Que- What is the craftsmen's play at the end of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" about ?
a. Puck's adventures
b. Summertime dreams
c. The history of Athens
d. Pyramus and Thisbe
Answer- Pyramus and Thisbe
Que- In "A Midsummer Night's Dream," who says "Lord, what fools these mortals be!" (III.ii.15) ?
a. Puck
b. Nick Bottom
c. Hippolyta
d. Helene
Answer- Puck
Que- In "A Midsummer Night's Dream," who is chosen to play Pyramus in the craftsmen's play ?
a. Peter Quince
b. Francis Flute
c. Nick Bottom
d. Tom Snout
Answer- Francis Flute
Que- Fill in the blank. According to Dr. Debra Schwartz, Greek "new comedy" was often characterized as being ?
a. Highly sexual
b. Violent
c. Satirical
d. Dull and political
Answer- Highly sexual
Que- In the play, "A Midsummer Night's Dream," who is the queen of the fairies ?
a. Titania
b. Lysander
c. Hermia
d. Oberon
Answer- Titania
Que- In the play, "A Midsummer's Night's Dream," who is the queen of the Amazons ?
a. Hippolyta
b. Egeus
c. Helena
d. Hermia
Answer- Hippolyta
Que- In the play, "Twelfth Night," what does Viola refer to herself as when she disguises herself as a man ?
a. Orsino
b. Sir Toby
c. Antonio
d. Cesario
Answer- Cesario
Que- According to skeptics of Shakespeare's authorship, all of the following are considered to be the "true" authors of some of Shakespeare's plays EXCEPT________________?
a. Thomas More.
b. Francis Bacon.
c. Earl of Oxford.
d. John Shakespeare.
Answer- John Shakespeare.
Que- Which of Shakespeare's play is his only play that has never been adopted for film or Television ?
a. Taming of the Shrew
b. The two Noble Kinsmen
c. Troilus and Cressida
d. Cymbeline
Answer- The two Noble Kinsmen
Que- Who is the heroin of The Tempest ?
a. Ophelia
b. Desdemona
c. Miranda
d. Helena
Answer- Miranda
Que- Which of the following is Hamlet's mother ?
a. Beatrice
b. Margaret
c. Gertrude
d. Rosalind
Answer- Gertrude
Que- I have no other but a woman's reason I think him so, because I think him so Which of Shakespeare's play contain above lines ?
a. The two gentle men of Verona
b. Merry wives of Windsor
c. The noble Kinsman
d. Measure for measure
Answer- The two gentle men of Verona
Que- Desdemona was _____________?
a. wife of Othello
b. daughter of Othello
c. both a and b
d. none of above
Answer- wife of Othello
Que- Desdemona was killed by _________________?
a. Iago
b. Casio
c. Othello
d. Brabantio
Answer- Othello
Que- Othello was a _________________?
a. General of England
b. General of Denmark
c. Prince of England
d. Prince of Denmark
Answer- General of England
Que- Which of the following are tragedies of Shakespeare ?
a. Hamlet, Othello and Troilus and Cressida
b. Coriolanus, Timon of Athens and Titus Andronicus
c. King Lear, Measure for measure and The merchant of Venice
d. Macbeth, Much ado about nothing and Antony and Cleopatra
Answer- Coriolanus, Timon of Athens and Titus Andronicus
Que- Twelfth night is a______________?
a. Tragedy
b. Comedy
c. Problem play
d. Both a and b
Answer- Comedy
Que- Shakespeare's Henry IV, Pt I contains his _______________?
a. senecan attitude
b. patriotism
c. love of nature
d. platonic ideals Plays by Shakespeare..
Answer- patriotism
Que- In Pride and Prejudice we initially dislike but later tend to like ?
a. Mr. Bennet
b. Wickham
c. Bingley
d. Darcy
Answer- Darcy
Que- Paradise Lost shows an influence of_______________?
a. Paganism
b. Pre-Christian theology
c. Christianity and the Renaissance
d. Greek nihilism
Answer- Christianity and the Renaissance
Que- Hamlet is_________________?
a. an intellectual
b. a man of action
c. a passionate lover
d. an over ambitious man
Answer- a passionate lover
Que- The Pre-Raphaelite poets were mostly indebted to the poets of the ?
a. Puritan movement
b. Romantic revival
c. Neo-classical age
d. Metaphysical school
Answer- Romantic revival
Que- Why did Miss Havisham remain a spinster throughout her life in "Great Expectations" ?
a. She was poor
b. She was arrogant
c. Because she was betrayed by the bridegroom
d. She was unwilling to marry
Answer- She was arrogant
Que- S. T. Coleridge was an Associate of__________________?
a. The Royal Society of Edinburgh
b. The Royal Society ofLondon
c. Royal Society of Arts
d. Royal Society of Literature
Answer- Royal Society of Literature
Que- To which character in Hamlet does the following description apply? "The tedious wiseacre who meddles his way to his doom." ?
