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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.
| 151. |
‘The Rainbow’ is a novel written by______________? |
| A. | Hemingway |
| B. | Virginia Woolf |
| C. | E.M. Forster |
| D. | D.H. Lawrence |
| Answer» E. | |
| 152. |
‘The quality of Mercy is not strained’ the line is taken from________________? |
| A. | Merchant of Venice |
| B. | Two gentleman of Verona |
| C. | Midsummer’s Night Dream |
| D. | Anthony and Cleopatra |
| Answer» B. Two gentleman of Verona | |
| 153. |
The prose of the Romantic period had a tendency to_______________? |
| A. | Objectify the issue in terms of a cause |
| B. | Advance a single system to the public |
| C. | Allow the writer to draw on his |
| D. | Be brooding and meditative. own personality |
| Answer» B. Advance a single system to the public | |
| 154. |
The Professor was the first novel by________________? |
| A. | Emily Bronte |
| B. | Charlotte Bronte |
| C. | Anne Bronte |
| D. | Jane Austen |
| Answer» C. Anne Bronte | |
| 155. |
The prevailing feature of Chaucer’s humour is its__________________? |
| A. | urbanity |
| B. | crudity |
| C. | triviality |
| D. | sanctity |
| Answer» B. crudity | |
| 156. |
The ‘Poet Laureate’ is______________? |
| A. | the best poet of the country |
| B. | a winner of the Noble Prize in poetry |
| C. | the Court Port England |
| D. | a classical poet |
| Answer» D. a classical poet | |
| 157. |
The poem “Wind” is written by________________? |
| A. | Shelley |
| B. | John Ashbery |
| C. | Sylvia Plath |
| D. | Ted Hughes |
| Answer» E. | |
| 158. |
The poet of ‘Romantic Age’ is_______________? |
| A. | D.H. Lawrence |
| B. | John Milton |
| C. | John Keats |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» D. None of these | |
| 159. |
The poem ‘The Patriot’ is written by_______________? |
| A. | Alfred Tennyson |
| B. | Robert Browning |
| C. | Mathew Arnold |
| D. | John Donne |
| Answer» C. Mathew Arnold | |
| 160. |
The Poet Laureate is_________________? |
| A. | the best poet of the country |
| B. | a winner of Noble Prize in Poetry |
| C. | the court poet of England |
| D. | a classical poet |
| Answer» D. a classical poet | |
| 161. |
The period of maturation, intellectual growth and social graces during the Renaissance is called the____________? |
| A. | aristocracy |
| B. | New Age |
| C. | Reformation |
| D. | Enlightenment |
| Answer» E. | |
| 162. |
The period of English literature from 1660to the end of the century is called_____________? |
| A. | Renaissance |
| B. | Jacobean Period |
| C. | Restoration Period |
| D. | Romantic Age |
| Answer» D. Romantic Age | |
| 163. |
The period between 1660 to 1750 is known as___________________? |
| A. | The Age of Classicism |
| B. | The Restoration |
| C. | The age of Milton |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. The age of Milton | |
| 164. |
The novel ‘Talisman’ is written by_______________? |
| A. | Jane Austen |
| B. | Charles Dickens |
| C. | Sir Walter Scott |
| D. | Oliver Goldsmith |
| Answer» D. Oliver Goldsmith | |
| 165. |
The novel ‘The Jungle Book’ is written by_______________? |
| A. | R. K. Narayan |
| B. | Edin Blyton |
| C. | Rudyard Kipling |
| D. | H. G. Wells |
| Answer» D. H. G. Wells | |
| 166. |
The Novel of Lawrence banned by the government was_________________? |
| A. | Sons and Lovers |
| B. | Lady Chatterley’s Lover |
| C. | Women in Love |
| D. | The Rainbow |
| Answer» C. Women in Love | |
| 167. |
The most popular French playwright, Jean Baptiste Poquelin, is known as______________? |
| A. | Caleron |
| B. | Corneille |
| C. | Couperin |
| D. | Moliere |
| Answer» E. | |
| 168. |
‘The Metaphysical Poets’ is a critical essay by________________? |
| A. | Arnold |
| B. | T. S. Eliot |
| C. | Shelley |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. Shelley | |
| 169. |
The ‘Merchant of Venice’ Written by Shakespeare is________________? |
| A. | A novel |
| B. | a short story |
| C. | a poem |
| D. | a drama |
| Answer» E. | |
| 170. |
‘The Medal’ by John Dryden is a/an________________? |
| A. | play |
| B. | satire |
| C. | prose |
| D. | translation |
| Answer» C. prose | |
| 171. |
‘The Lotus…Eaters’ was written by________________? |
| A. | Tennyson |
| B. | Browning |
| C. | Blake |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. Browning | |
| 172. |
The literary work of ‘Kubla Khan’ is_________________? |
| A. | a history by Vincent Smith |
| B. | a verse by Coleridge |
| C. | a drama by Oscar Wilde |
| D. | a short story by Somerset Maugham |
| Answer» C. a drama by Oscar Wilde | |
| 173. |
The literary work ‘Kubla khan’ is_______________? |
| A. | a history by Vincent Smith |
| B. | a verse by Coleridge |
| C. | a drama by Oscar Wilde |
| D. | a short story by Somerset Maugham |
| Answer» C. a drama by Oscar Wilde | |
| 174. |
The literary figure who had the most pronounced effect on Keats was_______________? |
| A. | Dante |
| B. | Shakespeare |
| C. | Wordsworth |
| D. | Shelley |
| Answer» C. Wordsworth | |
| 175. |
