalism
  • C. Colonialism
  • D. Neo-colonialism

79. Nagorna Karabagh issue is?

  • A. ethnic and territorial conflict
  • B. Religious conflict
  • C. Ideological
  • D. Moral Conflict

80. If 3(x) is equal to 10 then 3(x-3) is equal to?

  • A. 10/27
  • B. 10/26
  • C. 9/27
  • D. 8/25

81. Who is the proponent of learning from environment?

  • A. B.F Skinner
  • B. John Watson
  • C. Thorndike
  • D. Albert Bandura

82. If 3 is subtracted from X digit?

  • A. 12
  • B. 6
  • C. 5
  • D. 7

83. Which articles ensures equality before the law and equal protection of the law and states

  • A. Article 25
  • B. Article 58 2B
  • C. Article 19
  • D. Article 92

84. Amanat ALI belongs to which family?

  • A. Patiala gharana
  • B. Jut Gharana
  • C. Gujjar Gharana
  • D. Syed

85. Who started Central Mohammadan Association?

  • A. Chaudhri Rehmat Ali
  • B. Amir Ali
  • C. Mohsan-ul-Haq
  • D. Khadim

86. Founder of Taghluq dynasty?

  • A. Ghiyas-ud-din Tughluq
  • B. Muhammad ibn Tughluq
  • C. Ghiyas ud din Balban
  • D. Khusrau Khan

87. IPPC stands for?

  • A. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
  • B. The Intergovernmental Panel on Class
  • C. The Intergovernmental Policy on Climate
  • D. None of these

88. In which country sugarcane justice is used as a fuel?

  • A. Brazil
  • B. France
  • C. Japan
  • D. England

89 The subtle way of governing institutions______.

  • A. Colonialism
  • B. Imperialism
  • C. Neo-Colonialism
  • D. None of these

90. Total earth atmosphere zones?

  • A. 6
  • B. 7
  • C. 8
  • D. 5

91. First Asian Games were conducted in?

  • A. 1951
  • B. 1952
  • C. 1953
  • D. 1960

Chapter 103: FPSC Past Paper (2023)

1. It is a matter of time.

2. His laughter made everyone attentive. everyone is pronoun.

3. Everyone supported the proposal. Every is pronoun.

4. He had just left factory when the fire broke out.

5. He was heading to Faisalabad to look for a new job.

6. My cousin resigned from his post month ago.

7. If we sign this agreement, we will apply for the loan.

8. What she plans is unknown to us. Underline part is: noun clause

9. He didn’t work hard, however he passed the exam. Underline part is: adverb clause

10. She promised me to come on Monday. This is simple sentence.

11. The two plants were almost identical.

12. The investigator provided ample evidence of the incident.

13. She often approved of antiquated ideals. Antiquated has negative connotation.

14. She bursts into peals laughter to see the child’s prank.

15. He wishes to soar high in the sky.

16. A person who readily believes in others is: Credulous

17. Dauntless men and women make their way different from others. fearless

18. As an official he was deft at drafting as he was at dictation. skillful

19. Antonym of Furious: Calm

20. Antonym of Bountiful: meagre

21. Saussure gives the term synchrony for a state of language as it exists in any given time.

22. Chomsky gives the term performance for actual use of language.

23. The historical perspective of studying language is denoted by a term: diachronic

24. To improve message semantics one must use specific, concrete and precise language.

25. Nouns, verbs and adjectives lexical morphemes come under:

26. Repetition of same vowel sounds is: assonance

27. ___ is a group of words that forms part of sentence and has its own subject and predicate. clause

