This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Introductions > Miscellaneous > Miscelleneous Questions – Quiz 10 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Miscelleneous Questions Quiz 10 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The poem that may be called the foundation-stone of all British poetry is called A) Robin Hood. B) Beowulf. C) Romeo and Juliet. D) The Canterbury Tales. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Beowulf. 2. Milton's Areopagitica is A) A plea for the freedom of the press. B) An epic. C) A sonnet. D) A play. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A plea for the freedom of the press. 3. Who wrote 'The Waste Land'? A) E.M. Forster. B) T.S. Eliot. C) H.G. Wells 3. D) W.B. Yeats. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) T.S. Eliot. 4. Who was a blind poet A) Homer. B) Ben Jonson. C) Pablo Neruda. D) Thomas Hardy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Homer. 5. 'A Voyage of Lilliput' is written by ..... A) Jonathan Swift. B) William Wordsworth. C) Thomas Hardy. D) R. L Stevenson. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Jonathan Swift. 6. Who is the writer of 'The Patriot'? A) Robert Herrik. B) Sir Walter Scott. C) Robert Browning. D) Robert Rrost. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Robert Browning. 7. Why is silence treated as a big issue? A) It helps to search our soul. B) Helps us to analyze our actions. C) Helps us to be thoughtful and find our true self. D) All the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Helps us to analyze our actions. 8. What is the meaning of one blood? A) Jerk. B) Pulling. C) Brothers. D) Being in a pitable state of distress or unhappines or useless. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Brothers. 9. Of the following who is the most translated author of the world? A) Agatha Cristie. B) Mao Tse Tung. C) Leo Tolstoy. D) V.I. Lenin. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) V.I. Lenin. 10. What are 'Hekinah degul' and 'Tolgo phonac'? A) Words in the native language of people of Lilliput. B) Help me(Hekinah degul) and Please(Tolgo phonac). C) Hindi words. D) French or Italian words. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Words in the native language of people of Lilliput. 11. In Shakespeare's Tragedies Character is not Destiny but there is Character and Destiny is a remark by: A) Nicoll. B) Coleridge. C) Bradley. D) Goddord. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bradley. 12. Identify the odd one out. A) Luz. B) Margot. C) Hitler. D) Jesse. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Margot. 13. Ernest Hemingway wrote: A) Mr. Chips. B) Pride and Prejudice. C) Old Man and the Sea. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Old Man and the Sea. 14. Who accuses Arnold of "high pamphleteering" A) F. R. Leavis. B) I. A. Richards. C) Pater. D) Eliot. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) F. R. Leavis. 15. Who wrote 'Robison Crusoe'? A) Daniel Defoe. B) William Shakespeare. C) Jonathan Swift. D) Jon Milton. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Daniel Defoe. 16. Who is the writer of 'The Lady of Shalott'? A) A. Lord Tennyson. B) Geoffrey Chaucer. C) Robert Browning. D) Cynewulf. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A. Lord Tennyson. 17. Who wrote 'The preface for Tagore's Gitanjali'? A) Keats. B) W.B. Yeats. C) Byron. D) T.S. Eliot. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) W.B. Yeats. 18. 'Of Studies' an essay is written by: A) Francis Bacon. B) Carlyle. C) Montaine. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Francis Bacon. 19. Kubla Khan was written by A) Coleridge. B) Shelley. C) Keats. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Coleridge. 20. 'The Vanity of Human Wishes' is the work of: A) Alexander Pope. B) John Milton. C) Dr.Samuel Johnson. D) Jonathan Swift. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dr.Samuel Johnson. 21. Shakespeare has written: A) Historical plays. B) Comedies. C) Tragedies. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these. 22. The 18th century is called the Age of ..... A) Ability. B) Rule. C) Thoughts. D) Reason. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Reason. 23. Mirry's father used a horse for ..... A) Horse racing. B) Visiting patients. C) Enjoyment. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Visiting patients. 24. The period of English literature from 1660 to the end of the century is called: A) Romantic Age. B) Restoration Period. C) Jacobean Period. D) Renaissance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Restoration Period. 25. Author of "History of the World" A) Spenser. B) Raleigh. C) Shakespeare. D) Sidney. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Raleigh. 26. Geraldine is a character of the poem; A) Lucy Grey. B) The last of the flock. C) Frost at midnight. D) Christabel. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Christabel. 27. 'The Olive Tree' is a collection of essays by: A) Oscar Wilde. B) Ruskin. C) Carlyle. D) Huxley. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Huxley. 28. The period between 1660 to 1750 is known as: A) The Age of Classicism. B) The Restoration. C) The age of Milton. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Restoration. 29. 'My Experiments with Truth' is written by- A) Winston Churchill. B) George Washington. C) Mahatma Gandhi. D) James Morris. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mahatma Gandhi. 30. ..... defines a play as a just and lively image of human nature. A) Dryden. B) Coleridge. C) Shakespeare. D) Dr. Johnson. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dryden. 31. Hamlet ends the soliloquy with an ominous warning: "It is not, nor it cannot come to good / But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue" (162-163). What kind of embedded quotation is this? A) Flow. B) Colon. C) Dialogue. D) Cow Poop. