English Literature MCQs with explanations

Question 1

Which of the following poems can be described as a haiku?

Accepted Answer

Pound’s “In a Station of the Metro”

Question 2

What is Augustine St. Clare’s selfish wife’s name?

Accepted Answer

Marie

Question 3

Harold Nicholson described which poet as ’Very yellow and glum. Perfect manners’?

Accepted Answer

T. S. Elliot

Question 4

Which of the following novelists best represents the mid-Victorian period’s contentment with the burgeoning economic prosperity and decreased restiveness over social and political change?

Accepted Answer

Anthony Trollope

Question 5

Thomas Paine’s “The Rights of Man” argues that ________?

Accepted Answer

Revolution is proper when a government does not take care of its people

Question 6

Despite Samson’s defeat and shame, Samson predicts that God will “arise and his great name assert” by making Dagon receive “Such a discomfit, as shall quite despoil him / Of all these boasted Trophies won on me / And with confusion blank his Worshippers” (467–71). This prediction is interesting because?

Accepted Answer

Samson doesn’t know he himself will fulfill the prediction.

Question 7

Who wrote Canterbury Tales?

Accepted Answer

Geoffrey Chaucer

Question 8

The two archangels who serve as generals in God’s army are?

Accepted Answer

Michael and Gabriel

Question 9

Toward the close of which century did English replace French as the language of conducting business in Parliament and in court of law?

Accepted Answer

fourteenth

Question 10

In which work do you read: “Things fall apart; the center cannot hold. ”?

Accepted Answer

The Second Coming

English Literature MCQs with Explanations