Literature MCQs : This section focuses on the "Literature". These Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) should be practiced to improve the Literature skills required for various interviews (campus interview, walk-in interview, company interview), placement, entrance exam and other competitive examinations.
Question 1
Does English and Malayalam have the same sentence structure?
A. yes
B. no
C. cannot be compared
D. none of the above
Question 2
Look at the statements given below and choose the right option.English has no infections. In English, positions of words are what determine meaning.
A. first statement is right, second is wrong
B. first statement is wrong and second is right
C. both statements are right
D. both statements are wrong.
Question 3
Does the position of words affect meaning in English sentences?
A. yes
B. no
C. not sure
D. none of the above
Question 4
Complete the expression using word or words that suit the expression.Once upon a
A. photo
B. water
C. time
D. to be
Question 5
Find the correct sentence.
A. the cat chased a to be.
B. the cat chased a bring.
C. the cat chased an intelligent
D. the cat chased a rat.
Question 6
Find the odd one out.
A. mary ate a biscuit
B. john wrote a letter
C. she slept well
D. i saw him
Question 7
Find the odd one out.
A. he did his chores
B. he walked home
C. she slept well
D. my father reached late
Question 8
He ____ his hat.
A. put off
B. bring on
C. put on
D. put up with
Question 9
Who is the author of the story Eyes of the Cat?
A. o henry
B. r k narayan
C. ruskin bond
D. ted hughes
Question 10
We ____ ____ the trash for pick up.
A. gave up
B. left out
C. left over
D. put up with
Question 11
I am having some trouble ____ ____ the solution for this problem.
A. working out
B. putting out
C. going on
D. going away
Question 12
What will she _____ _____ next?
A. keep on
B. smile on
C. think up
D. drink away
Question 13
I ____ ____ my friend on my way to work.
A. think up
B. came across
C. went over
D. put away
Question 14
She ____ _____ the tree.
A. fell on
B. put out
C. put away
D. climbed up
Question 15
I will ____ _____ the matter.
A. put up with
B. slide past
C. look away
D. look into
Question 16
We are _____ ____ his sudden whims.
A. put up
B. carry across
C. used to
D. put on
Question 17
It's time to _____ _____ the plane.
A. put out
B. put on
C. get out
D. get on
Question 18
The car ____ ____ on the way.
A. broke down
B. caught out
C. carried away
D. went across
Question 19
Did you ____ _____ the customer's complaint?
A. get on
B. deal with
C. put on
D. break out
Question 20
Who is the author of the story The Death of a Clerk?
A. leo tolstoy
B. ruskin bond
C. anton chekhov
D. victor hugo
Question 21
Identify the figure of speech in the given lines.Because I could not stop for Death He kindly stopped for me
A. simile
B. metaphor
C. personification
D. hyperbole
Question 22
Identify the figure of speech in the text given below.To follow her thought was like following a voice which speaks too quickly
A. metaphor
B. personification
C. hyperbole
D. simile
Question 23
Identify the figure of speech in the given text.I have told you to clean your room a million times.
A. hyperbole
B. simile
C. metaphor
D. personification
Question 24
Identify the figure of speech in the given text.The assignment was a breeze
A. simile
B. metaphor
C. personification
D. hyperbole
Question 25
Who is the narrator in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes?
A. sancho panza
B. sherlock holmes
C. dr watson
D. omniscient narrator
Question 26
Who wrote The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes?
A. george orwell
B. arthur conan doyle
C. henry james
D. william faulkner
Question 27
Who is the protagonist of the novel 1984?
A. george orwell
B. tom jones
C. tom tulliver
D. winston smith
Question 28
Identify the popular novel in which the character Charles Bingley appears?
A. 1984
B. hard times
C. things fall apart
D. pride and prejudice
Question 29
Who wrote the novel Pride and Prejudice?
A. jane austen
B. mary ann evans
C. agatha christie
D. charlotte bronte
Question 30
Who wrote the novel 1984?
A. william faulkner
B. james joyce
C. george orwell
D. john osborne
Question 31
Identify the novel in which the characters Isma, Eamonn, Parvaiz, Aneeka and Karamatappear?
A. 1984
B. midnight's children
C. pride and prejudice
D. home fire
Question 32
Who wrote the novel Things Fall Apart?
A. saul bellow
B. chinua achebe
C. ngugi wa thiong'o
D. chimamanda ngozi adichie
Question 33
Who wrote the novel Home Fire?
A. langston hughes
B. saul bellow
C. kamila shamsie
D. alice walker
Question 34
Which society is portrayed in the novel Things Fall Apart?
