English Literature Test: Would You Pass?
15 Questions
| Total Attempts: 132
English literature is very wide and only a few know how to use all the word correctly but this takes time and a lot of reading. The quiz below is designed to test your literature skills and see where you stand among other English heads. Give it a try and share your results.
Questions and Answers
- 1.What part of speech is "purgatory", meaning "an intermediate state where souls are made fit for paradise or heaven by expiatory suffering"?
- A.
Verb
- B.
Noun
- C.
Adverb
- D.
Adjective
- 2.What part of speech is "purveyor", meaning "one who supplies"?
- A.
Adjective
- B.
Adverb
- C.
Noun
- D.
Verb
- 3.What part of speech is "pusillanimous", meaning "without spirit or bravery"?
- A.
Noun
- B.
Adverb & Adjective
- C.
Adjective
- D.
Verb
- 4.What part of speech is "pyre", meaning "a heap of combustibles arranged for burning a dead body"?
- A.
Adjective
- B.
Adverb
- C.
Verb
- D.
Noun
- 5.What part of speech is "pyromania", meaning "an insane propensity to set things on fire"?
- A.
Noun
- B.
Adjective
- C.
Verb
- D.
Adverb
- 6.What part of speech is "pyrotechnic", meaning "pertaining to fireworks or their manufacture"?
- A.
Adjective
- B.
Noun
- C.
Adverb
- D.
Verb
- 7.What part of speech is "quadrate", meaning "to divide into quarters"?
- A.
Adjective
- B.
Adverb
- C.
Noun
- D.
Verb
- 8.What part of speech is "qualification", meaning "a requisite for an employment, position, right, or privilege"?
- A.
Adverb
- B.
Noun
- C.
Adjective
- D.
Verb
- 9.What part of speech is "qualify", meaning "to endow or furnish with requisite ability, character, knowledge, skill, or possessions"?
- A.
Noun
- B.
Adjective
- C.
Verb
- D.
Adverb
- 10.What part of speech is "qualm", meaning "a fit of nausea"?
- A.
Noun
- B.
Adjective
- C.
Adverb
- D.
Verb
- 11.What part of speech is "quandary", meaning "a puzzling predicament"?
- A.
Verb
- B.
Adverb
- C.
Adjective
- D.
Noun
- 12.What part of speech is "quarrelsome", meaning "irascible"?
- A.
Noun
- B.
Adverb
- C.
Verb
- D.
Adjective
- 13.What part of speech is "quarter", meaning "one of four equal parts into which anything is or may be divided"?
- A.
Verb
- B.
Adverb
- C.
Noun
- D.
Adjective
- 14.What part of speech is "quartet", meaning "a composition for four voices or four instruments"?
- A.
Verb
- B.
Noun
- C.
Adverb
- D.
Adjective
- 15.What part of speech is "quarto", meaning "an eight-page newspaper of any size"?
- A.
Adjective
- B.
Noun
- C.
Verb
- D.
Adverb
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