English Literature MCQs

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According to Theodor Adorno’s and Max Horkheimer’s “The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception,” which of the following is true of the culture industry ?


aThe culture industry is classified by ruthless uniformity of all ideas.


bThe culture industry is the chief method by which technology brings true democracy to all.


cThe culture industry is a fundamental way to promote individuality.


dThe culture industry is chiefly intended to offer consumers the opportunity to classify wants and desires as well as corresponding production.



Which of the following is true of Arthur Rimbaud’s poem “Eternity” ?


aIt ends with the lines: “Eternity./It is the sea run off/ With the sun.”


bIt suggests that the quest for knowledge and enlightenment is deeply satisfying.


cThe poem speaks of the necessity of seeking human approval and communal acceptance.


dIt begins with the lines: “I kissed the dawn of summer.”



As a result of the outbreak of World War I and anti-German sentiment which important British public figure had to adopt the family name of Windsor ?


aThe Suffragette Emmeline Pankhust


bKing George V


cKing Edward VII


dKing James II


View Answer King George V

Surrealism became an official aesthetic movement of the modern period with the publication of which work ?


a Andre Breton’s “Surrealist Manifesto”


bJames Joyce’s “Ulysses”


cErnest Hemingway’s “The Sun Also Rises”


dT.S. Eliot’s “The Wasteland”



Which author writes a profound criticism of Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness,” accusing Conrad of reinforcing typical European stereotypes of Africa ?


aChinua Achebe


bEdward Said


cArundhati Roy


dSalman Rushdie


View Answer Chinua Achebe

Jazz music is described by which of the following characteristics ?


aA way of questioning Victorian moral conceptions


bA musical invention of the modern age that allows for experimentation of form


cAn example of subjective artistic expression


dAll of the above


View Answer All of the above

What famous modernist short story compares the universe to an infinite library of hexagonal galleries ?


aJoyce’s “The Dead”


bHemingway’s “My Old Man”


cWoolf’s “A Haunted House”


dBorges’ “The Library of Babel”



Which of the following is true of Ezra Pound’s “Canto XIV” ?


aIt contains almost hellish imagery, such as: “Melting like dirty wax,/decayed candles, the bums sinking lower,/faces submerged under hams.”


bIt explores the theme of the perversion of language.


cIt deeply identifies with Dante’s “Inferno” in terms of tone and thick description.


dAll of the above


View Answer All of the above

The term “Lost Generation” can be applied to which of the following groups ?


aA group of self-imposed American expatriates living in Paris that included Ernest Hemingway, Hart Crane, and Henry Miller


bA group of artists and writers who were deeply marked by the traumas of World War I


cAny American in self-exile in Europe to avoid fighting in World War I


dA and B only


View Answer A and B only

The poem “In Flanders Fields” was written by John McCrae referring to which war ?


aThe Franco-Prussian War


bThe American Civil War


cWorld War I


dWorld War II


View Answer World War I

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