MCQs on Early Writers of American Literature

Who is author of the unforgettable story, entitled Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving?

(a) Peter Irving

(b) James Fenimore Cooper

(c) Washington Irving

(d) Ralph Waldo Emerson

Question’s Answer: Washington Irving

 

The story of Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving shows

(a) The life in the early days before Independence

(b) How life changed after the Civil

(c) The life after the Civil War

(d) The life during the Civil War

Question’s Answer: How life changed after the Civil

 

The life-period of Irving was

(a) 1750 to 1839

(b) 1783 to 1859

(c) 1780 to 1865

(d) 1805 to 1875

Question’s Answer: 1783 to 1859

 

Irving’s writings show thce qualities of

(a) Journalistic writing

(b) Graceful and humorous writing

(c) Sensational literature

(d) Stylistic carefulness in language

Question’s Answer: Graceful and humorous writing

 

In subject and method Irving was

(a) Pedantic

(b) Ancient

(c) Traditional and picturesque

(d) Spirit of freedom

Question’s Answer: Traditional and picturesque

 

Who is author of the Sketch Book?

(a) Peter Irving

(b) John Irving

(c) Washington Irving

(d) Pierre Irving

Question’s Answer: Washington Irving

 

Washington Irving was born in which year?

(a) 1830

(b) 1805

(c) 1780

(d) 1783

Question’s Answer: 1783

 

How long did Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving, the Dutchman, sleep on the hillside?

(a) Two nights

(b) Fortnight

(c) Twenty years

(d) One year

Question’s Answer: Twenty years

 

When Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving returned to his Village who recognized him?

(a) His wife

(b) His dog Wolf

(c) His friends

(d) His family members

Question’s Answer: His dog Wolf

 

The Spy is a/an _____.

(a) Adventure novel

(b) Story

(c) Detective novel

(d) Romance

Question’s Answer: Romance

 

In the “Ways of the Hour” by James Fenimore Cooper, he wrote about which of the following?

(a) Social reform

(b) Freedom from British rule

(c) Revolution

(d) Social justice and its perversion

Question’s Answer: Social justice and its perversion

 

In the “Ways of the Hour”, What did he do when he found how things had changed during Revolution?

(a) Went back to the hillside where he had spent twenty years in deep sumber.

(b) Lived in a cottage which he built

(c) Found new friends and lived with them

(d) He went and lived with his married daughter and her family

Question’s Answer: He went and lived with his married daughter and her family

 

Funny situation in “Rip Van Winkle” by Washington Irving made him ___.

(a) Disgruntled

(b) Generous and cheerful

(c) Sad

(d) Calm and collected

Question’s Answer: Generous and cheerful

 

James Fenimore Cooper’s life span was

(a) 1780 to 1830

(b) 1789 to 1845

(c) 1775 to 1851

(d) 1789 to 1851

Question’s Answer: 1789 to 1851

 

What happened during the twenty years while “Rip Van Winkle” by Washington Irving was in deep slumber? The most important thing to happen was

(a) Everything had changed, people had pass away and no one recognized him

(b) All who knew him pass away

(c) His shrewish wife pass away

(d) The daughter grew up and married and had children

Question’s Answer: Everything had changed, people had pass away and no one recognized him

 

Cooper had rich experience of

(a) Farming

(b) Sea-faring

(c) Politics

(d) Legal profession

Question’s Answer: Sea-faring

 

Who is author of the Spy and The Pirate?

(a) Ralph Waldo Emerson

(b) Washington Irving

(c) James Fenimore Cooper

(d) Herman Melville

Question’s Answer: James Fenimore Cooper

 

Which is the first book of Leather-Stocking series?

(a) The Last of the Mohicans

(b) The Pathfinder

(c) The Deerslayer

(d) Upside Down

Question’s Answer: The Last of the Mohicans

 

The Last of the Mohicans presents the fight of the early settlers with the

(a) New settlers

(b) Other settlers

(c) Native Indians

(d) French settlers

Question’s Answer: Native Indians

 

Who called Poe “three-fifths genius and two-fifths sheer fudge”?

(a) Emerson

(b) Yeats

(c) Cooper

(d) Lowell

Question’s Answer: Lowell

 

Poe had an impact on which of the following?

(a) Longfellow

(b) Baudelaire,Mallarme and Rimbaud

(c) Walt Whitman

(d) Emily Dickinson

Question’s Answer: Baudelaire,Mallarme and Rimbaud

 

In The Last of the Mohicans. the native Indian Magua are known as ____.

(a) Treacherous for they refused to accept white people as the masters of the land

(b) Brave and fighting for territory

(c) Brave but unfriendly

(d) Strong and strong willed, friendly with the French

Question’s Answer: Treacherous for they refused to accept white people as the masters of the land

 

The most famous Leather-Stocking Tales was

(a) The Last of the Mohicans

(b) The Pathfinder

(c) The Deerslayer

(d) Upside Down

Question’s Answer: The Last of the Mohicans

 

The Last of the Mohicans presents a war between the native tribes such as

(a) Hurons

(b) Uncas

(c) Magra

(d) Magra and Uncas

Question’s Answer: Magra and Uncas

 

When Edgar Allan Poe was born?

(a) 1805

(b) 1822

(c) 1809

(d) 1812

Question’s Answer: 1809

 

Who called him a great lyric poet?

(a) Longfellow

(b) Emerson

(c) W.B. Yeats

(d) Whitman

Question’s Answer: W.B. Yeats

 

Poe has written

(a) Essays

(b) Poems and short stories

(c) Plays

(d) Novels

Question’s Answer: Poems and short stories

 

“The Purloined Letter” was proudly written by

(a) Emerson

(b) Cooper

(c) Poe

(d) Hawthorne

Question’s Answer: Poe

 

The Tales of Grotesque and Arabesque contains

(a) 25 tales written up to 1840

(b) 40 tales

(c) 20 tales

(d) 30 tales

Question’s Answer: 25 tales written up to 1840

 

Foe’s Tales contains stories written in which era?

(a) 1830-1840

(b) 1877-1888

(c) 1840-1845

(d) 1835-1845

Question’s Answer: 1840-1845

 

“The Purloined Letter” reminds the reader of

(a) Sherlock Holmes

(b) Horror novel

(c) Mystery novel

(d) Science fiction

Question’s Answer: Sherlock Holmes

 

Which is one of Foe’s well known stories?

(a) “The Ravens”

(b) “The Purloined Letter”

(c) “The Masque of Red Death”

(d) “The Fall of the House of Usher”

Question’s Answer: “The Fall of the House of Usher”

 

In “The Purloined Letter” Dupin succeeds in returning

(a) The stolen letter to the authorities

(b) The purloined letter is destroyed

(c) The stolen letter to its owner

(d) The purloined letter is given to the Parisian police

Question’s Answer: The stolen letter to its owner

 

Besides the miracles of craftsmanship Foe’s stories present

(a) A sense of perfect beauty

(b) Naturalness

(c) The unexpected

(d) A sense of mystery matched with pure and bizarre style

Question’s Answer: A sense of perfect beauty

 

Emerson called him

(a) A great American poet

(b) A great lyrical poet

(c) A jingle-man

(d) None of A, B, and C

Question’s Answer: A jingle-man

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