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This section includes 169 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your Master of Arts in English (M.A. English) knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
| 1. |
What is one thing that Lula, in “Dutchman” has in her bag? |
| A. | glasses |
| B. | a soda |
| C. | cash |
| D. | books |
| Answer» E. | |
| 2. |
Lula, in “Dutchman”, labels Clay |
| A. | an idiot |
| B. | a slave |
| C. | a liar |
| D. | a murderer |
| Answer» E. | |
| 3. |
Lula, in “Dutchman”, calls Clay "my _______" |
| A. | hero |
| B. | christ |
| C. | lover |
| D. | saviour |
| Answer» C. lover | |
| 4. |
What poet does Clay, in “Dutchman”, say he thought he was? |
| A. | coleridge |
| B. | baudelaire |
| C. | wordsworth |
| D. | yeats |
| Answer» C. wordsworth | |
| 5. |
What is Lula’s first name in “Dutchman?” |
| A. | lyra |
| B. | layla |
| C. | lena |
| D. | lora |
| Answer» D. lora | |
| 6. |
What happens when Laura’s glass unicorn is broken? |
| A. | she becomes ill and rushes to her room. |
| B. | she demands that amanda get her a new one. |
| C. | she maintains that now the unicorn is normal. |
| D. | she tells tom she never cared for the unicorn. |
| Answer» D. she tells tom she never cared for the unicorn. | |
| 7. |
Jim O’Connor voices the opinion that |
| A. | amanda is an inconsiderate hostess |
| B. | laura should see a psychoanalyst |
| C. | someone should kiss laura |
| D. | tom should stop going to so many movies |
| Answer» D. tom should stop going to so many movies | |
| 8. |
What does Tom warn Amanda about Mr. O’Connor? |
| A. | mr. o’connor doesn’t like to go to the movies. |
| B. | mr. o’connor has a drinking problem. |
| C. | mr. o’connor has been fired from his last two jobs. |
| D. | mr. o’connor doesn’t know about laura. |
| Answer» E. | |
| 9. |
What did Thérèse used to do as a job? |
| A. | she was a cook. |
| B. | she was a tour guide. |
| C. | she was a wet nurse. |
| D. | she was a janitor. |
| Answer» D. she was a janitor. | |
| 10. |
What pest invades Valerian’s greenhouse in Tar Baby? |
| A. | ants |
| B. | mice |
| C. | snakes |
| D. | wasps |
| Answer» B. mice | |
| 11. |
What is the name of Son’s hometown in Tar Baby? |
| A. | tallahassee |
| B. | tampa |
| C. | elbow |
| D. | eloe |
| Answer» E. | |
| 12. |
What is the name of Ahab’s ship? |
| A. | the town-ho |
| B. | the rachel |
| C. | the samuel enderby |
| D. | the pequod |
| Answer» E. | |
| 13. |
According to Emerson, what does every educated man eventually realize in “Self Reliance?” |
| A. | perspective is flawed |
| B. | life is fleeting |
| C. | wealth is subjective |
| D. | envy is ignorance |
| Answer» E. | |
| 14. |
What is the "hobgoblin of little minds as mentioned in “Self Reliance?” |
| A. | greed |
| B. | lust |
| C. | consistency |
| D. | envy |
| Answer» D. envy | |
| 15. |
Why do people not trust themselves as mentioned in “Self Reliance?” |
| A. | they\ve never had a pure thought |
| B. | societal disapproval and foolish consistency |
| C. | fear of failure |
| D. | they are separated from nature |
| Answer» C. fear of failure | |
| 16. |
What does Emerson say has made men weak and afraid of truth in “Self Reliance?”? |
| A. | politics |
| B. | indifference |
| C. | fear |
| D. | pretence |
| Answer» E. | |
| 17. |
What does Emerson consider a valid form of prayer in “Self Reliance?”? |
| A. | latin liturgy |
| B. | a long, quiet walk |
| C. | meditation |
| D. | right action |
| Answer» E. | |
| 18. |
On what basis does progress occur as mentioned in “Self Reliance?” |
| A. | spiritual |
| B. | individual |
| C. | societal |
| D. | corporate |
| Answer» C. societal | |
| 19. |
Why must men seek solitude as mentioned in “Self Reliance?”? |
| A. | to value society upon return |
| B. | to experience nature |
| C. | to think without the influence of society |
| D. | to find god |
| Answer» D. to find god | |
| 20. |
What is society compared to in “Self Reliance?” |
| A. | chaos |
| B. | joint-stock company |
| C. | conspiracy |
| D. | nothing |
| Answer» C. conspiracy | |
| 21. |
Which character from Greek mythology is used by Plath in her poem “Edge?” |
| A. | medusa |
| B. | medea |
| C. | aerope |
| D. | canace |
| Answer» C. aerope | |
| 22. |
What is the literary device used throughout the poem “Edge?” |
| A. | enjambment |
| B. | alliteration |
| C. | assonance |
| D. | internal rhyme |
| Answer» B. alliteration | |
| 23. |
Ginsberg had an ambition to become which of the following in “America”? |
| A. | sailor. |
| B. | president. |
| C. | rabbi. |
| D. | cartoonist. |
| Answer» C. rabbi. | |
| 24. |
Ginsberg’s vision of America in “America” is inspired from? |
| A. | walt whitman |
| B. | ralph waldo emerson |
| C. | robert frost |
| D. | edgar alan poe |
| Answer» B. ralph waldo emerson | |
| 25. |
What is St. Gauden's relief made of in “For the Union Dead?”? |
| A. | stone |
| B. | copper |
| C. | marble |
| D. | bronze |
| Answer» E. | |
| 26. |
What desert does Lowell reference in the first stanza in “For the Union Dead?” |
| A. | sonoran |
| B. | mojave |
| C. | sahara |
| D. | gobi |
