English Literature for BCS

1. Ernest Hemingway is the author of-
a. The Good Earth
b. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner✓
c. The old Man and the sea
d. The Rainbow

2. All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players They have their exist and their entrance
And each man in his time plays many parts. These lines are written by.
a. Oliver Goldsmith
b. Alfred Tennyson
c. William Shakespeare✓
d. D. H. Lawrence

3. Francis Bacon is a/an-
a. Novelist
b. Dramatist
c. Poet
d. Essayist✓
4. Geoffrey Chaucer wrote-
 a. Canterbury Tales✓
 b. Piers Plowman
 c. Morte'd Arthur
 d. The maid’s Tragedy

5. The main feature of the Renaissance is-
 a. Humanism✓
 b. Utopia
 c. Polyolbian
 d. opus Majas

6. Who wrote the plays “The Tempest” and “The Mid Summer night’s Dream?”
 a. Ben Johnson
 b. Christopher
 c. John Dryden
 d. William Shakespeare✓

7. Who is called a ‘Poet of Sensuousness?’
 a. P. B. Shelley
 b. William Wordsworth✓
 c. Lord Byron
 d. John keats

8. Shakespeare was famous for all but one of the following-
 a. Comedies
 b. Bourgeois drama✓
 c. Tragedies
 d. Tragi-drama

9. Which one of the following is written by Robert Herrick?
 a. Patriotism
 b. Bourgeois drama
 c. Tragedies
 d. To Daffodils✓

10. The author of ‘Songs of Innocence and of Experience’ is
 a. John Lennon
 b. Richard Mark
 c. William Blake✓
 d. John Keats
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11. Charles Dickens is not the novelist for one of the following-
 a. A Tale of Two Cities
 b. Treasure Island✓
 c. David Copperfield
 d. Great Expectations

12. ‘Give me good mother, I will give you a good nation.’’ was the observation of-
 a. Hitler
 b. Abraham Lincoln
 c. Napoleon✓
 d. Russell

13. The Birthday party is a play by-
 a. James Joyce
 b. G. B. Shaw
 c. Harold Pinter✓
 d. Jane Austen

14. Find the odd-man out.
 a. T. S. Eliot
 b. John Milton✓
 c. G. B. Shaw
 d. James Joyce

15. Who is the author of ‘Comedy of Errors’?
A. Ben Johnson
B. G.B. Shaw
C. T.S. Eliot
D. William Shakespeare✓

16. Who is the most famous satirist in English literature ?
A. Alexander Pope
B. Jonathan Swift✓
C. William Wordsworth
D. Butler

17. Shelley was called the — poet.
A. Lake
B. Supernatural✓
C. poet of Nature
D. Revolutionary

18. A Tale of Two Cities’ is a novel by—
A. Dickens✓
B. Thackeray
C. Scott
D. Fielding

19. Which word does not relate to literature?— Report?
A. epilogue
B. monologue
C. prologue
D. demagogue✓

20. In the poem ‘Ozymandias’, ‘who calls ozymandias ‘King of kings’?
A. The Traveller
B. The Speaker
C. Other King
D. Ozymandias him self✓

21. James Joyce’s famous novel is— 
A. Roots
B. Ulysses✓
C. Tom jones
D. Rebecca

22. Who said ‘An unexamined life is not worth living’?
A. Socrates✓
B. Plato
C. Aristotle
D. Zeno

23. What is the meaning the word ‘Dirge’?
A. a kind of sonnet sequence
B. a song expressing patriotic sentiment
C. a long verse telling about an adventure
D. a song expressing grief, lamentation and mourning✓

24. A Russian author who refused Nobel prize-
A. Maxim Gorky
B. Ruskin
C. Alexander Solzhenitsyn
D. Boris Pasternak✓

25. Who wrote an epic ‘The Faerie Queen’?
A. Edmund Spenser✓
B. T. S Eliot
C. Robert Browning
D. Alfred Tennyson

26. Christopher Marlowe is Shakespeare’s
A. successor
B. predecessor
C. contemporary✓
D. mentor

27. Romanticism is mainly connected with of—
A. Joy and happiness
B. Expectation and disappointment
C. Excitement and sensation
D. love and beauty✓

28. The poem ‘The Patriot’ is written by—
A. Alfred Tennyson
B. Robert Browning✓
C. Matthew Arnold
D. John Donne

29. G.B. Shaw was an—playwright?
A. Irish✓
B. English
C. American
D. Russia

BCS English Literature Question


30. Who wrote ‘An Apology for Poetry’?
A. P.B. Shelly
B. Samuel Johnson
C. Sir Philip Sidney✓
D. John Donne

31. Which ode begins with the lines? ‘My heard aches, and a drowsy numbness pains. My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk.’
A. Ode to a Nightingale✓
B. Ode to Duty
C. Ode on the Spring
D. Ode to the West Wind

32. Who is the author of “The Legend of Good Woman”?
A. Chaucer✓
B. Bacon
C. Spencer
D. Thomas Mann

33. Which is known as Shakespeare’s Swan song?
A. Hamlet
B. Macbeth
C. The Tempest✓
D. Twelfth Night

34. There is no one so poor as a wealthy miser ? This is an example of —
A. paradox✓
B. synecdoche
C. consonance
D. caesura

35. Who as the only Laureate to refuse the Nobel Prize?
A. Jea-Paul Sartre✓
B. Rabindranath Tagore
C. Leo Tolstoy
D. T. S. Eliot

36. Who wrote the following lines? “Ten thousand saw I at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly Dance.
A. William Wordsworth✓
B. Robert Herrick
C. William Blake
D. John Keats

