1.

In Walt Whitman’s out of the cradle endlessly rocking – The word ‘Death’ emerges as a
symbol of _______
A) The Triumph over Nature over Humanity B) Rebirth and Renewal
C) Eternity D) Triumph over eternal Joy.
2. In “Out of the cradle endlessly rocking” – The Mocking Bird symbolizes _____
A) Melancholy and Frustrated love B) The Poet’s immortality
C) The boy’s inner conscience D) The Poet’s feeling.
3. In Anne Bradstreet’s Poem, ‘The Prologue’, The poet specifically reflects on ____
A) Poet’s opposition to puritan beliefs B) The process of poetic creation
C) Women’s Imagination and writings
D) Women’s struggle as being poet in Patriarchy.
4. Bradstreet’s use of ______ in, ‘The Prologue’ primarily serves to disarm critics and align
with societal expectation.
A) Protesting and arguing B) Judicial oration C) Self-deprecation
D) Monomaniacal tone.
5. Yet grant some small acknowledgement of ours” This line encapsulates, Bradstreet’s plea
for ______
A) Women’s equality B) Women’s superior writing
C) acknowledgement of her work D) to appreciate women’s work.
6. Emerson’s ‘Brahma’ is primarily influenced by ________
A) Christian transcendentalism B) paganism C) Confucianism
D) Hindu spiritual concepts.
7. In Brahma, From the lines, “Shadow and “Sunlight are the same / one to me are shame and
fame” That signifies ________
A) Cyclical Nature of life B) The Eternal nature of the world
C) the Meek shall inherit the world D) The illusion of Duality.
8. If the Red Slayer thinks he slays or it slain think he is slain
These line encapsulates _________
A) The Eternal Nature of the soul B) Non-Duality C) All is God
D) Meek shall inherit the world.
9. “And pine in vain the sacred seven”….. In these lines in Brahma, The word sacred seven
indicates __________
 A) Seven Deadly sins B) Seven Hills of God
C) The Seven Hindu Sages D) Seven stars.
10. The core message of ‘Brahma’ symbolically is _______
A) Futility of Materialism B) recitation of God
C) The Unity of all existence D) Supreme Ideology.
11. In “Birches” by Robert Frost, the bending of the trees symbolizes _______
A) The burden of Life B) Nature’s fragility
C) Childhood innocence and resilience D) Inevitability of Death.
12. The central theme of “Mending Wall” is _______________
A) The Paradox of Barriers fostering community B) repairing human illusions
C) Recognition of Eternal Truth D) Metaphor of contrastive nature.
13. In “Mending Wall” The phrase “Good fences make good neighbors is an example of ___
A) Hyperbole B) Metaphor C) paradox D) Irony.
14. “And life is too much like a pathless wood” In Birches, The phrase “Pathless wood”
represents _______
A) The challenges and confusion of Adult life B) The loss of childhood Dreams
C) Freedom from life clutches D) The boys swinging.
15. In “The Sparrow” – “The bird tapping on the window” symbolizes ______
A) The persistence of Hope B) Acknowledging the arrival
C) awakening the reality D) Missed opportunities for spiritual connections.
16. _______ genre in which Dunbar’s “The Sparrow” is described
A) Metaphor B) Irony C) Allegory D) Symbolism.
17. In “The Sparrow”, depicts such as ___________
A) Human indifference to Nature B) Futility of Materialism
C) The Sense of Alienation D) Man’s Ignorance.
18. “The free bird leaps on the back of the wind” symbolizes ___________
A) Desirous Nature B) The effortless Nature of freedom
C) Superfluous enjoyment D) The unpredictability of life.
19. Maya Angelou’s “Caged Bird” is an extended Metaphor for _____________
A) The Systematic oppressions of Marginalized groups B) Women
C) Downtrodden people D) Sinner who is against God.
20. In “Mending wall”, The word “wall” metaphorically signify _______
 A) The barriers constructed by Tradition & fear B) Slavery system
C) Racial discrimation D) Universal Harmony.
21. The Universal Theme, “The Sparrow” address _________
A) Man’s Isolation in busy world and rejecting of fleeting gifts
B) A small sparrow survives in challenges C) A Small things of great value
D) Soul is eternal.