28. It rains. It is: impersonal pronoun

29. The version of one phone is: allophone

30. The system of communication within a community is: language

31. Marcellus and Bernardo call to witness Horatio when they saw the ghost of King Hamlet.

32. During the play Hamlet, the ghost appeared: On the Castle Ramparts and Gertrude’s bedchamber

33. Eldest daughter of King Lear: Goneril

34. Goneril and Regan are both attracted toward: Edmund

35. Which character speaks the first line of the play Hamlet? Bernardo

36. Antonio feels affection towards Sebastian.

37. What kind of song does Feste sing for Orsino in the play? A sad love song

38. When Orsino threatens to kill her for betraying him, what does Viola say? that she loves Orsino

39. Why according to Polonius, has Hamlet gone mad? because of his love for Ophelia

40. Who returns Hamlet to Denmark after his exile? a group of pirates

41. Col. Pickering is: author of spoken Sanskrit

42. Who was Nepommuck? Higgins’ former student

43. What prize was given to G. B. Shaw in 1925? Nobel Prize for Literature

44. Pygmalion was more familiar from? Ovid’s narrative poem Metamorphose

45. The last act of Pygmalion shows that characters are getting ready for the wedding of: Alfred Dolittle

46. Captain Shotover, who lives in ship type decorated house is from: Heartbreak House

47. Shaw acknowledged Anton Chekhov in his preface of Heartbreak House.

48. Setting of Heartbreak House? a country house

49. Total acts of Heartbreak House? 3

50. Who is the burglar in Heartbreak House? Billy Dunn (William Dunn)

51. Waiting for Godot shows repetition and monotonous of life.

52. What happens to Pozzo in the second act? He is blind

53. A boy comes in the end and tells: Godot will come tomorrow

54. They took aimlessly, exchange text to: to kill time

55. The boy confirmed that he works for Mr. Godot as: Goatherd

56. Estragon spent the previous night lying in: ditch

57. When Estragon complaints that he is hungry, Vladimir gives him a: carrot

58. Who goes with the name Jenkins in The Caretaker? Matt Davie

59. Who went through hallucinations and electric shocks? Aston

60. The Caretaker is: Absurd play

61. What kind of conversation is there between Mick and Aston in the play? mostly non verbal

62. In Long Day’s Journey into Night the mother excused her husband’s unemployment for needing the drugs.

63. What is Edmund actually dying of in the play? consumption

64. Jamie is accused of everything except: being too mature

65. What happens in the final scene of Long Day’s Journey into Night? Marry comes down with her wedding gown and things she is going to be a nun

66. Edmund’s age in the play? 24

67. Long Day’s Journey into Night is in O'Neill's: later tragedies

68. A teacher who is unable to attract the attention of the students, should: evaluate his teaching method

69. One of the purposes of the introduction part of a lesson plan is to get: previous knowledge

70. A teacher teaching technique of asking questions in the class is to: attract students’ attention

71. When the majority of the class is not performing well, the teacher should: prepare many hand-on activities

72. Students are passive listeners in: lecture method

73. Who is not the focal point of triangular process of teaching? None of these

74. A teacher in class should keep his pitch? sometimes high sometimes low

75. A teacher develops teaching skills refers to? training

76. The word management is derived from: Latin word ‘manus’

77. The identification of examination centers is the responsibility of the: Assistant Controller Conduct

78. The effective school environment is mostly affected by: friendly environment

79. Which is not the type of a communication channel: acting

80. A national budget has two parts: income and expenditure

81. ___ has defined the basic problem of managing as the heart of knowing exactly what you want men to do and then see that what they do it in the best and cheapest way. Frederick Winslow Taylor

82. The ability to disintegrate information in subparts occurs in: analysis

83. Application of knowledge and skills for problem solving is involved in: application

84. The lowest level in Bloom’s taxonomy is: knowledge

85. The explanation of ideas and concepts are associated in Bloom’s taxonomy with: comprehension

86. Bloom’s taxonomy has six levels.

87. Bloom’s taxonomy is related to: cognition process

88. Bloom’s taxonomy doesn’t have this as cognitive process: None of these

Chapter 104: PEDAGOGY

Chapter 105: LECTURESHIP INTERVIEW - IMPORTANT QUESTIONS FROM PREVIOUS INTERVIEWS

1. In Bloom’s taxonomy at the knowledge level, students will

  • A. apply the knowledge
  • B. recall the information
  • C. evaluate the knowledge
  • D. organize

2. Bloom’s taxonomy is a classification of different outcomes and skills the set for their students.

  • A. learners
  • B. organizers
  • C. educators
  • D. philosophers

3. Three lists cover the learning objectives in cognitive, affective and domain

  • A. psychomotor

4. is related to the organization of movement in conscious mental activity.

  • A. psychology
  • B. psychomotor
  • C. conscious
  • D. subconscious

5. The Taxonomy was proposed in 1956 by an educational psychologist at the University of Chicago.

  • A. Benjamin Bloom
  • B. Skinner
  • C. Simpson
  • D. krathwhol

6. What are the three domains of Bloom’s taxonomy.

  • A. conscious, subconscious, pre conscious
  • B. cognitive, affective, psychomotor
  • C. knowledge, application, evaluation
  • D. none of these