37. Who wrote the book ‘Cancer Ward’?
A. Alexander Solzhenitsyn✓
B. Alexander Pope
C. Boris Pasternak
D. Leo Tolstoy
 
38. What was the first novel of Virginia Woolf?
A. The Waves
B. To the Light House
C. The Voyage out✓
D. Jacob’s Room

39. History of the II World war, is written by —
A. Keats
B. Winston S. Churchill✓
C. Clinton
D. None of them

40. Once upon a midnight —, while I pondered weak and weary.
A. dream
B. dreary✓
C. walk
D. sleep

41. Find the odd man out.
A. William Wordsworth
B. William Blake
C. P. B. Shelly
D. W. B. Yeats✓

41. Author of “The Time Machine” is -
A. T.S. Eliot
B. Thomas Kyd
C. Robert Herrick
D. H. G. Wells✓

42. What is the salient feature of all literatures?
A. Aristic quality✓
B. Sesuous quality
C. Suggestive quality
D. Reflective quality

43. Washington Irving is —
A. A British Short Story writer
B. An Irish Short Story writer
C. A Scottish short story writer
D. An American short story writer✓

44. A song Embodying religious & secred emotions.
a. Lyric
B. Ode.
C. Hymn✓
D. Ballad

45. “Dramatic Monologue” is used in....
a. Drama
b. Short story, 
c. Novel
d. Poetry✓

46. Who Excels in dramatic monologue? 
a. John Milton
b. Robert Browning✓
c. S.T. Coleridge
D. William Wordsworth

47. A drama is a....
a Novel retold in dialogues, 
b. magical performance on the stage✓
c. Fairy tale,
d. story translated into action. 

48. Drama originated in the ancient Greece in the 5th century as a religious rite to worship.
a. Zeus
b. Dionysus✓
c. Cupid
d. Apollo

49. “A short speech by a player at the end of a play” is called..
a. Monologue
b. an epilogues
c. A prologue
d. a soliloquy

50. A person who writes plays is called...
a. Play-write
b. dramatiser
c. Playwright✓
d. Play writer

51. What is the meaning of "Chorus"?
a. a song which is sing alone
b. A part of song
c. a duet song
d. A group of people trained to sing together✓

52. It is impossible to write a drama without a...
a. pen
b. director
c. Plot✓
d. pencil

53. ‘Pantomime’ is action on stage without..
a. Gesture
b. Song
c. Speech✓
d. Exaggerated facial expression

54. The Hero or central character of a literary work is..
a. Villain
b. Protagonist✓
c. Antagonist
d. Chorus.

55. A "Prologue" is...
a. A poem /speech at the end of a play,
b. An introduction to a play or literary work✓
c. A song of mourning
d. The Science versification. 

56. What is the meaning of "Soliloquy"?
a. action of body
b. action of speech
c. to memorial part
d. Long self speech by an actor✓

57. A tragedy does not have..
a. A tragic hero
b. A plot
c. An act
d. an octave sestet division✓

58. A comedy doesn’t have...
a. A happy ending
b. A plot
c. catharsis✓
d. Comic elements

59. Tragedy means....
a. A serious play with a happy ending
b. A serious play with a sad Ending✓
c. A humorous play with a sad ending
d. A funny play with a touchy ending

English Literature for BCS model test

60. What is "Catastrophe"?
A. The comical end of dramatic events
b. The Tragic end of dramatic events✓
c. The comic-tragic end of play
d. None of the above

61. Which of the following school of literary writings is connected with a "Medical theory"?
a. Comedy of manners
b. Theatre of the absurd
c. Heroic tragedy
d. Comedy of Humours✓

62.The Only Medium of Literature is...
a. Language✓
b. Painting, 
c. Sculpture
d. Architecture. 

63. What is the salient feature of all literature? 
a. Artistic Quality✓
b. Sensuous Quality
c. Suggestive quality
d. Reflective quality

64. A novel in the form of a letter is called...
A. Picaresque novel
B. Novelette
C. Non -fictional novel
D. Epistolary novel✓

65. When a poem has a speaker, what does a novel have?
a. Narrator✓
B. Character
C. Author
D. Speaker

66. The narrator of a novel in Third person is called...
A. A dedicated
B. An evanescent
C. A Ubiquitous
D. An omniscient✓

68. The Literary term "Euphemism" means....
A. Vague idea
B. in offensive expression✓
C. a sonnet 
D. wise saying

69. Which of the Following is not a poetic tradition? 
A. The Epic
B. The Comic
C. The Occult✓
D. The Tragic

70. What is a funny poem of five lines called? 
A. Quarted
B. Limerick✓
C. Sixted
D. Haiku

71. The comparison of unlike things using the words ‘Like or As’ is known to be.
a. Metaphor
b. Simile✓
c. Alliteration
d. Personification

72. The Climax of a plot is what happens.
a) in the beginning
b) at the height✓
c) at the end
d) in the confrontation

73. The sentence ‘Who would have thought Shylock was so unkind?’
a) Hyperbole
b )interrogation, 
c) command
d) Wonder✓

74. "The Poet Laureate" means.
a) The best poet of the country
b) A winner of the novel prize
c) The Court poet  of England✓
d) A classical poet.

75. Melodrama is a kind of Play of .....
a) Violent & sensational themes✓
b) Historical themes
c) Philosophical themes
d) Pathetic themes

76. What is "Limerick"?
a) A form of light Verse✓
b) A form of One-act play
c) A kind of short narrative poem
d) A kind of love poem

77. Which word does not related to literature? 
a. epilogue
b. monologue
c. Prologue
d) Demalogue✓

78. A poem of fourteenth lines is called.....
a) Elegy
B) Sonnet✓
c) Ode
d) Epic

79. An Account of a Person's life is called.... 
a) Biography✓
b) Autobiography
c) Autography
d) Life history

80. Protagonist indicates......
a) The Villain in a play
b) The Leading character or actor in a play✓
c) The Clown of a play.
d) The Stage Director. 