22. “So, he opens his threat to sing”, The caged bird’s persistent echo symbolizes ____
A) A Futile cry for help B) The endurance of Hope in adversity
C) enslaved suffering D) Virtue gained in adversity.
23. In Robert Frost’s “Birches”, the imagery of Ice-storms describes ______
A) Nature’s cleanliness B) Pleasure of life
C) Human wickedness D) Life’s harsh realities.
24. In Walt Whitman’s “Out of the cradle endlessly Rocking, Imagery of Sea is symbolic
representation of _______
A) Eternal life and Rebirth B) Sea is the monster and witch
C) Sea is the foreseer and philosopher D) Universalities.
25. Whitman’s “Out of the cradle endlessly rocking” was first published as “____ in the
Saturday press, Dec 24, 1859 as a Christmas gift to Americans
A) Sea – Drift B) A word out of sea C) A child’s reminiscence
D) Death is Delicious.
26. Out of the cradle endlessly rocking was published in leave of Grass in the thir edition with
titled as _____
A) Sea Drift B) Out of the cradle endlessly rocking C) A word out of sea
D) A child’s reminiscence.
27. Out of the cradle endlessly rocking is a Lyrical poem that captures poet’s awakening to
______ and poignant memory of Nature.
A) Mysterious of life, love and death B) Soul is eternal
C) inevitability of Death D) Self.
28. In the prologue of out of the cradle endlessly rocking, the bry watching the birds in
paumanok, __________ name for long Island.
A) Latin B) French C) Indian D) North American.
29. Out of the cradle endlessly rocking, the title symbolizes _____
 A) Continuous movement of sea waves B) The bird’s death
C) Human existence D) The eternal cycle of life, love and death.
30. Out of the mocking Bird’s throat the musical shuttle, out of _____ midnight.
A) Fifth month B) Ninth month C) Eleventh month D) First month.
31. Once Paumanok,
When lilacs-scent was in the air and _____ grass was growing.
A) Ninth Month B) Fifth month C) Summer D) winter month.
32. O, darkness, O in vain!
O I am very sick and sorrowful.
These exhausted in narrated here ______
A) The boy B) Nature C) He-bird D) Inner consciousness.
33. ________ that whispers the word “Death”
A) The wind B) The Sea C) The Mocking bird D) Mother of all nature.
34. The solitary singer’s song in “Out of the cradle endlessly rocking symbolizes _____
A) Eternity B) Triumph over death C) recurrent pattern of birth-Death-rebirth
D) Lover and loss.
35. The title of Out of the cradle endlessly rocking metaphorically suggests _____
A) The permanence of love B) Inevitability of Death
C) The perpetual cycle of life, love & death D) The pursuit of personal freedom.
36. Anne Bradstreet’s “Prologue” reflects ____ in a male-dominated literary world.
A) Inability to produce great theme B) acknowledges their poor writing skill
C) Struggle as a women poet D) Women’s complex nature.
37. Anne’s street’s “Prologue” addresses the theme of ______
A) Women’s struggle and challenges B) women’s suffragism
C) Humility, creativity and gender inequality D) Aggressive Nature of women.
38. The poem, “Prologue” was set with a tone of ______
A) Judicial oration B) Narrative Calamities C) Self-deprecating
D) Revolutionary obligation.
39. To sing of wars, of captains, and of kings, of cities………… for my pen are too superior
thing’. That expresses ______
A) Humility and acknowledge her limitations
B) Such great theme, produced by women also
 C) Women in the form great heroes D) Criticism of gender bias.
40. “And poesy made Callipe’s Own child?” Here, the word Callipe is _____
A) Muse of poetry B) goddess of love C) goddess of virginity
D) Goddess of Epic.
41. “Give thyme or parsley wreath, I ask no Bays” These lines expresses ______
A) Poor quality of women’s writing
B) a garland made out of Not Well-grown plants
C) Great reward D) Highlighted appreciation.
42. This mean and Unrefined Ore of mine
Here, the poetic device is used.
A) Irony B) Simile C) Metaphor D) Synecdoc.
43. If what I do prove well, It won’t advance
They will say, It is stolen or else It was by chance
Here the poetic device is __________
A) Irony B) Simile C) Metaphor D) Personification.
