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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.
| 201. |
’Picture of Dorian Gray ’ was written by__________________? |
| A. | Oscar Wild |
| B. | Hardy |
| C. | George Eliot |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. Hardy | |
| 202. |
‘Paradise Lost’ was written by________________? |
| A. | Shakespeare |
| B. | Milton |
| C. | Coleridge |
| D. | Keats |
| Answer» C. Coleridge | |
| 203. |
‘Paradise Lost’ was written by__________________? |
| A. | Mathew |
| B. | Robert Browning |
| C. | John Milton |
| D. | W B Yeats |
| Answer» D. W B Yeats | |
| 204. |
‘Paradise Lost’ and ‘Paradise Regained’ are written by________________? |
| A. | P.B. Shelley |
| B. | John Keats |
| C. | John Milton |
| D. | William Blake |
| Answer» D. William Blake | |
| 205. |
One of these men did NOT write during the Restoration period. Who ? |
| A. | John Milton |
| B. | Thomas Otway |
| C. | Sir Walter Scott |
| D. | John Dryden |
| Answer» D. John Dryden | |
| 206. |
One of the following was a Romantic poet______________? |
| A. | Tennyson |
| B. | Arnold |
| C. | Shelley |
| D. | Browning |
| Answer» D. Browning | |
| 207. |
On which novel, the Sherlock Holmes character was first appeared_________________? |
| A. | The Hound of the Baskervilles |
| B. | The Sign of the Four |
| C. | The Valley of Fear |
| D. | A Study in Scarlet |
| Answer» E. | |
| 208. |
On liberty was written by_______________? |
| A. | Carlyle |
| B. | Macaulay |
| C. | Godwin |
| D. | Mill |
| Answer» E. | |
| 209. |
‘On Heroes and Hero…worship is written by________________? |
| A. | Huxley |
| B. | Carlyle |
| C. | Ruskin |
| D. | Mill |
| Answer» C. Ruskin | |
| 210. |
‘Of Human Bondage’ is written by_____________? |
| A. | Somerset Maugham |
| B. | James Joyce |
| C. | W.B. Yeats |
| D. | Philip Sydney |
| Answer» B. James Joyce | |
| 211. |
‘Ode to Autumn’ was written by__________________? |
| A. | Shelley |
| B. | Keats |
| C. | Byron |
| D. | Blake |
| Answer» C. Byron | |
| 212. |
‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’ Who is the poet of the poem ? |
| A. | Wordsworth |
| B. | Shelley |
| C. | Shakespeare |
| D. | Keats |
| Answer» E. | |
| 213. |
‘O Captain! My Captain!’ is a poem written by______________? |
| A. | Robert Frost |
| B. | Emily Dickinson |
| C. | Mark Twain |
| D. | Walt Whitman |
| Answer» E. | |
| 214. |
Novel which is not written by D. H Lawrence ? |
| A. | The Rainbow |
| B. | Ullysses |
| C. | Lady Chatterley’s Lover |
| D. | Sons and Lovers |
| Answer» C. Lady Chatterley’s Lover | |
| 215. |
“not of an age, but for all time”-was told about Shakespeare by whom ? |
| A. | Marlowe |
| B. | Ben Johnson |
| C. | King Henry |
| D. | John Milton |
| Answer» C. King Henry | |
| 216. |
Negative Capability to Keats, means_______________? |
| A. | The ability to sympathize with other |
| B. | Say bad thing, about others |
| C. | To empathize |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» D. None of these | |
| 217. |
Murder in the Cathedral’ is a play written by___________? |
| A. | Shakespeare |
| B. | Marlowe |
| C. | Oscar Wilde |
| D. | T.S. Eliot |
| Answer» E. | |
| 218. |
Modern age is an age of______________? |
| A. | Pessimism and Cynicism |
| B. | Conflicts and Controversies |
| C. | Subjectivity |
| D. | All of the above |
| Answer» C. Subjectivity | |
| 219. |
Maggie is the central character in George Eliot’s________________? |
| A. | Adam Bede |
| B. | Middle March |
| C. | The Mill on the Floss |
| D. | Silas Morner |
| Answer» D. Silas Morner | |
| 220. |
Macbeth is a_____________? |
| A. | play |
| B. | novel |
| C. | an essy |
| D. | poem |
| Answer» B. novel | |
| 221. |
‘Macbeth and Oedipus’ is by_________________? |
| A. | W. H. Auden |
| B. | Earnest Jones |
| C. | Nicoll |
| D. | Freud |
| Answer» B. Earnest Jones | |
| 222. |
‘Lycidas’ is written by_____________? |
| A. | Alexander Pope |
| B. | Henry Fielding |
| C. | Thomas Hardy |
| D. | John Milton |
| Answer» E. | |
| 223. |
‘Lucy Gray’ is a poem written by_______________? |
| A. | Wordsworth |
| B. | Keats |
| C. | None of these |
| D. | All of these |
| Answer» B. Keats | |
| 224. |
‘Love and Friendship’ is written by___________________? |
| A. | Francis Bacon |
| B. | Jane Austen |
| C. | Jonathan Swift |
| D. | None |
| Answer» C. Jonathan Swift | |
| 225. |
Lord Byron was born in________________? |
| A. | 1788 |
| B. | 1789 |
| C. | 1790 |
| D. | 1791 |
| Answer» B. 1789 | |
| 226. |
Literary divisions are not always exact, but we draw them because they are often convenient. The majority of English literary periods are named after_______________? |
| A. | The leading characteristic of the age |