81. When a person writes the story of his own life, it is called....
a) An autobiography✓
b) A biography
c) Sonnet
d) A Diary

82. ‘Ballad’ is a....
a) A kind of short narrative poem✓
b) A kind of long poem
c) A kind of condoling poem
d) A Rhyme verse

83. A sonnet is a poem having..Lines.
a) Sixteen
b) Ten
c) Twelve
d) Fourteen✓

84. A Machiavellian character is...
a) an Honest person
b) a selfish person✓
c) a courageous person
d) a judicious person

85. What is Elegy?
a) Historical poem
b) figurative story
c) Enemy
d) Song of Lamentations✓

86. What is an Epic?
a) A prose composition
b) A romance
c) A sonnet 
d) A long poem of Heroic deeds✓

87. "Blank Verse" is a kind of verse...
a. having no Rhyming End✓
b. having blanks in the Verse
c. having no significance
d. having no Problem

88. If a part of a Speech or Writing breaks the Theme, it is called..... 
a) Pomposity
b) Digression✓
c) Exaggeration
d) Anti-climax

89. A fantasy is......
a) An imaginary story✓
b) A funny film
c) Real life evens
d) A funny place

90. The patriot is the star of the country. Here the ‘star’ is used as a/an..
a) Simile
b) metaphor✓
c) Allegory
d) Personification

91. “Jaws of death” is an example of..
a) Metaphor
b) Simile
c) Personification✓
d) Symbol

92. The repetition of beginning consonant sound is known as......
a. Personification
b. Onomatopoeia
c. Alliteration✓
d. Rhyme

93. Shakespeare composed much of his plays in what sort of verse?
a. Alliterative verse
b. sonnet forms
c. Iambic Pentameter✓
d. Dactylic Hexameter

94. Who wrote “The New Arabian Night”?
A. Thomas Hardy
B. W.M. Thackeray
C. Charles Dickens
D. R.L. Stevenson✓

95. If winter comes, can spring be far behind? These lines were written by-
A. Keats
B. Frost
C. Eliot
D. Shelley✓

96. Who is famous for the theory of ‘Objective Co-relative’?
A. Virginia Woolf
B. William Somerset Maugham
C. Edward Morgan Forster
D. T.S. Eliot✓

97. The period from AD 1066 to 1500 is known a-
A. The Old English Period
B. The Middle English Period✓
C. The Anglo Saxon Period
D. The Victorian Period

98. Who is well known for his translation of “The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam’ into English.
A. Rose Macaulay
B. Edward Fitzgerald✓
C. George Bernard Shaw
D. D.H. Lawrence

99. Antony and Cleopatra by Shakespeare is a
A. Comedy
B. Tragedy✓
C. Tragic-comedy
D. Problem Play

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100. Which poetry is written by sir Walter Scott?
A. Patriotism✓
B. The Patriot
C. A Frosty Night
D. All of the above

101. Tennyson’s In Memoriam is-
A. an elegy✓
B. an ode
C. a sonnet
D. none of them

102. Who is the author of the book Nineteen Eight Four?
A. Thomas Hardy
B. Geogre Orwell✓
C. Emile Zola
D. Walter Scott

103. A portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a novel by —
A. James Joyce✓
B. Virginia Woolf
C. Joseph Conrad
D. Jane Austen

104. In Which poem do you find Hindu allusion of philosophy?
A. Kubla Khan
B. The Patriot
C. The Waste Land✓
D. The Cloud

105. Helen of Troy was the wife of —
A. Agamemnon
B. Achilles
C. Menelaus✓
 D. Ulysses

106. The Way of the World is play by-
 A. Ben Jonson
 B. G.G. Shaw
 C. William Congreve✓
 D. William Shakespeare

107. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock is a-
A. poem✓
B. sonnet
C. play
D. mock-epic

108. The Garden party” is a famous short story of-
A. O’Henry
B. Katherine Mansfield✓
C. Aroundhuti Roy
D. Washington Irving

109. The end of knowledge is power was stated by-
A. Socrates
B. Aristotle
C. Hobbes✓
D. Bacon

110. Who wrote ‘Shooting an Elephant’?
 a. George orwell✓
 b. Francis Bacon
 c. John Dryden
 d. james joyce

111. Who is the called the poet of love?
 a. Andrew Mervell
 b. john Donne
 c. John Keats✓
 d. Comedy of humours

112. Elegy written in a country Churchyard is written by-
 a. Thomas Frost
 b. Robert Browing
 c. Thomas Gray✓
 d. John Milton

113. In what year did shakespeare die?
 a. 1570 AD
 b. 1580 AD
 c. 1630 AD
 d. 1616 AD✓

114. Who wrote the book “the kite Runner”?
 a. Salman Rushdie
 b. Khaled Hosseini✓
 c. Orhan pamuk
 d. None

115. Who among the following is not a novelist?
 a. Thomas Hardy
 b. James Joyce
 c. Thackeray
 d. William Blake✓

116. John Keats is known as a Romantic poet. so is (Choose one name)
 a. T. S Eliot
 b. Lord Tennyson
 c. Lord Byron✓
 d. G. M. Hopkins
 
117. Some books are to be tasted others to be Swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested’’ –is a quotation from Bacon’s-
 a. Of studies✓
 b. Of Great Place
 c. Of truth
 d. Of friendship
 
