In Talbot county, Eastern Shore, Maryland, near Easton, the county town of that country, there is a small district of country, thily populated, and remarkable for nothing that I know of more than for the worn-out, sandy, deserts-like appearance of its soil, the general dilapidation of its farms and fences, the indigent and spiritless character of its inhabitants, and the prevalence of ague and fever. What does dilapidation mean ?

Related Mcqs:

1. The character named Comus is often seen by critics as a prototype of what character Milton later portrayed ?

   A. Jesus
   B. Samson
   C. Satan
   D. Adam

2. Mary Shelley wrote the novel Frankenstein in the form of a frame story that starts one character wring letters to his sister. Who is that character ?

   A. Captain Cooper
   B. Victor Frankenstein
   C. Captain Robert Walton
   D. Sergent Thomas Vincent

3. In Shakespeare’s Tragedies Character is not Destiny but there is Character and Destiny is a remark by________________?

   A. Nicoll
   B. Goddord
   C. Bradley
   D. Coleridge

4. In Shakespeare “Character is not Destiny” but “character and Destiny”. Whose comment is this ?

   A. Bradley
   B. Dr. Johnson
   C. Nicoll
   D. None of these

5. In Gwendolyn Brooks’ poem, “kitchenette building,” what is most important to the building’s inhabitants ?

   A. Having a bathroom with warm water.
   B. Following one’s dreams.
   C. Getting food on the table.
   D. Finding a mate.

6. 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

7. 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

8. In which county was Jane Austin born ?

   A. Sussex
   B. Hampshire
   C. Yorkshire
   D. Norfolk

9. What ritual does the character resembling the devil attempt to perform in the woods, with goodman Brown as the object ?

   A. A conversion
   B. A christening
   C. A wedding
   D. A baptism

10. In “Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays”, how does William Hazlitt ultimately conceptualize the character of Hamlet ?

    A. As a crazed fool
    B. As a profound philosophical genius
    C. As boyish and immature
    D. As a brilliant warrior