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Colon. 32. The following characteristics are of Oscar Wild's EXCEPT : A) A dramatist. B) An essayist. C) A poet. D) A novelist. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) An essayist. 33. How long is English Language Paper 1? A) 2 hours 15. B) 1 hour 45. C) 1 hour. D) 3 hours. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1 hour 45. 34. Eliot was influenced by: A) Ezra Pound. B) Shaw. C) Hardy. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ezra Pound. 35. Short Story differs from a Novel by the figures of- A) Length and Characters. B) Prose and fiction. C) Verse and rhymes. D) Rhythms and prosody. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Length and Characters. 36. What are the main ideals in the Victorian Age: A) Innovations, literature, work. B) Family for women and work for men. C) Work, church, hobbies. D) Church, family, home, sancity of childhood. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Church, family, home, sancity of childhood. 37. She is like a rose. It is an example of- A) Synecdoche. B) Metaphor. C) Metonymy. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 38. Who is contemporary of William Shakespeare? A) Christopher Marlowe. B) Lord Tennyson. C) John Milton. D) All of them. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Christopher Marlowe. 39. Who wrote the poem father William A) Euclid. B) Lewis Carroll. C) William Wordsworth. D) Sunita Williams. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lewis Carroll. 40. Who is the writer of 'Ulysess'? A) Robert Browning. B) Geoffrey Chaucer. C) Cynewulf. D) A. Lord Tennyson. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A. Lord Tennyson. 41. Browning was the composer of- A) Two Voices. B) The Scholar Gypsy. C) Andrea Del Sarto. D) Adonais. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Andrea Del Sarto. 42. 'Water, water, everywhere, not a drop to drink' poem of ..... A) Good Morrow. B) The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. C) Lotes Eater. D) West wind. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. 43. The poem 'To His Coy Mistress' was written by ..... A) John Keats. B) Andrew Marvell. C) John Milton. D) William Shakespeare. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Andrew Marvell. 44. "Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation and directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry" Who said this A) I.A. Richards. B) M. Arnold. C) R.S. Crane. D) T.S. Eliot. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) T.S. Eliot. 45. The first English Dictionary was compiled by ..... A) Samuel Johnson. B) Sir Thomas Browne. C) Samuel. D) Izaak Walton. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Samuel Johnson. 46. Well, it's time I did some real work, I told myself; i'm out of practice.What is the real work? A) Preparing the food. B) Hiding himself. C) Stealing. D) Shaking the belief. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stealing. 47. Which one is 19th century English Literature from above? A) 1801-1899. B) 1601-1699. C) 1701-1799. D) 1901-1999. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1801-1899. 48. The Faire Queen is written by- A) Tennyson. B) Browning. C) Spenser. D) Chaucer. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Spenser. 49. Art and literature of the Renaissance was influenced by ancient A) Anglo-Saxon. B) Greek and Latin. C) Anglo-Norman. D) Old English. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Greek and Latin. 50. Who was a friend of John Milton? A) John Donne. B) John Dryden. C) Andrew Marvell. D) Alexander Pope. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Andrew Marvell. 51. Who is called the poet of poets? A) Edmund Spenser. B) William Shakespeare. C) Geoffrey Chaucer. D) Roger Bacon. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Edmund Spenser. 52. Edmund Spenser is a ..... A) Critic. B) Poet. C) Dramatist. D) Scientist. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Poet. 53. Advantages of Johannes Gutenberg's printing press include all of the following EXCEPT: A) Cheaper book prices. B) More books written in vernacular-language of the people. C) Increase in church power. D) Rapid spread of knowledge and ideas. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Increase in church power. 54. An exhortatory speech, usually delivered to a crowd to incite them to some action is: A) Harangue. B) Monologue. C) Sermon. D) Declamation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Harangue. 55. "The Wuthering Heights" is a famous novels written by: A) C.Bronte. B) Emile Bronte. C) Hardy. D) Jane Austen. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Emile Bronte. 56. Here comes someone running, Let us see who it is.'-who to whom said this A) King to hermit. B) Hermit to king. C) King to minister. D) Bearded man to king. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hermit to king. 57. 'A little learning is a dangerous thing' quoted by? A) Alexander Pope. B) John Dryden. C) John Milton. D) Ben Jonson. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alexander Pope. 58. What is the theme of romances? A) The search for courtly love. B) The search for adventures. C) The search for glory. D) The search romantic love. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The search for courtly love. 59. The Teutonic tribes were divided into ..... social class. A) Five. B) Four. C) Two. D) Three. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Two. 60. 'The Winding Stair' is written by: A) W.B. Yeats. B) W.H. Auden. C) Ted Hughes. D) T.S. Eliot. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) W.B. 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