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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