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This section includes 657 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your Testing Subject knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
| 1. |
Who, among the following, is not connected with the Oxford Movement ? |
| A. | Robert Browning |
| B. | John Keble |
| C. | E.B. Pusey |
| D. | J. H. Newman |
| Answer» D. J. H. Newman | |
| 2. |
Who, among the following, is not the second generation of British Romantics ? |
| A. | Keats |
| B. | Wordsworth |
| C. | Shelley |
| D. | Byron |
| Answer» C. Shelley | |
| 3. |
Who, among the following writers, was not educated at Christ’s Hospital School, London ? |
| A. | Charles Lamb |
| B. | William Wordsworth |
| C. | Leigh Hunt |
| D. | S. T. Coleridge |
| Answer» B. William Wordsworth | |
| 4. |
Who born in 1422 ? |
| A. | William Caxton |
| B. | Robert Henry |
| C. | John Lyly |
| D. | Thomas more |
| Answer» B. Robert Henry | |
| 5. |
Who called Shelley ‘a beautiful and ineffectual angel beating in the void his luminous wings in vain’ ? |
| A. | Walter Pater |
| B. | A. C. Swinburne |
| C. | Matthew Arnold |
| D. | T. S. Eliot |
| Answer» D. T. S. Eliot | |
| 6. |
Who called ‘The Waste Land ‘a music of ideas’ ? |
| A. | Allen Tate |
| B. | J.C Ransom |
| C. | I.A Richards |
| D. | F. R Leavis |
| Answer» B. J.C Ransom | |
| 7. |
Who calls poetry “the breadth and finer spirit of all knowledge” ? |
| A. | Wordsworth |
| B. | Shelley |
| C. | Keats |
| D. | Coleridge |
| Answer» B. Shelley | |
| 8. |
Who coined the phrase ‘Egotistical Sublime’ ? |
| A. | William Wordsworth |
| B. | P.B Shelley |
| C. | S. T. Coleridge |
| D. | John Keats |
| Answer» E. | |
| 9. |
Who declared him as Britain’s greatest dramatist in 1598 ? |
| A. | Queen Elizabeth |
| B. | Francis Meres, a lawyer |
| C. | Burbage, an actor |
| D. | King James |
| Answer» C. Burbage, an actor | |
| 10. |
Who derided Hazlitt as one of the members of the ‘Cockney School of Poetry’ ? |
| A. | Tennyson |
| B. | Charles Lamb |
| C. | Lockhart |
| D. | T. S. Eliot |
| Answer» E. | |
| 11. |
Who did Milton have to write his works down when he became Blind ? |
| A. | his friends |
| B. | his friends |
| C. | his daughters |
| D. | his sons |
| Answer» D. his sons | |
| 12. |
Who directly challenges Richard for the throne in the play, “Richard III” ? |
| A. | Tyrell |
| B. | King Edward IV |
| C. | Queen Elizabeth |
| D. | The Earl of Richmond |
| Answer» E. | |
| 13. |
Who discusses cosmology and the battle of Heaven with Adam ? |
| A. | God |
| B. | Eve |
| C. | Raphael |
| D. | Michael |
| Answer» D. Michael | |
| 14. |
Who does Milton name as his heavenly muse ? |
| A. | Titania |
| B. | Urania |
| C. | Virgil |
| D. | Michael |
| Answer» C. Virgil | |
| 15. |
Who does Polonius send to spy on Laertes in Paris ? |
| A. | Francisco |
| B. | Gorgonzola |
| C. | Reynaldo |
| D. | Samson |
| Answer» D. Samson | |
| 16. |
Who has defined ’poetry’ as a fundamental creative act using languages ? |
| A. | H. W. Longfellow |
| B. | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| C. | Dylan Thomas |
| D. | William Wordsworth |
