MCQs from Ch # 01 Popular Fiction by

(13406,13439,13411,13457,13452,13450,13410,13440,13454)
1. Fleming’s Bond novels were produced through?

a. Pan

b. Signet

c. Both

d. None
2. Pan was established in?

a. 1944

b. 1964

c. 1954

d. 1934

3. Bloomsbury primarily dealt with?

a. Drama

b. Literary fiction

c. Poems

d. History

4. Who composed soundtracks for the first three Harry Potter films?

a. John Adams

b. John Williams

c. George Gershwin

d. Max Steiner

5. What color is Liquid Candy in Harry Potter?

a. Green

b. White

c. Gold

d. Pink
6. Who merchandised Harry Potter the most?

a. J.K Rowling

b. John Adams

c. Andrew Blake

d. Warner Bros

7. Warner Bros purchased the film rights to the first ……novels of the Harry Potter?

a. 5

b. 4

c. 2

d. 1

8. Henry James was?

a. American

b. African

c. Italian

d. None

9. The editor of Australian magazine Viewpoint is?

a. Pam Mclntyre

b. Peter Carey

c. David

d. Tim Winton
10. The book about Harry Potter by Andrew Blake is?

a. Active Contours

b. The Irresistible Rise of Harry Potter

c. Harry Potter and The Cursed Child

d. None

11. The term _____ expresses the sense that these quite different cultural- social positions are
nevertheless always in relation to each other?

a. Farm

b. Field

c. Both A and B

d. None

12. The key paradigm for identifying popular fiction is not creativity, but?

a. Thought

b. Burden

c. Industry

d. All of these

13. ‘The Fortunes of Nigel’ incidentally sold _____ copies the first morning of its publication?

a. 7000

b. 3000

c. 4000

d. 5000
14. ‘The Fortunes of Nigel’ was written by?

a. James Joyce

b. Sir Walter Scott

c. Marlow

d. Anton Chekhov

15. ‘The Fortunes of Nigel was published in

a. 1822

b. 1422

c. 1522

d. 1622

16. Literature draws on the language of art world?

a. When it ties its author innately to notion of creativity

b. When it ties its reader innately to notion of creativity

c. When it ties its writer innately to notion of industry

d. None of these

17. For popular fiction term ‘writer ‘is?

a. Preferred to author

b. Preferred to reader

c. Preferred to critic

d. All of these
18. Popular fiction is a kind of?

a. Industrial practice

b. Social practice

c. Cultural practice

d. None of these

19. For popular fiction the language of art world is?

a. Subordinated to the language of culture

b. Subordinated to the language of industry

c. Subordinated to the language of society

d. Subordinated to the language of writer

20. Which statement is correct about popular fiction?

a. Popular fiction has less to do with discourses of creativity and originality and more to do
with production and sheer hard work

b. Popular fiction has more to do with discourses of creativity and originality and less to do with
production and sheer hard work

c. Popular fiction has less to do with discourses of creativity and originality and less to do with
production and sheer hard work

d. Popular fiction has more to do with discourses of creativity and originality and more to do
with production and sheer hard work

21. Who wrote the best study of the 1950s epic fantasy The Lord of the Rings?

a. Tom Shippey.
b. Tolkien.

c. Joyce.

d. Frost.

22. Author of the Lord of the Rings?

a. Author of the Lord of the Rings?

b. JRR Tolkien

c. Hardy

d. Ezra Pound

23. Who considered the author of the twentieth] century greater even than Joyce himself?

a. JK Rowling

b. Tom Shippey

c. Tolkien

d. Frost

24. Shippey is scathing about?

a. Romantics

b. Victorians

c. Postmodernists

d. The Modernists

25. Who worked as a Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford University?

a. Tolkien

b. Shippey
c. Joyce

d. Hemingway

26. Why does a writer produces popular fiction?

a. To spread positivity

b. To reach a large number of readers

c. To be distinguished from others

d. To promote his inner thoughts

27. Is every work of popular fiction a bestseller?

a. Yes

b. No

c. None of the above

d. All of the above

28. Who got published “The law of being a best-seller?

a. Tom Shippey

b. Ken Gelder

c. Scott Turow

d. Tolkien

29. Who was impressed by Joyces’ novel “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”?

a. Tolkien

b. Scott Turow

c. Ken Gelder
d. JK Rowling

30. Who said, “Artists are the antennae of the race, but the bullet-headed many will never learn
to trust their great artists”?

a. Ken Gelder

b. JK Rowling

c. Scott Turow

d. Ezra Pound

31. It is also true that readers of popular fiction read?

a. Faster

b. Slower

c. Both a,b

d. None

32. The Book 'On Literature’ is written by American critic?

a. J.H Miller

b. Harry potter

c. Both a,b

d. None

33. Andrew BlaThe best discussion of the ideological-cultural differences between high and low
cultural forms is?

a. Harry potter

b. MC's Prey

c. Andreas Huyssen

d. None
34. Which is an avid reader of popular romances?

a. De Botton

b. Marcel Proust

c. Madame Bovary

d. None

35. Poli who cultivated all the qualities of Literature?

a. Madame Bovary

b. Flaubert

c. Both a,b

d. None

36. Australian Sydney Passengers seem to inhabit and replicate the era of?

a. Sherlock Holmes

b. Marcel Proust

c. Marie Claire

d. Both a,b

37. The moral danger attached to?

a. Novel writing

b. Novel reading

c. Both a,b

d. None

38. The essay “The Future of the Novel” was written by?

a. John Sutherland
b. Henry Fielding

c. Henry James

d. Oscar Wilde

39. The Lord of the rings was written by?

a. Henry James

b. J.R.R Tolkien

c. J.K Rowling

d. Jane Austin

40. Ulysses was written by?

a. Virginia Woolf

b. William Faulkner

c. Homer

d. James Joyce

41. Ulysses was first published in,

a. December 1920

b. January 1920

c. January 1921

d. December 1921

42. The Last Days oof Pompeii, was written by?

a. Robert Harris

b. Edward Bulwer Lytton

c. Henry James

d. J. K Rowling

43. Among these which one is Children’s adventure tale?

a. Treasure Land

b. A Strange Story

c. Jack Sheppard

d. The Future of the Novel

44. Literature is cerebral, but popular fiction is?

a. Recondite

b. Analytical

c. Spherical

d. Sensuous

45. Popular fiction is?

a. Dull

b. Vast

c. Simple

d. Scholarly

46. James Joyce’s Dubliners was published in?

a. 1914

b. 1915

c. 1913
d. 1911

47. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, is a masterpiece of?

a. J. K. Rowling

b. D. H. Lawrence

c. James Joyce

d. R. L. Stevenson

48. World Famous short story series about detective Sherlock Holmes is created by?

a. G.B Shaw

b. Hopkins

c. Conan Doyle

d. E.M.Forster

49. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was a novelist?

a. Russian

b. American

c. British

d. Indian

50. ‘Sherlock in Love' is written by

a. Arthur Conan Doyle

b. Val Andrews

c. Jeter Naslund

d. Both b and c
51. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was Born in?

a. 1854

b. 1855

c. 1859

d. 1860

52. 'Casino Royale' is written by?

a. Henry Fielding

b. H.G.Wells

c. Ian Fleming

d. None of the above

53. James Bond , British Secret Operative, created by whom?

a. Dickinson

b. E.Pound

c. Shaw

d. Ian Fleming

54. The Ian Fleming Foundation, a non-profit organization based in?

a. New York

b. California

c. New Jersey

d. Washington

55. “Mr. kiss kiss bang bang” is a?

a. Famous Theater

b. Actor

c. Fleming Foundation’s Website

d. None of the above

56. ‘‘By February 1966 the Licensing Corporation of America esti-

mated that the total sales of Bond merchandize amounted to some $50 mil-

lion’’ is said by, after the death of Ian Fleming?

a. Ian Fleming

b. Conan Doyle

c. Jeff Smith

d. Both a and b

57. Ian Fleming, British writer famous for writing spy novels about secret agent James Bond,
died on?

a. 1964

b. 1908

c. 1971

d. 1934

58. Who thought that TIME magazine has lost its literary credentials?

a. Stephen King

b. Scot Turow

c. Henry James
d. None

59. Franzen gained some notoriety as a literary novelist because?

a. He refused to write for national interests

b. His novel The Corrections was not a bestseller

c. He refused his novel The Corrections not to be endorsed by Oprah Winfrey

d. Both

60. Who wrote that Stephen King, John Grisham or Catherine Cookson has become brands in
themselves.

a. Scot Turow

b. Henry James

c. Clive bloom

d. Both

61. About half of John Gresham’s novels has been turned into?

a. Theatrical plays

b. Dramas

c. Films

d. Novel

62. The Fifteen Streets by Ray Marshal drew around?

a. 15 million viewers

b. 10 million viewers

c. 11 million viewers
d. 12 million viewers

63. Who was the bestselling novelist in 2001?

a. John Grisham

b. Ruth Rendell

c. J.K Rowling

d. None

64. The best example of merchandizing is?

a. The Fifteen Streets by Ray Marshal

b. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

c. James Bond by Ian Fleming

d. B,C

65. The first film adaptation of Stephen King’s work was?

a. Carrie

b. Children of the Corn

c. The Shining

d. None

66. The first film directed by Stephen King is?

a. Carrie

b. Maximum Overdrive

c. The fifteen Streets

d. None
67. Sherlock Holmes is the master piece of?

