English Literature MCQ

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English literature MCQ

Question 481 [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who is Bluntschli?
A
Swiss professional soldier
B
Bulgarian Commander
C
Bulgarian soldier
D
None of the above
Question 481 Explanation: 
Bluntschli is a Swedish professional soldier who fights with the Servians during the war. He has none of Raina or Sergius's romantic notions about war. He thinks courage is overrated and that war is more often ugly than noble.
Question 482 [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Thurber was a/an
A
American
B
French
C
Chinese
D
French
Question 482 Explanation: 
James Thurber, in full James Grover Thurber, (born December 8, 1894, Columbus, Ohio, U.S.—died November 2, 1961, New York City, New York), American writer and cartoonist, whose well-known and highly acclaimed writings and drawings picture the urban man as one who escapes into fantasy because he is befuddled and beset
Question 483 [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which is the best definition of pastoral?
A
Pertaining to religious life
B
Pertaining to rural or country life
C
Pertaining to sheep
D
Pertaining to illiterate life
Question 483 Explanation: 
1a(1) : of, relating to, or composed of shepherds or herdsmen a pastoral people, seminomadic in their habits— J. M. Mogey. (2) : devoted to or based on livestock raising a pastoral economy. b : of or relating to the countryside : not urban a pastoral setting.
Question 484 [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which philosopher's thinking influenced existentialism most profoundly?
A
Aristotle
B
Plato
C
Hegel
D
Kierkegaard
Question 484 Explanation: 
Søren Kierkegaard (1813–55) A Danish theologian, social critic, and philosopher, Kierkegaard is viewed by many as the most important existentialist philosopher. His work dealt largely with the idea of the single individual. His thinking tended to prioritize concrete reality over abstract thought.
Question 485 [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What does Rani disclose Naga?
A
That she is going to leave the house forever.
B
That she is planning to work
C
That she is pregnant
D
None of the above
Question 485 Explanation: 
Some people in the crowd demand a more severe test - 'Naga divya' - holding a snake in the hand and swearing by the truth. Rani agrees to it. They all go to the anthill where Rani bows down and picks up a snake and declares that if she is pure, the snake would not harm her.
Question 486 [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What happened to the dog and the mongoose?
A
They were killed by Rani
B
They were Killed by Kappanna
C
They were killed by Naga
D
None of the above
Question 486 Explanation: 
Ans: A farmer lived in a village with his wife and a small son. In order to give company to the child, the farmer brought with him a small mongoose. In anger she killed the mongoose.
Question 487 [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
W. B. Yeats was born in
A
1856
B
1865
C
1838
D
None of these
Question 487 Explanation: 
William Butler Yeats, (born June 13, 1865, Sandymount, Dublin, Ireland—died January 28, 1939, Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France), Irish poet, dramatist, and prose writer, one of the greatest English-language poets of the 20th century. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923.
Question 488 [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Jane Eyre was written by
A
Jane Austen
B
G. Eliot
C
C. Bronte
D
None of these
Question 488 Explanation: 
On October 16, 1847, Jane Eyre is published by Smith, Elder and Co. Charlotte Brontë, the book's author, used the pseudonym Currer Bell. The book, about the struggles of an orphan girl who grows up to become a governess, was an immediate popular success.
Question 489 [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Huck and Tom go to graveyard to.....
A
hide from police
B
hide from friends
C
carry out special ritual to cure warts
D
accidently
Question 489 Explanation: 
The trick is to take the dead cat to a graveyard, say a special incantation over the grave of a freshly dead evil man, and throw the cat after his spirit. Huck and Tom go to the graveyard to test the theory.
Question 490 [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
About which poet did Eliot say that he wrote ''English like a dead language''?
A
Dryden
B
Yeats
C
Arnold
D
None of the above
Question 490 Explanation: 
Thus it is not so unfair, as it might at first appear, to say that Milton writes English like a dead language. The criticism has been made with regard to his involved syntax.
Question 491 [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
