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This section includes 306 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your English Literature knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
| 1. |
Which of the following works was written before the all-important Battle of Hastings? |
| A. | Beowulf |
| B. | Canterbury Tales |
| C. | The Domesday Book |
| D. | Sons and Lovers |
| Answer» B. Canterbury Tales | |
| 2. |
Which of the following would a Romantic Poet be most likely to use ? |
| A. | A “member of the plumy race” |
| B. | A “bird” |
| C. | A “tenant of the sky” |
| D. | An “airy fairy” |
| Answer» E. | |
| 3. |
Which of the following writers would be an appropriate subject for a class on “The Literature of the British Empire” ? |
| A. | Rudyard Kipling |
| B. | Edward Fitzgerald |
| C. | Charlotte Bronte |
| D. | Any of these |
| Answer» E. | |
| 4. |
Which on of the following is first long poem in English ? |
| A. | The Wanderer |
| B. | Beowulf |
| C. | The Seafarer |
| D. | Dream of the Road |
| Answer» C. The Seafarer | |
| 5. |
Which one is not a science fiction writer_________________? |
| A. | H. G. Wells |
| B. | Victor Hugo |
| C. | Hugo Gernsback |
| D. | Jules Verne |
| Answer» C. Hugo Gernsback | |
| 6. |
Which one is not by Shakespeare ? |
| A. | Nature teaches beasts to know their friends. |
| B. | True is it that we have seen betting days. |
| C. | Knowledge is power. |
| D. | None of these. |
| Answer» D. None of these. | |
| 7. |
Which one is the world’s longest running play______________? |
| A. | The Mousetrap |
| B. | Romeo and Juliet |
| C. | Othello |
| D. | Macbeth |
| Answer» B. Romeo and Juliet | |
| 8. |
Which one of the following is a comedy ? |
| A. | All’s Well that Ends Well |
| B. | Hamlet |
| C. | Timon of Athens |
| D. | Antony and Cleopatra |
| Answer» B. Hamlet | |
| 9. |
Which one of the following poets was appointed Poet Laureate in the year 1813 ? |
| A. | Tennyson |
| B. | Byron |
| C. | Southey |
| D. | Wordsworth |
| Answer» D. Wordsworth | |
| 10. |
Which one of the following writers is not woman ? |
| A. | Emily Bronte |
| B. | Jane Austen |
| C. | Robert Browning |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» D. None of these | |
| 11. |
Which period of literature came first ? |
| A. | Regency |
| B. | Victorian |
| C. | Romantic |
| D. | Restoration |
| Answer» E. | |
| 12. |
Which poem of Tennyson was particularly like by Queen Victoria ? |
| A. | The Idylls of the kings |
| B. | Charge of the Light Brigade |
| C. | In Memoriam |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» D. None of these | |
| 13. |
Which poet did NOT write during the 16th century ? |
| A. | John Skelton |
| B. | William Shakespeare |
| C. | Sir Thomas Wyatt |
| D. | Thomas Carew |
| Answer» E. | |
| 14. |
Which poet emphasized on rustic language in Poetry ? |
| A. | John Keats |
| B. | William Wordsworth |
| C. | William Blake |
| D. | Thomas Gray |
| Answer» C. William Blake | |
| 15. |
Which University presented the Pulitzer Prize_______________? |
| A. | Columbia University |
| B. | Yale University |
| C. | New York University |
| D. | Harvard University |
| Answer» B. Yale University | |
