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