Explore topic-wise MCQs in English Literature .

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51.

Who is the hero of Paradise Regained_______________?

A. Christ
B. Satan
C. The Paritan Church
D. None of these
Answer» B. Satan
52.

Who is the representative of the metaphysical poets ?

A. Samuel Johnson
B. John Donne
C. Geoffrey Chaucer
D. Robert Browning
Answer» C. Geoffrey Chaucer
53.

Who is the writer of ‘Comedy of Errors’ ?

A. Ben Jhonson
B. G B Shaw
C. William Shakespeare
D. T S Eliot
Answer» D. T S Eliot
54.

Who is the writer of ‘Harold’ ?

A. George Bernard Shaw
B. A. Lord Tennyson
C. Christopher Marlowe
D. William Shakespeare
Answer» C. Christopher Marlowe
55.

Who is the writer of ‘Lorna Doone’ ?

A. H.G. Wells
B. Blackmore
C. T. S. Eliot
D. Jane Austen
Answer» C. T. S. Eliot
56.

Who is the writer of The Augustan Period ?

A. Robert Herrick
B. Jeremy Taylor
C. Samuel Richardson
D. Thomas Hobbes
Answer» D. Thomas Hobbes
57.

Who is the writer of The Caroline Period ?

A. Robert Herrick
B. Caedmon
C. Dante
D. Cynewulf
Answer» B. Caedmon
58.

Who is the writer of ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’ ?

A. George Bernard Shaw
B. Christopher Marlowe
C. A. Lord Tennyson
D. William Shakespeare
Answer» D. William Shakespeare
59.

Who is the writer of the poem ‘A Grammarian’s Funeral’ ?

A. Shelley
B. William Shakespeare
C. Wordsworth
D. Robert Browning
Answer» E.
60.

Who is the writer of the poem ‘Nun Priest’s Tale’ ?

A. Geoffrey Chaucer
B. Cynewulf
C. Robert Browning
D. Shelley
Answer» B. Cynewulf
61.

Who is the writer of the poem ‘Andrea Del Sarto’ ?

A. William Shakespeare
B. Shelley
C. Wordsworth
D. Robert Browning
Answer» E.
62.

Who is the writer of ‘The Ring of the Book’ ?

A. Shelley
B. Robert Browning
C. William Shakespeare
D. Wordsworth
Answer» C. William Shakespeare
63.

Who is the writer of The Restoration Period ?

A. Robert Herrick
B. Jeremy Taylor
C. John Dryden
D. Thomas Hobbes
Answer» D. Thomas Hobbes
64.

Who is the writer of ‘The Two Voices’ ?

A. A. Lord Tennyson
B. George Bernard Shaw
C. William Shakespeare
D. Christopher Marlowe
Answer» B. George Bernard Shaw
65.

Who is the Writer of The White Tiger ?

A. Arobinda Adigha
B. Salman Rushdie
C. Arundhoti Roy
D. Kiron Dishai
Answer» B. Salman Rushdie
66.

Who is the writer of ‘Vision of Sin’ ?

A. George Bernard Shaw
B. William Shakespeare
C. A. Lord Tennyson
D. Christopher Marlowe
Answer» D. Christopher Marlowe
67.

Who of the following is a playwright ?

A. Dickens
B. Frost
C. W.B. Yeats
D. G.B. Shaw
Answer» E.
68.

Who of the following was both a poet and painter ?

A. Keats
B. Donne
C. William Blake
D. Spenser
Answer» D. Spenser
69.

Who propounds “the touchstone method”_______________?

A. Arnold
B. Shelley
C. Pope
D. Dryden
Answer» B. Shelley
70.

Who said ‘Cowards die many times before their death’ ?

A. Shakespeare
B. Franklin
C. Carlyle
D. Alexander Pope
Answer» B. Franklin
71.

Who served as an Irish senator for two terms? A___________ Wilde?

A. Shaw
B. Shaw
C. Yeats
D. none of these
Answer» D. none of these
72.

Who was a friend of John Milton ?

A. John Donne
B. John Dryden
C. Andrew Marvell
D. Alexander Pope
Answer» D. Alexander Pope
73.

Who was American poet ?

A. Robert Frost
B. John Keats
C. John Milton
D. Robert Herrick
Answer» B. John Keats
74.

Who was more under the influence of Godwin’s philosophy of life ?

A. Byron
B. Browning
C. Shelley
D. Keats
Answer» D. Keats
75.

Who write the story “Story Teller” ?

A. William Wordsworth
B. William Shakespeare
C. Thomas Grey
D. Saki
Answer» E.
76.

Who wrote ‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty’ ?

