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English Literature MCQ (Multiple Choice Questions)

 Que- Who, among the following, is not the second generation of British Romantics ? 

a. Keats  

b. Wordsworth  

c. P.B. Shelley  

d. Byron 


Answer- Wordsworth


Que- P.B. Shelley's Adonais is an elegy on the death of _______________? 

a. Milton  

b. Coleridge  

c. Keats  

d. Johnson 


Answer- Keats


Que- Identify the character who is a supporter of Women's Rights in Sons and Lovers ? 

a. Mrs. Morel  

b. Annie  

c. Miriam  

d. Clara Dawes 


Answer- Mrs. Morel


Que- The novel The Power and the Glory is set in ? 

a. Mexico  

b. Italy  

c. France  

d. Germany 


Answer- Mexico


Que- In Pride and Prejudice, Lydia elopes with ? 

a. Darcy  

b. Wickham  

c. William Collins  

d. Charles Bingley 


Answer- Wickham


Que- Who is Thomas Percy in Henry IV, Pt I ? 

a. Earl of Northumberland  

b. Earl of March  

c. Earl of Douglas  

d. Earl of Worcester 


Answer- Earl of Northumberland


Que- What is the sub-title of the play Twelfth Night ? 

a. Or, What is you Will  

b. Or, What you Will  

c. Or, What you Like It  

d. Or, What you Think 


Answer- Or, What you Will


Que- Hamlet's famous speech 'To be,or not to be; that is the question' occurs in ? 

a. Act II, Scene I  

b. Act III, Scene III  

c. Act IV, Scene III  

d. Act III, Scene I 


Answer- Act III, Scene I


Que- Who wrote the poem 'Defence of Lucknow' ? 

a. Browning  

b. Tennyson  

c. Swinburne  

d. Rossetti 


Answer- Swinburne


Que- In 'Leda and the Swan', who wooes Leda in guise of a swan ? 

a. Mars  

b. Hercules  

c. Zeus  

d. Bacchus 


Answer- Zeus


Que- The following lines are an example of image. 'The river sweats Oil and tar' ? 

a. visual  

b. kinetic  

c. erotic  

d. sensual 


Answer- erotic


Que- Uneasy lies the head that_______________( King Henry four, part two)? 

a. Wears a crown  

b. Wears a hat  

c. Wears a wig  

d. none of these 


Answer- Wears a crown


Que- Mr. Jaggers, in Great Expectations, is a_______________? 

a. lawyer  

b. postman  

c. Judge  

d. School teacher 


Answer- lawyer


Que- In Sons and Lovers, Paul Morel's mother's name is ? 

a. Susan  

b. Jane  

c. Gertrude  

d. Emily 


Answer- Jane


Que- One important feature of Jane Austen's style is ? 

a. boisterous humour  

b. humour and pathos  

c. subtlety of irony  

d. stream of consciousness 


Answer- humour and pathos


Que- Which book of John Ruskin influenced Mahatma Gandhi ? 

a. Sesame and Lilies  

b. The Seven Lamps of Architecture  

c. Unto This Last  

d. Fors Clavigera 


Answer- Unto This Last


Que- Joe Gargery is Pip's ? 

a. brother  

b. brother-in-Jaw  

c. guardian  

d. cousin 


Answer- guardian


Que- T. S. Eliot has borrowed the term 'Unreal City' in the first and third sections from ? 

a. Baudelaire  

b. Irving Babbit  

c. Dante  

d. Laforgue 


Answer- Dante


Que- Shakespeare wrote ______________ plays? 

a. 32 

b. 34 

c. 36 

d. 38 


Answer- 36


Que- Which of the following was written first________________? 

a. Henry six  

b. Henry seven  

c. Henry five  

d. None of above 


Answer- Henry six


Que- Which of the following play was written in 1601 ? 

a. Othello  

b. Hamlet  

c. King Lear  

d. Macbeth 


Answer- Hamlet


Que- Who is the second attending gentlewoman on Hero? Ursula and_______________? 

a. Margaret  

b. Emilia  

c. Helena  

d. Celia 


Answer- Margaret


Que- Who is second Prince of Arragon in "Much ado about nothing" ? 

a. Leonato  

b. Balthasar  

c. Don John  

d. Don Pedro 


Answer- Don Pedro


Que- Which of the following is in correct sequel ? 

a. Comedy of errors, A mid summer night's dream, Much ado about nothing, Henry 6 part three.  

b. A mid summer night's dream, Romeo and Juliet, As you like it, King Lear, Pericles.  

c. All's well that ends well, The tempest, As you like it, As you like it,A mid summer night's dream, Much ado about nothing.  

d. King Lear, Macbeth, Othello, Measure for measure, Henry 8, Romeo and Juliet. 


Answer- All's well that ends well, The tempest, As you like it, As you like it,A mid summer night's dream, Much ado about nothing.


