English Multiple Choice Questions(MCQs) and Answers | English Quiz Set 52
Questions
1
In his poem “Whispers of Immortality” T.S. Eliot says that a dramatist “was much possessed by death / And saw the skull beneath the skin” and a poet “knew the anguish of the marrow / The ague of the skeleton.” Who are the dramatist and the poet referred to by Eliot ?
Answer: John Webster and John Donne
2
Functional Communicative Approach in English Language Teaching is in opposition to
Answer:Structural Approach
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3
According to Julia Kristeva, it is the eruption of the _______ within the _________ that provides the creative and innovative impulse of modern poetic language.
Answer:semiotic, symbolic
4
In Crime and Punishment which character speaks the following words. Who/what are they addressed to ?
“I waited for you impatiently…. all this blasted psychology is a double-edged weapon.”
Answer: Porfiry Petrovich to Raskolnikov
5
What three Germanic tribes invaded Britons in the fifth century AD, bringing with them the roots of modern English ?
Answer:The Jutes, Angles and Saxons
6
Which of the following is not a part of the series of poems called Jejuri, written by Arun Kolatkar ?
Answer:“An Old Man”
7
Bertolt Brecht’s concept of alienation was a rejection of the idea that realism was the only mode of art a critique of capitalist society should produce. Alienation is best described as
Answer:distancing artistic conventions to prevent an emotional catharsis.
8
Ngugi wa Thiongo changed the medium of his writing from English to _________.
Answer: Gikuyu
9
Which of the following ancient critics does Alexander Pope commend as exemplary in Essay on Criticism ?
Answer:Aristotle, Horace, Dionysius, Quintilian, Longinus.
10
Which of the following poems by Philip Larkin is best described as a self-elegy, anticipating the poet’s death ?
Answer: “Aubade”.
11
In John Bunyan’s Pilgrims Progress what is the first obstacle encountered by Christian on his progress ?
Answer: Vanity Fair
12
Identify the correct chronological sequence of publication of the four parts of The Four Quartets.
Answer: Burnt Norton – East Coker – The Dry Salvages – Little Gidding
13
Which of the following is not true of the novels of Charles Dickens ?
Answer:The plots are strikingly tight-knit.
14
Published in 1604, the first monolingual English Dictionary was
Answer:Robert Cawdrey’s Table Alphabetical
15
In the opening pages of one of Thomas Mann’s novels we can see space itself becoming a form of time : “Space, like time, engenders forgetfulness but it does so by setting us bodily free from our surroundings and giving us back our primitive unattached state.” Which is the novel ?
Answer:The Magic Mountain
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