The line ‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty’ occurs in which one of Keats’ following poems_______________? |
| A. | Ode to Nightingale |
| B. | Ode to Grecian Urn |
| C. | Ode to Psyche |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. Ode to Psyche | |
| 176. |
‘The Lay of the Last Minstrel’ is written by_______________? |
| A. | Blake |
| B. | Byron |
| C. | Tennyson |
| D. | Walter Scott |
| Answer» E. | |
| 177. |
The kind Claudius was killed by________________? |
| A. | Laerteus |
| B. | Hamlet |
| C. | Horatio |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. Horatio | |
| 178. |
The first Englishwoman to earn her living as a playwright was______________? |
| A. | Nell Gwynn |
| B. | Aphra Behn |
| C. | Lady Teazle |
| D. | Ann Hathaway |
| Answer» C. Lady Teazle | |
| 179. |
‘The Excursion’ was written by________________? |
| A. | Coleridge |
| B. | Blake |
| C. | Shelley |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» E. | |
| 180. |
The Essays of Elia was first published in book form in_____________? |
| A. | 1795 |
| B. | 1807 |
| C. | 1823 |
| D. | 1829 |
| Answer» D. 1829 | |
| 181. |
The earliest play written by Shakespeare according to Oxford Shakespeare 1988 is______________? |
| A. | The Taming of the Shrew |
| B. | As you Like it |
| C. | Two Gentlemen of Verona |
| D. | Titus Andronicus |
| Answer» E. | |
| 182. |
“The Crown of Wild Olive”, is written by__________________? |
| A. | Ruskin |
| B. | J.S.Mill |
| C. | C. Lamb |
| D. | Russell |
| Answer» B. J.S.Mill | |
| 183. |
“The Conduct of the Allies’ is a famous work of_____________? |
| A. | Jonathan Swift |
| B. | Samuel Johnson |
| C. | Oliver ‘Goldsmith |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. Samuel Johnson | |
| 184. |
The character of Little Neil is a creation of______________? |
| A. | Hardy |
| B. | Eliot |
| C. | Oscar Wilde |
| D. | Dickens |
| Answer» E. | |
| 185. |
The central idea of ‘Ozymandias’ is that______________? |
| A. | all things, both great and small,will perish |
| B. | man is mortal,art immortal |
| C. | imagination is stronger than fact |
| D. | history repeats |
| Answer» B. man is mortal,art immortal | |
| 186. |
The Cardinal virtues of the Houyhnhnms are__________________? |
| A. | Friendship and benevolence |
| B. | Bitterness and revenge |
| C. | Hatred and jealousy |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. Bitterness and revenge | |
| 187. |
The Bronte sisters wrote during this period______________? |
| A. | Regency |
| B. | Restoration |
| C. | Romantic |
| D. | Victorian |
| Answer» E. | |
| 188. |
The beginning of the renaissance may be traced to the city____________? |
| A. | Venice |
| B. | London |
| C. | Paris |
| D. | Florence |
| Answer» E. | |
| 189. |
‘The Alchemist’ is written by_______________? |
| A. | Ben Johnson |
| B. | Samuel Johnson |
| C. | Marlowe |
| D. | None of them |
| Answer» B. Samuel Johnson | |
| 190. |
The age tended to favour the taste and search for truth in art______________? |
| A. | Classical |
| B. | Romantic |
| C. | Victorian |
| D. | Elizabethan |
| Answer» C. Victorian | |
| 191. |
‘The Age of Chaucer’ ranges from_______________? |
| A. | 1340-1385 |
| B. | 1240-1300 |
| C. | 1340-1400 |
| D. | 1340-1399 |
| Answer» D. 1340-1399 | |
| 192. |
‘Satanic Verses’ is written by__________________? |
| A. | R.K. Narayan |
| B. | Salman Rushdie |
| C. | Jhumpa Lahiri |
| D. | Arundhuti Roy |
| Answer» C. Jhumpa Lahiri | |
| 193. |
‘SARTOR RESARTUS’ is a prose work by________________? |
| A. | John Ruskin |
| B. | Carlyle |
| C. | Bacon |
| D. | Lamb |
| Answer» C. Bacon | |
| 194. |
Romanticism is mainly connected with______________? |
| A. | excitement and sensation |
| B. | love and beauty |
| C. | job and tiredness |
| D. | expectation and depression |
| Answer» B. love and beauty | |
| 195. |
‘Renaissance’ means___________________? |
| A. | the revival of learning |
| B. | the revival of hard task |
| C. | the revival of life |
| D. | the revival of new country |
| Answer» B. the revival of hard task | |
| 196. |
“Reading makes a full man, conference a ready man and writing an exact man.”- Who told it ? |
| A. | Shakespeare |
| B. | Shakespeare |
| C. | Spenser |
| D. | Bacon |
| Answer» E. | |
| 197. |
‘Prometheus Unbound’ is a lyrical drama by__________________? |
| A. | Shelley |
| B. | Shakespeare |
| C. | Sophocles |
| D. | Euripedes |
| Answer» B. Shakespeare | |
| 198. |
“Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of will”, is a statement by______________? |
| A. | Wordsworth |
| B. | Shelley |
| C. | Coleridge |
| D. | Arnold |
| Answer» C. Coleridge | |
| 199. |
Poet Alexander Pope’s famous work_________________? |
| A. | The Rape of Lock |
| B. | The Deserted Village |
| C. | Spectator |
| D. | Man was made to mourn |
| Answer» B. The Deserted Village | |
| 200. |
Poetry is defined as ‘Spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling’ by___________? |
| A. | Shelley |
| B. | Coleridge |
| C. | Coleridge |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» D. None of these | |