English Literature Quiz
18 Questions
| Total Attempts: 135
How Much do you know about English Literature?
Questions and Answers
- 1.Yenta is a yiddish term meaning what?
- A.
Opium Residue
- B.
Meddler
- C.
Chinese Feminine Principle
- D.
Japanese Coin
- 2.Which one of these words means margarine?
- A.
Oleo
- B.
Olea
- C.
Olio
- D.
Olla
- 3.What part of speech is "phonetic", meaning "representing articulate sounds or speech"?
- A.
Verb
- B.
Adverb
- C.
Adjective
- D.
Noun
- 4.What part of speech is "phonology", meaning "the science of human vocal sounds"?
- A.
Adverb
- B.
Noun
- C.
Adjective
- D.
Verb
- 5.What part of speech is "phosphorescence", meaning "the property of emitting light"?
- A.
Noun
- B.
Adjective
- C.
Verb
- D.
Adverb
- 6.What part of speech is "photometer", meaning "any instrument for measuring the intensity of light or comparing the intensity of two lights"?
- A.
Adverb
- B.
Noun
- C.
Adjective
- D.
Verb
- 7.What part of speech is "physicist", meaning "a specialist in the science that treats of the phenomena associated with matter and energy"?
- A.
Adverb
- B.
Adjective
- C.
Noun
- D.
Verb
- 8.What part of speech is "physiocracy", meaning "the doctrine that land and its products are the only true wealth"?
- A.
Noun
- B.
Adverb
- C.
Verb
- D.
Adjective
- 9.What part of speech is "physiology", meaning "the science of organic functions"?
- A.
Adverb
- B.
Verb
- C.
Noun
- D.
Adjective
- 10.What part of speech is "physique", meaning "the physical structure or organization of a person"?
- A.
Adverb
- B.
Verb
- C.
Adjective
- D.
Noun
- 11.What part of speech is "picayune", meaning "of small value"?
- A.
Verb
- B.
Noun
- C.
Adverb
- D.
Adjective
- 12.What part of speech is "piccolo", meaning "a small flute"?
- A.
Adverb
- B.
Adjective
- C.
Noun
- D.
Verb
- 13.What part of speech is "piece", meaning "a loose or separated part, as distinguished from the whole or the mass"?
- A.
Adjective
- B.
Noun
- C.
Adverb
- D.
Verb
- 14.What part of speech is "pillory", meaning "a wooden framework in which an offender is fastened to boards and is exposed to public scorn"?
- A.
Adverb & Adjective
- B.
Noun
- C.
Verb
- D.
Adjective
- 15.What part of speech is "pinchers", meaning "an instrument having two jaws working on a pivot"?
- A.
Verb
- B.
Noun
- C.
Adverb
- D.
Adjective
- 16.What part of speech is "pinnacle", meaning "a high or topmost point, as a mountain-peak"?
- A.
Noun
- B.
Adverb & Adjective
- C.
Verb
- D.
Adjective
- 17.What part of speech is "pioneer", meaning "one among the first to explore a country"?
- A.
Adverb
- B.
Adjective
- C.
Verb
- D.
Noun
- 18.What part of speech is "pique", meaning "to excite a slight degree of anger in"?
- A.
Adjective
- B.
Adverb & Adjective
- C.
Noun
- D.
Verb
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