Que- Who is called the Bird of Avon ?
a. John Dryden
b. William Shakespeare
c. John Milton
d. None of these
Answer- William Shakespeare
Que- not of an age, but for all time-was told about Shakespeare by whom ?
a. Marlowe
b. Ben Johnson
c. King Henry
d. John Milton
Answer- Ben Johnson
Que- To be, or not to be, that is the question- Where do you find this quotation ?
a. Macbeth
b. Hamlet
c. As You like It
d. Othello
Answer- Hamlet
Que- The Revolt of Islam' was written by________________?
a. Wordsworth
b. Coleridge
c. Shelley
d. None of these
Answer- Shelley
Que- The quality of Mercy is not strained' the line is taken from________________?
a. Merchant of Venice
b. Two gentleman of Verona
c. Midsummer's Night Dream
d. Anthony and Cleopatra
Answer- Merchant of Venice
Que- Hyperion is a/an poem_________________?
a. Elegy
b. Epic
c. Lyric
d. None of these
Answer- Lyric
Que- Which poem of Tennyson was particularly like by Queen Victoria ?
a. The Idylls of the kings
b. Charge of the Light Brigade
c. In Memoriam
d. None of these
Answer- In Memoriam
Que- Hellenism of Keats connotes______________?
a. his love of poetry
b. his love of ancient cultures
c. his love of Greek culture and art
d. None of these
Answer- his love of Greek culture and art
Que- What do you mean by Hyperbole ?
a. a long verse
b. a long narrative poem
c. an overriding view
d. an overstatement about something
Answer- an overstatement about something
Que- Hardy's Nature is_____________?
a. Friendly
b. Indifferent
c. Vindictive
d. None of these
Answer- Indifferent
Que- Hamlet and Oedipus' was written by_______________?
a. Bradley
b. Dover Wilson
c. Earnest Jones
d. Freud
Answer- Earnest Jones
Que- Satanic Verses' is written by__________________?
a. R.K. Narayan
b. Salman Rushdie
c. Jhumpa Lahiri
d. Arundhuti Roy
Answer- Salman Rushdie
Que- George Bernard Shaw is_________________?
a. a playwright
b. a film-maker
c. a historian
d. a modern painter
Answer- a playwright
Que- Who is the writer of The Restoration Period ?
a. Aphra Ben
b. Robert Herrick
c. Jeremy Taylor
d. Thomas Hobbes
Answer- Aphra Ben
Que- Eliot worked for Faber and Faber as a/an_______________?
a. assistant
b. director
c. writer
d. Editor e… none of these
Answer- Editor e… none of these
Que- Exiles' is a______________?
a. Short Story
b. Novel
c. Play
d. Poem
Answer- Play
Que- The statue of 'Ozymandias' is______________?
a. on a mountain
b. beside a river
c. in a desert
d. in a valley
Answer- in a desert
Que- Macbeth is a_____________?
a. play
b. novel
c. an essy
d. poem
Answer- play
Que- Who is the writer of 'Vision of Sin' ?
a. George Bernard Shaw
b. William Shakespeare
c. Lord Tennyson
d. Christopher Marlowe
Answer- Lord Tennyson
Que- A long poem is a combination of short poems. Who has held the above opinion ?
a. Coleridge
b. Keats
c. Wordsworth
d. None of these
Answer- Wordsworth
Que- The Essays of Elia was first published in book form in_____________?
a. 1795
b. 1807
c. 1823
d. 1829
Answer- 1823
Que- The line 'Beauty is truth, truth beauty' occurs in which one of Keats' following poems_______________?
a. Ode to Nightingale
b. Ode to Grecian Urn
c. Ode to Psyche
d. None of these
Answer- Ode to Grecian Urn
Que- In which city the play of Shakespeare 'Romeo and Juliet' is set in_________________?
a. Milan
b. Verona
c. Turin
d. none of these
Answer- Verona
Que- Dickens' first novel which focused on the specific social ills was______________?
a. the Christmas carol
b. Great Expectations
c. oliver twist
d. a tale of two cities
Answer- Great Expectations
Que- Who is the author of 'Man and Superman' ?
a. W. Shakespeare
b. George Bernard Shaw
c. Leo Tolstoy
d. Charles Dickens
Answer- George Bernard Shaw
Que- What is Robert Frost famous Journal ?
