M.C.

Q
American Literature
1. In Emily Dickinson’s poem ‘This is my letter to the world” The ‘letter’ is
a. love letter
b. poems written in letters
c. a common letter for conveying information
d. none of these

2. “Her message is committed / To hands I cannot see” Here the pronound ‘her’
points to -
a. nature
b. poetry
c. mother
d. none of these

3. “I heard a fly buzz when I died’ Here the fly

a. just an insect
b. the symbol of god
c. the messenger of death
d. the symbol of Satan

4. The superiority of the power of Imagination is asserted in Dickinson’s poem

a. This is My Letter to the World
b. I heard a Fly Buzz when I Died
c. “Because I Could not stop for Death”
d. I never Saw a Moor

5. “Yet certain am I of the spot” –Here the ‘spot’ refers to

a. heaven
b. moor
c. Sea
d. Forest

6. Dickinson’s poem “I never saw a Moor’s is founded upon -

a. suspension of disbelief
b. carpe diem
c. egoistic sublimity
d. che sera sera

7. In Dickinson’s poem “Because I could not stop for Death” Death is presented
under the image of a
a. butcher
b. cowboy
c. Poet
d. charioteer

8. Dickinson’s poem ‘Because I could not stop for Death” poetises journey
towards --
a. eternity
b. hell
c. heaven
d. the centre of the earth

9. The source of the liquor in Dickinson’s poem, “ I Taste a Liquor never

brewed” is --
a. human life
b. nature
c. fruits
d. rotten pudding

10. The speaker –poetess in ‘I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed” will conquer time
by the power of
a. drunkenness
b. imagination
c. poetry
d. none of these

11. The main theme of Dickinson’s “There is Certain Slant of Light” is ---
a. poetic process
b. pathos of mortality
c. imaginative journey to heaven
d. none of these

12. The line ‘There is Certain Slant of Light” is an instance of --

a. seasonal metaphor
b. journey metaphor
c. diurnal metaphor
d. dietary metaphor

13. “He kindly stopped for me”- ?Here ‘he’ is

a. the horse
b. Death as Charioteer
c. husband
d. God

14. The subject matter in the Letter of Dickinson’ poem “This is My Letter to the
world” is --
a. love of animals
b. love of children
c. love of human life and the beauty of nature
d. love of wine

15. “And then the windows failed” Here ‘windows’ are

a. eyelids
b. breathings of life
c. windows of rooms
d. none of these

16. The first poem written by Robert Frost is --

a. After Apple Picking
b. Mending Wall
c. Birches
d. My Butterfly: An Elegy

17. In Robert Frost’s poem “Mending Wall” the ‘wall’ symbolizes --

a. the protections of the house
b. the beauty of the house
c. the isolation between hearts
d. the consolidation of neighbor hood
18. “Something there is that does not love a wall” –Here ‘something’ is
a. nature
b. ghosts
c. robbers
d. none of these

19. The winter projected in Frost’s “Mending Wall” is

a. political
b. socio-psychological
c. religious
d. none of these

20. Who repeatedly says, ‘good fences make good neighbours”?

a. the poet
b. nature
c. the neighbor
d. none of these

21. The utterance “good fences make good neighbours” is an instance of

a. Irony
b. Oxymoron
c. Metaphor
d. Simile

22. In Frost’s poem “Choose Something Like a Star” the Star symbolizes
a. steadfastness in love
b. immeasurable height
c. loftiness of thought
d. none of these

23. The source of Frost’s poem “Choose Something Like a Star” is a poem by --
a. Wordsworth
b. P.B. Shelley
c. Coleridge
d. John Keats

24. The line “And steadfast as Keats’ Eremite” alludes to ---

a. Keats’ Sonnet Bright Star
b. Keats’ Ode to a Nightingale
c. Keats’ Ode on a Grecian Urn
d. none of these

25. The ‘birches’ in Frost’s poem ‘Birches’ symbolize -

a. the life of a man
b. human society
c. heaven where gods live
d. the world

26. “One by one he subdued his father’s trees” – Here ‘he’ is --

a. a cowboy
b. violent storm
c. fate under the guise of a cowboy
d. none of these

27. The ‘gift’ referred to in Frost’s poem The Gift Outright is ---
a. the change in the mind of the British Americans towards America
b. the settling of British colony in America
c.
d.

