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These multiple-choice questions (MCQs) are designed to enhance your knowledge and understanding in the following areas: Bachelor of Arts in English (BA English) .
| 1. |
The fall of Constantinople is associated with |
| A. | the enlightenment |
| B. | reformation |
| C. | renaissance |
| D. | the french revolution |
| Answer» C. renaissance | |
| 2. |
Enlightenment was |
| A. | a sixteenth century movement |
| B. | seventeenth century movement |
| C. | eighteenth century movement |
| D. | nineteenth century movement |
| Answer» C. eighteenth century movement | |
| 3. |
‘Ancient Regime’ is a term connected with the government in |
| A. | britain |
| B. | france |
| C. | germany |
| D. | italy |
| Answer» B. france | |
| 4. |
Taille was |
| A. | a trade tax |
| B. | a land tax |
| C. | professional tax |
| D. | sales tax |
| Answer» B. a land tax | |
| 5. |
Tithe was the tax given to |
| A. | the king |
| B. | the church |
| C. | the noble |
| D. | property tax |
| Answer» B. the church | |
| 6. |
Who wrote the essay What is Enlightenment? |
| A. | voltaire |
| B. | rousseau |
| C. | immanuel kant |
| D. | nietzche |
| Answer» C. immanuel kant | |
| 7. |
“Enlightenment is man’s emrgence from his self imposednonage”. Who said this? |
| A. | locke |
| B. | hobbes |
| C. | hume |
| D. | kant |
| Answer» D. kant | |
| 8. |
Who was the chief editor of the Encyclopedia? |
| A. | hume |
| B. | kant |
| C. | diderot |
| D. | montesquieu |
| Answer» C. diderot | |
| 9. |
“Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding” is written by |
| A. | locke |
| B. | voltaire |
| C. | rousseau |
| D. | hobbes |
| Answer» A. locke | |
| 10. |
The man who proved that the nature obeys certain fundamental laws |
| A. | locke |
| B. | newton |
| C. | kant |
| D. | louis xiv |
| Answer» B. newton | |
| 11. |
Tabula Rasa is a term coined by |
| A. | locke |
| B. | kant |
| C. | voltaire |
| D. | newton |
| Answer» A. locke | |
| 12. |
The spirit of Laws was written by |
| A. | diderot |
| B. | descartes |
| C. | voltaire |
| D. | montesquieu |
| Answer» D. montesquieu | |
| 13. |
“Humanity had lost its title deeds and Montesquieu recovered them”. Who said this? |
| A. | voltaire |
| B. | diderot |
| C. | rousseau |
| D. | bacon |
| Answer» A. voltaire | |
| 14. |
Who was Diderot’s co-editor of The Encyclopaedia? |
| A. | voltaire |
| B. | d’ alembert |
| C. | rousseau |
| D. | hume |
| Answer» B. d’ alembert | |
| 15. |
“All the great modern ideas have their commencement in Montesquieu”. Who said this? |
| A. | voltaire |
| B. | diderot |
| C. | faguet |
| D. | nietzsche |
| Answer» C. faguet | |
| 16. |
“He was scornful of revealed truth”. Who? |
| A. | rousseau |
| B. | diderot |
| C. | voltaire |
| D. | kant |
| Answer» B. diderot | |
| 17. |
“Reason is the most perfect, the most noble, the most beautiful of all our faculties”. Who said this? |
| A. | voltaire |
| B. | rousseau |
| C. | montesquieu |
| D. | kant |
| Answer» C. montesquieu | |
| 18. |
Who wrote the ‘Discourse Preliminarie’ of The Encyclopedia? |
| A. | diderot |
| B. | d’alembert |
| C. | condilac |
| D. | hume |
| Answer» B. d’alembert | |
| 19. |
“We are tempted to regard him as the greatest, the most universal and the most eloquent of philosophers”. Who is praised here? |
| A. | bacon |
| B. | locke |
| C. | aristotle |
| D. | plato |
| Answer» A. bacon | |
| 20. |
The author of La Religieuse? |
| A. | condillac |
| B. | diderot |
| C. | voltaire |
| D. | bacon |
| Answer» B. diderot | |
| 21. |
Treatise on Human Nature was written by? |
| A. | hume |
| B. | rousseau |
| C. | diderot |
| D. | aristotle |
| Answer» A. hume | |
| 22. |
“An Englishman like a free man goes to heaven by whatever route he chooses”. Who made this statement? |
| A. | montesquieu |
| B. | voltaire |
| C. | hume |
| D. | barkley |
| Answer» C. hume | |
| 23. |
The author of Candide ? |
| A. | voltaire |
| B. | rousseau |
| C. | hume |
| D. | gibbon |
| Answer» A. voltaire | |
| 24. |
Prof.Pangloss is a character in |
| A. | history of england |
| B. | social contract |
| C. | emilie |
| D. | candide |
| Answer» D. candide | |
| 25. |
Who termed primitive man ‘noble savage’ ? |
| A. | voltaire |
| B. | rousseau |
| C. | kant |
| D. | condercet |
| Answer» B. rousseau | |
| 26. |
The author of Social Contract? |
| A. | robespirre |
