1. : Who is the author of the unforgettable story, entitled Rip Van Winkle?
(A) Peter Irving
(B) James Fenimore Cooper
(C) Washington Irving
(D) Ralph Waldo Emerson
2. : 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
3. : The life-period of Irving was
(A) 1750 to 1839
(B) 1783 to 1859
(C) 1780 to 1865
(D) 1805 to 1875
4. : Irving’s writings show the qualities of
(A) Journalistic writing
(B) Graceful and humorous writing
(C) Sensational literature
(D) Stylistic carefulness in language
5. : In subject and method, Irving was
(A) Pedantic
(B) Ancient
(C) Traditional and picturesque
(D) Spirit of freedom
6. : Who is the author of The Sketch Book?
(A) Peter Irving
(B) John Irving
(C) Washington Irving
(D) Pierre Irving
7. : Washington Irving was born in which year?
(A) 1830
(B) 1805
(C) 1780
(D) 1783
8. : 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
9. : 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
10. : The Spy is a/an _____.
(A) Adventure novel
(B) Story
(C) Detective novel
(D) Romance
11. : 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
12. : In The Ways of the Hour, what did he do when he found how things had changed during the Revolution?
(A) Went back to the hillside where he had spent twenty years in deep slumber.
(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.
13. : Funny situation in Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving made him ___.
(A) Disgruntled
(B) Generous and cheerful
(C) Sad
(D) Calm and collected
14. : James Fenimore Cooper’s life span was
(A) 1780 to 1830
(B) 1789 to 1845
(C) 1775 to 1851
(D) 1789 to 1851
15. : 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 passed away, and no one recognized him.
(B) All who knew him passed away.
(C) His shrewish wife passed away.
(D) The daughter grew up and married and had children.
16. : Cooper had rich experience of
(A) Farming
(B) Sea-faring
(C) Politics
(D) Legal profession
17. : Who is the author of The Spy and The Pirate?
(A) Ralph Waldo Emerson
(B) Washington Irving
(C) James Fenimore Cooper
(D) Herman Melville
18. : Which is the first book of the Leather-Stocking series?
(A) The Last of the Mohicans
(B) The Pathfinder
(C) The Deerslayer
(D) Upside Down
19. : 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
20. : Who called Poe “three-fifths genius and two-fifths sheer fudge”?
(A) Emerson
(B) Yeats
(C) Cooper
(D) Lowell
21. : Poe had an impact on which of the following?
(A) Longfellow
(B) Baudelaire, Mallarme, and Rimbaud
(C) Walt Whitman
(D) Emily Dickinson
22. : In The Last of the Mohicans, the native Indian Magua is 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
23. : The most famous Leather-Stocking Tales was
(A) The Last of the Mohicans
(B) The Pathfinder
(C) The Deerslayer
(D) Upside Down
24. : The Last of the Mohicans presents a war between the native tribes such as
(A) Hurons
(B) Uncas
(C) Magua
(D) Magua and Uncas
25. : When Edgar Allan Poe was born?
(A) 1805
(B) 1822
(C) 1809
(D) 1812
26. : Who called him a great lyric poet?
(A) Longfellow
(B) Emerson
(C) W.B. Yeats
(D) Whitman
27. : Poe has written
(A) Essays
(B) Poems and short stories
(C) Plays
(D) Novels
28. : “The Purloined Letter” was proudly written by
(A) Emerson
(B) Cooper
(C) Poe
(D) Hawthorne
29. : The Tales of Grotesque and Arabesque contains
(A) 25 tales written up to 1840
(B) 40 tales
(C) 20 tales
(D) 30 tales
30. : Poe’s tales contain stories written in which era?
(A) 1830-1840
(B) 1877-1888
(C) 1840-1845
(D) 1835-1845
31. : “The Purloined Letter” reminds the reader of
(A) Sherlock Holmes
(B) Horror novel
(C) Mystery novel
(D) Science fiction
32. : Which is one of Poe’s well-known stories?
(A) “The Ravens”
(B) “The Purloined Letter”
(C) “The Masque of the Red Death”
(D) “The Fall of the House of Usher”
33. : 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
34. : Besides the miracles of craftsmanship, Poe’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
35. : Emerson called him
(A) A great American poet
(B) A great lyrical poet
(C) A jingle-man
(D) None of A, B, and C