Top 50 most important English literature mcq

 

1. When did the Lyrical Ballads publish

A 1797

B 1798

C 1800

D 1801

Ans B =1798

2. The Mantapam is

A a temple

B a hiding place

C a cave

D an ancient pillared structure

Ans D an ancient pillared structure

3. In English poetry the theme of Elegy is

A joyful

B mournful

C happiness

D contentment

Ans B mournful

4. Who recites the Prologue of She Stoops to Conquer?

A Tony Lumpkin

B Mr. Hardcastle

C Kate Kardcastle

D Mr. Woodword

 Ans D Mr.Woodword

5. Who is the writer of The Jacobean Period?

A Caedmon

B Dante

C Henry Vaughan

D Cynewulf

Ans C Henry Vaughan

 

6. Francis Bacon is a/an

A Novelist

B Dramatist

C Poet

D Essayist

 D Essayist

7. Who is Orlando’s elder brother?

A Frederick

B Sir Rowland de Bois

C Oliver

D Charles

Ans C Oliver

8. What are the names of the two feuding families in Romeo and Juliet?

A Capulet And Montague

B Breslow and Felsher

C Fuech and Goodside

D Dawson and Hurley

Ans A Capulet And Montague

9. Which part of the protagonist’s anatomy got affected in this story?

A Eyes

B Chin

C nose

D navel

Ans C nose

10. The term ‘The Problem Play’ was coined by

A Albert Guerard

B Granville Barker

C Sydney Grundy

D Wallace Stevense

Ans  C Sydney Grundy

 

11. Who said this for Donne ’He affects the metaphysics’?

A Jonson

B Dryden

C Milton

D None of the above

Ans B Dryden

12. In which year the famous work Lyrical Ballads published?

A 1769

B 1778

C 1792

D 1798

Ans D 1798

13. Which college did John Milton attend?

A Queen’s college

B Trinity college

C Christ’s college

D Warwick college

Ans C Christ’s college

14 How did Sylvia Ward die?

A Her lover strangled her

B She deliberately entered the burning house of her lover and died

C Her parents poisoned her

D She swallowed one of her lover’s prescriptions and died

Ans D She swallowed one of her lover’s prescriptions and died

15. An elaborate classical form in which one Shepherd - Singer laments the death of another is called:

A Pastoral Romance

B Pastoral Elegy

C Ballad

D Epic

Ans B Pastoral Elegy

 

16. What is a Myth?

A a fictitious or imaginative story

B a legend of hero

C a short narrative poem

D a long narrative poem

Ans A a fictitious or imaginative story

17. ‘Paradise Lost’ and ‘Paradise Regained’ are written by -

 A P.B. Shelley

B John Keats

C John Milton

D William Blake

Ans C John Milton

18. “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” was written by:

A W.Scott

B Coleridge

C Shelley

D None of these

Ans B Coleridge

19. ‘Orlando’ is a character of Shakespeare’s -

A Hamlet

B King Lear

C Tempest

D As You Like It

Ans D As You Like It

Who was English poet addicted to opium?

