miscellaneous literature Mcqs
151. Justice delayed is justice denied was stated by______________?
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A. Disraeli

B. Gladstone

C. Emerson

D. Shakespeare

152. Which work was published first ?
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A. Blakes Songs of Innocence

B. Sir Walter Scotts Ivanhoe

C. Lord Byrons Don Juan

D. Mary Shelleys Frankenstein

153. The prose of the Romantic period had a tendency to_______________?
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A. Objectify the issue in terms of a cause

B. Be brooding and meditative. own personality

C. Advance a single system to the public

D. Allow the writer to draw on his

154. Who is the author of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner ?
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A. Sir Walter Scott

B. W. Somerset Maugham

C. William Wordsworth

D. S. T. Coleridge
155. The Essays of Elia was first published in book form in_____________?
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A. 1823

B. 1795

C. 1829

D. 1807

156. Which of the following writers would be an appropriate subject for a class on The Literature of the British Empire ?
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A. Rudyard Kipling

B. Charlotte Bronte

C. Any of these

D. Edward Fitzgerald

157. Who wrote the poem Solitary Reaper ?
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A. P. B Shelley

B. John Keats

C. William Wordsworth

D. Lord Byron

158. Who wrote first ?
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A. Christopher Marlowe

B. Howard, Earl of Surrey

C. George Eliot

D. William Shakespeare

159. All that glitters is not gold. You have heard often this told. This maxim is included in Shakespeares__________________?
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A. Shakespeares Tempest

B. None of these

C. Shakespeares Much ado about nothing.

D. Merchant of Venice / Shakespeares
160. Which year William Shakespeare was born ?
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A. 1809 AD

B. 1564 AD

C. 1773 AD

D. 1923 AD

161. Jane Austen wrote during this period________________?
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A. Restoration

B. Regency

C. Middle English

D. Victorian

162. What is the term Utopia ?
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A. a day dreamer

B. an ideal state which does not exist in real

C. a hat of a king

D. a lotus eater

163. Wordsworth is a ______________ poet ?
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A. Greek

B. romantic

C. classical

D. modern

164. What do you mean by Burlesque ?
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A. a satiric caricature of the characters

B. a satiric person

C. an allegorical statement

D. a drama

165. Who is the author of India Wins Freedom ?
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A. Abul Kalam Azad

B. Jinnah

C. Nehru

D. Ghandhi

166. Whose real name was Mary Anne Evans ?
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A. Joseph Conrad

B. George Eliot

C. Jane Austen

D. Charlotte Bronte

167. What is the name of Wordsworths long poem ?
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A. None of these

B. The Prelude

C. The Canterbury Tales

D. Don Juan

168. Who is known as the national poet of England_________________?
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A. William Wordsworth

B. T. S. Eliot

C. John Keats

D. William Shakespeare
169. Novel which is not written by D. H Lawrence ?
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A. Ullysses

B. Sons and Lovers

C. The Rainbow

D. Lady Chatterleys Lover

170. In which of the following Genres did Victorian Literature achieve its greatest success_______________?
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A. Epic Poetry

B. The Essay

C. The Novel

D. Lyric Poetry

171. Hellenism of Keats connotes______________?
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A. his love of ancient cultures

B. his love of Greek culture and art

C. his love of poetry

D. None of these

172. Ode to Autumn was written by__________________?
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A. Blake

B. Shelley

C. Byron

D. Keats
173. Edmund Spenser is a_________________?
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A. artist

B. dramatist

C. scientist

D. poet
174. The age tended to favour the taste and search for truth in art______________?
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A. Victorian

B. Elizabethan

C. Romantic

D. Classical

175. Lapis Lazuli is __________________?
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A. A Poem

B. None of these

C. Drama

D. A Poem
176. Who wrote the book Lord Jim: A Tale ?
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A. Oscar Wilde

B. Thomas Hardy

C. Rudyard Kipling

D. Joseph Conrad
177. not of an age, but for all time-was told about Shakespeare by whom ?
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A. Ben Johnson

B. King Henry

C. Marlowe

D. John Milton

178. Simile is the direct comparison between two________________?
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A. dissimilar things

B. contradictory things

C. similar things

D. elaborate comparison

179. Geoffrey Chaucer served which king ?
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A. James 1

B. Edward III

C. Henry II

D. Richard III

180. Renaissance means___________________?
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A. the revival of hard task

B. the revival of life

C. the revival of new country

D. the revival of learning
181. Undo this Button is a line from Shakespeares________________?
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A. Julius Caeser

B. King Lear

C. Hamlet

D. Othello

182. Satanic Verses is written by__________________?
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A. Arundhuti Roy

B. Salman Rushdie

C. Jhumpa Lahiri

D. R.K. Narayan

183. What do you mean by Hyperbole ?
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A. an overriding view

B. a long narrative poem

C. an overstatement about something

D. a long verse

184. Who is the author of the famous book The Judgment is_______________?
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A. Kuldip Nayer

B. Nelson Mandela

C. Amartya Sen

D. Anthony Mascarenhas

185. What do you mean by Beast Fable ?
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A. a fictional story of animal characters

B. a long narrative prose

C. a soft style epic

D. a short story

186. Prometheus Unbound is a lyrical drama by__________________?
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A. Shelley

B. Sophocles

C. Shakespeare

D. Euripedes

187. Essays of Elia was written by______________?
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A. Emily Bronte

B. Charles Lamb

C. Emily Dickinson

D. William Hazlitt

188. Byrons journey to Spain, Malta, Albania and Greece resulted in the production of the first two cantos of his poem_______________?
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A. Childe Heralds Pilgrimage

B. cain

C. Don Juan

D. the prisoner of Chillon

189. The line Beauty is truth, truth beauty occurs in which one of Keats following poems_______________?
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A. Ode to Psyche

B. Ode to Nightingale

C. Ode to Grecian Urn

D. None of these

190. What is a plot ?
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A. choice of poem

B. an idea about writing

C. arrangement of the incidents

D. the choice of words

191. Exiles is a______________?
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A. Novel

B. Play

C. Poem

D. Short Story

192. Catharsis refers to the term_______________?
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A. arouse of pity and fear

B. sympathy to others

C. characters in play

D. animals in play

193. What was the nationality of OscarWilde ?
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A. Scottish

B. English

C. Irish

D. French

194. Adela is a character from_______________?
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A. A Passage to India

B. Paradise Lost

C. Doctor Faustus

D. Hamlet

195. defines a play as a just and lively image of human nature ?
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A. Dryden

B. Shakespeare

C. Coleridge

D. Dr. Johnson

196. T. Hardy is_______________?
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A. A satirist

B. A social reformer

C. A fatalist

D. A lover of nature

197. Who is called the father of English Poetry ?
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A. G. Chaucer

B. Milton

C. Charles Dickens

D. Wordsworth

198. T. Hardy is______________?
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A. A satirist

B. A fatalist

C. None of these

D. A lover of nature

199. Reading makes a full man, conference a ready man and writing an exact man.- Who told it ?
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A. Chaucer

B. Shakespeare

C. Spenser

D. Bacon
200. Who is the representative of the metaphysical poets ?
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A. John Donne

B. Robert Browning

C. Geoffrey Chaucer

D. Samuel Johnson