QUIZ TIME

A Long Quiz on English Literature NET exam 

1.The poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" was first published in 1915 at the request of which other poet?

 Wallace Stevens

 Ezra Pound

 Carl Sandburg

 William Carlos Williams

2. What line follows "I grow old...I grow old..." in "The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock"?

 "I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled."

 "I shall not believe all that I am told."

 "I shall cease to do as I am told."

 "I shall endeavour to be bold."

3. Poet Matthew Arnold's "Dover Beach", published in 1867, is alluded to in which poem by Eliot?

 The Journey of The Magi

 Rhapsody on a Windy Night

 The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

 Sweeney Among the Nightingales

4. To whom did Eliot dedicate the poem "The Waste Land"?

 James Joyce

 W.H. Auden

 Ezra Pound

 William Yeats

5. Ezra Pound gave Eliot a nickname which he used as part of the title for a book of poetry for children. What was his nickname?

 Sullen Beaver

 Blind Weasel

 Frail Mongoose

 Old Possum

6. Eliot has sometimes been charged with antisemitism due to which of his works?

 Murder in the Cathedral

 The Family Reunion

 The Elder Statesman

 Gerontion

7. In which of Eliot's works did he actually act as a minor role in the remake as a play?

 Ash Wednesday

 The Waste Land

 Murder in the Cathedral

 The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

8. Eliot's 'Ariel Poems' is a collection of poems written for Faber and Faber's series of Ariel Poems. Which of the following is not in the collection?

 Marina

 Journey of the Magi

 A Song for Simeon

 Coriolan

9. Which journal first published some of Eliot's poems?

 Jester of Columbia

 Yale Review

 Harvard Advocate

 Dartmouth Jack 'o' Lantern

10. Eliot wrote which piece in 1930, shortly after his conversion to the Anglican religion?

 The Elder Statesman

 Ash Wednesday

 The Wasteland

 The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

11. Probably my favorite Eliot quote of all is "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons." Which poem is this from?

 The Waste Land

 A Song for Simeon

 The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

 Little Gidding (from "Four Quartets")

12. You have almost certainly heard this quote, and maybe even used it, without necessarily knowing that it was from Eliot:

"This is the way the world ends

Not with a bang but a whimper"

 The Hollow Men

 Mr. Eliot's Sunday Morning Service

 The Fire Sermon (in "The Waste Land")

 Chorus IX from "The Rock"

13. You might be able to figure out which poem this is without ever having read the poem before, just from the content given here.

"Among the smoke and fog of a December afternoon

You have the scene arrange itself--as it will seem to do--

With 'I have saved this afternoon for you';

And four wax candles in the darkened room,

Four rings of light upon the ceiling overhead,

An atmosphere of Juliet's tomb

Prepared for all the things to be said, or left unsaid."

 Mariana

 Sweeney among the Nightingales

 Murder in the Cathedral

 Portrait of a Lady

14. What Eliot poem contains the popular song quote below, and shows he listened to the pop music of his day?

"O O O O that Shakespeherian Rag--

It's so elegant

So intelligent"

 A Game of Chess (in "The Waste Land")

 The Hippopotamus

 The Hollow Men

 A Cooking Egg

15. Which Eliot piece tells a story and includes this passage?

"'A cold coming we had of it,

Just the worst time of the year

For a journey, and such a long journey;

The ways deep and the weather sharp,

The very dead of winter.'"

Hint: this is the opening of the poem.

 Sweeney Erect

 Journey of the Magi

 Sweeney among the Nightingales

 The Elder Statesman

16. You may not know the entire quote given here, but I hope you recognize lines three and four well enough to name the poem it comes from.

"I am moved by fancies that are curled

Around these images, and cling;

The notion of some infinitely gentle

Infinitely suffering thing."

"Wipe your hand across your mouth and laugh;

The worlds revolve like ancient women

Gathering fuel in vacant lots."