A S. T. Coleridge

B W. Somerset Maugham

C Sir Walter Scott

D William Wordsworth

Ans A S. T. Coleridge

21.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

Ans B Coriolanus, Timon of Athens and Titus Andronicus

22. How much money did Griffin find in Bunting’s House?

A  2 ponds, 12 in half sovereign

B 2 pounds, 11 in half sovereign

C 3 pounds, 10 in half sovereign

D 2 pounds, 10 in half sovereign

Ans D 2 pounds, 10 in half sovereign

23. George Herbert was appointed fellow and reader in

A 1629

B 1620

C 1630

D None of the above

Ans C 1630

24. James Joyce’s famous novel -

A Roots

B Ulysses

C Tom Jones

D Rebeccav

Ans B Ulysses

25. Who is the heroine of ‘Hamlet’?

A Cordelia

B Portia

C Ophelia

D None of these

Ans C Ophelia

26. The Tragedy of Ferrex and Porrex is the

other title of

A Damon and Pythias

B Lamentable Tragedy

C Gorboduc

D Ralph Roister Doister

Ans C Gorboduc

27. How does Kate dress in the morning?

A Fashionably

B Plainly

C In gowns

D In rags

Ans A Fashionably

28. Who is the writer of ‘Lotus Eaters’?

A Cynewulf

B Geoffrey Chaucer

C Robert Browning

D A. Lord Tennyson

Ans D A. Lord Tennyson

29. Arms and the Man, Candida and Man and Super Man are written by:

A Shaw

B Butler

C Moris

D Wells 

Ans A Shaw

30. The Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria’s

reign was celebrated in:

A 1859

B 1842

C 1837

D 1871

Ans C 1837

31. Which work exposes the frivolity of fashionable London?

A Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe

B Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels

C Behn’s Oroonoko

D Pope’s The Rape of the Lock 

Ans D Pope’s The Rape of the Lock

32. The main province of all art is to

A Preach

B Teach

C Compare

D Delight

Ans D Delight

33. In what year did Shakespeare die?

A 1570 AD

B 1580 AD

C 1630 AD

D 1616 AD

Ans D 1616 AD

34. Which of the following is a novel by Emily Bronte?

A Agnes Grey

B Wuthering Heights

C Shirley

D None of the above

Ans B Wuthering Heights

35. Which of the following was not one of the four bodily humors?

A choler

B blood

C cholesterol

D black bile

Ans C cholesterol

36. Shakespeare is known mostly for his

A poetry

B autobiography

C plays

D novels

Ans C plays

37. Who is the author of Aurora Leigh?

A D. G. Rossetti

B Christina Rossetti

C Tennyson

D Elizabeth Barret Browning

Ans D Elizabeth Barret Browning

38. What is the name of the storyteller of ’One Thousand and One Nights’?

A Scheherazade

B Sultana

C Nura

D Morgiana

Ans A Scheherazade

39. Uneasy lies the head that ( King Henry four, part two):

A Wears a crown

B Wears a hat

C Wears a wig

D none of these

Ans A Wears a crown

40. The speaker of ‘I wandered lonely as a cloud’ saw

A wet daffodils

B yellow daffodils

C fair daffodils

D golden daffodils

Ans D golden daffodils

42. Which American writer published ’A brave

and startling truth’ in 1996

A Robert Hass

B Jessica Hagdorn

C Maya Angelou

D Micheal Palmer

Ans C Maya Angelou

43. Browning’s famous poem ‘Rabbi Ben Ezra’ is included in?

A Dramatis Personae

B Dramatic Idyls

C Asolando

D Red Cotton Night-Cap Country

Ans A Dramatis Personae

44. Ode to West Wind was written by

A Keats

B Shelley

C Byron

D None of these

Ans B Shelley

45. Which of the following is not among the Bronte Sisters?

A Anne

B Charlotte

C Emily

D Carol

Ans D Carol

46. Whose work is called ‘mock utopia’?

A Swift’s

B Sir Thomas More’s

C Wordsworth’s

D None of these

Ans A Swift’s

47. “The Frankenstein” is a novel by:

A W. Scott

B Lewis

C Mrs. Shelley

D If none of these then by whom

Ans C Mrs. Shelley

48. For ordinary women, the Renaissance

A had very little impact

B greatly improved the material conditions of their lives

C worsened their social status

D allowed them access to education for the first time

Ans A had very little impact

49. Which of the following are characters of

“Much ado about nothing”:

A Hero, Borachio, Antonio, Claudio, Leonato

B Hero, Orlando, Antonio, Claudio, Leanato

C Mirrinda, Borachio, Antonio, Claudio, Leanato

D Hero, Boradio, Antonio, Claudio, Horatio

Ans A Hero, Borachio, Antonio, Claudio, Leonato

50. Shaw’s pokes fun at the romantic conception of a soldier.

A Pygmalion

B Candida

C Arms and the Man

D Man and Superman

Ans C Arms and the Man