Que- The novel 'The Jungle Book' is written by_______________?
a. R. K. Narayan
b. Edin Blyton
c. Rudyard Kipling
d. H. G. Wells
Answer- Rudyard Kipling
Que- 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- the revival of learning
Que- 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- all things, both great and small,will perish
Que- 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- Bradley
Que- Which year William Shakespeare was born ?
a. 1564 AD
b. 1773 AD
c. 1809 AD
d. 1923 AD
Answer- 1564 AD
Que- Lapis Lazuli' is __________________?
a. A Poem
b. Drama
c. None of these
d. A Poem
Answer- A Poem
Que- 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- a sacrificing wife
Que- Who wrote the book 'Lord Jim: A Tale ?
a. Oscar Wilde
b. Joseph Conrad
c. Thomas Hardy
d. Rudyard Kipling
Answer- Joseph Conrad
Que- Lord Byron was born in________________?
a. 1788
b. 1789
c. 1790
d. 1791
Answer- 1788
Que- Who wrote the poem 'Solitary Reaper' ?
a. William Wordsworth
b. P. B Shelley
c. Lord Byron
d. John Keats
Answer- William Wordsworth
Que- Who is the first great modernist of English Literature ?
a. Roger Bacon
b. Robert Browning
c. Geoffrey Chaucer
d. Cynewulf
Answer- Cynewulf
Que- Hardy is a__________________?
a. Pessimist
b. Meliorist
c. Mystic
d. None of these
Answer- Pessimist
Que- The University Wits were_______________?
a. Poets
b. Playwrights
c. Novelists
d. None of these
Answer- Playwrights
Que- ______________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- Comedy of Humours
Que- Emile Zola is a famous__________________?
a. English novelist
b. American Novelist
c. Irish novelist
d. French Novelist
Answer- French Novelist
Que- All that glitters is not gold. You have heard often this told. This maxim is included in Shakespeare's__________________?
a. Merchant of Venice / Shakespeare's
b. Shakespeare's Tempest
c. Shakespeare's Much ado about nothing.
d. None of these
Answer- Merchant of Venice / Shakespeare's
Que- Prometheus Unbound' is a lyrical drama by__________________?
a. Shelley
b. Shakespeare
c. Sophocles
d. Euripedes
Answer- Shelley
Que- Elegy' is______________________?
a. Historical poem
b. figurative story
c. song of lamentation
d. short story
Answer- song of lamentation
Que- The Lotus…Eaters' was written by________________?
a. Tennyson
b. Browning
c. Blake
d. None of these
Answer- Tennyson
Que- Who of the following was both a poet and painter ?
a. Keats
b. Donne
c. William Blake
d. Spenser
Answer- William Blake
Que- T. Hardy is_______________?
a. A social reformer
b. A satirist
c. A fatalist
d. A lover of nature
Answer- A fatalist
Que- The Medal' by John Dryden is a/an________________?
a. play
b. satire
c. prose
d. translation
Answer- satire
Que- Which of the following is illustrative of Ruskin's interest in social economy ?
a. The Seven Lamps
b. Unto this Last
c. The Stones of Venice
d. None of these
Answer- Unto this Last
Que- The shepherd in "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" is_________________?
a. sentimental
b. practical
c. irresponsible
d. romantic
Answer- romantic
Que- What do you mean by Stanza ?
a. a division of drama
b. a division of novel
c. a division of story
d. a subdivision of a poem
Answer- a subdivision of a poem
Que- The poet of 'Romantic Age' is_______________?
a. D.H. Lawrence
b. John Milton
c. John Keats
d. None of these
Answer- John Keats
Que- Who is the writer of the poem 'Nun Priest's Tale' ?
a. Geoffrey Chaucer
b. Cynewulf
c. Robert Browning
d. Shelley
Answer- Geoffrey Chaucer
Que- Who is the author of 'Animal Farm' ?
a. Thomas More
b. George Orwell
c. Boris Pasternak
d. Charles Dickens
Answer- George Orwell
Que- What is an Epic ?
a. a short poem
b. a long narrative poem
c. a historical poem
d. a prose composition
Answer- a long narrative poem
Que- Childe Harold was written by_______________?
a. Byron
b. Shelley
c. Tennyson
d. None of these
Answer- Byron
Que- Shaw died at the age of_______________?
a. 75
b. 95
c. 105
d. none of these
Answer- 95
Que- Simile is the direct comparison between two________________?
a. similar things
b. dissimilar things
c. elaborate comparison
d. contradictory things
Answer- similar things
Que- Who wrote the book 'Ivan Hoe' ?
a. O' Henry
b. R L Stevenson
c. Ernest Hemingway
d. Sir Walter Scott
Answer- Sir Walter Scott
Que- In which age is 'The Puritan Period' included ?
a. The Renaissance
b. The Non-classical
c. The Romantic
d. The Modern
Answer- The Renaissance
Que- 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- Lady Chatterley's Lover
Que- Shakespeare was born in_______________?
a. 1570
b. 1564
c. 1590
d. None of these
Answer- 1564
Que- In Shakespeare tragedy, the hero is________________?
a. an ordinary man
b. a high ranking man
c. a sacrilegious man
d. none of these
Answer- a high ranking man
Que- Adonis is modeled on________________?
a. Bion's lament for Adonis
b. Lycidas
c. In Memoriam
d. None of these
Answer- Bion's lament for Adonis
Que- Who is the writer of 'Lorna Doone' ?
a. H.G. Wells
b. Blackmore
c. T. S. Eliot
d. Jane Austen
Answer- Blackmore
Que- Undo this Button is a line from Shakespeare's________________?
a. Hamlet
b. Othello
c. King Lear
d. Julius Caeser
Answer- King Lear
Que- Which one is not a science fiction writer_________________?
a. H. G. Wells
b. Victor Hugo
c. Hugo Gernsback
d. Jules Verne
Answer- Victor Hugo
Que- Love and Friendship' is written by___________________?
a. Francis Bacon
b. Jane Austen
c. Jonathan Swift
d. None
Answer- Jane Austen
Que- Paradise Lost' was written by__________________?
a. Mathew
b. Robert Browning
c. John Milton
d. W B Yeats
Answer- John Milton
Que- Which University presented the Pulitzer Prize_______________?
a. Columbia University
b. Yale University
c. New York University
d. Harvard University
Answer- Columbia University
Que- What the term Elegy refers ?
a. a song of lamentation
b. a song of pleasure
c. a hymn
d. a praiseworthy song
Answer- a song of lamentation
Que- Who is the author of the novel 'The Golden Age' ?
a. Tahmima Anam
b. Pearl S. Bark
c. Virginia Woolf
d. Jane Austen
Answer- Tahmima Anam
Que- Picture of Dorian Gray ' was written by__________________?
a. Oscar Wild
b. Hardy
c. George Eliot
d. None of these
Answer- Oscar Wild
Que- Wordsworth was appointed as poet Laureate in_______________?
a. 1843 b…1844
b. 1845
c. 1846
d. none of these
Answer- 1843 b…1844
Que- What do you mean by Archaism ?
a. modern mode of words
b. up-to-date words
c. literary words
d. obsolete words
Answer- obsolete words
Que- Catharsis refers to the term_______________?
a. characters in play
b. animals in play
c. sympathy to others
d. arouse of pity and fear
Answer- arouse of pity and fear