English Multiple Choice Questions(MCQs) and Answers | English Quiz Set 28
Questions
1
Which work by a famous poet does Thomas de Quincey refer to as “the feeblest and least interesting” of his writings “being substantially a mere versification, like a metrical multiplication table, of common places, the most mouldy with which criticism has baited its rat-traps” ?
Answer: Alexander Pope’s An Essay on Criticism
2
“On or about December 1910 human character changed,” Virginia Woolf wrote. A more assertive declaration, “It was in 1915 the old world ended”, was made by a novelist in one of his/her novels, picking a date of far more historical moment, the point when an entire cultural tradition seemed to end in war. Name the novelist and the novel.
Answer:D.H. Lawrence – Kangaroo
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3
Semiotics, the general science of signs, traces its lineage to
I. Edmund Husserl
II. Charles Sanders Pierce
III. Ferdinand de Saussure
IV. Claude Levi-Strauss
The right combination according to the code is
Answer:II and III
4
After the Norman Conquest of 1066, Norman French was the dominant language used by
Answer: the upper classes
5
Which novel of George Eliot was read with pleasure by Queen Victoria and also commissioned for two paintings of scenes as a mark of recognition ?
Answer:Adam Bede
6
In More’s Utopia there are 54 cities, all built on a similar plan and distributed over the island such that each city is surrounded by agricultural lands. Who does the agricultural labour in Utopia ?
Answer:All citizens take two-year stints at farm work.
7
Direct Method in English Language Teaching is also known as
Answer:Natural Method.
9
Which of the following is NOT a punishment given by God to Adam and Eve as a consequence of tasting the forbidden fruit ?
Answer:‘Dust shalt eat all the days of life’
10
_______ attempted to draw a distinction between two kinds of Truth, a theological Truth ‘drawn from the word and oracles of God’ and determined by faith, and a ‘scientific’ Truth based on the light of nature and the dictates of reason.
Answer: The Advancement of Learning
11
In Defence of Poesy what arguments does Sidney make for considering the Biblical Psalms poetry?
I. They are written in meter.
II. They originated in Church choirs
III. They were written by a single author.
IV. David uses imagery and personification to portray faith.
The right combination according to the code is
Answer:I and IV
12
In Herman Melville’s well-known story
“Bartleby the Scrivener”, what does the word “scrivener” mean ?
Answer: Clerks who copy legal documents by hand.
13
“Medicine is my lawful wife” _____ once said “and literature is my mistress.”
Answer:Anton Chekhov
14
The critical concept of a “Willing suspension of disbelief” owes its origin to Chapter ____
of Biographia Literaria.
Answer:XIV
15
Thomas Carlyle coined two evocative phrases, ‘Everlasting Nay’ and ‘Everlasting Yea’ to suggest the swing in the national mood of his times. The phrases came from
Answer:Sartos Resartus
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