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famous playwright poet and others Mcqs
621. 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

622. 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

623. 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

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

B. Snake

C. Satan

D. Eve
625. In which town was Shakespeare born ?
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A. Oxford

B. Cambridge

C. Stratford

D. London

626. 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

627. 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

628. 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.

629. 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
630. 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

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

B. 30th April 1616

C. 28th April 1616

D. 25th April 1616,

632. 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

633. 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
634. 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

635. When Wordsworths Immortality Ode was first published in 1802, it had only ?
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A. Stanzas I to IV

B. Stanzas I to VII

C. Stanzas I toV

D. Stanzas I to VI

636. In the phrase, thy seed shall bruise our foe, thy refers to__________________?
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A. Sin

B. Eve

C. Satan

D. Eden

637. In 1613 the Globe Theater burned down during a production of which play ?
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A. Richard II

B. Henry VIII

C. King John

D. Henry V

638. Paradise Lost is considered a______________?
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A. Novel

B. Short Story

C. First Person Narrative

D. Epic Poem
639. Identify the novel in which the character of Charlotte Lucas figures ?
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A. Pride and Prejudice

B. Great Expectations

C. The Power and the Glory

D. Lord of the Flies

640. To be or not to be that is the question, is famous line of which of Shakespeares plays ?
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A. King Lear

B. Hamlet

C. Macbeth

D. Othello