 The Dry Salvages (from "Four Quartets")

 Whispers of Immortality

 The Burial of the Dead (from "The Waste Land")

 Preludes

17. If you had Eliot in school, you know about his conversion to Christianity. You may not know about his fascination with eastern religions, which influenced these famous lines:

"Dry the pool, dry concrete, brown edged,

And the pool was filled with water out of sunlight,

And the lotos rose, quietly, quietly,

The surface glittered out of heart of light,

And they were behind us, reflected in the pool.

Then a cloud passed, and the pool was empty.

Go, said the bird, for the leaves were full of children,

Hidden excitedly, containing laughter.

Go, go, go, said the bird: human kind

Cannot bear very much reality."

 Death by Water (from "The Waste Land")

 East Coker (from "Four Quartets")

 Burnt Norton (from "Four Quartets")

 What the Thunder Said (from "The Waste Land")

18. You don't have to tell us how to answer the question in the poem. Just tell us where to find the question.

"Who turned in the hall, one hand on the door. Vacant shuttles

Weave the wind. I have no ghosts,

An old man in a draughty house

Under a windy knob."

"After such knowledge, what forgiveness?"

 Animula

 Growltiger's Last Stand

 The Cocktail Party

 Gerontion

19. You know the last line of this quatrain. Giving it in context should help you recognize the source.

"Now is my way clear, now is the meaning plain:

Temptation shall not come in this kind again.

The last temptation is the greatest treason:

To do the right deed for the wrong reason."

 The Confidential Clerk

 The Cocktail Party

 The Family Reunion

 Murder in the Cathedral

20. Ah. You wondered where these lines came from. It was from T. S. Eliot:

"We shall not cease from exploration

And the end of all our exploring

Will be to arrive where we started

And know the place for the first time."

 Ash-Wednesday

 Little Gidding (from "Four Quartets")

 The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

 Journey of the Magi

21. What was the last name of the human owner that the animals ran out of the farm?

 Shepard

 Leslie

 Jones

 Williams

22. Which type of animal was considered the smartest and therefore the best leader?

 the dogs

 the cats

 the sheep

 the pigs

23. Which type of animal was shot and killed at the Battle of the Cowshed?

 a sheep

 a horse

 a cow

 a dog

24. What was the name of the horse that left Animal Farm?

 Cindy

 Trott

 Regan

 Mollie

25. The Commandment "No animal shall ever sleep in a bed with sheets" was a part of the original seven commandments.

 True

 False

26. What was the name of the pig who was run out of Animal Farm by Napoleon?

 Roger

 Firefly

 Komono

 Snowball

27. What project did Napoleon initially oppose but later adopt?

 Building an irrigation system

 Building a windmill

 Building an army to invade the neighboring farms

 Shooting Mollie.

28. Who acted as a mediator between Animal Farm and the outside world?

 Mr. Whymper

 Jones

 Mr. Louis

 Napoleon

29. Animal Farm traded with the outside world.

 True

 False

30. Napoleon had animals killed after they professed themselves traitors.

 True

 False

31. Who pulled the sheep aside to teach them "Four legs good, two legs better."?

 Pilkington

 Napoleon

 Squealer

 Snowball

32. What was the windmill named?

 Napoleon Mill

 Mollie's Mill

 Animal Farm Mill

 Cowshed Mill

33. How did Frederick pay for the timber he bought from Napoleon?

 with cow's milk

 with a check

 with forged bank notes

 with pennies

34. How was the windmill destroyed the second time?

 Snowball set it on fire

 Napoleon set it on fire by accident by falling asleep with a lit cigar.

 A storm caused it to fall

 Frederick and some men blew it up.