a. The summers day
b. The Road not taken
c. The Atlantic Monthly
d. The Mountain Interval
Answer- The Atlantic Monthly
Que- The prose of the Romantic period had a tendency to_______________?
a. Objectify the issue in terms of a cause
b. Advance a single system to the public
c. Allow the writer to draw on his
d. Be brooding and meditative. own personality
Answer- Objectify the issue in terms of a cause
Que- Who is the author of 'For Whom the Bell Tolls' ?
a. Charles Dickens
b. Homer
c. Lord Tennison
d. Ernest Hemingway
Answer- Ernest Hemingway
Que- The Rainbow' is a novel written by______________?
a. Hemingway
b. Virginia Woolf
c. E.M. Forster
d. D.H. Lawrence
Answer- D.H. Lawrence
Que- Heard Melodies are sweet but those unheard are sweeter' is a line from_______________?
a. Ode on a Grecian Urn
b. The Prelude
c. Ode to Autumn
d. None of these
Answer- Ode on a Grecian Urn
Que- Which one is not by Shakespeare ?
a. Nature teaches beasts to know their friends.
b. True is it that we have seen betting days.
c. Knowledge is power.
d. None of these.
Answer- Knowledge is power.
Que- Who is the author of the famous book 'The Judgment' is_______________?
a. Anthony Mascarenhas
b. Amartya Sen
c. Kuldip Nayer
d. Nelson Mandela
Answer- Kuldip Nayer
Que- Ode to Autumn' was written by__________________?
a. Shelley
b. Keats
c. Byron
d. Blake
Answer- Keats
Que- Who is the writer of 'Comedy of Errors' ?
a. Ben Jhonson
b. G B Shaw
c. William Shakespeare
d. T S Eliot
Answer- William Shakespeare
Que- The Crown of Wild Olive, is written by__________________?
a. Ruskin
b. J.S.Mill
c. Lamb
d. Russell
Answer- Ruskin
Que- Gunter Grass got Nobel Prize in-xviii ?
a. 1998
b. 1997
c. 1999
d. 2000
Answer- 1999
Que- What is an Effigy ?
a. a poem
b. a sonnet
c. an image or dummy
d. a lamentation
Answer- an image or dummy
Que- Which on of the following is first long poem in English ?
a. The Wanderer
b. Beowulf
c. The Seafarer
d. Dream of the Road
Answer- Beowulf
Que- What is Quinzaine ?
a. a fourteen line stanza
b. a twenty line stanza
c. a thirteen line stanza
d. a fifteen line stanza
Answer- a fifteen line stanza
Que- What is the name of Wordsworth's long poem ?
a. The Canterbury Tales
b. Don Juan
c. The Prelude
d. None of these
Answer- The Prelude
Que- Which of the following is not a tragedy written by Shakespeare ?
a. Macbeth
b. Othello
c. Merchant of Venice
d. None of these
Answer- Merchant of Venice
Que- I wandered Lonely as a cloud' is an example of______________?
a. symbol
b. Metaphor
c. Simile
d. Metonymy
Answer- Simile
Que- In Shakespeare "Character is not Destiny" but "character and Destiny". Whose comment is this ?
a. Bradley
b. Dr. Johnson
c. Nicoll
d. None of these
Answer- Bradley
Que- Who is the author of 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' ?
a. William Wordsworth
b. S. T. Coleridge
c. W. Somerset Maugham
d. Sir Walter Scott
Answer- S. T. Coleridge
Que- Yahoo's according to Gulliver were______________?
a. European
b. Indians
c. American
d. None of these
Answer- European
Que- William Blake's /Songs of 'counterbalance his 'Songs of Experience' ?
a. Love
b. childhood
c. Inexperience
d. Innocence
Answer- Innocence
Que- What is the term Utopia ?
a. a hat of a king
b. a day dreamer
c. a lotus eater
d. an ideal state which does not exist in real
Answer- an ideal state which does not exist in real
Que- SARTOR RESARTUS' is a prose work by________________?
a. John Ruskin
b. Carlyle
c. Bacon
d. Lamb
Answer- Carlyle
Que- Lucy Gray' is a poem written by_______________?
a. Wordsworth
b. Keats
c. None of these
d. All of these
Answer- Wordsworth
Que- Who is the writer of the poem 'Andrea Del Sarto' ?
a. William Shakespeare
b. Shelley
c. Wordsworth
d. Robert Browning
Answer- Robert Browning