english literature MCQs – Page 193

Practise multiple-choice questions from english literature for competitive examinations and subject revision. Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.

3841. Paradise Lost was written by________________?
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A. Shakespeare

B. Milton

C. Coleridge

D. Keats

3842. Who is the writer of The Two Voices ?
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A. A. Lord Tennyson

B. William Shakespeare

C. Christopher Marlowe

D. George Bernard Shaw

3843. What is an Effigy ?
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A. a sonnet

B. a poem

C. a lamentation

D. an image or dummy
3844. Dickens first novel which focused on the specific social ills was______________?
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A. the Christmas carol

B. oliver twist

C. Great Expectations

D. a tale of two cities

3845. Who is the author of the novel The Golden Age ?
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A. Pearl S. Bark

B. Tahmima Anam

C. Jane Austen

D. Virginia Woolf

3847. The Excursion was written by________________?
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A. Shelley

B. Coleridge

C. None of these

D. Blake

3849. What do you mean by Diction ?
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A. choice of simile and metaphor

B. choice of characters

C. choice of words for writing

D. choice of rhythms

3850. In The Gift of the Magi Della is presented as_____________?
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A. a snobbish wife

B. a hypocritical wife

C. a sacrificing wife

D. a loving wife

3851. Shaw died at the age of_______________?
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A. 95

B. none of these

C. 75

D. 105

3854. Which University presented the Pulitzer Prize_______________?
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A. Yale University

B. Harvard University

C. Columbia University

D. New York University

3855. Who is the writer of Vision of Sin ?
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A. Christopher Marlowe

B. A. Lord Tennyson

C. William Shakespeare

D. George Bernard Shaw

3856. Which of the following periods of English literature came last ?
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A. The Jacobean Age

B. The Commonwealth Period

C. The Middle English Period

D. The Elizabethan Age

3858. The novel The Jungle Book is written by_______________?
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A. Rudyard Kipling

B. R. K. Narayan

C. H. G. Wells

D. Edin Blyton

3859. The Rainbow is a novel written by______________?
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A. Hemingway

B. Virginia Woolf

C. E.M. Forster

D. D.H. Lawrence