Que- Which of Shakespeare's play features Sir John Falstaff ?
a. The merry wives of Windsor
b. Troilus and Cressida
c. King John
d. Titus Andronicus
Answer- The merry wives of Windsor
Que- ____________was father of Desdemona ?
a. Othello
b. Brabantio
c. Iago
d. Gratiano
Answer- Brabantio
Que- Which of the following tragedy is not written by Shakespeare ?
a. Hamlet
b. Macbeth
c. King Lear
d. King Oedipus
Answer- King Oedipus
Que- Who was villain in Othello ?
a. Claudius
b. Iago
c. Egeus
d. None of above
Answer- Iago
Que- Which of the following is the earliest comedy of Shakespeare ?
a. A mid summer night's dream
b. Much ado about nothing
c. As you like it
d. Love's labour's lost
Answer- Love's labour's lost
Que- Who in Hamlet suggests that one should neither be a lender nor a borrower ?
a. Gertrude
b. Polonius
c. Horatio
d. Hamlet
Answer- Polonius
Que- The style of Paradise Lost is ?
a. more Latin than most poems
b. more spontaneous than thought out
c. more satirical than spontaneous
d. more dramatic than lyrical
Answer- more Latin than most poems
Que- Which of Shakespeare's characters exclaims; 'Brave, new, world!' ?
a. Ferdinand
b. Antonio
c. Miranda
d. Prospero
Answer- Miranda
Que- O, you are sick of self-love' Who is referred to in these words in Twelfth Night ?
a. Orsino
b. Sir Andrew
c. Sir Toby
d. Malvolio
Answer- Malvolio
Que- The Romantic Revival in English Poetry was influenced by the ?
a. French Revolution
b. Glorious Revolution of1688
c. Reformation
d. Oxford Movement
Answer- French Revolution
Que- Which of the following is an unfinished novel by Jane Austen ?
a. Sense and Sensibility
b. Mansfield Park
c. Sandition
d. Persuasion
Answer- Sandition
Que- Browning's famous poem 'Rabbi Ben Ezra' is included in ?
a. Dramatis Personae
b. Dramatic Idyls
c. Asolando
d. Red Cotton Night-Cap Country
Answer- Dramatis Personae
Que- Who said 'Keats was a Greek' ?
a. Wordsworth
b. Coleridge
c. Lamb
d. P.B. Shelley
Answer- Coleridge
Que- When Wordsworth's 'Immortality Ode' was first published in 1802, it had only ?
a. Stanzas I to IV
b. Stanzas I toV
c. Stanzas I to VI
d. Stanzas I to VII
Answer- Stanzas I toV
Que- Heaven lies about us in our infancy'. This line occurs in the poem ?
a. Immortality Ode
b. Tintern Abbey
c. The Second Coming
d. Leda and the Swan
Answer- Immortality Ode
Que- The rarer action is in virtue that in vengeance. This line occurs in ?
a. Hamlet
b. Henry IV,Pt I
c. The Tempest
d. Twelfth Night
Answer- The Tempest
Que- Thackeray's "Esmond" is a novel of historical realism capturing the spirit of ____________?
a. the Medieval age
b. the Elizabethan age
c. the age of Queen Anne
d. the Victorian age
Answer- the Medieval age
Que- Essays of Ella are ?
a. full of didactic sermonising
b. practically autobiographical fragments
c. remarkable for their aphoristic style
d. satirical and critical
Answer- practically autobiographical fragments
Que- Sir John Falstaff is one of Shakespeare's greatest ?
a. comic figures
b. historical figures
c. romantic figures
d. tragic figures
Answer- comic figures
Que- Pride and Prejudice was originally a youthful work entitled ?
a. Last Impressions'
b. False Impressions'
c. First Impressions'
d. True Impressions'
Answer- First Impressions'
Que- The better part of valour is discretion occurs in Shakespeare's ?
a. Hamlet
b. Twelfth Night
c. The Tempest
d. Henry IV, Pt I
Answer- Henry IV, Pt I
Que- The title of Carlyle's 'Sartor Resartus' means ?
a. Religious Scripture
b. Seaside Resort
c. Tailor Repatched
d. None of these
Answer- Seaside Resort
Que- The most notable characteristic of Keats' poetry is ?
a. Satire
b. Sensuality
c. Sensuousness
d. Social reform
Answer- Sensuousness
Que- The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity. The above lines have been taken from ?
a. The Waste Land
b. Tintern Abbey
c. The Second Coming
d. Prayer for My Daughter
Answer- The Second Coming
Que- Who wrote "Biographia Literaria" ?
