#99 EL ANSWERS TO MC QUESTIONS IN ENGLISH LITERATURE #99 EL

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981. Which writer wrote about writers: "Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourselves ignorant of his understanding."

a) S.T. Coleridge in his Literary Criticism "Biographia Literaria".

982. A father expected his son to be great in business, because the son was great in sports. This scenario can be seen in the drama "The Death of a Salesman" by:-

a) Arthur Miller. The play was "The Death of a Salesman". Biff Loman, s/o Willy LOman - the protagonist was very good in sports. Willy expects his son to be successful in job and business also. But it did not happen.

983. Which of the following writers exposed that "Economic mobility in US is a myth".

a) Arthur Miller. The play was "The Death of a Salesman". It questioned the American dream of making a fortune in business, through dedicated hardwork.

984. "A man must partly give up being a man with women-folk." This wisdom is a part of the poem "Home Burial" by:

c) Robert Frost. "Home Burial", dealt with an extremely grieving wife for the lost of her first child and blames her husband for being callous. The above sentence is a part of the reply by the husband.

985. Which of the following poets employed "allusiveness" to books of other writers to an optimum level:

c) T.S. Eliot, in his poem "Wasteland".

986. Robert Frost's poem "Birches" has a theme of:

c) nostalgia (of childhood). Birches are American Northern forest trees. The poet recalls his childhood days of swinging the branches of the birches.

987. The American Civil War Period (Presidentship of Abraham Lincoln) falls under the literary age:

d) Romanticism.

988. Which of the following writer/poet was associated with transcendentalism?
b)Henry David Thoreau.

989. Which of the following is not an American writer?
a) Robert Penn Warren b) Edgar Allan Poe c) Walt Whitman d) Viriginia Woolf.

990. The author of the novel "Moby Dick" is
a) Herman Melville.