Que- Following are the lines of: "I'm your wife if you marry me If not, I'll die your maid to be your fellow You may deny me, but I'll be your servant Whether you deny or not" ? 

a. Hamlet  

b. Romeo and Juliet  

c. Tempest  

d. Othello 


Answer- Tempest


Que- In 1599 which famous actor and his brother Cuthbert set a new playhouse on the Bank side, called the Globe ? 

a. Augustine Phillipps  

b. John Heimnge  

c. Henry Condell  

d. Richard Burbage 


Answer- Richard Burbage


Que- Which roles have played by Shakespeare in Hamlet and As you like it ? 

a. Fortinbras, Corin  

b. Leartus, Silvius  

c. Osric, Touchstone  

d. Ghost, Old servant Adam 


Answer- Ghost, Old servant Adam


Que- Shakespeare dedicated his long narrative poem Venus and Adonis to________________? 

a. Henry Wriothesley, the third earl of Southampton  

b. Thomas Wriothesley,forth earl of Southampton  

c. William Fitzwilliam, first earl of Southampton  

d. Henry Wriothesley, the second earl of Southampton 


Answer- Henry Wriothesley, the third earl of Southampton


Que- How many from his plays were published in his lifetime? 

a. Only sixteen  

b. Only seventeen  

c. Only eighteen  

d. Only nineteen 


Answer- Only seventeen


Que- Shakespeare's father died in _______________? 

a. 1600 

b. 1601 

c. 1602 

d. 1603 


Answer- 1601


Que- How does Lady Macbeth explain her husband's wild behavior at the banquet ? 

a. She tells the guests that Banquo's ghost is haunting Macbeth.  

b. She tells the guests that Macbeth has had too much to drink.  

c. She informs the guests that Macbeth is ill.  

d. She reveals that Macbeth is overcome with grief over the death of Duncan. 


Answer- She informs the guests that Macbeth is ill.


Que- Who is traveling with Macbeth when he first encounters the Three Witches ? 

a. Macduff  

b. Mercutio  

c. Lady Macbeth  

d. Banquo 


Answer- Banquo


Que- Shakespeare makes fun of the Puritans in his play ? 

a. Twelfth Night  

b. Hamlet  

c. The Tempest  

d. Henry IV,Pt I 


Answer- Twelfth Night


Que- There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. The line given above occurs in_______________? 

a. Hamlet  

b. Henry IV, Pt I  

c. The Tempest  

d. Twelfth Night 


Answer- Hamlet


Que- How many soliloquies are spoken by Hamlet in the play Hamlet ? 

a. Nine  

b. Five  

c. Seven  

d. Three 


Answer- Seven


Que- The term 'the Palliser Novels' is used to describe the political novels of ______________? 

a. Charles Dickens  

b. Anthony Trollope  

c. W. H. White  

d. B.Disraeli 


Answer- B.Disraeli


Que- Identify the writer who was expelled from Oxford for circulating a pamphlet ? 

a. P.B. Shelley  

b. Charles Lamb  

c. Hazlitt  

d. Coleridge 


Answer- P.B. Shelley


Que- Seven Ages of Man appears in " As you like it". Which character's speech it is ? 

a. Amiens  

b. Orlando  

c. Oliver  

d. Jaques 


Answer- Jaques


Que- Under the green wood tree is a song in____________________? 

a. Love's labour's lost  

b. As you like it  

c. A mid Summer night's dream  

d. Much ado about nothing 


Answer- As you like it


Que- G. Rossetti was a true literary descendant of ? 

a. Keats  

b. Byron  

c. P.B. Shelley  

d. Wordsworth 


Answer- Keats


Que- Identify the writer who used a pseudonym, Michael Angelo Titmarsh, for much of his early work ? 

a. Charles Dickens  

b. W. M. Thackeray  

c. Graham Greene  

d. D.H. Lawrence 


Answer- Graham Greene


Que- Who derided Hazlitt as one of the members of the 'Cockney School of Poetry' ? 

a. Tennyson  

b. Charles Lamb  

c. Lockhart  

d. T. S. Eliot 


Answer- T. S. Eliot


Que- Who coined the phrase 'Egotistical Sublime' ? 

a. William Wordsworth  

b. P.B Shelley  

c. S. T. Coleridge  

d. John Keats 


Answer- S. T. Coleridge


Que- Who called 'The Waste Land 'a music of ideas' ? 

a. Allen Tate  

b. J.C Ransom  

c. I.A Richards  

d. F. R Leavis 


Answer- Allen Tate


Que- Macbeth hires assassins to murder Banquo's son, named ? 

a. Angus  

b. Ross  

c. Fleance  

d. Lennox 


Answer- Fleance


Que- Othello was sent to fight with______________? 

a. French army  

b. German army  

c. Ottomans  

d. None of above 


Answer- Ottomans


Que- Othello gave Desdemona _____________as a token of love? 

a. Ring  

b. Handkerchief  

c. Pendant  

d. Bengals 


Answer- Handkerchief


Que-  A man can die but once is one of quote of following plays ? 

a. Henry 6 part three  

b. Henry 4 part two  

c. Henry 6 part one  

d. Henry 4 part one 


Answer- Henry 4 part two


Que- Following are the characters of: Apemantus, Alcibiades, Flavius, Lucullus, Sempronius ? 

a. Coriolanus  

b. Cymbeline  

c. Timon of Athens  

d. Winter's tale 


Answer- Timon of Athens


Que- Hamlet consist of _____________acts? 

a. 3 

b. 4 

c. 5 

d. 6 


Answer- 5

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