Que- The literary figure who had the most pronounced effect on Keats was_______________?
a. Dante
b. Shakespeare
c. Wordsworth
d. Shelley
Answer- Shakespeare
Que- When Alfred Lord Tennyson was born ?
a. 1809
b. 1810
c. 1811
d. 1812
Answer- 1809
Que- Who wrote 'The Spanish Tragedy' ?
a. John Lyly
b. Thomas Kyd
c. Robert Green
d. Christopher Marlowe
Answer- Thomas Kyd
Que- Byron's journey to Spain, Malta, Albania and Greece resulted in the production of the first two cantos of his poem_______________?
a. cain
b. Childe Herald's Pilgrimage
c. Don Juan
d. the prisoner of Chillon
Answer- Childe Herald's Pilgrimage
Que- Justice delayed is justice denied was stated by______________?
a. Shakespeare
b. Emerson
c. Gladstone
d. Disraeli
Answer- Gladstone
Que- The character of Little Neil is a creation of______________?
a. Hardy
b. Eliot
c. Oscar Wilde
d. Dickens
Answer- Dickens
Que- Firdausi was the poet of________________?
a. Persian
b. English
c. French
d. Italy
Answer- Persian
Que- Adela' is a character from_______________?
a. A Passage to India
b. Paradise Lost
c. Hamlet
d. Doctor Faustus
Answer- A Passage to India
Que- Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of will, is a statement by______________?
a. Wordsworth
b. Shelley
c. Coleridge
d. Arnold
Answer- Shelley
Que- Who is the author of 'India Wins Freedom' ?
a. Ghandhi
b. Nehru
c. Jinnah
d. Abul Kalam Azad
Answer- Abul Kalam Azad
Que- Edmund Spenser is a_________________?
a. poet
b. dramatist
c. artist
d. scientist
Answer- poet
Que- Who is the writer of 'The Ring of the Book' ?
a. Shelley
b. Robert Browning
c. William Shakespeare
d. Wordsworth
Answer- Robert Browning
Que- Who is known as an anti-romantic novelist in the Romantic Age ?
a. Charles Lamb
b. Jane Austen
c. William Hazlitt
d. Oliver Goldsmith
Answer- Jane Austen
Que- Who is the writer of 'The Two Voices' ?
a. Lord Tennyson
b. George Bernard Shaw
c. William Shakespeare
d. Christopher Marlowe
Answer- Lord Tennyson
Que- Who is known as the national poet of England_________________?
a. William Wordsworth
b. John Keats
c. William Shakespeare
d. T. S. Eliot
Answer- William Shakespeare
Que- Paradise Lost' was written by________________?
a. Shakespeare
b. Milton
c. Coleridge
d. Keats
Answer- Milton
Que- The period between 1660 to 1750 is known as___________________?
a. The Age of Classicism
b. The Restoration
c. The age of Milton
d. None of these
Answer- The Restoration
Que- Tom Jones' by Henry Fielding was first published in______________?
a. the first half of 19th century
b. the first half of 18th century
c. the 2nd half of 18th century
d. 19th century
Answer- the first half of 18th century
Que- Who wrote "Shakespeare's Later Comedies' ?
a. A.C. Bradley
b. Palmer D.J.
c. Dr.Johnsofl
d. None of these
Answer- Palmer D.J.
Que- The treatise 'On Liberty' was written by_____________?
a. Ruskin
b. Lamb
c. Mill
d. Oscar Wilde
Answer- Mill
Que- Who is the writer of the poem 'A Grammarian's Funeral' ?
a. Shelley
b. William Shakespeare
c. Wordsworth
d. Robert Browning
Answer- Robert Browning
Que- Find the Odd man out ?
a. Ulysses
b. The Falcon
c. The Virginians
d. On Liberty
Answer- The Falcon
Que- O Captain! My Captain!' is a poem written by______________?
a. Robert Frost
b. Emily Dickinson
c. Mark Twain
d. Walt Whitman
Answer- Walt Whitman
Que- Modern age is an age of______________?
a. Pessimism and Cynicism
b. Conflicts and Controversies
c. Subjectivity
d. All of the above
Answer- Conflicts and Controversies
Que- The first Englishwoman to earn her living as a playwright was______________?
a. Nell Gwynn
b. Aphra Behn
c. Lady Teazle
d. Ann Hathaway
Answer- Aphra Behn
Que- The period of maturation, intellectual growth and social graces during the Renaissance is called the____________?
