english literature MCQs – Page 197

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 Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.

3922. Lucy Gray is a poem written by_______________?
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A. None of these

B. All of these

C. Wordsworth

D. Keats

3923. Modern age is an age of______________?
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A. Subjectivity

B. All of the above

C. Pessimism and Cynicism

D. Conflicts and Controversies
3924. The central idea of Ozymandias is that______________?
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A. all things, both great and small,will perish

B. man is mortal,art immortal

C. imagination is stronger than fact

D. history repeats

3925. Which poem of Tennyson was particularly like by Queen Victoria ?
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A. Charge of the Light Brigade

B. In Memoriam

C. The Idylls of the kings

D. None of these

3926. Who wrote Kubla Khan ?
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A. Coleridge

B. Wordsworth

C. Shelley

D. Keats

3928. The literary work of Kubla Khan is_________________?
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A. a short story by Somerset Maugham

B. a verse by Coleridge

C. a drama by Oscar Wilde

D. a history by Vincent Smith

3929. Yahoos according to Gulliver were______________?
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A. Indians

B. American

C. European

D. None of these

3930. On liberty was written by_______________?
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A. Godwin

B. Macaulay

C. Mill

D. Carlyle

3931. Tennyson wrote____________?
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A. The Lotus Eaters

B. My last Duchess

C. Dover Beach

D. The Eve of St. Agnes

3932. The poem The Patriot is written by_______________?
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A. Robert Browning

B. Mathew Arnold

C. Alfred Tennyson

D. John Donne

3933. What the term Renaissance refers ?
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A. rebel

B. representation

C. revival or rebirth

D. presentation

3934. Who of the following was both a poet and painter ?
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A. Donne

B. William Blake

C. Spenser

D. Keats

3936. Who is the first great modernist of English Literature ?
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A. Geoffrey Chaucer

B. Cynewulf

C. Robert Browning

D. Roger Bacon

3937. Who is the writer of The Augustan Period ?
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A. Robert Herrick

B. Jeremy Taylor

C. Samuel Richardson

D. Thomas Hobbes

3938. The Medal by John Dryden is a/an________________?
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A. play

B. prose

C. satire

D. translation

3940. Murder in the Cathedral is a play written by___________?
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A. Oscar Wilde

B. Marlowe

C. Shakespeare

D. T.S. Eliot