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Category: English Literature Mcqs
What does the character Dracula symbolize in the novel ?
A. Modern science
B. The consciousness
C. Theories of evolution
D. Ancient evil
Which of the following plays was not authored by Shakespeare in the Jacobean period ?
A. Othello
B. Volpone
C. King Lear
D. Antony and Cleopatra
Which of the following writers authored the poem “Dulce et Decorum Est?”
A. Wilfred Owen
B. Siegfried Sassoon
C. Rupert Brooke
D. Rudyard Kipling
What did T. S. Eliot attempt to combine, though not very successfully, in his plays Murder in the Cathedral and The Cocktail Party ?
A. regional dialect and political critique
B. religious symbolism and society comedy
C. iambic pentameter and sexual innuendo
D. witty paradoxes and feminist diatribe
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
Complete this famous quote by John Dryden: “Who think too little, and who talk too __________” ?
A. often
B. long
C. much
D. fast
Arna Bontemps’s “A Summer Tragedy” attacks the institution of________________?
A. Sharecropping.
B. Slavery.
C. Segregation.
D. Prostitution.
Of which poet was it said ’Even if he’s not a great poet, he’s certainly a great something’ ?
A. Elliot
B. Kipling
C. Cummings
D. Brooke
What is false consciousness ?
A. A term for the false neuroses expressed in dreams
B. A feminist term for the state that occurs when texts written by women are not considered in the study of literature
C. Another term for the unconscious
D. An ideology that involves dominating the consciousness of exploited classes
Matthew Arnold;s Thyrsis is an elegy written on the death of______________?
A. Arthur Hallam
B. Milton
C. Edward King
D. Hugh Clough
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