English Multiple Choice Questions(MCQs) and Answers | English Quiz Set 29
Questions
1
Marxist literary criticism stresses that
I. class is an imaginary concept
II. the economy is the final determinant of cultural production
III. texts reveal the economic conditions of the time in which they were written.
IV. the critic should see the work as self-sufficient
The right combination according to the code is
Answer: II and III
2
St. Augustine brought Christianity, and the Latin language enriched Old English by giving it the capacity to talk about _______
Answer:abstract ideas
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3
Who makes the following speech in Henrik Ibsen’s Ghosts ?
“I almost think we are all ghosts, all of us …
It isn’t just what we have inherited from our
father and mother that walks in us. It’s all
sorts of dead ideas, and all sorts of old and
obsolete beliefs. They’re not alive in us; but
they are lodged in us and we can never free
ourselves from them …. There must be
ghosts the whole country over,
as thick as the sands of the sea.”
Answer:Mrs. Alving
4
Which of these lines is NOT in Pope’s Essay on Criticism ?
Answer: “Wretches hang that jury men may dine”
5
One of the principles of materials preparation for language learning is that
Answer:grading of materials should be done
6
R.K. Narayan’s “A Horse and Two Goats” is set in a tiny village called ______
Answer:Kritam.
7
Kishori Mohan Ganguli, an Indian translator working in the last quarter of 19 century, is best known for his free English translation of
Answer:the Mahabharata.
8
Who, among the following, advanced the theory that the mind is a tabula rasa at birth, and acquires all ideas by experience ?
Answer: John Locke
9
Which of the following authors wrote Studies in the History of the Renaissance ?
Answer:Walter Pater
10
Whom does Harriet Smith finally marry in one of Jane Austen’s novels ?
Answer: Mr. Martin
11
A poet once referred to an old man as “A tattered coat upon a stick”. That is an example of
__________.
Answer:Metaphor
13
In Beckett’s Waiting for Godot the characters often use dislocated, repetitious and cliched speech primarily to :
Answer:illustrate the essentially illogical, purposeless nature of the human condition
14
Patrick White published two novels in the 1950s giving the eras of pioneering and exploration in Australian history an epic, ironic and psychological dimension. The novels are :
(a) A Fringe of Leaves
(b) The Tree of Man
(c) Voss
(d) The Aunt’s Story
The right combination according to the code is :
Answer:(b) and (c)
15
In which of the following works did Bakhtin propose his widely cited concept of the ‘Carnivalesque’ ?
Answer:Rabelais and his world
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