| Answer» D. gobi | |
| 27. |
What does Colonel Shaw wait for at the end of the poem “For the Union Dead?” |
| A. | a greyhound\s gentle tautness |
| B. | a parking spot |
| C. | an end to violence |
| D. | the blessed break |
| Answer» E. | |
| 28. |
What does Colonel Shaw's father want in “For the Union Dead?” |
| A. | a better monument |
| B. | the ditch |
| C. | nothing |
| D. | his son\s weapon |
| Answer» C. nothing | |
| 29. |
What animal does the final stanza compare cars to in “For the Union Dead?” |
| A. | zebras |
| B. | fish |
| C. | snakes |
| D. | cats |
| Answer» C. snakes | |
| 30. |
The waists on the stone statues of soldiers are compared to what in “For the Union Dead?” |
| A. | mosquitos |
| B. | swans |
| C. | herons |
| D. | wasps |
| Answer» E. | |
| 31. |
Colonel Shaw served in which war in “For the Union Dead?” |
| A. | world war i |
| B. | world war ii |
| C. | the vietnam war |
| D. | the civil war |
| Answer» E. | |
| 32. |
An advertisement for what insensitively uses an image of Hiroshima in “For the Union Dead?” |
| A. | a movie |
| B. | a brand of safes |
| C. | a brand of watch |
| D. | a skin care product |
| Answer» C. a brand of watch | |
| 33. |
What is the speaker referring to when he says "I am the darker brother" in “I, Too?” |
| A. | his family role |
| B. | his troubled past |
| C. | his skin colour |
| D. | his angry mood |
| Answer» D. his angry mood | |
| 34. |
The poem “I, Too” references which dark portion of America's past? |
| A. | the civil war |
| B. | slavery |
| C. | the civil rights movement |
| D. | prohibition |
| Answer» C. the civil rights movement | |
| 35. |
What is the original name of ‘Buffalo Bill’? |
| A. | william scout |
| B. | william cody |
| C. | william bill |
| D. | william west |
| Answer» C. william bill | |
| 36. |
What part of the woman’s body might remain visible in “The Emperor of Ice Cream”? |
| A. | her wrinkled hands |
| B. | her closed eyes |
| C. | her stringy hair |
| D. | her horny feet |
| Answer» E. | |
| 37. |
What are the wenches doing in “The Emperor of Ice Cream”? |
| A. | wrapping up the body |
| B. | taking care of the boys |
| C. | complaining |
| D. | hanging around |
| Answer» E. | |
| 38. |
What is embroidered on the sheet used to cover the body in “The Emperor of Ice Cream”? |
| A. | birds |
| B. | hearts |
| C. | flowers |
| D. | leaves |
| Answer» B. hearts | |
| 39. |
Which is NOT an adjective you could apply to the cigar man in “The Emperor of Ice Cream”,based on the poem's description of him? |
| A. | masculine |
| B. | capable |
| C. | strong |
| D. | arrogant |
| Answer» E. | |
| 40. |
Who makes the ice cream in “The Emperor of Ice Cream”? |
| A. | the mother |
| B. | the speaker |
| C. | the roller of big cigars |
| D. | the newspaper boys |
| Answer» D. the newspaper boys | |
| 41. |
What does the wife see through the window at the beginning of “Home Burial”? |
| A. | horsemen approaching |
| B. | the coroner’s wagon |
| C. | her child’s grave |
| D. | her husband returning |
| Answer» D. her husband returning | |
| 42. |
What is the literal meaning of the title “Home Burial”? |
| A. | death of marriage |
| B. | a broken home |
| C. | the death of the child |
| D. | a broken marriage |
| Answer» D. a broken marriage | |
| 43. |
When the landscape "listens" in “There is a certain slant of Light”, it brings to mind the poem'stheme of |
| A. | society and class |
| B. | awe and amazement |
| C. | truth |
| D. | transformation |
| Answer» C. truth | |
| 44. |
That "seal Despair" in “There is a certain slant of Light” is a sort of metaphor for the speaker's |
| A. | perseverance |
| B. | mortality |
| C. | versions of reality |
| D. | suffering |
| Answer» E. | |
| 45. |
That ‘Heavenly Hurt’ in “There is a certain slant of Light” that leaves no scar works with thespeaker's sense of |
| A. | time |
| B. | suffering |
| C. | mortality |
| D. | spirituality |
| Answer» C. mortality | |
| 46. |
How did Dickinson intend for the light to be viewed in “There is a certain slant of Light”? |
| A. | oppressive |
| B. | welcoming |
| C. | enchanting |
| D. | cold |
| Answer» B. welcoming | |
| 47. |
The lines “When it comes, the Landscape listens – Shadows – hold their breath” in “There is acertain slant of Light” is an example of? |
| A. | simile |
| B. | metaphor |
| C. | pathetic fallacy |
| D. | anaphora |
| Answer» D. anaphora | |
| 48. |
Opening stanza of “Passage to India” celebrates which of the following great engineeringachievements? |
| A. | the laying of the transatlantic undersea cable |
| B. | the joining of the union pacific and central pacific railroads at utah |
| C. | invention of steam engine |
| D. | the opening of the suez canal |
| Answer» E. | |
| 49. |
Who is the “The Admiral himself” described in the poem “Passage to India”? |
| A. | marco polo |
| B. | alexander |
| C. | columbus |
| D. | tamerlane |
| Answer» D. tamerlane | |
| 50. |
Those oppressive "Cathedral Tunes" reflect the poem's (“There is a certain slant of Light”)theme of |
| A. | isolation |
| B. | mortality |
| C. | immortality |
| D. | versions of reality |
| Answer» B. mortality | |