This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Introductions > Miscellaneous > Miscelleneous Questions – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Miscelleneous Questions Quiz 1 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Who is the author of the famous book 'The Judgment' is- A) Anthony Mascarenhas. B) Amartya Sen. C) Kuldip Nayer. D) Nelson Mandela. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Kuldip Nayer. 2. Everyman is an example of a ..... A) Morality play. B) Mystery play. C) Interlude. D) Miracle play. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Morality play. 3. What is kenning? A) A sort of simile. B) A sort of irony. C) A sort of metaphor. D) A sort of euphemism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A sort of metaphor. 4. Age of Johnson is also known as- A) Age of Love. B) Age of Criticism. C) Age of Sensibility. D) Age of Pope. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Age of Sensibility. 5. He was not a Renaissance writer. A) William Shakespeare. B) Sir Thomas Malory. C) Christopher Marlowe. D) Sir Philip Sidney. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sir Thomas Malory. 6. What is the height of the longest Lilliputian? A) 7 Metres. B) 2 feet. C) About the size of Gulliver's middle finger. D) 5 feet. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) About the size of Gulliver's middle finger. 7. Who is the writer of the book 'A Passage to India'? A) James Joyce. B) Rudyard Kipling. C) Charles Dickens. D) E. M. Forster. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) E. M. Forster. 8. Who is the father of English Novel? A) Henry Fielding. B) Shakespeare. C) G.B. Shaw. D) R. L. Stevenson. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Henry Fielding. 9. Who was singing outside the window? A) Linnet. B) Sparrow. C) Blossoms. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Linnet. 10. Which pay is known as an instance of Renaissance Play during this period? A) King Lear. B) Edward II. C) Dr Faustus. D) Othello. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dr Faustus. 11. Who is the author of 'The Rape of Bangladesh'? A) Anthony Mascarenhas. B) Mathew Arnold. C) G. B. Shaw. D) Alexander Dumas. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anthony Mascarenhas. 12. When was Edmund Spenser born? -When did Edmund Spenser die? A) 1552-1599. B) 1552-1600. C) 1554-1599. D) 1552-1598. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1552-1599. 13. Wordsworth believes that the task of the poet is A) To transform the commonplace into the extraordinary. B) To present common situations and everyday life. C) To give extraordinary powers to common things and situations. D) To recollect in tranquility. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To transform the commonplace into the extraordinary. 14. "Dunce" refers to A) An uneducated person. B) A silly person. C) A rude person. D) A very intelligent person. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) An uneducated person. 15. Who is the Heroine in Pride and Prejudice? A) Elizabeth Bennet. B) Mrs. Bennet. C) Lucas. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Elizabeth Bennet. 16. 'The Medal' by John Dryden is a/an- A) Satire. B) Play. C) Prose. D) Translation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Satire. 17. Which one of the following is the first long poem in English? A) Beowulf. B) Dream of the Road. C) The Seafarer. D) The Wanderer. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Beowulf. 18. The Chorus in T. S. Eliot's play "Murder in the Cathedral" , consist of A) The servants of Thomas Becket. B) The women of Canterbury. C) The men of Canterbury. D) The priests of Canterbury. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The women of Canterbury. 19. The proper study of mankind in man. This line is taken from the work of: A) Pope. B) Swift. C) Wordsworth. D) Thomson. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pope. 20. What did Milton learn from the caramel maker in Denver, Colorado? A) How to prepare candies with jelly. B) How to charge people for candy to make money. C) How to blend ingredients. D) How to use fresh milk in making chocolate. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) How to use fresh milk in making chocolate. 21. Who established the first printing press in England? A) John Donne. B) Johann Gutenberg. C) Thomas Malory. D) William Caxton. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) William Caxton. 22. Shakespeare is known mostly for his- A) Plays. B) An autobiography. C) A diary. D) Poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Plays. 23. "Beauty is truth, truth is beauty" is stated by- A) Charles Lamb. B) Keats. C) Jane Austine. D) Shelley. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Keats. 24. Who wrote 'The Spanish Tragedy'? A) Thomas Kyd. B) Christopher Marlowe. C) John Lyly. D) Robert Green. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Thomas Kyd. 25. Shakespeare's 'King Lear' is a ..... A) Historical Play. B) Comedy. C) Tragedy. D) Satire. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tragedy. 26. In Shakespeare tragedy, the hero is- A) An ordinary man. B) A high ranking man. C) A sacrilegious man. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A high ranking man. 27. Father of antiquities were: A) Socrates. B) Aristotle. C) Plato. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these. 28. Childe Harold's Pilgrimmage is written by: A) Blake. B) Shelley. C) Byron. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Byron. 29. "My mistress's eyes are nothing" tone A) Serious. B) Optimistic and cheerful. C) Lighthearted and realistic. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lighthearted and realistic. 30. Mowgli saw that the Bandar log would always remain A) Silly and foolish. B) Happy and joyful. C) Sad and angry. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Silly and foolish. 