Fiction MCQs [American English Literature]
Who was the psychologist for whom Bellow expressed the inevitable love/hate?
(a) William James
(b) Freud
(c) Henri Bergson
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Freud
In which of Saul Bellow’s works, Joseph mention that ‘Alienation is a fool’s plea”?
(a) The Adventures of Augie March
(b) The Vicim
(c) Dangling Man
(d) Herzog
Question’s Answer: Dangling Man
Updike’s first novel The Poorhouse Fair appeared in
(a) 1920
(b) 1928
(c) 1959
(d) 1937
Question’s Answer: 1959
Saul Bellow was credited with a sense of history by
(a) Tonny Tanner
(b) LA. Richards
(c) William Empson
(d) Henry James
Question’s Answer: Tonny Tanner
Which book, according to Bellow, is a comic book about death?
(a) Dangling Man
(b) Humboldt’s Gift
(c) The Adventures of Augie March
(d) Herzog
Question’s Answer: Humboldt’s Gift
Which work of Saul Bellow is preoccupied with social problems?”
(a) Dangling Man
(b) Herzog
(c) Humboldt’s Gift
(d) The Dean’s December
Question’s Answer: The Dean’s December
Saul Bellow’s stature in post war American letters can be compared to
(a) Henry James
(b) Ernest Hemingway
(c) Edith Wharton
(d) John Steinbeck
Question’s Answer: Ernest Hemingway
The critics have objected to
(a) The Poorhouse Fair
(b) The Centaur
(c) Rabbit, Run
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: The Centaur
Which is Saul Bellow’s first novel,written in the diary form?
(a) Dangling Man’
(b) Herzog
(c) The Dean’s December
(d) The Adventures of Augie March
Question’s Answer: Dangling Man’
Minna Corde, the most independent and high powered woman character of Bellow’s novels occurs in
(a) The Victim
(b) Dangling Man
(c) Herzog
(d) The Dean’s December
Question’s Answer: The Dean’s December
Saul Bellow conveys a religious vision in
(a) More Die of Heartbreak
(b) Dangling Man
(c) Herzog
(d) Humboldt’s Gift
Question’s Answer: More Die of Heartbreak
Saul Bellow rejects the notion that history and culture are exclusive determinants of character in
(a) More Die of Heart break
(b) Humboldt’s Gift
(c) The Closing of the American Mind
(d) Dangling Man
Question’s Answer: The Closing of the American Mind
John Updike was called “the most talented writer of his generation” because of which of his novel?
(a) Rabbit, Run
(b) The Poorhouse Fair
(c) The Centaur
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Rabbit, Run
When John Updike was born?
(a) Pennsylvania
(b) New York
(c) Washington
(d) Paris
Question’s Answer: Pennsylvania
John Updike worked as the staff of the New Yorker in
(a) Pennsylvania
(b) New York
(c) Massachusetts
(d) Washington
Question’s Answer: New York
Santiago is the hero of
(a) Death in the Afternoon (non-fiction book written by Ernest Hemingway)
(b) The Old Man and the Sea (Novel by Ernest Hemingway)
(c) Green Hills of Africa by Ernest Hemingway
(d) In Our Time (Novel)
Question’s Answer: The Old Man and the Sea (Novel by Ernest Hemingway)
There is a story about his first day in Paris that was written after he died.
(a) The Old Man and the Sea (Novel by Ernest Hemingway)
(b) To Have and Have Not
(c) A Movable Feast
(d) Men Without Women
Question’s Answer: A Movable Feast
When Hemingway’s collection of short stories, In Our Time (Novel), was written?
(a) 1925
(b) 1977
(c) 1924
(d) 1930
Question’s Answer: 1925
Hemingway reached the height of his creativity in “A Farewell to Arms and For whom the Bell Tolls,” a Book by Ernest Hemingway is which kind of book?
(a) War novels
(b) Romantic plays
(c) Love poems
(d) Satirical plays
Question’s Answer: War novels
Which of Hemingway’s work is based directly on his Italian war experiences?
(a) A Farewell to Arms
(b) Men without Women
(c) The Sun Also Rises
(d) In Our Time (Novel)
Question’s Answer: A Farewell to Arms
Which is Emest Hemingway’s first important novel?
(a) In Our Time (Novel)
(b) Men Without Wemen
(c) A Farewell to Arms
(d) The Sun also Rises
Question’s Answer: The Sun also Rises
Which of Hemingway’s works is a Spanish Civil War story?
(a) Green Hills of Africa by Ernest Hemingway
(b) Death in the Afternoon (non-fiction book written by Ernest Hemingway)
(c) In Our Time (Novel)
(d) For whom Bell Tolls
Question’s Answer: For whom Bell Tolls
To whom die Fingerald say. The very rich are different from you and me??
(a) John Dos Passes
(b) William Faulkner
(c) John Steinbeck
(d) Ernest Hemingway
Question’s Answer: Ernest Hemingway
In which work does Fitzgerald write of men coming out of the trenches,watched by the hero?
(a) Flappers and Philosophers
(b) Tales of the jazz Age
(c) Te OffShoe Pirate
(d) The Beautiful and Damned
Question’s Answer: Te OffShoe Pirate
_____ is the John Dos Passos’s first novel.
(a) U.S.A.
(b) Three Soldiers
(c) One Man’s Initiation
(d) Manhattan Transfer
Question’s Answer: One Man’s Initiation
When was Three Soldiers (a Novel by John Dos Passos) published?
