English Multiple Choice Questions(MCQs) and Answers | English Quiz Set 26

1 A test of listening comprehension is a test of

2 Colin Clout, Spenser’s persona in The Shepheardes Calendar appears in two of these ecologues.

I. ‘June’

II. ‘February’

III. ‘November’

IV. ‘December’

The right combination according to the code is

3 Which character in Crime and Punishment speaks of St. Petersburg as a city of half crazy people filled with gloomy, harsh and strange influences ?

4 At the conclusion of Swift’s Modest Proposal, the narrator declares that he has “not the least personal interest in endeavouring to promote this necessary work, having no other motive than the public good of my country.” What evidence does the narrator give that his advice is free from other motives ?

I. The narrator is Irish and a sworn bachelor, unlikely to father children.

II. He has no children who will be affected by the scheme, and thus cannot make money from it.

III. His wife is past childbearing, and thus the narrator cannot benefit by “breeding” her.

IV. The narrator is English, and therefore this scheme will not affect him personally.

The right combination according to the code is

5 The Grammar Translation Method was historically used in teaching

6 “There is no set and there are no wings; the stage is empty and in almost total darkness. This is in order that right from the beginning the audience shall receive the impression of being present not at a performance of a carefully rehearsed play, but at a performance of a play that suddenly happens.”

Which of the following plays have the above stage directions ?

7 In Thomas Hobbes’s grand metaphor in Leviathan, a commonwealth is like _____

8 The word “Calamus”, a kind of water reed referenced in the title Calamus Poems, is a symbol for Whitman of

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Assertion (A) : The world is becoming increasingly multilingual.

Reason (R) : To monolingual Anglophones it may look like everyone in the world is learning English.

In the context of these two statements

10 The first scene in Girish Karnad’s Tughlaq opens in front of a ______

11 What is the final word in Joyce’s Ulysses ?

12 Which Victorian novel has the subtitle “New Foes with an Old Face” ?

13 In which of the following poems does W.H. Auden call 1930s “a low dishonest decade” ?

14 Two examples of closet drama are

I. Byron’s Manfred

II. Shelley’s Cenci

III. Marlowe’s Edward II

IV. Shaw’s Widower’s Houses

The right combination according to the code is

15 Who among the following postcolonial critics worked on the fiction of Joseph Conrad in his/her early career ?