english literature MCQs – Page 205

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 Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.

4081. Which one of the following writers is not woman ?
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A. None of these

B. Emily Bronte

C. Robert Browning

D. Jane Austen

4082. Who of the following is a playwright ?
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A. Dickens

B. G.B. Shaw

C. Frost

D. W.B. Yeats

4083. After Apple Picking is written by_______________?
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A. Robert Browning

B. Robert Frost

C. both A and B

D. none of these

4084. Who is the Writer of The White Tiger ?
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A. Arobinda Adigha

B. Kiron Dishai

C. Salman Rushdie

D. Arundhoti Roy

4085. Who is the author of Sherlock Holmes ?
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A. Somerset Maugham

B. John Gay

C. Dylan Thomas

D. Sir Arthur Canon Doyle
4086. Which book wins the 2013 Man Booker Prize__________________?
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A. The Luminaries

B. The White Tiger

C. Wolf Hall

D. The Sea

4087. Who is considered to be the father of English novel ?
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A. King Alfred the Great

B. Geoffery Chaucer

C. Francis Bacon

D. Henry Fielding
4088. Which of the following works was written before the all-important Battle of Hastings?
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A. Canterbury Tales

B. The Domesday Book

C. Beowulf

D. Sons and Lovers

4089. Which year Geoffrey Chaucer was born ?
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A. 1342 AD

B. 1340 AD

C. 1341 AD

D. 1343 AD

4090. Famous romantic poets were_____________?
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A. Four

B. Six

C. Five

D. None of these

4091. Who wrote Hard Times and A tale of two Cities ?
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A. John Webster

B. Daniel Defoe

C. Charles Dickens

D. John Milton

4092. The Metaphysical Poets is a critical essay by________________?
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A. None of these

B. Arnold

C. T. S. Eliot

D. Shelley

4094. What the term Blank Verse refers_____________?
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A. having no significance

B. having no rhyming end

C. having no rhythmic flow

D. having no blanks in the verse

4095. Ode on a Grecian Urn Who is the poet of the poem ?
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A. Shakespeare

B. Wordsworth

C. Keats

D. Shelley

4096. Who is the author of A Brief History of Time ?
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A. Jagadish Chandra Basu

B. Stephen Hawking

C. Isaac Newton

D. Albert Einstein

4097. Who is the author of the book Around the World in Eighty Days ?
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A. Jules Verne

B. Mark Twain

C. Charles Dickens

D. H. G. Wells

4098. Who is the author of Around the World in Eighty Days ?
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A. Christopher Marlowe

B. Charles Kingsley

C. Thomas Hood

D. Jules Verne
4099. Of Human Bondage is written by_____________?
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A. Philip Sydney

B. Somerset Maugham

C. James Joyce

D. W.B. Yeats

4100. On which novel, the Sherlock Holmes character was first appeared_________________?
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A. The Valley of Fear

B. A Study in Scarlet

C. The Sign of the Four

D. The Hound of the Baskervilles