44. Anne Bradstreet’s “Prologue” describes the ultimate theme of ________
A) Gender inequality in Literary Pursuits
B) Women’s struggles towards progress C) Different types of women
D) Injustice to women.
45. Anne Bradstreet Imply about women’s creative abilities are as valuable as men’s but
unrecognized due to ________
A) Critics B) Readers in appreciate C) Bias D) Worst creativity.
46. Emerson’s Brama was published in the first issue of the _________ Nov, 1857.
A) May day and other pieces B) selected poems C) Atlantic Monthly
D) Man Thinking: an Oration.
47. The Source of Brahma was taken from __________
A) Gitanjali B) American Scholar C) Vishnu Purana D) The Bible.
48. Emerson’s Brahma has the Original Title as _______
A) God is all B) Soul is the Image of Almighty C) Song of the soul
D) The soul speaks…..
49. The poem Brahma reflects Hindu Philosophy of ____________
A) worship of three Gods B) Brahma is the supreme
 C) Universal Oneness D) Idol worship.
50. _________ texts serve as Inspiration for writing the poem “Brahma” by Emerson.
A) Pagan and Celtic Mythologies B) Hebrew Bible
C) Confucian Analects D) The Bhagavad Gita and Vishnu Purana.
51. Emerson’s poem “Brahma” Ultimately describes about ________
A) Realize Brahma as Ultimate truth B) Brahma means creation
C) Creator of whole universe D) Accept Death.
52. But thou, meek lover of the good!
Find me, turn thy back on heaven.
These lines express ____________
A) Humility and Surrender B) Abode of Heaven
C) Human Sin and Idleness D) rapturous power of God.
53. The phrase, The Red Slayer, in “Brahma” Symbolizes ______
A) The warrier in the war B) The Red Sun C) Bloody Monstors
D) Kali, the Hindu Goddess of Death and transformation.
54. The phrase, “I am the doubter and doubt” express _________
A) All existence within Brahma B) The Dualistic Nature of Human consciousness
C) Human Ignorance D) God’s power.
55. Robert Frost’s Birches has original Title as ______
A) Game of Swinging B) The Joy of life
C) Swinging Birches D) Birches and swinging.
56. Birches was first published in ______________ in Aug 1915.
A) Mountain interval B) North of Boston C) A Boy’s will
D) Atlantic Monthly.
57. Robert Frost’s Birches’ is a ___________ that expores the tension between Reality verses
Imagination.
A) Contemplative poem B) Reflective poem
C) Conventional poem D) Surrealism.
58. Like girls on hands and knees / to dry in the sun.
The poetic device used here is ___________________
A) Simile B) Metaphor C) Apostrophe D) Oxymoron.
59. _____ is the central theme of “Birches”
 A) A conflict between Urban and rural life B) Imagination verse Harsh realities
C) Boy’s recollection of swinging D) The Earth is the only place to love.
60. Bend them down to stay as Ice-Storm do.
The poetic device used here is _______
A) Personification B) Hyperbole C) Simile D) Irony.
61. “I would like to get away from earth a while”
This line signifies _____
A) A longing for spiritual escape B) rejecting responsibilities
C) Will towards death D) Approaching heaven.
62. Something there is that does not love a wall
Here the word “Something” metaphorically means ______________
A) Some mischievous spirit B) Nature C) God, the creator
D) The poet, the young farmer.
63. That sends the frozen ground – swell under it here, relative pronoun “That” indicates ____
A) Metaphor of winter B) Ironically wind C) Rainy spring
D) Sunny Summer.
64. And I wonder, It I could put a notion in his head.
_______ gave him the notion of mischief.
A) Elves B) spring C) neighbor D) Nature.
65. The Line, He moves in darkness it seems to me implies ___________
A) Under the shadow of Apple & Pine tree B) Under grey moonlight’s shadow
C) Neighbor’s ignorance & Unreflective thought
D) Neighbors’ heavy darkness of grief.
66. ‘But It is not elves exactly, and I’d rather he said if himself’ ______ imply _____
A) The neighbor’s adamant to admit wall is unnecessary
B) Neighbors’ Ignorance C) Goddess makes his realize D) readily accept the truth.
