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
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
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
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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
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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
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
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
A. Simile✓
B. Metaphor
C. Personification
D. Alliteration
167. Alfred Tennyson belongs to.....period.
A. Romantic
B. Victorian✓
C. Puritan
D. Elizabethan
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
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
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✓
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
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
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
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
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
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✓
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
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
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✓
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
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✓
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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✓
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
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✓
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
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
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
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✓
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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✓
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
A. Tennyson✓
B. Austen
C. Dickens
D. Eliot
213. Shekespeare’s Macbeth’is a—
A. Elegy
B. Comedy
C. Tragedy✓
D. Satire
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
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
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✓
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
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✓