Que- In what year was the First Folio published ?
a. 1626
b. 1621
c. 1623
d. 1629
Answer- 1623
Que- Which famous Shakespeare play does the quote, "Neither a borrower nor a lender be" come from ?
a. Cymbeline
b. Hamlet
c. Titus Andronicus
d. Pericles, Prince of Tyre
Answer- Hamlet
Que- Which of these was not one of Shakespeare's plays ?
a. Titus Andronicus
b. The Tempest
c. Cymbeline
d. Shakespeare in love
Answer- Shakespeare in love
Que- The line "To be or not to be" comes from which play ?
a. Macbeth
b. Twelfth Night
c. A Midsummer Night's dream
d. Hamlet
Answer- Hamlet
Que- Shakespeare died at the age of______________?
a. 48
b. 52
c. 60
d. 63
Answer- 52
Que- How many photographs exist of William Shakespeare ?
a. 2
b. 4
c. 1
d. 0
Answer- 2
Que- What was Shakespeare's first play ?
a. King Lear
b. Henry VI
c. The Tempest
d. Romeo and Juliet
Answer- Henry VI
Que- In which town was Shakespeare born ?
a. London
b. Cambridge
c. Stratford
d. Oxford
Answer- Stratford
Que- How many sonnets did William Shakespeare write ?
a. 164
b. 145
c. 154
d. 126
Answer- 154
Que- At what age of did William Shakespeare marry Anne Hathaway ?
a. 18
b. 22
c. 19
d. 23
Answer- 18
Que- Which one of the following terms is often called for the England's national poet, William Shakespeare ?
a. Bard of London
b. Bard of Avon
c. Master Dramatist
d. Supreme Poet
Answer- Bard of Avon
Que- To which category that two works of William Shakespeare Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece belong to ?
a. Tragedies
b. Historical Plays
c. Narrative Poems
d. Comedies
Answer- Narrative Poems
Que- Between what time period did William Shakespeare begin a successful career in London as an actor ?
a. between1579 and 1583
b. between1585 and 1592
c. between1579 and 1587
d. between1580 and 1591
Answer- between1585 and 1592
Que- Who is the American transcendental philosopher who was much influenced by Samuel Taylor Coleridge ?
a. Ralph Waldo Emerson
b. Ernest Holmes
c. John Locke
d. John Locke
Answer- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Que- Which one is the famous prose work of Samuel Taylor Coleridge ?
a. Kubla Khan
b. Christabel
c. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
d. Biographia Literaria
Answer- Biographia Literaria
Que- The ode on which topic that Coleridge wrote while attending Jesus College, Cambridge won him the Browne Gold Medal ?
a. On the slave trade
b. On romantic philosophy
c. On the creativity of human mind
d. On supernatural elements in poetry
Answer- On the slave trade
Que- When did Samuel Taylor Coleridge die ?
a. 25 July 1834
b. 24 February 1841
c. 22 November 1836
d. 30 April 1822
Answer- 25 July 1834
Que- With which other poet did Samuel Taylor Coleridge founded the Romantic movement in English Literature ?
a. Lord Byron
b. P.B. Shelley
c. William Wordsworth
d. John Keats
Answer- William Wordsworth
Que- In which work Samuel Taylor Coleridge introduced the term 'willing suspension of disbelief' in 1817 ?
a. Kubla Khan
b. Biographia Literaria
c. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
d. Christabel
Answer- Biographia Literaria
Que- With which famous writer Coleridge became friends with in Christ's Hospital, also called The Bluecoat School ?
a. Charles Lamb
b. John Keats
c. P.B. Shelley
d. William Wordsworth
Answer- Charles Lamb
Que- In which establishment Coleridge enlisted himself in December 1793 by using the false name "Silas Tomkyn Comberbache" ?
a. The Poets society
b. British Royal Navy
c. Solicitors office
d. Royal Dragoons
Answer- Royal Dragoons
Que- What is the name of the short-lived journal that Coleridge established ?
a. The Romantic Philosophy
b. The Spectator
c. The Explicator
d. The Watchman
Answer- The Watchman
Que- In which year Coleridge met poet William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy which later contributed Romantic movement to the English Literature ?
a. 1798
b. 1779
c. 1795
d. 1789
Answer- 1795
Que- When was Samuel Taylor Coleridge born ?
a. November 12, 1762
b. September 8, 1764
c. January 10, 1789
d. October 21, 1772
Answer- October 21, 1772
Que- Who was the last person the monster kills in the novel Frankenstein ?
a. Elizabeth
b. William
c. Clerval
d. Justine
Answer- Elizabeth
Que- Mary Shelley wrote the novel Frankenstein in the form of a frame story that starts one character wring letters to his sister. Who is that character ?
