A. Helping Robin to search for his uncle
B. A detective
C. Leading the police to the scene of a crime
D. Helping the police to look for a letter
Related Mcqs:
- “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 - Usher can only stand types of noises in his acutely uncomfortable state. The narrator describes a number of impromptus that Usher plays for him on which instrument ?
A. The harp
B. The guitar
C. The ukulele
D. The violin - 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 - The turbulent years of the 14th century witnessed a blending of language and culture that led to the rise of Middle English. Which of the following events led to the nickname “the era of catastrophes” ?
A. The Hundred Years War
B. The Great Schism
C. The Black Plague
D. All of these answers - Why was it important that slave narratives have a title page that claimed either that the narrative was written by the narrator himself (or his words were recorded by someone close to him, preferably white) ?
A. So the author could get paid.
B. In order for people to believe the events in the narratives.
C. So that slave owners could refute the events in the narratives.
D. So that the author could be assured he wouldn’t be recaptured. - In Charles Chesnutt’s “The Goophered Grape Vine,” why does Uncle Julius tell the Northern visitors the story of the spell put on the grapes ?
A. To describe the horrors of life on the Post-bellum plantation.
B. To explain his religious views.
C. To amuse the narrator’s sickly wife.
D. So they won’t interrupt his income from the neglected grape harvest. - 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 - 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 ?
A. The narrator and Roderick bury Madeline alive in a stone tomb beneath the mansion.
B. The narrator and Roderick drown Madeline in the tarn next to the mansion.
C. Roderick and Madeline escape the house via an underground tunnel.
D. The narrator and Roderick become trapped in catacombs beneath the mansion. - The narrator returns home during the_______________?
A. spring
B. Winter
C. fall
D. summer - Who is the narrator in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby (1925) ?
A. Gatsby
B. Nick
C. Buchannan
D. None of the above