Top 150+ Solved Literatures in English- American and Postcolonial MCQ Questions Answer
Q. The total collapse of the Usher mansion at the end of the story best supports the idea that:
a. unreasonable fear and paranoia can lead to complete madness.
b. an overactive imagination can terrify a person with illusions.
c. isolation of the creative genius may one day result in its destruction.
d. a mind without a firm base in reality will eventually destroy itself.
Q. A theme of the story is how:
a. too much contact with the world leads to a distortion of reality.
b. isolation of the mind leads to death of the body.
c. a person who is cut off from the world can fall prey to another’s fears.
d. the mind cannot affect the body in any way.
Q. Which of the following quotations supports the statement that this story isabout how the imagination distorts reality?
a. “the disease of the lady madeline had long baffled the skill of her physicians.”
b. “. . . for there could be no doubt whatever that, in this instance, i did actually hear . . . a low and apparently distant . . . sound . . .”
c. “his long improvised dirges will ring forever in my ears.”
d. “[usher’s] opinion . . . was that of the sentience of all vegetable things.”
Q. The main character is a salesman who, after thirty four years with thecompany, has been taken off salary and is experiencing some personal and financial difficulties. What is his name?
a. his name is willy loman
b. his name is charley wills.
c. his name is ben happs.
d. his name is william benson.
Q. Who is Willy's wife?
a. her name is jenny.
b. her name is letty.
c. her name is linda.
d. her name is happy.
Q. What happened to Willy after he got a little above Yonkers?
a. he ran out of gas.
b. he forgot he was driving and ran off the road.
c. he ran into a truck.
d. he had a heart attack while driving.
Q. What is Linda's reaction to Willy's complaints about himself?
a. she agrees and says she never should have married him.
b. she urges him to see a therapist.
c. she cries and says not to talk like that.
d. she makes excuses for him.
Q. Who are Biff and Happy?
a. they are two new young salesmen who are trying to get willy's territory.
b. they are willy's sons. neither is very settled or responsible.
c. they are willy's older brothers. they are both highly successful, and ridicule willy for his failure.
d. they are two neighbours
Q. What seems to be the problem between Biff and Willy?
a. biff is a draft dodger, and willy wanted him to have a military career.
b. biff was disrespectful to his mother, and wily was angry about it.
c. biff wants to move to alaska, but willy wants him to go into sales and take over his (willy's) route.
d. biff is unsettled and hasn't made anything of himself yet, and this distress willy.
Q. Why doesn't Happy go west with Biff?
a. he is about to be married, and his wife-to-be won't let him go.
b. he has just applied to graduate school.
c. he wants to show the executives in his company that he can make the grade.
d. he is too insecure to try something risky.
Q. What does Biff want from Bill Oliver?
a. he wants money to buy a ranch.
b. he wants a recommendation to a film director bill knows in hollywood.
c. he wants his old job back.
d. biff wants bill oliver to become partners with him and open a consulting service.
Q. Why did Biff stop working for Bill Oliver?
a. bill never gave him a raise in four years.
b. biff suspected bill knew he had stolen basketball.
c. biff had been dating bill's daughter; bill fired him when biff dropped her
d. bill wanted biff to lie to an insurance adjuster, and biff refused
Q. Happy says, "I don't know what to do about him [Willy], it's gettingembarrassing." What is he referring to?
a. he is referring to willy's growing obesity.
b. he is referring to willy's crude gestures and language.
c. he is referring to willy's excessive spending.
d. he is referring to willy's mental lapses into a dream worl
Q. What does Happy's thinking tell you about his character?
a. it shows that happy really loves willy.
b. it shows that happy is more concerned about his own welfare than willy's health.
c. happy is admitting his ignorance, and acknowledging that he should have studied more in school.
d. happy prefers his mother to his father.
Q. Why does Willy talk so much about the car?
a. buying a new car for his wife is his motivation for keeping his sales job.
b. he thinks the car makes him powerful.
c. he had a bad experience in his car today, and the old car is a happy experience from the past.
d. he has developed a nervous phobia, and thinks that talking about the car will bring him good luck. not talking about it may bring bad luck.