This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Introductions > Miscellaneous > Miscelleneous Questions – Quiz 12 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Miscelleneous Questions Quiz 12 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Who wrote the plays "The Tempest' and "The Mid Summer Night's Dream" ? A) Ben Jonson. B) John Dryden. C) Christopher Marlowe. D) William Shakespeare. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) William Shakespeare. 2. What was the Domesday Book? A) A book read in Church about the Final Judgement. B) A book read by minstrels in court to entertain the King. C) A book about English history written by King Alfred the Great. D) A book to take a census of all the properties in England. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A book to take a census of all the properties in England. 3. What did Hari Singh lie about? A) About his work. B) About his qualities. C) About his name. D) About his occupation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) About his name. 4. Who is the author of 'Sherlock Holmes'? A) Dylan Thomas. B) John Gay. C) Somerset Maugham. D) Sir Arthur Canon Doyle. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sir Arthur Canon Doyle. 5. ..... is the animating force in the work of C. Bronte A) Idealism. B) Romanticism. C) Lyricism. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Idealism. 6. Who is also known as the "Lady with the Lamp" ? A) Rani Laxmibai. B) Sarojini Naidu. C) Florence Nightingale. D) Bachendri Pal. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Florence Nightingale. 7. Who is the father of Modern English Literature? A) P. B. Shelley. B) William Wordsworth. C) Shakespeare. D) G. B. Shaw. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) G. B. Shaw. 8. Lyrical Ballads opens with; A) Tintern Abbey. B) Michael. C) Rime of Ancient Mariner. D) Dejection: an Ode. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tintern Abbey. 9. Name the swan song of William Shakespeare. A) Macbeth. B) Henry VIII. C) Tempest. D) Hamlet. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tempest. 10. Who introduced Sonnet into English? A) Edward Moore. B) Spenser. C) Thomas Wyatt. D) Shakespeare. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Thomas Wyatt. 11. A tiger in the zoo is composed by .....? A) Leslie Noris. B) Leslie Norrish. C) Leslie Norris. D) Lesli Norrish. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Leslie Norris. 12. Who represents Prejudice in Jane Austen's novel 'Pride and Prejudice': A) Mr. Darcy. B) Miss Elizabeth. C) Miss Jane. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Miss Elizabeth. 13. Most important thing Norman Conquest is ..... A) Multicultural country. B) Bilingual country. C) Rich country. D) Trilingual country. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Trilingual country. 14. Intense emotion coupled with an intense display of imagery are characteristics of ..... age A) Victorian. B) Elizabethan. C) Romantic. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Romantic. 15. Cordelia's chief characteristic is her: A) Devotion. B) Sympathy. C) Kindness. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Devotion. 16. Earnest Hemingway in addition to 'Old Man and the Sea' bad written: A) A Farewell to Arms. B) For Whom the Bell Tolls. C) Death in the Afternoon. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 17. "O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock The meat it feeds on." -quoted from? A) Dr. Faustus. B) Othello. C) Hamlet. D) Macbeth. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Othello. 18. "Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That starts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more" -quoted from? A) Macbeth. B) King Lear. C) Othello. D) Dr. Faustus. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Macbeth. 19. 'Adela' is a character in the novel 'A Passage to India' written by- A) Joyce. B) Hardy. C) William Golding. D) E.M. Forster. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) E.M. Forster. 20. T. S. Eliot was a A) Critic. B) Poet. C) Both. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both. 21. In which exam will you compare two unseen poems? A) English Literature Paper 1. B) English Literature Paper 2. C) English Language Paper 1. D) English Language Paper 2. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) English Literature Paper 2. 22. Who wrote 'An Apology for Poetry'? A) P. B Shelly. B) Samuel Johnson. C) Sir Philip Sidney. D) John Donne. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sir Philip Sidney. 23. What do you mean by Tragicomedy? A) A kind of verse play. B) A play with unhappy ending. C) Blending of tragic and comic elements. D) Mixture of dramas. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Blending of tragic and comic elements. 24. Which of following is written by Shakespeare? A) Dr. Faustus. B) Pilgrim's Progress. C) The preface to Fable. D) Twelfth Night. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Twelfth Night. 25. The youngest Nobel Prize winner in Literature is A) George Orwell. B) Thomas Hardy. C) Rudyard Kipling. D) T.S. Eliot. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rudyard Kipling. 26. What do you mean by Hyperbole? A) A long narrative poem. B) An overriding view. C) A long verse. D) An overstatement about something. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) An overstatement about something. 27. The Poet Laureate is- A) The best poet of the country. B) A winner of Noble Prize in Poetry. C) The court poet of England. D) A classical poet. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The court poet of England. 28. Under which King's Reign did Common Law develop? A) King Henry II. B) King Richard I "Lionheart". C) King William II. D) King William I. