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English Literature MCQ (Multiple Choice Questions)

 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

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