a. Ian Fleming

b. J.K Rowling

c. Arthur Conan Doyle

d. None

68. Popular Fiction is pondered the opposite of?

a. Literature

b. Literary Theory

c. Literary Criticism

d. None of these

69. A bestseller means sales of anything from around?

a. 5,000 to 10,000 copies

b. 10,000 copies to 15,000 copies

c. 15,000 to 20,000 copies

d. 20,000 copies to several million

70. Charlie is a --- writer of literature?

a. Stereotypical

b. Genuine

c. Renowned

d. None of these

71. Charlie cherishes the --- aspect of his work?

a. Generic

b. non-generic

c. Conventional

d. Odd

72. Charlie writes about the life of?

a. Aristocrats.

b. Kings.

c. Slaves

d. Ordinary People

73. Donald attended the seminars of?

a. Robert McKee

b. Hardy

c. T.S. Eliot

d. Ezra Pound

74. Story (‘thou shalt respect thine audience’ was written by?

a. J.K. Rowling

b. J. R. R. Tolkien

c. Arthur Conan Doyle

d. Robert McKee

75. Who talked broadly of the field of cultural production?

a. Pierre Bourdieu
b. Derrida

c. Freud

d. Charlie

76. Pierre Bourdieu is?

a. American Poet

b. Russian Writer

c. Indian playwright

d. French sociologist

77. Difference between opera and soap opera?

a. There is no difference at all

b. opera talks of high cultural production and soap opera talks of low

c. Opera talks of low culture production and soap opera talks of high

d. None

78. Who considered the author of the twentieth] century greater even than Joyce himself?

a. JK Rowling

b. Tom Shippey

c. Tolkien

d. Frost

79. The editor of Australian magazine Viewpoint is?

a. Pam Mclntyre

b. Peter Carey
c. David

d. Tim Winton

80. The Lord of the rings was written by?

a. Henry James

b. J.R.R Tolkien

c. J.K Rowling

d. Jane Austin

Chapter 2

Genre History, attitudes, practice

Roll number: 13451, 13427

1. _____ is an internally antagonistic genre.
a. Science fiction
b. Romance
c. Fiction
d. Sci-Fi
2. Subgenres stake out a realm for themselves and work it through, repetitively in some senses and
____ in others.
a. Slowly
b. Progressively
c. Fast
d. None of these
3. Janet Evanovich, who now writes crime fiction about a detective, Stephanie Plum, used to write
___.
a. Tragedy
b. Romances
c. Fiction
d. None of these
4. each genre has distinctive ____ and industrial, as well as formal and historical, features.
a. Human
b. Natural
c. Cultural
d. Biological
5. genres play host to a myriad of subgenres, each of which develops its own distinctive ____and
practices
a. language
b. writing style
c. logics
d. none of these
6. the novels as they allow the reader to see real science at work are generally considered ___,
even tedious in places.
a. dry
b. dull
c. interesting
d. distant
7. Since Verne and Wells, ____ has remained at the core of science fiction’s imagination, as if the
genre has something to prove about the red planet.
a. Earth
b. Pluto
c. Neptune
d. Mars
8. once a President of the Science Fiction Writers of America arranged for a number of SF novelists
to work alongside NASA officials and ___ military representatives in the early 1980s
a. British
b. French
c. US
d. Spanish
9. The utopian possibilities of science fiction have drawn the interest of some influential____
cultural critics
a. Left wing
b. Right wing
c. None of these
d. Both a and b
10. John Sutherland perhaps idiosyncratically calls Orwell a ‘Tory anarchist’, whose dystopia was
colored by his hatred of the ___ Labor government at that time
a. American
b. French
c. British
d. None of these
11. The term Libertarian is used in the SF genre to describe writers committed to ____ and
individualism, and opposed to government interference
a. Wealth
b. Power
c. Freedom
d. None of these
12. Science fiction is a polemical ____, arguing its case, declaring its position, claiming its allies and
distancing itself from writers of whom it disapproves
a. Genre
b. Theme
c. Status
d. Stance
13. Genres, are always ____ antagonistic.
a. Externally
b. Internally
c. Neutrally
d. None of these
14. The bestselling contemporary __ novels (perhaps loosely defined) belong to Michael Crichton
and Stephen King
a. SF
b. Fiction
c. Both a and b
d. None of these
15. Bantam offered Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson $__ million for a trilogy of prequels to the
Dune series
a. 5
b. 3
c. 2
d. 1
16. Dune is also what is called a ____ opera
a. Space
b. World
c. Italian
d. None of these
17. The Star Trek series itself had begun with ____of the TV episodes in the 1960s
a. Performance
b. Novelization
c. Screening
d. None of these
18. the US publisher Bantam Spectra was paying $____ for a hardcover Star Wars novel and $40,000
for a paperback
a. 600,000
b. 400,000
c. 60,000
d. None of these
19. The often-close connection between SF and the adventure novel has both defined and ____the
genre
a. Troubled
b. Saved
c. Mixed
d. Reduced
20. Science fiction may have a necessary connection to science and scientific perspectives, but it is
also invariably a ____ genre
a. Romantic
b. Social
c. Troubling
d. None of these
21. The most productive ways to think about popular fiction is in terms of:
a. Fiction
b. Drama
c. Genre
d. Novel
22. Although by no means all, popular novelists write in:
a. Single genre
b. Double genre
c. Triple genre
d. None of these
23. Agatha Christie is a:
a. Crime writer
b. Horror writer
c. Science fiction writer
d. Western writer
24. Clive Barker is a:
a. Western writer
b. Science fiction writer
c. Horror writer
d. Crime writer

25. Isaac Asimov is a:

a. Science Fiction writer
b. Crime writer
c. Horror writer
d. Western writer
26. A work of Literature is often thought to have
a. transcended genre
b. neutral genre
c. both a and b
d. none of these
27. Literature bears a different or indifferent relation to:
a. Genre
b. Fiction
c. Field
d. Romance
28. Stephen Heath has discussed different distinctions in his essay:
a. The Eagle has Landed
b. Turn of the Screw
c. The Day of the Jackal
d. The Politics of Genre
29. Nelson seems to suggest the reading experience here is also:
a. Non singular
b. Singular
c. None of these
d. Both a and b
30. Literature is innately satisfying for:
a. Henry James
b. Frederick Forsyth
c. Nelson
d. Wilbur Smith
31. Genre as a literary term accounts for the ____ fundamental species of literary writing.
a. Two
b. Three
c. Four
d. Five
32. Along with popular fiction, generic identities are always:
a. Invisible
b. Disappear
c. none of these
d. Visible
33. There are _____ primary genres of popular fiction:
a. Seven
b. Four
c. Eight
d. Three
34. Genre as a literary term accounts for the fundamental species of literary writing such as:
a. prose
b. poetry
c. drama
d. All
35. The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction has a chapter devoted to spy fiction by:
a. David Seed
b. James Joyce
c. Wilbur Smith
d. Michael Crichton
36. Mills and Boon was founded in the United Kingdom in:
a. 1902
b. 1907
c. 1904
 d. 1908
37. Mills and Boon was founded in UK by:
a. Gerald Mills and Charles Boon
b. Harlequin
c. Radway
d. Kathleen Winsor
38. In _____it began to buy the rights to Doctor/Nurse romance novels from Mills and Boon.
a. 1954
b. 1555
c. 1956
d. 1957
39. Harlequin’s operations rapidly expanded in __?
a. 1961
b. 1968
c. 1969
d. 1971
40. Germaine Greer, for example, had no time for romance readers in her famous feminist
manifesto:
a. The Female Eunuch (1970)
b. Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature (1984)
c. Forever Ember (1944)
d. The Masked Deception (1985)

MCQs from Ch # 07 J.R.R. Tolkien and Global Terrorism

by (13404,13405,13414,13428,13429,13436,13446,13447)

1. Fantasy, which is supposed to be

a. Escape from nature
b. Struggle towards reality
c. Escape from reality
d. Nature loving
2. Moby Dick was published in
a. 1850
b. 1851
c. 1852
 d. 1853
3. Moby Dick is written by
a. Herman Melville
b. Neil Gaiman
c. James Baldwin
4. Captain Ahab is a character in the novel
a. The Importance of Being Earnest
b. Tom jones
c. Lord of the Rings
d. Moby dick
5. Captain Ahab frantically searches for
a. His identity
b. White whale
c. Jewels
d. Lost treasure
6. World Trade Centre was attacked in
a. 11 September 2001
b. 11 September 2002
c. 11 November 2001
d. 11 November 2002
7. World Trade Centre is in
a. North Korea
b. United States
c. China
d. Japan
8. ‘War in the Air’ firstly published in
a. 1905
b. 1906
c. 1907
d. 1908