31. It is a special kind of hero story because the heroes of tall tales are 'larger than life'. An exaggerated, unreliable story: "My uncle claims that he was raised in a drainage ditch, but it's just another of his tall tales. A) Folktale. B) Legend. C) Myth. D) Tall Tale. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tall Tale. 32. Which Century belongs to Victorian Period? A) 17th. B) 20th. C) 19th. D) 18th. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 19th. 33. What do you mean by Imagery? A) Language perceived through senses. B) Drawing pictures. C) Language of literature. D) Jargoned writing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Language perceived through senses. 34. Yahoo's according to Gulliver were: A) European. B) Indians. C) American. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) European. 35. 'Pride and Prejudice' is written by? A) Jane Austen. B) Charles Lamb. C) Virginia Woolf. D) Emily Bronte. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Jane Austen. 36. It is a type of literature in the form of prose, especially short stories and novels, that describes imaginary events and people. A) Fiction. B) Non-Fiction. C) Historical Fiction. D) Science Fiction. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fiction. 37. What do you mean by a Ballad? A) A poem of patriotism. B) A poem of love affairs. C) A kind of short narrative poem. D) A kind of condoling poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A kind of short narrative poem. 38. Who is the 'University Wits' in the following list? A) Robert Greene. B) John Dryden. C) Thomas Gray. D) William Shakespeare. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Robert Greene. 39. "Mortality is a private and costly luxury" is said by- A) John Milton. B) Blake. C) Cowper. D) Henry Adams. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Henry Adams. 40. Who is the writer of 'Locksley Hall'? A) A. Lord Tennyson. B) Christopher Marlowe. C) George Bernard Shaw. D) William Shakespeare. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A. Lord Tennyson. 41. Who is the author of the novel 'The Golden Age'? A) Pearl S. Bark. B) Virginia Woolf. C) Jane Austen. D) Tahmima Anam. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tahmima Anam. 42. Which of these is a work of Richard Steele- A) Julius Caesar. B) Lycidas. C) The Funeral. D) A Holy Water. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Funeral. 43. A famous Playwright in Modern English Literature is- A) Oscar Wild. B) Bacon. C) T.S. Eliot. D) Lamb. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Oscar Wild. 44. What the term Mock Epic refers? xi A) A satiric writing of drama. B) A long narrative poem. C) A literary work comically imitates the style of epic. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A literary work comically imitates the style of epic. 45. Pastoral Poem refers a poem about.....life. A) Poet's. B) Personal. C) Shepherd or rural. D) Human. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Shepherd or rural. 46. The poem The Bangle Seller glorifies the idea of A) Womanhood. B) Universal womanhood. C) Indian womanhood. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Indian womanhood. 47. Newton discovered ..... A) The international laws. B) The laws of progress. C) The natural laws of universe. D) The civil laws. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The natural laws of universe. 48. Who were the friends of Mowgli A) Bandar log. B) Baloo and bandar log. C) Bandar log and bageera. D) Baloo and Bagheera. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Baloo and Bagheera. 49. Daultabad also known as ..... A) Dekhi. B) Dheeman. C) Devnagri. D) Deogiri. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Devnagri. 50. Which one of the following is a comedy? A) All's Well that Ends Well. B) Hamlet. C) Timon of Athens. D) Antony and Cleopatra. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) All's Well that Ends Well. 51. What was the "solitary highland lass" doing in "The Solitary Reaper" ? A) She was reaping and singing. B) She was dancing and singing. C) She was reaping and dancing. D) She was reaping and crying. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) She was reaping and singing. 52. Tinku met Mirry in ..... A) Delhi. B) Nainital. C) Duliatal. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Duliatal. 53. What wish did qadir tell to nawab hasan ali A) To give money. B) To have a palace. C) To get gold. D) To get a new big food stall. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To get a new big food stall. 54. T. S. Eliot and George Eliot were: A) Brothers. B) Father and Son. C) Novelists. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) None of these. 55. "Tresspassers will be prosecuted" was written on A) The gate. B) The notice board. C) The high wall. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The notice board. 56. 'How can we know the dancer from the dance'? This line written by Yeats is taken from: A) Sailing to Byzantium. B) Among School Children. C) The Second Coming. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Second Coming. 57. What was the name of Isabella's brother in the 'Measure for Measure'? A) Angelo. B) Vincentio. C) Cladio. D) Viola. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cladio. 58. Lotos Eaters is a poem by: A) Frost. B) Yeats. C) Tennyson. D) Browning. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tennyson. 59. What do you mean by the word Personnel? A) Others. B) Government employee. C) Individual. D) Papers. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Government employee. 60. Who is the author of 'Seize the Day'? A) Arthur Miller. B) Saul Bellow. C) Tony Morrison. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Saul Bellow. Next →Related QuizzesIntroductions QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesMiscelleneous Questions Quiz 2Miscelleneous Questions Quiz 3Miscelleneous Questions Quiz 4Miscelleneous Questions Quiz 5Miscelleneous Questions Quiz 6Miscelleneous Questions Quiz 7Miscelleneous Questions Quiz 8Miscelleneous Questions Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books