Arts, Commerce and Science College Bodwad Dist.

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TYBA: DSE 3 ENG B-Twentieth Century English Literature - Semester: VI
Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs)
Academic Year: 2020-21
Prepared by: Dr. Ajay Patil
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• Choose the correct alternative from the given options and complete the sentences.

1. The poem, ‘A Firn Hill’ is composed by-------.

a. Dylan Thomas
b. Wilfred Owen
c. WH Auden
d. WB Yeats
2. The poem, ‘A Firn Hill’ is having-------stanzas.
a. Five
b. Six
c. Seven
d. Eight
3. Each stanza of the poem, ‘A Firn Hill’ consists----------lines.
a. Seven
b. Eight
c. Nine
d. Ten
4. The poem, ‘A Firn Hill’ is based on---------of the poet, Dylan Thomas.
a. The old age experiences
b. The future experiences
c. The city experiences
d. The childhood experiences
5. The poet, Dylan Thomas has experienced his childhood at ------------.
a. His aunt’s farm
b. His father’s home
c. The sea shore
d. The school
6. Where does the farm of poet’s aunt exist as described in the poem, ‘A Firn Hill’.
a. Wales
b. Switzerland
 c. Mississippi
d. Boston
7. “A Fern Hill” is first and foremost a celebration of --------.
a. Old age
b. Childhood
c. The poet’s birthday
d. The birthday of the poet’s aunt
8. Where did the poet, Dylan Thomas used to relax as described in the poem, ‘A Firn Hill’?
a. In an AC room at his aunt’s house
b. On boat
c. Under the apple trees
d. On the hill
9. According to Dylan Thomas, the farm was like---------to him.
a. School
b. Home
c. Village
d. Jungle
10. Being young and inexperienced, the poet had-------- as described in the poem, ‘A Firn Hill’.
a. So many responsibilities
b. No responsibilities
c. No relatives
d. To cook in the house only
11. The poet, Dylan Thomas compares his childhood memories with the story of-------.
a. King and Queen
b. Prince and Princess
c. Adam and Eve
d. Romeo and Juliet
12. According to Dylan Thomas, ‘childhood’ is like being in--------.
a. the Garden of Eden
b. the school
c. the museum
d. the zoo
13. According to Dylan Thomas, ‘childhood’ itself is--------.
a. A curse of God
b. A grace of God
c. A miracle of God
d. A foolishness
14. At the end of the poem, ‘A Firn Hill’ the speaker loses ----------.
 a. the grace of childhood
b. the hope living life
c. the power
d. everything
15. The poem, ‘A Firn Hill’ was published in the book--------.
a. ‘Life and Death’
b. ‘Deaths and Entrances’
c. ‘Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas
d. ‘English Poetry’
16. What does the style of poetry the poem, ‘A Firn Hill’ resemble?
a. Classicist
b. Neoclassicist
c. Romantic
d. Surrealist
17. Which animal is not mentioned in the poem, ‘A Firn Hill’.
a. Owls
b. Cows
c. Foxes
d. Horses
18. Dylan Thomas was very famous--------.
a. Victorian poet
b. Romantic poet
c. Welsh poet
d. Humorous poet
19. Dylan Thomas died tragically in the year-------.
a. 1952
b. 1953
c. 1954
d. 1955
20. The poem, ‘The Hunchback in the Park’ is composed by--------.
a. Dylan Thomas
b. Wilfred Owen
c. WH Auden
d. WB Yeats
21. ‘The Hunchback in the Park’ is the story of----------.
a. a lion who lives in the park
b. an isolated and deformed man who lives in the park
c. the owner of the park
 d. the animals, birds, and the trees of the park
22. Thomas uses the boys, the hunchback and the portrait of the woman to explore the themes of---
---------in ‘The Hunchback in the Park’.
a. Life and death
b. Humanity, creativity and nature
c. Nature only
d. Crime and punishment
23. ‘The Hunchback in the Park’ is presented in seven stanzas and all of which are-----------.
