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