miscellaneous literature Mcqs
101. The central idea of Ozymandias is that______________?
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A. all things, both great and small,will perish

B. man is mortal,art immortal

C. imagination is stronger than fact

D. history repeats

102. Which poem of Tennyson was particularly like by Queen Victoria ?
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A. Charge of the Light Brigade

B. In Memoriam

C. The Idylls of the kings

D. None of these

103. Who wrote Kubla Khan ?
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A. Coleridge

B. Wordsworth

C. Shelley

D. Keats

104. The character of Little Neil is a creation of______________?
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A. Dickens

B. Oscar Wilde

C. Eliot

D. Hardy

105. The literary work of Kubla Khan is_________________?
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A. a short story by Somerset Maugham

B. a verse by Coleridge

C. a drama by Oscar Wilde

D. a history by Vincent Smith

106. Yahoos according to Gulliver were______________?
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A. Indians

B. American

C. European

D. None of these

107. On liberty was written by_______________?
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A. Godwin

B. Macaulay

C. Mill

D. Carlyle

108. Tennyson wrote____________?
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A. The Lotus Eaters

B. My last Duchess

C. Dover Beach

D. The Eve of St. Agnes

109. The poem The Patriot is written by_______________?
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A. Robert Browning

B. Mathew Arnold

C. Alfred Tennyson

D. John Donne

110. What the term Renaissance refers ?
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A. rebel

B. representation

C. revival or rebirth

D. presentation

111. Who of the following was both a poet and painter ?
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A. Donne

B. William Blake

C. Spenser

D. Keats

112. The Merchant of Venice Written by Shakespeare is________________?
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A. A novel

B. a poem

C. a short story

D. a drama
113. Who is the first great modernist of English Literature ?
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A. Geoffrey Chaucer

B. Cynewulf

C. Robert Browning

D. Roger Bacon

114. Who is the writer of The Augustan Period ?
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A. Robert Herrick

B. Jeremy Taylor

C. Samuel Richardson

D. Thomas Hobbes

115. The Medal by John Dryden is a/an________________?
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A. play

B. prose

C. satire

D. translation

116. Which one of the following poets was appointed Poet Laureate in the year 1813 ?
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A. Wordsworth

B. Southey

C. Tennyson

D. Byron

117. Murder in the Cathedral is a play written by___________?
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A. Oscar Wilde

B. Marlowe

C. Shakespeare

D. T.S. Eliot
118. The Revolt of Islam was written by________________?
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A. Coleridge

B. None of these

C. Wordsworth

D. Shelley
119. Shakespeare was born in_______________?
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A. 1570

B. 1564

C. 1590

D. None of these

120. The shepherd in The Passionate Shepherd to His Love is_________________?
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A. sentimental

B. romantic

C. practical

D. irresponsible

121. The statue of Ozymandias is______________?
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A. in a desert

B. in a valley

C. on a mountain

D. beside a river

122. Who is the author of Animal Farm ?
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A. George Orwell

B. Charles Dickens

C. Thomas More

D. Boris Pasternak

123. Love and Friendship is written by___________________?
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A. None

B. Jane Austen

C. Francis Bacon

D. Jonathan Swift

124. The period between 1660 to 1750 is known as___________________?
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A. The Restoration

B. None of these

C. The Age of Classicism

D. The age of Milton

125. A person who writes about his own life writes ______________?
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A. a chronicle

B. an autobiography

C. a diary

D. a biography

126. Who is called the Bird of Avon ?
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A. John Milton

B. John Dryden

C. William Shakespeare

D. None of these

127. Which of the following is illustrative of Ruskins interest in social economy ?
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A. The Stones of Venice

B. None of these

C. Unto this Last

D. The Seven Lamps

128. Which on of the following is first long poem in English ?
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A. Beowulf

B. The Wanderer

C. The Seafarer

D. Dream of the Road

129. Paradise Lost was written by__________________?
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A. Robert Browning

B. John Milton

C. W B Yeats

D. Mathew

130. What is Robert Frost famous Journal ?
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A. The Road not taken

B. The summers day

C. The Atlantic Monthly

D. The Mountain Interval

131. The earliest play written by Shakespeare according to Oxford Shakespeare 1988 is______________?
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A. Two Gentlemen of Verona

B. The Taming of the Shrew

C. As you Like it

D. Titus Andronicus
132. Who is known as an anti-romantic novelist in the Romantic Age ?
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A. William Hazlitt

B. Jane Austen

C. Oliver Goldsmith

D. Charles Lamb

133. Which one is not a science fiction writer_________________?
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A. Hugo Gernsback

B. H. G. Wells

C. Victor Hugo

D. Jules Verne

134. Hardy is a__________________?
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A. None of these

B. Meliorist

C. Mystic

D. Pessimist
135. The period of maturation, intellectual growth and social graces during the Renaissance is called the____________?
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A. New Age

B. Enlightenment

C. aristocracy

D. Reformation

136. Who is the writer of the poem Nun Priests Tale ?
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A. Shelley

B. Cynewulf

C. Geoffrey Chaucer

D. Robert Browning

137. In which age is The Puritan Period included ?
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A. The Modern

B. The Romantic

C. The Renaissance

D. The Non-classical

138. What do you mean by Archaism ?
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A. modern mode of words

B. up-to-date words

C. literary words

D. obsolete words
139. Who is the author of Heaven and Earth ?
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A. Lord Tennyson

B. John Keats

C. Lord Byron

D. William Wordsworth

140. In Shakespeare tragedy, the hero is________________?
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A. a high ranking man

B. none of these

C. an ordinary man

D. a sacrilegious man

141. Firdausi was the poet of________________?
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A. English

B. French

C. Italy

D. Persian
142. Emile Zola is a famous__________________?
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A. Irish novelist

B. French Novelist

C. English novelist

D. American Novelist

143. Which one is not by Shakespeare ?
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A. Knowledge is power.

B. None of these.

C. Nature teaches beasts to know their friends.

D. True is it that we have seen betting days.

144. Find the Odd man out ?
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A. The Falcon

B. The Virginians

C. On Liberty

D. Ulysses

145. In 1905, VirginiaWoolf began to write for which publication ?
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A. The Times Literary Supplement

B. Reader Magazine

C. The Ladys Home Journal

D. Strand Magazine

146. What is Quinzaine ?
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A. a thirteen line stanza

B. a fourteen line stanza

C. a fifteen line stanza

D. a twenty line stanza

147. Wordsworth was appointed as poet Laureate in_______________?
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A. none of these

B. 1843 b1844

C. 1846

D. 1845

148. Eliot worked for Faber and Faber as a/an_______________?
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A. assistant

B. Editor e none of these

C. writer

D. director

149. Who wrote Shakespeares Later Comedies ?
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A. None of these

B. A.C. Bradley

C. Dr.Johnsofl

D. Palmer D.J.
150. The University Wits were_______________?
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A. Poets

B. None of these

C. Novelists

D. Playwrights