famous playwright poet and others Mcqs
501. My own great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh as being wiser than the intellect. Who wrote this ?
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A. Graham Greene

B. Jane Austen

C. Charles Dickens

D. D. H. Lawrence
502. Which college did William Wordsworth attend ?
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A. Christ College

B. Kings College

C. Trinity College

D. St. Johns College
503. One important feature of Jane Austens style is ?
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A. boisterous humour

B. stream of consciousness

C. subtlety of irony

D. humour and pathos
504. How many of Shakespeares plays are classified as histories ?
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A. 10

B. 7

C. 14

D. 18

505. Keatss Endymion is dedicated to _______________?
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A. Milton

B. Shakespeare

C. Thomas Chatterton

D. Leigh Hunt
506. Who is traveling with Macbeth when he first encounters the Three Witches ?
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A. Macduff

B. Lady Macbeth

C. Mercutio

D. Banquo
507. The line To be or not to be comes from which play ?
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A. Twelfth Night

B. Hamlet

C. Macbeth

D. A Midsummer Nights dream

508. Which statement about the Earth is asserted as true in Paradise Lost ?
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A. It was created before God the Son

B. Earth hangs from Heaven by a chain

C. The Earth revolves around the sun

D. The Earth is a lotus flower

509. In how many books is Paradise Lost divided ?
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A. Nine

B. Twelve

C. Eighteen

D. Fourteen

510. The better part of valour is discretion occurs in Shakespeares ?
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A. The Tempest

B. Hamlet

C. Henry IV, Pt I

D. Twelfth Night

511. How many plays didWilliam Shakespeare write ?
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A. 39

B. 37

C. 38

D. 36

512. Which of the following is Goldings first novel ?
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A. Pincher Martin

B. Lord of the Flies

C. The Inheritors

D. Pyramid

513. Identify the writer who was expelled from Oxford for circulating a pamphlet ?
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A. Hazlitt

B. P.B. Shelley

C. Coleridge

D. Charles Lamb

514. When did William Wordsworth die ?
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A. 7 June 1849

B. 12 January 1842

C. 3 November 1852

D. 23 April 1850
515. The novel The Power and the Glory is set in ?
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A. Germany

B. France

C. Italy

D. Mexico
516. Identify the character who is a supporter of Womens Rights in Sons and Lovers ?
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A. Mrs. Morel

B. Miriam

C. Annie

D. Clara Dawes

517. which famous Shakespeare play does the quote The first thing we do, lets kill all the lawyers come from ?
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A. Pericles, Prince of Tyre

B. Othello, the Moor of Venice

C. The Merry Wives of Windsor

D. King Henry the Sixth, Part II
518. With the accession of King James to the English throne, Lord Chamberlains Man was renamed ?
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A. None of above

B. Kings Man

C. King Lear

D. Gentleman

519. The reason for Eves fall might best be described as_______________?
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A. greed

B. lust

C. vanity

D. pride

520. In Leda and the Swan, who wooes Leda in guise of a swan ?
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A. Zeus

B. Hercules

C. Bacchus

D. Mars

521. The fruit of which tree were Adam and Eve forbidden to eat ?
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A. Tree of Life

B. Tree of God

C. Tree of Knowledge

D. Tree of Sin

522. In which work Samuel Taylor Coleridge introduced the term willing suspension of disbelief in 1817 ?
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A. Kubla Khan

B. Christabel

C. Biographia Literaria

D. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

523. Who is the second attending gentlewoman on Hero? Ursula and_______________?
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A. Emilia

B. Celia

C. Helena

D. Margaret
524. Identify the rhetorical figure used in the following line of Tennyson Faith unfaithful kept him falsely true. ?
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A. Synecdoche

B. Metaphor

C. Simile

D. Oxymoron
525. A verse form using stanza of eight lines, each with eleven syllables, is known as ?
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A. Ottava Rima

B. Ballad

C. Rhyme Royal

D. Spenserian Stanza

526. A man can die but once is one of quote of following plays ?
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A. Henry 6 part one

B. Henry 4 part two

C. Henry 6 part three

D. Henry 4 part one

527. Who was villain in Othello ?
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A. None of above

B. Iago

C. Egeus

D. Claudius

528. Everyday before the Fall Adam and Eve went out to work. What did their work consist of ?
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A. Hunting and gathering food

B. Building shelter to live in

C. Tending to the Garden of Eden

D. Naming all Gods creatures and plants

529. When did Samuel Taylor Coleridge die ?
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A. 22 November 1836

B. 25 July 1834

C. 30 April 1822

D. 24 February 1841

530. Who derided Hazlitt as one of the members of the Cockney School of Poetry ?
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A. Tennyson

B. Lockhart

C. T. S. Eliot

D. Charles Lamb

531. Which river is associated with Shakespeares birth place ?
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A. The Thames

B. The Tyburn

C. The Avon

D. The Seven

532. Who wrote Biographia Literaria ?
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A. Lamb

B. Byron

C. Shelley

D. Coleridge
533. Shakespeares father died in _______________?
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A. 1603

B. 1602

C. 1600

D. 1601
534. Thackerays Esmond is a novel of historical realism capturing the spirit of ____________?
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A. the Medieval age

B. the Elizabethan age

C. the age of Queen Anne

D. the Victorian age

535. 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

536. 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

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

B. Nature

C. Wye

D. Dorothy
538. How many sonnets did William Shakespeare write ?
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A. 110

B. 175

C. 187

D. 154
539. Sin was born out of Satans_________________?
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A. Rib

B. Lust

C. Anger

D. Head
540. How many times does Milton invoke a muse ?
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A. One

B. Three

C. Four

D. Two

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

B. 2

C. 4

D. 0

542. 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

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

B. Henry six

C. None of above

D. Henry five

544. 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

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

B. Romeo and Juliet

C. Henry VI

D. The Tempest

546. 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

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

B. rapheal

C. god

D. eve
548. 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

549. 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
550. 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