All Free English Literature MCQs with Answers

• A. Marxist theory
• B. psychoanalytic theory
• C. postcolonial theory
• D. deconstruction

Explanation: Postcolonial theory studies the cultural, political, and literary effects of colonial rule, including how British imperialism shaped…

• A. A historical narrative and a historical novel are the same thing.
• B. A historical narrative tells only part of the story surrounding a historical event; a historical novel tells the whole story.
• C. A historical novel focuses on providing the reader with only the central truth of a historical event, while a historical narrative attempts to tell the entire truth of a historical event.
• D. Faruqi actually argues that historical novels do not exist.

Explanation: In Faruqi's distinction, historical narrative aims at the entire truth of an event, whereas historical fiction selects and shapes a…

• A. religious stories
• B. creation stories
• C. A and B
• D. None of the above

Explanation: Pre-colonial literature commonly preserves religious beliefs and creation stories, especially through oral traditions.

• A. Frogs used to eat rocks and one day a frog ate a rock that was too hard and smashed its teeth.
• B. Frogs never had any teeth.
• C. Hare hit a frog with a club and burned the frog and cursed it by declaring it would never be able to harm anyone because it threatedned to hunt the hare down with dogs.
• D. Grandmother wanted to eat frog leg stew so she captured a frog and extracted its teeth one by one while chanting a Winnebago song, and since then frogs were without teeth.

Explanation: In the Native American myth, Hare strikes and burns the frog after Frog threatens him, and the curse leaves frogs unable to harm others…

• A. Predicting the Apocalypse
• B. Declaring his intention to run for public office
• C. Calling for Native Americans to declare themselves independent of the U.S. government
• D. Exhorting his allies and advocates to continue working to end prejudice

Explanation: Apess ends by urging those who oppose injustice to continue their efforts against racial prejudice.

• A. national identity
• B. political conflicts
• C. urban and european vs indigenous and rural
• D. All the above

Explanation: Independence-era writing commonly explores national identity, political conflict, and the tension between urban European influence and…

• A. They are nosey and stays busy tending to other people's business
• B. The Zunis are spiritual and have a strong moral code that they live by and teach to their children
• C. That the Zunis are afraid of earthquakes and floods
• D. That the Zunis like to make up stories for pure entertainment

Explanation: The prayers show that the Zuni community takes spiritual duty, wrongdoing, and moral instruction seriously.

• A. the metaphor of Ireland as a novel
• B. the metaphor of Ireland as a woman
• C. the metaphor of Ireland as a child
• D. the metaphor of Ireland as a soldier

Explanation: Irish writers often represented Ireland as a woman, using figures such as Kathleen Ni Houlihan or Mother Ireland to express the nation’s…

• A. 1901
• B. 1916
• C. 1922
• D. 1934

Explanation: The Easter Rising took place in Dublin from 24 to 29 April 1916. The failed rebellion nevertheless became a major turning point in the…

• A. it led many Irish writers to criticize British colonial practices
• B. it led to more depictions of violence and sacrifice in Irish literature
• C. it inspired Irish writers to create an Irish national identity
• D. All of the AboveExplore Top Audiobooks

Explanation: The Easter Rising encouraged Irish literature to confront British rule, political violence, sacrifice, and the construction of national…

• A. Roman
• B. Latin
• C. English
• D. Spanish

Explanation: Thomas More's Utopia was first written in Latin and published in 1516, although it was later translated into English.

• A. F ‍Bacon
• B. B Russell
• C. R Kippling
• D. None Of These

Explanation: Bertrand Russell wrote The Conquest of Happiness, a 1930 work combining philosophical reflection with practical advice on overcoming…

• A. 1998
• B. 1999
• C. 1997
• D. 2000

Explanation: Günter Grass, the German novelist best known for The Tin Drum, received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1999.

• A. Old Man and the Sea
• B. A Farewell to Arms
• C. Man and Superman
• D. Life of Pea (Ryan Martel)

Explanation: Hemingway’s Nobel recognition is commonly associated with The Old Man and the Sea, although the prize formally honoured his overall…

• A. Emily Dickinson
• B. Ezra Pound
• C. Virginia Woolf
• D. George Eliot

Explanation: George Eliot, the pen name of Mary Ann Evans, was a major nineteenth-century English novelist, known for Middlemarch and Silas Marner.

• A. E.B. Browning
• B. George Eliot
• C. T.S Eliot
• D. Austen

Explanation: George Eliot was one of the most celebrated women novelists of the Victorian period, particularly for Middlemarch.

• A. William Gates
• B. Henry David Thoreau
• C. Booker T. Washington
• D. Alain Locke

Explanation: Henry David Thoreau used and popularised the phrase “civil disobedience” in his essay on resistance to government.

• A. The Bible.
• B. Greek history.
• C. Slave narratives.
• D. Abolitionist newspapers.

Explanation: David Walker supports his argument by repeatedly invoking the Bible, especially its themes of justice, freedom, and divine judgment…

• A. Breaking the law.
• B. Using violence when necessary.
• C. Waiting for times to get better.
• D. Disobeying unjust laws.

Explanation: King distinguishes just laws from unjust laws and argues that unjust laws carry no moral claim to obedience.

• A. Getting an education.
• B. Fighting.
• C. Making friends with the guards.
• D. Contacting famous authors.

Explanation: Malcolm X survives prison intellectually by teaching himself through reading and study, especially after discovering the prison library.