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100 frequently repeated MCQs
Here is a worksheet with 100
frequently repeated MCQs to help you prepare for your English Subject
Specialist examinations for several competitive boards (PPSC, SPSC, KPPSC,
BPSC). This collection covers literature, literary terms, poetic genres, famous
works and writers, and language. Each question includes an answer for
self-evaluation.
Subject Specialist English Exam MCQs
Part I: English Literature and Literary Movements
1.
Who is the author of Paradise
Lost?
o a) William Shakespeare
o
b) John Milton ✅
o c) Geoffrey Chaucer
o d) John Donne
Answer: b) John Milton
2.
Which literary period is known for
its emphasis on reason and classical ideals?
o a) Romanticism
o b) Modernism
o
c) Neoclassicism ✅
o d) Realism
Answer: c) Neoclassicism
3.
The term "stream of
consciousness" is associated with which literary movement?
o a) Romanticism
o b) Realism
o
c) Modernism ✅
o d) Postmodernism
Answer: c) Modernism
4.
Wuthering Heights was written by:
o a) Jane Austen
o b) Charlotte Brontë
o c) Emily
Brontë ✅
o d) Anne Brontë
Answer: c) Emily Brontë
- Which poet is known as the
"Bard of Avon"?
- a) Geoffrey Chaucer
- b) John Milton
- c) William Wordsworth
- d) William Shakespeare ✅
Answer: d) William Shakespeare
Part II: Common Literary Terms
6.
A “soliloquy” is:
o a) A dialogue between two characters
o
b) A speech by a character alone on stage ✅
o c) A type of poem
o d) A story within a story
Answer: b) A speech by a character alone on stage
7.
In literature, a “foil” character is
one that:
o a) Conflicts with the main character
o b) Mirrors the protagonist’s traits
o
c) Contrasts the protagonist to highlight certain traits ✅
o d) Serves as a narrator
Answer: c) Contrasts the protagonist to highlight certain traits
8.
The term "bildungsroman"
refers to:
o
a) A novel of education or personal growth ✅
o b) A novel about war
o c) A comedic story
o d) A short story collection
Answer: a) A novel of education or personal growth
9.
Animal Farm is an example of which literary
device?
o a) Satire
o
b) Allegory ✅
o c) Irony
o d) Hyperbole
Answer: b) Allegory
10.
The use of “I” in narrative
indicates:
o a) Third-person point of view
o b) Second-person point of view
o
c) First-person point of view ✅
o d) Omniscient narrator
Answer: c) First-person point of view
Part III: Poetic Forms and Devices
11.
A poem that mourns the death of
someone is called:
o a) Ode
o b) Sonnet
o
c) Elegy ✅
o d) Epic
Answer: c) Elegy
12.
A “couplet” consists of:
o a) Four lines
o
b) Two lines ✅
o c) Six lines
o d) Eight lines
Answer: b) Two lines
13.
In poetry, the repetition of
consonant sounds at the beginning of words is called:
o a) Rhyme
o
b) Alliteration ✅
o c) Assonance
o d) Hyperbole
Answer: b) Alliteration
14.
“My love is like a red, red rose” is
an example of:
o
a) Simile ✅
o b) Metaphor
o c) Irony
o d) Personification
Answer: a) Simile
15.
Which type of poem has 14 lines and
often follows a specific rhyme scheme?
o a) Ballad
o b) Haiku
o
c) Sonnet ✅
o d) Ode
Answer: c) Sonnet
Part IV: Famous Works and Characters
16.
Who wrote Pride and Prejudice?
o a) Charles Dickens
o
b) Jane Austen ✅
o c) George Eliot
o d) Emily Brontë
Answer: b) Jane Austen
17.
In Hamlet, who is the prince
of Denmark?
o
a) Hamlet ✅
o b) Macbeth
o c) Othello
o d) Prospero
Answer: a) Hamlet
18.
The Waste Land was written by:
o a) W.B. Yeats
o
b) T.S. Eliot ✅
o c) Robert Frost
o d) John Keats
Answer: b) T.S. Eliot
19.