7. The cognitive domain of Bloom’s taxonomy involves.

  • A. application
  • B. evaluation
  • C. understanding
  • D. knowledge

8. The affective domain of Bloom’s taxonomy involves.

  • A. manner
  • B. thinking
  • C. questioning
  • D. results

9. The psychomotor domain of Bloom’s taxonomy involves.

  • A. evaluation
  • B. cognition
  • C. physical movement
  • D. None

10. The simplest skill in cognitive domain of the Bloom’s taxonomy is.

  • A. remembering
  • B. applying
  • C. evaluating
  • D. synthesizing

11. The most complex skill in cognitive domain of the Bloom’s taxonomy is.

  • A. remembering
  • B. applying
  • C. evaluating
  • D. originating

12. The most complex skill in the Bloom’s taxonomy is.

  • A. remembering
  • B. applying
  • C. evaluating
  • D. originating

13. In teaching, experienced members guide the immature ones for:

  • A. adjust in society
  • B. adjust in life
  • C. becoming a leader
  • D. a teacher

14. Which is not focal point of triangular process of teaching?

  • A. teaching method
  • B. teacher
  • C. pupil
  • D. contents

15. The goal of teaching is.

  • A. to give information
  • B. to involve pupils in activities
  • C. to impart knowledge
  • D. desirable change in behaviour

16. The rules of presenting the contents to make them easy are called.

  • A. methods of teaching
  • B. maxims of teaching
  • C. techniques of teaching
  • D. teaching strategies

17. SOLO stands for.

  • A. system of observed learning outcome
  • B. structure of observed learning output
  • C. structure of observed learning outcome
  • D. none of these

18. SOLO taxonomy consists of levels.

  • A. 4
  • B. 5
  • C. 6
  • D. 3

19. With reference to SOLO taxonomy one aspect of task is understood in.

  • A. unistructural level
  • B. multi structural level
  • C. rational level
  • D. extended abstract level

20. Two or more aspects are understood in.

  • A. unistructural level
  • B. multi structural level
  • C. rational level
  • D. extended abstract level

21. Integration is developed between two or more aspects in.

  • A. unistructural level
  • B. multi structural level
  • C. rational level
  • D. extended abstract level

22. To go beyond the given information is.

  • A. unistructural level
  • B. multi structural level
  • C. rational level
  • D. extended abstract level

23. SOLO taxonomy was presented by.

  • A. Biggs
  • B. Collis
  • C. Benjamin
  • D. Biggs & Collis

24. Students are passive in____ method.

  • A. project
  • B. discussion
  • C. lecture
  • D. inquiry

25. Symposium is a type of ____ method.

  • A. project
  • B. discussion
  • C. lecture
  • D. inquiry

26. Heuristic means.

  • A. to impart knowledge
  • B. to give information
  • C. to investigate
  • D. to console

27. Henry Edward Armstrong was the exponent of.

  • A. project method
  • B. discussion method
  • C. lecture method
  • D. heuristic method

28. According to Kalpatrik, the types of projects are.

  • A. 4
  • B. 5
  • C. 6
  • D. 3

29. We move from specific to general in.

  • A. Inductive method
  • B. deductive method
  • C. lecture method
  • D. discussion method

30. We move from general to specific in.

  • A. Inductive method
  • B. deductive method
  • C. lecture method
  • D. discussion method

31. Practice is made in _____ method.

  • A. GTM
  • B. Drill
  • C. lecture
  • D. project

32. The oldest method is.

  • A. GTM
  • B. Drill
  • C. lecture
  • D. project

33. GTM stands for.

  • A. great manner method
  • B. grammar training method
  • C. grammar translation method
  • D. good trainer method

34. Visual aids are used in.

  • A. audio method
  • B. video method
  • C. audio/video visual method
  • D. audio visual method

35. Repetition occurs in.

  • A. audio method
  • B. video method
  • C. audio lingual method
  • D. audio visual method

36. The Socratic method is known as.

  • A. direct method
  • B. GTM
  • C. question-answer method
  • D. inquiry method

37. Which is not true about projects.

  • A. It is a purposeful activity
  • B. It is proceeded in social environment
  • C. It is accomplished in real life
  • D. It is teacher centered activity

38. Duration of lesson in macro-lesson plan is.

  • A. 20-25 minutes
  • B. 30-35
  • C. 35-40
  • D. 50-60

39. In British approach of lesson planning, more emphasis is on.

  • A. Teacher and contents presentation
  • B. teacher and pupil presentation
  • C. content presentation
  • D. none of these.

