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1. Name the English poet of 18th century Answer: Option C. Ahmed Salman Rushdie
whose works included Rape of the Lock,
Dunciad and Essay on Man? 6. In Chaucer’s Legend of Good Women,
A. Nelson Mandela how many legends are there?
B. Winston Churchill A. 7
C. Alexander Pope B. 8
D. None of these C. 9
Answer: Option C. Alexander Pope D. None of these
Answer: Option C. 9
2. Thomas Chatterton was _____ years old
when he dies. 7. Period in English Literature from 1901 to
A. 19 1910 is called___________?
B. 18 A. The Pre-Raphaelites
C. 17 B. The Post Modern
D. 16 C. The Edwardian Period
Answer: Option C. 17 D. The Georgian Period
Answer: Option C. The Edwardian Period
3. Who wrote ‘The Colossus’ in 1960?
A. Chinua Achebe 8. The meaning a word within a language?
B. Toni Morrison A. Sense
C. Ahmed Sulman Rushdie B. Common Sense
D. Sylvia Plath C. Essence
Answer: Option D. Sylvia Plath D. Sense
Answer: Option D. Sense
4. The author of The Bluest Eyes (1970)
is__________? 9. The term Implicature might refer
A. Chinua Achebe to_________?
B. Toni Morrison A. Text Structure
C. Ahmed Sulman Rushdie B. Double meaning
D. Sylvia Plath C. Conversational structure
Answer: Option B. Toni Morrison D. None of these
Answer: Option C. Conversational
5. Shame (1983) is written by__________? structure
A. Chinua Achebe
B. Toni Morrison 10. Who called Chaucer the father of English
C. Ahmed Salman Rushdie literature?
D. None of these A. M ArnaldB
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B. John Dryden 15. Shame (1983) is written by__________?

C. Dr johson A. Chinua Achebe
D. T S Eliot B. Toni Morrison
Answer: Option B. John Dryden C. Ahmed Salman Rushdie
D. None of these
11. Name the English poet of 18th century Answer: Option C. Ahmed Salman Rushdie
whose works included Rape of the Lock,
Dunciad and Essay on Man? 16. In Chaucer’s Legend of Good Women,
A. Nelson Mandela how many legends are there?
B. Winston Churchill A. 7
C. Alexander Pope B. 8
D. None of these C. 9
Answer: Option C. Alexander Pope D. None of these
Answer: Option C. 9
12. Thomas Chatterton was _____ years old
when he dies. 17. Period in English Literature from 1901 to
A. 19 1910 is called___________?
B. 18 A. The Pre-Raphaelites
C. 17 B. The Post Modern
D. 16 C. The Edwardian Period
Answer: Option C. 17 D. The Georgian Period
Answer: Option C. The Edwardian Period
13. Who wrote ‘The Colossus’ in 1960?
A. Chinua Achebe 18. The meaning a word within a language?
B. Toni Morrison A. Sense
C. Ahmed Sulman Rushdie B. Common Sense
D. Sylvia Plath C. Essence
Answer: Option D. Sylvia Plath D. Sense
Answer: Option D. Sense
14. The author of The Bluest Eyes (1970)
is__________? 19. The term Implicature might refer
A. Chinua Achebe to_________?
B. Toni Morrison A. Text Structure
C. Ahmed Sulman Rushdie B. Double meaning
D. Sylvia Plath C. Conversational structure
Answer: Option B. Toni Morrison D. None of these

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Answer: Option C. Conversational 24. A term introduced by the linguist

structure SAUSSURE which refers to the state of a
language as it exists at any given time
20. Who called Chaucer the father of English A. Synchrony
literature? B. Diachrony
A. M ArnaldB C. Paradigmatic
B. John Dryden D. N. O. T
C. Dr johson Answer: Option A. Synchrony
D. T S Eliot
Answer: Option B. John Dryden 25. The study of signs is termed
as_________?
21. Altruist describes: A. Semiotics
A. One who is lover of beauty. B. Semantics
B. One who never stops. C. Paradigmatic
C. A lover of mankind. D. Parole
D. A person who hates mankind Answer: Option A. Semiotics
Answer: Option C. A lover of mankind.
26. In its general sense it refers to the
22. Novel Animal Farm was written creative capacity of language users to
by___________? produce an endless number of new
A. Shakespeare sentences, in contrast to the communication
B. William Hudson systems of animals is called ?
C. George Orwell A. Productivity
D. None of these B. Langue
Answer: Option C. George Orwell C. Paradigmatic
D. Parole
23. A term which refers to the sequential Answer: Option A. Productivity
characteristics of language. When we
construct WORDS and SENTENCES we 27. __________ is term introduced by
follow a certain order in arranging the CHOMSKY to describe ‘the actual use of
individual items. language in concrete situations’
A. Syntagmatic A. Performance
B. Synergy B. Parole
C. Performance C. Paradigmatic
D. N. O. T D. N. O. T
Answer: Option A. Syntagmatic Answer: Option A. Performance

