english literature MCQs – Page 239

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 Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.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

4761. The following lines are an example of image. The river sweats Oil and tar ?
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A. erotic

B. sensual

C. kinetic

D. visual

4762. Hamlet consist of _____________acts?
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A. 4

B. 3

C. 6

D. 5

4763. Who tells Macbeth, The queen, my lord, is dead ?
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A. Siward

B. Caithness

C. Seyton

D. The Doctor

4764. Tracts for the Times relates to ?
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A. The Romantic Movement

B. The Pre-Raphaelite Movement

C. The Oxford Movement

D. The Symbolist Movement

4765. Which angel tells Adam about the future in Books XI and XII ?
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A. Uriel

B. None of the above

C. Michael

D. Raphael

4766. Identify the poet, whom Queen Victoria, regarded as the perfect poet of love and loss ?
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A. Tennyson

B. D.G. Rossetti

C. Browning

D. Swinburne

4767. Who is Thomas Percy in Henry IV, Pt I ?
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A. Earl of Worcester

B. Earl of March

C. Earl of Northumberland

D. Earl of Douglas

4768. Who is the American transcendental philosopher who was much influenced by Samuel Taylor Coleridge ?
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A. John Locke

B. John Locke

C. Ralph Waldo Emerson

D. Ernest Holmes

4769. Identify the work by Ruskin which began as a defence of contemporary landscape artist especially Turner ?
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A. The Two Paths

B. Modem Painters

C. The Seven Lamps of Architecture

D. The Stones of Venice

4770. Who was the first to eat the forbidden fruit ?
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A. Adam

B. Snake

C. Satan

D. Eve

4771. In which town was Shakespeare born ?
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A. Oxford

B. Cambridge

C. Stratford

D. London

4772. The Aesthetic Movement which blossomed during the 1880s was not influenced by ?
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A. Pater

B. The Pre-Raphaelites

C. Matthew Arnold

D. Ruskin

4773. The style of Paradise Lost is ?
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A. more Latin than most poems

B. more dramatic than lyrical

C. more spontaneous than thought out

D. more satirical than spontaneous

4774. Which of the following is in correct sequel ?
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A. Alls well that ends well, The tempest, As you like it, As you like it,A mid summer nights dream, Much ado about nothing.

B. A mid summer nights dream, Romeo and Juliet, As you like it, King Lear, Pericles.

C. Comedy of errors, A mid summer nights dream, Much ado about nothing, Henry 6 part three.

D. King Lear, Macbeth, Othello, Measure for measure, Henry 8, Romeo and Juliet.

4775. What was the age of William Shakespeare when he retired from active service to Stratford around 1613 ?
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A. 51

B. 52

C. 53

D. 49

4776. When God sees that Adam and Eve have disobeyed him, who does he send to judge them and the snake ?
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A. The Son

B. Raphael

C. Michael

D. The Holy Ghost

4777. Shakespeare died on ?
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A. 23rd April 1616

B. 30th April 1616

C. 28th April 1616

D. 25th April 1616,

4778. What is the name of the popular fiction genre in which the novel Frankenstein belongs to ?
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A. Bildungsroman novel

B. epistolary novel

C. Knstlerroman novel

D. Romantic novel

4779. Which one of the following terms is often called for the Englands national poet, William Shakespeare ?
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A. Bard of London

B. Supreme Poet

C. Master Dramatist

D. Bard of Avon

4780. When Michael tells Adam what will become of mankind after the Fall, he is actually narrating stories taken directly from______________?
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A. The Koran

B. The New Testament

C. The Hebrew Bible

D. Homers epic poems

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