Que- We find Subjective Elements in ?
a. Keats
b. Shelley
c. Wordsworth
d. All
Answer- All
Que- Who wrote 'Hard Times' and 'A tale of two Cities' ?
a. John Milton
b. Charles Dickens
c. John Webster
d. Daniel Defoe
Answer- Charles Dickens
Que- Who was American poet ?
a. Robert Frost
b. John Keats
c. John Milton
d. Robert Herrick
Answer- Robert Frost
Que- Which year Geoffrey Chaucer was born ?
a. 1340 AD
b. 1341 AD
c. 1342 AD
d. 1343 AD
Answer- 1340 AD
Que- Total number of sonnets written by Shakespeare______________?
a. 102
b. 154
c. 163
d. 194
Answer- 154
Que- 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- FALSE
Que- Who was more under the influence of Godwin's philosophy of life ?
a. Byron
b. Browning
c. Shelley
d. Keats
Answer- Shelley
Que- Famous romantic poets were_____________?
a. Five
b. Four
c. Six
d. None of these
Answer- Six
Que- From 1st January 2007, how many digits contains in ISBN (International Standard Book Number)?
a. 9
b. 10
c. 13
d. 15
Answer- 13
Que- Which one of the following is a comedy ?
a. All's Well that Ends Well
b. Hamlet
c. Timon of Athens
d. Antony and Cleopatra
Answer- All's Well that Ends Well
Que- Would you tell Sordelo (Browning) as a______________?
a. Dramatic Monologue
b. Dramatic Lyrics
c. Tragic Drama
d. None of these
Answer- Dramatic Lyrics
Que- Which book wins the 2013 Man Booker Prize__________________?
a. The Luminaries
b. Wolf Hall
c. The White Tiger
d. The Sea
Answer- The Luminaries
Que- In his poetry Tennyson is_______________?
a. The representative poet of Victorian Age
b. The representative poet of Romantic Age
c. The best nature poet
d. None of these
Answer- The representative poet of Victorian Age
Que- Who was a friend of John Milton ?
a. John Donne
b. John Dryden
c. Andrew Marvell
d. Alexander Pope
Answer- Andrew Marvell
Que- Who wrote 'Crime and Punishment' ?
a. Shelley
b. Tolstoy
c. Byron
d. Dostoyevsky
Answer- Dostoyevsky
Que- Thomas Hardy was brought up to the profession of_____________?
a. Architect
b. Engraver
c. Sculptor
d. None of these
Answer- Architect
Que- What did Robert Frost's father do ?
a. teacher
b. journalist
c. black-smith
d. farmer
Answer- journalist
Que- Vanity Fair' is a novel by_______________?
a. Dickens
b. Thackeray
c. Scott
d. Fielding
Answer- Thackeray
Que- 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- Restoration Period
Que- Find the Odd man out ?
a. Tom Jones : Henry Fielding
b. Roxana: Daniel Defoe
c. The Good-nature man: Oliver Goldsmith
d. All for Love: John Milton
Answer- All for Love: John Milton
Que- Which is called the Victorian Age______________?
a. 18th Century
b. 19th Century
c. 20th Century
d. None of these
Answer- 19th Century
Que- Which one of the following writers is not woman ?
a. Emily Bronte
b. Jane Austen
c. Robert Browning
d. None of these
Answer- Robert Browning
Que- Shirley, Jane Eyre, Villete were written by_______________?
a. E. Bronte
b. J. Austen
c. Bronte
d. None of these
Answer- Bronte
Que- Who is the writer of 'The Charge of the Light Brigade' ?
a. George Bernard Shaw
b. Christopher Marlowe
c. Lord Tennyson
d. William Shakespeare
Answer- Lord Tennyson
Que- James Joyce's famous novel_____________?
a. Roots
b. Ulysses
c. Tom Jones
d. Rebecca
Answer- Ulysses
Que- On Heroes and Hero…worship is written by________________?
a. Huxley
b. Carlyle
c. Ruskin
d. Mill
Answer- Carlyle
Que- One of the following was a Romantic poet______________?
a. Tennyson
b. Arnold
c. P.B. Shelley
d. Browning
Answer- P.B. Shelley
Que- The Rape of the Lock is a_______________?
a. Parody
b. Elegy
c. Romance
d. Sonnet
Answer- Parody
Que- Beauty is truth, truth is beauty is stated by_____________?
a. Keats
b. P.B. Shelley
c. Jane Austine
d. Charles Lamb
Answer- Keats
Que- What do you mean by Quatrain ?
a. a poem of fourteen lines
b. a stanza of fourteen lines
c. a stanza of six lines
d. a stanza of four lines
Answer- a stanza of four lines
Que- Who is the author of 'A Brief History of Time' ?
a. Albert Einstein
b. Stephen Hawking
c. Jagadish Chandra Basu
d. Isaac Newton
Answer- Stephen Hawking
Que- But God's eternal Laws are kind And break the heart of stone. In which poem do these lines appear ?
a. We Are Seven (Wordsworth)
b. Ballad of Reading Goal (Oscar Wilde)
c. Prisoner of Chillon (Byron)
d. None of these
Answer- Ballad of Reading Goal (Oscar Wilde)
Que- The most popular French playwright, Jean Baptiste Poquelin, is known as______________?
a. Caleron
b. Corneille
c. Couperin
d. Moliere
Answer- Moliere
Que- 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- Oscar Wilde
Que- This work was written before the other three choices ?
a. Bede's "An Ecclesiastical History of the English People"
b. Julian of Norwhich's "Book of Showings"
c. Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales"
d. Sir Thomas More's "Utopia"
Answer- Bede's "An Ecclesiastical History of the English People"
Que- Which of the following literary sub periods does NOT fall under the Neoclassical Period ?
a. The Restoration
b. Jacobean Age
c. The Augustan Age
d. The Age of Sensibility
Answer- Jacobean Age
Que- Historical events often influence literature. Which of the following did NOT occur during the Restoration period ?
a. Charles II was restored to the throne
b. The French Revolution
c. The Great Fire of London
d. The Exclusion Bill Crisis
Answer- The French Revolution
Que- This work was NOT originally published in the 20th Century ?
a. Henry James's "The Ambassadors"
b. Thomas Hardy's "Tess of the D'Urbervilles"
c. E.M. Forster's "A Room With A View"
d. Virginia Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway"
Answer- Thomas Hardy's "Tess of the D'Urbervilles"
Que- Which work was completed last ?
a. John Milton's "Paradise Lost"
b. George Herbert's "The Temple"
c. William Shakespeare's "Tempest"
d. Ben Jonson's "Volpone"
Answer- John Milton's "Paradise Lost"
Que- Which of the following works was written before the all-important Battle of Hastings?
a. Beowulf
b. Canterbury Tales
c. The Domesday Book
d. Sons and Lovers
Answer- Beowulf
Que- In what language did Shakespeare write ?
a. Middle English
b. German
c. Old English
d. Modern English
Answer- Modern English
Que- 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- Monarchs or political events
Que- 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- Sir Walter Scott
Que- Who write the story "Story Teller" ?
a. William Wordsworth
b. William Shakespeare
c. Thomas Grey
d. Saki
Answer- Saki
Que- HYMN TO ADVERSITY is a poem by_______________?
a. Thomas gray
b. Alexander Pope
c. Edward gibbon
d. William Blake
Answer- Thomas gray
Que- Who wrote the poem "Requiem" ?
a. Robert Louis Stevenson
b. William Shakespeare
c. Samuel Johnson
d. John Milton
Answer- Robert Louis Stevenso