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AMERICAN LITERATURE
1-aA young homosexual who hates the world he cant live in and the one
he resides in, appears in Edward albees:
a)The zoo story b)The Death of Bessie smith
c)The sandbox d)the American Dream
2-What is the real name of Mark Twain?
a)Samuel Lionel Clemens
b)Samuel mark Clemens c)Samuel Langhorne Clemens d)Samuel Taylor
Clemens
3-Mark Twains huckleberry Finn
Appeared in:
d)1885

a)1882 b)1883 c)1884

4-I never saw a moor,

I never saw the sea:
Yet know I how the heather looks,
And what a wave must be,
Who wrote the above lines?
a)T.S .Eliot b)Walt Whiteman c) William Faulkner d) Emily Dickinson
5-the Road Island Almanack is a work of:
a)William Faulkner b) Robert Froat c) James Franklin d)Walt whiteman
6-Robert Frost was awarded the Pulitzer prise:

a)Only once b) twice c) thrice d) four times 7-who was invited by president
John F.Kennedy to recite his patriotic poem the
Gift Outright at the inaugural ceremony?a)E.E. Cummings b) Robert frost c)
Theodore Dressier d)Thelma Howard
8-Ernest Hemingway was greatly influenced by Ezra Pound and:

a)Henry James b) T.S. Eliot c) Gertrude stein d) Thomas James Farrell

9- Which American novelist committed a sucide by gunshot in 1961?
a)Henry James b) T.S. Eliot

c) Gertrude stein d) Thomas James Farrell

10- the old man and the sea recounts the *4 days adventure of:
a)Matadors b) Santiago c) The author d)Philip
11- Which of the following is the longest novel of Heming way ,describing the
incident in the Spanish Civil War?
a)For Whom The Bell Tolls b) To have and Have Not c) The Sun also Rises d)
The Torrents of Spring
12-Which of the following books of Ernest Hemingway has an account of bullfighting?
a)Green Hills of Africa b) The wild Years c) winner Take nothing d) Death in
the afternoon
13-When did Ernest Hemingway get the Nobel Prize for literature?
a)1954 b) 1953 c)1952 d) 1949
14-Arthur Miller depicts a manufacturer whose defective airplane parts are
responsible for his (manufactures) sons death in one of his plays .identify that
play,
a)All my sons b) the Misfits c) After the fall d) the American clock
15-Bob Smith is the central figure in Eugene ONeills play tittled:
a)The Iceman cometh b) A farewell to arms c) The hairy ape d) gold
16-ONeil won the Pulitzer Prize for two of his plays.one of them is Anna
Christine.name the other one.
a)The Straw b) Beyond the Horizon c) bound East of Cardiff d) The first man
17-The Iceman Cometh (1946) is a tragedy, realistically set in a Bowery Bar
symbolically portraying the loss of illusion and the coming of death .who wrote
it?
a)Emily Dickinson b) William Faulkner c) Eugene oNeill d) Arthur Miller
18-A well known American poet,essayist and critic who became a reader of the
Agrarians and aaaalso the editor ofThe Fugitive was:
a)John Crowe Ransom b) Ayan Rand c) Carl Sandburg d) Jack London
19-the Catcher in the Rye describes the story of a boy ,holdon Caulfield ,who
runs away from his boarding school and becomes a symbol of purity and

sensitivity on account of his excellent communication skill. Who is its writer?

a)Eugene O Neill b) Jerome David Salinger c) H.H Munro d) None of the above
20-A poetry collection of Wallace Stevens containing his early poems was
published in 1923 when he was 44. Identify it.
a)Ideas of order b) Harmonium c) Owls Clover d) The man With the Blue
Guitar
21- Who wrote theLeaves of grass ,one of the classics of world poetry?
a)Walt Whiteman b) Robert Frost c) T.S. Eliot d) Emily Dickinson
22- How does Yank,The central character in the Hairy Ape differ from
Aristotelean tragic heroes?
a)He does not meet his tragic end despite his flaws b) There is a sudden reversal
of fate at the end which is different from Aristotelean tragedy c)he meets a tragic
end without having any tragic flaw d) none of the above
23-Whom does Walt Whiteman call the Captain in the following lines?
O Captain ! my Captain! Rise up and hear the bells:
Rise up for you the flag is flung for you the bugle trills
For you bouquets and ribbond
Wreaths for you the shores crowding
a)John F.Kennedy b) Abraham Lincoln c) Roosevelt d) George Washington
24-In which of his poems do we witness Whitemans uninhabited treatment of
sex?
a)Children of Adam b) Spontaneous Me c) A Woman Waits for me d) all of the
above
25- Who wrote the famous poems likesong to Myself.song to open roadand
crossing Brooklyn Ferry?
a)Walt Whiteman b) Arthur Miller c) W.H.Longfellow d) Robert Frost
26-some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice,
From what I Have tasted of desire
I hold with those who favour fire,
But if I had to perish twice
I think I know enough of hate