| 16. |
Which was the oldest period in English literature ? |
| A. | Anglo-Norman |
| B. | Anglo-Saxon |
| C. | Chaucer’s period |
| D. | Middle Age |
| Answer» C. Chaucer’s period | |
| 17. |
Which work was completed last ? |
| A. | John Milton’s “Paradise Lost” |
| B. | George Herbert’s “The Temple” |
| C. | William Shakespeare’s “Tempest” |
| D. | Ben Jonson’s “Volpone” |
| Answer» B. George Herbert’s “The Temple” | |
| 18. |
Which work was published first ? |
| A. | Blake’s “Songs of Innocence” |
| B. | Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” |
| C. | Lord Byron’s “Don Juan” |
| D. | Sir Walter Scott’s “Ivanhoe” |
| Answer» B. Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” | |
| 19. |
Which year Geoffrey Chaucer was born ? |
| A. | 1340 AD |
| B. | 1341 AD |
| C. | 1342 AD |
| D. | 1343 AD |
| Answer» B. 1341 AD | |
| 20. |
Which year William Shakespeare was born ? |
| A. | 1564 AD |
| B. | 1773 AD |
| C. | 1809 AD |
| D. | 1923 AD |
| Answer» B. 1773 AD | |
| 21. |
Who after the publication of a poem, awoke and found himself famous ? |
| A. | Shelley |
| B. | Browning |
| C. | Wordsworth |
| D. | Keats |
| Answer» D. Keats | |
| 22. |
Who accuses Arnold of “high pamphleteering ?” |
| A. | Eliot |
| B. | Pater |
| C. | I. A. Richards |
| D. | F. R. Leavis |
| Answer» E. | |
| 23. |
Who have written the book ’The Godfather’ |
| A. | Mario Puzo |
| B. | Francis Ford Coppola |
| C. | Marlon Brando |
| D. | Mark Winegardner |
| Answer» B. Francis Ford Coppola | |
| 24. |
Who is an American author ? |
| A. | R.W. Emerson |
| B. | H.D. Thoreau |
| C. | Henry W. Longfellow |
| D. | All 4 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 25. |
Who is called the Bird of Avon ? |
| A. | John Dryden |
| B. | William Shakespeare |
| C. | John Milton |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. John Milton | |
| 26. |
Who is called the father of English Poetry ? |
| A. | Milton |
| B. | Wordsworth |
| C. | G. Chaucer |
| D. | Charles Dickens |
| Answer» D. Charles Dickens | |
| 27. |
Who is called the ‘Mock heroic poet’ ? |
| A. | Edmund Walter |
| B. | Jonathan Swift |
| C. | Alexander Pope |
| D. | Dr. Samuel Johnson |
| Answer» D. Dr. Samuel Johnson | |
| 28. |
Who is considered to be the father of English novel ? |
| A. | Francis Bacon |
| B. | Geoffery Chaucer |
| C. | King Alfred the Great |
| D. | Henry Fielding |
| Answer» E. | |
| 29. |
Who is contemporary of William Shakespeare ? |
| A. | Christopher Marlowe |
| B. | Lord Tennyson |
| C. | John Milton |
| D. | All of them |
| Answer» B. Lord Tennyson | |
| 30. |
Who is famous for representing London in his novels ? |
| A. | Thackeray |
| B. | Hardy |
| C. | Dickens |
| D. | W. Scott |
| Answer» D. W. Scott | |
| 31. |
Who is known as an anti-romantic novelist in the Romantic Age ? |
| A. | Charles Lamb |
| B. | Jane Austen |
| C. | William Hazlitt |
| D. | Oliver Goldsmith |
| Answer» C. William Hazlitt | |
| 32. |
Who Is known as the Father of English Poetry_______________? |
| A. | William Shakespeare |
| B. | Geoffrey Chaucer |
| C. | John Milton |
| D. | William Wordsworth |
| Answer» C. John Milton | |
| 33. |
Who is known as the national poet of England_________________? |