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28. The system of communication within a D. Noah Webster

community. Answer: Option C. Noam Chomsky
A. Langue
B. Parole 32. There are ______ consonant sounds in
C. Paradigmatic English IPA.
D. N. O. T A. 22
Answer: Option A. Langue B. 23
C. 24
29. A pair of terms introduced by Noam D. 25
CHOMSKY in 1965 to describe native Answer: Option C. 24
speakers’ intuitions about the grammatical
correctness, or otherwise, of sentences. 33. There are ______ vowel sounds in
A. Both b and c English IPA.
B. Diachrony/Synchrony A. 19
C. Acceptable/Unacceptable B. 20
D. N. O. T C. 21
Answer: Option C. D. 22
Acceptable/Unacceptable Answer: Option B. 20
30. The study of language and mind, which 34. Noam Chomsky was born in _________?
has greatly advanced our understanding of A. December 7, 1928
the way in which we acquire language B. December 8, 1928
is_________? C. December 9, 1928
A. Sociolinguistics D. December 10, 1928
B. Psycholinguisctics Answer: Option A. December 7, 1928
C. Biolinguistics
D. None of these 35. Father of modern linguistics is
Answer: Option B. Psycholinguisctics ________?
A. Noam Chomsky
31. Who argues that language is a unique B. Ferdenand De Sassure
evolutionary development of the human C. None of these
species and distinguished from modes of D. Both A and B
communication used by any other animal Answer: Option A. Noam Chomsky
species ?
A. Ferdenand de Sassure 36. The theory of Biolinguistics is given
B. Albert Chomsky by__________?
C. Noam Chomsky A. Noam Chomsky
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B. Ferdenand De Sassure B. Diachrony

C. Steven Pinker C. Both a and b
D. Enoch Powell D. None of these
Answer: Option A. Noam Chomsky Answer: Option B. Diachrony
37. Transformational-generative grammar is 41. Which of the following is considered the

a broad theory used to model, encode, and first great work in world literature
deduce a native speaker’s linguistic ___________?
capabilities, was developed by_________? A. Divine Comedy
A. Noam Chomsky B. Epic of Gilgamesh
B. Ferdenand De Sassure C. Brother Karamazov
C. Leon Battista Alberti D. Anna Karenina
D. Enoch Powell Answer: Option B. Epic of Gilgamesh
Answer: Option A. Noam Chomsky
42. Who is the Author of the Book “As u Like
38. Chomsky developed Transformational- it”?
Generative Grammar in________? A. Coleridge
A. 1950 B. Karl Marx
B. 1951 C. Thomas Hardy
C. 1952 D. William Shakespear
D. 1953 Answer: Option D. William Shakespear
Answer: Option A. 1950
43. Who uttered these words “Beauty is
39. Competence is a term to describe the truth, truth is beauty, that is all” ?
knowledge possessed by native users of a A. Willams Shakespeare
language which enables them to speak and B. Gold Smith
understand their language fluently was C. John Keats
introduced by________? D. Adlof Hatler
A. Sassure Answer: Option C. John Keats
B. Enoch Powel
C. Noam Chomsky 44. In Paul Laurence Dunbar’s “A Cabin
D. None of these Tale,” which character is a trickster figure?
Answer: Option C. Noam Chomsky A. Weasel.
B. Bear.
40. _______ is a term denotes historical C. The farmer.
perspective for studying language ? D. The young boy.
A. Synchrony Answer: Option A. Weasel.
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B. She is one-eighth Black.

45. The importance of Lucy Terry’s “Bars C. She is White.
Fight” is______________? D. She cannot be a slave.
A. The poem is the first-known writing of an Answer: Option A. She is one-quarter
African American. Black.
B. The poem is better than the poems of the
more famous Phillis Wheatley. 49. Yusef Komunyakaa’s “Blue Dementia” is
C. The poem is the first of many poems by an example of what kind of poetry ?
Terry. A. Protest poetry
D. The poetry focuses on slave life in the B. Romantic poetry
18th century. C. Lyric poetry
Answer: Option A. The poem is the first- D. Jazz poetry
known writing of an African American. Answer: Option D. Jazz poetry
46. The character of Delia in Zora Neale 50. Harriet Jacobs wrote Incidents in the
Hurston’s “Sweat” was influenced Life of a Slave Girl to
by______________? show______________?
A. Her relationship with a patron. A. That female slaves were escaping more
B. Her mother. frequently than men.
C. Her best friend. B. How slavery was worse for men.
D. Her job as a waitress. C. How females were affected by slavery.
Answer: Option A. Her relationship with a D. That female slaves were more valuable
patron. than male slaves.
Answer: Option C. How females were
47. The trickster figure is affected by slavery.
usually_______________?
A. Amoral (neither good nor evil) 51. In Paul Laurence Dunbar’s “When
B. Christian Malindy Sings,” what kind of music is
C. Evil Malindy singing ?
D. None of these A. Cakewalk tunes.
Answer: Option A. Amoral (neither good B. Gospel.
nor evil) C. Jazz.
D. Blues.
48. In Chapter XV of William Wells Brown’s Answer: Option B. Gospel.
Clotel, Clotel is described as a quadroon.
What does this mean ?
A. She is one-quarter Black.
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52. In Chapter XV of William Wells Brown’s D. Frederick Douglass

