A. Impediments
B. Inconveniences
C. Worries
D. Troubles
Related Mcqs:
- 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 - The line “fools are my theme, let satire be my song” demonstrates a sentiment that would likely appear in a poem by_________________?
A. William Wordsworth
B. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
C. William Blake
D. Lord Byron - Complete the following famous line from Hamlet: Something is rotten in the state of_____________?
A. England
B. Venice
C. Denmark
D. Maine - which famous Shakespeare play does the quote “The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers” come from ?
A. The Merry Wives of Windsor
B. Othello, the Moor of Venice
C. Pericles, Prince of Tyre
D. King Henry the Sixth, Part II - Mr. Covey entered the stable with a long rope; and just as I was half out of the loft, he caught hold of my legs, and was about tying me. As soon as I found what he was up to, I gave a sudden spring, and as I did so, he holding to my legs, I was brought sprawling on the stable floor. Mr. Covey seemed now to think he had me, and could do what he pleased; but at this moment—from whence came the spirit I don’t know—I resolved to fight; and, suiting my action the resolution, I seized Covey hard by the throat, and as I did so, I rose. He held on to me, and I to him. … He trembled like a leaf. …We were at it for nearly two hours. Covey at length let me go, puffing and blowing at a great rate, saying that if I had not resisted, he would not have whipped me half so much. The truth was, that he had not whipped me at all. I considered him as getting entirely the worst end of the bargain; for he had drawn no blood from me, but I had from him_____________?
A. Fredrick Douglass
B. John Winthrop
C. Benjamin Frankin
D. William Apess - Which of the following statements about Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s sonnet 43 (“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.”) is false ?
A. Sonnet 43 is similar to most other sonnets in its focus on love.
B. Sonnet 43 is part of a sonnet sequence “Sonnets from the Portuguese.”
C. Sonnet 43 consists of fourteen lines, like other sonnets.
D. Sonnet 43 is a romantic poem in the same way Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey” is a romantic poem. - From which of Shakespeare’s plays is this famous line: ’Did my heart love til now?/ Forswear it, sight/ For I never saw a true beauty until this night’. ?
A. A Midsummer Night’s Dream
B. Hamlet
C. Othello
D. Romeo and Juliet - The final line of “We Are Seven” is: “And said, ‘Nay’ we are seven.” This line suggests that________________?
A. The little girl refuses to cast the dead out of her life.
B. The little girl is insane or delusional
C. The little girl’s siblings have not died
D. The little girl herself is dead - Marlowe’s poem ’The Passionate Shepherd to His Love’ begins with the line “Come live with me and be my love”; which other English author wrote a famous poem beginning with this line ?
A. William Shakespeare
B. Thomas Kyd
C. John Dryden
D. John Donne - Marriage was a social obligation, and for many families a topic of obsession. Betrothals were often arranged by parents, especially for the high-class. What criterion was considered the least important in deciding upon a suitable match ?
A. Property
B. Wealth
C. Lineage
D. Love
