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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