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