english literature MCQs – Page 238

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 Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.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

4741. Which of the following poems of Coleridge is a ballad ?
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A. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

B. Work Without Hope

C. Youth and Age

D. Frost at Midnight

4742. Was the Globe ?
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A. A famous map of the world.

B. An Elizabethan sports stadium.

C. An Elizabethan Theater.

D. A Roman Amphitheater.

4743. With which other poet did Samuel Taylor Coleridge founded the Romantic movement in English Literature ?
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A. Lord Byron

B. John Keats

C. Shelley

D. William Wordsworth

4744. Which of the following is not an apparition shown to Macbeth by the Witches ?
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A. An armed head

B. A child crowned, with a tree in his hand

C. A bloody child.

D. A bloody dagger floating in mid-air.

4745. Who in Hamlet suggests that one should neither be a lender nor a borrower ?
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A. Hamlet

B. Horatio

C. Polonius

D. Gertrude

4746. Following are the characters of: Apemantus, Alcibiades, Flavius, Lucullus, Sempronius ?
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A. Winters tale

B. Cymbeline

C. Timon of Athens

D. Coriolanus

4747. In which University Victor Frankenstein develops the technique to reanimate the dead tissues which ultimately leads to the creation of the monster ?
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A. University of Greifswald

B. University of Freiburg

C. University of Ingolstadt

D. University of Tbingen

4748. How many soliloquies are spoken by Hamlet in the play Hamlet ?
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A. Seven

B. Five

C. Nine

D. Three

4749. Which book of John Ruskin influenced Mahatma Gandhi ?
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A. Sesame and Lilies

B. Fors Clavigera

C. Unto This Last

D. The Seven Lamps of Architecture

4750. Tennysons poem In Memoriamwas written in memory of ?
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A. Edward King

B. A.H. Hallam

C. P.B Shelley

D. Wellington

4751. What is the name of the short-lived journal that Coleridge established ?
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A. The Watchman

B. The Explicator

C. The Spectator

D. The Romantic Philosophy

4752. Who is described? For dignity composed and high exploit: But all was false and hollow ?
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A. Satan

B. Lot

C. Belial

D. Moses

4753. Othello gave Desdemona _____________as a token of love?
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A. Handkerchief

B. Ring

C. Bengals

D. Pendant

4754. The rarer action is in virtue that in vengeance. This line occurs in ?
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A. Henry IV,Pt I

B. The Tempest

C. Hamlet

D. Twelfth Night

4755. O, you are sick of self-love Who is referred to in these words in Twelfth Night ?
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A. Malvolio

B. Sir Andrew

C. Orsino

D. Sir Toby

4756. Which of the following tragedy is not written by Shakespeare ?
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A. King Oedipus

B. King Lear

C. Macbeth

D. Hamlet

4757. How many times suicide occurs in Shakespeares plays ?
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A. 13

B. 9

C. 7

D. 11

4758. In what year was the First Folio published ?
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A. 1629

B. 1621

C. 1623

D. 1626

4759. Shakespeare joined the Chamber lains Men Theatrical Company as a ?
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A. Playwright and writer

B. None of above

C. Actor and playwright

D. Playwright and poet

4760. Under the green wood tree is a song in____________________?
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A. A mid Summer nights dream

B. Much ado about nothing

C. As you like it

D. Loves labours lost

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