Clotel, why was Clotel made to cut her long Answer: Option D. Frederick Douglass
hair ?
A. The mistress of the house was afraid her 56. Why was it important that slave
husband would be attracted to Clotel. narratives have a title page that claimed
B. To keep the lice away. either that the narrative was written by the
C. So that the other slaves would get along narrator himself (or his words were recorded
with her. by someone close to him, preferably white)
D. So she could sell it. ?
Answer: Option A. The mistress of the A. So the author could get paid.
house was afraid her husband would be B. In order for people to believe the events
attracted to Clotel. in the narratives.
C. So that slave owners could refute the
53. The term “Civil Disobedience” was events in the narratives.
coined by which author ? D. So that the author could be assured he
A. William Gates wouldn’t be recaptured.
B. Henry David Thoreau Answer: Option B. In order for people to
C. Booker T. Washington believe the events in the narratives.
D. Alain Locke
Answer: Option B. Henry David Thoreau 57. Which author relied on complex
characters and dialect to overturn American
54. The subject of Soujourner Truth’s “Ain’t stereotypes about Southern African
I a Woman” is_______________? Americans ?
A. Women’s rights. A. William Wells Brown
B. Negro rights. B. Richard Wright
C. The right to keep one’s children. C. Charles Chesnutt
D. A and B. D. Booker T. Washington
E. The rights of farm hands. Answer: Option C. Charles Chesnutt
Answer: Option D. A and B.
58. Harriet Jacob’s slave narrative Incidents
55. In Nikki Giovanni’s “The American Vision in the Life differs from Harriet Beecher
of Lincoln,” the poet argues that the Capitol Stowe’s abolitionist novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin
needs a statue of _____________next to in what way ?
the one of Abraham Lincoln? A. Stowe’s novel is sentimental.
A. W.E.B. DuBois B. Stowe describes the treatment of slaves.
B. Amiri Baraka C. Stowe describes the escape of slaves.
C. Booker T. Washington
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D. Uncle Tom’s Cabin was used by C. Making sure that what is written makes
abolitionists. sense.
Answer: Option A. Stowe’s novel is D. Lying to mislead the reader.
sentimental. Answer: Option A. Giving words double
meaning that appear differently to white
59. Which characteristic of the slave and black readers.
narrative did Frederick Douglass include in
the first chapter of his Narrative ? 62. According to Larry Neal, the primary
A. Narration of a deserved punishment. goal of the Black Arts Movement
B. Depictions of a beautiful rural is_______________?
environment. A. To speak to the spiritual and cultural
C. Descriptions of the kinds of food and needs of African Americans.
clothing slaves were given. B. To raise awareness of violence in African
D. The author’s father is often a white man. American youth.
Answer: Option D. The author’s father is C. To support the Back to Africa Movement.
often a white man. D. To raise money for Sickle Cell Anemia
research.
60. Frederick Douglass argued that slaves Answer: Option A. To speak to the
sang spirituals for all of the following spiritual and cultural needs of African
reasons except______________? Americans.
A. To impress the horrors of slavery on
listeners 63. Native Son was written
B. To ease their pain by___________________?
C. To pray for deliverance A. Jean Toomer.
D. To show that they were content in their B. Richard Wright.
work C. Ralph Ellison.
Answer: Option D. To show that they D. James Baldwin.
were content in their work Answer: Option B. Richard Wright.
61. In the poem “When Malindy Sings,” Paul 64. One of the functions of protest poetry
Laurence Dunbar uses irony and caricature was to________________?
to “signify” on white assumptions about A. Urge African Americans to fight their
African Americans. What does Henry Louis oppressors.
Gate’s term “signify” mean ? B. Encourage societies strive for equality for
A. Giving words double meaning that appear all.
differently to white and black readers. C. Extol the virtues of living in the free
B. Fixing words with very specific meanings. North.
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D. Argue that slavery was not so bad for

everyone. 68. Sonia Sanchez’s “right on: white
Answer: Option B. Encourage societies america” is protesting________________?
strive for equality for all. A. The extermination of Native Americans.
B. That there is a Black America and a White
65. The fact that Claude McKay visited America.
Russia in 1922 exemplifies the following C. Black on black violence.
theme of Modernism_____________? D. The fact that America still has a frontier
A. Collectivism versus the authority of the mentality.
individual. Answer: Option D. The fact that America
B. The wearing away of traditional class still has a frontier mentality.
structures.
C. The impact of WWI and the 1918 69. Who wrote Incidents in the Life of a
Bolshevik Revolution in Russia. Slave Girl ?
D. The disassociated, anomic self. A. Lucy Terry
Answer: Option C. The impact of WWI B. William Wells Brown
and the 1918 Bolshevik Revolution in Russia. C. Harriet Wilson
D. Harriet Jacobs
66. The theme of Phillis Wheatley’s “On Answer: Option D. Harriet Jacobs
Being Brought from Africa to America”
is_______________? 70. Race relations in the North are attacked
A. Slaves are capable of becoming good in_______________?
Christians. A. Harriet Jacob’s Incidents in the Life of a
B. Slaves should rebel against the Christian Slave Girl.
religion. B. Harriet Wilson’s Our Nig.
C. Slaves are the children of Cain. C. William Wells Brown’s Clotel.
D. Christians should free their slaves. D. Toni Morrison’s Beloved.
Answer: Option A. Slaves are capable of Answer: Option B. Harriet Wilson’s Our
becoming good Christians. Nig.
67. Why is the couple in Arna Bontemps’s “A 71. Who introduced the character of the
Summer Tragedy” getting dressed up ? “tragic mulatto” ?
A. To go to a party. A. William Wells Brown
B. To go pay old man Stevenson. B. Lydia Maria Child
C. To end their lives. C. Harriet Jacobs
D. To go to church. D. Harriet Beecher Stowe
Answer: Option C. To end their lives. Answer: Option B. Lydia Maria Child
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Answer: Option A. Is the time period that