28. The land was ours before we were the lands.” The land referred to is -
a. England
b. America
c. Ireland
d. Africa

29. “The dead of gift was many deeds of war” –Here the ‘deed of gift’ referred to
is --
a. the discovery of America
b. the settling of British coloney in America
c. the independence of America
d. none of these

30. Frost’s poem Design depicts a --

a. fly
b. beetle
c. caterpillar
d. spider

31. In the poem Design the poet witnesses the pattern of

a. blue
b. white
c. red
d. pink

32. The designer in the poem Design is

a. the gardener
b. God
c. Nature
d. Satan

33. The poem Design comes to an end with the note of -

a. pessimism
b. optimism
c. ambiguity
d. none of these

34. Tennessee William’s The Glass Menagerie was first performed in Chicago in
the year --
a. 1941
b. 1944
c. 1950
d. 1956

35. The Ur-Version of The Glass Menagerie was

a. Portrait of a Girl in Glass
b. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
c. Hopeless Desire
d. none of these
36. The setting of The Glass Menagerie is ---
a. New York
b. St. Louis
c. Washington
d. none of these

37. The time setting of The Glass Menagerie is -

a. 1944
b. 1956
c. 1900
d. 1937

38. The narrator of William’s The Glass Menagerie is

a. Amanda Wingfield
b. the author
c. Tom Wingfield
d. Laura Wingfield

39. In The Glass Menagerie Tom is a budding

a. singer
b. Poet
c. painter
d. photographer

40. In The Glass Menagerie Tom works in a

a. shoe-warehouse
b. rice-mill
c. oil-mill
d. cinema hall

41. The telephone man in The Glass Menagerie is --

a. Jim O’ Connor
b. Tom Wingfield
c. Mr. Wingfield
d. none of these

42. Sylvia Plath’s Daddy is a ………..poem.

a. reflective
b. confessional
c. devotional
d. psychological

43. “The vampire who said he was you”--- Here the vampire is ---
a. Ted Hughes
b. Otto Plath
c. Hitlar
d. none of these

44. In her poem Daddy Sylvia Plath delivers hatred against her --
a. husband
b. mother
c. father
d. brother

45. Sylvia Plath’s poem Medallion depicts the image of a dead ---
a. toad
b. camellion
c. hare
d. Snake

46. In the poem Medallion the snake is killed by

a. the yardman
b. a mongoose
c. the poetess
d. none of these

47. The tongue of the dead snake is likened to a -

a. medallion
b. rose – coloured arrow
c. milk glass
d. knife

48. In Tennessee William’s The Glass Menagerie “the gentleman caller” is-
a. Mr. Wingfield
b. Jim O’ Connor
c. Tom Wingfield
d. none of these

49. In the school Jim gave Laura a nickname. The nickname is ---
a. pleurosis
b. red rose
c. blue rose
d. white rose

50. What happens during the dinner under the presence of Jim in Amanda’s
house?
a. Laura faints
b. Tom Capsizes the table
c. Mr. Wingfield suddenly appears
d. The light goes off for unpaid bills.

51. After the dance Laura offer Jim something as a souvenir. The thing is --
a. the broken unicorn
b. a love letter
c. a ring
d. a handkerchief

52. The field where Amanda frequently escapes is --

a. liquor
b. glass animals
c. past youth and love
d. cinema and poetry

53. The field where Laura has permanently escaped is --

a. poetry
b. glass animals
c. Boozing
d. none of these

54. How many scenes are there in The Glass Menagerie?

a. Five
b. Six
c. Four
d. Seven

55. Edward Albee’s The Zoo Story has --

a. two scenes
b. one scene
c. three scenes
d. four scenes

56. Edward Albee’s The Zoo Story has-

a. five character
b. four characters
c. three characters
d. two characters

57. The real outsider character / characters in The Zoo Story is / are--
a. Jerry
b. Peter
c. both Jerry and Peter
d. none of these

