english literature MCQs – Page 82

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 Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.

4051. Julius Caesar was the ruler of Rome about____________?
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A. 1000 years ago

B. 1500 years ago

C. 3000 years ago

D. 2000 years ago
4052. Written in March is a poem composed by_______________?
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A. William Congreve

B. William Shakespeare

C. William Wordsworth

D. William Blake

4053. April is the Cruelest month of all is taken from Eliots__________________?
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A. The Hollow men

B. Prufrock

C. The Wasteland

D. East Coker

4054. Lycidas is written by_____________?
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A. Thomas Hardy

B. Henry Fielding

C. Alexander Pope

D. John Milton
4055. Who is contemporary of William Shakespeare ?
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A. John Milton

B. Lord Tennyson

C. Christopher Marlowe

D. All of them

4056. Shaws Man and Superman is an example of___________?
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A. Romantic Comedy

B. Comedy of Errors

C. Comedy of Ideas

D. Comedy of Manners

4058. Andrea Del Sarto is a poem written by_________________?
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A. Tennyson

B. T. S. Eliot

C. Browning

D. Keats

4060. In Memoriam by Tennyson is________________?
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A. an elegy

B. a lyric

C. a collection of elegies

D. a dramatic lyric

4061. Who was American poet ?
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A. John Milton

B. John Keats

C. Robert Frost

D. Robert Herrick

4062. Which was the oldest period in English literature ?
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A. Chaucers period

B. Anglo-Norman

C. Middle Age

D. Anglo-Saxon
4063. Who was a friend of John Milton ?
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A. Andrew Marvell

B. John Donne

C. John Dryden

D. Alexander Pope

4064. The poem Wind is written by________________?
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A. Shelley

B. John Ashbery

C. Ted Hughes

D. Sylvia Plath

4065. In Memoriam is _______________?
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A. neither

B. an ode

C. a sonnet

D. an elegy
4068. But Gods eternal Laws are kind And break the heart of stone. In which poem do these lines appear ?
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A. Ballad of Reading Goal (Oscar Wilde)

B. None of these

C. We Are Seven (Wordsworth)

D. Prisoner of Chillon (Byron)

4069. Find the Odd man out ?
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A. Tom Jones : Henry Fielding

B. Roxana: Daniel Defoe

C. All for Love: John Milton

D. The Good-nature man: Oliver Goldsmith

4071. James Joyces famous novel_____________?
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A. Roots

B. Ulysses

C. Tom Jones

D. Rebecca

4072. The 18th century work Tom Jones was written by whom ?
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A. John Donne

B. Samuel Johnson

C. Henry Fielding

D. Tobias Smollett

4073. The kind Claudius was killed by________________?
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A. None of these

B. Horatio

C. Laerteus

D. Hamlet
4075. Which one of the following is a comedy ?
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A. Timon of Athens

B. Hamlet

C. Antony and Cleopatra

D. Alls Well that Ends Well
4079. Which work was completed last ?
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A. William Shakespeares Tempest

B. John Miltons Paradise Lost

C. George Herberts The Temple

D. Ben Jonsons Volpone

4080. Tradition and Individual Talent is a critical essay by_______________?
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A. Oscar Wilde

B. Shelley

C. T. S. Eliot

D. None of these

4081. Which one of the following writers is not woman ?
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A. None of these

B. Emily Bronte

C. Robert Browning

D. Jane Austen

4082. Who of the following is a playwright ?
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A. Dickens

B. G.B. Shaw

C. Frost

D. W.B. Yeats

4083. After Apple Picking is written by_______________?
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A. Robert Browning

B. Robert Frost

C. both A and B

D. none of these

4084. Who is the Writer of The White Tiger ?
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A. Arobinda Adigha

B. Kiron Dishai

C. Salman Rushdie

D. Arundhoti Roy

4085. Who is the author of Sherlock Holmes ?
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A. Somerset Maugham

B. John Gay

C. Dylan Thomas

D. Sir Arthur Canon Doyle
4086. Which book wins the 2013 Man Booker Prize__________________?
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A. The Luminaries

B. The White Tiger

C. Wolf Hall

D. The Sea

4087. Who is considered to be the father of English novel ?
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A. King Alfred the Great

B. Geoffery Chaucer

C. Francis Bacon

D. Henry Fielding
4088. Which of the following works was written before the all-important Battle of Hastings?
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A. Canterbury Tales

B. The Domesday Book

C. Beowulf

D. Sons and Lovers

4089. Which year Geoffrey Chaucer was born ?
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A. 1342 AD

B. 1340 AD

C. 1341 AD

D. 1343 AD

4090. Famous romantic poets were_____________?
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A. Four

B. Six

C. Five

D. None of these

4091. Who wrote Hard Times and A tale of two Cities ?
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A. John Webster

B. Daniel Defoe

C. Charles Dickens

D. John Milton

4092. The Metaphysical Poets is a critical essay by________________?
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A. None of these

B. Arnold

C. T. S. Eliot

D. Shelley

4094. What the term Blank Verse refers_____________?
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A. having no significance

B. having no rhyming end

C. having no rhythmic flow

D. having no blanks in the verse

4095. Ode on a Grecian Urn Who is the poet of the poem ?
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A. Shakespeare

B. Wordsworth

C. Keats

D. Shelley

4096. Who is the author of A Brief History of Time ?
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A. Jagadish Chandra Basu

B. Stephen Hawking

C. Isaac Newton

D. Albert Einstein

4097. Who is the author of the book Around the World in Eighty Days ?
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A. Jules Verne

B. Mark Twain

C. Charles Dickens

D. H. G. Wells

4098. Who is the author of Around the World in Eighty Days ?
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A. Christopher Marlowe

B. Charles Kingsley

C. Thomas Hood

D. Jules Verne
4099. Of Human Bondage is written by_____________?
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A. Philip Sydney

B. Somerset Maugham

C. James Joyce

D. W.B. Yeats

4100. On which novel, the Sherlock Holmes character was first appeared_________________?
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A. The Valley of Fear

B. A Study in Scarlet

C. The Sign of the Four

D. The Hound of the Baskervilles