A. Shakespeare
B. wordsworth
C. John Keats
D. Eliot
Answer» D. Eliot
77.

Who wrote ‘Crime and Punishment’ ?

A. Shelley
B. Tolstoy
C. Byron
D. Dostoyevsky
Answer» E.
78.

Who wrote first ?

A. George Eliot
B. Christopher Marlowe
C. Howard, Earl of Surrey
D. William Shakespeare
Answer» D. William Shakespeare
79.

Who wrote ‘Hard Times’ and ‘A tale of two Cities’ ?

A. John Milton
B. Charles Dickens
C. John Webster
D. Daniel Defoe
Answer» C. John Webster
80.

Who wrote ‘Kubla Khan’ ?

A. Coleridge
B. Shelley
C. Wordsworth
D. Keats
Answer» B. Shelley
81.

Who wrote poem about Lucy ?

A. S. T. Coleridge
B. P. B. Shelley
C. William Wordsworth
D. Lord Byron
Answer» D. Lord Byron
82.

Who wrote “Shakespeare’s Later Comedies’ ?

A. A.C. Bradley
B. Palmer D.J.
C. Dr.Johnsofl
D. None of these
Answer» C. Dr.Johnsofl
83.

Who wrote the book ‘Ivan Hoe’ ?

A. O’ Henry
B. R L Stevenson
C. Ernest Hemingway
D. Sir Walter Scott
Answer» E.
84.

Who wrote the book ‘Lord Jim: A Tale ?

A. Oscar Wilde
B. Joseph Conrad
C. Thomas Hardy
D. Rudyard Kipling
Answer» C. Thomas Hardy
85.

Who wrote the fantasy novel ’The Lord of the Rings’ ?

A. J. R. R. Tolkien
B. Peter Jackson
C. C. S. Lewis
D. J. K. Rowling
Answer» B. Peter Jackson
86.

Who wrote the poem “Requiem” ?

A. Robert Louis Stevenson
B. William Shakespeare
C. Samuel Johnson
D. John Milton
Answer» B. William Shakespeare
87.

Who wrote the poem ‘Solitary Reaper’ ?

A. William Wordsworth
B. P. B Shelley
C. Lord Byron
D. John Keats
Answer» B. P. B Shelley
88.

Who wrote the poem ’The Seven Ages’ ?

A. John Milton
B. Geoffrey Chaucer
C. William Shakespeare
D. Edward Gibbon
Answer» D. Edward Gibbon
89.

Who wrote ‘The Spanish Tragedy’ ?

A. John Lyly
B. Thomas Kyd
C. Robert Green
D. Christopher Marlowe
Answer» C. Robert Green
90.

Whose real name was Mary Anne Evans ?

A. Jane Austen
B. Charlotte Bronte
C. George Eliot
D. Joseph Conrad
Answer» D. Joseph Conrad
91.

William Blake’s /Songs of ‘counterbalance his ‘Songs of Experience’ ?

A. Love
B. childhood
C. Inexperience
D. Innocence
Answer» E.
92.

Wordsworth is a ______________ poet ?

A. classical
B. modern
C. romantic
D. Greek
Answer» D. Greek
93.

Wordsworth was appointed as poet Laureate in_______________?

A. 1843 b…1844
B. 1845
C. 1846
D. none of these
Answer» B. 1845
94.

World War I affected the writing of many authors. Which of the following poets would not have been touched by that event ?

A. T.S. Eliot
B. Siegfried Sassoon
C. Wilfred Owen
D. Oscar Wilde
Answer» E.
95.

Would you tell Sordelo (Browning) as a______________?

A. Dramatic Monologue
B. Dramatic Lyrics
C. Tragic Drama
D. None of these
Answer» C. Tragic Drama
96.

‘Written in March’ is a poem composed by_______________?

A. William Wordsworth
B. William Congreve
C. William Blake
D. William Shakespeare
Answer» B. William Congreve
97.

Yahoo’s according to Gulliver were______________?

A. European
B. Indians
C. American
D. None of these
Answer» B. Indians
98.

Yeats was______________?

A. Victorian poet
B. a modern poet
C. Both
D. None of these
Answer» D. None of these
99.

Which of the following poets wrote during the Victorian period but was not published until the 20th century ?

A. Christina Rossetti
B. Gerard Manley Hopkins
C. Elizabeth Barret Browning
D. Ted Hughes
Answer» C. Elizabeth Barret Browning
100.

Which of the following periods of English literature came last ?

A. The Elizabethan Age
B. The Commonwealth Period
C. The Jacobean Age
D. The Middle English Period
Answer» C. The Jacobean Age