English Literature Mcqs

English Literature Mcqs for Preparation. these literature Mcqs are important for students to make preparation of Fpsc, Nts, Kppsc, Ppsc, and other test.

English Literature Mcqs
1. Famous playwright, poet	2. American Literature
3. Ages, era, period	4. Literary Theory and Criticism
5. Introduction to Literary Studies	6. Introduction to Literary Theory
7. Cultural and Literary English Renaissance	8. Cultural and Literary 18th-19th Centuries
9. Cultural and Literary in Modernity	10. Medieval Literature and Culture
11. Medieval Women Writers	12. The Gothic Novel
13. English Romantic Poetry	14. Modern Poetry and Poetics
15. The Victorian Novel	16. African-American Literature
17. Restoration & Eighteenth-century Drama	18. Miscellaneous Literature Mcqs
19. Language and Linguistics	20. –

Let me for a few moments turn your attention to the reservations in the different states of New England, and, with but few exceptions, we shall find them as follows: the most mean, abject, miserable race of beings in the world – a complete place of prodigality and prostitution. What does “prodigality” mean ?

A. Wasteful extravagance
B. Promiscuity
C. Return from the dead
D. Redemption

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The now ghastly pallor of the skin, and the now miraculous luster of the eye, above all things startled and even awed me. The silken hair, too, had been suffered to grow all unheeded, and as, in its wild gossamer texture, it floated rather than fell about the face, I could not, even with effort, connect its arabesque expression with any idea of simple humanity. The character described in this passage ?

A. Commits suicide
B. Devours a heart
C. Meets the devil
D. Buries someone alive

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“When I was 16 years of age, we heard a Strange Rumor among the English, that there were Extraordinary Ministers preaching from Place to Place and Strange Concern among the White People. This was in the Spring of the Year. … After I was awakened & converted, I went to all the meetings, I could come at; & Continued under Trouble of Mind about 6 months; at which time I began to Learn the English letters; got me a Primer, and used to go to my English Neighbours frequently for Assistant in reading…”?

A. Samson Occcum
B. John Winthrop
C. Benjamin Franklin
D. Mayflower Compact

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Which of the following statement is correct ?

A. Shakespeare’s first child Susanna was born in 1583.
B. In 1585 twins were born and named Hamnet and Judith.
C. both a and b
D. None of above.

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The ambitious spirits of his brother chieftain Sassacus, had ever aspired to dominion over the allied tribes – and immediately after the appearance of the English, the same temper was manifest in a jealousy of their encroachments. He employed all his art and influence and authority, to unite the tribes for the extirpation of the dangerous invaders. Mononotto, on the contrary, averse to all hostility, and foreseeing no danger from them, was the advocate of a hospitable reception, and pacific conduct. What does “extirpation” mean ?

A. Execution
B. Going to extremes
C. Extermination
D. Expatriating

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“Can this be so!” cried goodman Brown, with a stare of amazement at his undisturbed companion. Howbeit, I have nothing to do with the governor and council – they have their own ways, and are no rule for a simple husbandman, like me. But, were I to go on with thee, how should I meet the eye of that good old man, our minister, at Salem village? Oh, his voice would make me tremble, both Sabbathday and lecture-day!” The word “husbandman” usually means farmer, but in this context it means something else – what ?

A. Rancher
B. Male partner in a marriage
C. Cowboy
D. Man of ordinary status

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A critic examining John Milton’s “Paradise Lost” focuses on the physical description of the Garden of Eden, on the symbols of hands, seed, and flower, and on the characters of Adam, Eve, Satan, and God. He pays special attention to the epic similes and metaphors and the point of view from which the tale is being told. He looks for meaning in the text itself, and does not refer to any biography of Milton. He is most likely a critic ?

A. Reader Response
B. Feminist
C. Mimetic
D. Formalist

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One purpose of LITERARY CRITICISM is described below: “The historical approach, for instance, might be helpful in addressing a problem in Thomas Otway’s play Venice Preserv’d. Why are the conspirators, despite the horrible, bloody details of their obviously brutish plan, portrayed in a sympathetic light? If we look at the author and his time, we see that he was a Tory whose play was performed in the wake of the Popish Plot and the Exclusion Bill Crisis, and that there are obvious similarities between the Conspiracy in the play and the Popish Plot in history. The Tories would never approve of the bloody Popish Plot, but they nonetheless sympathized with the plotters for the way they were abused by the Tory enemy, the Whigs. Thus it makes sense for Otway to condemn the conspiracy itself in Vencie Preserv’d without condemning the conspirators themselves.” What purpose does this prescribe to ?

A. To help resolve a question, problem, or difficulty in the readin
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.

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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.

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“A MANUSCRIPT was communicated to me during my travels in Italy, which was copied from the archives of the Cenci Palace at Rome, and contains a detailed account of the horrors which ended in the extinction of one of the noblest families of that city during the Pontificate of Clement VIII, in the year 1599.” All of the following state why this quotation from Perce Shelley’s “The Cenci” represents the Gothic EXCEPT_____________?

A. The placement of the action in the past and in a foreign country
B. The grandiose threatening setting that requires ingenious stagecraft
C. The focus on wrongdoing at the highest level of authority
D. The use of real historical resources by Shelley for the foundation of his play

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