#98 EL MULTIPLE CHOICES QUESTIONS TEST IN ENGLISH LITERATURE #971 TO 980

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971. "Friends make a pretence of following to the grave, but before one is in it, their minds are turned and making the best of their way back in life and living people and things they understand." -- These golden words are from the pen of the American poet:

a)Emily Dickinson b) Ezra Pound c) Robert Frost d) Walt Whitman.

972. Which of the following poets rightly declared: "Earth is the right place to live"?

a)Emily Dickinson b) Ezra Pound c) Robert Frost d) Walt Whitman.

973. In American Literature, Mark Twain represented the period of:

a) Colonialism b) Nationalism c) Renaissance d) Realism.

974. Which of the following is not a feature of the American LIterature, during the World Wars period:

a) Economic depression b) Theatrical activity c) Transcendentalism d) Writing of Novels.

975. Which of the following American writers argued against "Organised Religion"?

a) Emily Dickinson b) T.S. Eliot c) R.W. Emerson d) Phyles Wheatley.

976. The first American Poet to use "Free verse" in his poetry was:

a) Emily Dickinson b) Ezra Pound c) Robert Frost d) Walt Whitman.

977. Ars Poetics is a work of literary criticism by:

a) Aristotle b) Horace c) Plato d) Longinus.

978. "An Apology for Poetry" is a work of literary criticism by:

a) Coleridge b) Horace c) Philip Sydney d) Shelley.

979. "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking" is a poem by the American Poet:

a) Phylis Wheatley b) Emily Dickinson c) Robert Frost d) Walt Whitman.

980. " ... The SOUL selects her own society, Then shuts the door ..." are poetry lines from an American Poet who most of hisher life in solitude:

a) Emily Dickinson b) Phylis Wheatley c) Robert Frost d) Walt Whitman.