3951. Which on of the following is first long poem in English ?
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A. Beowulf

B. The Wanderer

C. The Seafarer

D. Dream of the Road

3952. Paradise Lost was written by__________________?
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A. Robert Browning

B. John Milton

C. W B Yeats

D. Mathew

3953. What is Robert Frost famous Journal ?
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A. The Road not taken

B. The summers day

C. The Atlantic Monthly

D. The Mountain Interval

3954. The earliest play written by Shakespeare according to Oxford Shakespeare 1988 is______________?
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A. Two Gentlemen of Verona

B. The Taming of the Shrew

C. As you Like it

D. Titus Andronicus
3955. Who is known as an anti-romantic novelist in the Romantic Age ?
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A. William Hazlitt

B. Jane Austen

C. Oliver Goldsmith

D. Charles Lamb

3956. Which one is not a science fiction writer_________________?
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A. Hugo Gernsback

B. H. G. Wells

C. Victor Hugo

D. Jules Verne

3957. Hardy is a__________________?
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A. None of these

B. Meliorist

C. Mystic

D. Pessimist
3959. Who is the writer of the poem Nun Priests Tale ?
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A. Shelley

B. Cynewulf

C. Geoffrey Chaucer

D. Robert Browning

3960. In which age is The Puritan Period included ?
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A. The Modern

B. The Romantic

C. The Renaissance

D. The Non-classical

3961. What do you mean by Archaism ?
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A. modern mode of words

B. up-to-date words

C. literary words

D. obsolete words
3962. Who is the author of Heaven and Earth ?
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A. Lord Tennyson

B. John Keats

C. Lord Byron

D. William Wordsworth

3963. In Shakespeare tragedy, the hero is________________?
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A. a high ranking man

B. none of these

C. an ordinary man

D. a sacrilegious man

3964. Firdausi was the poet of________________?
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A. English

B. French

C. Italy

D. Persian
3965. Emile Zola is a famous__________________?
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A. Irish novelist

B. French Novelist

C. English novelist

D. American Novelist

3966. Which one is not by Shakespeare ?
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A. Knowledge is power.

B. None of these.

C. Nature teaches beasts to know their friends.

D. True is it that we have seen betting days.

3967. Find the Odd man out ?
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A. The Falcon

B. The Virginians

C. On Liberty

D. Ulysses

3968. In 1905, VirginiaWoolf began to write for which publication ?
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A. The Times Literary Supplement

B. Reader Magazine

C. The Ladys Home Journal

D. Strand Magazine

3969. What is Quinzaine ?
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A. a thirteen line stanza

B. a fourteen line stanza

C. a fifteen line stanza

D. a twenty line stanza

3971. Eliot worked for Faber and Faber as a/an_______________?
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A. assistant

B. Editor e none of these

C. writer

D. director

3972. Who wrote Shakespeares Later Comedies ?
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A. None of these

B. A.C. Bradley

C. Dr.Johnsofl

D. Palmer D.J.
3973. The University Wits were_______________?
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A. Poets

B. None of these

C. Novelists

D. Playwrights
3974. Justice delayed is justice denied was stated by______________?
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A. Disraeli

B. Gladstone

C. Emerson

D. Shakespeare

3975. Which work was published first ?
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A. Blakes Songs of Innocence

B. Sir Walter Scotts Ivanhoe

C. Lord Byrons Don Juan

D. Mary Shelleys Frankenstein

3976. The prose of the Romantic period had a tendency to_______________?
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A. Objectify the issue in terms of a cause

B. Be brooding and meditative. own personality

C. Advance a single system to the public

D. Allow the writer to draw on his

3977. Who is the author of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner ?
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A. Sir Walter Scott

B. W. Somerset Maugham

C. William Wordsworth

D. S. T. Coleridge
3980. Who wrote the poem Solitary Reaper ?
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A. P. B Shelley

B. John Keats

C. William Wordsworth

D. Lord Byron

3981. Who wrote first ?
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A. Christopher Marlowe

B. Howard, Earl of Surrey

C. George Eliot

D. William Shakespeare

3982. All that glitters is not gold. You have heard often this told. This maxim is included in Shakespeares__________________?
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A. Shakespeares Tempest

B. None of these

C. Shakespeares Much ado about nothing.

D. Merchant of Venice / Shakespeares
3983. Which year William Shakespeare was born ?
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A. 1809 AD

B. 1564 AD

C. 1773 AD

D. 1923 AD

3984. Jane Austen wrote during this period________________?
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A. Restoration

B. Regency

C. Middle English

D. Victorian

3985. What is the term Utopia ?
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A. a day dreamer

B. an ideal state which does not exist in real

C. a hat of a king

D. a lotus eater

3986. Wordsworth is a ______________ poet ?
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A. Greek

B. romantic

C. classical

D. modern

3987. What do you mean by Burlesque ?
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A. a satiric caricature of the characters

B. a satiric person

C. an allegorical statement

D. a drama

3988. Who is the author of India Wins Freedom ?
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A. Abul Kalam Azad

B. Jinnah

C. Nehru

D. Ghandhi

3989. Whose real name was Mary Anne Evans ?
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A. Joseph Conrad

B. George Eliot

C. Jane Austen

D. Charlotte Bronte

3990. What is the name of Wordsworths long poem ?
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A. None of these

B. The Prelude

C. The Canterbury Tales

D. Don Juan

3991. Who is known as the national poet of England_________________?
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A. William Wordsworth

B. T. S. Eliot

C. John Keats

D. William Shakespeare
3992. Novel which is not written by D. H Lawrence ?
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A. Ullysses

B. Sons and Lovers

C. The Rainbow

D. Lady Chatterleys Lover

3994. Hellenism of Keats connotes______________?
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A. his love of ancient cultures

B. his love of Greek culture and art

C. his love of poetry

D. None of these

3996. Edmund Spenser is a_________________?
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A. artist

B. dramatist

C. scientist

D. poet
3998. Lapis Lazuli is __________________?
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A. A Poem

B. None of these

C. Drama

D. A Poem
3999. Who wrote the book Lord Jim: A Tale ?
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A. Oscar Wilde

B. Thomas Hardy

C. Rudyard Kipling

D. Joseph Conrad
4000. not of an age, but for all time-was told about Shakespeare by whom ?
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A. Ben Johnson

B. King Henry

C. Marlowe

D. John Milton