118. The sentence “who would have thought shylock was so unkind?’’ expresses-
 a. Hyperbole
 b. Interrogation
 c. Command
 d. Wonder✓

119. In which year T.S Eliot was awarded Nobel Prize in Literature?
 a. 1952
 b. 1945
 c. 1948✓
 d. 1950

120. Who wrote ‘Crime and Punishment?’
 a. George Eliot
 b. Dostoyevsky✓
 c. anglo Saxon
 d. John keats

121. ‘Banquo’ is a character in-
 a. Macbeth✓
 b. Hamlet
 c. Tempest
 d. Julius caesar
 
122. The poem ‘The Scholar Gipsy’ wrote by-
 a. Matthew Arnold✓
 b. Robert Browning
 c. Lord Byron
 d. Alfred Tennyson
 
123. Who is the author of the book ‘War and Peace?’
 a. Leo Tolstoy✓
 b. William Cowper
 c. Shakespeare
 d. John Ruskin

124. Poet are unacknowledged legislators of the world’’- Who told it?
 a. Browning
 b. Shelley✓
 c. Tennyson
 d. Byron
 
125. Which of the following ages in literary history is the latest?
 a. The Anglo Saxon age
 b. The Renaissance Age
 c. The Victorian Age✓
 d. The Romantic Age

126. ‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’ is a novel written by—
 a. William Somerset Maugham
 b. Thomas Hardy
 c. Charles Dickens
 d. D. H. Lawrence✓

127. ‘The Sacred Flame’ is written by
 a. William Somerset Maugham✓
 b. G B Shaw
 c. Ernest Hemingway
 d. Oscar Wilde

128. Who wrote the Introduction to Rabindranath Tagore’s Songs Offerings (also known as English Gitanjali)
 a. T. S. Eliot
 b. W. H. Auden
 c. Ezra pound
 d. W.B. Yeats✓

129. Which one of the following is first long poem in English?
 a. The Wanderer
 b. Beowulf✓
 c. The Seafarer
 d. Dream of the Road
 
130. Who translated ‘The New Testament’?
 a. Langland
 b. John Wycliffe✓
 c. Layaman
 d. Tottel

131. ‘A Voice for Freedom’ is a book written by
 a. Corazon Aquino
 b. Nayantara Sahgal✓
 c. Aung San Suu Kyi
 d. Benazir Bhutto

132. ‘Romeo and juliet’ is Shakespeare’s ---
 a. Comedy
 b. Tragedy✓
 c. Romance
 d. Morality play

133. Jonathan Swift is the author of---
 a. The Old man and the Sea
 b. A Doll’a House
 c. Robinson Crusoe
 d. Gulliver’s Travels✓

134. One of the four mentioned below is not a poet of Romantic age---
 a. W. B. Yeats✓
 b. William Wordsworth
 c. P.B. Shelley
 d. John Keats

135. Who wrote the poem ‘Tintern Abbey’?
 a. John Keats
 b. William Wordsworth✓
 c. William Blake
 d. P. B. Shelley

136. Browning wrote—
a. Rabbi Ben Ezra✓
b. La Belle Dame Sans Merci
c. Adonais
d. Don Juan

137. The sentence, ‘Death, thou shalt not die.’ is an example of---
 a. Simile
 b. Metaphor
 c. Irony
 d. Paradox✓

138. Who is not a Nobel Laureate?
 a. Doris Lessing
 b. Samuel Beckett
 c. William Golding
 d. Sir Thomas Malory✓

139. Thomas Hardy is a —
A. Poet
B. Critic
C. Novelist✓
D. Scientist

140. Author of the Picture of Dorian Gray —
A. Boris Pasternak
B. Fitzgerald
C. Aldous Huxley
D. Oscar Wilde✓

141. ‘Jerry’ is an important character in the short story.
A. The Luncheon
B. The Ancient Mariner
C. A Mother is Mannville✓
D. The Ant and The Graspper

142. “Better to reign in Hell than to serve in Heaven” Who said this and where ?
A. Satan in “Paradise Lost”✓
B. Satan in “Paradise Regained”
C. Adam in “Paradise Lost”
D. Adam in Paradise Regained”

143. Who is the author of this famous statement “That Government is the best which governs least?
A. Henry David Thoreau✓
B. Harold Laski
C. Abraham Lincoln
D. Herbert Spencer

144. A modest Proposal is a Satire by —
A. Ben Jonson
B. William Shakespeare
C. Family Bronte
D. Jonathan Swift✓

145. Who wrote the poem ‘The Collar’?
A. George Herbert✓
B. John Donne
C. Edmund Spenser
D. Alfred Tennyson

146. In “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” the daffodils gave the poet.
A. a great deal of pleasure✓
B. very pleasure
C. many pleasure
D. much pleasure

147. ‘Anna Karenina’ is a novel by
A. John Ruskin
B. Leo Tolstoy✓
C. Pablo Neruda
D. William Cowper

148. Who was the first husband of Helen of Troy
A. Paris
B. Agamemnon
C. Achilles
D. Menelaus✓

149. Lorna Doone is —
A. A drama by Shakespeare
B. A poem of Tennyson
C. A novel by Blakemore✓
D. An allegory by Bunyan

150. The Good Earth has been written by —
A. Virginia Wolff
B. George Eliot
C. Charles
D. Pearl S. Buck✓

151. Who was the greatest dramatist of English Literature before Shakespeare?
A. Ben Jonson
B. Thomas Kyd
C. Christopher Marlowe✓
D. John Webster

152. Lord Tennyson is known as-
a. Romantic
b. Epic
c. Lyric poet✓
d. of nature

153. ‘Lycidas’ is a great poem by-
a. P.B Shelley
b. S.T coleridge
c. Milton✓
d. Tennyson