40. What is the purpose of pairing the students with unequal skills?

  • A. Equal sharing
  • B. equal content
  • C. boosting knowledge
  • D. boosting confidence

41. American approach emphasizes

  • A. contents
  • B. learning environment
  • C. leaning objectives
  • D. learning outcomes

42. Which one is not type of lesson plans on the basis of objectives.

  • A. Micro lesson plan
  • B. cognitive lesson plan
  • C. affective lesson plan
  • D. psychomotor lesson plan

43. Teacher made tests are.

  • A. Standardized
  • B. Norm referenced
  • C. Criterion referenced
  • D. None

44. Which is not true about lesson plan.

  • A. It develops confidence
  • B. It helps in orderly delivery of contents
  • C. It is developed by the students
  • D. It saves from haphazard teaching

45. Which is not objective of drama/role play.

  • A. Recreation or enjoyment
  • B. Development of social skills
  • C. Development of skills of conversation
  • D. Do make rehearsals

46. A good drama does not include.

  • A. Interesting story
  • B. Alive dialogues
  • C. Very long play
  • D. Subject full of feelings

47. Drama or role play is useful for teaching.

  • A. History
  • B. Science
  • C. Malts
  • D. Language

48. The main types for teleconferencing identified are.

  • A. 4
  • B. 5
  • C. 6
  • D. 3

49. Which is not type of teleconferencing.

  • A. Audio teleconferencing
  • B. video teleconferencing
  • C. T.V teleconferencing
  • D. computer teleconferencing

50. Cooperative learning is an alternate to.

  • A. Competitive models
  • B. Teaching models
  • C. Lesson plans
  • D. Micro teaching

51. The number of students in cooperative learning groups are,

  • A. 2-6
  • B. 8-10
  • C. 12-13
  • D. 10-15

52. The essential characteristics of cooperative learning is.

  • A. Effective learning
  • B. Positive interdependence
  • C. cooperation
  • D. Division of labour

53. The students like to spend the most of the time with

  • A. teachers
  • B. parents
  • C. relatives
  • D. peers

54. Peer culture constitutes

  • A. Socialization
  • B. Individualization
  • C. Both A& B
  • D. None of these

55. Which is not advantage of team teaching

  • A. Better utilization of resources
  • B. Better planning
  • C. Better use of teaching techniques
  • D. Better financial benefits of teachers

56. The hypothesis underlying team teaching is

  • A. Teachers feel bore while working alone
  • B. Teachers are not competent
  • C. The best teachers in schools are shared by more students
  • D. A teacher cannot control the class.

57. CAI stands for.

  • A. computer analyzed instruction
  • B. computer assisted instruction
  • C. computer assisted interview
  • D. computer analyzed interview

58. Which is not the mode of CAI.

  • A. Tutorial mode
  • B. Drill mode
  • C. Simulation
  • D. Question

59. Ability to develop a life style based upon the preferred value system is.

  • A. Responding
  • B. Valuing
  • C. Organizing
  • D. Characterizing

60. Example of cognitive domain is.

  • A. Describe a topic
  • B. Develop an X-ray film
  • C. type a letter
  • D. Take responsibility for tools

61. Students can design a laboratory according to certain specification in which category of objectives?

  • A. Analysis
  • B. Synthesis
  • C. Evaluation
  • D. Knowledge

62. The number of domains in taxonomies of educational objective is.

  • A. 2
  • B. 3
  • C. 4
  • D. 6

63. Taxonomy of educational objectives was presented in.

  • A. 1946
  • B. 1956
  • C. 1966
  • D. 1976

64. The classification of cognitive domain was presented by.

  • A. Benjamin S. Bloom
  • B. Skinner
  • C. Krawthol
  • D. Simpson

65. Cognitive domain has subgroups.

  • A. 2
  • B. 3
  • C. 4
  • D. 6

66. The right sequence of subgroups cognitive domain is.

  • A. comprehension, knowledge, application, analysis, evaluation, synthesis
  • B. knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, evaluation, synthesis
  • C. knowledge, comprehension, application, evaluation, analysis, synthesis
  • D. Knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, evaluation

