1.
‘The Pilgrim Fathers’ were early European
settlers of :
a. Connecticut colony
b. Saybrook colony
c.
Plymouth colony
d. Massachusetts
Bay Colony
2. 'Plymouth colony' was established in :
a. 1620
b.
1629
c.
1635
d.
1639
3.
Who among the following is NOT a separatist?
a. William Brewster
b.
Richard Clyfton
c. John
Robinson
d. John Winthrop
4.
What was the name of the ship on which ‘The
Pilgrim Fathers’ reached America?
a. Speedwell
b.
Mayflower
c. Oceanus
d. Royal Charter
5.
Who was the leader of the ‘Great Puritan
Migration’ started in 1629?
a. William Brewster
b.
Richard Clyfton
c. John
Robinson
d. John Winthrop
6.
The collection of stories, ‘The Sketch Book’,
which include famous short stories like ‘Rip Van Winkle’ and ‘The
Legend of Sleepy Hollow’ is written by :
a. Washington Irving
b. William Cullen Bryant
c.
Henry Longfellow
d. Ralph
Emerson
7.
The first American to translate Dante
Alighieri’s The Divine Comedy was :
a. Washington Irving
b. William Cullen Bryant
c.
Henry Longfellow
d. Ralph
Emerson
8.
Who among the following is not a ‘Fireside
Poet’?
a. Washington Irving
b. William Cullen Bryant
c.
Henry Longfellow
d. James
Lowell
9.
‘The Song of Hiawatha’ and ‘Evangeline’
are works of :
a. Washington Irving
b. William Cullen Bryant
c.
Henry Longfellow
d. James Lowell
10.
Who among the following is the author of the
work ‘Nature’?
a. Washington Irving
b. Ralph Waldo Emerson
c.
Henry Longfellow
d. James Lowell
11.
Match the following works with its authors:
i.
Divinity School Address - (a)William Cullen Bryant
ii.
The Philosophy of Composition - (b)Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
iii.
Voices of the Night - (c)Edgar Allan Poe
iv.
To a Waterfowl - (d)Ralph Waldo Emerson
a. (i)-d, (ii)-c, (iii)-b, (iv)-a
b. (i)-b,
(ii)-a, (iii)-d, (iv)-c
c.
(i)-c, (ii)-a, (iii)-b, (iv)-d
d. (i)-a, (ii)-c, (iii)-d, (iv)-b
12.
Which among the following genre of literature is
‘pleasurably horrifying’?
a. Gothic
b.
Chik-lit
c.
Saga
d. Picaresque
13.
‘Eleonora’ is a short story written by :
a. Edgar Allan Poe
b.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
c. Henry Longfellow
d. James Lowell
14.
Which among the following is a work of Edgar
Allan Poe?
a. The Raven
b.
The Black Cat
c. Tamerlane
and Other Poems
d. All of them
15.
‘The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym’ is
the only novel written by :
a. Edgar Allan Poe
b.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
c. Henry Longfellow
d. James Lowell
16.
‘Walden’ is a book written by :
a. Edgar Allan Poe
b.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
c. Henry Longfellow
d. Henry Thoreau
17.
‘Civil Disobedience’ is an essay written
by :
a. Edgar Allan Poe
b.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
c. Henry Longfellow
d. Henry Thoreau
18.
Which among the following is NOT a work of Henry
David Thoreau?
a. Paradise (to be) Regained
b. Sir Walter Raleigh
c. Herald of Freedom
d. The
Scarlet Letter
19.
Melville’s ‘Moby-Dick’ was dedicated to :
a. Edgar Allan Poe
b.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
c. Nathaniel
Hawthorn
d. Henry Thoreau
20.
Which among the following is a work of Nathaniel
Hawthorne?
a. The House of the Seven Gables
b.
The Blithedale Romance
c. Tanglewood Tales
d.
All of them
21.
“The sniff of green leaves and dry leaves, and
of the shore and dark-color’d sea-rocks, and of hay in the barn,” is nature
imagery lines found in the work of :
a. Whitman’s Song of Myself
b.
Emily Dickinson’s Indian Summer
c. Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven
d.
Robert Frost’s Steeple Bush
22.
“These are the days when skies resume / The old
– old sophistries of June - / A blue and gold mistake,” is the line of :
a. Whitman’s Song of Myself
b. Emily Dickinson’s Indian Summer
c. Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven
d. Robert Frost’s Steeple Bush
23.
“Because I could not stop for Death - / He
kindly stopped for me,” This line of Emily Dickinson is an example of :
a. Personification
b.
Simile
c.
Metaphor
d.
Hyperbole
24.
Who among the following is considered as ‘The
Father of Free Verse’ :
a. Edgar Allan Poe
b.
Robert Frost
c. Walt
Whitman
d. Emerson
25.
Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, exalted :
a. Symbolism
b.