72. Until recent years it was thought that followed the Civil War.
Harriet Jacob’s Incidents in the Life of a
Slave Girl was____________? 76. During the early 20th century, a black
A. Based on a New England captivity person’s purpose in passing might have
narrative. been_________________?
B. An anonymous narrative. A. To obtain justice for black people.
C. Fiction written by Lydia Maria Child. B. To get better accommodations on the
D. Written by Jacob’s son. train, better seats in the theatre.
Answer: Option C. Fiction written by Lydia C. To escape from slavery.
Maria Child. D. None of the above.
Answer: Option B. To get better
73. W.E.B. Du Bois argued that a liberal arts accommodations on the train, better seats
college education was needed in the theatre.
for______________?
A. The “Talented Tenth.” 77. Richard Wright said he created the
B. All African Americans. character of Bigger in Native Son
C. African American women. because______________?
D. Only White Americans. A. He had known many “Biggers” in his life.
Answer: Option A. The “Talented Tenth.” B. He was trying to overcome his fears of
powerful men.
74. In Chapter XV of Incidents in the Life of C. He was proud of all the African American
a Slave Girl, where did Linda hide ? men he had seen stand up to Whites.
A. Under the floorboards. D. He wanted to show African American
B. With a friend. males how not to live.
C. In the stables. Answer: Option A. He had known many
D. In a remote cabin. “Biggers” in his life.
Answer: Option B. With a friend.
78. Which of the following authors was not
75. In the United States, of mixed race heritage ?
Reconstruction_______________? A. Jean Toomer
A. Is the time period that followed the Civil B. Charles Chesnutt
War. C. Booker T. Washington
B. Describes the rebuilding after World War D. Frederick Douglass
I. Answer: Option C. Booker T. Washington
C. Refers to the Civil Rights movement.
D. Took place only in the North.
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79. Although different in tone, Soujourner C. When slaves traveled the Underground
Truth’s “Ain’t I a Woman” and David Railroad.
Walker’s “Appeal in Four Articles” are similar D. When African Americans migrated to the
in what way ? South from the North.
A. Their belief in necessary violence. Answer: Option A. A period of time when
B. Their belief that women should have African Americans moved North in large
equal rights. numbers.
C. Their appeals to Christians.
D. Their belief that African Americans should 83. Some critics argue that the use of
govern themselves. dialect by such authors as Paul Laurence
Answer: Option C. Their appeals to Dunbar and Charles Chesnutt did all of the
Christians. following except_______________?
A. Strengthened the African American’s
80. In Lucille Clifton’s “wishes for son,” the place in the world of literature
narrator lists what wishes her sons ? B. Perpetuated stereotypes
A. That they learn from her mistakes. C. Allowed African American authors to sell
B. That they have richer lives than hers. their works more widely to white audiences
C. That they have all they ever wished for D. Showed that African Americans couldn’t
themselves. speak properly.
D. That they experience all the pain and Answer: Option D. Showed that African
embarrassment of being a woman. Americans couldn’t speak properly.
Answer: Option D. That they experience
all the pain and embarrassment of being a 84. African American dialects grew out
woman. of_______________?
A. The 1960s protest movements
81. W.E.B. Du Bois accuses Booker T. B. The attempts of African slaves to
Washington of being______________? communicate with each other
A. A Christian. C. Slave owners teaching slaves Elizabethan
B. A radical. English
C. An accomodationist. D. Slaves’ attempts to keep their
D. A coward. conversations secret
Answer: Option C. An accomodationist. Answer: Option B. The attempts of African
slaves to communicate with each other
82. What was the Great Migration ?
A. A period of time when African Americans 85. In writing Beloved, Toni Morrison drew
moved North in large numbers. on what for inspiration ?
B. When African Americans settled Liberia. A. Her own memories of slavery.
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B. Stories her grandmother told her. D. She loves the beauty of it.
C. The television series Roots. Answer: Option C. She wants to display it
D. Slave narratives. for her friends to see.
Answer: Option D. Slave narratives.
90. In “125th Street and Abomey,” Audre
86. Slave narratives were shaped Lorde references images from
by_____________? ________________?
A. Captivity narratives. A. African mythology.
B. Abolitionist newspaper accounts. B. African American folktale.
C. Folktales. C. Greek mythology.
D. African mythology. D. Contemporary female artists.
Answer: Option A. Captivity narratives. Answer: Option A. African mythology.
87. Brer Rabbit is an example of what kind 91. What source did David Walker rely on
of character ? the most for support in “Appeal in Four
A. Trickster Articles” ?
B. Victim A. The Bible.
C. Representation of the slave master B. Greek history.
D. “Uncle Tom” character who feels slavery C. Slave narratives.
is best for the African American D. Abolitionist newspapers.
Answer: Option A. Trickster Answer: Option A. The Bible.
88. In Jean Toomer’s “Her Lips Are Copper 92. What is the character of Delia most of
Wires,” a kiss is compared afraid of in Zora Neale Hurston’s “Sweat” ?
to_______________? A. Rabid dogs.
A. A waterfall. B. Her husband.
B. Electricity. C. Snakes.
C. A war. D. Bertha.
D. A factory. Answer: Option C. Snakes.
Answer: Option B. Electricity.
93. Spirituals like “Go Down Moses” were
89. Why does Dee want the quilt in Alice important to African Americans
Walker’s “Everyday Use” ? because_______________?
A. She is proud of her heritage. A. They showed that a hero would deliver
B. She doesn’t want Maggie to have it. them from slavery.
C. She wants to display it for her friends to B. They gave hope that God would deliver
see. them from slavery.
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C. They helped them do their work faster. 97. In Gwendolyn Brooks’ poem, “we real
D. They were based on African songs. cool,” the Golden Shovel
Answer: Option B. They gave hope that is_______________?
God would deliver them from slavery. A. The name of a restaurant the pool
players cannot enter.
94. Arna Bontemps’s “A Summer Tragedy” B. A metaphor for colossal lies they have
attacks the institution been buried with.
of________________? C. A metaphor for the pool players who are
A. Sharecropping. trying to dig out of their neighborhood.
B. Slavery. D. The name of a pool hall.
C. Segregation. Answer: Option D. The name of a pool
D. Prostitution. hall.
Answer: Option A. Sharecropping.
98. The importance of Lucy Terry’s “Bars
95. David Walker’s “Appeal in Four Articles” Flight” is________________?
argues that_________________? A. The poem’s form of rhymed tetrameter
A. The races should not intermarry. couplets.
B. Christians the only ones not to blame for B. The poem shows her future work as a
the existence of slavery. advocate of civil rights.
C. Blacks have the duty to resist slavery. C. The poem is filled with Christian
D. Blacks should return to Africa. symbolism.
Answer: Option C. Blacks have the duty to D. The fact that the poem is the most
resist slavery. accurate account of the 1742 Indian-White
engagement in Deerfield, Massachusetts.
96. Slave owners resisted abolition for what Answer: Option D. The fact that the poem
reason ? is the most accurate account of the 1742
A. Slaveholders objected to losing leisure Indian-White engagement in Deerfield,
time. Massachusetts.
B. Slaves outnumbered non-slaves and
might rebel. 99. What is the subject of Lucille Clifton’s
C. Slaveholders felt economic security rested “the lost baby poem” ?
on the system of slavery. A. A child dying of SIDS.
D. B and C. B. The stillborn death of a child.
E. A and C. C. Abortion.
Answer: Option D. B and C. D. A murdered child.
Answer: Option C. Abortion.

