300+ Reading Literature in English Solved MCQs

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201.	Charles Lamb is best known for his ________.
A.	Essays of Edison
B.	Essays of Selina
C.	Essays of Elia
D.	Essays of Addison.
Answer» C. Essays of Elia

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202.	What was Charles Lamb’s grandmother’s name?
A.	Field
B.	Gable
C.	Aan
D.	Jane.
Answer» A. Field

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203.	In the essay Dream Children, grandmother Field died of________.
A.	Pneumonia
B.	Tuberculosis.
C.	Cancer.
D.	AIDS.
Answer» C. Cancer.

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204.	What is the name of the river the children had to cross in order to be born again?
A.	Thame
B.	English Channel.
C.	Lethe
D.	Nile.
Answer» C. Lethe

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205.	Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam was the ________ President of India.
A.	13th
B.	14th
C.	11th
D.	12th
Answer» C. 11th

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206.	According to Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam till the age of 15 every student can take their __________ and ____________ as their role models.
A.	Parents and teachers.
B.	Teachers and friends
C.	Siblings and friends.
D.	None of the above.
Answer» A. Parents and teachers.

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207.	Give us a Role Model is taken from A.P.J. Abdul Kalam’s book named _________.
A.	Wings of Fire.
B.	Judicious decisions.
C.	None of the above.
D.	Ignited Minds.
Answer» D. Ignited Minds.

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208.	Which of the books given below belong to J.B. Priestley’s collection of essays?
A.	Apes and Angel
B.	Distant Sorrow.
C.	A Journey Down Memory’s Lane.
D.	None of the above.
Answer» A. Apes and Angel

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209.	‘On Travel by Train’ is a humorous account of the English ___________.
A.	Capabilities.
B.	Eccentricities.
C.	Realities.
D.	Employability skills.
Answer» B. Eccentricities.

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210.	According to Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam it is the _____________ who generates creativity in the child.
A.	Doctor
B.	Teacher
C.	Parent
D.	None of the above.
Answer» B. Teacher

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211.	In the stories in the epics Ramayana and Mahabharata, the battle took place between______________and ________________.
A.	Black and white
B.	Justice and injustice
C.	love and hatr
D.	Good and evil.
Answer» D. Good and evil.

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212.	The _____________ is one of the four books that have influenced him A.P.J. in his life.
A.	Davinci Code
B.	Holy Quraan
C.	Secret Seven
D.	None of the above.
Answer» B. Holy Quraan

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213.	According to the boy A.P.J. Abdul Kalam met at Ananad , Gujarat; our greatest enemy is___________.
A.	Poverty
B.	Liberty
C.	Hatred
D.	None of the above.
Answer» A. Poverty

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214.	The most offensive traveller in J. B. Priestley’s ‘On Travel by Train’ is ___________.
A.	The teacher
B.	The carpenter
C.	The middle-aged woman
D.	None of the above.
Answer» C. The middle-aged woman

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215.	Bertrand Russell received the Nobel Prize for Literature in the year________.
A.	1960
B.	1940
C.	1950
D.	1970
Answer» C. 1950

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216.	According to Bertrand Russell Knowledge without wisdom can be ____________.
A.	Beautiful
B.	Harmful.
C.	Enchanting
D.	Ugly
Answer» B. Harmful.

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217.	Men who have knowledge and have no feelings lack _________.
A.	Education
B.	Bravery
C.	Information
D.	Wisdom.
Answer» D. Wisdom.

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218.	According to Russell, wisdom is needed in personal life to avoid _____________ for another.
A.	Dislike
B.	Love
C.	Affection
D.	None of the above.
Answer» A. Dislike

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219.	________________ can be taught as a goal of education says Russell.
A.	Education
B.	Wisdom
C.	Dislike
D.	Compassion.
Answer» B. Wisdom

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220.	Let me not to the marriage of true minds is Sonnet___________.
A.	116
B.	118
C.	120
D.	111
Answer» A. 116

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221.	The structure and form of Sonnet 116 are a typical example of the _____________.
A.	Ballad
B.	Lyric
C.	Petrarchan sonnet
D.	Shakespearean sonnet
Answer» D. Shakespearean sonnet

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222.	A sonnet is a ____________ line verse form.
A.	Eighteen
B.	Fourteen
C.	Sixteen
D.	Twelve
Answer» B. Fourteen

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223.	Sonnet was introduced by the Italian poet named______________.
A.	Peter
B.	Petrarch
C.	Penguin
D.	Punich
Answer» B. Petrarch

