MCQ Bank
Mansfield frequently uses _______________and onomatopoeia to animate her prose.
- A) Simile
- B) Metaphor
- C) Personification
- D) Imagery
What narrative style has been opted to move the story in ‘The Garden Party’?
- A) Innocent eye
- B) First person
- C) Omniscient
- D) Third person
Katherine Mansfield was born in _______.
- A) 1885
- B) 1883
- C) 1888
- D) 1894
What does ‘the fur coat’ of Miss Brill symbolize?
- A) Urge for a company
- B) All of the above
- C) Loneliness
- D) Seclusion
Who defined poetry as, "Poetry is at bottom a criticism of life”?
- A) Yeats
- B) Arnold
- C) Shelley
- D) Keats
Choose the correct option.
The symbol of ‘the road down the hill’ in ‘The Garden Party’ can best be related to:
- A) Mrs. Sheridans’ journey towards class consciousness
- B) Laura’s journey towards maturity
- C) The carter’s journey after death
- D) None of the above
The central theme of "The Garden Party" is the contrast between _________
- A) Life and death
- B) Light and darkness
- C) Hate and Love
- D) Friend and foe
The repetition of a particular sound in the first syllables of a series of words or phrases is called:
- A) Assonance
- B) Alliteration
- C) Resonance
- D) Assimilation
One of the major contemporaries of Katherine Mansfield was ___________.
- A) Virginia Woolf
- B) Edmund Spencer
- C) Richard Crashaw
- D) Henry Fielding
Choose the correct option.
______ is based on the arrangement of poetic feet into lines.
- A) Meter
- B) Alliteration
- C) Rhyme
- D) Rhythm
Choose the correct option.
Karen is rich; ___, her cousin Kate is poor.
- A) therefore
- B) however
- C) moreover
- D) otherwise
The use of a word to imitate the sound it describes is ____________
- A) Alliteration
- B) Hyperbole
- C) Onomatopoeia
- D) Imagery
Choose the correct option.
The earliest Anglo-Saxon poetry was composed in the ___________.
- A) 14th Century
- B) 16th Century
- C) 15th Century
- D) 17th Century
Choose the correct option.
It is snowing today __ there are no buses and I can't come to school.
- A) whereas
- B) because
- C) so
- D) but
In the ---------------the mainstream of the poetry moved to Ireland with the emergence of ‘Seamus Heaney’, ‘Paul Muldoon’, ‘Tom Paulin’ and others.
- A) 1970s
- B) 1980s
- C) 1950s
- D) 1960s
Shakespeare was the main literary figure of the _______ century.
- A) 14th
- B) 16th
- C) 17th
- D) 15th
“In a German Pension”, “Bliss and Other Stories” are written by the writer -----------.
- A) Oscar Wilde
- B) Guy de Maupassant
- C) Mark Twain
- D) Katherine Mansfield
The time of the Anglo Norman conquest was ___________.
- A) 1113
- B) 1114
- C) 1111
- D) 1112
What do the ‘lilies’ in the short story ‘The Garden Party’ symbolize?
- A) Children
- B) Purity
- C) Sheridan estate
- D) All of the above
Choose the correct option.
It is Sunday today. __________ the school is closed.
- A) That's why
- B) Whereas
- C) But
- D) Because