All Free English Literature MCQs with Answers

• A. Tom Buchanan
• B. Tom Joad
• C. Philip Marlowe
• D. Rip van Winkle

Explanation: Rip van Winkle, Washington Irving’s famous character, falls asleep in the Catskill Mountains and awakens twenty years later.

• A. Awareness of the importance of living a life without error and sin
• B. Awareness of the dangers of setting yourself up as the judge of others or of isolating yourself from humanity
• C. Awareness of the ethical problems of sin, punishment and atonement
• D. Awareness of the mysteries and frailties of human nature

Explanation: Hawthorne stresses that human beings are naturally imperfect and sinful, so demanding a life entirely without error is not his moral…

• A. A conversion
• B. A christening
• C. A wedding
• D. A baptism

Explanation: The forest ceremony in “Young Goodman Brown” resembles a satanic baptism or initiation, with Brown and Faith being brought into the…

• A. It took place at nightfall.
• B. It was a moody and spooky story.
• C. It contained clues to events yet to happen.
• D. It had descriptions of shadows in the woods.

Explanation: Foreshadowing gives readers clues about events that will occur later in a narrative.

• A. Eliza and Harry
• B. Uncle Tom and Cassy
• C. Uncle Tom and Eliza
• D. Uncle Tom and Harry

Explanation: Haley purchases Uncle Tom and Harry from Mr. Shelby. Eliza escapes with Harry before the sale can be completed, while Tom is taken away by…

• A. The Mississippi
• B. The Colorado
• C. The Ohio
• D. The Danube

Explanation: In Uncle Tom's Cabin, Eliza crosses the frozen Ohio River while escaping slavery.

• A. Cook
• B. Groomsman
• C. Head Coachman
• D. Valet

Explanation: At the St. Clare household, Uncle Tom works as the head coachman, handling the horses and carriage.

• A. Kindly but firmly
• B. Set them all free
• C. Beat them everyday
• D. They do not have slaves

Explanation: The Shelby family generally treats its enslaved people with relative kindness, though still within the unjust system of slavery and…

• A. Tom's death
• B. Eliza's escape
• C. Tom's daughter's wedding
• D. Tom saving Eva

Explanation: After Tom’s death, George Shelby recognises the moral evil of slavery and resolves to free all the enslaved people on his estate.

• A. Cassy
• B. Eliza
• C. George
• D. Uncle Tom

Explanation: Cassy haunts Simon Legree through the fear and guilt created by her resistance and by the apparent ghostly revenge associated with her…

• A. Sherwood Anderson
• B. Langston Hugues
• C. William Faulkner
• D. Robert Lee Frost

Explanation: William Faulkner wrote As I Lay Dying, a modernist novel narrated through the shifting viewpoints of the Bundren family.

• A. T.S. elliot
• B. William Faulkner
• C. Langston Hughes
• D. Sherwood anderson

Explanation: Light in August is a 1932 novel by William Faulkner, dealing with race, identity, religion, and social conflict in the American South. T.

• A. Senator Bird
• B. Mrs. Bird
• C. St. Clare
• D. Haley

Explanation: Mrs. Bird protests against the Fugitive Slave Law when Senator Bird considers returning an escaped slave.

• A. Historical fiction
• B. A fairy tale
• C. An autobiography
• D. A detective story

Explanation: The passage presents a dramatic episode from a story set against a historical background, so it is classified as historical fiction.

• A. Throws a rock
• B. Shouts about his hat
• C. Sneezes loudly
• D. Bucks his horse

Explanation: In Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Sam uses the comic warning about his hat to alert Eliza secretly that Mr. Haley is outside the inn.

• A. Fifty years
• B. Twenty years
• C. One hundred years
• D. Eighty years

Explanation: Rip Van Winkle sleeps for twenty years, during which the American colonies become the United States.

• A. Tutoring Eva
• B. Managing finances
• C. Helping Dinah cook
• D. Administering Marie's medicine

Explanation: Besides serving as coachman, Uncle Tom is entrusted with managing the St. Clares' financial affairs.

• A. He drowns
• B. He suffers a heart attack
• C. He is poisoned
• D. He is stabbed

Explanation: Augustine St. Clare is fatally stabbed while attempting to intervene in a fight.

• A. Alcohol
• B. Slavery
• C. Foreign
• D. Imperialism

Explanation: Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin as an antislavery novel that exposed the cruelty and moral corruption produced by slavery.

• A. Main Street
• B. Arrowsmith
• C. Elmer Gantry
• D. The Jungle

Explanation: Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle presents the dangerous and unhygienic conditions of Chicago’s meat-packing industry.