| B. | Monarchs or political events |
| C. | The primary author of the age |
| D. | The language of the age |
| Answer» C. The primary author of the age | |
| 227. |
‘Lapis Lazuli’ is __________________? |
| A. | A Poem |
| B. | Drama |
| C. | None of these |
| D. | A Poem |
| Answer» B. Drama | |
| 228. |
Keats’ widespread appeal is to the Reader’s interest in the supernatural ? |
| A. | True |
| B. | False |
| C. | both A and B |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» C. both A and B | |
| 229. |
“Justice delayed is justice denied” was stated by______________? |
| A. | Shakespeare |
| B. | Emerson |
| C. | Gladstone |
| D. | Disraeli |
| Answer» D. Disraeli | |
| 230. |
Julius Caesar was the ruler of Rome about____________? |
| A. | 1000 years ago |
| B. | 1500 years ago |
| C. | 2000 years ago |
| D. | 3000 years ago |
| Answer» D. 3000 years ago | |
| 231. |
Joyce’s novel ’Ulysses’ takes place over what period of time ? |
| A. | A week |
| B. | 24 hours |
| C. | A lifetime |
| D. | 6 months |
| Answer» C. A lifetime | |
| 232. |
Jane Austen’s other writings are______________? |
| A. | Sense and Sensibility |
| B. | Emma |
| C. | Persuasion |
| D. | All of these |
| Answer» E. | |
| 233. |
Jane Austen wrote during this period________________? |
| A. | Restoration |
| B. | Victorian |
| C. | Middle English |
| D. | Regency |
| Answer» E. | |
| 234. |
Jane Austen is the writer of__________________? |
| A. | Jane Eyre |
| B. | Ramona |
| C. | Emma |
| D. | Rebecca |
| Answer» D. Rebecca | |
| 235. |
James Joyce’s narrative technique is known as______________? |
| A. | stream of consciousness |
| B. | psycho-analysis |
| C. | Objective Co-relative |
| D. | Symbolism and Mysticism |
| Answer» B. psycho-analysis | |
| 236. |
James Joyce’s narrative technique is known as______________________? |
| A. | stream of consciousness |
| B. | psycho-analysis |
| C. | Objective Co-relative |
| D. | Symbolism and Mysticism |
| Answer» B. psycho-analysis | |
| 237. |
James Joyce’s famous novel_____________? |
| A. | Roots |
| B. | Ulysses |
| C. | Tom Jones |
| D. | Rebecca |
| Answer» C. Tom Jones | |
| 238. |
______________is the school of literary writings is a medical theory ? |
| A. | Comedy of Manners |
| B. | Theater of the Absurd |
| C. | Heroic Tragedy |
| D. | Comedy of Humours |
| Answer» E. | |
| 239. |
Intense emotion coupled with an intense display of imagery are characteristics of age______________? |
| A. | Victorian |
| B. | Elizabethan |
| C. | Romantic |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» D. None of these | |
| 240. |
In which of the following Genres did Victorian Literature achieve its greatest success_______________? |
| A. | Epic Poetry |
| B. | Lyric Poetry |
| C. | The Essay |
| D. | The Novel |
| Answer» E. | |
| 241. |
In which city the play of Shakespeare ’Romeo and Juliet’ is set in_________________? |
| A. | Milan |
| B. | Milan |
| C. | Turin |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» C. Turin | |
| 242. |
In which century was Piers Plowman written ? |
| A. | 14th |
| B. | 12th |
| C. | 10th |
| D. | 11th |
| Answer» B. 12th | |
| 243. |
In which age is ‘The Puritan Period’ included ? |
| A. | The Renaissance |
| B. | The Non-classical |
| C. | The Romantic |
| D. | The Modern |
| Answer» B. The Non-classical | |
| 244. |
In what language did Shakespeare write ? |
| A. | Middle English |
| B. | German |
| C. | Old English |
| D. | Modern English |
| Answer» E. | |
| 245. |
In “The Gift of the Magi” Della is presented as_____________? |
| A. | a loving wife |
| B. | a snobbish wife |
| C. | a hypocritical wife |
| D. | a sacrificing wife |
| Answer» E. | |
| 246. |
In Shakespeare’s Tragedies Character is not Destiny but there is Character and Destiny is a remark by________________? |
| A. | Nicoll |
| B. | Goddord |
| C. | Bradley |
| D. | Coleridge |
| Answer» D. Coleridge | |
| 247. |
In Shakespeare “Character is not Destiny” but “character and Destiny”. Whose comment is this ? |
| A. | Bradley |
| B. | Dr. Johnson |
| C. | Nicoll |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. Dr. Johnson | |
| 248. |
In Shakespeare tragedy, the hero is________________? |
| A. | an ordinary man |
| B. | a high ranking man |
| C. | a sacrilegious man |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» C. a sacrilegious man | |
| 249. |
In Poem Daffodils ‘Sprightly Dance’ means________________? |
| A. | ugly dance |
| B. | nonsense dance |
| C. | lively dance |
| D. | nice dance |
| Answer» D. nice dance | |
| 250. |
In Memoriam by Tennyson is________________? |
| A. | an elegy |
| B. | a collection of elegies |
| C. | a lyric |
| D. | a dramatic lyric |
| Answer» B. a collection of elegies | |