This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Introductions > Miscellaneous > Miscelleneous Questions – Quiz 15 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Miscelleneous Questions Quiz 15 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. T. S. Eliot is ..... poet. A) Modern. B) Romantic. C) Victorian. D) Post-modern. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Modern. 2. The poem 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' is composed by? A) Ezra Pound. B) W. B. Yeats. C) Dylan Thomas. D) T.S. Eliot. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) T.S. Eliot. 3. Compatriot means- A) Comrade. B) Fellow country man. C) Friend. D) Classmate. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fellow country man. 4. Who is the father of English essay? A) Harold Pinter. B) Francis Bacon. C) William Hazlitt. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Francis Bacon. 5. 'Brick Lane' is written by- A) Monica Ali. B) George Eliot. C) Charles Dickens. D) Virginia Woolf. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Monica Ali. 6. Which of the following writers would be an appropriate subject for a class on "The Literature of the British Empire" ? A) Edward Fitzgerald. B) Any of these. C) Rudyard Kipling. D) Charlotte Bronte. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Any of these. 7. In Chapter XVI the word muffled in 'Pride and Prejudice' is: A) Confused. B) Amazed. C) Not thinking clearly. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Confused. 8. From which country the famous poet Pablo Neruda belongs A) Argentina. B) Chile. C) Peru. D) Cuba. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Chile. 9. "Heard melodies are sweat but those unheard are sweater" said by .....? A) Shelley. B) Wordsworth. C) Lord Byron. D) John Keats. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) John Keats. 10. Which Reflective Statement should be used? A) Any of them. B) The one from the text the WA analyzes. C) The one you can find. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The one from the text the WA analyzes. 11. Great Expectations is a novel written by- A) Henry Fielding. B) Thomas Hardy. C) Jane Austen. D) Charles Dickens. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Charles Dickens. 12. 'Delusion and Dream' is by- A) G.B. Shaw. B) H.G. Wells. C) James Osborn. D) Sigmund Freud. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sigmund Freud. 13. Fill in the correct word:Alliteration:repetition of the ..... sound at the beginning of words in a sentence. A) Previous. B) Consonant. C) Vowel. D) Next. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Consonant. 14. Who was not the famous poet of the age of Romanticism? A) Shelley. B) Coleridge. C) Byron. D) Shakespeare. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Shakespeare. 15. Who wrote the first english dictionary A) James Boswell. B) Jonathan Swift. C) Robert Cawdrey. D) Samuel Johnson. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Samuel Johnson. 16. Shirley, Jane Eyre, Villete were written by: A) E. Bronte. B) J. Austen. C) C. Bronte. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) C. Bronte. 17. Virginia Wolf : To the Light House :: A) James Joyce : Flush. B) T. S. Eliot : Road to Freedom. C) Bertrand Russel : Ash Wednesday. D) William Golding: Lord of the Flies. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) William Golding: Lord of the Flies. 18. William Wordsworth wrote ..... A) The Rape of the Lock. B) The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. C) The Lucy Poems. D) Absalom and Achitophel. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Lucy Poems. 19. George Bernard Shaw is ..... A) A modern painter. B) A film-maker. C) A playwright. D) A historian. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A playwright. 20. The lines 'The one remains, the many change and pass; Heaven's light for ever shines, earth's shadow fly; are composed by: A) Keats. B) Shelley. C) Byron. D) Southey. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Shelley. 21. Texts like Waiting for Godot are: A) Ageless. B) Rare. C) Priceless. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ageless. 22. Famous Irish poet and dramatist is- A) L. Tolstoy. B) H.G. Wells. C) A. Pope. D) W.B. Yeats. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) W.B. Yeats. 23. The author of 'Songs of Innocence' and 'Songs of Experience' is- A) William Blake. B) Richard Mark. C) John Lennon. D) John Keats. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) William Blake. 24. "A long poem is a combination of short poems." Who has held the above opinion? A) Coleridge. B) Keats. C) Wordsworth. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Wordsworth. 25. William Shakespeare is the writer of ..... A) Paradise Lost. B) Daffodils. C) Old Man & the Sea. D) King Lear. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) King Lear. 26. Who is the author of 'Endgame'? A) G. B. Shaw. B) Samuel Beckett. C) R. K. Narayan. D) Earnest Hemingway. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Samuel Beckett. 27. Old English Period was from A) 1066-1500. B) 450-1066. C) 300-450. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 450-1066. 28. Shakespeare's 'Measure for Measure' is a famous ..... A) Tragi-comedy. B) Tragedy. C) Comedy. D) Melodrama. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tragi-comedy. 29. Ruskin belonged to (which age) A) Romantic age. B) Victorian age. C) Augustan age. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Victorian age. 30. Which is not the name called the 18th century? A) The age of science and industry. B) The age of luxury and extravagance. C) The Augustan age. D) The age of chivalry. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The age of chivalry. 31. 'Lady Chatterley's Lover' is written by the author of- A) Ulysses. B) A passage to India. C) Rainbow. D) Lord Jim. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rainbow. 32. When was the poem Tintern Abbey written? A) 1793. B) 1795. C) 1798. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1798. 33. Also called the Middle Ages A) Renaissance. B) Modernist Period. C) Enlightenment. D) Medieval Era. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Medieval Era. 34. American female novelist pearl S. Buck got Nobel prize in 1938 for the book A) House Divided. B) The Good Earth. C) The Patriot. D) De Cameron. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Good Earth. 35. What does the poet notice in the outer world? A) Sprinting trees and running roads. B) Schools and roads. C) Other vehicles. D) Many people on the road. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sprinting trees and running roads. 36. 'Ballad' is ..... A) A kind of short narrative poem. B) A rhymic verse. C) A kind of short condoling poem. D) A kind of short love poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A kind of short narrative poem. 37. Sidney's Defence of Poesie was written in response to ..... A) The Courtyer. B) Art of English Poesie. C) The School of Abuse. D) Tottle's Miscellany. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The School of Abuse. 38. 'Frailty thy name is woman' is a famous dialogue from ..... A) Marlowe. B) Webster. C) W. Shakespeare. D) T.S Eliot. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) W. Shakespeare. 39. What is the name of the story from which out with the goats is axtracted A) Hiedi. B) Monurhdb. C) The nauthy. D) Jshrjrjxbfjfkmdn. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hiedi. 40. The novel Sons and Lovers is written by- A) T.S. Eliot. B) D.H. Lawrence. C) Joseph Conrad. D) Hardy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) D.H. Lawrence. 41. What was Winnie-the-Pooh's original name? A) John. B) Wilfie. C) Piglet. D) Edward. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Edward. 42. Shaw wrote more than: A) 30 plays. B) 50 plays. C) 60 plays. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 60 plays. 43. 'Lucy Gray' is a poem written by: A) Wordsworth. B) Keats. C) None of these. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Wordsworth. 44. The author who wrote down "Beowulf" was probably a: A) Christian. B) Roman Pagan. C) Danish Pagan. D) Celtic Pagan. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Christian. 45. The Year 1789 is associated with A) The Glorious Revolution. B) The French Revolution. C) The Reformation. D) The Industrial Reform Act. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The French Revolution. 46. Which English romantic poet admired Pope: A) Coleridge. B) William Wordsworth. C) Byron. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Byron. 47. Who wrote "Everyman in his humour" ? A) Thomas Kyd. B) Christopher Marlowe. C) John Webster. D) Ben Jonson. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ben Jonson. 48. 'We are Seven' is written by A) Keats. B) Shelly. C) Hardy. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) None of these. 49. W. B. Yeats was a/an? A) Irish Poet. B) English Poet. C) Swedish Poet. D) None of them. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Irish Poet. 50. A poetic device where the first consonant sounds or any vowel sounds in words or syllables are repeated. A) Prose. B) Paganism. C) Alliteration. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 51. Who described poetry as "Spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" : A) Wordsworth. B) Arnold. C) Coleridge. D) Shelley. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Wordsworth. 52. Who is known as the 'Father of Modern English Criticism'. A) Thomas Hobbes. B) Edmund Walter. C) John Locke. D) John Dryden. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) John Dryden. 53. The Renaissance saw great development in the area of A) The Arts. B) Philosophy. C) Medicine and Inventions. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 54. Who is the author of 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'? A) W. Somerset Maugham. B) S. T. Coleridge. C) Sir Walter Scott. D) William Wordsworth. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) S. T. Coleridge. 55. Francis Bacon was an English- A) Novelist. B) Poet. C) Dramatist. D) Essayist. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Essayist. 56. Complete the following verse:Their ..... in need of logs A) Bitter cold. B) Stick of birch. C) Dying fire. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dying fire. 57. Who is known as an anti-romantic novelist in the Romantic Age? A) Jane Austen. B) Charles Lamb. C) William Hazlitt. D) Oliver Goldsmith. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Jane Austen. 58. One of the following authors, one is French. Who is he? A) W. Somerset Maugham. B) Sir Arther Doyle. C) Edward Fitzerald. D) Alexander Dumas. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alexander Dumas. 59. "Sweet Spenser, moving through his clouded heaven /With the moon's beauty and the moon's soft pace ..... " Who wrote these lines on Spenser? A) Coleridge. B) Sidney. C) Wyatt and Surrey. D) Wordsworth. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Wordsworth. 60. What task does the Cook undertake aboard the boat? A) Rowing. B) Bailing water. C) Captaining. D) Cooking meals. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bailing water. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesIntroductions QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesMiscelleneous Questions Quiz 1Miscelleneous Questions Quiz 2Miscelleneous Questions Quiz 3Miscelleneous Questions Quiz 4Miscelleneous Questions Quiz 5Miscelleneous Questions Quiz 6Miscelleneous Questions Quiz 7Miscelleneous Questions Quiz 8 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books