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100. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “Letter from C. It was published by Frederick Douglass.
Birmingham Jail,” King D. It argued for a separate African American
advocates_______________? community in America.
A. Breaking the law. Answer: Option B. It was the first African
B. Using violence when necessary. American newspaper.
C. Waiting for times to get better.
D. Disobeying unjust laws. 104. All of the following are characteristics
Answer: Option D. Disobeying unjust of the African American tradition of the toast
laws. except_____________?
A. Toasting is oral
101. In Charles Chesnutt’s “The Goophered B. Toasting is a male event
Grape Vine,” why does Uncle Julius tell the C. Toasting glorifies women
Northern visitors the story of the spell put D. Toasting provides cultural identification
on the grapes ? Answer: Option C. Toasting glorifies
A. To describe the horrors of life on the women
Post-bellum plantation.
B. To explain his religious views. 105. In Chapter 11 of The Autobiography of
C. To amuse the narrator’s sickly wife. Malcolm X, how does Malcolm X survive
D. So they won’t interrupt his income from prison ?
the neglected grape harvest. A. Getting an education.
Answer: Option D. So they won’t interrupt B. Fighting.
his income from the neglected grape C. Making friends with the guards.
harvest. D. Contacting famous authors.
Answer: Option A. Getting an education.
102. Uncle Julius is a character developed
by______________? 106. Sekou Sundiata is considered what kind
A. Harriet Beecher Stowe of poet ?
B. Joel Chandler Harris A. A Modernist poet
C. Richard Wright B. A performance poet
D. Charles Chesnutt C. A classical poet
Answer: Option D. Charles Chesnutt D. A traditional poet
Answer: Option B. A performance poet
103. The importance of Freedom’s Journal
was____________? 107. Although Charles Johnson’s Oxherding
A. It was the first African American novel. Tales is based on his Buddhist beliefs, he
B. It was the first African American meant the novel to be a reworking of an
newspaper. American genre, the slave narrative. In what
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way is the novel, despite its philosophical B. Richard Wright

underpinnings, an exemplar of the slave C. Frederick Douglass
narrative ? D. Phillis Wheatley
A. Its character’s movement from slavery to Answer: Option A. Harriet Beecher Stowe
freedom.
B. Its emphasis on Christian ideals. 111. Who wrote one of the most famous
C. The novel’s sensationalist scenes of African American poems that begins with
violence. “what happens to a dream deferred” ?
D. Its didactic (teaching) tone of voice. A. Alice Walker
Answer: Option A. Its character’s B. Etheridge Knight
movement from slavery to freedom. C. Martin Luther King, Jr.
D. Langston Hughes
108. “The Day Duke Raised” by Quincy Answer: Option D. Langston Hughes
Troupe is a jazz poem
because______________? 112. The most important tenet of the Black
A. The poem’s rhythmic lines. Arts Movements is________________?
B. The references to jazz songs and A. African American art should exclude
musicians. women.
C. The poem can be set to music. B. African American images should inspire
D. There is repetition. African Americans.
Answer: Option A. The poem’s rhythmic C. African American art should subvert the
lines. art of Europeans and White Americans.
D. African American literature should
109. In Chapter XV of William Wells Brown’s replicate educated White language.
Clotel, what characteristic of the sentimental Answer: Option B. African American
novel is evident ? images should inspire African Americans.
A. The scene invokes audience sympathy.
B. The heroine has to balance autonomy 113. The genre Octavia Butler’s “Bloodchild”
with self-denial. is______________?
C. The heroine conquers her passions. A. Mystery.
D. A and B B. Science Fiction.
E. B and C C. Horror.
Answer: Option D. A and B D. Tragedy.
Answer: Option B. Science Fiction.
110. Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin, an
indictment of slavery ? 114. In Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, living
A. Harriet Beecher Stowe underground is symbolic of_____________?
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A. The narrator’s attempt to stay hidden. C. Ordinary language is used.

