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 Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.

english literature Mcqs

1. introduction to literary theory 2. miscellaneous literature 3. famous playwright poet and others 4. introduction to literary studies 5. cultural and literary in modernity 6. ages era period 7. cultural and literary english renaissance 8. modern poetry and poetics 9. medieval literature and culture 10. african american literature 11. the gothic novel 12. american literature 13. language and linguistics 14. english romantic poetry 15. literary theory and criticism 16. cultural and literary 18th 19th centuries

4681. In which establishment Coleridge enlisted himself in December 1793 by using the false name Silas Tomkyn Comberbache ?
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A. Royal Dragoons

B. Solicitors office

C. British Royal Navy

D. The Poets society

4682. To where Waltons expedition was headed when he meets the gigantic figure and the emaciated Victor ?
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A. North Pole

B. Africa

C. Bermuda

D. Galapagos

4683. In the poem Tintern Abbey, dearest friend refers to ?
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A. Coleridge

B. Nature

C. Wye

D. Dorothy

4684. How many sonnets did William Shakespeare write ?
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A. 110

B. 175

C. 187

D. 154

4685. Sin was born out of Satans_________________?
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A. Rib

B. Lust

C. Anger

D. Head

4686. How many times does Milton invoke a muse ?
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A. One

B. Three

C. Four

D. Two

4687. How many photographs exist of William Shakespeare ?
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A. 1

B. 2

C. 4

D. 0

4688. Identify the work by Swinburne which begins when the hounds of spring are on winters traces.. ?
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A. A Song of Italy

B. Chastelard

C. Atalanta in Calydon

D. Songs before Sunrise

4689. Which of the following was written first________________?
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A. Henry seven

B. Henry six

C. None of above

D. Henry five

4690. In which book of the Bible does the story of Adam and Eve occur ?
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A. Genesis

B. Deuteronomy

C. Exodus

D. Leviticus

4691. What was Shakespeares first play ?
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A. King Lear

B. Romeo and Juliet

C. Henry VI

D. The Tempest

4692. From which year to which year that William Wordsworth served as the Poet Laureate of Britain ?
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A. 1843-1850

B. 1833-1848

C. 1842-1851

D. 1840-1855

4693. who was the companion of Adam in paradise ?
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A. satan

B. rapheal

C. god

D. eve

4694. In the phrase, thy seed shall bruise our foe, the seed refers to______________?
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A. Adam

B. The Tree of Knowledge

C. Jesus Christ

D. Cane and Abel

4695. How many from his plays were published in his lifetime?
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A. Only sixteen

B. Only eighteen

C. Only nineteen

D. Only seventeen

4696. T. S. Eliot has borrowed the term Unreal City in the first and third sections from ?
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A. Laforgue

B. Baudelaire

C. Dante

D. Irving Babbit

4697. Who, among the following, is not the second generation of British Romantics ?
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A. Shelley

B. Keats

C. Wordsworth

D. Byron

4698. What was the cause of Williams death in Sons and Lovers ?
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A. An overdose of morphia

B. An accident

C. Pneumonia

D. Suicide

4699. Which of the following plays of Shakespeare has an epilogue ?
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A. The Tempest

B. Twelfth Night

C. Hamlet

D. Henry IV, Pt I

4700. In which year Mary Shelley visited the famous Frankenstein Castle, where two centuries before her visit an alchemist was engaged in experiments ?
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A. 1812

B. 1808

C. 1816

D. 1814

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