35. Whom did the pigs meet with after they were seen walking on their two hind legs?

 Snowball

 Mr. Whymper

 Pilkington

 Frederick

36. In "Rabbit Redux", what drink does Harry's father always order when they meet at the bar after work?

 A Budweiser

 A daiquiri

 A Schlitz

 A gin and tonic

37. In "Rabbit Run", what show is Janice watching on TV when Rabbit decides to leave for the first time?

 The Ed Sullivan Show

 Laugh In

 The local weather report

 The Micky Mouse Club

38. What is the maiden name of Peggy Fosnacht?

 Sipe

 Moore

 McDonald

 Gring

39. What is the legal first name of Nelson's son?

 Roy

 Andrew

 Dennis

 Harold

40. What is the name of the Country Club Janice and Harry belong to in "Rabbit is Rich"?

 The Flying Eagle

 Mt Judge Country Club

 Peregrine Landing

 Green Valley

41. Where does Nelson attend college?

 Penn State

 The University of Maryland

 IUP

 Kent State

42. In "Rabbit, Run" Harry first meets Ruth when Tothero takes him out to eat at what type of establishment?

 A bar

 A fast food restaurant

 A deli

 A Chinese restaurant

43. Charlie Stavros is mentioned to be of what ethnic background?

 Hispanic

 Irish

 American Indian

 Greek

44.What kind of boat does Harry rent with his grand-daughter, Judy, in "Rabbit At Rest"?

 A yacht

 A motor boat

 A sunfish

 A pontoon boat

45. What is the name of Harry's younger sister?

 Katherine "Kathy"

 Stephanie "Stevie"

 Linda "Lynn"

 Miriam "Mim"

46.What is the title of the 1949 George Orwell novel which told of life in a totalitarian state dominated by 'Big Brother', 'Newspeak', and the 'Two Minute Hate'?

 Animal Farm

 1984

 Brave New World

 Life During Wartime

47. What is the title of the 1932 Aldous Huxley novel in which the psychedelic drug 'soma' is used to pacify the citizens and people are divided into the castes Alpha through Epsilon based on their genetic make-up?

 The World of Null-A

 Brave New World

 The Last and First Men

 The Inverted World

48. What is the title of the 1962 Anthony Burgess novel in which a Beethoven-loving juvenile delinquent convicted of murder is programmed to find both violence and Beethoven's Ninth Symphony physically repulsive?

 A Clockwork Orange

 Camp Concentration

 Time Out of Joint

 Brave New World

49. In a 1969 Ursula LeGuin novel an ethnologist visits a planet with a usually neuter population. Individuals randomly become either male or female at the peak of a periodic sexual cycle. What is the title of this Hugo and Nebula award-winning novel?

 Glen or Glenda

 The Female Man

 The Left Hand of Darkness

 The Dispossessed

50. In 1965 Frank Herbert wrote a novel set on the desert planet of Arrakis inhabited by giant sandworms. What is the title of this novel which was made into a much maligned film by David Lynch?

 Earth Abides

 Dune

 The Stand

 The Way Station

51. What is the title of the 1966 Isaac Asimov novel in which a medical team is placed in a submarine, miniaturized, and injected into the body of a patient?

 The Puppet Masters

 Neuromancer

 Fantastic Voyage

 The Centauri Device

52. What is the title of a 1968 John Brunner novel about overpopulation?

 Make Room! Make Room!

 Shockwave Rider

 The Stand

 Stand On Zanzibar

53. In 1973 J.G. Ballard wrote a novel about a subculture of people who become sexually aroused by automobile accidents and recreate car crashes involving celebrities. What is the title of this novel which was made into a movie starring James Spader and directed by David Cronenberg?

 The Demolished Man

 The Car That Ate Paris

 Crash

 The Soft Machine

54. What is the name of the classic J.R.R. Tolkien fantasy trilogy featuring Bilbo Baggins, Frodo, and Gandalf?

 The Lord of the Rings

 The Book of the New Sun

 The Lord of Light

 The Foundation Trilogy

55.What is the title of the 1984 William Gibson cyberpunk novel set in a world of global computer networks and virtual reality?

 The Silicon Dagger

 Necromancer

 Neuromancer

 The Space Merchants

56.. What is the title of the 1969 Kurt Vonnegut novel which tells the story of Billy Pilgrim who survived the bombing of Dresden?

 Cat's Cradle

 Breakfast of Champions

 The Stand

 Slaughterhouse-Five

57. What is the title of the 1976 Kingsley Amis alternative history novel set in modern Europe about a boy singer facing surgery to preserve his soprano voice?

