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This set of Reading Prose Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Reading Prose Set 12

Q1 | Biography written with the permission, cooperation, and, at times, participation of asubject or a subject's heirs is called
  • Secular autobiography
  • Spiritual autobiography
  • Legacy writing
  • Authorized biography
Q2 | ‘Parallel Lives’ was written by
  • Plutarch
  • Goethe
  • Montaigne
  • Dryden
Q3 | ……………is the source of Shakespeare’s Roman plays
  • Parallel Lives
  • The Invisible Man
  • The Prelude
  • On the Road
Q4 | The record of the lives of Christian saints based on legends rather than on facts is called
  • Secular autobiography
  • spiritual autobiography
  • hagiographoies
  • none of these
Q5 | ‘Le Morte d’Arthur’ was written by
  • John Henry Newman
  • Goethe
  • Montaigne
  • Thomas Malory
Q6 | Isaac Walton wrote the short biographies of Donne and Herbert in his
  • Lives
  • Parallel Lives
  • The Prelude
  • On the Road
Q7 | Who is referred to as ‘the father of English essays’
  • Bacon
  • Montaigne
  • Stevenson
  • none of these
Q8 | The presentation of the initial situation of a fiction is called....
  • exposition
  • climax
  • resolution
  • none of these
Q9 | The technique used to provide clues regarding what might occur later in the story is.....
  • foreshadowing
  • flash back
  • resolution
  • none of these
Q10 | Flash back is also known as......
  • foreshadowing
  • linear plot analysis
  • Analepsis
  • none of these
Q11 | The technique that takes the narrative back in time is called......
  • flash back
  • flash forward
  • forshadowing
  • none of these
Q12 | ………..reveals events that will occur in the future
  • flash back
  • flash forward
  • foreshadowing
  • none of these
Q13 | A flash back to an earlier point in the narrative is called..........
  • flash back
  • flash forward
  • Internal Analepsis
  • external Analepsis
Q14 | External analepsis is a …... to before the narrative started.
  • flash back
  • flash forward
  • foreshadowing
  • none of these
Q15 | ….....in a fiction leads to climax
  • rising action
  • Climax
  • Exposition
  • falling Action
Q16 | …..... is a phase of a fiction, where the story is about to settle down.
  • falling action
  • rising action
  • Climax
  • Exposition
Q17 | A typical character is referred to as.......
  • Flat
  • round cahracter
  • protagonist
  • none of these
Q18 | An individualised character is referred to as …...
  • Flat
  • round character
  • protagonist
  • none of these
Q19 | A character whose behaviour illuminates the personality of the protagonist is.......
  • Foil
  • round character
  • protagonist
  • none of these
Q20 | When a text is narrated through an external narrator, it is referred to as.....
  • omniscient point of view
  • participating figure
  • second person narration
  • none of these
Q21 | In first person narrative the events are narrated by.......
  • participating figure
  • omniscient point of view
  • second person narration
  • none of these
Q22 | A context beyond the immediate surroundings of the story in the fiction is called.....
  • Milieu
  • country
  • setting
  • none of these
Q23 | …..... is a concise form of prose fiction.
  • short story
  • essay
  • article
  • none of these
Q24 | …..... can be considered as a precursor of short story.
  • fairy tales
  • novel
  • epic
  • none of these
Q25 | A narrative frame within which one or more of the characters proceed to tell a series ofshort narratives is called....
  • frame story
  • novel
  • essay
  • novella