9. ‘War in the Air’ was written by

a. H.G. Wells
b. Philip K. Dick
c. Frank Herbert
d. Jules Verne
10. Mike Davis has been one of a number of commentators on
a. 9/11
b. World War I
 c. World War II
d. Japan attacks
11. Mike Davis has written about-----as a city upon which fantasies of self-destruction
seem to be endlessly projected.
a. New York
b. Los Angeles
c. Washington
d. Chicago
12. ‘No other city seems to excite such dark rapture’, Mike Davis comments in his book
a. City of Quartz
b. Planet of Slums
c. Late Victorian Holocausts
d. Ecology of Fear
13. An Ecology of fear was published in
a. 1995
b. 1996
c. 1997
d. 1998
14. An Ecology of Fear was written by
a. Toni Morrison
b. J. K. Rowling
c. Frank Herbert
d. Mike Davis
15. Who commented, ‘the disaster capital of the universe’, destroyed in fiction and film at
least 138 times since 1909.
a. J.K Rowling
b. Frank Herbert
c. Mike Davis
d. Peter Jackson
16. Davis sees all this as an expression of fantasy wish-fulfilment, the destruction of
Otherness inside the
a. New York
b. United States
c. New Zealand
d. Africa
17. Davis noted in an interview with____, ‘I’ve profited greatly from peddling apocalyptic
visions to people’.
a. Mark Derry
b. Simon Reeve
c. H. G. Wells
d. Frank Herbert
18. Sauron was trying to take away the freedom of the peoples of
a. Forgotten Planet
b. Mysterious Earth
c. Middle Earth
d. Lost Paradise
19. Sauron was trying to take away the freedom of the people. Is ____ doing the same
thing?
a. Barack Obama
b. George Bush
c. Bill Clinton
d. Herbert Hoover
20. The current technology of weapons means that wars can’t be fought on
a. Modern terms
b. Traditional terms
c. Old terms
d. Both B and C
21. The idea of preventing Saddam from hurting US before it happens might sound a bit
like the movie
a. How it ends
b. Minority Report
c. Mute
d. Bliss
22. When Frodo has failed: Sauron prepares to invade
a. Iraq
b. Iran
c. France
d. Great Britain
23. The film Minority Report was released in
a. 2009
b. 2001
c. 2002
d. 2003
24. The film Minority Report is based on a story by the SF writer
a. Philip K. Dick
b. Simon Reeve
c. Philip Pullman
d. Hal Foster
25. For____ , in an article titled ‘The Specter of bin Laden in the Age of Terrorism’, bin
Laden is nothing less than a kind of hyper reality living as a perpetual ‘afterlife’, his
body and voice needing ceaselessly to be verified or authenticated’.
a. Spengler
 b. Mooney
c. J. K. Rowling
d. Binoy Kampmark
26. ‘Al-Qaida, is a ____creation.
a. Western
b. Bin Laden
c. Taliban
d. Muhammad Rasul
27. The three parts of The Lord of the Rings were written during the
a. 1880s
b. 1930s
c. 1960s
d. 1980s
28. The first part of The Lord of the Rings – The Fellowship of the Ring was published in
a. 1951
b. 1952
c. 1953
d. 1954
29. Part two of The Lord of The Rings, ____was published in November 1954.
a. The two Towers
b. The Fellowship of the Ring
c. The Return of the King
d. A game of Shadows
30. Part three, The Return of the King, was published in
a. 1953
b. 1954
c. 1955
d. 1956
31. The film of The Fellowship of the Ring appeared just a few weeks after
a. Japan Attack
b. 9/11
c. World War I
d. World War II
32. In 2001, Tolkien’s publishers had sold_____ copies of Lord of the Rings and
‘Tolkien-related’ book items even before the film of The Fellowship of the Ring was
released.
a. 11 Million
b. 12 Million
c. 15 Million
d. 20 Million
33. ‘The vulnerable border between fantasy and reality’ is a phrase used by
a. Mooney
b. Spengler
c. Jules Verne
d. Mike Davis
34. ‘Unfinished Tales’ was written by
a. J. R. R. Tolkien
b. J. K. Rowling
c. Tzvetan Todorova
d. Jacqueline Rose
35. The aim of Tolkien’s work is the destruction of the----- itself.
a. Modern world
b. Publicity
c. Ring
d. World of Shadows
36. Read reality as an allegory for
a. Alternate reality
b. Fantasy
c. Reality itself
d. Imaginary world
37. Today’s war on terrorism seems a war to____ the Ring, rather than a war to destroy
it.
a. Own
b. Disown
c. Pull down
d. Demolish
38. Neither Bush’s nor bin Laden’s supporters fight for liberty; they all fight to strengthen
their
a. own power
b. own country
c. own community
d. all of these
39. ‘One can easily imagine’, ___ writes, ‘a similar conversation among lower-level al
Qaeda henchmen or Iraqi troops’.
a. Spengler
b. Philip Pullman
c. Mooney
d. Mike Davis
40. ‘The analogy between bin Laden and Sauron is not an empty one’, ___writes, but ‘for
the bearer of the Ring of Power, he would need to look no further than George W.
Bush’.
a. Mooney
b. Spengler
c. Philip Pullman
d. Mike Davis
41. ____sees the end of The Lord of the Rings as a return to ordinary life, and so casts the
work not as epic fantasy at all, but as an anti-epic.
a. Spengler
b. Frodo
c. Mooney
d. Peter Jackson
42. If the hobbits have any equivalent nationality in the real world at all, they are
probably
a. American
b. African
c. English
d. Spanish
43. The Lord of the Rings is a film by
a. Peter Jackson
b. Quentin Tarantino
c. Christopher Nolan
d. Spike Lee
44. The three films in The Lord of the Rings series were shot on location in___, using
scenery in both the North and South Islands.
a. Christ Church College
b. New Zealand
c. Savannah
d. London
45. The Fellowship of the Ring won an Oscar for
a. Characterization
b. Cinematography
c. Modern concern
d. Unusual screening
46. The capital, Wellington, was officially renamed___ when The Fellowship of the Ring
was released in December 2001.
a. Middle Earth
b. Industrial paradise
c. Star Films
d. 20th century Fox

47. As Tolkien-based tourism flourished across the islands, the minister for tourism
became known as the ‘__Lord of the Rings’.
a. Minister Responsible
b. Minister Perfect
c. Minister Hit
d. Minister charm
48. ____has painted two of its planes with images from the films and has adopted the
slogan, ‘The Airline to Middle Earth’.
a. Australia
b. New Zealand
c. France
d. America
49. New Zealand has de-militarized itself and no longer contributes to the __alliance.
a. Australian-US
b. Indo-Pak
c. Franco-Russia
d. Franco-US
50. Jacqueline Rose has been one of only a few recent commentators to talk about
fantasy in relation to the
a. Reality
b. Fantasy itself
c. Governance
d. Nation
51. Jacqueline Rose takes fantasy as a-------condition, not a literary genre.
a. Lethal
b. Psychic
c. Pathetic
d. Reality based
52. Exile becomes the means of experiencing a fantasy state, belonging yet no longer
belonging – like Freud when he leaves Vienna, and like Frodo when he leaves the
Shire. Says
a. Jacqueline Rose
b. Mooney
c. Lenny Turner
d. Simon Reeve
53. Modern epic fantasy in fact continually worries about ___: about the place it has left.
a. Fantasy itself
b. Reality
c. Imaginary world
d. Pseudo-world

54. Dark Materials was written by

a. Peter Jackson
b. Mike Davis
c. Philip Pullman
d. Jules Verne
55. ___ is necessary in epic fantasy.
a. Exile
b. Reality
c. Harshness
d. All of these
56. In The Lord of the Rings, Sauron is an eye that sees the hobbits only when they
become__
a. Ring Holder
b. Monster
c. Visible
d. Invisible
57. These are certainly terroristic creatures. ‘The spectacle of a person “eaten up inside”
by devotion to some abstraction’. Says
a. Shippey
b. Toni Morrison
c. Hal Foster
d. Jacqueline Rose
58. ___ is generated internally: absent as a thing-in-itself, and causing self-alienation and
corruption.
a. Manichean
b. Boethian
c. Conflict
d. Horror
59. ____ is generated externally: an outside force, remote but powerful, and never
inactive.
a. conflict
b. Alliteration
c. Manichean
 d. Boethian
60. The Boethian conception of evil is cast by-------- as a literary trope, deployed
especially by Tolkien’s modernist counterparts.
a. Shippey
b. Mooney
c. Hal Foster
d. Jacqueline Rose

