50 MCQs on Short Story (with Answers & Explanations)
1.
Who wrote The Gift of the Magi?
a) Edgar Allan Poe
b) O. Henry
c) Maupassant
d) Chekhov
Answer: b) O. Henry
Explanation: Known for surprise endings.
2.
The central theme of The Gift of the Magi is:
a) Wealth
b) Sacrifice and love
c) Revenge
d) War
Answer: b) Sacrifice and love
3.
Who is considered the father of the modern short story?
a) Poe
b) Shakespeare
c) Dickens
d) Hardy
Answer: a) Poe
Explanation: Edgar Allan Poe formulated short story theory.
4.
Poe emphasized:
a) Length
b) Unity of effect
c) Dialogue
d) Plot twists only
Answer: b) Unity of effect
5.
Who wrote The Tell-Tale Heart?
a) Poe
b) Hawthorne
c) James
d) Hemingway
Answer: a) Poe
6.
The narrator in The Tell-Tale Heart is:
a) Reliable
b) Unreliable
c) Objective
d) Omniscient
Answer: b) Unreliable
7.
Who wrote The Necklace?
a) Maupassant
b) Chekhov
c) Poe
d) James
Answer: a) Maupassant
8.
“The Necklace” ends with:
a) Joy
b) Irony
c) Revenge
d) Romance
Answer: b) Irony
9.
Who wrote The Lady with the Dog?
a) Tolstoy
b) Chekhov
c) Dostoevsky
d) Gorky
Answer: b) Chekhov
10.
Chekhov’s stories are known for:
a) Twist endings
b) Open endings
c) Fantasy
d) Epic narration
Answer: b) Open endings
11.
Who wrote Araby?
a) Joyce
b) Woolf
c) Lawrence
d) Eliot
Answer: a) Joyce
12.
“Araby” is part of:
a) Ulysses
b) Dubliners
c) Portrait
d) Finnegans Wake
Answer: b) Dubliners
13.
The theme of “Araby” is:
a) War
b) Disillusionment
c) Comedy
d) Religion
Answer: b) Disillusionment
14.
Who wrote The Dead?
a) Joyce
b) Yeats
c) Eliot
d) Lawrence
Answer: a) Joyce
15.
“The Dead” deals with:
a) Romance
b) Epiphany
c) War
d) Comedy
Answer: b) Epiphany
16.
Who popularized the concept of “epiphany”?
a) Joyce
b) Eliot
c) Woolf
d) Lawrence
Answer: a) Joyce
17.
Who wrote Hills Like White Elephants?
a) Hemingway
b) Faulkner
c) Fitzgerald
d) Steinbeck
Answer: a) Hemingway
18.
Hemingway’s style is known as:
a) Stream of consciousness
b) Iceberg theory
c) Symbolism
d) Realism
Answer: b) Iceberg theory
19.
Who wrote A Rose for Emily?
a) Faulkner
b) Hemingway
c) Fitzgerald
d) Twain
Answer: a) Faulkner
20.
The narration of “A Rose for Emily” is:
a) Linear
b) Non-linear
c) Dramatic
d) Objective
Answer: b) Non-linear
21.
Who wrote The Lottery?
a) Jackson
b) Plath
c) Morrison
d) Atwood
Answer: a) Jackson
22.
“The Lottery” deals with:
a) Tradition and violence
b) Love
c) War
d) Wealth
Answer: a) Tradition and violence
23.
Who wrote Interpreter of Maladies?
a) Lahiri
b) Rushdie
c) Roy
d) Desai
Answer: a) Lahiri
24.
This work won:
a) Booker Prize
b) Pulitzer Prize
c) Nobel Prize
d) Sahitya Akademi
Answer: b) Pulitzer Prize
25.
Who wrote Kabuliwala?
a) Tagore
b) Premchand
c) Narayan
d) Anand
Answer: a) Tagore
26.
“Kabuliwala” explores:
a) War
b) Human relationships
c) Politics
d) Religion
Answer: b) Human relationships
27.
Who wrote The Postmaster?
a) Tagore
b) Premchand
c) Narayan
d) Anand
Answer: a) Tagore
28.
Which Indian writer wrote short stories in English?
a) R.K. Narayan
b) Kalidasa
c) Tulsidas
d) Valmiki
Answer: a) Narayan
29.
Who wrote An Astrologer’s Day?
a) Narayan
b) Anand
c) Rao
d) Rushdie
Answer: a) Narayan
30.
This story ends with:
a) Comedy
b) Twist
c) Tragedy
d) Romance
Answer: b) Twist
31.
Who wrote The Open Window?
a) Saki
b) Wilde
c) Shaw
d) Lawrence
Answer: a) Saki
32.
“The Open Window” is known for:
a) Tragedy
b) Humor and irony
c) War
d) Epic style
Answer: b) Humor and irony
33.
Who wrote The Fly?
a) Mansfield
b) Woolf
c) Eliot
d) Plath
Answer: a) Mansfield
34.
Mansfield is associated with:
a) Realism
b) Modernism
c) Romanticism
d) Classicism
Answer: b) Modernism
35.
Who wrote The Garden Party?
a) Mansfield
b) Woolf
c) Joyce
d) Eliot
Answer: a) Mansfield
36.
“The Garden Party” deals with:
a) Class consciousness
b) War
c) Love
d) Religion
Answer: a) Class consciousness
37.
Who wrote The Yellow Wallpaper?
a) Gilman
b) Woolf
c) Plath
d) Atwood
Answer: a) Gilman
38.
This story deals with:
a) Feminism and mental health
b) War
c) Comedy
d) Religion
Answer: a) Feminism and mental health
39.
Who wrote The Mark on the Wall?
a) Woolf
b) Mansfield
c) Joyce
d) Eliot
Answer: a) Woolf
40.
This story uses:
a) Stream of consciousness
b) Realism
c) Naturalism
d) Epic style
Answer: a) Stream of consciousness
41.
Who wrote The Rocking-Horse Winner?
a) Lawrence
b) Joyce
c) Eliot
d) Hardy
Answer: a) Lawrence
42.
The story deals with:
a) Luck and greed
b) War
c) Love
d) Religion
Answer: a) Luck and greed
43.
Who wrote The Snows of Kilimanjaro?
a) Hemingway
b) Faulkner
c) Fitzgerald
d) Steinbeck
Answer: a) Hemingway
44.
Flashback technique is used in:
a) Linear narrative
b) Non-linear narrative
c) Drama
d) Poetry
Answer: b) Non-linear narrative
45.
A short story typically focuses on:
a) Multiple plots
b) Single effect
c) Epic scale
d) Long narration
Answer: b) Single effect
46.
Which element is essential in short stories?
a) Length
b) Plot unity
c) Verse
d) Chorus
Answer: b) Plot unity
47.
Who wrote Bartleby the Scrivener?
a) Melville
b) Hawthorne
c) Poe
d) James
Answer: a) Melville
48.
“I would prefer not to” is from:
a) Bartleby
b) Araby
c) Lottery
d) Necklace
Answer: a) Bartleby
49.
Short stories usually have:
a) Many subplots
b) Few characters
c) Epic narration
d) Chorus
Answer: b) Few characters
50.
The climax in a short story is:
a) Beginning
b) Turning point
c) Ending
d) Theme
Answer: b) Turning point
