New Englanders Authors MCQs
Why did Thomas Carlyle love Emerson?
(a) Honesty
(b) Love for nature
(c) Kindness
(d) Philanthropy
Question’s Answer: Honesty
According to John J. Chapman, Emerson represents a protest against the tyranny of ______ .
(a) Feudalism
(b) Democracy
(c) Monarchy
(d) Christianity
Question’s Answer: Democracy
In ______ , Emerson has the phrase, “Little things are often filled with great beauty:
(a) Nature
(b) American Scholar lecture
(c) Journal for March 1852
(d) Harvard Divinity School Address
Question’s Answer: Journal for March 1852
For Emerson, Nature served as a major source of which of the following?
(a) Inspiration
(b) Pain
(c) Joy
(d) Ecstasy
Question’s Answer: Inspiration
According to ________ ; “Mysticism for mysticism’s sake”?
(a) Nathaniel Hawthorne
(b) H. D. Thoreau
(c) Edgar Allan Foe
(d) Herman Melville
Question’s Answer: Edgar Allan Foe
Emerson’s central doctrine-that of ‘submission to emotion’ is inadmissible to
(a) LA. Richards
(b) F. R. Leavis
(c) Yvor Winters
(d) Wilson Knight
Question’s Answer: Yvor Winters
Which of the following was promoted by H.D. Thoreau, like Emerson?
(a) Joy
(b) Pantheism
(c) Independence
(d) Kindness
Question’s Answer: Independence
Hawthorne typically observes man in _____.
(a) Nature
(b) Society
(c) Variance with nature
(d) Woods
Question’s Answer: Society
Nathaniel Hawthorne is a writer of which of the following?
(a) Prose
(b) Drama
(c) Plays
(d) Fiction
Question’s Answer: Fiction
Who claimed that “the thyme and marjoram are yet not honey” while referring to Thoreau’s poems?
(a) Nathaniel Hawthorne
(b) R.W. Emerson
(c) H.D. Thoreau
(d) Herman Melville
Question’s Answer: R.W. Emerson
What kind of writer was Henry David Thoreau?
(a) Satirical
(b) Poetical
(c) Rhetorical
(d) Conversational
Question’s Answer: Conversational
Who was claiming that Thoreau gathered surplus fruit from Emerson’s orchards?
(a) Nathaniel Hawthorne
(b) Thomas Carlyle
(c) Herman Melville
(d) J.R. Lowell
Question’s Answer: J.R. Lowell
Thoreau’s poetry is comparable to Emerson’s in which of the following ways?
(a) Unsatisfactory
(b) Satirical
(c) Poetical
(d) Political
Question’s Answer: Unsatisfactory
Emblem, symbol, moral, analogy, type, image are the favourite words of
(a) Emerson
(b) Thoreau
(c) Hawthorne
(d) Melville
Question’s Answer: Hawthorne
Who called Nathaniel Hawthorne a ‘harmless Hawthorne”?
(a) R.W. Emerson
(b) H.D. Thoreau
(c) Edgar Allan Poe
(d) Herman Melville
Question’s Answer: Herman Melville
In _______, Melville leave the sea and far off places to write in the third person?
(a) Moby Dick
(b) Pierre
(c) Mardi
(d) Typee
Question’s Answer: Pierre
Which book of Melville reflects Shakespearean, soliloquies?
(a) Moby Dick
(b) Brother
(c) Omoo
(d) Pierre
Question’s Answer: Moby Dick
Herman Melville wrote Typee and Omoo on the basis of his experiences of
(a) Forest life
(b) City life
(c) Sea
(d) Family life
Question’s Answer: Sea
Who, regarding Hawthorne, posed this question: ‘Could he have been more self-assured”?
(a) Henry James
(b) Jack London
(c) Stephen Foster
(d) Mark Twain
Question’s Answer: Henry James
For _____, the sea a great source of metaphor?
(a) R.W. Emerson
(b) Henry James
(c) H.D. Thoreau
(d) Herman Melville
Question’s Answer: Herman Melville
On which work does Melville castigate white civilisation?
(a) Omoo
(b) Moby Dick
(c) Mardi
(d) Typee
Question’s Answer: Typee
Which of the following book of Melville is interesting to be stupass away as a preliminary to his ‘Moby Dick”?
(a) Typee
(b) Omoo
(c) White Jacket
(d) Mardi
Question’s Answer: Mardi
There are traces of Dickens in Herman Melville’s
(a) Dick
(b) Mardi
(c) Typee
(d) Bertleby the scrivener
Question’s Answer: Bertleby the scrivener
In Omoo, Melville takes up the narrative where he left it in
(a) Omoo
(b) Moby Dick
(c) Typee
(d) Mardi
Question’s Answer: Typee
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