61. ____captures this combination of horror and terror in the Libeskind design when he
says it embodies ‘both the traumatic and the triumphal’.
a. Jacqueline Rose
b. Mooney
c. Shippey
d. Hal Foster
62. The angular towers around the spire are designed ‘so that each year on September
11, between the hours of 8.46 am when the first plane hit, and 10.28 am, when the
second tower collapsed, the sun will shine____’.
a. Without shadow
b. With double shadow
c. With Dark shadow
d. None of these
63. The architecture critic of the New York Times, declared, ‘If you are looking for the
marvelous, here’s where you will find it’: in other words, architecture as epic fantasy.
a. Lenny Turner
b. Simon Reeve
c. Herbert Muschamp
d. H. G. Wells
64. The master-criminal in most of the James Bond films, who was involved in the acts of
mass-destruction’ is
a. Ernst Stavro Blofeld
b. Frodo
c. Donald Pleasence
d. Telly Savalas
65. ____puts into effect precisely the fantasy of The Lord of the Rings that ‘power itself is
accomplice with its own destruction’.
a. Baudrillard
b. Mooney
c. Spengler
d. Shippey
66. The nearer it gets to ‘perfection’, the faster it propels itself towards self-destruction:
this is one of the logics of modern
a. Epic Fantasy
b. Horror Fantasy
c. Underworld
d. Dark World
67. Networked alliances have been crucial to modern
a. Horror Fantasy
b. Epic Fantasy
c. Dark World
d. Underworld
68. These leaders’ counter-terrorist rhetoric has absolutely relied upon a___ of evil from
which liberal democracy in the West is then earnestly distinguished.
a. Manichean conception
b. Boethian conception
c. Pseudo conception
d. Real conception
69. ‘What Went Wrong?’ is a work by
a. Margaret Atwood
b. Dan Brown
c. Ray Bradbury
d. Bernard Lewis

70. ‘The New Jackals’ was written by

a. Simon Reeve
b. Margaret Atwood
c. Dan brown
d. Ray Bradbury
71. Edward Said had advocated ‘secularism’ over
a. Structuralism
b. Communism
c. Fundamentalism
d. None of these
72. Modern epic fantasy conveys a loss of innocence; its characters, like Frodo, are in fact
paradoxically called upon to lose their otherworldliness, to become___.
a. Worldly
b. Less worldly
c. More worldly
d. Both B and C
 73. ‘A panoramic portrait of the depressive state’: as if worldliness brings depression
with it. Writes
a. Lenny Turner
b. Simon Reeve
c. Mooney
d. Shippey
74. Michael White writes that Tolkien------- ‘technologists, modernizers, polluters and
inveterate consumers’.
a. Loved
b. Appreciated
c. Hated
d. Challenge

75. For ___, The Lord of the Rings was nothing less than an ‘attack’, as he saw it, ‘on the
modern world’.
a. Colin Wilson
b. Frodo
c. Jules Verne
d. H. G. Wells
76. This is another reason why it is possible to see epic fantasy today not as escapist, but
as___ on a global scale.
a. Horrific
b. Terroristic
c. Realistic
d. Mystic
77. It is almost as if George Orwell had lost out to Ian Fleming in predicting the future.
Says:
a. Tzvetan Todorova
b. Philip K. Dick
c. Toni Morrison
d. Hal Foster
78. Terry Goodkind is a____fantasy novelist.
a. US
b. British
c. Spanish
d. African

MCQs Modern Age, Post-modern Age, Literary Devices and

Trends in Popular Fiction by (08,16,22,24,48)
1. Modernism is...

⮚ a literary movement
⮚ a social protest
⮚ a moral obstacle
⮚ a religious pilgrimage

2. What century did modernism occur?

⮚ a literary movement
⮚ 19th century
⮚ 20th century
⮚ 17th century
⮚ 16th century

3. What occurred during the modernist era?

⮚ limited options
⮚ profound religious dedication
⮚ extreme poverty
⮚ new possibilities
 4. Modernism is known for...

⮚ conformity
⮚ experimentation
⮚ a religious pilgramage
⮚ lack of creativity

5. Modernism is also seen in...

⮚ music
⮚ sculpture
⮚ philosophy
⮚ all of the options listed
6. Modernist themes include all except...

⮚ loss of sense of tradition

⮚ dominance of technology
⮚ revolution
⮚ religious devotion

7. Modernist art reflects images with

⮚ clean, straight lines

⮚ vibrant colors
⮚ realistic human qualities
⮚ distortion of shapes
8. Disappointment resulting from the discovery that something is not as good as one believed it
to be

⮚ modernism
⮚ disillusionment
⮚ transcendentalism
⮚ biblical allusions

 9. Modernist poetry has...

⮚ open form and some free verse

⮚ references to other cultures or languages
⮚ many allusions and unconventional metaphors
⮚ all of the options listed
10. Use of poetic line, massive alliteration, and non-traditional meter is characteristic of...

⮚ rhythmic poetry
⮚ gothic poetry
⮚ spoken word poetry
⮚ free verse poetry
 11. Which is NOT a Modernist Poet
 ⮚ T.S. Elliot
⮚ W.B. Yeats
⮚ Robert Frost
⮚ Edgar Allen Poe
⮚ Ezra Pound

 12. All are modernist novelist except...

⮚ James Joyce
⮚ D.H Lawrence
⮚ Samuel Beckett
⮚ Ralph Waldo Emerson
⮚ Virginia Woolf

  

13. Modernist stories include...

⮚ different narrators
⮚ interior monologues
⮚ stream of consciousness
⮚ all of the options listed
14. Aims to provide a textual equivalent to the stream of a fictional character's consciousness

⮚ different narrators
⮚ stream of consciousness
⮚ features of narratives
⮚ modernist themes

15. T.S. Eliot, James Joyce, and Rabindra Nath Tagore were greatly influenced by:

⮚ John Masefield
⮚ Ezra Pound
⮚ G.M. Hopkins
⮚ Lady Gregory
 16. D.H. Lawrence was a pioneer of:

⮚ Stream of consciousness novel

⮚ psychological fiction
⮚ psychoanalytical fiction
⮚ imagism in fiction

MCQs from Post-modern Age

1)What is “Post-Modernism”?

a) A term used to describe contemporary cultural production

b) literary movement concerned with extreme self-reflexivity

c) An attempt to break down the barriers between high and low culture

d) All of the above

2) According to postmodernism, which of the following affects how we see the world?

a) Culture

b) Gender

c) Language

d) All of these affect how we see the world

3) Postmodernism asserts that all worldviews offer unbiased truth claims about reality.

a) TRUE

b) FALSE

c) none of these

4) Language, according to postmodernism is ...

a) means for describing objective reality

b) method of communicating truth

c) jumble of non-coherent sounds

d) tool of power and manipulation

5) According to postmodernism, humans are 

a) Social constructs

b) Body and Soul

c) Centralized souless personalities

d) Part of a higher consciousness

6) Truth to the postmodernist is 

a) Objective

b) Universal

c) Socially constructed

d) Absolute

7) Postmodernism rejects which of the following metanarratives?

a) Science/Secularism

b) Christian

c) Muslim

d) All metanarratives are rejected

8) The belief that denies the existence or accessibility of an objective reality is called

a) Anti-realism

b) "God is dead"

c) Pragmatism

d) Metanarrative

 9) A hybrid worldview of postmodernism that believes since we are fallen and limited, we
should demonstrate humility by refusing to make an exclusive truth claim. 

a) Pragmatism

b) Sophism

c) Christian postmodernism
d) Post-postmodernism

10) Choose ALL elements of Postmodernism below: 

a) Fragmentation

b) Reference to the individual

c) Intertextuality

4) Social Evils

11) In Postmodernism, "universal truths" may be abolished. What is universal truth? 

a) Time

b) Right vs. Wrong

c) Life has ups and downs

d) All of the above

12) What is "pastiche"? 

a) A literary collage

b) A text within a text

c) Many texts about the same topic

d) None of these

 13) A slam poem is an example of...

a) Modernism

b) Romanticism

c) Postmodernism

d) Deconstruction

14) Concrete poetry is an example of...

a) Postmodernism

b) Romanticism

c) Modernism
d) Structuralism

15) The only metanarrative accepted by postmodernists is the story of evolution.

a) TRUE

b) FALSE

c) fiction

d) None of these

MCQs from Literary Terms

1- What is NOT a theme of Naturalism?

❖ Determinism
❖ Detailism
❖ Social Environment
❖ Poverty

2- Naturalism was heavily influenced by:

❖ Structuralism
❖ Darwin's theory of evolution
❖ Traditional Literary

3- What are some novels that involved naturalism?

❖ "Crooked House" by Agatha Christie

❖ "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin
❖ "To build a Fire" by Jack London
❖ Both B and C.
4- Sense of life as a losing battle against an uncaring universe:

❖ Realism
❖ None of the above
❖ Romanticism
❖ Naturalism
5- Who raised the slogan “Back to Nature”:

❖ Realism
❖ Pragmatism
❖ Naturalism
❖ Existantialism

6- Who said “Reverse the usual practice and you will almost always do right”:

❖ Mahatma Gandhi
❖ Rousseau
❖ Dewey
❖ Plato

7- According to which school of philosophy of education, exaltation of individual’s personality is

a function of education:

❖ Pragmatism
❖ Idealism
❖ Marxism
❖ Idealism and Marxism
 8- Saying the opposite of what you mean is:

❖ Situational irony
❖ Verbal irony
❖ Non ironic
❖ Coincidence

9- You wouldn’t use situational irony in a formal essay, but you might:

❖ Use coincidence instead

❖ Use verbal irony instead
❖ Point it out
❖ Disprove it

10-Which one of them is a type of irony:

 ❖ Dramatic irony
❖ Situational irony
❖ Verbal irony
❖ All of the above
11- What does the color red NOT symbolize?