''The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.'' The above lines have been taken from?
A
The Waste Land
B
Tintern Abbey
C
The Second Coming
D
Prayer for My Daughter
Question 492 [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What is blank verse?
A
iambic pentameter in rhyming couplets
B
free verse, without rhyme or regular meter
C
alliterative iambic tetrameter
D
unrhymed iambic pentameter
Question 492 Explanation: 
Here's a quick and simple definition: Blank verse is the name given to poetry that lacks rhymes but does follow a specific meter—a meter that is almost always iambic pentameter. Blank verse was particularly popular in English poetry written between the 16th and 20th centuries, including the plays of Shakespeare.
Question 493 [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
'The Lord of the Rings' is written by -
A
Rudyard Kipling
B
Ronald Reuel Tolkien
C
Hobbit
D
None
Question 493 Explanation: 
J.R.R. Tolkien, in full John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, (born January 3, 1892, Bloemfontein, South Africa—died September 2, 1973, Bournemouth, Hampshire, England), English writer and scholar who achieved fame with his children's book The Hobbit (1937) and his richly inventive epic fantasy The Lord of the Rings (1954–55).
Question 494 [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The correct date of French Revolution:
A
1793
B
1802
C
1789
D
None of these
Question 494 Explanation: 
Part of the Atlantic Revolutions
The Storming of the Bastille, 14 July 1789
Date5 May 1789 – 9 November 1799 (10 years, 6 months and 4 days)
LocationKingdom of France
Question 495 [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The first English Dictionary was compiled by.....
A
Izaak Walton
B
Samuel Johnson
C
Samuel
D
Sir Thomas Browne
Question 495 Explanation: 
Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language, 1755. Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language is one of the most famous dictionaries in history. First published in 1755, the dictionary took just over eight years to compile, required six helpers and listed 40,000 words.
Question 496 [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
W. B. Yeats was a/an?
A
Irish Poet
B
English Poet
C
Swedish Poet
D
None of them
Question 496 Explanation: 
William Butler Yeats, (born June 13, 1865, Sandymount, Dublin, Ireland—died January 28, 1939, Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France), Irish poet, dramatist, and prose writer, one of the greatest English-language poets of the 20th century. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923.
Question 497 [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What is the Masterpiece of T.S. Eliot?
A
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
B
Prelude
C
The Waste Land
D
Tradition and Ind. Talent
Question 497 Explanation: 
Eliot's masterpiece is Four Quartets, which was issued as a book in 1943, though each “quartet” is a complete poem. “Burnt Norton” was the first of the quartets; it had appeared in the Collected Poems of 1936.
Question 498 [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who is well known for his translation of 'Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam' into English?
A
Rose Macaulay
B
Edward Fitzgerald
C
George Bernard Shaw
D
D.H. Lawrence
Question 498 Explanation: 
Edward FitzGerald or Fitzgerald (31 March 1809 – 14 June 1883) was an English poet and writer. His most famous poem is the first and best known English translation of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, which has kept its reputation and popularity since the 1860s.
Question 499 [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who wrote Mysteries of Udolpho? When?
A
Henry Fielding(1759)
B
Ann Radcliffe(1794)
C
Sir Walter Scott(1650)
D
Philippa Gregory(1969)
Question 499 Explanation: 
The Mysteries of Udolpho is a Gothic novel by Ann Radcliffe, published in 1794. It was one of the most popular novels of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Question 500 [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who was the first English Christian king?
A
Alfred
B
Richard III
C
Richard II
D
Ethelbert
Question 500 Explanation: 
Ethelbert was the first English king to be converted to Christianity, which proved to be a crucial event in the development of English national identity. In 597 a Roman monk called Augustine arrived in Kent as leader of a group of missionaries sent by Pope Gregory the Great.
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10 thoughts on “English Literature MCQ”

  1. Mani

    You’re might me mistaken For this which poet called himself ” I awake one morning and found myself famous” The Answer is Shelley.

    I think u might me mistaken

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