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This section includes 903 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your English Literature knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
| 101. |
Who says “history is like a nightmare from which I must awake” ? |
| A. | Leopold Bloom |
| B. | Little Chandler |
| C. | Joe Donnelly |
| D. | Stephen Dedalus |
| Answer» E. | |
| 102. |
Who succeeded Lyly ? |
| A. | Robert Greene |
| B. | John Milton |
| C. | Philip Sidney |
| D. | Christopher Marlowe |
| Answer» B. John Milton | |
| 103. |
Who tells Macbeth, “The queen, my lord, is dead ” ? |
| A. | Seyton |
| B. | Siward |
| C. | The Doctor |
| D. | Caithness |
| Answer» B. Siward | |
| 104. |
Who took Degree at fifteen from Cambridge in 1518 ? |
| A. | Thomas Nash |
| B. | Thomas More |
| C. | Thomas lodge |
| D. | Thomas Wyatt |
| Answer» E. | |
| 105. |
Who translated Utopia in English language ? |
| A. | Thomas More |
| B. | Thomas lodge |
| C. | Ralph Robinson |
| D. | William Tyndale |
| Answer» D. William Tyndale | |
| 106. |
Who was Can Grande ? |
| A. | The poet who leads Dante on a tour of hell |
| B. | Dante’s enemy |
| C. | Dante’s patron |
| D. | The emperor of Italy in Dante’s lifetime |
| Answer» D. The emperor of Italy in Dante’s lifetime | |
| 107. |
Who was Charles Parnell ? |
| A. | a popular symbol of Irish nationalism |
| B. | an Irish representative in the British Parliament |
| C. | the founder of the Catholic Land League |
| D. | All of the Above |
| Answer» E. | |
| 108. |
Who was “Fortinbras” ? |
| A. | Claudius’s son |
| B. | Son to the king of Norway |
| C. | Ophelia’s lover |
| D. | Hamlet’s Mend |
| Answer» C. Ophelia’s lover | |
| 109. |
Who was killed by Hamlet unintentionally ? |
| A. | Leartus |
| B. | Polonius |
| C. | Forinbras |
| D. | Horatio |
| Answer» C. Forinbras | |
| 110. |
Who was often called as the Romantic Poet as most of his poems revolved around nature ? |
| A. | William Blake |
| B. | William Shakespeare |
| C. | William Morris |
| D. | William Wordsworth |
| Answer» E. | |
| 111. |
Who was sent to Earth to warn Man of the dangers he was facing ? |
| A. | Raphael |
| B. | Uriel |
| C. | Abdiel |
| D. | Beelzebub |
| Answer» B. Uriel | |
| 112. |
Who was Shakespeare’s wife ? |
| A. | Elizabeth Marlowe |
| B. | Joan Shakespeare |
| C. | Anne Hathaway |
| D. | Juliet Shakespeare |
| Answer» D. Juliet Shakespeare | |
| 113. |
who was the companion of Adam in paradise ? |
| A. | satan |
| B. | eve |
| C. | rapheal |
| D. | god |
| Answer» C. rapheal | |
| 114. |
Who was the first to eat the forbidden fruit ? |
| A. | Adam |
| B. | Eve |
| C. | Satan |
| D. | Snake |
| Answer» C. Satan | |
| 115. |
Who was the king when Geoffrey Chaucer was born ? |
| A. | David II |
| B. | Edward III |
| C. | Richard II |
| D. | Edward II |
| Answer» C. Richard II | |
| 116. |
Who was the last person the monster kills in the novel Frankenstein ? |
| A. | Elizabeth |
| B. | William |
| C. | Clerval |
| D. | Justine |
| Answer» B. William | |
| 117. |
Who was the Queen of England throughout much of Shakespeare’s early life? |
| A. | Queen Elizabeth |
| B. | Queen Victoria |
| C. | Queen Anne |
| D. | Queen Gertrude |
