Multiple Choice Questions

English Literature & Linguistics

Q: Sackville's Gorboduc treats of an episode in
A) National History
B) Philosophy
C) Witchcraft
D) Politics
Q: The miracle plays were well establised by
A) 16th century
B) 15th century
C) 17th century
D) 18th century
Q: The york collections consists of
A) 40 plays
B) 42 plays
C) 35 plays
D) 48 plays
Q: Who completed Marlowe's Hero and Leander?
A) Shakespeare
B) Chapman
C) Ben Johnson
D) Heywood
Q: Tamburlain the Great was first produced in
A) 1587-88
B) 1560-61
C) 1554-55
D) 1540-41
Q: Tamburlain is the perfect illustration of the view maintained in
A) Hobbes' Leviathan
B) Milton's Paradise Lost
C) Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy
D) Marlowe's Tamburlain
Q: "Marlowe's mighty lines" first came into Elizabethan drama with
A) Tamburlain
B) Edward II
C) Dr. Faustus
D) None of these
Q: The most celebrated and the most successful of Marlowe's character's speech was by
A) Dr. Faustus
B) Edward II
C) Gaveston
D) Helen of Troy
Q: Marlowe's The Jew of Malta is a dramatic presentation of
A) A king
B) Edward II
C) A scholar
D) Machiavellian Man
Q: The Arraignment of Paris contains an elaborate tribute to the
A) Queen Elizabeth
B) Charles I
C) James I
D) James II
Q: The most popular of Kyd's plays is
A) Cornelia
B) Jeronimo
C) The Spanish Tragedy
D) Solyman and Perseda
Q: Thomas Kyd is popularly known for his adherence to the
A) Romantic School
B) Senecan School
C) Medieval School
D) Primitive School
Q: Nashe's The Unfortunate Traveller is the first Elizabethan
A) Novel
B) Romance
C) Tragedy
D) Comedy
Q: The Arraignment of Paris, Edward I, The Battle of Alcazar and The Old Wives Tale are authored by
A) Thomas Kyd
B) Thomas Nash
C) John Lyly
D) George Peele
Q: David and Fair Bethsheba was written by George Peele in
A) 1590
B) 1595
C) 1596
D) 1599
Q: Which work of Robert Greene is best known for its early reference to Shakespeare
A) Pandosto
B) Menaphon
C) Groatsworth of Wit Boughth with a million of Repentance
D) None of these
Q: Greene's Pandosto supplied plot to Shakespeare's
A) The Tempest
B) The Winter's Tale
C) King Lear
D) Pericles
Q: The most prolific writer of interludes, John Heywood was a __ in the court of Henry VIII
A) Jester
B) Musician
C) Singer
D) Poet
Q: To which of these language groups does English belong?
A) Baltic
B) Romance
C) Germanic
D) Slavonic
Q: What is defined as the "study of sentence structure'
A) Morphology
B) Semantics
C) Phonology
D) Syntax
Q: The sounds of a language change over time. English spelling does not always reflect this change: how was the "gh" in "night" originally pronounced?
A) Like German "ch" in "ich" but voiced
B) Like English "ch" in "church"
C) Like English "y" in "yellow"
D) Like German "ch" in "ich"
Q: To which of these people, language is a means to interpret human experience?
A) Anthropologist
B) Sociologist
C) Philosopher
D) Students of literature
Q: Which of these words are based on the phenomena, "Onomatopoeia"
A) Cuckoo
B) Book
C) Door
D) Blackboard
Q: Which of these is not a type of linguistics?
A) Historical
B) Personal
C) Comparative
D) Synchronic
Q: Which of these finds out how a certain set of people use a language at a given time?
A) Diachronic Linguistics
B) Comparative Linguistics
C) Synchronic Linguistics
D) Historical Linguistics
Q: Which of these terms refers to the study of speech organs of a given language and their function within the sound system of that language?
A) Phonetics
B) Phonology
C) Syntax
D) Morphology
Q: Which of these is the study of meaning of words, and the development of the meaning of words?
A) Morphemics
B) Phonetics
C) Semantics
D) Syntax
Q: When the meaning of one form is included in another, the relationship between them is described as
A) Antonmy
B) Synonmy
C) Hyponymy
D) Polyseny
Q: __ is the discipline where the methodological perspectives of both linguistics and sociology converges:
A) Linguistics of sociology
B) Socio-linguistics
C) Sociology of linguistics
D) None of these
Q: Which among the following is not an aim of language
A) To study the nature of language
B) To establish a theory of language
C) To propound stories of the origin of language
D) To describe a language and all languages
Q: The older term used to designate the study of language is
A) Philology
B) Haplology
C) Phonology
D) Semiology
Q: The study of elementary speech sounds is called
A) Phonology
B) Morphology
C) Syntax
D) Semantics
Q: A person who can use two languages is called
A) Biolingual
B) Bilingual
C) Duo-lingual
D) Duo-langual
Q: __ is the study of how the mentally represented grammar of the language is employed in the production and comprehension of speech:
A) Socio-linguistics
B) Psycho-linguistics
C) Neuron-linguistics
D) Physio-linguistics
Q: Sounds Articulated by two lips are called
A) Dental
B) Bilabial
C) Labio-dental
D) Alveolar
Q: Sounds articulated by the lower lip against the upper teeth are called
A) Dental
B) Bilabial
C) Labio-dental
D) Alveolar
Q: Sounds articulated by the tip of the tongue against the upper teeth are called
A) Dental
B) Labio-dental
C) Bilabial
D) Alveolar
Q: Sounds articulated with the tip of the tongue or the blade of the tongue against the teeth ridge are called
A) Dental
B) Bilabial
C) Labio-dental
D) Alveolar
Q: __ are produced involving the tip the tongue and the back part of the teeth ridge
A) Post-alveolar
B) Palate-alveolar
C) Palatal
D) Velar
Q: __ are articulated by raising the back of the tongue towards the soft palate
A) Post-alveolar
B) Palate-alveolar
C) Palatal
D) Velar
Q: __ are sounds articulated in the glottis
A) Glottal
B) Velar
C) Palatal
D) None of these
Q: /p/, /b/, /m/, and /w/ are __
A) Bilabial
B) Dental
C) Velar
D) Glottal
Q: /f/ and /v/ are __
A) Dental
B) Labio-dental
C) Bilabial
D) Alveolar
Q: /t/, /d/, /n/, /l/, /s/ are __
A) Alveolar
B) Post-alveolar,
C) Palatal
D) Dental
Q: The initial consonant in "young" is a __ sound
A) Palatal
B) Velar
C) Dental
D) Glottal
Q: /k/, /g/ are examoles for __ sounds
A) Velar
B) Glottal
C) Palatal
D) Bilabial
Q: /h/ in the word "he" is a __ sound
A) Velar
B) Glottal
C) Palatal
D) Alveolar
Q: /p/, /b/, /t/, /d/, /k/, and /g/ are examples for __
A) Plosives
B) Affricates
C) Fricatives
D) Trill
Q: The intial sound in 'chair' and 'jam' are examples for __
A) Plosives
B) Affricates
C) Fricatives
D) Trill
Q: /s/, /z/ are cakked
A) Plosives
B) Affricates
C) Fricatives
D) Trill

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