A. a diary
B. a biography
C. an autobiography
D. a chronicle
Related Mcqs:
- His son Rip, an urchin begotten in his own likeness, promised to inherit the habits, with thåe old clothes of his father. He was generally seen trooping like a colt at his mother’s heels, equipped in a pair of his father’s cast-off galligaskins, which he had much ado to hold up with one hand, as a fine lady does her train in bad weather. What are “galligaskins” ?
A. Long, wide petticoats
B. A trench-coat
C. Loose, wide breeches
D. Underpants - In De Vulgari Eloquentia, Dante writes primarily in which language ?
A. Tuscan
B. Italian
C. Latin
D. English - Which author writes a profound criticism of Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness,” accusing Conrad of reinforcing typical European stereotypes of Africa ?
A. Chinua Achebe
B. Edward Said
C. Arundhati Roy
D. Salman Rushdie - When Mary Shelley writes about ghosts, what is her concern ?
A. People are foolishly superstitious.
B. A world devoid of supernatural phenomena is a better world.
C. A belief in ghosts is a belief in imagination.
D. The personification of nature is regressive. - “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 - Having emerg’d from the Poverty and Obscurity in which I was born and bred, to a State of Affluence and some Degree of Reputation in the World, and having gone so far thro’ Life with a considerable Share of Felicity, the conducing Means I made use of, which, with the Blessing of God, so well succeeded, my Posterity may like to know, as they may find some of them suitable to their own Situations, and therefore fit to be imitated ?
A. Fredrick Douglass
B. John Winthrop
C. Benjamin Franklin
D. William Apess - Who will fall through his own “fault” ?
A. Satan
B. God
C. Adam
D. Noah - Which poet would have been most likely to compose a poem examining his own childhood ?
A. Percy Shelley
B. John Keats
C. William Wordsworth
D. Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Which of Uncle Tom’s personal characteristics guided his interactions with others and his responses to his circumstances ?
A. His gentle and soft-spoken nature
B. His honesty and deep devotion to God
C. His overwhelming fear of violence
D. His ability to hide his rebellious nature. - The 20th century has been less kind to his memory. TS Eliot found his imagery distracting, and considered his work “not serious poetry”, but it was another critic who accused him of “callousness to the intrinsic nature of English”. Who ?
A. FR Leavis
B. Harold Bloom
C. William Empson
D. Mariella Frostrup