58. The setting of The Zoo Story is --

a. a barren road
b. a bench of the Central Park
c. a lodge
d. a city street

59. The time setting of The Zoo Story is --

a. Monday morning
b. Sunday morning
c. Sunday afternoon
d. Saturday night

60. The Zoo Story belongs to the dramatic genre known as -

a. farce
b. tragedy
c. comedy
d. Absurd drama

61. In The Zoo Story Jerry suffers from

a. isolation
b. cancer
c. nympholepsy
d. wanderlust

62. In The Zoo Story Peter has --

a. two sons, two daughters and a dog
b. two daughters, two cats and two parakeets
c. one son, one daughter and some hens
d. none of these

63. In The Zoo Story Peter is a man in his

a. early fifties
b. early thirties
c. early forties
d. early seventies

64. In The Zoo Story Jerry is a man in his

a.
b.
c.
d. early thirties

65. In The Zoo Story Jerry dies

a. committing suicide
b.
c.
d.

66. Maxine Hong Kingston, the authoress of The Woman Warrior, is a ---writer.
a. Chinese –American
b.
c.
d.

67. The Woman Warrior belongs to the genre known as --

a.
b. memoirs
c.
d.

68. For The Woman Warrior Maxine Hong Kingston received---

a.
b.
c. National Book Critics Award
d.

69. Kingston’s companion piece to The Woman Warrior is --

a.
b.
c.
d. China Men

70. The narrative method employed in The Woman Warrior is --

a. talk-story
b.
c.
d.

71. The full title of The Woman Warrior is --

a.
b. The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of Girlhood among Ghost
c.
d.

72. Kingstone’s The Woman Warrior was first published in the year --
a.
b.
c. 1976
d.

73. How many chapter are there in The Woman Warrior?

a.
b.
c.
d. Five

74. The five chapters in The Woman Warrior are --

a.
b.
c.
d. No Name Woman, White Tigers, Shaman At the Western Palace and A Song for a
Barbarian Reed Pipe

75. The name the legendary Woman Warrior mentioned in Kingstone’s text is --
a.
b.
c.
d. Fa Mu Lan

76. The American setting of The Woman Warrior is

a. Oakland, California
b.
c.
d.

77. The name of Maxine’s mother is --

a.
b. Brave Orchid
c.
d.

78. Who is No Name Woman in The Woman Warrior?

a.
b.
c. Maxine’s faternat aunt
d.

79. Henry David Thoreau’s Walden was first published in the year --
a.
b.
c.
d. 1854

80. Thoreau built Walden in the year --

a.
b. 1845
c.
d.
81. When Thoreau built the Walden cabin his age was
a.
b. 28 years
c.
d.

82. David Thoreau stayed in the Walden for --

a.
b.
c.
d. two years

83. The purpose of Thoreau’s living in the Walden is to --

a. explore the potentialities of the self
b.
c.
d.

84. According to Thoreau, society and industrial advancement as –to the

exploration of the soul.
a.
b. hindrance
c.
d.

85. How many chapters are there in Thoreau’s Walden?

a.
b.
c. 18
d.

86. The name of the first chapter of Thoreau’s Walden is --

a.
b.
c.
d. Economy

87. The name of the last chapter of Thoreau’s Walden is --

a. Conclusion
b.
c.
d.

88. When was the digging of the Suez Canal completed?

a.
b. 1869
c.
d.

89. How many engineering’s acts are celebrated in Whitman’s poem Passage to
India?
a.
b.
c. three
d.

90. The three engineering acts celebrated in Whitman’s poem Passage to India are
a.
b.
c.
d. The completion of the Suez Canal (1869), the laying of the transatlantic undersea
Cable (1866) and the railroad (1869)

91. How many sections are there in Passage to India?

a. nine
b.
c.
d.

92. When was Whitman’s Passage to India first published?

a.
b. 1871
c.
d.

93. Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essay Self –Reliance was first published in the year -
a.
b.
c. 1841
d.

94. Emerson’s Self-Reliance is a -----writing.

a.
b.
c.
d. Transcendentalist

95. Emerson’s essay Self-Reliance uses—epigraphs.

a. Two
b.
c.
d.