A. fulani
B. yoruba
C. negrito
D. igbo
Question 35
Who wrote the essay Shakespeare in the Bush?
A. laura bohannan
B. chinua achebe
C. harold bloom
D. dr johnson
Question 36
Who is the director of the film Rashomon?
A. kim ki-duk
B. akira kurosawa
C. yasujiro ozu
D. satyajit ray
Question 37
As I Grew Older is a poem by ____.
A. emily dickinson
B. walt whitman
C. langston hughes
D. thomas hardy
Question 38
Who wrote the poem Everyone Sang?
A. wilfred owen
B. thomas hardy
C. siegfried sassoon
D. walt whitman
Question 39
Who wrote the poem Because I could not stop for Death?
A. emily dickinson
B. elizabeth barret browning
C. rabindranath tagore
D. t s eliot
Question 40
Who wrote the poem The Oak?
A. matthew arnold
B. p b shelley
C. william wordsworth
D. alfred lord tennyson
Question 41
Who wrote the poem, The Destruction of Sennacherib?
A. william wordsworth
B. lord byron
C. william blake
D. thomas gray
Question 42
Who wrote the poem, The Daffodils?
A. p b shelley
B. william wordsworth
C. lord byron
D. s t coleridge
Question 43
Identify the poem from which the following line is taken.I wandered lonely as a cloud
A. the destruction of sennacherib
B. the oak
C. rime of the ancient mariner
D. the daffodils
Question 44
Identify the poet who wrote the following lines.The Carriage held but just Ourselves - And Immortality
A. siegfried sassoon
B. william wordsworth
C. emily dickinson
D. alfred lord tennyson
Question 45
Who wrote the poem The Voice?
A. thomas hardy
B. robert frost
C. emily dickinson
D. alfred lord tennyson
Question 46
Who wrote the sonnet Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?
A. thomas wyatt
B. earl of surrey
C. william shakespeare
D. philip sidney
Question 47
Who authored the collection of poetry, A Shropshire Lad?
A. robert frost
B. earl of surrey
C. thomas hardy
D. a e housman
Question 48
Who wrote the poem Birches?
A. robert frost
B. walt whitman
C. emily dickinson
D. t s eliot
Question 49
Who wrote the book Politically Correct Bedtime Stories?
A. italo calvino
B. james finn garner
C. marcel proust
D. julian barnes
Question 50
Polonius and Ophelia are characters in which famous Shakespeare play?
A. king lear
B. othello
C. hamlet
D. macbeth
Question 51
…………….is the process through which the dominant class propagate their beliefs andideas and rule over the subordinate groups.
A. ideology
B. interpellation
C. hegemony
D. power
Question 52
The process of voluntarily assimilating consent into the mainstream thinkingis………………….
A. ideology
B. interpellation
C. subjugation
D. hegemony
Question 53
The leading Marxist philosopher ……………………….used the term ideology to refer tothese dominant beliefs, ideas and representations which legitimize existing power relations.
A. louis althusser
B. antonio gramsci
C. terry eagleton
D. engels
Question 54
The term …………………to refer to the dominant beliefs, ideas and representations whichlegitimize existing power relations
A. interpellation
B. hegemony
C. ideology
D. monopoly
Question 55
Jane Eyre is the famous novel written by……………….
A. emily bronte
B. charlotte bronte
C. virginia woolf
D. george eliot
Question 56
Maya Angelou is an …………….poet
A. british
B. indian
C. american
D. italian
Question 57
Who used the term ‘discourse’ to denote a historically contingent social system thatproduces knowledge and meaning
A. michel foucault
B. raymond williams
C. marx
D. antonio gramsci
Question 58
The term …………………….to denote a historically contingent social system thatproduces knowledge and meaning
A. interpellation
B. hegemony
C. discourse
D. ideology
Question 59
The story ‘A Hanging’ is set in……………………….
A. nepal
B. india
C. china
D. burma
Question 60
The dictionary defines …………..as a ‘social organization marked by the supremacy of thefather in the clan or family in both domestic and religious functions.
A. gender
B. patriarchy
C. matriarchy
D. anarchism
Question 61
…………..is an ideology people use in modern societies to imagine the existence of differencesbetween men and women on the basis of their sex.
A. feminism
B. gender
C. patriarchy
D. marxism
Question 62
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts is the autobiography of …….
