Unmoved – she notes the Chariots – pausing – At her low Gate – Unmoved – an Emperor be kneeling Upon her Mat – I’ve known her – from an ample nation – Then – close the Valves of her attention – Like Stone – What does ample mean ?

Related Mcqs:

1. 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

2. In the poem “When Malindy Sings,” Paul Laurence Dunbar uses irony and caricature to “signify” on white assumptions about African Americans. What does Henry Louis Gate’s term “signify” mean ?

   A. Giving words double meaning that appear differently to white and black readers.
   B. Fixing words with very specific meanings.
   C. Making sure that what is written makes sense.
   D. Lying to mislead the reader.

3. But for many minutes the heart beat on with a muffled sound. This, however, did not vex me; it would not be heard through the wall. At length it ceased. The old man was dead. I removed the bed and examined the corpse. Yes, he was stone, stone dead. This victim is killed because of_____________?

   A. A letter
   B. His clouded eye
   C. His pact with the devil
   D. His loud heart beat

4. The hairy wild-bee that murmurs and hankers up and down, that gripes the fullgrown lady-flower, curves upon her with amorous firm legs, takes his will of her, and holds himself tremulous and tight till he is satisfied. What does tremulous mean ?

   A. Trembling and timid
   B. Stiff
   C. Afraid
   D. Contemplating and deciding

5. What did Thomas Carlyle mean by “Close thy Byron; open thy Goethe” ?

   A. Britain’s preeminence as a global power will depend on mastery of foreign languages.
   B. Even a foreign author is better than a homegrown scoundrel.
   C. Abandon the introspection of the Romantics and turn to the higher moral purpose found in Goethe.
   D. In a carefully veiled critique of the monarchy, Byron and Goethe stand in symbolically for Queen Victoria and Charles Darwin respectively.

6. What did Thomas Carlyle mean by \Close thy Byron; open thy Goethe\ ?

   A. Britain’s preeminence as a global power will depend on mastery of foreign languages.
   B. Even a foreign author is better than a homegrown scoundrel.
   C. Abandon the introspection of the Romantics and turn to the higher moral purpose found in Goethe.
   D. In a carefully veiled critique of the monarchy, Byron and Goethe stand in symbolically for Queen Victoria and Charles Darwin respectively.

7. 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

8. _____________the eyes of all people are upon us; soe that if wee shall deale falsely with our god in this worke wee have undertaken and soe cause him to withdrawe his preent help from us, wee shall be made a story and a by-word through the world, wee shall open the mouthes of enemies to speake evill of the ways of god and all professours for Gods sake; wee shall shame the faces of many of gods worthy servants, and cause theire prayers to be turned into Cursses upon us till we be consumed out of the good land whether wee are going ?

   A. Fredrick Douglass
   B. John Winthrop
   C. Benjamin Franklin
   D. William Apess

9. It was possible, I reflected, that a mere different arrangement of the particulars of the scene, of the details of this picture, would be sufficient to modify, or perhaps to annihilate its capacity for sorrowful impression; and, acting upon this idea, I reined my horse to the precipitous brink of a black and lurid tarn that lay in unruffled lustre by the dwelling, and gazed down – but with a shudder even more thrilling than before – upon the re-modelled and inverted images of the gray sedge, and the ghastly tree-stems, and the vacant eyelike windows. What is the meaning of the word tarn? Veldu eitt ?

   A. A bird
   B. A small mountain lake
   C. A wide river
   D. A high cliff

10. The following extract presents a suitable answer to the hacknied argument drawn by the defender of Slavery from the songs of the Slave, and is also a good specimen of the powers of observation and manly heart of the writer. The word hacknied is an old form of the word hackneyed. What does it mean ?

    A. Lacking in freshness and originality
    B. Saddened
    C. Double meaning
    D. Blue-eyed