All Free English Literature MCQs with Answers

• A. Cassy
• B. Mrs.Shelby
• C. Mrs.Legree
• D. Aunt Chole

Explanation: Cassy is Eliza’s mother in Uncle Tom’s Cabin, although their relationship is revealed only later in the novel.

• A. His weakness for spirits
• B. That he is henpecked by his wife
• C. His love of town gossip
• D. His unwillingness to work

Explanation: Irving says Rip’s chief fault was his strong dislike of profitable work, not merely his drinking, gossiping, or unhappy marriage.

• A. A hortatory sermon
• B. A historial novel
• C. Gothic fiction
• D. A narrative frame

Explanation: The passage uses recorded historical events and descriptions of an earlier conflict as material for a narrative, which identifies the work…

• A. Liberia
• B. Nigeria
• C. France
• D. Algeria

Explanation: George and Eliza eventually plan to leave America for Liberia, where they hope to help establish a homeland for formerly enslaved African…

• A. A locket
• B. A ring
• C. A dollar
• D. A crucifix

Explanation: George Shelby gives Tom a silver dollar tied around his neck as a personal token before Tom is taken away.

• A. In New Orleans
• B. On a ferry
• C. In Memphis
• D. On a river boat

Explanation: Tom first meets Eva while travelling by river boat, after she falls into the water and he helps rescue her.

• A. Relocate to Louisiana
• B. Punish another slave
• C. Abandon his faith
• D. Marry another woman

Explanation: George Harris's master tries to force him to abandon his existing marriage and marry another woman chosen by the master.

• A. His gentle and soft-spoken nature
• B. His honesty and deep devotion to God
• C. His overwhelming fear of violence
• D. His ability to hide his rebellious nature.

Explanation: Tom's honesty and deep Christian devotion shape his patience, compassion, and moral resistance throughout the novel.

• A. Memphis
• B. New Orleans
• C. Louisville
• D. Atlanta

Explanation: The St Clare household is located in New Orleans, where Tom is purchased by Augustine St Clare.

• A. Steinback
• B. Faulkner
• C. Hemingway
• D. Fitzgerald

Explanation: Absalom, Absalom! is William Faulkner’s 1936 novel about the rise and fall of Thomas Sutpen and the troubled history of the American…

• A. That he will adopt Topsy
• B. That he will free Uncle Tom
• C. That he will remarry
• D. That he will try to find Harry

Explanation: As Eva lies dying in Uncle Tom’s Cabin, she asks her father, Augustine St. Clare, to promise that he will free Uncle Tom.

• A. Eva
• B. Marie
• C. George Shelby
• D. Haley

Explanation: Marie St. Clare inherits Augustine’s property, including Tom, after St. Clare’s death.

• A. Juan Tomas and his wife.
• B. The doctor and the priest.
• C. Kino and his wife Juana.
• D. None of the above

Explanation: The central relationship in The Pearl is that of Kino and his wife Juana, whose lives are transformed by the discovery of the pearl.

• A. Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte
• B. Sir Walter Scott and Maria Edgeworth
• C. William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• D. Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley

Explanation: Sir Walter Scott and Maria Edgeworth are major pioneers of the historical novel, using imagined characters and plots against real…

• A. Politician
• B. Dramatist
• C. Novelist
• D. Architect

Explanation: Although Huxley wrote poetry and essays, he became chiefly famous for novels such as Brave New World and Point Counter Point.

• A. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• B. Irvine Welsh
• C. Agatha Christie
• D. None of above

Explanation: Agatha Christie wrote the mystery novel originally published under this title, now commonly known as And Then There Were None.

• A. Agatha Christie
• B. H Ryder-Haggard
• C. P D James
• D. Arthur Conan Doyle

Explanation: The Hound of the Baskervilles is the famous Sherlock Holmes mystery novel written by Arthur Conan Doyle. Agatha Christie and P. D.

• A. Vancouver
• B. Toronto
• C. Ottowa
• D. Montreal

Explanation: Margaret Atwood was born in Ottawa, the Canadian capital, in 1939. Option c misspells Ottawa as “Ottowa,” but it is clearly the intended…

• A. The Dubliners
• B. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
• C. Ulysses
• D. Finnegans Wake

Explanation: “Riverrun” is the opening word of Finnegans Wake, whose circular structure also returns to this fragment at the end.

• A. the invented words
• B. the free dream associations
• C. the sketchy, episodic structure
• D. All of the Above

Explanation: Finnegans Wake is avant-garde because it combines invented and multilingual words with dream-like associations and a deliberately…