96. The Latin epigraph used by Emerson for his essay Self-Reliance is from
a.
b. Aulus Persius Flaccus
c.
d.

97. The English epigraph used by Emerson for his essay Self-Reliance is from
a.
b.
c. Beaumont and Fletcher
d.
98. The play Dutchman is written by Amiri Baraka who is ----------- playwright.
a. African-American
b.
c.
d.

99. Dutchman was first dramatized in the year---

a.
b. 1964
c.
d.

100. The setting of Le Roy Janes’ Dutchman is

a.
b.
c. the compartment of a subway train in New York City
d.

101. As Lula boards on the train, she was munching --

a.
b.
c.
d. Apple

102. The apple that Lula was munching symbolizes --

a.
b.
c. the for bidden fruit or the baid of damnation
d.

103. Clay , the black young man, abuses Lula and her white race by the term ---
a.
b. Ofays
c.
d.

104. Lula kills clay by ---

a. Stabbing on the back
b.
c.
d.

105. Dutchman dramatizes the theme of –

a.
b. racial violence
c.
d.

106. In the maritime legend the Flying Dutchman augurs--

a.
b.
c.
d. death
107. In the play Dutchman the character who serves the role of the Dutchman is --
a.
b.
c. Lula
d.

108. The age of Clay is

a.
b. 20 years
c.
d.

109. The age of Lula is --

a. thirty years
b.
c.
d.

110. The real name of Mark Twain is --

a. Samuel Langhorne Clemens
b.
c.
d.

111. Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was first published in the
year -
a.
b. 1885
c.
d.

112. The name of the river that occurs in Mark Twain’s The Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn is --
a.
b.
c.
d. Mississippi

113. The name of the lady who adopts Huck is --

a.
b.
c. Widow Douglas
d.

114. Huck’s father was a town ---

a.
b. drunk
c.
d.

115. The name of Huck’s friends is

a. Tom Sawyer
b.
c.
d.
116. The name of Huck’s father is -
a. Pap
b.
c.
d.

117. Who, among Huck and Jim, is a Black slave?

a.
b.
c. Jim
d.

118. In the end Jim is sold as a property to -

a.
b.
c.
d. The Phelps family

119. In the end Jim is sold to the Phelps family by the

a. Duke and dauphin
b.
c.
d.

120. The real mother figure of Huck is --

a.
b. Widow Douglas
c.
d.

121. Jim is a slave of

a.
b.
c. Miss Watson
d.

122. Who is the “frontier boy” in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?

a.
b.
c. Huck
d.

123. The narrator of the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is-
a.
b.
c.
d. Huck Finn

124. In the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn the river is the symbol of
a. Liberty
b.
c.
d.
 125. “All right them, I will go to hell” who says this?
a.
b. Huck Finns

1.b 2. 3.c 4.d 5.a 6.c 7.d 8.a 9.b 10.c

11. 12.d 13.b 14.c 15.a 16.d 17.c 18.a 19.b 20.c
21.a 22.c 23.d 24. 25.c 26.c 27.a 28.b 29.c 30.d
31.b 32. 33.c 34.b 35.a 36.b 37.d 38.c 39.b 40.a
41.c 42.b 43.a 44.c 45.d 46.a 47.b 48.b 49.c 50.d
51.a 52.c 53.b 54.d 55.b 56.d 57.a 58.b 59.c 60.d
61.a 62.b 63.c 64.d 65.a 66.a 67.b 68.c 69.d 70.a
71.b 72.c 73.d 74.c 75.d 76.a 77.b 78.c 79.d 80.a
81.b 82.d 83.a 84.b 85.c 86.d 87.a 88.b 89.c 90.d
91.a 92.b 93.c 94.d 95.a 96.b 97.c 98.a 99.b 100.c
101.d 102.c 103.b 104.a 105.b 106.d 107.c 108.b 109.a 110.a
111.b 112.d 113.c 114.b 115.a 116.a 117.c 118.d 119.a 120.b
121.c 122.c 123.d 124.a 125.b 126. 127. 128. 129. 130.