A. maxine hong kingston
B. maya angelou
C. george orwell
D. althusser
Question 63
The short story ‘Prelude’ written by………
A. emily dickenson
B. virginia woolf
C. maxine hong kingston
D. katherine mansfield
Question 64
The word………. refers to any person or group of inferior rank or station, whether because ofrace, class, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity or religion.
A. subaltern
B. dalit
C. adivasi
D. transgender
Question 65
Who is the author of Images of Women in Literature?
A. judith butler
B. virginia wolf
C. mary anne ferguson
D. elaine showalter.
Question 66
The second Sex is written by…………………
A. simon de beauvoir
B. virginia wolf
C. judith butler
D. elaine showalter
Question 67
The typical, fixed gender images are called ……………
A. masculinity
B. feminine
C. stereotypes
D. third gender
Question 68
“ Which Language Should I Speak; is a poem of …………..
A. f m shinde
B. raghavan atholi
C. arun kamble
D. m dasan
Question 69
‘ Oxford India Anthology of Malayalam Dalit Writing is edited by………
A. arun kumble
B. sachidanandan
C. sunny m kapikkad
D. dr. m dasan
Question 70
F M Shinde is a……………..poet
A. bengali
B. marathi
C. hindi
D. tamil
Question 71
The poem ‘Habit’ is written by……………
A. arun camble
B. s joseph
C. priya adarker
D. f m shinde
Question 72
Which among the poems is written by S Joseph?
A. identity card
B. habit
C. which language should i speak
D. black dance
Question 73
The poem ‘Identity Card’ is translated from Malayalam to English by
A. anand
B. valsan thampu
C. devika
D. k sachidanandan
Question 74
Who is the author of the novel Lord Of Flies?
A. william golding
B. amitav ghosh
C. tolstoy
D. william faulkner
Question 75
A person’s gender identity may differ from the sex they were assigned at birth. Such subjectsare called ……………
A. masculine
B. feminine
C. lesbian
D. transgender.
Question 76
‘I Remember I Remembe’r is a poem of………..
A. thomas hood
B. ogden nash
C. robert frost
D. john keats
Question 77
Calvin and Hobbes , a daily comic strip by the American Cartoonist ……..
A. dr. seuss
B. shel silverstein
C. bill watterson
D. grey larson
Question 78
“ Norms are not static entities, but incorporated and interpreted features of existence” Whosays?
A. elaine showalter
B. judith butler
C. betty friedan
D. virginia woolf
Question 79
People who use the term …………..may use it to mean lesbian, gay, bisexual, or pansexual,or they may use it because other terms don’t quite describe their experiences.
A. queer
B. transgender
C. gender
D. hetero sexual
Question 80
People who identify their sexual orientation as ……………..typically feel attracted to peopleof a different gender
A. bi sexual
B. pansexual
C. hetero sexual
D. homo sexual
Question 81
………….is about a gay man from rural Karnataka
A. habit
B. mohanaswamy
C. the letter q,
D. identity card
Question 82
Vasudhendra is a………….writer
A. tamil
B. hindi
C. bengali
D. kannada
Question 83
Vasudhendra is a …………………………writer
A. gay
B. lesbian
C. transgender
D. dalit
Question 84
“I am large. I contain multitudes” is a line from…………
A. habit
B. identity
C. songs of myself
D. mohanaswamy
Question 85
“Songs of Life” is the work of………
A. s joseph.
B. emerson
C. f m shinde
D. walt whitman
Question 86
People who identify as ……………..typically feel attracted to more than one gender, suchas being attracted to both women and men.
A. bi sexual
B. homo sexual
C. hetero sexual
D. pan sexual
Question 87
……………, one of the earliest Dalit writers, defines Dalit literature as “Literature whichartistically portrays the sorrows, tribulations, slavery, degradation, ridicule and poverty endured by Dalits”
A. sharankumar limbale
B. arjun dangle
C. abedkar
D. valmiki
Question 88
‘The Letter Q’ is a letter written by…………
A. ely shipley
B. vasudhendra
C. walt whitman
D. emerson
Question 89
“Naught may endure but “mutability”is the line from the poem “ Mutability” by
A. john keats
B. p b shelly
C. william wordsworth
D. coleridge
Question 90
“Don’t cry, Darling, It’s Blood All right” is the poem of………..
A. ogden nash
B. thomas hood
C. robert frost
D. walt whitman
Question 91
“A Hanging” is written by……………………………..
A. arundhati roy b) antonio gramsci
C. george orwell
D. anton chekov
Question 92
‘The Adivasi will not Dance’ is written by ……………………..
A. h s shekhar b) mulkraj anand
C. limbale
D. narayan