MCQ on American Writers in English Literature
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Multiple Choice Questions on American Literature
1. Among the following American writers who is not considered as American Romantic Author ?
A. Henry David Thoreau
B. Harman Melville
C. Waldo Emerson
D. Arthur Miller
Ans. D
2. Among the following works of Nathaniel Hawthorne which one was published first ?
A. The Scarlet Letter
B. Fanshowe
C. The House of Seven Gables
D. The Blithdale Romance
Ans. B
3. Hester Pryne is a character who conceived a daughter through an affair. Identify the work she appears in among the followings:
B. Fanshowe
C. The House of Seven Gables
D. The Blithdale Romance
Ans. A
4. American writer, Edwin Markham is remembered for one poem. Identify the work given below:
A. The Man With the Hoe
B. Leaves of Grass
C. A Magzine of Verse
D. The Children of Night
Ans. A
5. Among the following American writer who is considered as memoirist?
A. Walt Whitman
B. Herman Melville
C. Hilda Doolittle
D. Nathaniel Hawthorne
Ans. C
6. Among the following American writers who used the pen name 'Mase Velsor' ?
A. Walt Whitman
B. Herman Melville
C. Hilda Doolittle
D. Nathaniel Hawthorne
7. One of the American poet mentioned his age in his poetry :
" I, now thirty seven years old in perfect health begin
Hoping to cease not till death."
Identify the poet.
A. Hilda Doolittle
B. Ezra Pound
C. Walt Whitman
D. Robert Frost
Ans. C
8. "O Captain! My Captain! Our fearful trip is done
The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won." Identify the poet.
A. Hilda Doolittle
B. Ezra Pound
C. Walt Whitman
D. Robert Frost
Ans. C
9. Walt Whitman, one of the most famous American poet, wrote only one novel, The Inebriate or Franklin Evans. The novel is considered as __.
A. Picaresque novel
B. Temperance novel
C. Gothic novel
D. Romantic novel
Ans. B
10. Walt Whitman wrote an elegy or mourning poem to honour Abraham Lincoln who was assassinated in 1865. Identify the poem among the followings :
A. Democratic Vistas
B. Drum Taps
C. A passage to India
D. O Captain! My Captain!
Ans. D
11. Among the following American writers who got Pulitzer Prize four times ?
A. Walt Whitman
B. Ezra Pound
C. Nathaniel Hawthorne
D. Robert Frost
Ans. D
12. The Road not Taken is a poem written by whom among the following American poet?
A. Earnest Hemingway
B. Ezra Pound
C. Toni Morrison
D. Robert Frost
Ans. D
13. Who wrote the earliest American novel The Power of Sympathy?
A. Arthur Miller
B. William Hill Brown
C. Royall Tyler
D. James Fennimore Cooper
14. "I Hear America Singing” is a poem written by ___ .
A. Hilda Doolittle
B. Ezra Pound
C. Walt Whitman
D. Robert Frost
Ans. C
15. “Let America be America Again” is poem by __.
A. Robert Frost
B. Langston Hughes
C. Ezra Pound
D. Walt Whitman
Ans. B
16. Which of the following poem is written by the American poet, Robert Lowell?
A. "Anecdote of the Jar"
B. "A Gift Outright
C. "Howl"
D. "Night Sweat"
Ans. D
17. Which of the following poem is written by the American poet, Robert Frost?
A. "Anecdote of the Jar"
B. "A Gift Outright
C. "Howl"
D. "Night Sweat"
Ans. B
18. Which of the following poem is written by the American poet, Allen Ginsberg?
A. "Anecdote of the Jar"
B. "A Gift Outright
C. "Howl"
D. "Night Sweat"
Ans. C
19. Poems "Shunk Hour" and "Night Sweat" are written by which one of the following American poet ?
A. Robert Lowell.
B. Allen Ginsberg
C. Robert Frost
D. Langston Hughes
Ans. A
20. Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking" is one of his most complex and successfully integrated poems by which of the following American poet?
A. Robert Frost
B. Langston Hughes
C. Ezra Pound
D. Walt Whitman
Ans. D
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Invisible Man is a novel by American writer Ralph Ellison . Identify the correct publication year given below:
A. 1945
B. 1952
C. 1954
D. 1949
Ans. B
Which of the work by Ralph Ellison won the U.S. National Book Award for fiction in 1953, making Ellison the first African-American writer to win the award.
A. Shadow and Act
B. Juneteenth
C. Invisible Man
D. Going to the Territory
Ans. C
Which among the following was written by the American writer Herman Melville?
A. Typee : A Peep at Polynesian Life
B. Light in August
C. The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
D. Across The River and into The Trees
Ans. A