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) King Henry II. 29. What does the line " and seed and buds of days to be " indicate? A) The new year. B) The beginning of future. C) Younger generation. D) The new blooming flowers. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The beginning of future. 30. How many types of epic are there? A) 2. B) 3. C) 1. D) 4. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 2. 31. 'Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven' has been quoted from- A) Paradise Regained. B) Paradise Lost. C) Aeneid. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Paradise Lost. 32. Meaning Of Shielded A) Ghost. B) Protected. C) Chuckle. D) Enlightenment. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Protected. 33. What kind of boy Shihab is? A) Bad. B) Selfish. C) Responsible. D) Good. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Responsible. 34. "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd" purpose A) Expand the theme from the shepherd. B) Refute the theme from the shepherd. C) Describe conditions of joining the shepherd. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Refute the theme from the shepherd. 35. "Ullyses" is written by: A) Forster. B) Hardy. C) James Joyce. D) Virginia Woolf. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) James Joyce. 36. What is the age difference of Anil and Hari Singh? A) 5 years. B) 15 years. C) 10 years. D) 3 years. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 10 years. 37. Eliot worked for Faber and Faber as a/an: A) Assistant. B) Director. C) Writer. D) Editor e none of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Editor e none of these. 38. What do the words ''Their future is painted with fog" convey? A) No love and care. B) No warmth. C) No hard work. D) No hope of improvement. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) No hope of improvement. 39. In what year did William Shakespeare died? A) 1580 AD. B) 1616 AD. C) 1570 AD. D) 1630 AD. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1616 AD. 40. Which was the oldest period in English literature? A) Anglo-Saxon. B) Anglo-Norman. C) Middle Age. D) Chaucer's period. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anglo-Saxon. 41. What does 'Canto' means? A) A division of a play. B) An act of a play. C) A sub division of an epic. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A sub division of an epic. 42. Three Questions is a story by A) R. K. Narayan. B) Leo Tolstoy. C) Tagore. D) C.E.M. Joad. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Leo Tolstoy. 43. Poet of sensuousness ..... A) William Wordsworth. B) John Keats. C) P. B Shelley. D) Byron. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) John Keats. 44. Elizabeth is a character from Jane Austen's: A) Emma. B) Pride and Prejudice. C) Mansfield Palck. D) Northanger Abby. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pride and Prejudice. 45. Gunter Grass got Nobel Prize in-xviii A) 2000. B) 1998. C) 1997. D) 1999. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1999. 46. Fortinbras is a character of the play: A) Othello. B) Hamlet. C) King Lear. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hamlet. 47. How long should the Written Assignment essay be? A) 300-400 words. B) As long as it takes. C) 1200-1500 words. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1200-1500 words. 48. Who was Naledi's friend? A) Polang. B) Dineo. C) Tiro. D) Mma. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Polang. 49. The Charge of the Light Brigade" (Tennyson) commemorates: A) The Boer War. B) The battle of Trafalgar. C) The Crimean War. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Crimean War. 50. Which word seems out of place? A) Daffodil. B) Cauliflower. C) Lily. D) Rose. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cauliflower. 51. Which poet is not always bound up with the reformer? A) Tennyson. B) Coleridge. C) Pope. D) Wordsworth. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tennyson. 52. Who is the author of 'Interpretation of Drama'? A) Samuel Beckett. B) Samuel Butler. C) Saul Bellow. D) Sigmund Freud. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sigmund Freud. 53. Paradise Lost divide the universe in A) Two realms:the heavenly and the terrestrial. B) Three realms:the heavenly, the terrestrial and hell. C) Four realms the heavenly, the terrestrial, hell and chaos. D) Five realms:the heavenly, the terrestial, hell, chaos and the supernatural. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Four realms the heavenly, the terrestrial, hell and chaos. 54. 'The child is the father of man' is a line from Wordsworth's: A) Immortality Ode. B) The Prelude. C) My heart leaps when I Behold a Rainbow in the Sky. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) My heart leaps when I Behold a Rainbow in the Sky. 55. Who is the first great modernist of English Literature? A) Cynewulf. B) Geoffrey Chaucer. C) Roger Bacon. D) Robert Browning. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Geoffrey Chaucer. 56. Earnest Hemingway got Nobel Prize for- A) Old Man and the Sea. B) A Farewell to Arms. C) Man and Superman. D) Life of Pea (Ryan Martel). Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Old Man and the Sea. 57. Adonaise, An elegy on Keats was written by A) Byron. B) Coleridge. C) Scott. D) Shelley. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Shelley. 58. 'End Game' is written by: A) Hemingway. B) Somerset Maugham. C) Beckett. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Beckett. 59. They agreed to keep the engine on the A) Football ground. B) Municipality ground. C) Gymkhana ground. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Gymkhana ground. 60. 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