B. The narrator’s desire to be safe. D. Events are plausible.
C. The narrator’s invisibility to society. Answer: Option A. Characters are not as
D. The narrator’s attempt to stay out of important as plot.
prison.
Answer: Option C. The narrator’s 118. Etheridge Knight’s “Hard Rock Returns
invisibility to society. to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal
Insane,” what is Hard Rock’s function in the
115. Why was the “drop of blood” rule prison ?
developed ? A. To help the other inmates escape.
A. To keep the slave offspring of White slave B. To win money by fighting.
owners from inheriting. C. To do what the other inmates were afraid
B. To allow mixed-race children to get to do.
scholarships meant for African Americans. D. To keep the Blacks and Whites
C. To make sure mothers of mixed-race separated.
children got custody. Answer: Option C. To do what the other
D. To keep White slave owner parents of inmates were afraid to do.
mixed-race offspring from having to pay for
their children. 119. What does the term “passing” mean ?
Answer: Option A. To keep the slave A. The ability of an African American to live
offspring of White slave owners from as a White person.
inheriting. B. To do well on one’s schoolwork.
C. To leave one’s past behind.
116. What was special about Zora Neale D. To gain approval from one’s community.
Hurston’s home town of Eatonville, Florida ? Answer: Option A. The ability of an
A. It was home to the Harlem Renaissance. African American to live as a White person.
B. Most of its inhabitants worked for White
people. 120. Alice Walker’s novels often explore the
C. It was primarily African American. abuse experienced by African American
D. It was destroyed after the Civil War. women. What is the only abuse Celie does
Answer: Option C. It was primarily African not experience The Color Purple ?
American. A. Betrayal by the educational system.
B. Betrayal by her sister.
117. Which is not a characteristic of Realism C. Betrayal by her community.
? D. Betrayal by a family member.
A. Characters are not as important as plot. Answer: Option B. Betrayal by her sister.
B. Presentation is objective.
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121. In what way is Jane Toomer’s Cane an Answer: Option A. Having a bathroom
example of Modernism ? with warm water.
A. Its fractured, collage effect.
B. Its insistence on plot. 125. The narrator of Langston Hughes’s
C. Its focus on landscape. “Weary Blues” is
D. Its focus on modern city life. describing__________________?
Answer: Option A. Its fractured, collage A. Negro spirituals being sung in the cotton
effect. fields.
B. The call and response of an African
122. In Nella Larsen’s novel Passing, why is American church congregation.
Clare afraid to have another child ? C. African American toasting on a city street
A. She almost died in childbirth with her first corner.
child. D. Blues being played in a Harlem bar.
B. She doesn’t want to lose her figure. Answer: Option D. Blues being played in a
C. Her husband has threatened to leave her. Harlem bar.
D. She is afraid it may have dark skin.
Answer: Option D. She is afraid it may 126. What unforgivable action does Mag
have dark skin. Smith take in Chapter One of Our Nig ?
A. She tries to pass as White.
123. In Octavia Butler’s “Bloodchild,” The B. She washes clothes for White women.
Tlick keep the humans happy C. She lets a man help her out.
by_______________? D. She marries a Black man.
A. Supplying them with narcotic eggs. Answer: Option D. She marries a Black
B. Letting them choose their own mates. man.
C. Freeing the males after they are hosts.
D. Paying them very well. 127. According to Henry Louis Gates, Jr.,
Answer: Option A. Supplying them with reconstructing black people into the “New
narcotic eggs. Negro” has been a matter
of_______________?
124. In Gwendolyn Brooks’ poem, A. Redefining black people in terms of a
“kitchenette building,” what is most presence, not an absence.
important to the building’s inhabitants ? B. Working against the existing racist
A. Having a bathroom with warm water. stereotypes.
B. Following one’s dreams. C. A struggle ongoing since 1619.
C. Getting food on the table. D. All of the above
D. Finding a mate. Answer: Option D. All of the above

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128. Neo-Slave narratives are contemporary C. White institutions should reform to meet
novels written about slavery. Toni Morrison’s African American needs.
Beloved is about the ghost of a baby the D. African Americans will have to help
character Sethe murdered to keep her from themselves by becoming educated.
being recaptured by their master. The Answer: Option D. African Americans will
opening chapter of the novel represents the have to help themselves by becoming
neo-slave narrative by educated.
its________________?
A. Discussion of race relations in the North 131. For Booker T. Washington, racial uplift
and South. means_______________?
B. Condemnation of the plantation myth. A. Rejecting all White assistance.
C. Examination of the psychological damage B. Allowing Whites to help African
of slavery. Americans to reach their potential.
D. Insistence on desegregation. C. Calling for violent uprisings.
Answer: Option C. Examination of the D. Separating Blacks by income level
psychological damage of slavery. Answer: Option B. Allowing Whites to help
African
129. Charles W. Chesnutt used vernacular Americans to reach their potential.
speech to________________?
A. Explain how African Americans could not 132. The mask in Paul Laurence Dunbar’s
learn standard English poem, “We Wear the Mask,”
B. Make his written inaccessible to white represents_____________?
audiences A. The persona that the characters show the
C. To encourage feelings of pride in African world.
American readers B. The carved masks of African gods.
D. Challenge American stereotypes about C. Characters from the Bible.
race D. Who the narrator wishes to be.
Answer: Option D. Challenge American Answer: Option A. The persona that the
stereotypes about race characters show the world.
130. Booker T. Washington’s message in Up 133. In Chapter Three of Booker T.

from Slavery is_______________? Washington’s Up from Slavery, Washington’s
A. Whites should pay reparations to former primary goal is to______________?
slaves. A. Get an education.
B. African Americans should acculturate to B. Get a job.
mainstream White culture. C. To be clean.
D. To be a teacher
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Answer: Option A. Get an education. B. Slave owners did not allow their slaves to
live as married couples.
134. The supportive network of female C. Slaves were given limited civil rights.
slaves led to_______________? D. Most slaves were not Christian.
A. Resistance to the overseers. Answer: Option A. Most slave children
B. Learning to be midwives. lived in two family homes.
C. Resistance against dehumanization.
D. Lower suicide rates. 138. The characteristic of Naturalism that is
Answer: Option C. Resistance against most present in the first chapter of Ralph
dehumanization. Ellison’s Invisible Man is_____________?
A. The theme of man against nature.
135. Alice Walker’s story, “Everyday Use,” B. The theme of man against man.
includes which “Womanist” concern ? C. The theme of heredity.
A. The importance of men to the African D. Nature as an invisible force.
American family. Answer: Option B. The theme of man
B. The negative consequences of feminism against man.
on the African American family.
C. The importance of African religious 139. The “tragic mulatto”
influence in America. myth_________________?
D. The importance of African American A. Led to novels of passing.
craftsmanship. B. Existed only in fiction by White authors.
Answer: Option B. The negative C. Developed in the 20th century.
consequences of feminism on the African D. Existed only in fiction by female authors.
American family. Answer: Option A. Led to novels of
passing.
136. Who is the author of the novel Passing
? 140. Why did Marcus Garvey spearhead the
A. William Wells Brown “Back to Africa Movement” ?
B. Nella Larsen. A. Because in was cheaper to live in Africa.
C. Charles Chesnutt B. Because he did not feel African Americans
D. James Weldon Johnson would ever achieve equality in America.
Answer: Option B. Nella Larsen. C. He was asked by African countries to
bring African Americans to Africa.
137. Which of the following statements D. He had to leave the country.
about slavery is true ? Answer: Option B. Because he did not feel
A. Most slave children lived in two family African Americans would ever achieve
homes. equality in America.
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141. Phillis Wheatley’s poetry is 145. Tennyson was_____________?

