English Literature MCQs

A. “the boarding house”
B. “clay”
C. “eveline”
D. “a little cloud”

A. “araby”
B. “the boarding house”
C. “the dead”
D. “an encounter”

A. The piano
B. The irish language
C. The english language
D. The violin

A. Wolfe tone
B. Charles stuart parnell
C. Father arnall
D. Daniel o’connell

A. A poem by yeats
B. A popular irish ballad
C. An ancient epic
D. A poem by eliot

A. It prevents exploration of the unconscious
B. It obscures the characters’ immediate thoughts
C. It allows for the introduction of plot snippets and new language
D. It makes the readers’ experience of the characters less intimate

A. The last sentence and first sentence are circular
B. The novel has a traditional plot; nothing is particularly unique about it
C. The start of the book bears no resemblance to the end
D. The novel is clearly written from the future to the past

A. Allusions
B. Jokes
C. Portmanteaus
D. All of the above

A. The book of the dead
B. The bible
C. Vico’s la scienza nuova
D. All of the above

A. “araby”
B. “the dead”
C. A portrait of the artist as a young MAN
D. Finnegans wake