American and Indian literature MCQ
What is American Literature?
Major writers of American Literature are :
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Herman Melville
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- David Thoreau
- Walt Whitman
Major writers of the Modern American Literature are:
- Robert Frost
- Ernest Hemingway
- William Faulkner
- Carl Sandburg
- Edward Albee
- Arthur Miller
- Tennessee Williams
American Literature MCQs
20 top MCQ on American literature
1. Who said this about America : “How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, which no other people on earth enjoy”?
(A) Herbert Hoover
(B) Thomas Jefferson
(C) Benjamin Franklin
(D) James Monroe
Ans. B
2. Thoreau lived the life of a hermit and wrote a classic named
(A) Concord
(B) Walden
(C) The Scarlet Letter
(D) Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
Ans. B
3. Which of the following novels is known by the name of “propaganda novel”?
(A) Dred : A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp
(B) Uncle Tom’s Cabin
(C) Tom Sawyer
(D) Aunt Phillis’s Cabin
Ans. B
4. The story of ‘Rip Van Winkle’ shows
(A) the life in the early days before independence
(B) the life during the Civil War
(C) the life after the Civil War
(D) how life changed after the Civil War
5. Who called Poe “three-fifths genius and two-fifths sheer fudge”?
(A) Emerson
(B) Yeats
(C) Lowell
(D) Cooper
Ans. C
6. “The Raven” was written by
(A) Robert Frost
(B) Emily Dickinson
(C) Edgar Allan Poe
(D) Walt Whitman
Ans. C
7. Who wrote the following line: “I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise...”?
(A) Walt Whitman
(B) Robert Frost
(C) Emily Dickinson
(D) Carl Sandburg
Ans. A
8. In which poem does Emerson demonstrate his understanding of Vishnu Purana and Bhagavad Gita?
(A) “Days”
(B) “Brahma”
(C) “Earth Song”
(D) “The Problem”
Ans. B
9. In which poem does Ezra Pound write : “Let us express our envy of the man with a steady job and no worry about the future” ?
(A) “Salutation”
(B) “Further Instructions”
(C) “The Rest”
(D) “Ballad of the Goodly Fere”
Ans. B
10. In which poem Frost wrote: “Good fences make good neighbours”?
(A) “Reluctance”
(B) “Mending Wall”
(C) “The Pasture”
(D) “In Hardwood Groves”
Ans. B
11. Cleopatra is a character in which of the following plays by Aurobindo?
(A) Perseus, the Deliverer
(B) Rodogune
(C) Vasavadutta
(D) None of the above
Ans. B
12. Hali is a short poetic play written by
(A) A.S.P. Ayyar
(B) Bharati Sarabhai
(C) T.P.Kailasam
(D) G.V.Desani
Ans. D
13. In Tendulkar’s play Kanyadan, Arun Athavale, a young dalit boy falls in love with
(A) Jyoti
(B) Seva
(C) Savitri
(D) Binny
14. The Story of My Experiments with Truth, the autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi was published in the year
(A) 1924
(B) 1925
(C) 1926
(D) 1927
15. In which of the following novels Lalu is a central character?
(A) The Big Heart
(B) Untouchable
(C) The Village
(D) The Death of a Hero
16. Which of the following is the first novel of Manohar Malgonkar?
(A) Distant Drum
(B) A Bend in the Ganges
(C) Combat of Shadows
(D) The Princes
17. In which of the following novels the city of Bombay is used as the backdrop?
(A) Fire on the Mountain
(B) Clear Light of Day
(C) Voices in the City
(D) Baumgartner's Bombay
18. Karma is the central character in which of the following novels?
(A) Sisters
(B) Snapshots
(C) Socialite Evenings
(D) Second Thoughts
19. The setting of The God of Small Things is
(A) Kerala
(B) Karnataka
(C) Tamil Nadu
(D) Andhra Pradesh
20. Sunlight on a Broken Column is the first novel written by
(A) Attia Hosain
(B) Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
(C) Jhumpa Lahiri
(D) Salman Rushdie
