miscellaneous literature MCQs – Page 6

Practise focused miscellaneous literature questions with marked answers for exam preparation and subject revision.

miscellaneous literature Mcqs
251. A poem of fourteen lines is called________________?
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A. Sonnet

B. Epic

C. Ode

D. Elege

252. Which one of the following is a comedy ?
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A. Timon of Athens

B. Hamlet

C. Antony and Cleopatra

D. Alls Well that Ends Well
253. Joyces novel Ulysses takes place over what period of time ?
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A. 24 hours

B. 6 months

C. A lifetime

D. A week

254. The Lay of the Last Minstrel is written by_______________?
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A. Blake

B. Tennyson

C. Walter Scott

D. Byron

255. Poetry is defined as Spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling by___________?
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A. Wordsworth

B. Coleridge

C. Shelley

D. None of these

256. Which work was completed last ?
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A. William Shakespeares Tempest

B. John Miltons Paradise Lost

C. George Herberts The Temple

D. Ben Jonsons Volpone

257. Tradition and Individual Talent is a critical essay by_______________?
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A. Oscar Wilde

B. Shelley

C. T. S. Eliot

D. None of these

258. Which one of the following writers is not woman ?
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A. None of these

B. Emily Bronte

C. Robert Browning

D. Jane Austen

259. Who of the following is a playwright ?
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A. Dickens

B. G.B. Shaw

C. Frost

D. W.B. Yeats

260. After Apple Picking is written by_______________?
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A. Robert Browning

B. Robert Frost

C. both A and B

D. none of these

261. Who is the Writer of The White Tiger ?
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A. Arobinda Adigha

B. Kiron Dishai

C. Salman Rushdie

D. Arundhoti Roy

262. Who is the author of Sherlock Holmes ?
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A. Somerset Maugham

B. John Gay

C. Dylan Thomas

D. Sir Arthur Canon Doyle
263. Which book wins the 2013 Man Booker Prize__________________?
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A. The Luminaries

B. The White Tiger

C. Wolf Hall

D. The Sea

264. Who is considered to be the father of English novel ?
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A. King Alfred the Great

B. Geoffery Chaucer

C. Francis Bacon

D. Henry Fielding
265. Which of the following works was written before the all-important Battle of Hastings?
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A. Canterbury Tales

B. The Domesday Book

C. Beowulf

D. Sons and Lovers

266. Which year Geoffrey Chaucer was born ?
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A. 1342 AD

B. 1340 AD

C. 1341 AD

D. 1343 AD

267. Famous romantic poets were_____________?
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A. Four

B. Six

C. Five

D. None of these

268. Who wrote Hard Times and A tale of two Cities ?
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A. John Webster

B. Daniel Defoe

C. Charles Dickens

D. John Milton

269. The Metaphysical Poets is a critical essay by________________?
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A. None of these

B. Arnold

C. T. S. Eliot

D. Shelley

270. Intense emotion coupled with an intense display of imagery are characteristics of age______________?
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A. Elizabethan

B. None of these

C. Romantic

D. Victorian

271. What the term Blank Verse refers_____________?
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A. having no significance

B. having no rhyming end

C. having no rhythmic flow

D. having no blanks in the verse

272. Ode on a Grecian Urn Who is the poet of the poem ?
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A. Shakespeare

B. Wordsworth

C. Keats

D. Shelley

273. Who is the author of A Brief History of Time ?
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A. Jagadish Chandra Basu

B. Stephen Hawking

C. Isaac Newton

D. Albert Einstein

274. Who is the author of the book Around the World in Eighty Days ?
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A. Jules Verne

B. Mark Twain

C. Charles Dickens

D. H. G. Wells

275. Who is the author of Around the World in Eighty Days ?
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A. Christopher Marlowe

B. Charles Kingsley

C. Thomas Hood

D. Jules Verne
276. Of Human Bondage is written by_____________?
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A. Philip Sydney

B. Somerset Maugham

C. James Joyce

D. W.B. Yeats

277. On which novel, the Sherlock Holmes character was first appeared_________________?
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A. The Valley of Fear

B. A Study in Scarlet

C. The Sign of the Four

D. The Hound of the Baskervilles

278. From 1st January 2007, how many digits contains in ISBN (International Standard Book Number)?
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A. 13

B. 10

C. 15

D. 9

279. Adam Bede is a______________?
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A. Novel

B. none of these

C. Poem

D. Play

280. Which of the following literary sub periods does NOT fall under the Neoclassical Period ?
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A. The Restoration

B. The Augustan Age

C. The Age of Sensibility

D. Jacobean Age
281. Eliot was influenced by___________________?
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A. Shaw

B. Ezra Pound

C. Hardy

D. none of these

282. In what language did Shakespeare write ?
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A. Middle English

B. Old English

C. Modern English

D. German

283. In his poetry Tennyson is_______________?
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A. The representative poet of Romantic Age

B. The representative poet of Victorian Age

C. None of these

D. The best nature poet

284. Which of the following would a Romantic Poet be most likely to use ?
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A. An airy fairy

B. A bird

C. A tenant of the sky

D. A member of the plumy race

285. The Conduct of the Allies is a famous work of_____________?
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A. Jonathan Swift

B. Samuel Johnson

C. Oliver Goldsmith

D. None of these

286. Thomas Hardy was brought up to the profession of_____________?
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A. None of these

B. Engraver

C. Architect

D. Sculptor

287. Who wrote Crime and Punishment ?
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A. Shelley

B. Tolstoy

C. Byron

D. Dostoyevsky
288. Henry Higgins is a character in________________?
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A. none of these

B. Candida

C. Pygmalion

D. saint joan

289. What did Robert Frosts father do ?
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A. black-smith

B. journalist

C. teacher

D. farmer

290. James Joyces narrative technique is known as______________?
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A. stream of consciousness

B. Objective Co-relative

C. Symbolism and Mysticism

D. psycho-analysis

291. Tales from Shakespeare is written by________________?
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A. Lamb

B. Mary Anne Evans

C. Lawrence

D. Shakespeare

292. Vanity Fair is a novel by_______________?
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A. Thackeray

B. Dickens

C. Scott

D. Fielding

293. Literary divisions are not always exact, but we draw them because they are often convenient. The majority of English literary periods are named after_______________?
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A. The language of the age

B. The primary author of the age

C. Monarchs or political events

D. The leading characteristic of the age

294. Poet Alexander Popes famous work_________________?
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A. Spectator

B. The Rape of Lock

C. The Deserted Village

D. Man was made to mourn

295. This work was NOT originally published in the 20th Century ?
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A. Virginia Woolfs Mrs. Dalloway

B. E.M. Forsters A Room With A View

C. Henry Jamess The Ambassadors

D. Thomas Hardys Tess of the DUrbervilles
296. On Heroes and Heroworship is written by________________?
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A. Mill

B. Huxley

C. Ruskin

D. Carlyle
297. Sweet are the uses of adversity was stated by__________________?
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A. Shakespeare

B. Tolstoy

C. Milton

D. Valtaire

298. One of the following was a Romantic poet______________?
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A. Shelley

B. Tennyson

C. Browning

D. Arnold

299. Hero and Hero worship was written by______________?
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A. Mill

B. Carlyle

C. Ruskin

D. None of these

300. Hearing a colour or Seeing a smell is an example of______________?
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A. Synaesthesia

B. Oxymoron

C. Contrast

D. Sensuousness