Free The Novel MCQs with Answers

• 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.

• 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.