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This section includes 96 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your Indian Polity and Civics knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
| 1. |
Who is the author of "The theory of Industrial organisation" |
| A. | Patrick Modiano |
| B. | Jean Triole |
| C. | Richard Flanagan |
| D. | Peter Carey |
| Answer» C. Richard Flanagan | |
| 2. |
The book "The spirit of laws" published in the year |
| A. | 1748 |
| B. | 1755 |
| C. | 1759 |
| D. | 1768 |
| Answer» B. 1755 | |
| 3. |
Who is the author of the book "Zest for Life" |
| A. | Gustave Flaubert |
| B. | Leo Tolstoy |
| C. | Voltaire |
| D. | Emile Zola |
| Answer» E. | |
| 4. |
Who is the author of "The theory of Industrial organization" |
| A. | Patrick Modiano |
| B. | Jean Triole |
| C. | Richard Flanagan |
| D. | Peter Carey |
| Answer» C. Richard Flanagan | |
| 5. |
Sidney's Defence of Poesie was written in response to __ |
| A. | The School of Abuse |
| B. | Tottle's Miscellany |
| C. | Art of English Poesie |
| D. | The Courtyer |
| Answer» B. Tottle's Miscellany | |
| 6. |
__ is credited to have finished Marlowe's Hero and Leander |
| A. | Michael Drayton |
| B. | Ben Jonson |
| C. | Shakespeare |
| D. | George Chapman |
| Answer» E. | |
| 7. |
T. S. Eliot considers __ to be one of Shakespeare's most assured artistic success |
| A. | Hamlet |
| B. | King Lear |
| C. | The Tempest |
| D. | Coriolanus |
| Answer» B. King Lear | |
| 8. |
"For art's sake alone I would not face the toil of writing a single sentence". Who said it |
| A. | T. S. Eliot |
| B. | G. B. Shaw |
| C. | Thomas Hardy |
| D. | Virginia Woolf |
| Answer» C. Thomas Hardy | |
| 9. |
Who has been called "The true child of the Renaissance" |
| A. | Shakespeare |
| B. | Chaucer |
| C. | More |
| D. | Marlowe |
| Answer» E. | |
| 10. |
Who died in a tavern brawl |
| A. | Shakespeare |
| B. | Bacon |
| C. | Sidney |
| D. | Marlowe |
| Answer» E. | |
| 11. |
The Essays of Elia was first published in book form in |
| A. | 1795 |
| B. | 1807 |
| C. | 1823 |
| D. | 1829 |
| Answer» D. 1829 | |
| 12. |
Who is the writer of Decameron |
| A. | Chaucer |
| B. | Boccaccio |
| C. | Dante |
| D. | Plutarch |
| Answer» C. Dante | |
| 13. |
When was the Lyrical Ballads published |
| A. | 1797 |
| B. | 1798 |
| C. | 1800 |
| D. | 1801 |
| Answer» C. 1800 | |
| 14. |
Who is regarded as "The father of the English Novel" |
| A. | Joseph Addison |
| B. | Henry Fielding |
| C. | Samuel Pepys |
| D. | John Bunyan |
| Answer» C. Samuel Pepys | |
| 15. |
Who accuses Arnold of "high pamphleteering" |
| A. | Eliot |
| B. | Pater |
| C. | I. A. Richards |
| D. | F. R. Leavis |
| Answer» E. | |
| 16. |
The Chorus in T. S. Eliot's play "Murder in the Cathedral", consist of |
| A. | The women of Canterbury |
| B. | The priests of Canterbury |
| C. | The men of Canterbury |
| D. | The servants of Thomas Becket |
| Answer» B. The priests of Canterbury | |
| 17. |
The sea battle of actium takes place in the play |
| A. | Measure for Measure |
| B. | Othello |
| C. | Antony and Cleopatra |
| D. | Macbeth |
| Answer» D. Macbeth | |
| 18. |
Who said "Tragedy imitates men as better and comedy as worse than they really are." |
| A. | Aristotle |
| B. | Shakespeare |
| C. | Dryden |
| D. | Bradley |
| Answer» B. Shakespeare | |
| 19. |
Which character of Shakespeare has "the courtier's, soldier's, scholar's eye, tongue and sword" |
| A. | King Lear |
| B. | Othello |
| C. | Hamlet |
| D. | Macbeth |
| Answer» D. Macbeth | |
| 20. |
Which country does Shakespeare's Hamlet belongs to |
| A. | England |
| B. | France |
| C. | Denmark |
| D. | Scotland |
| Answer» D. Scotland | |
| 21. |
Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra" is based on |
| A. | Lodge's Rosalynde |
| B. | Plutarch's Lives |
| C. | Promos and Cassandra |
| D. | None |
| Answer» C. Promos and Cassandra | |
| 22. |
Who propounds "the touchstone method" |
| A. | Arnold |
| B. | Shelley |
| C. | Pope |
| D. | Dryden |
| Answer» B. Shelley | |
| 23. |
Who among the following believes that "poetry is the anti-thesis of science" |
| A. | Arnold |
| B. | Eliot |
| C. | Coleridge |
| D. | Keats |
| Answer» D. Keats | |
| 24. |
The phrase "Willing suspension of disbelief" was coined by |
| A. | Wordsworth |
| B. | Coleridge |
| C. | Eliot |
| D. | Arnold |
| Answer» C. Eliot | |
