A. An edgy platform
B. Other side
C. A pointed, projected part of something
D. An adumbration
Related Mcqs:
- It was the very witching time of night that he, heavyhearted and crestfallen, pursued his travel homeward. Far below, the Tappan Zee spread its dusky waters. In the dead hush of midnight he could hear the faint barking of a watchdog from the opposite shore. The night grew darker and darker; the stars seemed to sink deeper in the sky, and driving clouds occasionally hid them from his sight. This passage is from________________?
A. A fairy tale
B. An autobiography
C. A detective story
D. A Gothic tale - 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 - Which historical figure initiated a series of religious persecutions condemning Protestants as heretics and burning them at the stake in the 1550s ?
A. Archbishop Cranmer
B. Catherine of Aragon
C. Elizabeth I
D. Mary Tudor - Who wrote the following statement: “When you asked me to speak about women and fiction I sat down on the banks of a river and began to wonder what the words meant” ?
A. Amy Lowell
B. Gertrude Stein
C. Virginia Woolf
D. Alice Walker - Which of these female writers is most closely associated with tears ?
A. Julian of Norwich
B. Margery Kempe
C. Catherine of Siena
D. Catherine de Pizan - Which qualities do the fixed stars in paradise represent ?
A. Faith, hope, and love
B. Faith, wisdom, and love
C. Love, compassion, and pride
D. Justice, temperance, and faith - What poison does Claudius pour into the ear of Hamlet’s father, causing his death ?
A. Burdock
B. Hebenon
C. Baneberry
D. Hemlock - Of the two, reverend Sir,” said the voice like the deacon’s, “I had rather miss an ordination-dinner than to-night’s meeting. They tell me that some of our community are to be here from Falmouth and beyond, and others from Connecticut and Rhode-Island; besides several of the Indian powows, who, after their fashion, know almost as much deviltry as the best of us. A “powow” in this context is___________?
A. A devil-worshipper
B. A boxer
C. An apples-salesman
D. A medicine man - I was somewhat unmanageable when I first went [to Master Covey’s], but a few months of this discipline tamed me. … I was broken in body, soul, and spirit. My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed, the cheerful spark that lingered about my eye died; the dark night of slavery closed in upon men, and behold a man transformed into a brute!” ?
A. Fredrick Douglass
B. John Winthrop
C. Benjamin Franklin
D. William Apess - The cloud-spirits peeped from their silvery islands, as the congregated mirth went roaring up the sky! The Man in the Moon heard the far bellow. “Oho,” quoth he, “the old earth is frolicsome to-night!” This is_______________?
A. An autobiography
B. A fairy tale
C. Gothic fiction
D. A novel
