For a time the narrator comforts Roderick by reading and painting with him; one of Roderick’s paintings is described as follows: “A small picture presented the interior of an immensely long and rectangular vault or tunnel, with low walls, smooth, white, and without interruption or device. Certain accessory points of the design served well to convey the idea that this excavation lay at an exceeding depth below the surface of the earth.” What later event in the story does this picture foreshadow ?

Related Mcqs:

1. It was possible, I reflected, that a mere different arrangement of the particulars of the scene, of the details of this picture, would be sufficient to modify, or perhaps to annihilate its capacity for sorrowful impression; and, acting upon this idea, I reined my horse to the precipitous brink of a black and lurid tarn that lay in unruffled lustre by the dwelling, and gazed down – but with a shudder even more thrilling than before – upon the re-modelled and inverted images of the gray sedge, and the ghastly tree-stems, and the vacant eyelike windows. What is the meaning of the word tarn? Veldu eitt ?

   A. A bird
   B. A small mountain lake
   C. A wide river
   D. A high cliff

2. The cautious old gentleman knit his brows tenfold closer after this explanation, being sorely puzzled by the ratiocination of the syllogism; while methought the one in pepper and salt eyed him with something of a triumphant leer. At length he observed, that all this was very well, but still he thought the story a little extravagant – there were one or two points on which he had his doubts. “Faith, sir,” replied the story-teller, “as to that matter, I don’t believe one half of it myself.” This passage exemplifies_____________?

   A. Narrative frame
   B. Hortatory sermon
   C. Snaring
   D. Jamming

3. What does the narrator of the story about Rip describe as the great error in Rip’s composition ?

   A. His weakness for spirits
   B. That he is henpecked by his wife
   C. His love of town gossip
   D. His unwillingness to work

4. Who write the story “Story Teller” ?

   A. William Wordsworth
   B. William Shakespeare
   C. Thomas Grey
   D. Saki

5. What does the narrator find at the end of the journey ?

   A. Field and works
   B. Crusted snow and dead leaves
   C. Hills and highways
   D. all are sleeping

6. Near the end of “Samson Agonistes,” Samson has decided not to perform for attendants at a certain event when (starting with line 1381) he suddenly reverses positions and agrees to go. Why does he do this ?

   A. He experiences some “rousing motions” which might be from God.
   B. Manoa convinces him to do it or the Philistines will execute Samson.
   C. The Chorus demands he stay in his prison cell and Samson reacts against them.
   D. He wishes to see Dalila one last time in the crowd.

7. One purpose of LITERARY CRITICISM is described below: A formalist approach might enable us to choose between a reading which sees the dissolution of society in Lord of the Flies as being caused by too strict a suppression of the “bestial” side of man and one which sees it as resulting from too little suppression. We can look to the text and ask: What textual evidence is there for the suppression or indulgence of the “bestial” side of man? Does Ralph suppress Jack when he tries to indulge his bestial side in hunting? Does it appear from the text that an imposition of stricter law and order would have prevented the breakdown? Did it work in the “grownup” world of the novel? What purpose does this prescribe to ?

   A. To help resolve a question, problem, or difficulty in the reading.
   B. To help decide which is the better of two conflicting readings.
   C. To enable to form judgments about literature.
   D. All of the above answers are correct.

8. The statements below are steps on “How to Read a Short Story Critically”. Which comes in as the last thing to do in the critical reading of a narrative ?

   A. Analyze the Structure of the Story
   B. Analyze Rhetorical Elements
   C. Analyze the Meaning of the Story (Interpretation)
   D. Analyze the Essential Elements of the Story

9. Complete the following sentence. Keats’s idea of “negative capability” refers to the idea that______________?

   A. certain people are simply incapable of understanding poetry.
   B. the true poet must be comfortable with balancing conflicting ideas.
   C. the poet cannot express anything beyond his own experience.
   D. it is only in the absence of experience that true poetry can emerge.

10. Which statement below best defined Whitman’s idea of Oversoul ?

    A. Death
    B. Relationships
    C. American landscape
    D. Hope