BASIC MCQS OF FROM CHAPTER ONE




🔹 MCQs on Applied and Pure Literature

  1. What distinguishes applied literature from pure literature?
    A) Use of poetic devices
    B) Focus on imaginary experiences
    ✅ C) It serves an external purpose beyond expression
    D) It is always fictional


  1. Which of the following is an example of applied literature?
    A) Shakespeare’s Hamlet
    B) Keats’ Ode to a Nightingale
    ✅ C) Darwin’s The Origin of Species
    D) Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse


  1. Pure literature is written:
    A) To promote scientific ideas
    ✅ B) For the sake of expression only
    C) To teach moral lessons
    D) For academic purposes


🔹 MCQs on Expression and Experience

  1. According to the passage, what is the fundamental thing in literature?
    ✅ A) Expression
    B) Style
    C) Facts
    D) Purpose


  1. What forms the substance of literature?
    A) History
    ✅ B) Experience
    C) Dialogue
    D) Drama


  1. In pure literature, experience should be:
    A) Turned into moral teachings
    ✅ B) Enjoyable merely by being expressed
    C) Rewritten to suit the reader
    D) Based only on facts


🔹 MCQs on Communication and Imagination

  1. For literature to be effective, the writer must:
    A) Use only factual events
    B) Focus on rhyme schemes
    ✅ C) Transplant his experience into the reader’s mind
    D) Avoid using imagination


  1. The ability to transform experience and share it through language is made possible by:
    A) Logic
    B) Historical facts
    ✅ C) Imagination
    D) Syntax


  1. What must the writer arouse in the reader to communicate his experience?
    A) Sympathy
    B) Curiosity
    ✅ C) Imagination
    D) Pity


🔹 MCQs on Language and Literary Skill

  1. Which of the following is true about symbolic language in literature?
    A) It only works in poetry
    B) It must be literal
    ✅ C) It helps convey the writer’s experience
    D) It avoids imagination


  1. What distinguishes a literary artist from others?
    A) Political ideas
    ✅ B) Sense of language
    C) Long vocabulary lists
    D) Biographical details


  1. Why is the role of imagination important in literature?
    A) It helps explain scientific facts
    ✅ B) It recreates experience for the reader
    C) It avoids deep emotions
    D) It translates facts into data



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