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224.	William Blake is known as a _______ Poet.
A.	People’
B.	Pleasant
C.	Prophetic
D.	None of the above.
Answer» C. Prophetic

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225.	William Blake has written Songs of Innocence and ____________.
A.	Songs of Experience
B.	Songs of Expression
C.	Songs of Experiments
D.	None of the above
Answer» A. Songs of Experience

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226.	In the poem ‘A Poison Tree’, the poison tree is a metaphor of
A.	Love
B.	Anger
C.	Wisdom
D.	Fear
Answer» B. Anger

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227.	The original title of the poem ‘A Poison Tree’ was____________.
A.	Christ in pain
B.	Christian Forbearance
C.	Christian Tolerance
D.	None of the above
Answer» B. Christian Forbearance

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228.	In the poem ‘A Poison Tree’, the enemy slowly entered into the garden of the speaker and _____________ the apple.
A.	Ate
B.	Kissed
C.	Stole
D.	None of the above.
Answer» C. Stole

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229.	The Lyrical Ballads was published in the year__________.
A.	1798
B.	1764
C.	1789
D.	1770
Answer» A. 1798

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230.	Lucy Gray’s parents traced the trail of her foot steps to the middle of a little________.
A.	House
B.	bridge
C.	river
D.	None of the above
Answer» B. bridge

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231.	Lucy Gray is written imitating the 18th Century ___________ form.
A.	Sonnet
B.	Epic
C.	Elegy
D.	Ballad
Answer» D. Ballad

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232.	The poem Lucy Gray narrates the sad incident of Lucy Gray’s____________.
A.	Death
B.	Life
C.	Missing
D.	Lonely life
Answer» A. Death

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233.	Robert Frost is a well known _______ poet.
A.	Afro American
B.	American
C.	English
D.	Irish
Answer» B. American

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234.	The 'Yellow wood' shows that it is the season of __________.
A.	Summer
B.	Winter
C.	Spring
D.	Autumn
Answer» D. Autumn

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235.	The traveller in the poem ‘The Road Not Taken’ chose the path that was_______________.
A.	More used
B.	Effectively used
C.	Less used
D.	None of the above
Answer» C. Less used

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236.	‘There is Certain Slant of Light’s is a poem written by_________
A.	Sri Aurobindo
B.	Emily Dickinson
C.	Robert Frost
D.	None of the above
Answer» B. Emily Dickinson

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237.	Oppresses, like the weight of cathedral tunes; what is the figure of speech used here in the poem ‘There is Certain Slant of Light’?
A.	Simile
B.	Metaphor
C.	Personification
D.	None of the above
Answer» A. Simile

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238.	In the line ‘On the look of death’ from the poem ‘There is Certain Slant of Light’, death is ____________.
A.	Used as a Simile
B.	Used as metaphor
C.	Personified
D.	None of the above.
Answer» C. Personified

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239.	A figure of speech in which human traits like qualities, feeling or characteristics are given to non-living objects is __________.
A.	Metaphor
B.	Simile
C.	Strophe
D.	Personification
Answer» D. Personification

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240.	A figure of speech in which two unlike things are compared in a phrase using the words ‘like’ or ‘as’ is called ______________.
A.	A Strophe
B.	Simile
C.	Metaphor
D.	None of the above.
Answer» B. Simile

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241.	The first Nobel Laureate of Asia in Literature was
A.	Shashi Tharoor
B.	Rabindranath Tagore
C.	Bertrand Russell.
D.	None of the above
Answer» B. Rabindranath Tagore

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242.	Rabindranath Tagore won the Nobel Prize in Literature in the year _________.
A.	1930
B.	1918
C.	1913
D.	1980
Answer» C. 1913

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243.	‘Heaven of Freedom’ is taken from _____________a collection of 103 English poems of Tagore translated by himself from Bengali.
A.	Gitanjali
B.	Kheya
C.	Naivedya
D.	Gitimalya
Answer» A. Gitanjali

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244.	The poem ‘Heaven of Freedom’ is like an_____________, a prayer where the poet prays for a country which is a heaven of freedom.
A.	Song to God
B.	An offering to God
C.	A complaint to God
D.	A suggestion to God
Answer» B. An offering to God

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245.	Indians had lost their freedom in all spheres under the __________rule.
A.	Irish
B.	Spanish
C.	British
D.	None of the above
Answer» C. British

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246.	The poet, in the poem ‘Heaven of Freedom’ is referring to a nation where the people can hold their head high with dignity and ____________.
A.	Self respect
B.	Self contempt
C.	Self disgust
D.	None of the above,
Answer» A. Self respect