| Answer» D. William Wordsworth | |
| 17. |
Who “headlong themselves they threw Down from the verge of Heav’n” ? |
| A. | Adam and Eve |
| B. | Noah and the elephant |
| C. | Rebel angels |
| D. | Benjamin and Joseph |
| Answer» D. Benjamin and Joseph | |
| 18. |
Who in Hamlet suggests that one should neither be a lender nor a borrower ? |
| A. | Gertrude |
| B. | Polonius |
| C. | Horatio |
| D. | Hamlet |
| Answer» C. Horatio | |
| 19. |
Who invented the term ‘Sprung rhythm’ ? |
| A. | Hopkins |
| B. | Tennyson |
| C. | Browning |
| D. | Wordsworth |
| Answer» B. Tennyson | |
| 20. |
Who is Bertram’s main companion throughout much of the play, “All’s Well that Ends Well” ? |
| A. | Parolles |
| B. | Lafew |
| C. | The First Lord |
| D. | The Clown |
| Answer» B. Lafew | |
| 21. |
Who is Cato ? |
| A. | A character who appears in the lust circle of hell |
| B. | A character who appears in the ninth circle of hell |
| C. | The example Dante uses to show a perfect Christian man |
| D. | An ancient pagan that Dante meets in purgatory |
| Answer» E. | |
| 22. |
Who is commonly known as ‘Pip’ in Great Expectations ? |
| A. | Philip Pirrip |
| B. | Filip Pirip |
| C. | Philip Pip |
| D. | Philips Pirip |
| Answer» D. Philips Pirip | |
| 23. |
Who is described? “For dignity composed and high exploit: But all was false and hollow” ? |
| A. | Lot |
| B. | Belial |
| C. | Satan |
| D. | Moses |
| Answer» C. Satan | |
| 24. |
Who is King of Scotland at the start of the play, “Macbeth” ? |
| A. | Macbeth |
| B. | Macbeth |
| C. | Duncan |
| D. | Donalbain |
| Answer» D. Donalbain | |
| 25. |
Who is Mr. Tench in The Power and the Glory ? |
| A. | A teacher |
| B. | A clerk |
| C. | A thief |
| D. | A dentist |
| Answer» D. A dentist | |
| 26. |
Who is Pip’s friend in London ? |
| A. | Pumblechook |
| B. | Herbert Pocket |
| C. | Bentley Drummle |
| D. | Jaggers |
| Answer» E. | |
| 27. |
Who is praised as a hero by Carlyle in his lecture on the ‘Hero as King’ ? |
| A. | Johnson |
| B. | Cromwell |
| C. | Shakespeare |
| D. | Luther |
| Answer» C. Shakespeare | |
| 28. |
Who is the American transcendental philosopher who was much influenced by Samuel Taylor Coleridge ? |
| A. | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| B. | Ernest Holmes |
| C. | John Locke |
| D. | John Locke |
| Answer» B. Ernest Holmes | |
| 29. |
Who is second Prince of Arragon in “Much ado about nothing” ? |
| A. | Leonato |
| B. | Balthasar |
| C. | Don John |
| D. | Don Pedro |
| Answer» E. | |
| 30. |
Who is the author of Utopia ? |
| A. | Thomas More |
| B. | William Shakespeare |
| C. | Christopher Marlowe |
| D. | Philip Sydney |
| Answer» B. William Shakespeare | |
| 31. |
Who is the author of “The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus” ? |
| A. | Christopher Marlow |
| B. | William Shakespeare |
| C. | Philip Sidney |
| D. | The Earl of Oxford |
| Answer» B. William Shakespeare | |
| 32. |
Who is the central heroine of the play, “Twelfth Night” ? |
| A. | Viola |
| B. | Orsino |
| C. | Maria |
| D. | Feste |
| Answer» B. Orsino | |
| 33. |
Who is the heroin of The Tempest ? |