 The Female Man

 The Alteration

 Childhood's End

 High-Rise

 58.What is special about the name of the village, in 'Under Milkwood'?

 It is the name of Dylan Thomas' hometown.

 It is a real welsh word, meaning 'nothing there'.

 It is named after Thomas and his wife.

 It says something backwards.

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" is set in which city?

 London

 Dublin

 Glasgow

 Edinburgh

59.. When she was a young woman, Miss Brodie's fiance died on Flanders Field in World War I. What was her fiance's name?

 Robert

 Hugh

 Stanley

 Gerald

60. Who is the school's headmistress?

 Miss Gaunt

 Miss Blaine

 Miss Mackay

 Miss Lockhart

61.Which one of Miss Brodie's girls is famous for sex?

 Eunice

 Sandy

 Rose

 Jenny

62. Which girl spots Miss Brodie kissing Mr. Lloyd?

 Mary

 Jenny

 Eunice

 Monica

63. When she becomes an adult, which girl writes a book titled "The Transfiguration of the Commonplace"?

 Rose

 Sandy

 Monica

 Jenny

64. What unusual physical attribute does Mr. Lloyd possess?

 He has only one eye.

 He has only one arm.

 He walks with a limp.

 He has six fingers on one hand.

65. Who lives at Cramond?

 Miss Brodie

 Miss Mackay

 Mr. Lloyd

 Mr. Lowther

66. How old is Miss Brodie when she dies?

 75

 48

 56

 64

67. Which saying does Miss Brodie NOT deliver in the novel?

 To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.

 Give me a girl at an impressionable age, and she is mine for life.

 Beauty is greater than science. Beauty comes first, and then science.

 I am putting old heads on your young shoulders.

 68.Henry Perowne wakes in the middle of the night and looks out of his bedroom window. He sees a bright light moving across the London skyline; a plane is on fire. He ruminates on the possibilities of the event unfurling in front of him. What does the emergency he sees before him turn out to be?

 A passenger plane that crashes into the Post Office Tower as part of a terrorist attack on London

 A military aircraft that has been attacked by a surface to air missile

 A cargo plane with an engine on fire that safely lands

 A passenger plane after a bird strike that crash lands at Heathrow

69. It is a Saturday so Henry Perowne has a day off from work, though as a medical doctor he remains on call. What is his specialist area of medicine?

 Radiology

 Hepatics

 Neurosurgery

 Paediatrics

70. What big event is due to take place in London that particular Saturday?

 The FA Cup Final

 The anti-Iraq war march for peace

 The 7th July bomb attacks on London

 A state visit by the US President

71. As his wife is working that day, how does Henry choose to spend his Saturday?

 Visiting his mother

 Playing squash

 Going to his son's music rehearsal

 All of these

72. On his way to his Saturday morning activity, Perowne comes across Baxter, who is soon to become a large part of his day. How do they meet?

 He accidentally bumps into Baxter and knocks him to the floor

 He sees Baxter outside his house selling drugs

 They have a minor car accident

 He notices Baxter stalking his wife

73. Perowne avoids a beating at the hands of Baxter and his associates by diagnosing Baxter's illness. What is the genetic disorder that he is suffering from?

 Parkinson's disease

 Huntington's disease

 Cockayne syndrome

 Lou Gehrig's disease

74. As the day's major event gets underway, Perowne thinks back to the time that he was introduced to the Prime Minister, Tony Blair. At what event did this meeting take place?

 The Queen's summer garden party

 The opening of an art gallery

 At a rugby match

 At a political rally

75. The evening's event is a family get together that is hopefully going to involve a reconciliation between Perowne's father-in-law, John, and his daughter, Daisy. The two had fallen out when John had criticised Daisy's work. What is the profession that they share?

 Sculptor

 Journalist

 Poet

 Lawyer

76. Baxter unexpectedly gatecrashes the get-together and holds the family hostage at knifepoint. What does Henry discover about his daughter as a consequence of Baxter's intrusion?