| A. | William Wordsworth |
| B. | John Keats |
| C. | William Shakespeare |
| D. | T. S. Eliot |
| Answer» D. T. S. Eliot | |
| 34. |
Who is the author of ‘A Brief History of Time’ ? |
| A. | Albert Einstein |
| B. | Stephen Hawking |
| C. | Jagadish Chandra Basu |
| D. | Isaac Newton |
| Answer» C. Jagadish Chandra Basu | |
| 35. |
Who is the author of “Around the World in Eighty Days” ? |
| A. | Jules Verne |
| B. | Christopher Marlowe |
| C. | Charles Kingsley |
| D. | Thomas Hood |
| Answer» B. Christopher Marlowe | |
| 36. |
Who is the author of ‘Animal Farm’ ? |
| A. | Thomas More |
| B. | George Orwell |
| C. | Boris Pasternak |
| D. | Charles Dickens |
| Answer» C. Boris Pasternak | |
| 37. |
Who is the author of ‘For Whom the Bell Tolls’ ? |
| A. | Charles Dickens |
| B. | Homer |
| C. | Lord Tennison |
| D. | Ernest Hemingway |
| Answer» E. | |
| 38. |
Who is the author of ‘Heaven and Earth’ ? |
| A. | Lord Tennyson |
| B. | William Wordsworth |
| C. | John Keats |
| D. | Lord Byron |
| Answer» E. | |
| 39. |
Who is the author of ‘Man and Superman’ ? |
| A. | W. Shakespeare |
| B. | George Bernard Shaw |
| C. | Leo Tolstoy |
| D. | Charles Dickens |
| Answer» C. Leo Tolstoy | |
| 40. |
Who is the author of ‘India Wins Freedom’ ? |
| A. | Ghandhi |
| B. | Nehru |
| C. | Jinnah |
| D. | Abul Kalam Azad |
| Answer» E. | |
| 41. |
Who is the author of ‘Sherlock Holmes’ ? |
| A. | John Gay |
| B. | Sir Arthur Canon Doyle |
| C. | Dylan Thomas |
| D. | Somerset Maugham |
| Answer» C. Dylan Thomas | |
| 42. |
Who is the author of the book ’Around the World in Eighty Days’ ? |
| A. | Jules Verne |
| B. | H. G. Wells |
| C. | Mark Twain |
| D. | Charles Dickens |
| Answer» B. H. G. Wells | |
| 43. |
Who is the author of the famous book ‘The Judgment’ is_______________? |
| A. | Anthony Mascarenhas |
| B. | Amartya Sen |
| C. | Kuldip Nayer |
| D. | Nelson Mandela |
| Answer» D. Nelson Mandela | |
| 44. |
Who is the author of “The Origin of Species” ? |
| A. | Charles Darwin |
| B. | A. Pope |
| C. | T. Hardy |
| D. | O. Goldsmith |
| Answer» B. A. Pope | |
| 45. |
Who is the author of the novel ‘The Golden Age’ ? |
| A. | Tahmima Anam |
| B. | Pearl S. Bark |
| C. | Virginia Woolf |
| D. | Jane Austen |
| Answer» B. Pearl S. Bark | |
| 46. |
Who is the author of ‘The Rape of Bangladesh’ ? |
| A. | Anthony Mascarenhas |
| B. | Mathew Arnold |
| C. | G. B. Shaw |
| D. | Alexander Dumas |
| Answer» B. Mathew Arnold | |
| 47. |
Who is the author of ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ ? |
| A. | William Wordsworth |
| B. | S. T. Coleridge |
| C. | W. Somerset Maugham |
| D. | Sir Walter Scott |
| Answer» C. W. Somerset Maugham | |
| 48. |
Who is the father of English Literature ? |
| A. | Roger Bacon |
| B. | Robert Browning |
| C. | Geoffrey Chaucer |
| D. | Cynewulf |
| Answer» D. Cynewulf | |
| 49. |
Who is the first great modernist of English Literature ? |
| A. | Roger Bacon |
| B. | Robert Browning |
| C. | Geoffrey Chaucer |
| D. | Cynewulf |
| Answer» E. | |
| 50. |
Who is the first modern novelist ? |
| A. | Samuel Richardson |
| B. | Samuel Johnson |
| C. | Samuel Beckett |
| D. | None of the above |
| Answer» B. Samuel Johnson | |