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JKPSC Assistant Professor (English Literature) · English Literature · 90 practice questions with answers and explanations: 9 Easy, 81 Medium, 0 Hard.

Sample questions

Sample Easy question 1

'Walden' is by:

  1. Melville
  2. Emerson
  3. Henry David Thoreau
  4. Whitman
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Answer: C. Published in 1854.

Sample Easy question 2

'Beloved' (1987) is by:

  1. Zora Neale Hurston
  2. Toni Morrison
  3. Alice Walker
  4. Maya Angelou
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Answer: B. It won the Pulitzer Prize.

Sample Easy question 3

The 'Beat Generation' poem 'Howl' is by:

  1. Allen Ginsberg
  2. Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  3. Jack Kerouac
  4. William Burroughs
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Answer: A. Published in 1956.

Sample Medium question 4

The poem 'Howl' (1956) was written by:

  1. Allen Ginsberg
  2. Gary Snyder
  3. Jack Kerouac
  4. Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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Answer: A. It is a Beat generation work.

Sample Medium question 5

The novel 'The Scarlet Letter' (1850) is by:

  1. Nathaniel Hawthorne
  2. Henry James
  3. Herman Melville
  4. Mark Twain
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Answer: A. It is set in Puritan Boston.

Sample Medium question 6

The heroine of 'The Scarlet Letter' is:

  1. Daisy Buchanan
  2. Isabel Archer
  3. Hester Prynne
  4. Edna Pontellier
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Answer: C. She wears the letter A.

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