English Literature MCQs Quiz 16

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Question 1

For Joyce, What Are Epiphanies ?

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Dream-Like Pieces Of Writing

Short Prose Sketches That Vary In Character

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All Of The Above

Deep Realizations Linked With Religious Faith

Question 2

Synecdoche refers to the term------?

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pity and fear

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Self-contradictory speech

a thing stands for whole thing

long speech

Question 3

T. Hardy is-------?

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A social reformer

A lover of nature

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A satirist

A fatalist

Question 4

T.S. Eliot considered which of the following one of the greatest short stories ever written ?

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“The Surrealist Manifesto”

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“The Heart of Darkness”

“The Dead”

“To the Lighthouse”

Question 5

T.S. Eliot’s “TheWaste Land” begins with which of the following well-known opening lines ?

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“Was it for this-”

“April is the cruellest month”

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“And the worst friend and enemy is but Death.”

“Riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.”

Question 6

Ted Hughes was married to which American poetess ?

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Mary Oliver

Marianne Moore

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Sylvia Plath

Carolyn Kizer

Question 7

Tennyson was------?

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a Pre…Raphaelite

a romantic

a Victorian

none of these

Question 8

Tennyson wrote------?

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The Eve of St. Agnes

My last Duchess

Dover Beach

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The Lotus Eaters

Question 9

Tennyson’s “Ulysses” can be characterized in all of the following ways, EXCEPT--------?

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it thematizes the importance of choosing action over complacency.

it reflects a Victorian attitude of continuing to fight against loss of hope or faith.

it uses Greek mythology to comment on contemporary questions.

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it emphasizes the internal life of the mind over social action.

Question 10

The – s in ‘she sings well’ is ------?

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Morpheme signaling third person singular.

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Plural morpheme

An adjective forming morpheme

Possessive morpheme

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