❖ Passion
❖ Energy
❖ Mystery
❖ Love

12- What do flowers symbolize?

❖ Happiness
❖ Peace
❖ Rebirth
❖ Summer

13-Juliet's grave was also her 

❖ Wedding Bed
❖ Garden
❖ Bed
❖ Mother's Grave

14- What is an allusion?

❖ A reference
❖ A cliché
❖ A symbol

15- You should avoid external allusion in formal essays because:

❖ It makes the argument too confusing

❖ It sounds too informal
❖ It’s too close to plagiarism
 ❖ None of above

More Terms
1. Which of the following is NOT one of the essential elements of satire:

a. Making fun of an idea, person, or institution

b. Use of irony

c. Making a broader point about society, culture, politics, etc.

d. All of the above are essential elements of satire

2. What best describes the relationship between impersonation and satire?

a. Impersonation is a synonym for satire

b. Impersonation is the opposite of satire

c. Satire is a tool of impersonation

d. Impersonation is a tool of satire

3. Which is NOT a type of Satire

a. Horatian

b. Juvenalian

c. Calm

d. Menippean

4. Parody is like satire, but

a. It doesn’t use irony

b. It doesn’t use impersonation

c. It doesn’t make a broader social or cultural point

d. It can be used in formal essays

1. What is always true of flashback?

a. Flashback confuses readers

b. Flashback occurs in the past

 c. Flashback is negative, unwanted memories

d. Flashback suggests what will happen later in the story

2. What can flashback do?

a. Interrupt a chronological narrative

b. Complicate a plot

c. Further develop characters

d. All of the above

3. How is flashback different from flash-forward?

a. Flashback is more concise

b. Flash-f moves into the future, whereas flashback moves into the past

c. Flash-forward is more abrupt and unexpected

d. None of the above

1. What is a motif?

a. a type of theme

b. a recurring image or idea

c. the antagonist’s motive

d. a catchphrase

2. Which of the following could be motifs?

a. thunderstorms

b. usage of short sentences

c. complaining in conversation

d. both a and c

3. What is the relationship between motif and theme?

a. themes are a type of motif

 b. motifs are a type of theme

c. motifs emphasize themes

d. themes emphasize motifs

4. Which of the following is always a characteristic of motifs?

a. They are recurring

b. They are serious

c. They are comedic

d. None of the above

1. What kind of paradox is “This statement is a lie”?

a. Literary paradox

b. Logical paradox

c. Illusory paradox (oxymoron)

d. All of the above

2. Which of the following is NOT one of the purposes of literary paradox?

a. To make characters more three-dimensional

b. To generate mystery

c. To help art imitate life

d. To eliminate plot holes

3. The ethics professor stealing money from students is an example of:

a. Irony

b. Logical paradox

c. Juxtaposition

d. Oxymoron

4. Rather than coming up with literary paradoxes from scratch, it may be best to:
 a. Come up with logical paradoxes first

b. Base all paradoxes on irony

c. Base all paradoxes on juxtaposition

d. Observe literary paradoxes in history, literature, or real life

MCQs THE LORD OF THE RING (J.R.R.Tolkien)

by (13418,13437,13438,13441,13430)

1) The Lord of the Rings is one of the greatest novel of all the times from
English author
a. Conan Doyle
b. Agatha Christie
c. J.R.R. Tolkien
d. J.K. Rowling
2) It started basically as the sequel to a children’s story
a. The Tale of Peter Rabbit
b. The Hobbit
c. The Little Prince
d. Treasure Island
3) The setting of the novel at the start of the novel
a. Graveyard
b. Church
c. Temple
d. A beautiful place, Shire
4) The main antagonist of the story
a. Lord Sauron
b. Gandalf
c. Bilbo
d. Frodo
5) Who was first to see the dangers and powers of rings?
a. Frodo
 b. Gandalf
c. Sam
d. Gimli
6) Before Gollum found the ring, he was an innocent hobbit named
a. Elf
b. Bilbo
c. Smeagle
d. Saruman
7) Best friend of Frodo was
a. Bilbo
b. Aragorn
c. Legolas
d. Sam
8) Aragorn is the rightful king for
a. Shire
b. Moria
c. Mordor
d. Gondor
9) Saruman through his powers creates endless numbers of
a. Orcs
b. Arrows & bows
c. Ents
d. Uruk-hai

10) In "Fellowship of the Ring," what gift does Lady Galadriel give Gimli
before the fellowship leaves Lothlorien?

a. A dagger
b. A sword
c. Three strands of her hair
d. An elvish arrow and bow

11) How many times does Gollum say precious in "The Two Towers"?

a. 16
b. 12
c. 11
d. 13
12) Which of the Three Rings of Power did Galadriel wear?

a. Narya, the Ring of Fire

b. Nenya, the Ring of Water
c. Vilya, the Ring of Air
d. All of the above

13) Who is the last keeper of the elven ring Narya, the Ring of Fire?

a. Gandalf
b. Arwen
c. Cirdan
d. Sam

14) Who rescues Gandalf atop the Tower Orthanc?

a. Gwaihir
b. Frodo and Sam
c. Arwen and Aragorn
d. Merry and pippin

15) Hobbits eat seven meals a day. What comes directly after elevensies?

a. Afternoon tea
b. Supper
c. Luncheon
d. Brunch

16) In "The Two Towers," what is the name of the treelike species Merry and
Pippin befriend in Fangorn Forest?

a. Ent
b. Treebeard
c. Leaflong
d. None of these

17) When Frodo is attacked by the Witch-king, who attempts to hit his heart
with a Morgul blade, what is he almost turned into?

a. A Wraith
b. Uruk-hai
 c. A Balrog
d. An Orc

18) Who created the three Elven Rings?

a. Bilbo
b. Feanor
c. Earendil
d. Celebrimbor

19) What was the name of the book that Bilbo was writing about his
adventures?

a. The Hobbit
b. The Little Prince
c. There and Back Again
d. My Adventures at the Shire

20) Which is not part of the trilogy, The Lord of the Rings?

a. The Hobbit (1937)

b. The Fellowship of the Ring (1954)
c. The Two Towers (1954)
d. The Return of the King (1955)

