Reading Prose Set 11

Bachelor of Arts in English (BA English)

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This set of Reading Prose Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Reading Prose Set 11

Q1 | A continuous narrative of a person’s life’s major or interesting events written by himselffor publication is
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • diary
Answer: autobiography
Q2 | Autobiographies are by nature…..
  • subjective
  • objective
  • scientific
  • philosophical
Answer: subjective
Q3 | A prose composition with a focused subject of discussion is
  • essay
  • poem
  • fiction
  • travelogue
Answer: essay
Q4 | The word ‘essay’ is derived from
  • essayer
  • essayist
  • essays
  • none of these
Answer: essayer
Q5 | The writer who first defined his works as essays was
  • Bacon
  • Montaigne
  • Stevenson
  • none of these
Answer: Montaigne
Q6 | The first work in English that described itself as essays was published by
  • Bacon
  • Montaigne
  • Stevenson
  • none of these
Answer: Bacon
Q7 | Sensory details are used in
  • cause and effect essays
  • Descriptive essays
  • narrative essays
  • dialectic essays
Answer: Descriptive essays
Q8 | …….form of essay is usually used in philosophy
  • cause and effect essays
  • Descriptive essays
  • narrative essays
  • dialectic essays
Answer: dialectic essays
Q9 | The art of public speaking was first developed by…………..
  • Greeks
  • Germans
  • Romans
  • none of these
Answer: Greeks
Q10 | The common fear of public speaking is called
  • hydrophobia
  • Glossophobia
  • somnambulism
  • none of these
Answer: Glossophobia
Q11 | The written history of a person’s life written by someone else is called
  • Biography
  • Autobiography
  • Memoir
  • none of these
Answer: Biography
Q12 | Q written history of a person’s life composed by himself in which the emphasis is onone particular phase or on the people and events is
  • Memoir
  • diary
  • journal
  • biography
Answer: Memoir
Q13 | A journal is
  • Day-to-day record of a person’s life
  • life history composed b himself
  • life history composed by someone else
  • none of these
Answer: Day-to-day record of a person’s life
Q14 | Autobiographies were entitled as …… in antiquity
  • Apologia
  • Confession
  • biography
  • none of these
Answer: Apologia
Q15 | ‘Apologia Pro Vista Sua’ is the autobiography of………
  • John Henry Newman
  • Goethe
  • Montaigne
  • St .Augustine
Answer: John Henry Newman
Q16 | Which of the following can be considered as the first fully developed autobiography
  • Confessions
  • The invisible man
  • Apologia Pro Vista Sua
  • none of these
Answer: Confessions
Q17 | Confessions is the autobiography of………….
  • St. Augustine
  • Ellison
  • St.Francis
  • St. Joseph
Answer: St. Augustine
Q18 | Confessions is a……… autobiography
  • Spiritual
  • secular
  • Scientific
  • philosophical
Answer: Spiritual
Q19 | According to Benevento Cellini, one should write his autobiography after he is…….yearsold
  • 30
  • 40
  • 50
  • 60
Answer: 40
Q20 | A written history of a person’s life in which he presents a crisis and its resolution in hisdiscovery of his identity as an artist or as a writer is
  • Secular autobiography
  • spiritual autobiography
  • Philosophical autobiography
  • none of these
Answer: Secular autobiography
Q21 | Wordsworth’s autobiography in verse is called
  • Prelude
  • daffodils
  • Immortality ode
  • none of these
Answer: Prelude
Q22 | Ralph Ellison’s autobiography is titled ……………
  • The Invisible Man
  • The Prelude
  • On the Road
  • none of these
Answer: The Invisible Man
Q23 | Daniel Defoe’s ‘Moll Flanders’ can be considered as a
  • Secular autobiography
  • spiritual autobiography
  • Philosophical autobiography
  • fictional autobiography
Answer: fictional autobiography
Q24 | An in-depth form of biographical coverage is called…………..
  • Memoir
  • diary
  • Legacy writing
  • biography
Answer: Legacy writing
Q25 | Who defined biography as ‘the history of particular men’s lives’
  • John Henry Newman
  • Goethe
  • Montaigne
  • Dryden
Answer: Dryden
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