miscellaneous literature MCQs – Page 8

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

miscellaneous literature Mcqs
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
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