21) Who possesses the ring of power at the start of the trilogy?
a. Gandalf
b. Bilbo
c. Frodo
d. Sauron
22) Who do the hobbits encounter at the Prancing Pony?
a. Gandalf
b. Legolas
c. Strider
d. Boromir
23) How many members make up the fellowship of the ring?
a. Seven
b. Eight
 c. Nine
d. Ten
24) What is the name of the elf in the fellowship?
a. Gimli
b. Legolas
c. Merry
d. Boromir
25) What is the name of the dwarf in the fellowship?
a. Gimli
b. Legolas
c. Merry
d. Boromir
26) When the pass of Caradhras is blocked, where does Frodo say the
fellowship should go?
a. Rivendell
b. Lothlorien
c. Moria
d. Minas Tirith
27) Who is the first member of the fellowship to be separated from the
group?
a. Gandalf
b. Legolas
c. Boromir
d. Aragorn
28) What happens at the end of the first movie?
a. Merry and Pippin are carried off by orcs and Uruk-hai
b. Boromir is killed
c. Frodo and Sam leave the others behind
d. All of the above
29) Who has been following Sam and Frodo?
a. Gollum
b. Sméagol
c. A and B
d. None of the above
30) Who is the king of Rohan?
 a. Théoden
b. Wormtongue
c. Éowyn
d. Éomer
31) Where is Saruman’s tower, Orthanc, located?
a. Minas Tirith
b. Rivendell
c. Helm’s Deep
d. Isengard
32) What animal does Gollum give to Frodo?
a. A ferret
b. A rabbit
c. A mouse
d. A fish
33) Where does Théoden decide to send his people?
a. Minas Tirith
b. Rivendell
c. Helm’s Deep
d. Isengard
34) What forest creatures do Pippin and Merry come across?
a. Orcs
b. Uruk-hai
c. Rabbits
d. Ents
35) Whom does Aragorn love?
a. Éowyn
b. Arwen
c. Galadriel
d. None of the above
36) Who shows up to help defend Helm’s Deep at the last moment?
a. The Ents
b. An elf army
c. The riders of Rohan, led by Éomer
d. All of the above
37) Who is the steward of Gondor?
a. Denethor
b. Boromir
 c. Aragorn
d. Faramir
38) What is the name of the capital of Gondor?
a. Osgiliath
b. Helm’s Deep
c. Minas Tirith
d. Cirith Ungol
39) To whom does Pippin pledge allegiance?
a. Denethor
b. Faramir
c. Aragorn
d. Gandalf
40) What are Sam and Frodo running out of as they journey to Mount
Doom?
a. Water
b. Strength
c. Food
d. All of the above
41) What does Elrond offer to Aragorn?
a. The evenstar
b. A ring
c. A sword
d. Immortal life
42) How is the ring destroyed at Mount Doom?
a. Sam drops it into the lava
b. Frodo drops it into the lava
c. It falls into the lava as Gollum and Frodo struggle for it
d. An eagle carries Frodo to the lip of the mountain and he drops the
ring
43) Who finally kills the witch-king?
a. Éowyn
b. Merry
c. Théoden
d. Pippin
44) Who is the first hobbit to get married?
a. Merry
b. Pippin
 c. Frodo
d. Sam
45) Who departs with the elves at the trilogy’s conclusion?
a. Bilbo
b. Frodo
c. Gandalf
d. All of the above
46) Who was Bilbo's adopted heir?
a. Drogo
b.  Lotho
c.  Otho
d.  Frodo
47) Which hobbit did not go with Frodo to Rivendell?
a. Samwise Gamgee
b. Peregrin Took
c.  Meriadoc Brandybuck
d.  Fredegar Bolger
48) What is not a name for the creatures that followed the hobbits from the
Shire to Rivendell?
a. Ringwraith
b. Úlairi
c.  Nazgûl
d.  Onodrim
49) Where is Elrond the master of at the time of the War of the Ring?
a. Lindon
b.  Lorien
c.  Rivendell
d.  Fangorn
50) What wizard lived in Orthanc?
a. Radagast the brown
b.  Saruman the white
c.  Gandalf the white
d.  Gandalf the grey
51) Which one of Tolkien's creations does not play a role in "The Lord of
the Rings", but rather plays a significant role in "The Hobbit"?
a. Gothmog
b.  Treebeard
 c. Shelob
d.  Smaug
52) What kind of creature did Treebeard claim was made in mockery of the
Ents?
a. Trolls
b. Huorns
c.  Orcs
d.  Men
53) In the first book of the trilogy, 'The Fellowship Of The Ring' which is
not a true chapter?
a. Flight to the Ford
b. Lothlorien
c.  A Conspiracy Unmasked
d.  The Fall of Gandalf
54) In 'The Two Towers' which is not a true chapter?
a. The White Rider
b.  Helm's Deep
c.  The Passage of the Marshes
d.  The Departure of Faramir
55) In 'The Return Of The King' which is not a true chapter?
a. The Journey Home
b.  The Siege of Gondor
c.  The Black Gate Opens
d.  Many Partings
56) What was name of the river that flowed through Lorien?
a. Anduin
b.  Silverlode
c.  Loudwater
d.  Brandywine
57) The pipe-weed that Pippin and Merry found in Isengard was from the
Shire.
a. True
b.  False
58) Is Isildur's Bane the One Ring?
a. Yes
b.  No
59) Who was the greatest of all the eagles of the Third Age?
 a. Gwaihir
b.  Mustavial
c.  Landroval
d.  Hovasthir
60) What was the effect of the drink that Merry and Pippin consumed at
Treebeard's house?
a. They were able to understand the trees of the forest.
b. They became much better swordsmen.
c.  They grew taller and their hair more curly.
d.  The drink had no effect other than to nourish them.
61) How many rings of power were there all together?
a. 13
b.  17
c.  20
d.  24
62) Which of the following houses of men is featured in "The Lord of the
Rings"?
a. House of Hador
b.  House of Eorl
c.  House of Haleth
d.  House of Bëor
63) Who was not an owner of the Red Book of Westmarch?
a. Findegil
b. Gandalf
c.  Bilbo
d.  Elanor
64) How many copies of the novel were sold worldwide?
a. Over 150 million copies
b. Over 60 million copies
c. 50 million copies
d. None of these
65) A wizard who keeps the whole trilogy running
a. Gollum
b. Aragorn
c. Gandalf
d. Saruman
66) Legolas was
 a. Wizard
b. Elf
c. Orc
d. Witch

67) What did Aragorn, Imrahil, Gandalf, Elladan, Eomer and Elrohir decide
during the Last Debate?

a. To fight Sauron
b. How to destroy the ring of power
c. How to save Frodo Baggins
d. All of the above

68) Aragorn's childhood elven name is Estel.

a. True
b. False

69) Who stabs Saruman in the beginning of “The Return of the King?

a. Aragorn
b. Grima Wormtongue
c. Gandalf
d. Frodo

70) After his resurrection, Gandalf is known as

a. The Grey
b. The Black
c. The White
d. The Dead

MCQs “Sherlock Holmes”

by (13420,13415,13433,13421,13445,13444)

1. Sherlock Holmes is written by:

(a) JK Rowling
(b) Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle
(c) Stephenie Meyer
2: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born in_____.
(a) London
(b) Edinburgh
(c) Paris
(d) Cambridge
3. When did Arthur Conan Doyle receive doctorate in medicine?
(a) 1880
(b) 1874
(c) 1885
(d) 1882
4. Who was the fictional detective created by Arthur Conan Doyle?
(a) Anthony Burgess
(b) Kim Philby
(c) James Bond
(d) Sherlock Holmes
5. Which novel of Arthur Conan Doyle was published in 1895?
(a) The Stark Munro Letters
(b) A Study in Scarlet
(c) The Firm of Girdlestone
(d) The White Company
6. Where did Arthur Conan Doyle die?
(a) Stromness
(b) Crowborough
(c) Kampala
(d) Pretoria

7.When did Conan Doyle receive his knighthood?

(a) 1886
(b) 1902
(c) 1930
8.What did Conan Doyle study at Edinburgh University?
(a) English Literature
(b) Law
(c) Medicine
(d) Chemistry
9. Who influenced Conan Doyle's decision to become a doctor?
(a) Dr.Welsh
(b) Dr.Waller
(c) Dr.White
(d) Dr.Wester
10.Which of the following people didn’t influence Conan Doyle in the university?
(a) James Barrie
(b) Dr.Joseh Bell
(c) Oscar Wilde
(d) Robert Louis
11. What was the first published work by Conan Doyle?
(a) The Stark Munro Letters
(b) The American Tale
(c) The Mystery of Sasassa Valley
(d) Captain of the Pole-Star
12.What year did Conan Doyle publish his first Sherlock Holmes novel 'A Study In Scarlet'?
(a)1888
(b) 1890
(c) 1889
(d) 1887

13. Who was the prototype of Sherlock Holmes?

(a) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
(b) Robert Lewis Stevenson
(c) Joseph Bell
14. Where had Sherlock been living?

(a) London
(b) Stockholm
(c) Paris
15. What was the first film about Sherlock Holmes?
(a) Sherlock Holmes by Guy Ritchie
(b) Sherlock Holmes Baffled by Arthur Marvin
(c) The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes by Billy Wilder

16. How many stories about Sherlock Holmes were written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle?
(a) 33
(b) 60
(c) 78

17. What is the title of the first story where Sherlock first appear?

(a) A Study in Scarlet

(b) The Hound of the Baskervilles
(c) The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

18. Who is Mrs. Hudson?

(a) A landlady of Holmes and Watson

(b) A Sherlock's wife
(c) A main enemy of Sherlock Holmes

19. Which instrument does Sherlock play?

(a) A piano
(b) A harp
(c) A violin

20. What is the name of Sherlock's brother?

(a) Mycroft
(b) John
(c) James

21. In which novel Holmes meets Irene Adler?

(a) The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
(b) The Valley of Fear
(c) A Scandal in Bohemia
22. What does "K. K. K." stand for?
(a) Koo Klan Klux
(b) Klux Klux Klux
(c) Ku Klux Klan
(d) Klan Klan Korporation
23. In "The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet," who is Arthur Holder's friend?
(a) Lucy
(b) George Burnwell
(c) Sherlock Holmes
(d) Watson

24. In "The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet," who is the maid Lucy's lover?
(a) Mary
(b) Arthur holder
(c) Alexander holder
(d) The green-grocer

25. In "The Adventure of the Copper Beeches," who explains the backstory?
(a) Toller
(b) Alice
(c) Mrs. Toller
(d) Mr. Rucastle

26. What is a physical trace Holmes likes to observe?

(a) Footprints
(b) Bodily fluids
(c) Names etched on walls
(d) Distant sounds

27. In “The Sign of Four” Sherlock Holmes unravels a mystery of ………….and a murder.

(a) Sleepwalker

(b) Police officer

(c) Homeless person

(d) Hidden treasure

28. In “The Sign of Four” Holmes takes on the case of……………

(a) Watson

(b) Mary Morstan

(c) Thaddeus Sholto

(d) Atherly Jones

29. In “The Sign of Four” Mary Morston received a pearl with a note instructing her to go to
the……….in London’s west end.

(a) Barbican Centre

(b) Royal opera house

(c) Adelphi Theatre

(d) Lyceum theatre

30. Thaddeus Sholto is presented in “The Sign of Four” as:

(a) An unusual person

(b) Intelligent person

(c) Detective person

(d) Shy person

31. How many chapters are there in “The Sign of Four”.

(a) 12

(b) 13

(c) 14

(d) 15

32. Which character is depicted as inherently savage and malicious and is represented as the
embodiment of evil in “The Sign of Four”.
(a) Tonga

(b) Mary Morstan

(c) Thaddeus Sholto

(d) Atherly Jones

33. “The Sign of Four” deals with theme of……….

