This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Introductions > Miscellaneous > Miscelleneous Questions – Quiz 14 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Miscelleneous Questions Quiz 14 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Wordsworth's Poetry always reflects: A) The creation of abstract concepts. B) The creation of an original philosophy. C) An examination of extraneous matters. D) An endorsement of the scientific tradition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The creation of an original philosophy. 2. Alexander Pope's 'An Essay on Man' is a..... A) Poem. B) Short story. C) Nobel. D) Treatise. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Poem. 3. A movement in Renaissance Europe, celebrating human potential and achievement and stressing the study of subjects such as history, grammar, literature, and philosophy. A) Patronage. B) Humanism. C) Arts. D) Renaissance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Humanism. 4. Who wrote this line, "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." ? A) Yann Martel. B) George Orwell. C) Ted Hughes. D) Samuel Beckett. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) George Orwell. 5. Who called Spenser, "the poets' poet" ? A) Byron. B) Charles Lamb. C) John Milton. D) Christopher Marlowe. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Charles Lamb. 6. Meaning of:girdles A) A joint. B) An item. C) A belt. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) An item. 7. "Intellectual Beauty" is written by: A) Bertrand Russell. B) Huxley. C) P.B.Shelley. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) P.B.Shelley. 8. Middle English period is between ..... A) 1066-16th century. B) 1066-14th century. C) 1066-13th century. D) 1066-15th century. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1066-15th century. 9. Whose work is the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles? A) King Edward. B) King Arthur. C) King Alfred. D) King Harold. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) King Alfred. 10. ..... is go up and down in grandpa's house? A) Painting. B) Garden. C) House. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) None of above. 11. The Renaissance began in A) England. B) France. C) Italy. D) Constantinople. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Italy. 12. ..... is not a Novelist of the modern age in the English Language. A) H. G Wells. B) Rudyard Kipling. C) T. S. Elliot. D) Charles Dickens. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Charles Dickens. 13. The famous poem 'Ulysses' is written by? A) Alex Haley. B) Popem. C) Homer. D) Tennyson. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tennyson. 14. G.B. Shaw was awarded Nobel Prize for literature in: A) 1949. B) 1930. C) 1925. D) 1929. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1925. 15. The shepherd describes the benefits of country life to A) Persuade his love. B) Reflect on life before he dies. C) Convince people to leave the city. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Persuade his love. 16. Samuel Beckett's 'Waiting for Goddot' is a- A) Morality play. B) Problem play. C) Miracle play. D) Absurd play. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Absurd play. 17. Who wrote "20th Century Views" ? A) Abrahams, M. H. B) Palmer, D. J. C) Bertrand Russell. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Abrahams, M. H. 18. When was the Lyrical Ballads published A) 1801. B) 1800. C) 1798. D) 1797. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1798. 19. Who was the goat whose life was in danger as it was goin to fall through the mountains A) Tanvi. B) Pratyaksha. C) Greenfinch. D) Snowflake. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Greenfinch. 20. What is the meaning of Midday Nap? A) After noon sleep. B) The sound of the moving branches. C) Jerk. D) Brothers. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) After noon sleep. 21. In which pay do we get the lines:" Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy" ? A) Macbeth. B) Othello. C) Hamlet. D) King Lear. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hamlet. 22. All that glitters is not gold. You have heard often this told. This maxim is included in Shakespeare's A) Merchant of Venice / Shakespeare's. B) Shakespeare's Tempest. C) Shakespeare's Much ado about nothing. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Merchant of Venice / Shakespeare's. 23. Who among the following is not a novelist? A) Blake. B) Joyce. C) Hardy. D) Thackeray. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Blake. 24. Romeo and Juliet ..... one of my favorite tragedy plays. A) Are. B) Were. C) Is. D) Have been. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Is. 25. Gulliver was expelled from the land of Yahoos because he was considered A) A yahoo. B) A criminal. C) He hated their king. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He hated their king. 26. Which of the Romantic poets is called an escapist? A) Keats. B) Shelley. C) Wordsworth. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Keats. 27. "The Crown of Wild Olive" , is written by: A) C. Lamb. B) Russell. C) J.S.Mill. D) Ruskin. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ruskin. 28. Whose comedies are called 'Comedies of Mask': A) Ben Johnson's. B) Bernard Shaw's. C) Shakespeare's. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bernard Shaw's. 29. What do you mean by Phonetics? A) Study of speech sounds. B) Study of language and rules. C) Study of insects. D) Study of meaning and syntax. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Study of speech sounds. 30. Things that people do are called ..... A) Deeds. B) Leads. C) Needs. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Deeds. 