Top 150+ Solved Literatures in English- American and Postcolonial MCQ Questions Answer
Q. The tone of “I Hear America Singing” can be best described as
a. somber
b. hopeful
c. lively
d. inspirational
Q. The biographical text tells that it was the people that Langston Hughescalled the “low down folks” who had the greatest influence in his poetry. This phrase refers to people who were
a. african american
b. mexican
c. average and not easily noticed
d. middle and working class
Q. What is Langston Hughes known for?
a. beingasocialactivist.
b. beingapoet.
c. all of these answers are correct
d. being an essayist.
Q. In his poem, Hughes characterizes the speaker as
a. a young man unsure of his place in the world
b. a black servant who longs to be treated with equality and respect
c. an innocent child harmed by the discrimination he has experienced
d. an average, working-class man who hates his job
Q. Based on the titles of each poem, what statement is Hughes trying tomake in response to Whitman’s poem?
a. the authors have shared many similar life experiences
b. both authors have great love for their country and mankind
c. music and song have both played major roles in the lives of the authors
d. the song america sings to hughes is much different than the song it sings to whitman because hughes’ america did not readily accept him
Q. What is Snopes's occupation in 'Barn Burning'?
a. lawyer.
b. overseer.
c. judge.
d. sharecropper.
Q. What is the name of Snopes's boss?
a. major harold.
b. justice henry.
c. mr. harris.
d. dr. hansen.
Q. The quality of Romanticism most clearly illustrated in “The Fall of theHouse of Usher” is an interest in
a. the american past
b. the beauty of the natural world
c. legend and folklore
d. irrational or mystical elements of the world
Q. The basic facts of the story include all of the following with one exception.Which of these statements is in error?
a. the narrator has been invited to visit roderick usher, an old friend.
b. roderick has a twin sister who dies of a cataleptic seizure the first night.
c. roderick and his sister are the only surviving members of an ancient family.
d. the sister in prematurely buried, with terrifying consequences.
Q. The story emphasizes from the start a major parallel, one that involves
a. art and life
b. a building and a family
c. two close friends
d. a poem and an event
Q. Before he enters the Usher mansion, the narrator notes “a barelyimperceptible fissure” in the building, an example of
a. foreshadowing
b. a false clue
c. vivid detail
d. the use of local color
Q. Roderick Usher, the narrator discovers, is all of the following except
a. exceedingly nervous and gloomy
b. hypersensitive and superstitious
c. broken in spirit and deranged
d. bedridden
Q. Which of the following events does not occur at the end of the story?
a. madeline struggles free of her vault.
b. madeline enters roderick’s presence and strangles him before she dies.
c. the terrified narrator flees from the house into a storm.
d. the “vast house” collapses and sinks beneath the tarn.
Q. Which of the following is true of the story?
a. roderick was a victim of paralysis and was bedridden most of his life.
b. madeline was pretending to be dead so that she could come back to kill her brother and inherit the estate.
c. as his sister becomes more physically ill, roderick becomes increasingly ill emotionally.
d. the house was uninhabited and in great disrepair.