(a) Evil and justice

(b) Victorian fear

(c) Empire and imperialism

(d) all of the above

34. How did Miss Morstan anonymously receive each year?

(a) Pearl

(b) Money

(c) Dress

(d) Crown

35. How is London described in “The Sign of Four”?

(a) As a growing and living creature

(b) Polluted place

(c) Developed area

(d) Under-developed place

36. What happens to Agra treasure at the end of “The Sign of Four”.

(a) It was lost into the ocean

(b) It was burnt

(c) It was stolen

(d) None of the above

37. Who was the original owner of the treasure in “The Sign of Four”.

a) An Indian prince

(b) Jonathan small

(c) A Sikh

(d) A Merchant

38. What was written on the note found next to Bartholomew’s body in Chapter 5?

(a) Good-Bye

(b) Revenge has taken

(c) The sign of four

(d) None of above

39. Watson compares Holmes to a………..

(a) Bird

(b) Snake

(c) Dog

(d) Pigeon

40. When did Mary Morstan’s father disappear?

(a) Last year

(b) 10 years ago

(c) 3 years ago

(d) 13 years ago

41. Complete the following quote:

“My mind”, he said, “rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most
abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis and I am in…………..’’.

(a) Hell

(b) My own proper atmosphere

(c) My idea of party

(d) My idea of what heaven should be

42. Narrator of the novel “a study in Scarlet is:

(a) Dr john watson

(b) Sherlock Holmes

(c) Gregson

(d) Cab driver.

43. What do the police find under Drebber's body:

(a) A knife

(b) A revolver

(c) message written in blood

(d) Wedding ring.

44. How was Mr.Drebber killed :

(a) He is lost at sea

(b) He is bitten by shark

(c) A poisoned capsule

(d) By a blow to the head .

45. What street do Watson and Holmes live:

(a) Baskervillne lane

(b) Baker street

(c) scarlet street

(d) windholme lane

46. Who was the killer in study in Scarlet;

(a) Holmes

(b) John Ferrier

(c) Jefferson Hope

(d) Watson

47. Where did Drebber and stangerson escape to from Utah ?

(a) The East india

(b) china

(c) England

(d) Europe.

48.Watson was stationed in;

(a) Afghanistan

(b) Iraq

(c) Russia

(d) Austria

49. Which article Watson found in Sherlock Holmes room;

(a) Art of deduction based on observation

(b) The ring of light

(c) A place in heaven

(d) Mighty fight

50. A study in Scarlet novel is the ______ Sherlock Holmes novel.

(a) fourth

(b) Third

(c) First

(d) Second.

51. Holmes's musical instrument of choice is the

(a) Piano

(b) Flute
(c) violin

(d) Clarinet

52. Who tried to help John and Lucy escape Utah?

(a) Mr Holmes
(b) Jafferson Hope

(c) watson

(d) Mr Drebber.

53. What was the word written on the wall?

(a) Rache
(b) blood

(c) Beloved

(d) cursed.

54. John Ferrier and whom survive the wagon train that starved to death?

(a) Madame Hope

(b) Lucy

(c) Sherlock

(d) Lestrade

55. Watson is extremely surprised that Holmes is unaware of the:

(a) His Poverty

(b) his unrequited love for a young woman

(c) His need to find a Lodging

(d) His illness

56. What piece of information does Holmes identify about Watson upon their first meeting?

(a) That Watson was wealthy

(b) that Watson was an only child

(c) that Watson has been wounded

(d) that Watson had been in Afghanistan.

57. The letter's of the note warning to sir henry came from ___ Newspaper

(a) Times

(b) New York

(c) Brooklyn

(d) Wall street

58. Inherited a thousand pounds from sir Charles

(a) Cartwright

(b) Hugo Baskerville

(c) James Desmond

(d) Mr. Stapleton

59. ___ Baskerville fled to South Africa

(a) Hugo

(b) Charles

(c) Rodger

(d) Henry

60. Holme's final clue that leads him to the motive behind the crime

(a) Hugo’s portrait

(b) Sir Charles’s will

(c) Rodger’s portrait

(d) Laura Lyon’s letter

61. Reason behind hound haunting the manor in the legend

(a) Hugo Baskerville

(b) Henry Baskerville

(c) Charles Baskerville

(d) Victor Baskerville

62. Why did this curse came into being

(a) Death and revenge

(b) Abduction and death

(c) Love and betrayal

(d) Wealth and land

63. How did Sir Charles Baskerville die?

(a) Tumour

(b) Kidney Failure

(c) Murder

(d) Heart attack

64. When Watson and Sir Henry go the moor in search of Selden, Watson sees the shadow of a
man on the top. Who was the man whose shadow Watson saw?

(a) It was not a man, it was the hound

(b) Selden

(c) Holmes

(d) Stapleton

65. When Watson comes to Baskerville Hall with Sir Henry, he realizes that the butler Barrymore
and his wife are hiding a secret. What was the secret?

(a) They were shielding an escaped convict

(b) They were the ones who had brought the hound

(c) They were the killers of Sir Charles Baskerville

(d) They were being blackmailed by the real killer

66. Why does Stapleton object when Sir Henry tries to woo Stapleton's sister?

(a) Because he felt Sir Henry was accursed

(b) Because he knew Sir Henry was going to die

(c) Because she was not his sister and was his wife
(d) Because he though Sir Henry was poor

67. Who was Stapleton?

(a) Sir Charles' son by an earlier marriage

(b)The son of Sir Charles' brother Rodger

(c) He was Sir Charles' younger brother Rodger

(d) He was none other than Hugo Baskerville

68. Chapter 5 is titled, "Three Broken Threads." In this metaphor, the "threads" represent

(a) Murder

(b) Suspect

(c) Character

(d) Leads

69. The date of the document which told the legend of the Baskervile curse is

(a) 1782

(b) 1791

(c) 1742

(d) 1760

70. Inherited a thousand pounds from Sir Charles

(a) Dr. Mortimer

(b) Mr. Stepleton

(c) James Desmond

(d) Cartwright

71. Elderly clergyman, distant cousin to Baskerville

(a) Hugo Baskerville

(b) Barrymore

(c) James Desmond

(d) Mr Franklund

72. Fourth section of Sherlock Holmes:

(a) Valley of fear

(b) sign of the four
(c) A study in scarlet
(d) The hound of Baskervilles
73. Professor Moriarty is:

(a) Greek scholar

(b) Political analyst
(c) Scientific criminal
(d) Holmes Friend
74. The Dynamics of Asteroid:

(a) Einstein

(b) Paul Andrew

(c) Sherlock Holmes

(d) Prof. Moriarty

75. Who was companion of Holmes deepest meditations:

(a)Watson

(b)His cat

(c) Porlock

(d) His Pipe

76. The cipher message begins with:

(a) Greek proverb

(b) 3876

(c) Couplet

(d) 534

77. Alec MacDonald has a accent:

(a) Irish
(b) Joycian
(c) Hard Aberdonian
(d) American
78. Jean Greuze was a:

(a) French Composer

(b) English poet
(c) French Painter
(d) German Philosopher
79. Jonathan Wild was a

(a) Character
(b) Poet
(c) Detective
(d) Criminal
80. Prof. Moriarty had his balance in:

(a) Bank of London

(b) Swiss Bank
(c) Bank of Berlin
(d) Deutsche Bank
81.There is a great brain in London and a……… in Sussex:

(a) Painter
(b) Thief
(c) Dead Man
(d) A friend
82. The Manor House was built during:

(a) First Crusade

(b) Viking invasions
(c) First World War
(d) Napoleon era
83. Who was living in Manor House:

(a) John Douglas and wife

(b) Mr Murray Family
(c) Villagers
(d) Sherlock and Mac
84. Birlstone woods are on the fringe of
(a) Amazon Forest
(b) London Bridge
(c) Weald forest
(d) Kent forest
85. Frequent visitor at Manor House:

(a) Holmes
(b) Prof. Moriarty
(c) MacDonald
(d) Cecil Barker

86. What was writtern on card near dead man:

(a) Goodbye
(b) N.M 546
(c) V.V 341
(d) Mayor
87. Chapter 4 of Valley of Fear is

(a) Darkness
(b) Death of Mayor
(c) The tragedy of Birlstone
(d) Hound of Baskervilles
88. Well known American firm in Chapter 4 is

(a) California Smart Traders

(b) Pennsylvania Small Arms Company
(c) Virginia Smokers Firm
(d) American Foreign Trade Company