31. The poem ' The Solitary Reaper' is written by ..... A) Ezra Pound. B) W. B. Yeats. C) W. Wordsworth. D) W. H. Auden. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) W. Wordsworth. 32. 'Paradise Lost' is a/an ..... A) Epic poem. B) Play. C) Lyrical poem. D) Short story. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Epic poem. 33. "Reading makes a full man, conference a ready man and writing an exact man." -Who told it? A) Spenser. B) Chaucer. C) Shakespeare. D) Bacon. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bacon. 34. An Italian Renaissance painter, born in 1452 A.D., who painted many masterpieces, such as the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, and also excelled in scientific research. A) Florence. B) Leonardo Da Vinci. C) City-state. D) Brunelleschi. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Leonardo Da Vinci. 35. Latula bounced on the ..... A) Big Table. B) Dining Table. C) Big Chair. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Big Chair. 36. Sir Thomas More wrote the work A) The Canterbury Tales. B) Utopia. C) Paradise Lost. D) Gulliver's Travels. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Utopia. 37. Josh's two friends, ..... were in a playful mood. A) Richard and David. B) Rick and David. C) Richard and Daniel. D) Richard and Davy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Richard and David. 38. What is the term Fiction? A) An imaginative writing. B) A prose. C) A story. D) A poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) An imaginative writing. 39. 'Adela' is a character from- A) Paradise Lost. B) Hamlet. C) A Passage to India. D) Doctor Faustus. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A Passage to India. 40. Swift belong to: A) Augustan age. B) Renassiance period. C) Romantic period. D) Restoration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Augustan age. 41. The narrator consented to pay the rent which was A) Rs 15. B) Rs10. C) Rs12. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rs10. 42. Who wrote the prose masterpiece of the century "The Pilgrim's Progress" (1678)? A) John Bunyan. B) John Milton. C) John Keats. D) King John. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) John Bunyan. 43. Which of the following is not an Old English work? A) The Dream of the Rood. B) The Canterbury Tales. C) The Wanderer. D) The Battle of Maldon. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Canterbury Tales. 44. When did Robert Frost marry? ? A) December 11, 1895. B) December 18, 1895. C) December 19, 1895. D) December 15, 1895. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) December 19, 1895. 45. Mr. Rochester is the major character of: A) Jude the Obscure. B) Silas Marner. C) Jane Eyre. D) Adam Bede. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Jane Eyre. 46. What do you mean by Pathos or Catharsis? ix A) A sorrowful event. B) A murder in a tragedy. C) An adventure of hero. D) Arouse of pity and fear. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Arouse of pity and fear. 47. What have the windows done to the children's lives in the poem? A) Shut the doors. B) Blocked the passage. C) Clocked the sunlight. D) Have shut the children inside and blocked their growth. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Have shut the children inside and blocked their growth. 48. 'Andrea Del Sarto' is a poem written by: A) T. S. Eliot. B) Tennyson. C) Browning. D) Keats. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Browning. 49. Swami and Friends, is written by A) Ram Chandra Guha. B) Raja Rao. C) Ram Mohan Murty. D) R.K. Narayan. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) R.K. Narayan. 50. What is the name of Mahatma Gandhi's autobiography A) My Experiment With Truth Harijan. B) Meri jivani. C) Samaj Kalyan. D) My Experiment With Truth. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) My Experiment With Truth Harijan. 51. "Tales from Shakespeare" is written by: A) Lamb. B) Shakespeare. C) Lawrence. D) Mary Anne Evans. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lamb. 52. "Idylls of the King" is illustration of Tennyson's deep interest in: A) The contemporary condition. B) Medieval legends. C) The role of the king. D) Hero worship. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The role of the king. 53. Who of the following was a poet? A) G. B. Shaw. B) Jane Austen. C) T. S. Eliot. D) Charles Dickens. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) T. S. Eliot. 54. The prevailing feature of Chaucer's humour is its A) Urbanity. B) Crudity. C) Sanctity. D) Triviality. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Urbanity. 55. Why did Hari Singh lie? A) He was chased by police, ex-employers. B) He wanted to hide his business. C) He wanted to live with him. D) He wanted to work with Anil. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He was chased by police, ex-employers. 56. When was Caroline Age? A) 1626-1649. B) 1627-1647. C) 1625-1650. D) 1625-1649. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1625-1649. 57. 'Mansfield Park' is a novel by: A) George Eliot. B) Emily Bronte. C) Katherine Mansfield. D) Jane Austen. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Jane Austen. 58. In Which century was the Victorian period? A) 19th century. B) 20th century. C) 18th century. D) 17th century. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 19th century. 59. Mowgli knew it was A) Useless to look up . B) Useless to look left . C) Useless to look right . D) Useless to look down. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Useless to look down. 60. "Ode to Psyche" is a poem by: A) Blake. B) Keats. C) Byron. D) Milton. 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