Sep 21, 2020

English Literature Important Multiple Choice Questions

     
Q.1 In New Criticism, the key term ‘tension’ is associated with:

(1) Cleanth Brooks
(2) John Crow Ransom
(3) Austin Warren
(4) Allen Tate

Answer-(4) Allen Tate

Q.2 While compiling what sort of book did Samuel Richardson conceive of the idea for his Pamela or Virtue Rewarded?

(1) an account of the plague in London
(2) an instruction manual for manners
(3) a book of devotion
(4) a book of model letters

Answer-(4) a book of model letters

Q.3 “Fair is my love, and cruel as she’s fair; Her brow-shades frown, although her eyes are sunny”.

The above lines are characterized by:

(1) circumlocution
(2) antithesis
(3) anticlimax
(4) bathos

Answer: (2) antithesis

Q.4 Chaueer satirizes the Monk because the Monk:

(1) is too concerned with courtesy and matters of etiquette
(2) cheats the poor peasants by selling them false religious relics
(3) courts favour of wealthy people but spends no time with poor people
(4) spends too much time hunting and too little time on religious duty

Answer-(4) spends too much time hunting and too little time on religious duty

Q.5 The ‘monster’ in Frankenstein is NOT responsible for the death of:

(1) Clerval
(2) Justine
(3) Elizabeth
(4) Alphonse Frankenstein

Answer: (4) Alphonse Frankenstein

Q.6 Samuel Johnson’s “Dissertation upon Poetry” is part of which of his following works?

(1) the final section of his preface to Shakespeare
(2) a chapter of his novel Rasselas
(3) the epilogue of his Lives of Poets
(4) one of his Rambler essays

Answer: (2) a chapter of his novel Rasselas

Q.7 The idea of “new ethnicities” in post-war Britain was advanced by …………..

(1) Donald Hall
(2) Stuart hall
(3) Paul Gilroy
(4) Hanif Kureishi

Answer: (2) Stuart hall

Q.8 Whom does Harriet Smith finally marry in one of Jane Austen’s novels?

(1) Knightley
(2) Darcy
(3) Collins
(4) Mr. Martin

Answer: (4) Mr. Martin

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