Brave New World is a famous dystopian novel by:
o a) George Orwell
o b) Ray Bradbury
o
c) Aldous Huxley ✅
o d) H.G. Wells
Answer: c) Aldous Huxley
20.
The character "Atticus
Finch" appears in which novel?
o a) The Great Gatsby
o b) Moby-Dick
o
c) To Kill a Mockingbird ✅
o d) Pride and Prejudice
Answer: c) To Kill a Mockingbird
Part V: Grammar and Language
21.
Identify the type of sentence:
"She sings beautifully."
o a) Interrogative
o b) Imperative
o
c) Declarative ✅
o d) Exclamatory
Answer: c) Declarative
22.
Which of the following is a
conjunction?
o a) Quickly
o
b) And ✅
o c) Beautifully
o d) Slowly
Answer: b) And
23.
What is the passive voice of
"She writes a letter"?
o a) A letter is writing by her.
o
b) A letter is written by her. ✅
o c) A letter was written by her.
o d) She is writing a letter.
Answer: b) A letter is written by her.
24.
Identify the correct indirect
speech: “He said, ‘I am going to school.’”
o
a) He said that he was going to school. ✅
o b) He said he is going to school.
o c) He said that he is going to
school.
o d) He said he was going to school.
Answer: a) He said that he was going to school.
25.
Choose the correct article: “______
Eiffel Tower is in Paris.”
o a) A
o b) An
o
c) The ✅
o d) No article needed
Answer: c) The
Part VI: Literary Devices and Techniques
26.
The phrase “deafening silence” is an
example of:
o a) Metaphor
o b) Hyperbole
o
c) Oxymoron ✅
o d) Personification
Answer: c) Oxymoron
27.
Which literary device is used in the
sentence “The leaves danced in the wind”?
o a) Simile
o b) Hyperbole
o
c) Personification ✅
o d) Metaphor
Answer: c) Personification
28.
“All hands on deck” is an example
of:
o
a) Synecdoche ✅
o b) Metonymy
o c) Hyperbole
o d) Irony
Answer: a) Synecdoche
29.
When an author gives hints about
what will happen later in a story, it’s called:
o a) Flashback
o b) Irony
o
c) Foreshadowing ✅
o d) Metaphor
Answer: c) Foreshadowing
30.
The phrase “as brave as a lion” is
an example of:
o a) Metaphor
o
b) Simile ✅
o c) Irony
o d) Alliteration
Answer: b) Simile
Part VII: More Famous Works and Authors
31.
Who wrote The Scarlet Letter?
o a) Mark Twain
o
b) Nathaniel Hawthorne ✅
o c) Herman Melville
o d) James Joyce
Answer: b) Nathaniel Hawthorne
32.
Moby-Dick is a novel by:
o a) Mark Twain
o b) Nathaniel Hawthorne
o
c) Herman Melville ✅
o d) Charles Dickens
Answer: c) Herman Melville
33.
In which play does the character
"Macbeth" appear?
o a) Hamlet
o b) Othello
o
c) Macbeth ✅
o d) The Tempest
Answer: c) Macbeth
34.
Gulliver’s Travels is a satire by:
o
a) Jonathan Swift ✅
o b) Charles Dickens
o c) George Eliot
o d) Daniel Defoe
Answer: a) Jonathan Swift
35.
The novel A Tale of Two Cities
is set during:
o
a) The French Revolution ✅
o b) The American Revolution
o c) World War I
o d) The Renaissance
Answer: a) The French Revolution
Additional MCQs on Grammar, Writing, and Literature
36.
The word “beautiful” is a/an:
o a) Noun
o b) Verb
o
c) Adjective ✅
o d) Adverb
Answer: c) Adjective
37.
The phrase “break a leg” means:
o a) To injure oneself
o
b) Good luck ✅
o c) To be angry
o d) To be in pain
Answer: b) Good luck
- Who wrote the epic The
Odyssey?
