Deck 11: Autobiography, Essays, and Biographies

Question 1

A continuous narrative of a person's life's major or interesting events written by himself for publication is

A)biography
B)memoir
C)autobiography
D)diary

Answer 1

autobiography

Question 2

Autobiographies are by nature…..

A)subjective
B)objective
C)scientific
D)philosophical

Answer 2

subjective

Question 3

A prose composition with a focused subject of discussion is

A)essay
B)poem
C)fiction
D)travelogue

Answer 3

essay

Question 4

The word 'essay' is derived from

A)essayer
B)essayist
C)essays
D)none of these

Question 5

The writer who first defined his works as essays was

A)Bacon
B)Montaigne
C)Stevenson
D)none of these

Question 6

The first work in English that described itself as essays was published by

A)Bacon
B)Montaigne
C)Stevenson
D)none of these

Question 7

Sensory details are used in

A)cause and effect essays
B)Descriptive essays
C)narrative essays
D)dialectic essays

Question 8

…….form of essay is usually used in philosophy

A)cause and effect essays
B)Descriptive essays
C)narrative essays
D)dialectic essays

Question 9

The art of public speaking was first developed by…………..

A)Greeks
B)Germans
C)Romans
D)none of these

Question 10

The common fear of public speaking is called

A)hydrophobia
B)Glossophobia
C)somnambulism
D)none of these

Question 11

The written history of a person's life written by someone else is called

A)Biography
B)Autobiography
C)Memoir
D)none of these

Question 12

Q written history of a person's life composed by himself in which the emphasis is on one particular phase or on the people and events is

A)Memoir
B)diary
C)journal
D)biography

Question 13

A journal is

A)Day-to-day record of a person's life
B)life history composed b himself
C)life history composed by someone else
D)none of these

Question 14

Autobiographies were entitled as …… in antiquity

A)Apologia
B)Confession
C)biography
D)none of these

Question 15

'Apologia Pro Vista Sua' is the autobiography of………

A)John Henry Newman
B)Goethe
C)Montaigne
D)St .Augustine

Question 16

Which of the following can be considered as the first fully developed autobiography

A)Confessions
B)The invisible man
C)Apologia Pro Vista Sua
D)none of these

Question 17

Confessions is the autobiography of………….

A)St. Augustine
B)Ellison
C)St.Francis
D)St. Joseph

Question 18

Confessions is a……… autobiography

A)Spiritual
B)secular
C)Scientific
D)philosophical

Question 19

According to Benevento Cellini, one should write his autobiography after he is…….years old

A)30
B)40
C)50
D)60

Question 20

A written history of a person's life in which he presents a crisis and its resolution in his discovery of his identity as an artist or as a writer is

A)Secular autobiography
B)spiritual autobiography
C)Philosophical autobiography
D)none of these

Question 21

Wordsworth's autobiography in verse is called

A)Prelude
B)daffodils
C)Immortality ode
D)none of these

Question 22

Ralph Ellison's autobiography is titled ……………

A)The Invisible Man
B)The Prelude
C)On the Road
D)none of these

Question 23

Daniel Defoe's 'Moll Flanders' can be considered as a

A)Secular autobiography
B)spiritual autobiography
C)Philosophical autobiography
D)fictional autobiography

Question 24

An in-depth form of biographical coverage is called…………..

A)Memoir
B)diary
C)Legacy writing
D)biography

Question 25

Who defined biography as 'the history of particular men's lives'

A)John Henry Newman
B)Goethe
C)Montaigne
D)Dryden