considered_____________? A. a romantic
A. Highly original. B. a Victorian
B. Typical of Colonial poetry. C. a Pre…Raphaelite
C. Progressive and challenging. D. none of these
D. Abolitionist in subject. Answer: Option B. a Victorian
Answer: Option B. Typical of Colonial
poetry. 146. Novel which is not written by D. H
Lawrence ?
142. Slavery in the United States was A. The Rainbow
officially abolished in ______________? B. Ullysses
A. 1804 C. Lady Chatterley’s Lover
B. 1865 D. Sons and Lovers
C. 1848 Answer: Option B. Ullysses
D. 1807
Answer: Option B. 1865 147. Who is the author of ‘Heaven and
Earth’ ?
143. The back to Africa movement was A. Lord Tennyson
primarily about______________? B. William Wordsworth
A. Bringing African culture to the United C. John Keats
States. D. Lord Byron
B. Leaving the African peoples alone. Answer: Option D. Lord Byron
C. Writers who took African themes for their
work. 148. Negative Capability to Keats,
D. Completing an oppressed people’s quest means_______________?
for freedom, liberty and democracy. A. The ability to sympathize with other
Answer: Option D. Completing an B. Say bad thing, about others
oppressed people’s quest for freedom, C. To empathize
liberty and democracy. D. None of these
Answer: Option C. To empathize
144. Tennyson wrote____________?
A. Dover Beach 149. Which one is the world’s longest
B. My last Duchess running play______________?
C. The Eve of St. Agnes A. The Mousetrap
D. The Lotus Eaters B. Romeo and Juliet
Answer: Option D. The Lotus Eaters C. Othello
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D. Macbeth B. L. Tolstoy
Answer: Option A. The Mousetrap C. A. Pope
D. H.G. Wells
150. What do you mean by Diction ? Answer: Option A. W.B. Yeats
A. choice of words for writing
B. choice of characters 155. ‘The Excursion’ was written
C. choice of rhythms by________________?
D. choice of simile and metaphor A. Coleridge
Answer: Option A. choice of words for B. Blake
writing C. Shelley
D. None of these
151. The age tended to favour the taste and Answer: Option D. None of these
search for truth in art______________?
A. Classical 156. What is Epistolary Novel ?
B. Romantic A. a novel of short length
C. Victorian B. a novel personal feelings
D. Elizabethan C. a Novella
Answer: Option B. Romantic D. a novel of correspondence among the
characters
152. How many chapters are in the Quran ? Answer: Option D. a novel of
A. 42 correspondence among the characters
B. 67
C. 98 157. A person who writes about his own life
D. 114 writes ______________?
Answer: Option D. 114 A. a diary
B. a biography
153. Who is the writer of The Augustan C. an autobiography
Period ? D. a chronicle
A. Robert Herrick Answer: Option C. an autobiography
B. Jeremy Taylor
C. Samuel Richardson 158. Which one of the following poets was
D. Thomas Hobbes appointed Poet Laureate in the year 1813 ?
Answer: Option C. Samuel Richardson A. Tennyson
B. Byron
154. Famous Irish poet and dramatist C. Southey
is______________? D. Wordsworth
A. W.B. Yeats Answer: Option C. Southey
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D. John Milton
159. Wordsworth is a ______________ poet Answer: Option B. Ben Johnson
?
A. classical 164. “To be, or not to be, that is the
B. modern question”- Where do you find this quotation
C. romantic ?
D. Greek A. Macbeth
Answer: Option C. romantic B. Hamlet
C. As You like It
160. The earliest play written by D. Othello
Shakespeare according to Oxford Answer: Option B. Hamlet
Shakespeare 1988 is______________?
A. The Taming of the Shrew 165. ‘The Revolt of Islam’ was written
B. As you Like it by________________?
C. Two Gentlemen of Verona A. Wordsworth
D. Titus Andronicus B. Coleridge
Answer: Option D. Titus Andronicus C. Shelley
D. None of these
161. What the term Renaissance refers ? Answer: Option C. Shelley
A. revival or rebirth
B. representation 166. ‘The quality of Mercy is not strained’
C. presentation the line is taken from________________?
D. rebel A. Merchant of Venice
Answer: Option A. revival or rebirth B. Two gentleman of Verona
C. Midsummer’s Night Dream
162. Who is called the Bird of Avon ? D. Anthony and Cleopatra
A. John Dryden Answer: Option A. Merchant of Venice
B. William Shakespeare
C. John Milton 167. Hyperion is a/an
D. None of these poem_________________?
Answer: Option B. William Shakespeare A. Elegy
B. Epic
163. “not of an age, but for all time”-was C. Lyric
told about Shakespeare by whom ? D. None of these
A. Marlowe Answer: Option C. Lyric
B. Ben Johnson
C. King Henry
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168. Which poem of Tennyson was D. Freud