 That she once dated Baxter

 That she knows kung fu

 That she is pregnant

 That she has cancer

77. Baxter's control of the situation is broken when Daisy recites a poem to him at her grandfather's suggestion. What is the poem she recites?

 "February 17th" by Ted Hughes

 "Jerusalem" by William Blake

 "Dover Beach" by Matthew Arnold

 "The Rolling English Road" by GK Chesterton

78.How does Miss Kenton describe Stevens' father  in the Booker Prize winning novel Remains of the Day when she sees him outside the summerhouse shortly after his fall?

 As though searching for a jewel he had dropped there

 As though he hoped to find a diamond encrusted crown

 As though searching for the hidden meaning of life

 As though he were searching for his lost youth

Next 10 questions are from Graham Green 's novel The Power and Glory 

 79.What is the whiskey priest's name?

 Mr. Tench

 His name isn't given

 Juan

 Padre Jose

80. What is the whiskey priest's crime?

 Murder

 Treason

 Burglary

 None of these

81. Which of the following DOES NOT make the whiskey priest believe that he is a "bad priest"?

 He murdered the mestizo

 He is an alcoholic

 He had a daughter

 None of these

82. What is the name of the whiskey priest's home parish?

 Concepcion

 Villahermosa

 Las Casas

 Carmen

83. What is the whiskey priest's daughter's name?

 Brigitta

 Coral

 He doesn't have a daughter

 Maria

84. What "game" does Coral teach the whiskey priest?

 Hop-Scotch

 Morse Code

 Yahtzee

 Telephone

85. What is the name of the book that the whiskey priest leaves at the dentist's house, and what language was it written in?

 The whiskey priest is illiterate.

 "The Holy Bible" (English)

 "La Martir Eterna" (Latin)

 "Bueno Viernes y La Resureccion" (Spanish)

86. What kind of Bible does the whiskey priest critique at the Lehr's house?

 Gideon

 King George

 New American

 The Lehrs are Atheists

87. When the whiskey priest is taken to prison, how much money does he have? (Remember, he isn't able to pay the fine)

 50 centavos

 2 pesos

 1 peso

 25 centavos

89. The whiskey priest dies and comes back to life.

 Yes

 No

Next 10 questions are from Passage to India 

 90.Why, at the beginning of the novel, is Adela Quested dissatisfied with her visit to India?

 Because she wants to see the real India

 Because she does not get along with Mrs. Moore

 Because she wants to be engaged to Ronny

 Because she dislikes Ronny's friends

91. What is the main reason Aziz decides not to attend the Bridge Party?

 He feels sick to his stomach

 He is angry with Major Callendar

 He wants to spend time with his children

 It coincides with the anniversary of his wife's death

92. The book is divided into three sections. Mosque, Caves and ...?

 Church

 Temple

 Synagogue

 Club

93. In which city is most of the action set?

 Mau

 Chandrapore

 Bombay

 Calcutta

94. What makes Adela decide she does want to marry Ronny?

 The event at the caves

 Mrs Moore tells her to

 Nothing - she just decides

 The accident

95. Who misjudges the length of a prayer?

 Fielding

 Godbole

 Aziz

 Mrs Moore

96. Who is the magistrate at Aziz's trial?

 Das

 Fielding

 Ronny

 Godbole

97. Who or what attracts Adela at Aziz's trial?

 Punkah-wallah

 Green Bird

 Wasp

 Mrs Moore

98. Whose birth are the Hindus (including Godbole) waiting for?

 Jesus

 Shri Krishna

 Stella Moore's baby

 Adela's baby

99.Who does Aziz think Fielding married?

 Ronny Heaslop

 Stella Moore

 Adela Quested

 Ralph Moore

Next 10 questions are from Things Fall Apart 

100.The main character of "Things Fall Apart", the proud and tempestuous Okonkwo, is defined early in the novel by his relationship with his father, Unoka. Which of these best describes this relationship?

