miscellaneous literature Mcqs
1. What the term Elegy refers ?
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A. a hymn

B. a song of lamentation

C. a song of pleasure

D. a praiseworthy song

2. To be, or not to be, that is the question- Where do you find this quotation ?
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A. As You like It

B. Othello

C. Macbeth

D. Hamlet
3. The LotusEaters was written by________________?
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A. None of these

B. Blake

C. Browning

D. Tennyson
4. Macbeth is a_____________?
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A. an essy

B. poem

C. play

D. novel

5. When Alfred Lord Tennyson was born ?
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A. 1812

B. 1809

C. 1810

D. 1811

6. Who said Cowards die many times before their death ?
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A. Alexander Pope

B. Shakespeare

C. Franklin

D. Carlyle

7. Yeats was______________?
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A. Both

B. Victorian poet

C. None of these

D. a modern poet

8. Which of the following poets wrote during the Victorian period but was not published until the 20th century ?
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A. Elizabeth Barret Browning

B. Ted Hughes

C. Christina Rossetti

D. Gerard Manley Hopkins
9. In Shakespeare Character is not Destiny but character and Destiny. Whose comment is this ?
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A. Nicoll

B. None of these

C. Dr. Johnson

D. Bradley
10. Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of will, is a statement by______________?
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A. Coleridge

B. Shelley

C. Wordsworth

D. Arnold

11. Famous Irish poet and dramatist is______________?
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A. W.B. Yeats

B. L. Tolstoy

C. A. Pope

D. H.G. Wells

12. The Professor was the first novel by________________?
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A. Jane Austen

B. Emily Bronte

C. Charlotte Bronte

D. Anne Bronte

13. The poet of Romantic Age is_______________?
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A. D.H. Lawrence

B. John Milton

C. None of these

D. John Keats
14. Hardys Nature is_____________?
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A. Vindictive

B. None of these

C. Friendly

D. Indifferent
15. O Captain! My Captain! is a poem written by______________?
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A. Mark Twain

B. Walt Whitman

C. Emily Dickinson

D. Robert Frost

16. Who wrote The Spanish Tragedy ?
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A. Thomas Kyd

B. Christopher Marlowe

C. Robert Green

D. John Lyly

17. In which city the play of Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet is set in_________________?
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A. none of these

B. Milan

C. Turin

D. Verona
18. Paradise Lost was written by________________?
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A. Shakespeare

B. Milton

C. Coleridge

D. Keats

19. Who is the writer of The Two Voices ?
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A. A. Lord Tennyson

B. William Shakespeare

C. Christopher Marlowe

D. George Bernard Shaw

20. What is an Effigy ?
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A. a sonnet

B. a poem

C. a lamentation

D. an image or dummy
21. Dickens first novel which focused on the specific social ills was______________?
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A. the Christmas carol

B. oliver twist

C. Great Expectations

D. a tale of two cities

22. Who is the author of the novel The Golden Age ?
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A. Pearl S. Bark

B. Tahmima Anam

C. Jane Austen

D. Virginia Woolf

23. All good poetry is spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings who made this statement ?
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A. De Quincey

B. Shelly

C. Wordsworth

D. None of these

24. The Excursion was written by________________?
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A. Shelley

B. Coleridge

C. None of these

D. Blake

25. How many chapters are in the Quran ?
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A. 114

B. 42

C. 98

D. 67

26. What do you mean by Diction ?
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A. choice of simile and metaphor

B. choice of characters

C. choice of words for writing

D. choice of rhythms

27. In The Gift of the Magi Della is presented as_____________?
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A. a snobbish wife

B. a hypocritical wife

C. a sacrificing wife

D. a loving wife

28. Shaw died at the age of_______________?
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A. 95

B. none of these

C. 75

D. 105

29. The literary figure who had the most pronounced effect on Keats was_______________?
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A. Wordsworth

B. Shelley

C. Dante

D. Shakespeare
30. The first Englishwoman to earn her living as a playwright was______________?
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A. Ann Hathaway

B. Nell Gwynn

C. Aphra Behn

D. Lady Teazle

31. Which University presented the Pulitzer Prize_______________?
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A. Yale University

B. Harvard University

C. Columbia University

D. New York University

32. Who is the writer of Vision of Sin ?
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A. Christopher Marlowe

B. A. Lord Tennyson

C. William Shakespeare

D. George Bernard Shaw

33. Which of the following periods of English literature came last ?
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A. The Jacobean Age

B. The Commonwealth Period

C. The Middle English Period

D. The Elizabethan Age

34. The Crown of Wild Olive, is written by__________________?
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A. C. Lamb

B. Ruskin

C. Russell

D. J.S.Mill

35. The novel The Jungle Book is written by_______________?
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A. Rudyard Kipling

B. R. K. Narayan

C. H. G. Wells

D. Edin Blyton

36. The Rainbow is a novel written by______________?
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A. Hemingway

B. Virginia Woolf

C. E.M. Forster

D. D.H. Lawrence
37. William Blakes /Songs of counterbalance his Songs of Experience ?
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A. childhood

B. Innocence

C. Love

D. Inexperience

38. Gunter Grass got Nobel Prize in-xviii ?
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A. 1998

B. 1999

C. 2000

D. 1997

39. Romanticism is mainly connected with______________?
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A. love and beauty

B. expectation and depression

C. excitement and sensation

D. job and tiredness

40. The quality of Mercy is not strained the line is taken from________________?
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A. Two gentleman of Verona

B. Anthony and Cleopatra

C. Midsummers Night Dream

D. Merchant of Venice
41. Who is the writer of Lorna Doone ?
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A. H.G. Wells

B. T. S. Eliot

C. Blackmore

D. Jane Austen

42. Tom Jones by Henry Fielding was first published in______________?
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A. 19th century

B. the 2nd half of 18th century

C. the first half of 18th century

D. the first half of 19th century

43. Which poet did NOT write during the 16th century ?
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A. Sir Thomas Wyatt

B. Thomas Carew

C. John Skelton

D. William Shakespeare

44. Adonis is modeled on________________?
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A. In Memoriam

B. Lycidas

C. Bions lament for Adonis

D. None of these

45. Who is the writer of Comedy of Errors ?
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A. T S Eliot

B. William Shakespeare

C. G B Shaw

D. Ben Jhonson

46. Which of the following is not a tragedy written by Shakespeare ?
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A. None of these

B. Macbeth

C. Othello

D. Merchant of Venice
47. In Shakespeares Tragedies Character is not Destiny but there is Character and Destiny is a remark by________________?
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A. Bradley

B. Goddord

C. Coleridge

D. Nicoll

48. Who wrote the poem The Seven Ages ?
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A. Edward Gibbon

B. John Milton

C. William Shakespeare

D. Geoffrey Chaucer

49. The Poet Laureate is_________________?
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A. the best poet of the country

B. the court poet of England

C. a classical poet

D. a winner of Noble Prize in Poetry

50. The Bronte sisters wrote during this period______________?
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A. Romantic

B. Regency

C. Restoration

D. Victorian