a. aristocracy
b. New Age
c. Reformation
d. Enlightenment
Answer- Enlightenment
Que- Which of the following writers would be an appropriate subject for a class on "The Literature of the British Empire" ?
a. Rudyard Kipling
b. Edward Fitzgerald
c. Charlotte Bronte
d. Any of these
Answer- Any of these
Que- Which of the following periods of English literature came last ?
a. The Elizabethan Age
b. The Commonwealth Period
c. The Jacobean Age
d. The Middle English Period
Answer- The Commonwealth Period
Que- He was not a Renaissance writer________________?
a. William Shakespeare
b. Sir Philip Sidney
c. Christopher Marlowe
d. Sir Thomas Malory
Answer- Sir Thomas Malory
Que- Which poet did NOT write during the 16th century ?
a. John Skelton
b. William Shakespeare
c. Sir Thomas Wyatt
d. Thomas Carew
Answer- Thomas Carew
Que- Which of the following poets wrote during the Victorian period but was not published until the 20th century ?
a. Christina Rossetti
b. Gerard Manley Hopkins
c. Elizabeth Barret Browning
d. Ted Hughes
Answer- Gerard Manley Hopkins
Que- Who wrote first ?
a. George Eliot
b. Christopher Marlowe
c. Howard, Earl of Surrey
d. William Shakespeare
Answer- Howard, Earl of Surrey
Que- Which work was published first ?
a. Blake's "Songs of Innocence"
b. Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein"
c. Lord Byron's "Don Juan"
d. Sir Walter Scott's "Ivanhoe"
Answer- Blake's "Songs of Innocence"
Que- Which period of literature came first ?
a. Regency
b. Victorian
c. Romantic
d. Restoration
Answer- Restoration
Que- The Bronte sisters wrote during this period______________?
a. Regency
b. Restoration
c. Romantic
d. Victorian
Answer- Victorian
Que- Jane Austen wrote during this period________________?
a. Restoration
b. Victorian
c. Middle English
d. Regency
Answer- Regency
Que- Who wrote the poem 'The Seven Ages' ?
a. John Milton
b. Geoffrey Chaucer
c. William Shakespeare
d. Edward Gibbon
Answer- William Shakespeare
Que- The prevailing feature of Chaucer's humour is its__________________?
a. urbanity
b. crudity
c. triviality
d. sanctity
Answer- urbanity
Que- What was the nationality of OscarWilde ?
a. Irish
b. Scottish
c. French
d. English
Answer- Irish
Que- In 1905, VirginiaWoolf began to write for which publication ?
a. The Time's Literary Supplement
b. The Lady's Home Journal
c. Strand Magazine
d. Reader Magazine
Answer- The Time's Literary Supplement
Que- On liberty was written by_______________?
a. Carlyle
b. Macaulay
c. Godwin
d. Mill
Answer- Mill
Que- Geoffrey Chaucer served which king ?
a. Richard III
b. James 1
c. Edward III
d. Henry II
Answer- Edward III
Que- Maggie is the central character in George Eliot's________________?
a. Adam Bede
b. Middle March
c. The Mill on the Floss
d. Silas Morner
Answer- The Mill on the Floss
Que- What do you mean by Burlesque ?
a. a satiric caricature of the characters
b. a drama
c. a satiric person
d. an allegorical statement
Answer- a satiric caricature of the characters
Que- Who served as an Irish senator for two terms? A___________ Wilde?
a. Shaw
b. Ibsen
c. Yeats
d. none of these
Answer- Yeats
Que- All good poetry is spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings who made this statement ?
a. Shelly
b. De Quincey
c. Wordsworth
d. None of these
Answer- Wordsworth
Que- In which of the following Genres did Victorian Literature achieve its greatest success_______________?
a. Epic Poetry
b. Lyric Poetry
c. The Essay
d. The Novel
Answer- The Novel
Que- Essays of Elia' was written by______________?
a. William Hazlitt
b. Emily Dickinson
c. Emily Bronte
d. Charles Lamb
Answer- Charles Lamb
Que- Romanticism is mainly connected with______________?
a. excitement and sensation
b. love and beauty
c. job and tiredness
d. expectation and depression
Answer- excitement and sensation
Que- What do you mean by Beast Fable ?
a. a fictional story of animal characters
b. a short story
c. a long narrative prose
d. a soft style epic
Answer- a fictional story of animal characters