a. not equal in length, containing six lines each
b. equal in length, containing seven lines each
c. equal in length, containing six lines each
d. equal in length, containing four lines each
24. The hunchback is living in a state of-----------------as described in the poem, ‘The Hunchback in
the Park’.
a. Anger
b. Poverty
c. Richness
d. Madness
25. According to Thomas, the hunchback tries to escape from-----------.
a. His tormentors
b. His promoters
c. The wild animals
d. The town people
26. The hunchback is-------------no matter what he does.
a. Slapped
b. Praised
c. Mocked
d. Worshiped
27. The mocking boys treat---------more like an animal in a zoo than other human being.
a. the rich man
b. the hunchback man
c. the diseased man
d. the reverent man
28. The speaker in the poem. ‘The Hunchback in the Park’ refers to the park as--------.
a. The mournful park
b. The mournful zoo
c. The loud park
d. The loud zoo
29. Who has written the poem, ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’?
a. Dylan Thomas
b. Wilfred Owen
c. WH Auden
d. TS Eliot
30. Wilfred Owen was a soldier in-------------.
a. World War I
b. World War II
c. Trojan War
d. Civil War of America
31. ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’ is a famous-----------poem by Owen.
a. A romantic
b. Anti-romantic
c. A war
d. Anti-war
32. The poem, ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’ presents strong criticism on----------.
a. Social abuses
b. Corruption
c. War and its aftermath
d. Dirty politics
33. The poet describes the horrors of-----------during World War I in ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’.
a. The bomb blasting
b. The gas warfare
c. The missiles
d. The gun firing
34. The poem, ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’ is written in the context of-----------.
a. Love
b. Romance
c. War
d. Joyful life
35. The poem, ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’ depicts----------caused by the war.
a. The victory
b. The death and destruction
c. The reward and honour
d. The pleasure
36. According to Wilfred Owen, war is----------.
a. Not a heroic deed
b. A heroic deed
 c. A great deed
d. A splendid deed
37. Wilfred Owen was-----------.
a. A British poet as well as a soldier
b. An American poet as well as a soldier
c. A British poet as well as a doctor
d. An American poet as well as a doctor
38. Wilfred Owen is also known as-----------.
a. A romantic poet
b. Anti-romantic poet
c. Anti-war poet
d. A Elizabethan poet
39. The poem, ‘Futility’ is written by----------.
a. Wilfred Owen
b. WH Auden
c. WB Yeats
d. Dylan Thomas
40. In the first stanza of the poem, ‘Futility’,--------is personified as ‘kind’ and ‘old’.
a. The Sun
b. The Moon
c. The Star
d. The Earth
41. In the first stanza of the poem, ‘Futility’, the Sun is described as----------.
a. ‘hot’ and ‘cold’
b. ‘kind’ and ‘old’
c. ‘angry’ and ‘kind’
d. ‘red’ and ‘bright’
42. The poem, ‘The Shield of Achilles’ is written by the poet-----------.
a. Dylan Thomas
b. WH Auden
c. WB Yeats
d. Wilfred Owen
43. ‘The Shield of Achilles’ is-------------.