67. Knowing/Memorizing and recalling is considered with.

  • A. Comprehension
  • B. Application
  • C. Knowledge
  • D. Evaluation

68. To use previous learned material in new situation is.

  • A. comprehension
  • B. application
  • C. Knowledge
  • D. Analysis

69. To break down the material into components parts to know its organization structure is.

  • A. comprehension
  • B. application
  • C. Knowledge
  • D. Analysis

70. To put ideas together to form a new whole is.

  • A. comprehension
  • B. application
  • C. Synthesis
  • D. Analysis

71. Willingness to attend a particular phenomenon is.

  • A. Attending/ Receiving
  • B. Responding
  • C. Valuing
  • D. Organization

72. Which sub-group of affective domain focuses on active participation in.

  • A. Attending/ Receiving
  • B. Responding
  • C. Valuing
  • D. Organization

73. Bringing together different values into a consistent value system is.

  • A. Attending/ Receiving
  • B. Responding
  • C. Valuing
  • D. Organization

74. Psychomotor domain was classified by Simpson in.

  • A. 1962
  • B. 1972
  • C. 1982
  • D. 1992

75. Affective domain was divided into subgroups by Krathwhol in.

  • A. 1962
  • B. 1964
  • C. 1982
  • D. 1992

76. Psychomotor domain was divided by Simpson in ---subgroups.

  • A. 5
  • B. 6
  • C. 7
  • D. 8

77. Students find/explore the information themselves in __ method.

  • A. Lecture
  • B. discovery
  • C. GTM
  • D. discussion

78. Which is vast in scope.

  • A. Teaching tactic
  • B. Teaching techniques
  • C. Teaching strategy
  • D. Teaching method

79. Teacher performs practically and explains in.

  • A. lecture method
  • B. discovery method
  • C. demonstration method
  • D. problem solving method

80. Role of students is active in __ method.

  • A. discovery
  • B. Problem solving
  • C. Inquiry
  • D. All

81. Micro teaching is a.

  • A. Teacher method
  • B. Teacher training technique
  • C. Motivational technique
  • D. None of above

82. What is the time of presentation in micro teaching?

  • A. 1-5min
  • B. 5-10 min
  • C. 10-15 min
  • D. 15-20 min

83. What is the number of students in micro teaching?

  • A. 1-5
  • B. 5-10
  • C. 10-15
  • D. 15-20

84. Micro teaching started in.

  • A. 1950
  • B. 1963
  • C. 1973
  • D. 1980

85. The extinction technique of classroom management is a technique where teacher ---any negative behaviour.

  • A. divert
  • B. ignore
  • C. encourage
  • D. discourage

86. The use of physical punishment for class management is called.

  • A. extinction technique
  • B. satiation technique
  • C. time out technique
  • D. corporal punishment

87. A classroom management technique where teacher punishes negative behaviours by removing an unruly student from rest of the class is called.

  • A. extinction technique
  • B. satiation technique
  • C. time out technique
  • D. corporal punishment

88. Which of the following should be used to decrease minor inappropriate behavior by students?

  • A. praise
  • B. Reward
  • C. Ignorance
  • D. Strictness

89. Formative assessment is an assessment learning.

  • A. to
  • B. of
  • C. by
  • D. for

90. A process of looking at what is being assessed is called.

  • A. Assessment
  • B. Evaluation
  • C. Measurement
  • D. rubrics

91. Validity of an assessment relates to the ___of an assessment.

  • A. usefulness
  • B. quality
  • C. consistency
  • D. relevance

92. Reliability of an assessment relates to the of an assessment

  • A. usefulness
  • B. quality
  • C. consistency
  • D. relevance

93. An assessment used to determine a person’s ability in a particular field of studies is called.

  • A. Aptitude test
  • B. diagnostic test
  • C. evaluation
  • D. measurement

94. An assessment where the goal is to identify difficulties that occur during the learning process is called.

  • A. Diagnostic assessment
  • B. Formative assessment
  • C. Contemporary assessment
  • D. summative assessment

95. An assessment that is carried out at the end of a course to assign students a course grade is called.

  • A. Diagnostic assessment
  • B. Formative assessment
  • C. Contemporary assessment
  • D. summative assessment

96. Which of the following is not a formal assessment?

  • A. Interview
  • B. Observation
  • C. Project
  • D. Quizzes

97. Which of the following is not an informal assessment?

  • A. Observation
  • B. Project
  • C. Rubrics
  • D. Participation

98. In education is used to make inference about the learning and development of students.

  • A. Assessment
  • B. evaluation
  • C. measurement
  • D. diagnosis

99. An assessment that is conducted prior to the start of teaching or instruction is called.

  • A. Initial assessment
  • B. Formal assessment
  • C. Formative assessment
  • D. Summative assessment

100. An assessment that is carried out throughout the course is called.

  • A. Initial assessment
  • B. Formal assessment
  • C. Formative assessment
  • D. Summative assessment

101. The most direct experience from the following is that of.

  • A. Motion pictures
  • B. Visual symbol
  • C. Demonstration
  • D. Field trip

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You are requested to send me screenshot of payment and your complete address with phone no on 03004152010.

(Incorrect address will be a fault at your end)
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