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247.	In the heaven of freedom imagined by Rabindranath Tagore people belonging to any section of the society will have __________to education.
A.	No acces
B.	Little access
C.	Free access
D.	None of the above
Answer» C. Free access

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248.	In the poem, ‘Heaven of Freedom’, Tagore addresses _________as the Father of the Universe.
A.	Man
B.	Society
C.	Himself
D.	God
Answer» D. God

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249.	________________composed the national anthem of our country.
A.	William Blake
B.	W.B. Yeats
C.	Rabindranath Tagore
D.	R.K. Narayan
Answer» C. Rabindranath Tagore

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250.	Kamala Das is a prominent Indian English writer who was later known by the name
A.	Kamala Sundhya
B.	Kamala Surayya
C.	Kamala Sershain
D.	None of the above.
Answer» B. Kamala Surayya

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300+ Reading Literature in English Solved MCQs

Charles Lamb is best known for his ________.

What was Charles Lamb’s grandmother’s name?

In the essay Dream Children, grandmother Field died of________.

What is the name of the river the children had to cross in order to be born again?

Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam was the ________ President of India.

According to Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam till the age of 15 every student can take their __________ and ____________ as their role models.

Give us a Role Model is taken from A.P.J. Abdul Kalam’s book named _________.

Which of the books given below belong to J.B. Priestley’s collection of essays?

‘On Travel by Train’ is a humorous account of the English ___________.

According to Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam it is the _____________ who generates creativity in the child.

In the stories in the epics Ramayana and Mahabharata, the battle took place between______________and ________________.

The _____________ is one of the four books that have influenced him A.P.J. in his life.

According to the boy A.P.J. Abdul Kalam met at Ananad , Gujarat; our greatest enemy is___________.

The most offensive traveller in J. B. Priestley’s ‘On Travel by Train’ is ___________.

Bertrand Russell received the Nobel Prize for Literature in the year________.

According to Bertrand Russell Knowledge without wisdom can be ____________.

Men who have knowledge and have no feelings lack _________.

According to Russell, wisdom is needed in personal life to avoid _____________ for another.

________________ can be taught as a goal of education says Russell.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds is Sonnet___________.

The structure and form of Sonnet 116 are a typical example of the _____________.

A sonnet is a ____________ line verse form.

Sonnet was introduced by the Italian poet named______________.

William Blake is known as a _______ Poet.

William Blake has written Songs of Innocence and ____________.

In the poem ‘A Poison Tree’, the poison tree is a metaphor of

The original title of the poem ‘A Poison Tree’ was____________.

In the poem ‘A Poison Tree’, the enemy slowly entered into the garden of the speaker and _____________ the apple.

The Lyrical Ballads was published in the year__________.

Lucy Gray’s parents traced the trail of her foot steps to the middle of a little________.

Lucy Gray is written imitating the 18th Century ___________ form.

The poem Lucy Gray narrates the sad incident of Lucy Gray’s____________.

Robert Frost is a well known _______ poet.

The 'Yellow wood' shows that it is the season of __________.

The traveller in the poem ‘The Road Not Taken’ chose the path that was_______________.

‘There is Certain Slant of Light’s is a poem written by_________

Oppresses, like the weight of cathedral tunes; what is the figure of speech used here in the poem ‘There is Certain Slant of Light’?

In the line ‘On the look of death’ from the poem ‘There is Certain Slant of Light’, death is ____________.

A figure of speech in which human traits like qualities, feeling or characteristics are given to non-living objects is __________.

A figure of speech in which two unlike things are compared in a phrase using the words ‘like’ or ‘as’ is called ______________.

The first Nobel Laureate of Asia in Literature was

Rabindranath Tagore won the Nobel Prize in Literature in the year _________.

‘Heaven of Freedom’ is taken from _____________a collection of 103 English poems of Tagore translated by himself from Bengali.

The poem ‘Heaven of Freedom’ is like an_____________, a prayer where the poet prays for a country which is a heaven of freedom.

Indians had lost their freedom in all spheres under the __________rule.

The poet, in the poem ‘Heaven of Freedom’ is referring to a nation where the people can hold their head high with dignity and ____________.

In the heaven of freedom imagined by Rabindranath Tagore people belonging to any section of the society will have __________to education.

In the poem, ‘Heaven of Freedom’, Tagore addresses _________as the Father of the Universe.

________________composed the national anthem of our country.

Kamala Das is a prominent Indian English writer who was later known by the name

According to Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam till the age of 15 every student can take their and __ as their role models.

In the stories in the epics Ramayana and Mahabharata, the battle took place betweenand __.