English MCQs — Test 75

Which statement below best paraphrases what John Winthrop meant when he declared that the MBC would be as a “city upon a hill” ?

“learn by going where I have to go”. The poet learns of______________?

What does Eva’s father promise her before she dies ?

Who inherits ownership of Tom when St. Clare dies ?

Dumas, whose father was a General in the French Army, is a Mulatto; Soulie, a Quadroon. He went from New-Orleans, where, though to the eye a white man, yet, as known to have African blood in his veins, he could never have enjoyed the privileges due to a human being. A Mulatto is a person who has one white parent and one black parent; what, then, is a Quadroon ?

What statement below best sums up the literary significance of John Saffin ?

According to the myth, why must all things have an end ?

Who is the central Figure in O Nell’s The Hairy Ape_____________?

The cautious old gentleman knit his brows tenfold closer after this explanation, being sorely puzzled by the ratiocination of the syllogism; while methought the one in pepper and salt eyed him with something of a triumphant leer. At length he observed, that all this was very well, but still he thought the story a little extravagant – there were one or two points on which he had his doubts. “Faith, sir,” replied the story-teller, “as to that matter, I don’t believe one half of it myself.” This passage exemplifies_____________?

The two main characters in The Pearl are______________?