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Introduction to American Literature | Set 1

1. ________ is Happy's real name.

Correct : A. Harold

2. ______ character states"nobody dast blamet his man".

Correct : C. Charley

3. In _______ year Arthur Miller won the "Pulitzer Prize for Drama".

Correct : A. 1949

4. _____ is the protagonist of the play "Death of a Salesman".

Correct : D. Willy Loman

5. "A Farewell to Arms" published on _____.

Correct : B. 1929

6. Ben end up __________when he went looking for his father.

Correct : A. Africa

7. At the beginning of the novel, Henry reports that seven thousand soldiers have died due to _____.

Correct : B. Cholera

8. _________ introduces Henry to Catherine.

Correct : C. Rinaldi

9. Hernry's job in the Army is_______.

Correct : A. Ambulance driver

10. ______is the refferred as the captain of the ship in the poem"O Captain!My Captain".

Correct : B. Lincoln

11. The poem O Captain ! My Captain is a/an ____.

Correct : D. Elegy

12. ________ is the "father of free verse".

Correct : A. Walt Whitman

13. _______was the father of Sylvia Plath.

Correct : C. Otto Plath

14. The poetess compares "Daddy" to ____.

Correct : D. All the above

15. Sylvia Plath was _______when her father died.

Correct : A. 8 years

16. Wallace Stevens' poem "The Emperor of Ice-cream" occur in___________.

Correct : B. Harmonium

17. __________ is embodied on the sheet bused to cover the body.

Correct : A. Bird

18. The poet meant by "our fearful trip is done" is________.

Correct : C. The end of civil war

19. Emily Dickinson had written about ___ poems.

Correct : D. 1700

20. ____________was the first title of the poem "Because I Could Not Stop for Death".

Correct : B. The Chariot

21. The swelling ground represent__________.

Correct : A. Grave

22. The narrator comes upon a fork in the road while walking through _____.

Correct : C. Yellow Wood

23. "Flag is flung" identify the figure of speech.

Correct : A. Alliteration

24. __________alphabet is used as in "The Scarlet Letter".

Correct : B. A

25. ____ is the heroine of the novel "The Scarlet Letter".

Correct : D. Heater Prynne

26. _________ is the other title of the novel "Moby- Dick".

Correct : C. The White Whale

27. Genre of "Walden" is ____.

Correct : A. Essay

28. The novel "The Sound and Fury" is written by _____.

Correct : C. William Faulkner

29. The Marlin, Manolin and Santiago are the characters of ________ novel.

Correct : B. The Old Man and the Sea

30. _________play was first performed in New York city in 1962.

Correct : C. Who's Afriad of Virginia Woolf?

31. The Novel ____ is a story of the interior struggle of Moses to find truth.

Correct : D. Herzog

32. "All My Sons" was published in_______.

Correct : A. 1947

33. The play "Desire Under the Elms" is divided into ___ parts.

Correct : B. three

34. ________ was the autor of "Light in August".

Correct : D. William Faulkner

35. ______ wrote the play "The Zoo Story".

Correct : C. Edward Albee

36. _________ acts in the play "The Zoo Story".

Correct : A. 1

37. _______is the name of the fish Santiago caught.

Correct : B. Marlin

38. __________ adventures nare narrated in "Mobi-Dick".

Correct : D. Ishmael

39. ____ is the younger son of Willy Loman.

Correct : A. Happy

40. _________symbols are used by Henry David Thoreau in his essay "Walden".

Correct : D. All the above

41. The novel "The Great Gatsby" published in___ ____.

Correct : A. 1925

42. ___________ novel describes the corruption of Southern aristocratic values.

Correct : C. The Sound and the Fury

43. The novel "The Good Earth " contains the details about daily life in ____ country at the end of the 19th century.

Correct : B. China

44. In ________novel major theme is the honour in struggle, defeath and pride.

Correct : A. The Old Man and the Sea

45. _____________ days Santiago struggle with the Marlin (Whale).

Correct : D. 84 days

46. "The America Scholar" is written by ____.

Correct : C. Ralph Waldo Emerson

47. ________ is the genre of "Desire Under the Elms".

Correct : B. Absurd Play

48. __________ is the protagonist nofnthe novel " The Great Gatsby".

Correct : A. Nick Carraway

49. _____________ wrote the novel "Herzog".

Correct : D. Saul Bellow

50. In__________ year "The American Scholar" was published.

Correct : B. 1837

51. ______ is the main character in the novel "Herzog".

Correct : C. Moses

52. ____ is the main character of "The Grapes of Wrath".

Correct : A. Tom Joad

53. On_____ day of the week does Willy die.

Correct : B. Tuesday

54. Happy is _______years old.

Correct : D. 32