154. ‘Man is born free but everywhere he is in chains’_quotation of ?
a. Voltaire
b. Rousseau✓
c. Aristotle
d. John Stuart Mill

155. Who wrote ‘Theory of Earth’?
a. Heredotus
b. Claudius Ptolemi
c. Hambold
d. James Harton✓

156. Who is the writer of the critical work. The Rise of English?
A. Terry Eagleton✓
B. George Eliot
C. Samuel Johnson
D. Virginia Woolf

157. Of studies is an essay by-
A. John Milton
B. Francis Bacon✓
C. John Bryden
D. John Wycliffe

158. According to the writer of ‘A Mother in Mannville’ which of the following word best describes the character of Jerry-
A. Brave
B. Honesty
C. Independence
D. Integrity✓

159. Who wrote The Spanish Tragedy?
A. John Lyly
B. Thomas Kyd✓
C. Robert Greene
D. Christopher Marlowe

160. Homer’s Iliad is a/an
A. Novel
B. Drama
C. Epic✓
D. Epilogue

161. William Hazlitt was a-
A. Novelist
B. Essayist✓
C. Dramatist
D. Poet

162. Among the following poems which is not written by Wordsworth?
A. Tintern Abbey
B. Michael
C. Ode to the West Wind✓
D. The Solitary Reaper

163. ‘My Experiments with Truth’was written by-
A. Mahatma Gandhi✓
B. George Washington
C. Winston Churchill
D. James Morris

164. Who said, ‘The part of Glory leads but to the grave?
A. William Shakespeare
B. Thomas Gray✓
C. P.B Shelley
D. T. S Eliot

165. Who among the following is a revolutionary poet?
A. John Keats
B. P. B Shelley✓
C. S.T. Coleridge
D. William Wordsworth

166. Which figure of speech do you find in the following expression? “I wandered lonely as cloud ?
A. Simile✓
B. Metaphor
C. Personification
D. Alliteration

167. Alfred Tennyson belongs to.....period.
A. Romantic
B. Victorian✓
C. Puritan
D. Elizabethan

168. April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain’ These lines are taken from T. S. Eliot’s —
A. The Waste Land✓
B. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
C. The Hollow Man
D. None of them

169. The play ‘The Homecoming’ is written by-
A. G.B Shaw
B. Harold Pinter✓
C. Benn Jonson
D. William Shakespeare

170. Veni, Vedi, Vici this quotation from Shakespeare’s —
A. Hamlet
B. Othello
C. Merchant of Venice
D. Julius Caesar✓

171. Who excels in dramatic monologue?
A. John Milton✓
B. Robert Browning
C. S. T. Coleridge
D. William Wordsworth

172. The novel ‘For Whom the Bell Tolls’ is written by —
A. Henry Fielding
B. Earnest Hemingway✓
C. John Dryden
D. Emily Bronte

173. Who is a Nobel Laureate?
A. W.B. Yeats✓
B. John Keats
C. Joseph Conrad
D. W.H. Auden

174. The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster is a-
A. Novel
B. Poem
C. Play✓
D. Short Story

175. The novel ‘Far from the Madding Crowd’ is written by —
A. Thomas Hardy✓
B. James Joyce
C. D H Lawrence
D. Virginia Woolf

176. Victor Hugo was a-
A. English novelist
B. American novelist
C. Scottish novelist
D. French novelist✓

177. England experts every man to do his duty -who told it?
A. Nelson✓
B. Churchill
C. Wilson
D. Thatcher

178. An epic based on — performed by a hero
A. Heroic deeds✓
B. A narrative
C. Intervention
D. Trifle subjects

179. Who is the ‘Father of English Learning”?
A. Henry-I
B. Henry-II
C. Roger Bacon
D. Venerable Bade✓

180. Who said “Main is political animal”?
A. Aristotle✓
B. Dante
C. Socrates
D. Plato

181. Who said ‘Religion is the opium of the people’?
A. Socrates
B. Hobbes
C. Rousseau
D. Karl Marx✓

182. Who was called a ‘Lake Poet’?
A. William Wordsworth
B. S.T. Coleridge
C. Both A & B✓
D. None

183. Which of the following is a play by Shakespeare ?
A. All’s Well That Ends Well✓
B. The Duchess of Malfi
C. Waiting for Godot
D. Volpone

184. Who wrote the book ‘Life of Cowley’?
A. John Milton
B. Samuel Johnson✓
C. Jonathan Swift
D. Alexander pope

185. Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers’ is a poem by-
A. Ted Hughes
B. Jane Austen
C. Adrienne Rich✓
D. Robert Herrick

186. Madame Bovary is a novel by-
A. Gustave Flaubert✓
B. H.G. Wells
C. Henrik Ibsen
D. Mark Twain

187. Nature never did betray the heart that loved her is a quotation by —
A. Wordsworth✓
B. Baryon
C. P.B. Shelly
D. J. Keats

188. Who is the greatest science Fiction written in English Literature?
A. H.G. Wells✓
B. Walt Whitman
C. Francis Bacon
D. John Donne

189. Robert Browning belongs to —
A. Romantic age
B. Elizabethan age
C. Victorian age✓
D. Modern age

190. Brevity is the soul of wit — in which of the following novels do you find this?
A. Macbeth
B. The Tempest
C. Hamlet✓
D. Julius Caesar

191. Who wrote the Pilgrims progress?
A. John Milton
B. Robert Herrick
C. John Bunyan✓
D. John Dryden

192. Nissim Ezekiel is a famous poet of-
A. Isreal
B. America
C. India✓
D. Nepal

193. Who is the writer of the critical work. The Rise of English ?
A. Terry Eagleton✓
B. George Eliot
C. Samuel Johnson
D. Virginia Woolf