MCQs Harry Potter Series By J.K Rowling

By (13431,13456,13453,13412)
1- Harry potter is a masterpiece written by

a) Arthur Canon Doyle

 b) J.K Rowling
c) JRR Tolkein
d) Stephene mercy
2- Harry potter was firstly published in
a) U.K
b) USA
c) Canada
d) Australia
3- “Happiness can be found, even in the darest of times, if one only remembers to turn on
the light.” This famous is narrated by
a) Harry
b) Hermoine
c) Dumbladore
d) Snapes
4- In its publication in USA the word philosopher in first book on potter series had been
changed into……
a) Goblet
b) Sorcerer
c) Secret
d) Ordinary
5- The change in title’s word for the sake of publication represents……… of art.
a) Commodification
b) Prevalence
c) Negation
d) None of above
6- According to critics of high literature, popular fiction only serves the purpose of…….
a) Boredom
b) Entertainment
c) Moral guidance
d) Spiritual awakening
7- Harry’s fight with monsters and animals to redeem peace to the hogwart makes the work
more like …..
a) An Epic
b) A Short story
c) A Morality play
d) A mystery play
8- The omnipresent theme of Harry Potter is
a) Love
b) Oppression
c) Evil vs good
d) Death
9- Sphinx and sirens in harry potter and the goblet fire are references to
a) Greek mythology
b) Roman mythology
c) Medieval ages
d) Classical era
10- Which postmodern technique is incorporated by Rowling in potter series?
a) Pastiche
b) Magic realism
c) Simulation
d) All of above
11- Potter series exhibits which major quality of popular fiction
a) Exaggeration
b) Escapism
c) Aesthetic pleasure
d) Complexity
12- Being a ………,the series of harry potter shares characteristics of Alice in wonderland
and Gulliver’s travels.
a) Fantasy tale
b) Tragedy
c) Comic tale
 d) Epic
13- “Harry potter” is…….
a) A boarding school story
b) An adventurous tale
c) A fantasy tale
d) All of above
14- Popular culture is a product of
a) Capitalism
b) Communism
c) Authoritarianism
d) Feudalism
15- In the very beginning the classification of student and allocation of different schools to
them is an example of……… concept of discrimination.
a) Focault
b) Karl marx
c) Jacques lacan
d) Horkhimer
16- Sorting hat ceremony exhibits that equality is a……. even in magic world.
a) Truth
b) Myth
c) Temporary
d) Permanent
17- Which literary technique has been profoundly used in the novel by rowling.
a) Flashforward
b) Foregrounding
c) Symbolism
d) Personification
18- Theoretical analysis of harry potter series shows that it is a perfect form of
a) Literature
b) Popular fiction
c) Soap opera
 d) None of above
19- In potter series Magical world is……. With real world
a) Parallel
b) Not in harmony
c) Coincides
d) Intervene
20- Harry potter series is popular among people of all ages due to…..in it.
a) Magical world
b) Thrill
c) Adventure
d) All of above
21- In Harry Potter novel series: The ideology of “Pure blood vs Mud blood” resembles the
most with _____.

a) Class difference
b) Racial supremacy
c) Marxism
d) Capitalism
22- “Pure blood vs muggles” is an allusion to _____.

a) Hitler regime
b) Stalin regime
c) Genghis Khan
d) Colonialism
23- Dursleys are a mirror of _____ class of modern day society.

a) Working
b) Elite
c) Consumer bourgeoise
d) Middle
24- Dolores Umbridge governs Hogwarts in _____ ways.

a) Democratic
 b) Oligarch
c) Marxist
d) Authoritarian
25- Umbridge got the headmastership through_______.

a) Her qualification
b) Her links in the corrupt ministry of magic
c) Her status
d) Her age
26- Which system in wizarding world is bureaucratic in nature?

a) Ministry of magic
b) Headmastership
c) Professorship
d) Ministry of magic
27- The four houses of Hogwarts are like_______.

a) Legislative bodies
b) Political parties
c) Social class
d) Military
28- “House elves” are symbolic of which institution?

a) Voluntary workers
b) Slavery
c) Consumers
d) Employees
29- Hermione’s movement to free house elves is ________ in nature.

a) Abolitionist
b) Futuristic
c) Feminist
d) Violent
30- Malfoys are __________.
 a) Marxists
b) Supremacists
c) Progressives
d) Revolutionaries
31- Weasleys fail to move upwards in society because_____.

a) They are stupid

b) They are quarrelsome
c) They are corrupt
d) They do not compromise on their moral principles.
32- Umbridge uses ______ to deny the return of Voldemort.

a) Protest
b) Resistance
c) Violence
d) Misinformation
33- ___________ resist the apocalyptic darkness.

a) Dumbledore’s army
b) Death eaters
c) Voldemort
d) House elves
34- Dursleys are constantly watched by wizards. It is ____________.

a) Cooperation
b) Surveillance
c) Resistance
d) Subjugation
35- Harry is a ____________.

a) Pure blood
b) Muggle
c) Mixed race
d) Death eater
 36- Voldemort was modeled after ___________.

a) Churchill
b) Hitler
c) Napoleon
d) Genghis Khan
37- The entry system of Hogwarts is a criticism on ___________.

a) Governance
b) Immigration policy
c) Conservation
d) Closed borders
38- Which of the following is the richest and influential family?

a) Weasleys
b) Potters
c) Malfoys
d) Granger
39- Rowling epitomizes feminism in the character of __________.

a) Hermione
b) Bellatrix
c) Minerva McGonagall
d) Ginny Weasley
40-Dobby the elf is physically unable to revolt against his master. It is the theory of
__________.

a) Capitalist indoctrination
b) Socialist agenda
c) Althusser’s Marxist perspective
d) None of above
41- What was harry full name?

a) James Potter
 b) Potter

c) James

d) Peter

42- Who was Hermione Granger?

a) Wife
b) Enemy

c) Sister

d) Friend

43- Where do Harry amd Rone first meet in Harry Potter and the sorcerer stone?

a) The common room

b) The dormitory

c) The train

d) The school

44- What is the name of Rone’s rat?

a) Scabber
b) Luna

c) Chu

d) lily

45- Who decides where the children will be housed at Hogwarts?

a) Albus Dumbledore
b) The Sorting Hat
 c) The Sorting Broom

d) Each child decides for him- or herself

46- Who is Fluffy?

a) Hagrid’s dragon
b) Harry’s owl

c) Hagrid’s three-headed dog

d) Dumbledore’s pet snake

47- What position does Harry play in Quidditch?

a) Quaffle
b) Sweeper

c) Seeker

d) Chaser

48- Which house are Harry, Hermione, and Ron sorted into when they arrive at Hogwarts?

a) Slytherin
b) Gryffindor

c) Hufflepuff

d) Ravenclaw

49- Harry Potter has a scar on his forehead shaped like ___.

a) A diamond
b) A kidney

c) A lightning bolt

d) A map of Germany

50- What animal can Professor McGonagall transform herself into?

 a) An eel
b) An owl

c) A dog

d) A cat

51- Which Hogwarts professor is pictured on one of the Famous Witches and Wizards cards
discussed by Harry and Ron?

a) Snape
b) Quirrell

c) McGonagall

d) Dumbledore

52- Who is Mrs. Norris?

a) A school nurse
b) A ghost at Hogwarts

c) The Hogwarts caretaker's cat

d) Albus Dumbledore's wife

53- Who were Harry's parents?

a) Henry and Maggie Potter

b) William and Elizabeth Potter

c) James and Lily Potter

d) Ron and potter

54- Who was Tom Marvolo Riddle?

a) The ghost of Sirius Black

b) Harry's father

c) Voldemort
 d) snapes

55- Who kills Dumbledore at the end of "The Half-Blood Prince"?

a) Lucius Malfoy
b) Draco Malfoy

c) Snape
d) Harry
56- Dursely, who walks around during the day, epitomizes.

a) The boredom and dullness of everyday life.

b) His activeness
c) Fantasy
d) Impending danger
57- Albus Dumbledore, who slinks around at night, epitomizes the.

a) Fantasy and mystery of wizards

b) His madness
c) Anxiety
d) His protective nature
58- Mc Gonagall’s ability to take the shape of both cat and a human illustrates.

a) Wizard
b) Muggle
c) Both wizard and muggle
d) None of above
59- How many years Harry lived with his uncle

a) Ten
b) Five
c) Fifteen
d) twenty
60- Where Harry's room was in his uncle's house

a) In dining room
b) In a cupboard
c) In guest room
d) In lobby
61- Who tormented and bully harry at his uncle’s house.

a) Hermione
b) Dudley
c) Petunia
d) Ron
62- Who present chocolate birthday cake to harry on his birthday

a) Hagrid
b) Dursley
c) Ron
d) Hermione
63- Who tells harry that harry is a wizard.

a) Hagrid
b) Granger
c) Vernon
d) snapes
64- Rowling establishes a contrast between day and night creates

a) Ordinary world and its wizard world

b) Wizard world
c) Muggles world
d) Human being
65- Who took harry to Mr. Dursley home after being killed of his parents.

a) Dumbledore
b) Wesley
 c) Lily
d) Snapes
66- Mr. Potter and Mrs. Potter were killed by.

a) Voldemort
b) Mc Gongall
c) Dursley
d) snapes
67- What was present in Harry’s forehead.

a) Lightning scar
b) Wound
c) Mole
d) Rash
68- Which incident at zoo led to Harry’s punishment.

a) Vanishing of snakes box glass

b) Unicorn
c) Parrot
d) Dragon
69- Which animals blood was drunk by Voldemort in search of immortality.

a) Unicorn
b) Cat
c) Dog
d) Dementor
70- Voldemort is a shape shifter and has been using ______ body.

a) Quirrell
b) Harry
c) Lily
d) snapes