Free The Novel MCQs with Answers

• 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.

• 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.