(a) 1910
(b) 1944
(c) 1930
(d) 1921
Question’s Answer: 1921
When was Fitzgerald’s Flappers and Philosophers published?
(a) 1900
(b) 1920
(c) 1915
(d) 1950
Question’s Answer: 1920
Which of Fitzgerald’s works does the hero reflect? ‘I know myself but that is all?
(a) The Great Gatsby
(b) Tender is the Night
(c) The Beautiful and Damned
(d) This Side of Paradise
Question’s Answer: This Side of Paradise
On which of Fitzgerald’s works were the reviewers too hard?
(a) The Great Gatsby
(b) Tender is the Night
(c) This Side of Paradise
(d) Tales of the jazz Age
Question’s Answer: Tender is the Night
Fitzgerald in his works concentrated particularly upon
(a) The aristocracy of wealth
(b) Satirising society
(c) Love
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: The aristocracy of wealth
What work of Fitzgerald’s was never finished?
(a) Tender is the Night
(b) The Crack-up
(c) The Last Tycoon
(d) The Great Gatsby
Question’s Answer: The Last Tycoon
Which is the posthumous volume of Fitzgerald?
(a) The Last Tycoon
(b) Tender is the Night
(c) The Crack-Up
(d) The Great Gatsby
Question’s Answer: The Crack-Up
Which novel by Steinbeck is the most amazing book ever written in the American literature?
(a) Of Mice and Men
(b) In Dubious Battle
(c) The Grapes of Wrath
(d) The Pastures of Heaven
Question’s Answer: The Grapes of Wrath
Which of Steinbeck’s works has the familiar setting characters?
(a) The Chrysanthemums
(b) Of Mice and Men
(c) The Grapes of Wrath
(d) In Dubious Battle
Question’s Answer: The Chrysanthemums
U.S.A. by John Dos Passos has been described as an example of
(a) Collectivist novel
(b) Satire
(c) Superb romance
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Collectivist novel
John Andrews is a character in John Dos Passos’s
(a) Three Soldiers
(b) U.S.A
(c) One Man’s Initiation
(d) Manhattan Transfer
Question’s Answer: Three Soldiers
The Nobel Prize for Literature was given to John Steinbeck in which year?
(a) 1960
(b) 1965
(c) 1962
(d) 1970
Question’s Answer: 1962
What did John Stembeck do that made him successful?
(a) Long Valley
(b) Of Mice and Men
(c) In Dubious Battle
(d) Tortilla Flat
Question’s Answer: Tortilla Flat
When Steinbeck’s The Red Pony was published?
(a) 1920
(b) 1925
(c) 1933
(d) 1930
Question’s Answer: 1933
When William Faulkner’s A Fable was published?
(a) 1920
(b) 1952
(c) 1877
(d) 1954
Question’s Answer: 1954
Faulkner pass away in
(a) 1960
(b) 1970
(c) 1965
(d) 1962
Question’s Answer: 1962
William Faulkner received the Nobel Prize in __.
(a) 1920
(b) 1977
(c) 1960
(d) 1950
Question’s Answer: 1950
When The Pastures of Heaven, a Book by John Steinbeck was published?
(a) 1947
(b) 1944
(c) 1932
(d) 1940
Question’s Answer: 1932
Faulkner’s vision of the South is
(a) Poetical
(b) Satirical
(c) Incoherent
(d) Romantic
Question’s Answer: Incoherent
What is the key word for Faulkner?
(a) Doom
(b) God
(c) Poetry
(d) Love
Question’s Answer: Doom
When Faulkner spent most of his life?
(a) Oxford
(b) Cambridge
(c) Harvard
(d) Cambridge and California
Question’s Answer: Oxford
As a writer, Wolfe’s most precious asset was
(a) Freedom
(b) Imagination
(c) Love
(d) Foresight
Question’s Answer: Freedom
Who is the author of the Look Homeward Angel?
(a) Sinclair Lewis
(b) John Dos Passos
(c) John Steinbeck
(d) Thomas Wolfe
Question’s Answer: Thomas Wolfe
Thomas Wolfe lived for how many years?
(a) 25 Years
(b) 38 Years
(c) 35 Years
(d) 50 Years
Question’s Answer: 38 Years
There is a curious combination of violence and passivity m
(a) Emest Hemingway
(b) William Faulkner
(c) F.Scott Fitzgerald
(d) John Steinbeck
Question’s Answer: William Faulkner
Wolfe is a spokesman for a
(a) Father
(b) Husband
(c) Wife
(d) Mother
Question’s Answer: Father
Letters to His Mother by Thomas Wolfe gives a good look into Wolfe’s
(a) Love life
(b) Creative life
(c) Married life
(d) Divorced life
Question’s Answer: Creative life
Who is the author of the Thomas Wolfe’s biography?
(a) Ernest Hemingway
(b) John Dos Passos
(c) Elizabeth Nowell
(d) F. Scott Fitzgerald
Question’s Answer: Elizabeth Nowell
The Story of a Novel was written by ___.
(a) Ernest Hemingway
(b) F. Scott Fitzgerald
(c) Thomas Wolfe
(d) John Crowe Ransom
Question’s Answer: Thomas Wolfe
Which of Thomas Wolfe’s works is dominated by hunger for experience and lust for property?
(a) From Death to Morning
(b) Letters to His Mother
(c) The Hills Beyond
(d) Look Homeward, Angel
Question’s Answer: Look Homeward, Angel