a. An epic by Homer
b. A poem by Auden
c. A ballad by Keats
d. A play by Sheridan
44. WH Auden won the Pulitzer Prize in the year?
 a. 1938
b. 1948
c. 1958
d. 1968
45. WH Auden won the------------in the year 1948.
a. Nobel Prize
b. Pulitzer Prize
c. Sahitya Academy Award
d. Chaman Nahal Award
46. WH Auden was born in?
a. 1906
b. 1907
c. 1908
d. 1909
47. WH Auden died in?
a. 1971
b. 1972
c. 1973
d. 1974
48. Who is Achilles?
a. The great Briton warrior
b. The great Greek warrior
c. The great American warrior
d. The great Italian warrior
49. Who is Achilles?
a. A son of Hephaestus
b. A son of the Goddess, Thetis
c. A son of Marry
d. A son of Eve
50. Who is Hephaestus?
a. The God of fire
b. The God blacksmiths
c. The sculptor
d. All of the above
51. What does Thetis give Achilles?
a. A sword
b. A gun
c. A shield
 d. A javelin
52. Who is poet of ‘Now The Leaves are Falling Fast’?
a. John Keats
b. TS Eliot
c. Robert Frost
d. WH Auden
53. The prams are--------.
a. Running
b. Rolling
c. Standing
d. Broken
54. Who disturb the real delight of the ageing persons in ‘Now The Leaves are Falling Fast’?
a. Nurse’s flowers
b. Starving people
c. Whispering neighbours
d. Cold
55. What are falling fast?
a. Snow
b. Flowers
c. Leaves
d. Balls
56. In the second line of the poem, ‘Now The Leaves Are Falling Fast’ the Nurse stands for----.
a. A plant
b. A fruit
c. A tree
d. None of these
57. In the second line of the poem, ‘Now The Leaves Are Falling Fast’ the Whispering neighbours
stand for--------------.
a. Agents of life insurance
b. Agents of State Bank of India
c. Agents of death
d. All of the above
58. ‘Trolls’ mentioned in the poem, ‘Now The Leaves Are Falling Fast’ are mythological creatures
are-----------------.
a. Indian
b. Russian
c. Scandinavian
d. American
59. ‘Now The Leaves Are Falling Fast’ is a -----------poem.
a. Pessimistic
b. Optimistic
c. Pessimistic-cum-optimistic
d. None of the above
60. Who has composed the poem, ‘Now The Leaves Are Falling Fast’?
a. Robert Frost
b. William Wordsworth
c. WH Auden
d. Robert Burns
61. ‘Now The Leaves Are Falling Fast’ is--------.
a. A lyric
b. An elegy
c. An Ode
d. A Sonnet
62. ‘Now The Leaves Are Falling Fast’-------the frustration inherent in human life.
a. Reacts
b. Accepts
c. Enacts
d. Protests
63. ‘Lord of The Flies’, the--------is written by William Golding.
a. Poem
b. Novel
c. Drama
d. Prose
64. ‘Lord of The Flies’, the novel is written by---------------.
a. DH Laurence
b. Anita Desai
c. William Golding
d. Tony Morrison
65. Which is not the following novel written by William Golding?
a. Lord of the Flies
b. The Pyramid
c. Rites of Passage
d. Sons and Lovers
66. Which novel of William Golding won the Booker Prize, a prestigious British Award?
a. Lord of the Flies
b. The Pyramid
 c. Rites of Passage
d. Fire Down Below
67. When did William Golding receive Nobel Prize for Literature?
a. 1981
b. 1982
c. 1983
d. 1984
68. William Golding received-----------for Literature in 1983.
a. Pulitzer Prize
b. Booker Prize
c. Nobel Prize
d. Sahitya Academy Award
69. William Golding received the honourary designation as------------in 1988.
a. Commander of the British Empire
b. Commander of the American Empire
c. Lieutenant of British armor
d. Lieutenant of American armor
70. Whose responsibility is it to maintain the first signal fire?
a. The hunters’