To say that for destruction ice

Is also great
And would suffice. These lines are from a famous poem Fire and Ice by a
famous poet. Name that poet
a)E.E .cummings b) R.W. Emerson c) Arthur Miller d) Robert Frost
27-He was the first to smash the old moral conception that the soul of man is
flesh.D.H. Lawrence wrote this about a writer.identify that writer .
A)Walt Whitemann b) Fuller c) Emerson d) Melville
28-Identify the book for which Whiteman has written the following :These are
really the thoughts of men in all ages and lands ,they are not original with me...
A]Leaves of grass b) The scarlet letter
c) Billy Budd d)
song of myself
29-Who wrote the following?
I am nobody! Who are you ?
Are you nobody too?
a)Nathenial Hawthorne b) Walt whiteman c) Allen Ginsberg d) Emily
Dickinson
30- Identify the play of Edward Albee which deals with the agony of a black blues
singers death after au auto accident.
a)The Sand Box b) The Death of Bessie Smith
of Virginia Woolf

c) Tingy Alice

d) Who is afraid

31-one of the following is not a work of Mark Twain. Identify it,

a)The Jumping Frog of Calavenas Country b) The Man that Corrupted
Hadleyburg c) Connecticut Yankee in king Arthurs d) The Awakeninty
32-Tom(1935) by E.E. Cummings is a/an
a)Satirical Ballad b) Elegy c) Literary Criticism d) Poetic Diction
33-Because I could not stop for Death,
He kindly stopped for me,
The Carriage held but just Overselves
And immortality
Identify the poem of Hart Crane have these lines been taken?
a)Tiime and eternity b) The chariot c) Parting d) Life

34- Which of the following is a Pulitzer Prize winner?

a)A Fable(1954) B) Soldiers Pay(1926)
c)Sanctuary (1931) d)Intrunder of the dust(1948)
35-Robert Frost is a regional poet .the north region of. Forms the
background to his poetry.
a)San Francisco b) Detroit c) Los Angeles d) Boston
36-An American poets habit of instituting downward Comparisons is a
degradation of the human race. He constantly compares man to animal and trees
and finds much that is animal and vegetable in human nature .who is that poet?
a)Walt Whiteman b) Stephan Crane c) Robert Frost d) Ezra Pound
37-Who edited Emily Dickinsons the Single Hound in 1914?a) Martha b) Polly
c) jenny d) Fanny
38-which of the following is a Pulitzer Prize winner wok?
a)A memory of two Mondays b) The American clock c) The crucible d) death
of a salesmn
39- HOW Many poems there were in the first edition of Leaves of grass? a)12
b) 13 c) 14 d)15
40-To which age does Whiteman belonga)Whitemans Age b)Atomic age c)world war age d)civil war age
41- In which year Leaves of Grass published?
a)1852 b) 1853 c)1854 d) 1855
42-Before I got my eye put out propounds the theory that:
a)solitary life is better than the busy outdoor life. b) nature and god are two
unknowable entities c) the nuns are the brides of the lamb. d)love had a capacity
to pacify the restlessness of a human heart.
43-which poem is not related with Emily Dickinson- a)I hear it was charged
against me b)There came a wind like a bugle c)tell all the trust but tell it slant
d)A light exists in spring
44-Robert Frost as a nature poet composed his poems by: a)Going deeply in the
nature as a philosopher b)Merely rearding things lovingly c)Using imageries d)
narrating the beauty
45-Two Tramps in Mud Time reflects the poets a)Emotions b) activities
attitudes and responses c)passimism d)Social unequalities
46-According to Robert Frost realism means:

a)A potato brushed clean b)A potato with a great deal of dirt c)A potato chopped
off to be cooked d) a raw potato
47-Sylvia Plaths father was a
a)Otto Plath b) Jane Plath

c) Oliver Plath

d) none of the above

48-Sylvias poetry ,in a large measure ,reveals the inner dilemma and A) Love
b) Frustration c) Hate d) None of the above
48-Daddy was published in the volume of the poem entitled a)Ariel b) Zeal c)
Passion d) none of the above
49-The poem Daddy dealing with the theme of a)Victim b) Love c) Hatred d)
none of the above
50-from her early childhood Plaths heart has been agitated be a)frustration
b)love passion c) hatred d) none of these