| Answer» B. Queen Victoria | |
| 118. |
Who was the son of a rich London merchant and born in 1557 ? |
| A. | Thomas Nah |
| B. | Thomas lodge |
| C. | Thomas Kyd |
| D. | Thomas Hardy |
| Answer» C. Thomas Kyd | |
| 119. |
Who was villain in Othello ? |
| A. | Claudius |
| B. | Iago |
| C. | Egeus |
| D. | None of above |
| Answer» C. Egeus | |
| 120. |
Who will fall through his own “fault” ? |
| A. | Satan |
| B. | God |
| C. | Adam |
| D. | Noah |
| Answer» D. Noah | |
| 121. |
Who wrote about the idyllic ’Isle of Innisfree’ ? |
| A. | Dylan Thomas |
| B. | Ezra Pound |
| C. | Yeats |
| D. | E. E. cummings |
| Answer» D. E. E. cummings | |
| 122. |
Who wrote Canterbury Tales ? |
| A. | Geoffrey Chaucer |
| B. | Dick Whittington |
| C. | Thomas Lancaster |
| D. | King Richard II |
| Answer» B. Dick Whittington | |
| 123. |
Who wrote “Biographia Literaria” ? |
| A. | Byron |
| B. | Shelley |
| C. | Coleridge |
| D. | Lamb |
| Answer» D. Lamb | |
| 124. |
Who wrote “Holy Sonnets” ? |
| A. | Edmund Spenser |
| B. | John Donne |
| C. | Shakespeare |
| D. | John Milton |
| Answer» C. Shakespeare | |
| 125. |
Who wrote following lines: “_________ I am involved in mankind: and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.” ? |
| A. | John Donne |
| B. | John Milton |
| C. | Earnest Hemingway |
| D. | Lawrence |
| Answer» B. John Milton | |
| 126. |
Who wrote “Ten Little Niggers ?” |
| A. | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| B. | Irvine Welsh |
| C. | Agatha Christie |
| D. | None of above |
| Answer» D. None of above | |
| 127. |
Who wrote “Mirror for Magistrates” ? |
| A. | Thomas Sacville |
| B. | Thomas Wyatt |
| C. | Thomas lodge |
| D. | Thomas Kyde |
| Answer» B. Thomas Wyatt | |
| 128. |
Who wrote “The Hound of the Baskervilles ?” |
| A. | Agatha Christie |
| B. | H Ryder-Haggard |
| C. | P D James |
| D. | Arthur Conan Doyle |
| Answer» E. | |
| 129. |
Who wrote “The Massacre at Paris” ? |
| A. | Shakespeare |
| B. | Christopher Marlowe |
| C. | Edmund Spenser |
| D. | john Milton |
| Answer» C. Edmund Spenser | |
| 130. |
Who wrote the poem ‘Defence of Lucknow’ ? |
| A. | Browning |
| B. | Tennyson |
| C. | Swinburne |
| D. | Rossetti |
| Answer» D. Rossetti | |
| 131. |
Who wrote the poems, “On death” and “Women, Wine, and Snuff ?” |
| A. | John Milton |
| B. | John Keats |
| C. | P.B Shelley |
| D. | William Wordsworth |
| Answer» C. P.B Shelley | |
| 132. |
Who wrote ’The Winter’s Tale ?’ |
| A. | George Bernard Shaw |
| B. | John Dryden |
| C. | Christopher Marlowe |
| D. | William Shakespeare |
| Answer» E. | |
| 133. |
Who wrote this famous line: ’Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day/ Thou art more lovely and more temperate’ ? |
| A. | TS Eliot |
| B. | Lord Tennyson |
| C. | Charlotte Bronte |
| D. | Shakespeare |
| Answer» E. | |
| 134. |
Whom did John Milton marry at the age of 34 ? |
| A. | Agnes |
| B. | Ann Powell |
| C. | Lynda |
| D. | Mary Powell |
| Answer» E. | |
| 135. |
Whom did monster demand to Victor Frankenstein to create for him ? |
| A. | Someone who can transform him |
| B. | Another monster |
| C. | Another creature without the fearful features |
| D. | A female companion |
| Answer» E. | |
| 136. |