particularly like by Queen Victoria ? Answer: Option C. Earnest Jones
A. The Idylls of the kings
B. Charge of the Light Brigade 173. ‘Satanic Verses’ is written
C. In Memoriam by__________________?
D. None of these A. R.K. Narayan
Answer: Option C. In Memoriam B. Salman Rushdie
C. Jhumpa Lahiri
169. Hellenism of Keats D. Arundhuti Roy
connotes______________? Answer: Option B. Salman Rushdie
A. his love of poetry
B. his love of ancient cultures 174. George Bernard Shaw
C. his love of Greek culture and art is_________________?
D. None of these A. a playwright
Answer: Option C. his love of Greek B. a film-maker
culture and art C. a historian
D. a modern painter
170. What do you mean by Hyperbole ? Answer: Option A. a playwright
A. a long verse
B. a long narrative poem 175. Who is the writer of The Restoration
C. an overriding view Period ?
D. an overstatement about something A. Aphra Ben
Answer: Option D. an overstatement B. Robert Herrick
about something C. Jeremy Taylor
D. Thomas Hobbes
171. Hardy’s Nature is_____________? Answer: Option A. Aphra Ben
A. Friendly
B. Indifferent 176. Eliot worked for Faber and Faber as
C. Vindictive a/an_______________?
D. None of these A. assistant
Answer: Option B. Indifferent B. director
C. writer
172. ‘Hamlet and Oedipus’ was written D. Editor e… none of these
by_______________? Answer: Option D. Editor e… none of
A. Bradley these
B. Dover Wilson
C. Earnest Jones 177. Exiles’ is a______________?
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A. Short Story 182. The Essays of Elia was first published

B. Novel in book form in_____________?
C. Play A. 1795
D. Poem B. 1807
Answer: Option C. Play C. 1823
D. 1829
178. The statue of ‘Ozymandias’ Answer: Option C. 1823
is______________?
A. on a mountain 183. The line ‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty’
B. beside a river occurs in which one of Keats’ following
C. in a desert poems_______________?
D. in a valley A. Ode to Nightingale
Answer: Option C. in a desert B. Ode to Grecian Urn
C. Ode to Psyche
179. Macbeth is a_____________? D. None of these
A. play Answer: Option B. Ode to Grecian Urn
B. novel
C. an essy 184. In which city the play of Shakespeare
D. poem ’Romeo and Juliet’ is set
Answer: Option A. play in_________________?
A. Milan
180. Who is the writer of ‘Vision of Sin’ ? B. Verona
A. George Bernard Shaw C. Turin
B. William Shakespeare D. none of these
C. A. Lord Tennyson Answer: Option B. Verona
D. Christopher Marlowe
Answer: Option C. A. Lord Tennyson 185. Dickens’ first novel which focused on
the specific social ills was______________?
181. “A long poem is a combination of short A. the Christmas carol
poems.” Who has held the above opinion ? B. Great Expectations
A. Coleridge C. oliver twist
B. Keats D. a tale of two cities
C. Wordsworth Answer: Option B. Great Expectations
D. None of these
Answer: Option C. Wordsworth 186. Who is the author of ‘Man and
Superman’ ?
A. W. Shakespeare
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B. George Bernard Shaw

C. Leo Tolstoy 191. ‘The Rainbow’ is a novel written
D. Charles Dickens by______________?
Answer: Option B. George Bernard Shaw A. Hemingway
B. Virginia Woolf
187. What is Robert Frost famous Journal ? C. E.M. Forster
A. The summers day D. D.H. Lawrence
B. The Road not taken Answer: Option D. D.H. Lawrence
C. The Atlantic Monthly
D. The Mountain Interval 192. ’Heard Melodies are sweet but those
Answer: Option C. The Atlantic Monthly unheard are sweeter’ is a line
from_______________?
188. The prose of the Romantic period had A. Ode on a Grecian Urn
a tendency to_______________? B. The Prelude
A. Objectify the issue in terms of a cause C. Ode to Autumn
B. Advance a single system to the public D. None of these
C. Allow the writer to draw on his Answer: Option A. Ode on a Grecian Urn
D. Be brooding and meditative. own
personality 193. Which one is not by Shakespeare ?
Answer: Option A. Objectify the issue in A. Nature teaches beasts to know their
terms of a cause friends.
B. True is it that we have seen betting days.
189. Find the Odd man out ? C. Knowledge is power.
A. Ulysses : James Joyce D. None of these.
B. A Full Moon in March : W. B. Yeats Answer: Option C. Knowledge is power.
C. Drama of Ideas : T. S. Eliot
D. Riders to the Sea : John Millington Synge 194. Who is the author of the famous book
Answer: Option C. Drama of Ideas : T. S. ‘The Judgment’ is_______________?
Eliot A. Anthony Mascarenhas
B. Amartya Sen
190. Who is the author of ‘For Whom the C. Kuldip Nayer
Bell Tolls’ ? D. Nelson Mandela
A. Charles Dickens Answer: Option C. Kuldip Nayer
B. Homer
C. Lord Tennison 195. ‘Ode to Autumn’ was written
D. Ernest Hemingway by__________________?
Answer: Option D. Ernest Hemingway A. Shelley
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B. Keats A. The Wanderer

C. Byron B. Beowulf
D. Blake C. The Seafarer
Answer: Option B. Keats D. Dream of the Road
Answer: Option B. Beowulf
196. Who is the writer of ‘Comedy of Errors’
?
A. Ben Jhonson
B. G B Shaw
C. William Shakespeare
D. T S Eliot
Answer: Option C. William Shakespeare
197. “The Crown of Wild Olive”, is written

by__________________?
A. Ruskin
B. J.S.Mill
C. C. Lamb
D. Russell
Answer: Option A. Ruskin
198. Gunter Grass got Nobel Prize in-xviii ?

A. 1998
B. 1997
C. 1999
D. 2000
Answer: Option C. 1999
199. What is an Effigy ?

A. a poem
B. a sonnet
C. an image or dummy
D. a lamentation
Answer: Option C. an image or dummy
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