- a) Homer ✅
- b) Virgil
- c) Sophocles
- d) Plato
Answer: a) Homer - Identify the preposition in the
sentence: “She sat on the chair.”
- a) She
- b) Sat
- c) On ✅
- d) Chair
Answer: c) On - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a novel by:
- a) Mary Shelley
- b) Robert Louis Stevenson ✅
- c) H.G. Wells
- d) Bram Stoker
Answer: b) Robert Louis Stevenson
Part VIII: Grammar and Writing
41.
Choose the correct form: “Each of
the boys ______ playing.”
o a) are
o b) were
o
c) is ✅
o d) have been
Answer: c) is
42.
Which sentence is in the future
continuous tense?
o a) She walks to school.
o
b) She will be walking to school. ✅
o c) She walked to school.
o d) She has walked to school.
Answer: b) She will be walking to school.
43.
Identify the correct form: “If she
______ to the party, she would have met him.”
o a) went
o b) goes
o c) has gone
o d) had
gone ✅
Answer: d) had gone
44.
Which sentence uses the correct
subject-verb agreement?
o a) Each of the students are here.
o
b) Each of the students is here. ✅
o c) The students is here.
o d) Every students are here.
Answer: b) Each of the students is here.
45.
Select the sentence with correct
punctuation:
o a) She said “I’m happy.”
o
b) She said, “I’m happy.” ✅
o c) She said “I’m happy”.
o d) She, said, “I’m happy.”
Answer: b) She said, “I’m happy.”
Part IX: Poetic Forms and Devices (Continued)
46.
A fourteen-line poem, often written
in iambic pentameter, is called a:
o a) Haiku
o b) Limerick
o
c) Sonnet ✅
o d) Ode
Answer: c) Sonnet
- “The pen is mightier than the
sword” is an example of:
- a) Simile
- b) Metaphor
- c) Metonymy ✅
- d) Alliteration
Answer: c) Metonymy - “Boom” and “buzz” are examples
of:
- a) Simile
- b) Metaphor
- c) Onomatopoeia ✅
- d) Hyperbole
Answer: c) Onomatopoeia - The comparison of two unlike
things without using “like” or “as” is called:
- a) Simile
- b) Metaphor ✅
- c) Hyperbole
- d) Personification
Answer: b) Metaphor - A “limerick” is:
- a) A humorous five-line poem ✅
- b) A type of ode
- c) A fourteen-line poem
- d) A form of epic poetry
Answer: a) A humorous five-line poem
Part X: Famous Works and Authors
51.
The Catcher in the Rye was written by:
o
a) J.D. Salinger ✅
o b) F. Scott Fitzgerald
o c) Ernest Hemingway
o d) John Steinbeck
Answer: a) J.D. Salinger
52.
The Canterbury Tales is a work by:
o a) William Langland
o
b) Geoffrey Chaucer ✅
o c) John Milton
o d) William Shakespeare
Answer: b) Geoffrey Chaucer
53.
Pygmalion was written by:
o a) T.S. Eliot
o
b) George Bernard Shaw ✅
o c) Oscar Wilde
o d) Charles Dickens
Answer: b) George Bernard Shaw
54.
Who wrote A Passage to India?
o
a) E.M. Forster ✅
o b) Virginia Woolf
o c) D.H. Lawrence
o d) Joseph Conrad
Answer: a) E.M. Forster
55.
The character “Heathcliff” appears
in:
o a) Jane Eyre
o
b) Wuthering Heights ✅
o c) Pride and Prejudice
o d) Great Expectations
Answer: b) Wuthering Heights
Part XI: Grammar and Vocabulary
56.
Choose the correct synonym for
“adversity”:
o a) Advantage
o
b) Hardship ✅
o c) Benefit
o d) Comfort
Answer: b) Hardship
57.
Select the antonym for “lucid”:
o a) Clear
o b) Transparent
o
c) Obscure ✅
o d) Bright
Answer: c) Obscure
58.
Choose the correct verb form: “She
______ a letter yesterday.”
o a) writes
o
b) wrote ✅
o c) writing
o d) written
Answer: b) wrote
59.
