1. Stephen Crane’s novel The Red Badge of Courage deals with the theme of____________.
  • Civil War
  • I World War
  • The Negro Question
  • American Revolution
2. Who said, “America is my country and Paris is my hometown”?
  • Samuel Beckett
  • Adrienne Rich
  • Gertrude Stein
  • Ernest Hemingway
3. Eureka by Edgar Allan Poe is a___________.
  • novel
  • play
  • prose poem
  • None of these
4. Which of the following is not a work by Henry James?
  • The Good Soldier
  • The American
  • The Wings of the Dove
  • The Ambassadors
5. Match the following:
(1) The House of the Seven Gables
(2) Cabbages and Kings
(3) The Prince and the Pauper
(4) Billy Budd
(I) Mark Twain
(II) Herman Melville
(III) O,Henry
(IV) Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • 1-II, 2-IV, 3-I, 4-III
  • 1-IV, 2-I, 3-II, 4-III
  • 1-IV, 2-III, 3-I, 4-II
  • 1-I, 2-II, 3-IV 4-III
6. With whom is the phrase “house of fiction” associated?
  • Henry James
  • James Joyce
  • Joseph conrad
  • EM Forster
7. Who aid “image” is “an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time”?
  • T.S. Eliot
  • F.R. Leavis
  • Ezra Pound
  • Williams Carols Williams
8. The title of Catcher in the Rye comes from Holden Caulfield’s misinterpretation of the poem “Comin Thro the Rye” by_________.
  • William Wordsworth
  • William Blake
  • Robert Southey
  • Robert Burns
9. At the beginning of The Catcher in the Rye, Holden finds himself ____________.
  • Expelled from school
  • Unable to sleep at night
  • Wrongly accused to theft
  • Kicked out of his home
10. In later life, what nickname did Hemingway assume to convey a sense of strength, wisdom and mystery?
  • Stensel
  • Top cat
  • Papa
  • Big Kahuna
11. Approximately how many days do the events of the novel for Whom the Bell Tolls span?
  • Two
  • Three
  • Five
  • Eight
12. During which war does the novel For Whom the Bells Tolls place?
  • Spanish-American War
  • Spanish Civil War
  • World War
  • II World War
13. When the novella The Old Man and the Sea opens, how long has it been since Santiago last caught a fish?
  • 40 days
  • 84 days
  • 87 days
  • 120 days
14. Which of the following plays by Eugene O’ Neill is a full exposition of Expressionistic techniques?
  • Desire Under the Elms
  • The Hairy Ape
  • Mourning Becomes Electra
  • The Iceman Cometh
15. Who coined the term “Imagism”?
  • Charles Baudelaire
  • Immanuel Kant
  • Ezra Pound
  • T.S. Eliot
16. Who wrote the massive work, An American Tragedy?
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Ernest Hemingway
  • Theodore Dreiser
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald
17. Who wrote the line: “My life closed twice before its close”?
  • Sylvia Path
  • Virginia Woolf
  • Emily Bronte
  • Emily Dickinson
18. The Colossus is a confessional poem by
  • Robert Lowell
  • Anne Sexton
  • Sylvia Path
  • Adrienne Rich
19. Eugene O’Neill is known for having introduced the techniques of ________________ to American drama.
  • Realism
  • Expressionism
  • Romanticism
  • Modernism
20. The satirical novel, Catch-22, set against World War II, was written by
  • J.D. Salinger
  • Saul Bellow
  • William Styron
  • Joseph Heller
21. Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass was inspired by
  • Abraham Lincoln
  • Herman Melville
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Henry David Thoreau
22. “Daddy” is a confessional poem by
  • Emily Dickson
  • Dylan Thomas
  • Sylvia Plath
  • T.S. Eliot
23. Charles Dodgson wrote under the pen name
  • Mark Twain
  • O. Henry
  • Saki
  • Lewis Caroll
24. Buck is the protagonist of a novel written by the American novelist,
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Jack London
  • J.D. Salinger
  • John Steinbeck
25. The Adding Machine (1923), the first American Expressionist play, was written by
  • Eugene O'Neill
  • Arthur Miller
  • Clifford Odets
  • Elmer Rice

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