Sample Questions

FYBA- Introduction to Literature

Type- MCQ
Q1. A _____ is a casual sequence or arrangement of incidents or events in the story.
a. Plot
b. Character
c. Narrative
d. Novel
Q2. A person in a work of fiction-the hero or the villain, and other persons are all known as
the ________ in that work of art.
a. Plot
b. Setting
c. Themes
d. Characters
Q3. ______ means story, and stories are written or spoken.
a. Narrative
b. Plot
c. Setting
d. Character
Q4. _______ novel is written as a series of documents.
a. A Science fiction
b. An Epistolary
c. A Psychological
d. A Picaresque
Q5. _________ novel prioritizes the technique of narration over plot.
a. Stream of Consciousness
b. Historical
c. Bildungsroman
d. Novel of Social Reality
Q6. The term Stream of Consciousness was initially coined by a psychologist:
a. William James
b. William Faulker
c. William Jones
d. William Anderson
Q7. In The Last Leaf , what was Behrman’s masterpiece?
a. painting a picture of sue
b. Painting a picture of Johnsy
c. painting a picture of a leaf
 d. all of the above
Q8. In the short story The open window, according to Vera, Mr. Nuttel Framton has a phobia
of what?
a. dogs
b. windows
c. ghosts
d. guns
Q9. In the short story The Nightingale and The Rose, when did the girl wear the rose?
a. At the dance
b. In her wedding
c. Never
d. Everyday
Q10. In the short story The Tell-Tale Heart, how did the narrator act towards the old man
during the week before he killed the old man.
a. kind
b. indifferent
c. cruel
d. it never says
Q11. In the short story A Doll’s House, what does Kezia do that makes Aunt Beryl angry?
a. She comes home late from school
b. She gives the Kelveys some food from the house
c. She shows the doll house to the Kelveys
d. She talks back to her
Q12. What is significant about the setting of the short story The story of an Hour?
a. The story's set in a time period that afforded women very few rights.
b. It takes place in a large house.
c. The story encompasses one hour.
d. The setting makes no difference.
Q13. The novel Pride and Prejudice ends with
a. Darcy marrying Elizabeth, and Bingley marrying Miss Darcy
b. Bingley marrying Jane, and Elizabeth marrying Wickham
c. Bingley marrying Jane, and Darcy marrying Elizabeth
d. Darcy marrying Elizabeth, and Wickham marrying Jane

Q14. Mr. Bennet’s estate is entailed to Mr. Collins because

a. Mr. Bennet is Mr. Collins’s father
b. Mr. Bennet owes Mr. Collins money
c. Mr. Collins is Mr. Bennet’s closest male heir
d. Mr. Bennet was once married to Mr. Collins’s mother
Q15. Elizabeth rejected Mr. Darcy’s first proposal because:
a. Mr. Darcy separated Jane and Mr. Bingley
b. Mr. Darcy treated Mr. Wickham poorly
c. Mr. Darcy was arrogant and selfish
d. All of the above

Q16. Who persuaded Mr. Wickham to marry Lydia?

a. Mr. Bennet
b. Mr. Gardiner
c. Mr. Bingley
d. Mr. Darcy

Q17. Victorian era is considered as a period of -

a. impossibly high standards of personal and public morality

b. openness of the expression of love in public spheres
c. Easy attitude towards social code of conduct
d. enlightenment of lower classes

Q18. 'The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde ' can be described as a study of –
a. story of singularity
b. moral ambivalence of character
c. Elizabethan history
d. Gothic historical fiction.
Q19. Which of the following statements was not included in Mr. Enfield's story?

a. Mr. Enfield ran after the man and brought him back.
b. People gathered at the scene seemed to instantly loathe the very sight of the sadistic
man
c. The man, apologised profusely to the family of the trampled girl.
d. A little man trampled over a young girl and left her screaming on the ground.

Q20. In the novella, ‘The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde ‘, Mr. Enfield called the
house Black Mail House because:
a. The house was covered with black suit
b. The mail box outside the house was of black colour
c. He believed that a blackmail was involved
d. All of the above