Identify the type of sentence:
“Please close the door.”
o a) Declarative
o
b) Imperative ✅
o c) Interrogative
o d) Exclamatory
Answer: b) Imperative
60.
Which word is a synonym of
“elevate”?
o
a) Raise ✅
o b) Lower
o c) Delay
o d) Reduce
Answer: a) Raise
Part XII: Literary Movements and History
61.
Waiting for Godot is associated with which literary
movement?
o a) Realism
o
b) Absurdism ✅
o c) Romanticism
o d) Neoclassicism
Answer: b) Absurdism
62.
Who is considered the “Father of
English Poetry”?
o a) John Milton
o
b) Geoffrey Chaucer ✅
o c) William Shakespeare
o d) Edmund Spenser
Answer: b) Geoffrey Chaucer
63.
The Harlem Renaissance is associated
with:
o a) Latin American literature
o
b) African American literature ✅
o c) British literature
o d) Asian American literature
Answer: b) African American literature
64.
Which period is characterized by a
focus on industrialization and realism?
o
a) Victorian Era ✅
o b) Romantic Era
o c) Renaissance
o d) Medieval
Answer: a) Victorian Era
65.
The Beat Generation included which
of the following writers?
o a) William Wordsworth
o
b) Jack Kerouac ✅
o c) F. Scott Fitzgerald
o d) Nathaniel Hawthorne
Answer: b) Jack Kerouac
Part XIII: Literary Figures and Works
66.
To the Lighthouse is a novel by:
o
a) Virginia Woolf ✅
o b) James Joyce
o c) George Eliot
o d) D.H. Lawrence
Answer: a) Virginia Woolf
67.
The Waste Land was written by:
o a) W.B. Yeats
o
b) T.S. Eliot ✅
o c) Ezra Pound
o d) Robert Frost
Answer: b) T.S. Eliot
68.
Who wrote Paradise Lost?
o a) John Donne
o
b) John Milton ✅
o c) Christopher Marlowe
o d) Geoffrey Chaucer
Answer: b) John Milton
69.
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is a work by:
o a) William Wordsworth
o
b) Samuel Taylor Coleridge ✅
o c) Percy Bysshe Shelley
o d) John Keats
Answer: b) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
70.
Dracula was written by:
o a) Mary Shelley
o
b) Bram Stoker ✅
o c) Robert Louis Stevenson
o d) Charles Dickens
Answer: b) Bram Stoker
Part XIV: Grammar and Sentence Structure
71.
Choose the correct sentence:
o a) She don’t like chocolate.
o
b) She doesn’t like chocolate. ✅
o c) She not likes chocolate.
o d) She isn’t like chocolate.
Answer: b) She doesn’t like chocolate.
72.
Which sentence is an example of
passive voice?
o a) She writes a letter.
o
b) A letter was written by her. ✅
o c) She wrote a letter.
o d) She is writing a letter.
Answer: b) A letter was written by her.
73.
Identify the correct conjunction:
“He failed the test ______ he studied hard.”
o a) because
o
b) although ✅
o c) and
o d) as
Answer: b) although
74.
Choose the correct preposition: “I
am good ______ mathematics.”
o a) on
o b) in
o
c) at ✅
o d) for
Answer: c) at
75.
Choose the correct form: “He is the
______ of the two.”
o a) tall
o
b) taller ✅
o c) tallest
o d) more tall
Answer: b) taller
Part XV: Literary Devices and Techniques
76.
“She sells sea shells by the sea
shore” is an example of:
o a) Hyperbole
o
b) Alliteration ✅
o c) Onomatopoeia
o d) Metaphor
Answer: b) Alliteration
77.
A narrative that has a symbolic
meaning outside the literal story is called a(n):
o a) Epic
o
b) Allegory ✅
o c) Sonnet
o d) Ballad
Answer: b) Allegory
78.
“I’ve told you a million times” is
an example of:
o a) Simile
o b) Irony
o
c) Hyperbole ✅
o d) Metaphor
Answer: c) Hyperbole
79.