 Unoka disapproves of Okonkwo's lack of advancement in the village and is pressuring him to emulate the family's traditional success

 Okonkwo and Unoka are very close, hunting together and exercising great power in village politics

 Unoka died when Okonkwo was an infant, and Okonkwo is haunted by his memory

 Okonkwo is embarrassed by the lazy Unoka, who is widely considered a failure

101. Throughout the book, an unusual currency is used for most transactions. What is this unlikely coin of the realm?

 British shillings

 Cowries

 Polished agates

 Palm seeds

102. The main political unit in "Things Fall Apart" is the alliance of "nine villages", including Okonkwo's village of Umuofia. Following the murder of one of Umuofia's women (identified in the text only as "Udo's wife"), Okonkwo negotiates a peace with Umuofia's enemies, wherein they will send Udo a virgin as compensation and give up one of their young boys as well. The boy, Ikemefuna, becomes a part of Okonkwo's household, even calling Okonkwo "father". What ends up happening to Ikemefuna?

 The Oracle decrees that he must die, and Okonkwo kills him

 He turns traitor against Okonkwo and Umuofia, leading to the collapse of the alliance

 He eventually becomes king of the nine villages, leading them in revolt against the British

 He dies of malaria

103. In Chapter 8, Okonkwo is having a discussion with several of his village's men. One of them, Obierika, remarks that in two other villages (Abame and Aninta) titled men climb trees and pound food for their wives, tasks seen as women's work in Umuofia. Okonkwo replies that in some tribes the children belong to the wife and her family, a proposition a third man, Machi, dismisses as ludicrous. Obierika concludes this discussion with a tall tale he has heard, that there are ___________.

 great steel birds which soar without flapping their wings

 giant villages sculpted of red stone in a land across the sea

 huge metal canoes that carry dozens of men and tons of food

 white men, "white like this piece of chalk", who have no toes

104. Chapter 13 sees Okonkwo banished from Umuofia for killing someone. What were the circumstances of this homicide?

 Firing off a gun at the funeral of village elder Ezeudu to celebrate his great life, Okonkwo accidentally kills Ezeudu's son

 Enraged by how slowly she does her household chores, Okonkwo kills his wife

 Okonkwo kills a British colonial official, and he is banished lest the British take revenge

 Okonkwo leads a raid against another of the nine villages, incurring the wrath of even his own kinsmen

105. The first British evangelist in the area, Mr. Brown, callously disregards local customs, learning nothing of Umuofia's traditional spirituality while imposing his own. Fittingly, his church collapses, a victim of the spirits in Umuofia's taboo area, the "evil forest".

 True

 False

106. Mr. Brown is succeeded by Mr. Smith, who, in contrast to Brown, is much more open and understanding, making much greater allowance for native customs.

 True

 False

107.A recurrent motif of "Things Fall Apart" is the assumption of divine roles by the worthy men of the village. These men wear masks representing figures like the evil forest and the tree spirit, and take the collective title "egwugwu". At the annual feast of the Earth deity, a Christian convert named Enoch shows his disregard for the egwugwu by ripping off one of their masks. How do they egwugwu retaliate for this offense?

 They do not - they trust that their god, Chukwu, will deliver justice

 They kill Enoch and Mr. Smith

 They burn down Enoch's compound and the church

 They take all the sacred fixtures from the church and ritually desecrate them

108. After various legal struggles with the British administration, including the capture of several of Umuofia's leaders (including Okonkwo) and the leveling of heavy fines, a meeting is called in the marketplace to organize opposition to these depredations. Five British court messengers arrive to break up this assembly. What action does Okonkwo take?

 He leads a revolt, capturing the court messengers and ransoming them

 He negotiates as peace where the British will leave the area in exchange for an annual tribute

 He disbands the meeting and converts to Christianity

 He kills one of the court messengers, but his people allow the others to escape

109. The novel concludes with the British District Commissioner contemplating Okonkwo's life, remarking to himself that it would make for a fascinating paragraph in his upcoming book: "The Pacification of the Primitive Tribes of the Lower Niger".

 True

 False