Why did Miss Havisham remain a spinster throughout her life in “Great Expectations” ? |
| A. | She was poor |
| B. | She was arrogant |
| C. | Because she was betrayed by the bridegroom |
| D. | She was unwilling to marry |
| Answer» C. Because she was betrayed by the bridegroom | |
| 137. |
Why did ’Poetry Quarterly’ cease publication in 1953 ? |
| A. | Owner convicted of fraud |
| B. | Fall in Sales |
| C. | Rise in taxation on magazines |
| D. | Shortage of paper |
| Answer» B. Fall in Sales | |
| 138. |
Why do critics consider the dream form ideal for Finnegans Wake ? |
| A. | it prevents exploration of the unconscious |
| B. | it obscures the characters’ immediate thoughts |
| C. | it allows for the introduction of plot snippets and new language |
| D. | it makes the readers’ experience of the characters less intimate |
| Answer» E. | |
| 139. |
Why do most scholars consider Finnegans Wake avant-garde ? |
| A. | the invented words |
| B. | the free dream associations |
| C. | the sketchy, episodic structure |
| D. | All of the Above |
| Answer» E. | |
| 140. |
William Shakespeare born in ? |
| A. | 26 April 1567 |
| B. | 26 April 1566 |
| C. | 26 April 1565 |
| D. | 26 April 1564 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 141. |
William Morel in Sons and Lovers is drawn after ________________? |
| A. | Lawrence’s father |
| B. | Lawrence’s brother |
| C. | Lawrence himself |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» E. | |
| 142. |
William Shakespeare was born in the year_______________? |
| A. | 1564 |
| B. | 1544 |
| C. | 1578 |
| D. | 1582 |
| Answer» B. 1544 | |
| 143. |
William Shakespeare was______________ child of John and Mary? |
| A. | second |
| B. | fourth |
| C. | third |
| D. | fifth |
| Answer» C. third | |
| 144. |
William Shakespeare’s father primarily worked as which of the following ? |
| A. | A politician |
| B. | A teacher |
| C. | A glover |
| D. | A professional actor |
| Answer» D. A professional actor | |
| 145. |
With the accession of King James to the English throne, Lord Chamberlain’s Man was renamed ? |
| A. | King Lear |
| B. | Gentleman |
| C. | King’s Man |
| D. | None of above |
| Answer» D. None of above | |
| 146. |
With which character in The Odyssey does Molly Bloom best correspond ? |
| A. | Nausicaa |
| B. | Aeolus |
| C. | Penelope |
| D. | Telemachus |
| Answer» D. Telemachus | |
| 147. |
With which famous writer Coleridge became friends with in Christ’s Hospital, also called The Bluecoat School ? |
| A. | Charles Lamb |
| B. | John Keats |
| C. | Shelley |
| D. | William Wordsworth |
| Answer» B. John Keats | |
| 148. |
With which important literary figure(s) was Joyce in contact in his lifetime ? |
| A. | Arthur Symons |
| B. | Harriet Weaver |
| C. | W.B. Yeats |
| D. | All of the Above |
| Answer» E. | |
| 149. |
With which Irish figure(s) is HCE often identified ? |
| A. | Wolfe Tone |
| B. | Charles Stuart Parnell |
| C. | Father Arnall |
| D. | Daniel O’Connell |
| Answer» C. Father Arnall | |
| 150. |
With which other poet did Samuel Taylor Coleridge founded the Romantic movement in English Literature ? |
| A. | Lord Byron |
| B. | Shelley |
| C. | William Wordsworth |
| D. | John Keats |
| Answer» D. John Keats | |