All Free English Literature MCQs with Answers

• A. A narrative based entirely on verifiable facts
• B. A narrative that does not analyze characters on a situation-by-situation basis
• C. A narrative without characters
• D. A narrative that takes place in the past.

Explanation: In this distinction, history presents a narrative of past events without examining characters through the detailed situations and…

• A. All novelists are painters at heart.
• B. George du Maurier felt that black-andwhite illustrators could be as important as novelists and painters.
• C. George du Maurier attacked the social position of the novelist in his illustrations.
• D. George du Maurier was a tremendous influence on Victorian novelists.

Explanation: Kelly’s argument centres on George du Maurier’s view that black-and-white illustrators could possess an importance comparable to that of…

• A. A romantic awaiting true love
• B. A cynic awaiting the world's destruction
• C. A delusional girl with no grasp on reality
• D. A young girl with a particularly dark Mindset

Explanation: Signore reads Anne's development as a movement toward the conventions of romantic comedy, making her fundamentally a young woman oriented…

• A. It offers a critique of Romantic poetry and ideology.
• B. It serves to parody gothic novels.
• C. It is a horror novel.
• D. It is a memoir based on Jane Austen's childhood.

Explanation: Northanger Abbey humorously exposes the conventions and excesses of Gothic fiction, especially through Catherine Morland's overactive…

• A. A novel set in the past
• B. A novel that consists entirely of dialogue
• C. A novel that is set in the countryside of Europe
• D. A novel that consists of a series of documents, such as diary entries, letters, and newspaper articles

Explanation: An epistolary novel tells its story through documents written by characters or presented as records, especially letters, diaries, and…

• A. A story of one person's fall from grace and into destruction
• B. A story of one person's growth and development within a particular social order
• C. A story of one person's success within a capitalistic economic system
• D. A story of one person's selfrealization and attempt to return to innocence

Explanation: A Bildungsroman follows a person's formation, education, and emotional development within society.

• A. Marie
• B. Eliza
• C. Rachel
• D. Ophelia

Explanation: Marie St. Clare is Augustine St. Clare's selfish and unsympathetic wife in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin.

• A. A bird
• B. A small mountain lake
• C. A wide river
• D. A high cliff

Explanation: A tarn is a small mountain lake, often formed in a hollow carved by glaciers.

• A. one
• B. seven
• C. five
• D. three

Explanation: Uncle Tom and Aunt Chloe have three children. The family’s separation under slavery intensifies the novel’s criticism of the slave system.

• A. Gatsby
• B. Nick
• C. Buchannan
• D. None of the above

Explanation: Nick Carraway narrates The Great Gatsby and also participates in its events as Gatsby's neighbour and acquaintance.

• A. Captain Ahab
• B. Elijah
• C. Ishmael
• D. Gabrial

Explanation: Ishmael narrates Moby-Dick and begins with the famous statement, “Call me Ishmael.” Ahab is the captain and central antagonist, but he is…

• A. Christian
• B. Hindu
• C. Jew
• D. Afro-American

Explanation: Moses Herzog, the central character of Saul Bellow's Herzog, is a Jewish intellectual undergoing a personal and marital crisis.

• A. Fiesta
• B. The Assistant
• C. The Sea in Being
• D. Farewell to Arms

Explanation: Hemingway's manuscript title for The Old Man and the Sea was The Sea in Being.

• A. Eugene O' Neil's
• B. William Faulkner
• C. Robert Lee frost
• D. Countee Cullen

Explanation: The Sound and the Fury is William Faulkner’s 1929 modernist novel, famous for its fragmented narration and presentation of the Compson…

• A. Eva
• B. Prue
• C. Emmeline
• D. Topsy

Explanation: In Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Augustine St. Clare gives Topsy to Ophelia to educate and reform.

• A. Santiago
• B. Marlin
• C. Mandolin
• D. None of the above

Explanation: Santiago, the old Cuban fisherman, is the novel's central character; the marlin is the great fish he struggles to catch.

• A. To a Congregationalist community
• B. To a Methodist community
• C. To a Quaker settlement
• D. To Philadelphia

Explanation: Senator Bird helps Eliza and Harry reach a Quaker settlement, whose members assist fugitive slaves through the Underground Railroad.

• A. Lake Erie
• B. Lake Huron
• C. Niagara Falls
• D. Northern Minnesota

Explanation: After reaching Sandusky, Eliza crosses Lake Erie to Canada, completing her escape from slavery.

• A. Emily
• B. Rachel
• C. Margaret
• D. Danielle

Explanation: Mrs. Shelby is named Emily in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

• A. Harper Lee
• B. John Updike
• C. Henry Miller
• D. R. Ellison

Explanation: John Updike created Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom, the central character of the Rabbit novels, including Rabbit, Run and Rabbit Is Rich.