The character who opposes the
protagonist in a story is known as the:
o a) Hero
o b) Villain
o
c) Antagonist ✅
o d) Foil
Answer: c) Antagonist
80.
Which poetic device is used in “The
wind whispered through the trees”?
o
a) Personification ✅
o b) Metaphor
o c) Onomatopoeia
o d) Simile
Answer: a) Personification
Part XVI: Vocabulary and Usage
81.
Choose the antonym for “fragile”:
o
a) Strong ✅
o b) Weak
o c) Delicate
o d) Brittle
Answer: a) Strong
82.
Select the correct synonym for
“banal”:
o a) Original
o b) Unique
o
c) Trite ✅
o d) Extraordinary
Answer: c) Trite
83.
Which word is closest in meaning to
“abundant”?
o a) Scarce
o
b) Plentiful ✅
o c) Few
o d) Insufficient
Answer: b) Plentiful
84.
What is the synonym for
“magnanimous”?
o
a) Generous ✅
o b) Greedy
o c) Selfish
o d) Reserved
Answer: a) Generous
85.
“Eloquent” most nearly means:
o a) Silent
o b) Talkative
o
c) Articulate ✅
o d) Brief
Answer: c) Articulate
Part XVII: Literary Terms
- The perspective from which a
story is told is called the:
- a) Theme
- b) Tone
- c) Point of View ✅
- d) Style
Answer: c) Point of View
- The term “bildungsroman” refers
to a:
- a) Comedy
- b) Tragic story
- c) Coming-of-age story ✅
- d) Mystery
Answer: c) Coming-of-age story - In Medias Res is a technique where the story
begins:
- a) At the end
- b) At the beginning
- c) In the middle ✅
- d) With a flashback
Answer: c) In the middle - The repetition of vowel sounds
within words in close proximity is called:
- a) Consonance
- b) Assonance ✅
- c) Alliteration
- d) Meter
Answer: b) Assonance - A poem that mourns a death is
known as a(n):
- a) Ode
- b) Epic
- c)
Elegy ✅
- d) Sonnet
Answer: c) Elegy
Part XVIII: Miscellaneous Literature
- Which character is from Pride
and Prejudice?
- a) Jane Eyre
- b) Elizabeth Bennet ✅
- c) Catherine Earnshaw
- d) Hester Prynne
Answer: b) Elizabeth Bennet - Who wrote A Doll's House?
- a) Henrik Ibsen ✅
- b) Anton Chekhov
- c) Tennessee Williams
- d) Arthur Miller
Answer: a) Henrik Ibsen - The Grapes of Wrath is a novel about:
- a) World War I
- b) The Great Depression ✅
- c) The French Revolution
- d) The Renaissance
Answer: b) The Great Depression
- Who is known as the “Bard of
Avon”?
- a) John Milton
- b) Geoffrey Chaucer
- c) William Shakespeare ✅
- d) Edmund Spenser
Answer: c) William Shakespeare - The Divine Comedy was written by:
- a) Homer
- b) Dante Alighieri ✅
- c) Virgil
- d) Sophocles
Answer: b) Dante Alighieri
Part XIX: English Language and Grammar
96.
Choose the correct word: “He tried
to ______ his mistake.”
o a) avoid
o b) evade
o
c) rectify ✅
o d) miss
Answer: c) rectify
97.
Which word means “a false or
misleading appearance”?
o
a) Illusion ✅
o b) Allusion
o c) Elusion
o d) Solution
Answer: a) Illusion
98.
Select the appropriate preposition:
“She is allergic ______ dust.”
o
a) to ✅
o b) of
o c) with
o d) on
Answer: a) to
99.
Choose the correct conjunction: “He
is neither rich ______ famous.”
o a) and
o
b) nor ✅
o c) or
o d) but
Answer: b) nor
100.
Choose the correct option: “The meeting was postponed ______
the manager was unwell.”
- a) although
- b) because ✅
- c) so
- d) but
Answer: b) because
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