english literature MCQs – Page 206

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 Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.

4102. Adam Bede is a______________?
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A. Novel

B. none of these

C. Poem

D. Play

4103. Which of the following literary sub periods does NOT fall under the Neoclassical Period ?
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A. The Restoration

B. The Augustan Age

C. The Age of Sensibility

D. Jacobean Age
4104. Eliot was influenced by___________________?
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A. Shaw

B. Ezra Pound

C. Hardy

D. none of these

4105. In what language did Shakespeare write ?
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A. Middle English

B. Old English

C. Modern English

D. German

4106. In his poetry Tennyson is_______________?
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A. The representative poet of Romantic Age

B. The representative poet of Victorian Age

C. None of these

D. The best nature poet

4107. Which of the following would a Romantic Poet be most likely to use ?
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A. An airy fairy

B. A bird

C. A tenant of the sky

D. A member of the plumy race

4108. The Conduct of the Allies is a famous work of_____________?
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A. Jonathan Swift

B. Samuel Johnson

C. Oliver Goldsmith

D. None of these

4109. Thomas Hardy was brought up to the profession of_____________?
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A. None of these

B. Engraver

C. Architect

D. Sculptor

4110. Who wrote Crime and Punishment ?
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A. Shelley

B. Tolstoy

C. Byron

D. Dostoyevsky
4111. Henry Higgins is a character in________________?
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A. none of these

B. Candida

C. Pygmalion

D. saint joan

4112. What did Robert Frosts father do ?
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A. black-smith

B. journalist

C. teacher

D. farmer

4113. James Joyces narrative technique is known as______________?
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A. stream of consciousness

B. Objective Co-relative

C. Symbolism and Mysticism

D. psycho-analysis

4114. Tales from Shakespeare is written by________________?
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A. Lamb

B. Mary Anne Evans

C. Lawrence

D. Shakespeare

4115. Vanity Fair is a novel by_______________?
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A. Thackeray

B. Dickens

C. Scott

D. Fielding

4116. Literary divisions are not always exact, but we draw them because they are often convenient. The majority of English literary periods are named after_______________?
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A. The language of the age

B. The primary author of the age

C. Monarchs or political events

D. The leading characteristic of the age

4117. Poet Alexander Popes famous work_________________?
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A. Spectator

B. The Rape of Lock

C. The Deserted Village

D. Man was made to mourn

4118. This work was NOT originally published in the 20th Century ?
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A. Virginia Woolfs Mrs. Dalloway

B. E.M. Forsters A Room With A View

C. Henry Jamess The Ambassadors

D. Thomas Hardys Tess of the DUrbervilles