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310+ Reading Prose Solved MCQs

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.

“Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding” is written by

A. locke
B. voltaire
C. rousseau
D. hobbes
Answer» A. locke
9.

The man who proved that the nature obeys certain fundamental laws

A. locke
B. newton
C. kant
D. louis xiv
Answer» B. newton
10.

Tabula Rasa is a term coined by

A. locke
B. kant
C. voltaire
D. newton
Answer» A. locke
11.

The spirit of Laws was written by

A. diderot
B. descartes
C. voltaire
D. montesquieu
Answer» D. montesquieu
12.

“Humanity had lost its title deeds and Montesquieu recovered them”. Who said this?

A. voltaire
B. diderot
C. rousseau
D. bacon
Answer» A. voltaire
13.

Who was Diderot’s co-editor of The Encyclopaedia?

A. voltaire
B. d’ alembert
C. rousseau
D. hume
Answer» B. d’ alembert
14.

“All the great modern ideas have their commencement in Montesquieu”. Who said this?

A. voltaire
B. diderot
C. faguet
D. nietzsche
Answer» C. faguet
15.

“He was scornful of revealed truth”. Who? BA English IV Semester READING Prose

A. rousseau
B. diderot
C. voltaire
D. kant
Answer» B. diderot
16.

“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
17.

Who wrote the ‘Discourse Preliminarie’ of The Encyclopedia?

A. diderot
B. d’alembert
C. condilac
D. hume
Answer» B. d’alembert
18.

“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
19.

The author of La Religieuse?

A. condillac
B. diderot
C. voltaire
D. bacon
Answer» B. diderot
20.

Treatise on Human Nature was written by?

A. hume
B. rousseau
C. diderot
D. aristotle
Answer» A. hume
21.

“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
22.

The author of Candide ? BA English IV Semester READING Prose

A. voltaire
B. rousseau
C. hume
D. gibbon
Answer» A. voltaire
23.

Prof.Pangloss is a character in

A. history of england
B. social contract
C. emilie
D. candide
Answer» D. candide
24.

Who termed primitive man ‘noble savage’ ?

A. voltaire
B. rousseau
C. kant
D. condercet
Answer» B. rousseau
25.

The author of Social Contract?

A. robespirre
B. napoleon
C. kant
D. rousseau
Answer» D. rousseau
26.

Who wrote Emilie

A. robespirre
B. napoleon
C. kant
D. rousseau
Answer» D. rousseau
27.

Who wrote the preface to Lyrical Ballads?

A. coleridge
B. keats
C. johnson
D. wordsworth
Answer» D. wordsworth
28.

the Essay on Man is written by

A. dryden
B. pope
C. johnson
D. gray
Answer» B. pope
29.

Who coined the term ‘Esemblastic Imagination’

A. wordsworth
B. shelley
C. coleridge
D. schiller
Answer» C. coleridge
30.

Who wrote The Solitary Reaper?

A. coleridge
B. shelley
C. wordsworth
D. schiller
Answer» C. wordsworth
31.

Kubla Khan is written by

A. wordsworth
B. shelley
C. coleridge
D. keats
Answer» C. coleridge
32.

BiographiaLiterariais authored by

A. wordsworth
B. coleridge
C. shelley
D. blake
Answer» B. coleridge
33.

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
34.

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
35.

The woman who fought against oppressive marriage laws

A. caroline norton
B. marion reid
C. harrier tayler
D. florence nightingale
Answer» A. caroline norton
36.

The fragmentary novel ‘Cassandra’ is written by BA English IV Semester READING Prose

A. mary shelley
B. florence nightingale
C. caroline norton
D. william thomson
Answer» B. florence nightingale
37.

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
38.

The first higher education institution for women?

A. girton college
B. eaton
C. harward
D. king’s college
Answer» A. girton college
39.

The founder of the women’s anti-slavery society

A. francis wright
B. lucretiaott
C. elizabeth cady
D. miss garnett
Answer» B. lucretiaott
40.

The author of Women in the Nineteenth Century?

A. francis wright
B. margaret fuller
C. florence nightingale
D. miss garnett
Answer» B. margaret fuller
41.

The History of Women suffrage was written by

A. elizabeth stanton
B. frederick douglas
C. lucretia mott
D. margaret fuller
Answer» A. elizabeth stanton
42.

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
43.

The Revolution was a newspaper founded by

A. margaret fuller
B. susan antony
C. frederick douglas
D. elizabeth sinton
Answer» A. margaret fuller
44.

Author of the Book The Feminine Mystique

A. kate millet
B. betty friedan
C. lucy stone
D. susan b antony
Answer» B. betty friedan
45.

The second sex is written by

A. sartre
B. simon de beauvoir
C. betty friedan
D. kate millet
Answer» B. simon de beauvoir
46.

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
47.

“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
48.

The author of Dialectic of Sex?

A. kate millet
B. shulamith firestone
C. simone de beauvoir
D. betty friedan
Answer» B. shulamith firestone
49.

The author of Female Eunuch is

A. kate millet
B. betty friedan
C. germaine greer
D. sartre
Answer» C. germaine greer
50.

The Poetical is the Political is written by BA English IV Semester READING Prose

A. t. v. reed
B. audrelorde
C. kristeva
D. kate millet
Answer» A. t. v. reed

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