194. What is the pen name of Marry Ann Evans?
A. Evou
B. Boz
C. Maxim Gorky
D. George Eliot✓

195. Who is the write of ‘Treasure Island?’
A. J. Milton
B. Homer
C. Stevenson✓
D. Lord Byron

196. Who is considered to be the father of English novel?
A. Francis Bacon
B. Geoffrey Chaucer
C. Alfred Tennyson
D. Henry Fielding✓

197. Who was the first recipient of the Nobel Prize for literature?
a. Shakespeare
b. George Orwell
c. Suly Prudhomme✓
d. Anna Seward

198. Who wrote the famous poetic line ‘To err is human’ to forgive divine?
a. Pope✓
b. Shelley
c. Keats
d. Dryden

199. Who is known as ‘the poet of nature’ in English literature?
a. Lord Tennyson
b. John Milton
c. William Wordsworth✓
d. John Keats

200. Which of the following writers belongs to the romantic period in English literature?
a. A Tennyson
b. Alexander Pope
c. John Dryden
d. S. T. Coleridge✓

201. ‘A Voyage of Lilliput’ is written by-
a. R.L. Stevenson
b. Thomas Hardy
c. Jonathan Swift✓
d. William Wordsworth

202. ‘Better three hours too soon than a minute too late’ was said by-
a. William Shakespeare✓
b. William Wordsworth
c. O. Henry
d. Edgar Allen Poe

203. The foggy day mocks at my plan to wash clothes. The literary technique used in this sentence is-
a. a personification✓
b. an analogy
c. a metaphor
d. none of the above

204. What was the first novel of ‘Virginia Woolf’?
a. The Waves
b. To the Lighthouse
c. The Voyage Out✓
d. Jacob’s Room

205. A famous English poet who was professionally known as a man of medicine is-
a. Shelley
b. Keats✓
c. Milton
d. Pope

206. Shakespeare’s ‘Measure for Measure’ is a successful-
a. Tragedy
b. Comedy✓
c. Tragic comedy
d. Melodrama

207. Othello gave Desdemona –as a token of love.
a. Ring
b. Handhercheif✓
c. Pendant
d. Bengals

208. Who is the modern philosopher who was rewarded Nobel Prize for literature?
a. Baker
b. Kissinger
c. B. Russell✓
d. Lenin

209. Othello is a Shakespeare’s play about–
a. A jew
b. A Roman
c. A Turk
d. A Moor✓

210. How long did the age of Chaucer exist?
a. from 1350-1400
b. from 1340-1400✓
c. from 1380-1400
d. from 1300-1405

211. ‘God helps them who help themselves’is said by?
A. S.T. Coleridge
B. Milton
C. Benjamin Franklin✓
D. Keats

212. ‘Ulysses’was written by-
A. Tennyson✓
B. Austen
C. Dickens
D. Eliot

213. Shekespeare’s Macbeth’is a—
A. Elegy
B. Comedy
C. Tragedy✓
D. Satire

214. Which one is the earliest epic of English literature.
A. Faeric Queene
B. Don juan
C. Beowulf✓
D. Paradise Lost

215. Who wrote ‘Troilus and Criseyde’?
A. Roger Bacon
B. John Wycliffe
C. Chaucer✓
D. G.B. Shaw

216. ‘Biographia Literaria’ is a/an-
A. Novel
B. Drama
C. Epic
D. Literary Criticism✓

217. Who is known as ‘Anti-Romantic’ in Romantic age ?
A. W. Wordsworth
B. John keats
C. Jane Austen✓
D. P.B. Shelley

218. ‘Houyhnhnms’is Gullives’s Travels are-
A. Asses
B. Cows
C. Horses✓
D. Elephants

219. Who is the creator of the character ‘Tess’?
A. Thomas Hardy✓
B. Ben Jonson
C. William Congreve
D. D.H. Lawrence

220. What is ‘Sonnet’?
A. A prose of special nature
B. A sad poem of reputed poet
C. A Poem of Fourteen lines✓
D. A criticism of a poet

221. Who said ‘Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven?
A. John Milton✓
B. Shakespeare
C. Francis Bacon
D. Alexander Pope

222. Shakespeare’s ‘Merchant of Venice’is a?
A. Tragedy
B. Comedy✓
C. Satire
D. Lyric

223. Who is the poet of the ‘Victorian age’?
 A.Helen Keller
 B. John Milton
 C. Shakespeare
 D. Robert Browning✓

224. ‘The rainbow’ is?
 A. A poem by wordsworth
 B. A short story by Somerset Maugham
 C. A Novel by D.H Lawrence✓
 D. A verse by Coleridge

225. Who wrote wuthering Heights?
 A. Jane Austen
 B. Emily Bronte✓
 C. Thomas hardly
 D. D.H Lawrence

226. The character Friday is a Creation of?
 A. Shakespeare
 B. Defoe✓
 C. Marlowe
 D. Milton

227. Elizabethan tragedy is Centred on-
 A. Revenge✓
 B. Nature
 C. Love
 D. War

228. ‘Waiting for godot’ is---?
 A. A problem play
 B. A morality play
 C. An Absurd drama✓
 D. A novel

229. Goethe is the greatest poet of?
A. Germany✓
B. Russia
C. England
D. France

230. Who is called the poet of poets? 
A. Geoffrey chaucer
B. Edmund spenser✓
C. Thomas kyd
D. William Blake

231. Who is well known for his translation of ‘the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam’ into English? 
A. Rose macaulay
B. Edward fitz gerald✓
C. George bernard shaw
D. G.H Lawrence

