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QUIZ - 13.08.2024

Total questions: 30

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

When was the Revolutionary/Age of Reason?

a)

1650-1750

b)

1750-1800

c)

1800-1860

d)

1855-Civil War & Post War

2.

Which of the following Latin American writers was born in Colombia?

a)

Octavio Paz

b)

Pablo Neruda

c)

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

d)

Isabel Allende

3.

Magical Realism is characterized by:

a)

Foreshadowing

b)

The atmosphere the work arouses in readers

c)

Elves and wizards

d)

Realistic fantasy that mixes myth and fantasy into ordinary life.

4.

Who is the Author of "Just Mercy "?

a)

Assata Shakur

b)

Langston Hughes

c)

Booker T. Washington

d)

Bryan Stevenson

5.

Which poet recited the poem The Gift Outright at John F. Kennedy's presidential ceremony?

a)

Rabindranath Tagore

b)

William Wordsworth

c)

Robert Frost

d)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

6.

Which poet was Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death?

a)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

b)

William Wordsworth

c)

Robert Frost

d)

Rabindranath Tagore

7.

What is the title of the magnum opus by William Wordsworth?

a)

The Prelude

b)

Where the Mind Is Without Fear

c)

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

d)

The World Is Too Much with Us

8.

Which poet was known for his verses about everyday life in the countryside of New England?

a)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

b)

Rabindranath Tagore

c)

Robert Frost

d)

William Wordsworth

9.

What is the title of the poem by Robert Frost that talks about woods on a snowy evening?

a)

Where the Mind Is Without Fear

b)

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

c)

The World Is Too Much with Us

d)

The Gift Outright

10.

Which poem by Rabindranath Tagore talks about a world without fear?

a)

Daffodils

b)

The World Is Too Much with Us

c)

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

d)

Where the Mind Is Without Fear

11.

In which year was Rabindranath Tagore awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature?

a)

1913

b)

1915

c)

1919

d)

1941

12.

""English Education has enslaved us""who said these lines ?

a)

Rabindranath Tagore

b)

Mahatma Gandhi

c)

W.C Banerjea

13.

Who is known a the Father of Indian cartoon

a)

R. K. Narayan

b)

K. Shankar Pillai

c)

R. X. Laxman

d)

Abu Abraham

14.

The character ‘Sherlock Holmes’ first appeared in ?

a)

Hound of the Baskerville

b)

The sign of four

c)

The valley of fear

d)

A study in scarlet

15.

Who is the youngest literature laureate to win Nobel prize

a)

Rudyard Kipling

b)

Karl Gjellerup

c)

Nelly Sachs

d)

Harry Martinson

16.

Nebula award is given for

a)

Sci-fi

b)

Poetry

c)

Romance

d)

Drama

17.

"Love and Death" is a ____________ by Sarojini Naidu

a)

Elegy

b)

Sonnnet- Petrarchan style

c)

Ode

d)

Sonnet- Shakespearean style

18.

Apart from RK Narayan, there are two other writers credited with creating what is the Modern Indian English Novel. Who are they?

a)

Salman Rushdie and Vikram Seth

b)

Vikram Seth and Raja Rao

c)

Salman Rushdie and Mulk Raj Anand

d)

Mulk Raj Anand and Raja Rao

19.

The novel 'The God of Small Things' is written by

a)

Salman Rushdie

b)

Rabindranath Tagore

c)

Arundhati Roy

d)

Aditi Rao

20.

Who wrote Poetics?

a)

Plato

b)

Aristotle

c)

Horace

d)

Ovid

21.

This approach talks mainly about the elements of form– style, structure, imagery tone etc.

a)

a.) Historical

b)

b.) Marxist

c)

c.) Structuralist/Formalist

d)

d.) Feminist

22.

Which interpretation of "O Captain! My Captain!" would be seen as a Marxist interpretation?

a)

President Lincoln was an influential leader whose 'captaincy' will not be forgotten

b)

The repetition of the phrase "fallen cold and dead" underlines the importance of the captain's death

c)

The word "father" shows trust in the captain as well as a relationship between the speaker and the captain

d)

The "swaying mass" reveres the captain and they aren't on the ship, which indicates they may be in a lower class

23.

Feminist Criticism includes all these except for _________________.

a)

how to make feminist readings visible to readers

b)

how to make feminist readings visible to readers

c)

how women read about themselves

d)

how women do not like male writers

24.

The gift of the Magi by O. Henry is an example of nonfiction. True or False?

a)

True

b)

False

25.
What was NOT a typical genre of Anglo-Saxon literature?
a)
war song
b)
heroic poem
c)
chronicle
d)
novel
26.

Which of George Orwell's books became a popular film?

a)

1984

b)

Animal Farm

27.

Which sentence about Charles Dickens is not true?

a)

He wrote social novels.

b)

His books had happy endings.

c)

He wrote about poor people in the 19th century.

d)

He wrote detective stories.

28.

Which Character in Jane Eyre uses religion to justify cruelty?

a)

Blanche Ingram

b)

Mr. Brocklehurst

c)

Sir John Rivers

d)

Eliza Reed

29.

The First novel written by Graham Greene is

a)

Stamboul Train

b)

England made me

c)

The Heart of the Matter

d)

The Man within

30.

The First novel written by Graham Greene is

a)

Stamboul Train

b)

England made me

c)

The Heart of the Matter

d)

The Man within