English Multiple Choice Questions(MCQs) and Answers | English Quiz Set 33

1 Which of these works in nineteenth-century Russian fiction originated the type of a Superfluous Man ?

2 What is Gilgamesh ?

(a) a Babylonian epic poem

(b) a series of gnomic verses

(c) a classical play

(d) the story of a harsh ruler

3 American Dictionary of the English Language was the work of __________ published in __________.

4 Which of the following texts of Amitav Ghosh is based on the refugee occupation of an island in the Sundarvans ?

5 Which of the following is described by Robert Browning as “A Child’s Story” ?

6 Identify the New Critic who served as the cultural attaché at the American Embassy in London from 1964 to 1966 :

7 “The Gilded Age” refers to a period of American history between 1870 and the first decades of the twentieth century.

8 The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire in six volumes was a great achievement by Edward Gibbon. It was published between 1776 and 1788, two significant dates that.

9 Which nineteenth-century work bears these lines from Paradise Lost as epigraph ?

10 A literary researcher now faced with choosing between a print text and its digital counterpart chooses the latter mostly to :

11 Which of the following statements on Hudibras are true ?

(a) It is a novel written by Matthew Prior.

(b) It is a satirical poem published in 3 parts.

(c) Hudibras was written by Samuel Butler.

(d) Hudibras discusses complex issues of justice, politics and religion.

12 The formalist critic __________ mocked the character - based criticism of __________ by posing a famous question, “How many children had Lady Macbeth” ?

13 Which of the following pair of words does not have two different vowel glides ?

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Assertion (A) : Arts will often work obliquely, by myth or symbol. They may make their best ‘criticism of life’ simply by being; they may best state by not stating.

Reason (R) : It follows, if even only part of all this is true, that the arts do have an important social function. [...] Arts can give greater depth to a society’s sense of itself. [...] A country without great art might be a powerful collection of thriving earthworms but would be a sorry society.

15 Which of the following is NOT an example of derivational morpheme ?