a. Captain Cooper
b. Victor Frankenstein
c. Captain Robert Walton
d. Sergent Thomas Vincent
Answer- Captain Robert Walton
Que- In which year Mary Shelley visited the famous Frankenstein Castle, where two centuries before her visit an alchemist was engaged in experiments ?
a. 1816
b. 1814
c. 1808
d. 1812
Answer- 1814
Que- What is the name of the popular fiction genre in which the novel Frankenstein belongs to ?
a. Bildungsroman novel
b. Romantic novel
c. Künstlerroman novel
d. epistolary novel
Answer- epistolary novel
Que- In which University Victor Frankenstein develops the technique to reanimate the dead tissues which ultimately leads to the creation of the monster ?
a. University of Tübingen
b. University of Greifswald
c. University of Freiburg
d. University of Ingolstadt
Answer- University of Ingolstadt
Que- In which edition of the novel Frankenstein the name of the author Mary Shelley first appeared ?
a. 2nd Edition
b. 1st Edition
c. 4th Edition
d. 3rd Edition
Answer- 2nd Edition
Que- To where Walton's expedition was headed when he meets the gigantic figure and the emaciated Victor ?
a. North Pole
b. Bermuda
c. Galapagos
d. Africa
Answer- North Pole
Que- What is the name of the eccentric scientist in the novel Frankenstein ?
a. Kristofer Frankenstein
b. Paris Frankenstein
c. Victor Frankenstein
d. Mario Frankenstein
Answer- Victor Frankenstein
Que- At what age did Mary Shelley start writing the novel Frankenstein ?
a. 26
b. 18
c. 31
d. 24
Answer- 18
Que- When was the first edition of the novel Frankenstein published ?
a. 1815
b. 1820
c. 1818
d. 1822
Answer- 1818
Que- Whom did monster demand to Victor Frankenstein to create for him ?
a. Someone who can transform him
b. Another monster
c. Another creature without the fearful features
d. A female companion
Answer- A female companion
Que- What is the full name of the novel Frankenstein ?
a. Frankenstein; or, The Evil Scientist
b. Frankenstein; or, The Monster
c. Frankenstein; or, The Devil Within
d. Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
Answer- Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
Que- When did William Wordsworth marry Mary Hutchinson ?
a. 1802
b. 1812
c. 1798
d. 1805
Answer- 1802
Que- From which year to which year that William Wordsworth served as the Poet Laureate of Britain ?
a. 1843-1850
b. 1840-1855
c. 1842-1851
d. 1833-1848
Answer- 1843-1850
Que- When was William Wordsworth appointed poet laureate ?
a. 1847
b. 1861
c. 1839
d. 1843
Answer- 1843
Que- Which work of William Wordsworth, with the joint publication with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature ?
a. The Excursion
b. The Prelude
c. Lyrical Ballads
d. Poems, in Two Volumes
Answer- Lyrical Ballads
Que- When was William Wordsworth born ?
a. 7 April 1770
b. 7 July 1767
c. 20 March 1773
d. 10 September 1772
Answer- 7 April 1770
Que- In which magazine, in the year 1787, that William Wordsworth made his debut as a writer by publishing a sonnet ?
a. The European Magazine
b. New Poetry
c. The Tatler
d. The Rambler
Answer- The European Magazine
Que- Which college did William Wordsworth attend ?
a. St. John's College
b. Trinity College
c. Christ College
d. King's College
Answer- St. John's College
Que- In which the the famous work Lyrical Ballads published ?
a. 1778
b. 1769
c. 1798
d. 1792
Answer- 1798
Que- Which work of William Wordsworth is generally considered to be his magnum opus ?
a. Laodamia
b. The Prelude
c. Guide to the Lakes
d. Preface to the Lyrical Ballads
Answer- The Prelude
Que- When did William Wordsworth die ?
a. 12 January 1842
b. 7 June 1849
c. 3 November 1852
d. 23 April 1850
Answer- 23 April 1850
Que- What is the name of the sister of William Wordsworth, who is also a poet and diarist ?
a. Anna Wordsworth
b. Agnes Wordsworth
c. Shirley Wordsworth
d. Dorothy Wordsworth
Answer- Dorothy Wordsworth
Que- Who is described? "For dignity composed and high exploit: But all was false and hollow" ?
a. Lot
b. Belial
c. Satan
d. Moses
Answer- Belial
Que- Who "headlong themselves they threw Down from the verge of Heav'n" ?
a. Adam and Eve
b. Noah and the elephant
c. Rebel angels
d. Benjamin and Joseph
Answer- Rebel angels
Que- Who is "till wand'ring o'er the earth" ?
a. Satan's associates
b. Satan
c. Adam
d. Eve
Answer- Satan's associates