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Random MCQs
1:Who wrote: "Reader, I married him."?
a)Jane Austen
b)Charlotte Bronte
c)Edith Wharton
d)Emily Bronte
2.Who wrote: "Things fall apart; the center cannot hold."?
a)William Butler Yeats
b)James Joyce
c)Thomas Moore
d)Edgar Allan Poe
3.In which work do you read: "Things fall apart; the center cannot hold."?
a)The Canturbury Tales
b)The Dark Angel
c)The Wild Swans of Coole
d)The Second Coming
4.Who wrote: "Beauty is truth, truth beauty."?
a)John Keats
b)William Shakespeare
c)Samuel Butler
d)Samuel Taylor Coleridge
5.In which work do you read: "Beauty is truth, truth beauty."?
a)Adonais
b)Bright Star
c)Ode on a Grecian Urn
d)La Bell Dame Sans Merci
6.Who wrote: "In Xanadu did Kubla Khan / A stately pleasure dome decree..."?
a)Samuel Taylor Coleridge
b)Robert Browning
c)John Keats
d)Walt Whitman
7.In which work do you read: "In Xanadu did Kubla Khan / A stately pleasure dome decree..."?
a)Kubla Khan
b)Hellas
c)The Phoenix and the Turtle
d)The Castaway
8.A side note: Which drug/substance was Samuel Taylor Coleridge addicted to?
a)Heroine
b)Cocaine
c)Alcohol
d)Opium
9.Who wrote: "I would prefer not to."?
a)Edgar Allan Poe
b)Herman Melville
c)Thomas Gray
d)Henry David Thoreau
10.Who wrote: "There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt."?
a)Henry David Thoreau
b)Benjamin Franklin
c)Robert Browning
d)Henrik Ibsen
11.In which work do you read: "There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt."?
a)A Doll's House
b)Riders to the Sea
c)A Handful of Dust
d)The Fatal Curiosity
12.Who wrote: "My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings / Look on my works ye mighty, and despair!"?
a)Lord Byron
b)Percy Bysshe Shelley
c)William Woodsworth
d)Emily Dickinson
13.In which work do you read: "My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings / Look on my works ye mighty, and despair!"?
a)The Man of Feeling
b)In Memoriam
c)Song to Aella
d)Ozymandias
14.Who wrote: "That's my last Duchess painted on the wall / looking as if she were alive."?
a)Lord Byron
b)Oscar Wilde
c)Robert Browning
d)William Wordsworth
15.In which work do you read: "That's my last Duchess painted on the wall /looking as if she were alive."?
a)Porphyria's Lover
b)My Last Duchess
c)The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
d)Fra Lippo Lippi
16.Who wrote: "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons."?
a)William Carlos Williams
b)T.S. Eliot
c)Ernest Hemingway
d)Hart Crane
17.In which work do you read: "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons."?
a)Lovesong of J.Alfred Prufrock
b)Sonnets from the Portuguese
c)Prelude
d)The Last Decalogue
18.A "classic" book is usually one that possesses what quality?
a)It has universal appeal.
b)It can stand the test of time.
c)It makes connections.
d)All of the above.
19. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens involves which two cities?
a)London and Rome
b)Paris and Rome
c)London and Paris
d)Berlin and London
20.The Catcher in the Rye takes place in what city?
a)New York City
b)Stanford, Connecticut
c)Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
d)Boston, Massachusetts
21.Which book was not written by Jane Austen?
a)Sense and Suspensibility
b)Emma
c)Pride and Prejudice
d)Mansfield Park
22.What is Shakespeare's longest play?
a)Taming of the Shrew
b)Romeo and Juliet
c)A Midsummer Night's Dream
d)Hamlet
1)b
2)a
3)d
4)a
5)c
6)a
7)a
8)d
9)b
10)d
11)a
12)b
13)d
14)c
15)b
16)b
17)a
18)d
19)c
20)a
21)a
22)d
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