232. He is a lion an example of?
A. Metaphor✓
B. Allegory
C. Satire
D. Alliteration

233. “The Childhood Shows the man,as morning shows The day” is written by?
A. William Shakespeare
B. plato
C. John Milton✓
D. Aristotle

234. ‘Ballad’ is? 
A. A kind of short narrative poem✓
B. A kind of short condoling poem
C. A kind of short Poem
 D. A rhyme verse

235. Delight is Disorder is a poem by-
A. John Donne
B. Andrew Marvell
C. Robert Herrick✓
D. Lord Byron

236. Which one is a Metaphor?
A. He is as good as his father
B. He is the sort of the family
C. She sing like a cuckoo
D. The boy takes after his father✓

237. Among the following poems which is not by Alfred Tennyson?
A. My last Duchess✓
B. Ulysses
C. Lotos Eater
D. Locksley Hall

238. Which part of 19th Century is regarded as the romantic period?
A. The last half
B. The first half✓
C. The mid period
D. The whole period of 19th century

239. Who wrote Prometheus Unbound?
A. Coleridge
B. Keats
C. Byron
D. Shelley✓

240. Thomas Hardy is a famous novelist of-
A. Romantic age
B. Elizabethan age
C. Victorian age✓
D. Modern age

241. In which year W.B Yeats got the Nobel Prize in Literature?
A. 1923✓
B. 1922
C. 1921
D. 1925

242. A Doll’s House is written by-
A. Francis Bacon
B. Henrick Ibsen✓
C. E. M. Forster
D. R.K. Narayan

243. Who wrote the famous novel ‘Oliver Twist’?
A. Thomas Hardy
B. Rudyard Kipling
C. Charles Dickens✓
D. Henry Fielding

244. Which is not true of an English Sonnet?
A. It has fourteen lines
B. It has fourteen syllables in each line✓
C. It has five feet in each line
D. It is written in iambic pentameter lines

245. Who wrote where ignorance is bliss, it is folly to be wise?
A. Robert Frost
B. Thomas Gray✓
C. George Orwell
 D. John Milton

246. Who started God is on the side of big battalions
A. G. B. Shaw✓
B. Napoleon
C. G. Washington
D. Victor Hugo

247. A famous English poet who was professionally known as man of medicine is-
A. Shelley
B. Keats✓
C. Milton
D. Pope

248. Who is the writer of the critical work A Preface to Shakespeare?
A. Samuel Johnson✓
B. T. S. Eliot
C. John Milton
D. Ben Johnson

249. Who wrote…...The Nun‘s Priest‘s Tale‘?
 a. P.B. Shelley
 b. T.S. Eliot
 c. Geoffrey Chaucer✓
 d. John Donne

250. ‘Orlando' is a character of Shakespeare‘s -
 a. Hamlet
 b. As You Like It✓
 c. Tempest
 d. King Lear

251. The novel ‘David Copperfield' is written by-
a. Thomas Hardy
b. Somerset Maugham
c. Edmund Spenser
d. Charles Dickens✓

252. The Study of Poetry is written by-
a. Dr. Johnson
b. William Wordsworth
c. S.T. Coleridge
d. Matthew Arnold✓

253. ‘Midnight Children' is written by-
a. Arundhoti Roy
b. Salman Rusdhi✓
c. R.K. Narayan
d. Anita Deshai

254. The ‘Faire Queen' is written by-
a. George Herbert
b. John Donne
c. Edmund Spenser✓
d. Alfred Tennyson

255. Who is the poet of the Victorian Age?
 a. Robert Browning✓
 b. William Shakespeare
 c. William Wordsworth
 d. Jonathan Swift

256. ‘Waiting for Godot' is written by-
 a. Harold Pinter
 b. John Milton
 c. G. B. Shaw
 d. Samuel Beckett✓

257. ‘A Brief History of Time' is written by-
 a. Marx Plank
 b. Stephen Hawking✓
 c. Yan Martel
 d. Chinua Achebe

258. We die As hours do, and dry Away Like to the summer‘s rain. is stated by-
 a. P.B. Shelley
 b. John Keats
 c. William Wordsworth✓
 d. John Milton

259. ‘Ten Thousands saw I at a glance' is an example of-
 a. Conceit
 b. Hyperbole✓
 c. Simile
 d. Metaphor

260. ‘The dairy of a young girl' is written by-
 a. Otto Frank
 b. James Frank
 c. Anne Frank✓
 d. Henry Frank

261. Writing one's own life story is known as-
 a. Biography
 b. Autobiography✓
 c. Autography
 d. Life history

262. ‘The God of Small Things‘ is written by-
 a. Vikram Seth
 b. John Galsworthy
 c. E.M. Forster
 d. Aroundhuti Roy✓

263. Who is called the ‘Poet of beauty'?
a. John Keats✓
b. P.B. Shelley
c. William Wordsworth
d. W.B. Yeats

264. The poem ‘Fire and Ice' is written by:
a. T.S. Eliot
b. W.B. Yeats
c. John Milton
d. Robert Frost✓

265. ‘Tears, Idle Tears' is a poem by:
a. Alfred Tennyson✓
b. Robert Browning
c. W.B Yeats
d. Lord Byron

266. Who of the following was both a poet and painter?
a. John Lennon
b. Richard Mark
c. John Keats
d. William Blake✓

267. “Lady Windermere's Fan” is written by:
 a. Oscar Wilde✓
 b. John Dryden
 c. Geoffrey Chaucer
 d. Henry Fielding