Meditation
c. Body and
material world
d. Allegory
26.
Which among the following is a newspaper founded
by Walt Whitman?
a. The Long-Islander
b. Cherokee Phoenix
c.
The Post-Standard
d. The Keene Sentinel
27.
‘Mose Velsor’ was a pen name used by the poet :
a. Edgar Allan Poe
b.
Walt Whitman
c. Robert Frost
d. Emily Dickinson
28.
‘The First Great Awakening’, the Christian
revival movement, swept American colonies during:
a. 1850-1870
b.
1780-1800
c. 1730-1755
d. 1620-1640
29.
Abolitionism in the United States was the
movement before and after the American Civil War against :
a. Slavery
b.
Empiricism
c. Anarchy
d. Calvinism
30.
Who is considered as America’s first ‘poet of
democracy’ :
a. Emerson
b.
Thoreau
c. Whitman
d. Dickinson
31.
Temperance movement is a social movement
against :
a. Slavery
b.
Corruption
c. Alcohol
consumption
d. Racism
32.
Which among the following is a temperance novel
written by Walt Whitman?
a. Franklin Evans
b.
Drum-Taps
c.
Democratic Vistas
d. Specimen Days
33.
Emily Dickinson's use of "open form"
or "free verse" is comparable to her contemporary American poet :
a. Anne Bradstreet
b.
Robert Lowell
c. Walt
Whitman
d.
Sylvia Plath
34.
The epitaph on her tombstone that Emily
Dickinson composed herself reads :
a. The List is done
b.
Redemption-Brittle Lady
c. Judge
tenderly-of Me
d.
Called Back
35.
Emily Dickinson sent poetry for consideration of
publication only to Thomas Wentworth Higginson, the poetry editor of :
a. The Atlantic Monthly
b. The Harvard Review
c.
The Philadelphia Inquirer
d. The
Amherst Academy
36.
Edgar Allan Poe’s essay The Philosophy of
Composition elucidates a theory about how good writers write when they write well. In this essay which poem
he took as an example :
a. The
Raven
b. To Helen
c. Eldorado
d. The Bells
37. 'The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket' is the only complete
novel written by :
a. Hawthorn
b.
Edgar Allan Poe
c. Mark Twain
d. Robert Frost
38.
Which among the following works of Edgar
Allan Poe gives a plausible solution to Olbers’ Paradox :
a. The Balloon-Hoax
b.
Eureka: A Prose Poem
c. The Light-House
d. Lenore
39.
Edgar Allan Poe’s Politian is a :
a. Novel
b.
Essay
c.
Play
d.
Poem
40.
A Boy’s Will is a book of poetry written
by :
a. Edgar Allan Poe
b.
Robert Frost
c. Hawthorne
d. Emerson
41.
Which of the following is a work by Robert Frost
:
a. North of Boston
b. A Witness Tree
c.
A Further Range
d. All
of them
42.
Robert Frost’s writing were mostly about :
a. Nature
b.
The rural life in New England
c.
Mysticism
d. Slavery
43.
Which among the following is a work of Ezra
Pound :
a. Ripostes
b.
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley
c.
A Lume Spento
d. All
of them
44.
How many sections were in Ezra Pound’s
incomplete poem The Cantos :
a. 101
b.
116
c. 74
d. 124
45.
Which section of Ezra Pound’s poem The Cantos
which he wrote while in custody in Italy got the Bollingen Prize?
a. The Adams Cantos
b.
The Italian Cantos
c. The Pisan
Cantos
d. The China Cantos
46.
Which work of Ezra Pound started with the
anecdote ‘The Parable of Sunfish’?
a. ABC of Reading
b. In a Station of the Metro
c. The Spirit of Romance
d.
Polite Essays
47.
The Enormous Room is an autobiographical
novel written by :
a. Ezra Pound
b.
ee Cummings
c. Wallace
Stevens
d. Robert Lowell
48.
Which among the following is a travelogue
written by ee Cummings?
a. EIMI
b.
Tulips and Chimneys
c.
Xaipe
d. HIM
49.
Which among the following is a work of ee
Cummings?
a. is 5
b.
1*1
c.
No Thanks
d.
All of them
50.
Santa Claus : A Morality is a play
written by :
a. Ezra Pound
b.
ee Cummings
c. Wallace
Stevens
d. Robert Lowell
1. C
ReplyDelete2. A
3. D
4. B
5. D
6. A
7. C
8. A
9. C
10. B
11. A
12. A
13. A
14. D
15. A
16. D
17. D
18. D
19. C
20. D
21. A
22. B
23. A
24. C
25. C
26. A
27. B
28. C
29. A
30. C
31. C
32. A
33. C
34. D
35. A
36. A
37. B
38. B
39. C
40. B
41. D
42. B
43. D
44. B
45. C
46. A
47. B
48. A
49. D
50. B