a. Claudius
b. Hamlet
c. Polonius
d. Rosencrantz
Answer- Hamlet
Que- Which method of narration has been employed by Dickens in his novel "Great Expectations" ?
a. Direct or epic method
b. Documentary method
c. Stream of Consciousness technique
d. Autobiographical method
Answer- Direct or epic method
Que- Wordsworth calls himself 'a Worshipper of Nature' in his poem___________________?
a. Immortality Ode
b. Tintern Abbey
c. The Prelude
d. The Solitary Reaper
Answer- Tintern Abbey
Que- Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice is a__________________?
a. Picaresque novel
b. Gothic novel
c. Domestic novel
d. Historical novel
Answer- Domestic novel
Que- Oedipus Complex is________________?
a. a kind of physical ailment
b. a kind of vitamin
c. a brother's attraction towards his sister
d. a son's attraction towards his mother
Answer- a son's attraction towards his mother
Que- The theme of Tennyson's Poem 'The Princess' is ?
a. Queen Victoria's coronation
b. Industrial Revolution
c. Women's Education and Rights
d. Rise of Democracy
Answer- Women's Education and Rights
Que- That Milton was of the Devil's party without knowing it, was said by ?
a. Blake
b. Eliot
c. Johnson
d. P.B. Shelley
Answer- Blake
Que- Who said that Shakespeare in his comedies has only heroines and no heroes ?
a. Ben Jonson
b. John Ruskin
c. Thomas Carlyle
d. William Hazlitt
Answer- John Ruskin
Que- Epic similes are found in which work of John Milton ?
a. Paradise Lost
b. Sonnets
c. Lycidas
d. Areopagitica
Answer- Paradise Lost
Que- Epipsychidion is composed by ______________?
a. Coleridge
b. Wordsworth
c. Keats
d. P.B. Shelley
Answer- P.B. Shelley
Que- The key-note of Browning's philosophy of life is ________________?
a. agnosticism
b. optimism
c. pessimism
d. skepticism
Answer- optimism
Que- William Morel in Sons and Lovers is drawn after ________________?
a. Lawrence's father
b. Lawrence's brother
c. Lawrence himself
d. None of these
Answer- None of these
Que- Who was "Fortinbras" ?
a. Claudius's son
b. Son to the king of Norway
c. Ophelia's lover
d. Hamlet's Mend
Answer- Son to the king of Norway
Que- The Chartist Movement sought ?
a. Protection of the political rights of the working class
b. Recognition of chartered trading companies
c. Political rights for women
d. Protection of the political rights of the middle class
Answer- Protection of the political rights of the working class
Que- The phrase 'Pathetic fallacy' is coined by _________________?
a. Milton
b. Coleridge
c. Carlyle
d. John Ruskin
Answer- Carlyle
Que- Which poem of Coleridge is an opium dream ?
a. Kubla Khan
b. Christabel
c. The Ancient Mariner
d. Ode on the Departing Year
Answer- Kubla Khan
Que- Twelfth Night opens with the speech of ?
a. Viola
b. Duke
c. Olivia
d. Malvolio
Answer- Duke
Que- In Paradise Lost, Book I, Satan is the embodiment of Milton's ?
a. Sense of injured merit
b. Hatred of tyranny
c. Spirit of revolt
d. All these
Answer- Spirit of revolt
Que- BREVITY IS THE SOUL OF WIT is a quotation from ?
a. Milton
b. William Shakespeare
c. T. S. Eliot
d. Ruskin
Answer- William Shakespeare
Que- Who is Pip's friend in London ?
a. Pumblechook
b. Herbert Pocket
c. Bentley Drummle
d. Jaggers
Answer- Jaggers
Que- The Aesthetic Movement which blossomed during the 1880s was not influenced by ?
a. The Pre-Raphaelites
b. Ruskin
c. Pater
d. Matthew Arnold
Answer- Matthew Arnold
Que- A verse form using stanza of eight lines, each with eleven syllables, is known as ?
a. Spenserian Stanza
b. Ballad
c. Ottava Rima
d. Rhyme Royal
Answer- Ottava Rima
Que- Who is praised as a hero by Carlyle in his lecture on the 'Hero as King' ?
a. Johnson
b. Cromwell
c. Shakespeare
d. Luther
Answer- Cromwell
Que- Identify the work by Swinburne which begins "when the hounds of spring are on winter's traces.." ?
a. Chastelard
b. A Song of Italy
c. Atalanta in Calydon
d. Songs before Sunrise
Answer- Atalanta in Calydon
Que- Which of the following poets does not belong to the 'Lake School' ?
a. Keats
b. Coleridge
c. Southey
d. Wordsworth
Answer- Keats
Que- Keats's Endymion is dedicated to _______________?
a. Leigh Hunt
b. Milton
c. Shakespeare
d. Thomas Chatterton
Answer- Leigh Hunt