What was the original title of Hemingway’s novel The Old Man and the Sea ?

Related Mcqs:

1. Who is the central character in Hemingway’s novel The Old Man and the Sea ?

   A. Santiago
   B. Marlin
   C. Mandolin
   D. None of the above

2. Given the popularity of the Gothic novel and the novel of purpose, which of the following novelists wrote fiction that is closer in subject matter to the novel of manners than it is to the writing of her own era ?

   A. Fanny Burney
   B. Mary Wollstonecraft
   C. Anna Letitia Barbauld
   D. Jane Austen

3. Fill in the blanks from Tennyson’s The Princess. Man for the field and woman for the _________ Man for the sword and for the ____________ she: Man with the head and woman with the …..: Man to command and woman to ____________?

   A. crop; scabbard; foot; agree
   B. throne; scepter; soul; decree
   C. school; scalpel; pen; set free
   D. hearth; needle; heart; obey

4. When did Hemingway receive the Nobel Prize for Literature ?

   A. 1952
   B. 1954
   C. 1956
   D. 1958

5. Earnest Hemingway got Nobel Prize for_________?

   A. Old Man and the Sea
   B. A Farewell to Arms
   C. Man and Superman
   D. Life of Pea (Ryan Martel)

   Submitted by: Rashid Mehmood

6. One purpose of LITERARY CRITICISM is described below: A formalist approach might enable us to choose between a reading which sees the dissolution of society in Lord of the Flies as being caused by too strict a suppression of the “bestial” side of man and one which sees it as resulting from too little suppression. We can look to the text and ask: What textual evidence is there for the suppression or indulgence of the “bestial” side of man? Does Ralph suppress Jack when he tries to indulge his bestial side in hunting? Does it appear from the text that an imposition of stricter law and order would have prevented the breakdown? Did it work in the “grownup” world of the novel? What purpose does this prescribe to ?

   A. To help resolve a question, problem, or difficulty in the reading.
   B. To help decide which is the better of two conflicting readings.
   C. To enable to form judgments about literature.
   D. All of the above answers are correct.

7. Fill in the blanks from Tennyson’s The Princess. Man for the field and woman for the …..: Man for the sword and for the ___________ she: Man with the head and woman with the __________Man to command and woman to _____________?

   A. crop; scabbard; foot; agree
   B. throne; scepter; soul; decree
   C. school; scalpel; pen; set free
   D. hearth; needle; heart; obey

8. “Reading makes a full man, conference a ready man and writing an exact man.”- Who told it ?

   A. Shakespeare
   B. Chaucer
   C. Spenser
   D. Bacon

9. According to Dr. Frances Pritchett’s version of Shamsur Rahman Faruqi’s “The Historical Novel and the Historical Narrative”, what is the difference between a historical narrative and a historical novel ?

   A. A historical narrative and a historical novel are the same thing.
   B. A historical narrative tells only part of the story surrounding a historical event; a historical novel tells the whole story.
   C. A historical novel focuses on providing the reader with only the central truth of a historical event, while a historical narrative attempts to tell the entire truth of a historical event.
   D. Faruqi actually argues that historical novels do not exist.

10. In her text, “History of the Novel”, How does Dr. Agatha Taormina define the novel ?

    A. A narrative that emphasizes character development
    B. A narrative with a unified, plausible plot structure
    C. A narrative that conveys the illusion of reality
    D. All of these