English Multiple Choice Questions(MCQs) and Answers | English Quiz Set 49

Questions
1 When one says that “someone is no more” or that “someone has breathed his/ her last”, the speaker is resorting to
1 euphism
2 euphony
3 understatement
4 euphemism

Answer: euphemism
2 Which of the following are “companion poems” ?
1 “Gypsy songs” and “Songs and Sonnets”
2 “L’Allegro” and “II Penseroso”
3 “The Good Morrow” and “The Sun Rising”
4 “Full Fathom Five” and “Hark, Hark! the Lark”

Answer:“L’Allegro” and “II Penseroso”

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3 What does the term episteme signify ?
1 Knowledge
2 Archive
3 Theology
4 Scholarship

Answer:Knowledge
4 Which of the following is a better definition of an image in literary writing ?
1 A reflection
2 A speaking picture
3 A refraction
4 A reflected picture

Answer: A speaking picture
5 Whom did Keats regard as the prime example of ‘negative capability’ ?
1 John Milton
2 William Wordsworth
3 William Shakespeare
4 P.B. Shelley

Answer:William Shakespeare
6 Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities begins with the sentence
1 It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
2 It was the brightest of times, it was the darkest of times.
3 It was the richest of times, it was the poorest of times.
4 It was the happiest of times, it was the saddest of times.

Answer:It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
7 The works of Gerard Manley Hopkins were published posthumously by
1 Edwin Muir
2 Edward Thomas
3 Robert Bridges
4 Coventry Patmore

Answer:Robert Bridges
8 Why does Lovewit in Ben Jonson’s play The Alchemist leave his house, setting the stage for his servant Face, alongwith Subtle, a fake alchemist to fleece people ?
1 To visit his father who left him long ago.
2 To find out new sources of minting money.
3 Because of an epidemic of plague.
4 To make a pilgrimage.

Answer: Because of an epidemic of plague.
9 By the end of the nineteen fifties novelists like Stan Barstow, Sid Chaplin, Alan Sillitoe and David Storey were routinely lumped together as representatives of “Kitchen-sink realism”. Who in 1954 wrote the article “The Kitchen Sink”, calling attention to the gritty and direct realism ?
1 Martin Harrison
2 Stan Smith
3 David Sylvester
4 Philip Callow

Answer:David Sylvester
10 Which of the following is not an allegorical character in the play Everyman ?
1 Kindred
2 Strength
3 Christian
4 Discretion

Answer: Christian
11 Who among the following translators is notable as the first translator of Bhagavad Gita into English ?
1 Charles Wilkins
2 Nathaniel Halhead
3 William Jones
4 Barbara Stoler Miller

Answer: Charles Wilkins
12 In Biographia Literaria S.T. Coleridge defines the imagination as the faculty by which
1 the soul perceives the phenomenal diversity of the universe.
2 the soul perceives the spiritual unity of the universe.
3 the mind acquires images by its associative power.
4 the mind separates images by its discriminatory power.

Answer: the soul perceives the spiritual unity of the universe.
13 Why do the Houyhnhnms have so few words in their language ?
1 Their wants and passions are fewer than human wants and passions, and they need fewer words.
2 They consider language to be morally corrupt and prefer to remain silent.
3 They find speech difficult because they are horses.
4 They prefer action to words.

Answer:Their wants and passions are fewer than human wants and passions, and they need fewer words.
14 Identify the title of A.D. Hope’s first published book of poems.
1 Native Companions
2 The Wandering Islands
3 A Midsummer Eve’s Dream
4 The Cave and the Spring

Answer:The Wandering Islands
15 Which of the following is an incorrect assumption in language teaching ?
1 Learners acquire language by trying to use it in real situations.
2 Learners’ first language plays an important role in learning.
3 Language teaching should have a focus on communicative activities.
4 Language teaching should give importance to writing rather than speech.

Answer:Language teaching should give importance to writing rather than speech.

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