| A. | Ophelia |
| B. | Desdemona |
| C. | Miranda |
| D. | Helena |
| Answer» D. Helena | |
| 34. |
Who is the heroine of the play, “All’sWell that Ends Well” ? |
| A. | Helena |
| B. | Gertrude |
| C. | Parolles |
| D. | Mariana |
| Answer» B. Gertrude | |
| 35. |
Who is the main focus of a number of Shakespeare’s sonnets ? |
| A. | The Dark Lady |
| B. | Hamlet |
| C. | Christopher Marlow |
| D. | Hamnet Shakespeare |
| Answer» B. Hamlet | |
| 36. |
Who is the main protagonist of Paradise Lost ? |
| A. | Satan |
| B. | Adam |
| C. | Eve |
| D. | God |
| Answer» B. Adam | |
| 37. |
Who is the second attending gentlewoman on Hero? Ursula and_______________? |
| A. | Margaret |
| B. | Emilia |
| C. | Helena |
| D. | Celia |
| Answer» B. Emilia | |
| 38. |
Who is Thomas Percy in Henry IV, Pt I ? |
| A. | Earl of Northumberland |
| B. | Earl of March |
| C. | Earl of Douglas |
| D. | Earl of Worcester |
| Answer» B. Earl of March | |
| 39. |
Who is “till wand’ring o’er the earth” ? |
| A. | Satan’s associates |
| B. | Satan |
| C. | Adam |
| D. | Eve |
| Answer» B. Satan | |
| 40. |
Who is traveling with Macbeth when he first encounters the Three Witches ? |
| A. | Macduff |
| B. | Mercutio |
| C. | Lady Macbeth |
| D. | Banquo |
| Answer» E. | |
| 41. |
Who is Voltimand ? |
| A. | Ambassador to the King of Norway from the King of Denmark |
| B. | Hamlet’s cousin |
| C. | Ambassador to the King of Denmark from the King of Norway |
| D. | Assassin in the service of Fortinbras |
| Answer» B. Hamlet’s cousin | |
| 42. |
Who kills Macbeth at the end of the play, “Macbeth” ? |
| A. | Duncan |
| B. | Lady Macbeth |
| C. | Lady Macduff |
| D. | Macduff |
| Answer» E. | |
| 43. |
Who might be considered the friendliest and most sociable of all God’s angels ? |
| A. | Adam |
| B. | Michael |
| C. | Raphael |
| D. | Lucifer |
| Answer» D. Lucifer | |
| 44. |
Who of the following is known as Child Of Renaissance ? |
| A. | Marlowe |
| B. | Milton |
| C. | Spencer |
| D. | Johnson |
| Answer» D. Johnson | |
| 45. |
Who of the following were among Shakespeare’s royal patrons ? |
| A. | King James I. |
| B. | King Henry |
| C. | Queen Victoria |
| D. | King Richard |
| Answer» B. King Henry | |
| 46. |
Who pondered, “How such united force of gods, how such As stood like these, could ever know repulse?”? |
| A. | Adam |
| B. | Moses |
| C. | Joseph |
| D. | Satan |
| Answer» E. | |
| 47. |
Who said ‘Keats was a Greek’ ? |
| A. | Wordsworth |
| B. | Coleridge |
| C. | Lamb |
| D. | Shelley |
| Answer» C. Lamb | |
| 48. |
Who said that Shakespeare in his comedies has only heroines and no heroes ? |
| A. | Ben Jonson |
| B. | John Ruskin |
| C. | Thomas Carlyle |
| D. | William Hazlitt |
| Answer» C. Thomas Carlyle | |
| 49. |
Who says “forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race ? |
| A. | Leopold Bloom |
| B. | Molly Bloom |
| C. | Gabriel Conroy |
| D. | Stephen Dedalus |
| Answer» E. | |
| 50. |
Who says, “Good night, sweet prince,/And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.” ? |
| A. | Fortinbras |
| B. | Marcellus |
| C. | Chorus |
| D. | Horatio |
| Answer» E. | |