a. Byron
b. P.B. Shelley
c. Coleridge
d. Lamb
Answer- Coleridge
Que- Tracts for the Times relates to ?
a. The Oxford Movement
b. The Pre-Raphaelite Movement
c. The Romantic Movement
d. The Symbolist Movement
Answer- The Oxford Movement
Que- Which stanza form did Shelley use in his famous poem 'Ode to the West Wind' ?
a. Rime royal
b. Ottava rima
c. Terza rima
d. Spenserian Stanza
Answer- Terza rima
Que- What was the cause of William's death in Sons and Lovers ?
a. An accident
b. An overdose of morphia
c. Suicide
d. Pneumonia
Answer- Pneumonia
Que- Who calls poetry "the breadth and finer spirit of all knowledge" ?
a. Wordsworth
b. P.B. Shelley
c. Keats
d. Coleridge
Answer- Wordsworth
Que- Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale. Who speaks the lines given above in Twelfth Night ?
a. Duke Orsino
b. Malvolio
c. Sir Andrew Aguecheek
d. Sir Toby Belch
Answer- Sir Toby Belch
Que- Who is Mr. Tench in The Power and the Glory ?
a. A teacher
b. A clerk
c. A thief
d. A dentist
Answer- A thief
Que- Identify the rhetorical figure used in the following line of Tennyson "Faith unfaithful kept him falsely true." ?
a. Oxymoron
b. Metaphor
c. Simile
d. Synecdoche
Answer- Oxymoron
Que- Identify the writer who first used blank verse in English poetry ?
a. Sir Thomas Wyatt
b. William Shakespeare
c. Earl of Surrey
d. Milton
Answer- Earl of Surrey
Que- Identify the work by Ruskin which began as a defence of contemporary landscape artist especially Turner ?
a. The Stones of Venice
b. The Two Paths
c. The Seven Lamps of Architecture
d. Modem Painters
Answer- Modem Painters
Que- Carlyle's work On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History is a course of ?
a. six lectures
b. five lectures
c. four lectures
d. seven lectures
Answer- five lectures
Que- Who, among the following writers, was not educated at Christ's Hospital School, London ?
a. Charles Lamb
b. William Wordsworth
c. Leigh Hunt
d. S. T. Coleridge
Answer- Charles Lamb
Que- The second series of Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb was published in ?
a. 1823
b. 1826
c. 1834
d. 1833
Answer- 1833
Que- Which of the following poems of Coleridge is a ballad ?
a. Work Without Hope
b. Frost at Midnight
c. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
d. Youth and Age
Answer- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Que- In the poem 'Tintern Abbey', 'dearest friend' refers to ?
a. Nature
b. Dorothy
c. Coleridge
d. Wye
Answer- Dorothy
Que- Vanity Fair is a novel by ?
a. Jane Austen
b. Charles Dickens
c. W. M. Thackeray
d. Thomas Hardy
Answer- W. M. Thackeray
Que- Which of the following is Golding's first novel ?
a. The Inheritors
b. Lord of the Flies
c. Pincher Martin
d. Pyramid
Answer- Lord of the Flies
Que- Who is commonly known as 'Pip' in Great Expectations ?
a. Philip Pirrip
b. Filip Pirip
c. Philip Pip
d. Philips Pirip
Answer- Philip Pip
Que- Paradise Lost was originally written in ?
a. ten books
b. eleven books
c. nine books
d. eight books
Answer- eight books
Que- Identify the character in The Tempest who is referred to as an honest old counselor ?
a. Alonso
b. Ariel
c. Gonzalo
d. Stephano
Answer- Gonzalo
Que- Which of the following plays of Shakespeare has an epilogue ?
a. The Tempest
b. Henry IV, Pt I
c. Hamlet
d. Twelfth Night
Answer- The Tempest
Que- Who invented the term 'Sprung rhythm' ?
a. Hopkins
b. Tennyson
c. Browning
d. Wordsworth
Answer- Hopkins
Que- Which of the following novels has the subtitle 'A Novel Without a Hero' ?
a. Vanity Fair
b. Middlemarch
c. Wuthering Heights
d. Oliver Twist
Answer- Vanity Fair
Que- What does 'I' stand for in the following line? 'To Carthage then I came' ?
a. Buddha
b. Tiresias
c. Smyrna Merchant
d. Augustine
Answer- Buddha
Que- The twins in Lord of the Flies are ?
a. Ralph and Jack
b. Simon and Eric
c. Ralph and Eric
d. Simon and Jack
Answer- Ralph and Jack
Que- The title of the poem 'The Second Coming' is taken from ?
a. The Bible
b. The Irish mythology
c. The German mythology
d. The Greek mythology
Answer- The Bible