268. William Congreve introduced-
 a. Comedy of manners✓
 b. Comedy of humours
 c. Mock epic
 d. Heroic drama

269. ‘Major Barbara' is written by:
 a. James Beckett
 b. Henry Pinter
 c. T.S. Eliot
 d. G.B Shaw✓

270. ‘HEROES and HERO WORSHIP' was written by:
a. Alexander Puskin
b. William Wordsworth
c. Thomas Carlyle✓
d. S.T. Coleridge

271. ‘Tradition and Individual Talent' is a critical essay by:
a. T.S. Eliot✓
b. Francis Bacon
c. Philip Sidney
d. Oscar Wilde

272. Who is the author of ‘For Whom the Bell Tolls'?
a. Charles Dickens
b. Leo Tolstoy
c. George Eliot
d. Ernest Hemingway✓

273. ‘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

274. ‘Prometheus Unbound' is a lyrical drama by-
a. P. B. Shelley✓
b. John Keats
c. John Milton
d. William Wordsworth

275. ‘O Captain! My Captain!' is a poem written by-
a. Robert Frost
b. Mark Twain
c. Emily Dickinson
d. Walt Whitman✓

276. ‘Oedipus Rex' is written by-
a. Socrates
b. Shakespeare
c. Sophocles✓
d. Aristotle

277. ‘The pilgrim’s Progress’ is written by?
 a. William Shakespeare
 b. John Dryden
 c. John Bunyan✓
 d. John Locke

278. ‘Melodrama' is a kind of play of-
a. Violent and sensational themes✓
b. Historical themes
c. Philosophical themes
d. Pathetic themes

279. The author of ‘Songs of Innocence and of Experience' is-
 a. John Lennon
 b. Richard Mark
 c. William Blake✓
 d. John Keats

280. ‘Alice in Wonderland' is written by–
 a. G.B. Shaw
 b. Lewis Carrol✓
 c. John Keats
 d. P. B. Shelley

281. ‘Mending Wall' is written by-
a. William Shakespeare
b. Henry Longfellow
c. Robert Frost✓
d. William Wordsworth

282. Who is the writer of the critical work ‘Aspects of Novel’?
a. George Eliot
b. George Herbert
c. Virginia Woolf
d. E.M. Forster✓

283. ‘Written in March’ is a poem composed by-
a. William Wordsworth✓
b. William Congreve
c. William Blake
d. William Shakespeare

284. Who wrote ‘Ode to a Nightingale'?
a. John Milton
b. P.B. Shelley
c. William Wordsworth
d. John Keats✓

285. One of the following plays is not a tragedy-
a. Hamlet
b. Macbeth
c. Othello
d. Tempest✓

286. Who is the ‘University Wits' in the following list?
 a. William Shakespeare
 b. Thomas Gray
 c. Robert Greene✓
 d. John Dryden

287. Who is the author of the book ‘War and Peace’?
A. Tolstoy✓
B. William Cowper
C. Shakespeare
D. John Ruskin

288. An English poet died of tuberculosis is-
A. John Milton
B. S.T. Coleridge
C. John Keats✓
D. P. B. Shelley

289. Which period is known as ‘The golden age of English literature’?
A. The Victorian age
B. The Elizabethan age✓
C. The Restoration age
D. The Romantic age
 
290. Father of English sonnet-
A. Sir Thomas Wyatt✓
B. Geoffrey Chaucer
C. Francis Bacon
D. King Alfred the Great.

291. Which was the oldest period in English literature?
A. Anglo-Norman
B. Anglo- Saxon✓
C. Chaucer’s Period
D. Middle Age

292. “Caesar and Cleopatra” is-
A. A tragedy by Shakespeare
B. A play By G. B. Shaw✓
C. A poem by Lord Byron
D. A novel by S. T. Coleridge

293. “Sweet are the uses of adversity” was stated by-
A. Valtaire
B. Shakespeare✓
C. Milton
D. Tolstoy

294. What is catastrophy?
A. The comical end of dramatic events
B. The tragic end of dramatic events✓
C. The comic tragic end of the play
D. None of the above

295. A mournful poem written on the death of someone loved-
A. Homage
B. Ode
C. Saga
D. Elegy✓

296. ‘Paradise Lost’ attempted to-
A. Explain why good and evil are necessary
B. Justify the ways of man to God
C. Justify the ways of God to man✓
D. Show that the satan and God have equal power

297. Who has written. ‘For God’s sake hold your tongue and let me love’?
A. Browning
B. Donne✓
C. Keats
D. Sylvia

298. In which century was the Victorian period?
A. 17th century
B. 18th century
C. 19th century✓
D. 20th century

299. Where is expressed the view that ‘There is a divinity that shapes our ends?”
A. In King Lear
B. In Hamlet✓
C. In the Tempest
D. In Merry Wives of Windsor

300. Who is the modern philosopher who was awarded Nobel Prize for literature?
A. James Baker
B. Dr. Kissinger
C. Bertrand Russell✓
D. Lenin

301. Who is the author of “The Taming of the Shrew”?
A. G.B. Shaw
B. William Shakespeare✓
C. Ben Jonson
D. Charles Dickens

302. O’Henry was-
A. a drama writer
B. An essay writer
C. A short story writer✓
D. A Novelist

303. Satanic Verses is written by-
A. Arundhati Roy
B. R. K. Narayan
C. Salman Rushdie✓
D. Jhumpa Lahiri

304. The Scarlet Letter is a novel written by-
A. Margaret Mitchel
B. Khaled Hosseini
C. Nathaniel Hawthorne✓
D. Toni Morrison

305. William Blake was a-
A. Poet
B. Painter
C. Physician
D. Both A & B✓

306. The poet of Romantic Age is-
A. George Well
B. D.H. Lawrence
C. John Milton
D. John Keats✓

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