67. In Death of a Salesman, “Willy Loman lives in __________
A) Austin B) Portland C) Boston D) Brooklyn.
68. __________ tells Willy Loman, “The jungle is dark, but full of Diamonds”.
A) His boss ‘Howard Wagnor B) his wealthy elder brother, Ben
C) His elder son Biff D) His wealthy neighbor, charley.
69. Willy Loman likes his sons to Adonais and Hercules due to their ____
 A) Tragic fate B) Personal Strength C) Well likeness D) Physical Beauty.
70. Lisp’d me the low and delicious word ___ creeping thence steadily up to my ears the word
____________
A) Death B) Eternity C) Immortality D) Aria of death.
71. “twittering, rising, or overhead passing, “Shine, shine, shine”.
Whitman uses the poetic device _____
A) Assonance B) Alliteration C) Imagery D) Personification.
72. “For more than once dimly down to the beach gliding”.
A) Assonance B) Alliteration C) Imagery D) Personification.
73. “Are you whispering it, and have been all the time”. You sea waves?”
A) Assonance B) Alliteration C) Imagery D) Personification.
74. “The sea whispered me”.
The poetic device here is _______________
A) Personification B) Imagery C) Assonance D) Alliteration.
75. Blanche is the Victim of _____________
In “A street car named desire”
A) hallucination B) Dream and illusionary life C) self-portrayal D) Patriarchy.
76. “I like the dark, the dark is comforting me” _ stated by _____________
A) Stella B) Blanche’s first husband of 17 years old boy C) Stanley D) Blanche.
77. “You fake!, you phony little fake” stated by _______
A) Howard B) Charley C) Biff D) Willy Loman.
78. The play Death of a Salesman begins on a ______ evening at the Loman family home in
Brooklyn
A) Monday B) Farewell party C) to mull over the Florida Idea D) Will’s first day dream.
79. Emerson says “The Priest becomes a form; the attorney a statute-book, the Mechanic a
Machine; the sailor a rope of the ship, only the _______ is the “Delegated intellect.
A) writers B) Poet C) Scholars D) Politicians.
80. Who is regarded as ‘The organ voice of America’
A) Emerson B) Thoreau C) Whitman D) Mark Twain.
81. Which work of Whitman is considered as ‘The Bible of Democracy’
A) The Grass and Leaves B) The Leaves of Grass
C) Democratic Vistas D) Drum Taps.
82. ‘Mending Wall’ is an extraction from
A) North of Boston B) A Boys will C) A witness Tree D) Further Range.
83. Whose song was sung at the inauguration of John.F.Kennedy
A) Whitman B) Robert Frost C) Emerson D) Thoreau.
84. The Theme of mending wall is
A) building a wall in the woods B) The growing of Apple Tree
C) The Misconception of the modern and ancient
D) Old farmer quauelling with the young farmer.
85. Birches was first published in
A) Mountain Interval B) The Atlantic Monthly
C) The Dramatic D) The Criterion.
86. ‘Cambridge Ladies’ is a/an
A) Ode B) Lyric C) Sonnet D) elegy.
87. The Cambridge ladies is
A) A satire on the ladies of Cambridge
B) The intellectual admiration of Cambridge ladies
C) The uncomfortable minds of cambridge ladies
D) The Beauty of the Cambridge ladies.
88. Which musical instrument is implied throughout the play ‘Death of a Salesman’
A) Piano B) Guitar C) Flute D) Riolin.
89. Willy compares his son ‘Biff’ to
A) Atlas B) Hercules C) Gabriel D) Plato.
90. Who is the nominee of Willy who got the insurance amount
A) Linda B) Biff C) Happy D) Ben.
91. The insurance amount of ‘Death of a Salesman’ is
A) Twenty Thousand pounds B) Twenty Thousand Dollars
C) Twenty Five Dollars D) Twenty nine dollars.
92. The Speeches delivered by Emerson in Europe was published as
A) Nature B) American Scholar C) Representative D) Democratic.
93. The Original title of the American Scholar is
A) Man Thinking : An Oration B) The Scholar of America
C) The thinker and writer D) The scholar and thinker.
94. The American Scholar insists upon
A) The writers to think self B) follow the Modernisation
C) influence of the Westernisation and follow it
D) Depend upon American authors.