| 25. |
Milton's Areopagitica is |
| A. | a sonnet |
| B. | an epic |
| C. | a plea for the freedom of the press |
| D. | a play |
| Answer» D. a play | |
| 26. |
Milton's 'Comus' is |
| A. | An absurd play |
| B. | A short story |
| C. | A masque |
| D. | An elegy |
| Answer» D. An elegy | |
| 27. |
Who is the hero of Paradise Regained |
| A. | Christ |
| B. | Satan |
| C. | The Paritan Church |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. Satan | |
| 28. |
"Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation and directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry" Who said this |
| A. | R.S. Crane |
| B. | I.A. Richards |
| C. | M. Arnold |
| D. | T.S. Eliot |
| Answer» E. | |
| 29. |
Who is the writer of the epic poems "Paradise Lost" and "Paradise Regained" |
| A. | William Shakespeare |
| B. | John Donne |
| C. | John Keats |
| D. | John Milton |
| Answer» E. | |
| 30. |
In which play does "Forest of Arden" figure |
| A. | A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| B. | The Merry Wives of Windsor |
| C. | As You Like It |
| D. | Macbeth |
| Answer» D. Macbeth | |
| 31. |
The "battle of Philippi" appears in the play |
| A. | Othello |
| B. | Julius Caesar |
| C. | Macbeth |
| D. | King Lear |
| Answer» C. Macbeth | |
| 32. |
"A Tale of Two Cities" Novel state the fact in following two cities |
| A. | London and Paris |
| B. | London and Berlin |
| C. | Chicago and New York |
| D. | Moscow and Saint Petersburg |
| Answer» B. London and Berlin | |
| 33. |
__ is known as the father of detective stories |
| A. | Edgar Allen Poe |
| B. | Anton Chekov |
| C. | Aurthur Conan Doyle |
| D. | Judith Wright |
| Answer» B. Anton Chekov | |
| 34. |
"Saki" is the pen name of |
| A. | Somerset Maugham |
| B. | KA Abbas |
| C. | Wilkie Collins |
| D. | Hector Hugh Munro |
| Answer» E. | |
| 35. |
The last book of Gulliver's travels is |
| A. | Voyage to Lilliput |
| B. | Voyage to Brobdingnag |
| C. | Voyage to Houyhnms |
| D. | Voyage to Laputa |
| Answer» D. Voyage to Laputa | |
| 36. |
The first tragedy written in English is |
| A. | Edward II |
| B. | Doctor Faustus |
| C. | The Jew of Malta |
| D. | Gorboduc |
| Answer» E. | |
| 37. |
Maxim Gorky was a famous writer from |
| A. | England |
| B. | America |
| C. | Germany |
| D. | Russia |
| Answer» E. | |
| 38. |
Who is the creator of the fictional character known as Sherlock Holmes |
| A. | Agatha Christie |
| B. | Arthur Conan Doyle |
| C. | Oscar Wilde |
| D. | J. K. Rowling |
| Answer» C. Oscar Wilde | |
| 39. |
Mark Twain is a famous author from |
| A. | USA |
| B. | UK |
| C. | Ireland |
| D. | Norway |
| Answer» B. UK | |
| 40. |
When was the first Oxford English Dictionary published |
| A. | 1830 |
| B. | 1855 |
| C. | 1884 |
| D. | 1898 |
| Answer» D. 1898 | |
| 41. |
Who wrote the first english dictionary |
| A. | Jonathan Swift |
| B. | James Boswell |
| C. | Samuel Johnson |
| D. | Robert Cawdrey |
| Answer» D. Robert Cawdrey | |
| 42. |
Jerusalem Prize for the Freedom of the Individual in Society was first awarded to |
| A. | Max Frisch |
| B. | André Schwarz-Bart |
| C. | Bertrand Russell |
| D. | Ignazio Silone |
| Answer» D. Ignazio Silone | |
| 43. |
Man Booker Prize is given only to novels published from |
| A. | USA |
| B. | UK |
| C. | India |
| D. | France |
| Answer» C. India | |
| 44. |
Who is the first person to receive nobel prize in literature |
| A. | Leconte de Lisle |
| B. | Sully Prudhomme |
| C. | Alphonse Lemerre |
| D. | Anatole France |
| Answer» C. Alphonse Lemerre | |
| 45. |
Who is the author of the book 'Long walk to Freedom' |
| A. | Jawaharlal Nehru |
| B. | Nelson Mandela |
| C. | Mahatma Gandhi |
| D. | Mario Puzo |
| Answer» C. Mahatma Gandhi | |
| 46. |
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 | |
| 47. |
What is the name of the storyteller of 'One Thousand and One Nights' |
| A. | Scheherazade |
| B. | Sultana |
| C. | Nura |
| D. | Morgiana |
| Answer» B. Sultana | |
| 48. |
From which country the famous poet Pablo Neruda belongs |
| A. | Peru |
| B. | Argentina |
| C. | Cuba |
| D. | Chile |
| Answer» E. | |
| 49. |
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 | |
| 50. |
Which University presented the Pulitzer Prize |
| A. | Columbia University |
| B. | Yale University |
| C. | New York University |
| D. | Harvard University |
| Answer» B. Yale University | |