b. Sam and Eric’s
c. Piggy’s
d. Roger’s
71. What powers does Jack ascribe to the beast after Simon’s murder?
a. Immortality and telepathy
b. Immortality and the power to change the shape
c. Telepathy and the power to change the shape
d. None of the above
72. How does the first boy disappear?
a. He burns to death when the signal fire ignites the forest
b. Roger crushes him with a boulder
c. A boar kills him
d. The other boys kill him with swords
73. Where does the beast go during the day, according to one littlun?
a. Into the air
b. Into the ocean
c. Into the caves
d. Into the fire
74. Who sees the dead parachutist first?
 a. Ralph
b. Jack
c. Piggy
d. Sam and Eric
75. Which character speaks to the Lord of the Flies?
a. Piggy
b. Simon
c. Ralph
d. Jack
76. What lures the navy ship to the island?
a. The signal fire
b. The roar of the beast
c. The fire in the forest
d. The huge waves of the ocean
77. What is Ralph’s first act upon being elected leader?
a. Naming Piggy, his chief advisor
b. Naming Piggy, the leader of the hunters
c. Naming Jack, the leader of the hunters
d. Naming Jack, his chief advisor
78. What object does Ralph clutch when he talks about Simon’s murder?
a. Piggy’s glasses
b. The conch shell
c. The fire stick
d. The rock
79. Where is Jack’s tribe headquarters?
a. Deep in the forest
b. At the castle rock
c. Next to headquarter of Ralph
d. On the mountain
80. What tool or tools do the boys use to make fire?
a. Match box
b. Piggy’s glasses
c. Ralph’s tinderbox
d. A flint and steel
81. Who kills Piggy?
a. Ralph
b. Roger
c. Sam and Eric
 d. Simon
82. What surrounds Simon’s body as it floats into the sea?
a. A cloud of blood
b. Sharks
c. Eels
d. Glowing fish
83. Who knocks the Lord of the Flies to the ground?
a. Simon
b. Piggy
c. Ralph
d. Roger
84. Who tells Jack where Ralph is hiding in Chapter 12?
a. Roger
b. A littlun
c. Sam and Eric
d. Simon
85. Which boy does not dance at Jack’s first feast?
a. Jack
b. Piggy
c. Simon
d. Ralph
86. Whom do the boys elect leader?
a. Jack
b. Ralph
c. Piggy
d. Simon
87. What frightening thing does the boy with a dark birthmark on his face say he saw at night?
a. A ghost
b. A beasties
c. A nastie
d. An enemy warplane
88. What does Ralph say is the most important thing to do for getting rescued?
a. Hunting
b. Keep a cooking fire, food and warmth
c. Keep a signal fire going so that they can be rescued
d. Guessing who is there
89. Why does Ralph get frustrated about not having enough help for?
a. Collecting fruits for them all
 b. Building shelter
c. Bringing water
d. Collecting wood
90. What does Jack think is more important than shelters and fire?
a. Telling stories
b. Meetings
c. Meat
d. Sleeping
91. What happens to Piggy's glasses?
a. Jack throws them and the glasses break
b. Accidently drop into the ocean by Piggy
c. That the glasses get lost
d. Simon grabs and claims that the glasses are his own
92. What are the littluns terrified of and having nightmares about?
a. A beast on the island
b. Jack and Ralph are fighting
c. The possibility of not being rescued
d. The signal fire going out
93. Where does Percival say the beast comes from at night?
a. From the forest
b. From the sky
c. From the sea
d. From their mind
94. What comes down from the sky?
a. The beast
b. The dead pilot with his parachute
c. A fighter plane
d. A balloon
95. What does Simon predict?
a. That he will die
b. That they will never be rescued
c. That Ralph will make home safely
d. That they all will make home safely
96. Who is the "Lord of the Flies" that Simon talks to in the field?
a. The beast
b. A swarm of flies
c. A pig’s head swarming with the flies
d. Jack
97. What does Simon discover at the top of the mountain?
a. A British naval officer
b. That the ‘beast’ others saw is a parachutist
c. An actual beast
d. Nothing
98. How does Piggy die?
a. Jack ties him up stabs him with a spear
b. Roger sends a giant boulder crashing down on top of him
c. The boys stab him to death
d. In a panic moment, he jumps off a cliff
99. Whom does Ralph see above him when he falls on the beach?
a. The beast
b. His mother
c. A British naval officer
d. Jack with a spear
100. What do the boys do when they realize that they have been rescued?
a. They refuse to leave
b. They all start sobbing
c. They run back into the forest
d. They throw their spears at the British naval officer