95. The subtitle of Walden is
A) Life in the woods B) My life C) Living in forest D) Walden pond.
96. Thoreau lived in Walden Pond in a home, the property was owned by
A) Thoreau B) Emerson C) Whitman D) Frost.
97. Blanche Sold her beautiful house ____ to treat her parents.
A) Belle Reve B) Dubois Cottage C) Stella Dubois D) The Dubois Tower.
98. The noble prize Acceptance speech was delivered in the year
A) 1949 B) 1950 C) 1951 D) 1952.
99. The souls of the Cambridge ladies are
A) Unbeautiful B) Un informed C) Not alert D) Unstable.
100. Mrs.N is a typical
A) house wife B) Employee C) adulterous wife D) Common lady.
ANSWERS:
1. B) Rebirth and Renewal
2. A) Melancholy and Frustrated love
3. D) Women’s struggle as being poet in Patriarchy.
4. C) Self-deprecation
5. C) acknowledgement of her work
6. D) Hindu spiritual concepts.
7. D) The illusion of Duality.
8. A) The Eternal Nature of the soul
9. C) The Seven Hindu Sages
10. C) The Unity of all existence
11. C) Childhood innocence and resilience
12. A) The Paradox of Barriers fostering community
13. C) paradox
14. A) The challenges and confusion of Adult life
15. D) Missed opportunities for spiritual connections.
16. D) Symbolism.
17. A) Human indifference to Nature
18. B) The effortless Nature of freedom
19. A) The Systematic oppressions of Marginalized groups
20. A) The barriers constructed by Tradition & fear
21. A) Man’s Isolation in busy world and rejecting of fleeting gifts
22. B) The endurance of Hope in adversity
23. D) Life’s harsh realities.
24. A) Eternal life and Rebirth
25. C) A child’s reminiscence
26. C) A word out of sea
27. A) Mysterious of life, love and death
28. C) Indian
29. D) The eternal cycle of life, love and death.
30. B) Ninth month
31. B) Fifth month
32. C) He-bird
33. B) The Sea
34. D) Lover and loss.
35. C) The perpetual cycle of life, love & death
36. C) Struggle as a women poet
37. C) Humility, creativity and gender inequality
38. C) Self-deprecating
39. A) Humility and acknowledge her limitations
40. D) Goddess of Epic.
41. B) a garland made out of Not Well-grown plants
42. C) Metaphor
43. A) Irony
44. A) Gender inequality in Literary Pursuits
45. C) Bias
46. C) Atlantic Monthly
47. C) Vishnu Purana
48. C) Song of the soul
49. C) Universal Oneness
50. D) The Bhagavad Gita and Vishnu Purana.
51. A) Realize Brahma as Ultimate truth
52. A) Humility and Surrender
53. D) Kali, the Hindu Goddess of Death and transformation.
54. A) All existence within Brahma
55. C) Swinging Birches
56. D) Atlantic Monthly.
57. B) Reflective poem
58. A) Simile
59. B) Imagination verse Harsh realities
60. C) Simile
61. A) A longing for spiritual escape
62. B) Nature
63. A) Metaphor of winter
64. B) spring
65. C) Neighbor’s ignorance & Unreflective thought
66. A) The neighbor’s adamant to admit wall is unnecessary
67. D) Brooklyn.
68. B) his wealthy elder brother, Ben
69. C) Well likeness
70. A) Death
71. A) Assonance
72. B) Alliteration
73. C) Imagery
74. A) Personification
75. D) Patriarchy.
76. D) Blanche.
77. C) Biff
78. A) Monday
79. C) Scholars
80. C) Whitman
81. C) Democratic Vistas
82. A) North of Boston
83. B) Robert Frost
84. C) The Misconception of the modern and ancient
85. B) The Atlantic Monthly
86. C) Sonnet
87. A) A satire on the ladies of Cambridge
88. C) Flute
89. B) Hercules
90. B) Biff
91. B) Twenty Thousand Dollars
92. C) Representative
93. A) Man Thinking : An Oration
94. A) The writers to think self
95. A) Life in the woods
96. B) Emerson
97. A) Belle Reve
98. B) 1950
99. A) Unbeautiful
100. C) adulterous wife