| B. | napoleon |
| C. | kant |
| D. | rousseau |
| Answer» D. rousseau | |
| 27. |
Who wrote Emilie |
| A. | robespirre |
| B. | napoleon |
| C. | kant |
| D. | rousseau |
| Answer» D. rousseau | |
| 28. |
Who wrote the preface to Lyrical Ballads? |
| A. | coleridge |
| B. | keats |
| C. | johnson |
| D. | wordsworth |
| Answer» D. wordsworth | |
| 29. |
the Essay on Man is written by |
| A. | dryden |
| B. | pope |
| C. | johnson |
| D. | gray |
| Answer» B. pope | |
| 30. |
The elegy written in a Country Churchyard is a poem by |
| A. | wordsworth |
| B. | coleridge |
| C. | burns |
| D. | gray |
| Answer» D. gray | |
| 31. |
Who coined the term ‘Esemblastic Imagination’ |
| A. | wordsworth |
| B. | shelley |
| C. | coleridge |
| D. | schiller |
| Answer» C. coleridge | |
| 32. |
Who wrote The Solitary Reaper? |
| A. | coleridge |
| B. | shelley |
| C. | wordsworth |
| D. | schiller |
| Answer» C. wordsworth | |
| 33. |
Kubla Khan is written by |
| A. | wordsworth |
| B. | shelley |
| C. | coleridge |
| D. | keats |
| Answer» C. coleridge | |
| 34. |
BiographiaLiterariais authored by |
| A. | wordsworth |
| B. | coleridge |
| C. | shelley |
| D. | blake |
| Answer» B. coleridge | |
| 35. |
The Vindication of the Rights of Women is written by |
| A. | mary shelley |
| B. | mary wollstonecraft |
| C. | george eliot |
| D. | elizabeth browning |
| Answer» B. mary wollstonecraft | |
| 36. |
Manuals of good conduct for girls like The Wives of England, Daughters of England etcwere written by |
| A. | mary wollstonecraft |
| B. | sarah stickney ellis |
| C. | emilie bronte |
| D. | beatrice webb |
| Answer» B. sarah stickney ellis | |
| 37. |
The woman who fought against oppressive marriage laws |
| A. | caroline norton |
| B. | marion reid |
| C. | harrier tayler |
| D. | florence nightingale |
| Answer» A. caroline norton | |
| 38. |
The fragmentary novel ‘Cassandra’ is written by |
| A. | mary shelley |
| B. | florence nightingale |
| C. | caroline norton |
| D. | william thomson |
| Answer» B. florence nightingale | |
| 39. |
A magazine the pleaded for the rights to women |
| A. | the tatler |
| B. | the rambler |
| C. | the english women’s journal |
| D. | the spectator |
| Answer» C. the english women’s journal | |
| 40. |
The first higher education institution for women? |
| A. | girton college |
| B. | eaton |
| C. | harward |
| D. | king’s college |
| Answer» A. girton college | |
| 41. |
The founder of the women’s anti-slavery society |
| A. | francis wright |
| B. | lucretiaott |
| C. | elizabeth cady |
| D. | miss garnett |
| Answer» B. lucretiaott | |
| 42. |
The author of Women in the Nineteenth Century? |
| A. | francis wright |
| B. | margaret fuller |
| C. | florence nightingale |
| D. | miss garnett |
| Answer» B. margaret fuller | |
| 43. |
The History of Women suffrage was written by |
| A. | elizabeth stanton |
| B. | frederick douglas |
| C. | lucretia mott |
| D. | margaret fuller |
| Answer» A. elizabeth stanton | |
| 44. |
The Seneca Falls Convention is associated with |
| A. | women’s suffrage |
| B. | liberation of negros |
| C. | civil rights movement |
| D. | anti slavery movement |
| Answer» A. women’s suffrage | |
| 45. |
Declaration of Sentiments is associated with |
| A. | the seneca falls convention |
| B. | the civil rights movement |
| C. | philadelphia convention |
| D. | anti-slavery convention |
| Answer» A. the seneca falls convention | |
| 46. |
The Revolution was a newspaper founded by |
| A. | margaret fuller |
| B. | susan antony |
| C. | frederick douglas |
| D. | elizabeth sinton |
| Answer» A. margaret fuller | |
| 47. |
Author of the Book The Feminine Mystique |
| A. | kate millet |
| B. | betty friedan |
| C. | lucy stone |
| D. | susan b antony |
| Answer» B. betty friedan | |
| 48. |
The second sex is written by |
| A. | sartre |
| B. | simon de beauvoir |
| C. | betty friedan |
| D. | kate millet |
| Answer» B. simon de beauvoir | |
| 49. |
The first serious book on feminist theory |
| A. | the mandarins |
| B. | the second sex |
| C. | the feminine mystique |
| D. | the revolution |
| Answer» B. the second sex | |
| 50. |
“One is not born, but becomes a woman” is said by |
| A. | simone de beauvoir |
| B. | kate millet |
| C. | sartre |
| D. | firestone |
| Answer» A. simone de beauvoir | |
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