This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Introductions > Miscellaneous > Miscelleneous Questions – Quiz 16 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Miscelleneous Questions Quiz 16 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. In 'I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud' the daffodils gave the poet..... A) Very pleasure. B) Many pleasure. C) Much pleasure. D) A great deal of pleasure. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A great deal of pleasure. 2. The Spanish Armada was defeated in the year ..... A) 1688. B) 1455. C) 1755. D) 1588. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1588. 3. What do you mean by Canto? A) A stanza of a short poem. B) A section or division of a long poem. C) A kind of sonnet. D) A stanza of a long poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A section or division of a long poem. 4. Who composed 'The waste Land'? A) John Milton. B) T.S. Eliot. C) George Eliot. D) John Donne. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) T.S. Eliot. 5. After whom the Elizabethan Age is named: A) Elizabeth I. B) Elizabeth II. C) Elizabeth Browning. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Elizabeth I. 6. Who is the author of the prose All Summer in a day? ? A) Ray B. Douglous. B) Ray B. Bradbury. C) Douglas Bradbury. D) Ray D. Bradbury. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ray D. Bradbury. 7. Tinku promises to keep Mirry's ..... A) Regret. B) Favourite. C) Secret. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Secret. 8. Thou hast made me endless A) Bankim Chandra Chatterjee. B) Rabindranath Tagore. C) Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rabindranath Tagore. 9. Antony and Cleopatra is a tragedy written by- A) G.B. Shaw. B) Marlowe. C) Ibsen. D) Shakespeare. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Shakespeare. 10. Who wrote poem about Lucy? A) P. B. Shelley. B) Lord Byron. C) William Wordsworth. D) S. T. Coleridge. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) William Wordsworth. 11. What do you mean by Irony? A) A satiric imitation. B) A burlesque imitation. C) A kind of parody. D) Difference between reality and appearance. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Difference between reality and appearance. 12. Why does the tiger move only a few steps? A) Because he is locked in cage. B) Because he is not interested. C) Because he is waiting for fat deer. D) Because he is in rage. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Because he is locked in cage. 13. The Age of Empire is also called: A) Modernism. B) Age of Revolution. C) Aesthetic Movement. D) Victorian Age. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Victorian Age. 14. 'The Diary of Anne Frank' was originally written in which language A) Russian. B) English. C) German. D) Dutch. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dutch. 15. What the term Allusion refers- A) Reference of past events or persons. B) Reference from any person. C) Writing in satire. D) Obeyed the old men. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Reference of past events or persons. 16. 'Tradition and Individual Talent' is written by: A) Russell. B) Carlyle. C) T. S. Eliot. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) T. S. Eliot. 17. Who is the writer of 'Vision of Sin'? A) A. Lord Tennyson. B) Christopher Marlowe. C) William Shakespeare. D) George Bernard Shaw. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A. Lord Tennyson. 18. 'Written in March' is a poem composed by ..... A) William Blake. B) William Congreve. C) William Shakespeare. D) William Wordsworth. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) William Wordsworth. 19. Firdausi was the poet of- A) Persian. B) Italy. C) French. D) English. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Persian. 20. 'All good poetry is spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings' who made this statement? A) Shelly. B) De Quincey. C) Wordsworth. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Wordsworth. 21. 'A Doll's House' is written by- A) Francis Bacon. B) E.M. Forster. C) R.K. Narayan. D) Henrick Ibsen. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Henrick Ibsen. 22. 'Bliss was it, in that Dawn to be alive But to be young was very heaven.' Who has written these lines? A) Shelley. B) Browning. C) Wordsworth. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Wordsworth. 23. A figure of speech in which a concept is referred to by the name of something closely associated with that thing or concept A) Personification. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Metonynym. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metonynym. 24. Byron's first published collection was called: A) Moments of Idleness. B) Years of Idleness. C) Eons of Idleness. D) Hours of Idleness. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hours of Idleness. 25. When was the Elizabethan Period? A) 1485-1605. B) 1485-1603. C) 1485-1604. D) 1484-1603. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1485-1603. 26. Which pay of Shakespeare is known as the pay of 'procrastination'? A) Hamlet. B) King Lear. C) Merchant of Venice. D) Julius Caesar. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hamlet. 27. Often, Romantic artists believed one needed to explore ideas through ..... because the ..... mind could not understand all of the important truths of life. A) Novels, poetic. B) Deep contemplation, spontaneous. C) Imagination, rational. D) History, fictional. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Imagination, rational. 28. 'Paradise Regained' is an epic by ..... A) John Keats. B) William Blake. C) P. B. Shelly. D) John Milton. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) John Milton. 29. What is the meaning of twilight? A) Full darkness. B) Semi-darkness. C) No Darkness. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Semi-darkness. 30. What the term Allegory refers? A) A kind short story. B) A figurative story. C) A long narrative poem. D) A comic play. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A kind short story. 31. The End of Imagination by Arundhati Roy questions A) Government's Nuclear weapon Policies. B) Narmada river dam project. C) Government's Policies on Citizenship. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Government's Nuclear weapon Policies. 32. Which work was published first? A) Lord Byron's "Don Juan". B) Sir Walter Scott's "Ivanhoe". C) Blake's "Songs of Innocence". D) Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein". Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Blake's "Songs of Innocence". 33. What was the Magna Carta? A) A document which limited the power of the King. B) All answers are true. C) A document which created the Parliament. D) A document which introduced the common law. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A document which limited the power of the King. 34. What do you mean by Fable? A) A general story. B) A short story of animals for moral lesson. C) A story of high thoughts. D) A story about great men. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A short story of animals for moral lesson. 35. Coward die ..... before their death A) Much time. B) Enough time. C) Many time. D) Many times. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Many times. 36. Who wrote the fantasy novel 'The Lord of the Rings' A) J. K. Rowling. B) Peter Jackson. C) J. R. R. Tolkien. D) C. S. Lewis. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) J. R. R. Tolkien. 37. Where did the Renaissance start at first? A) Germany. B) Italy. C) England. D) France. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Italy. 38. First English Tragedy? A) Oedipus. B) Gorboduc. C) Aeschylus. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gorboduc. 39. What do you mean by Heroic Couplet? A) A pair of rhyming iambic pentameter. B) A song for mourning. C) A two line stanza. D) A poem of lamentation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A pair of rhyming iambic pentameter. 40. Waiting for Godot by S. Beckett was originally written in A) French. B) Spanish. C) German. D) Italian. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) French. 41. 'If winter come, can spring be far behind'? These lines were written by ..... A) Eliot. B) Frost. C) Keats. D) Shelley. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Shelley. 42. Find the Odd one. A) G. B. Shaw : Man and Superman. B) Rudyard Kipling : Kim. C) H. G. Wells : The Time Machine. D) Toni Morrison : A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Toni Morrison : A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. 43. 'The Rape of Bangladesh' is written by- A) Viggo Olsen. B) Rehman Sobahan. C) Anthony Mascarenhas. D) Alamgir Kabir. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Anthony Mascarenhas. 44. The Eve of St. Agnes is a poem by: A) Blake. B) Milton. C) Keats. D) Byron. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Keats. 45. Who is famous for representing London in his novels. A) W. Scott. B) Dickens. C) Hardy. D) Thackeray. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dickens. 46. Who is one of the lake poets: A) Coleridge. B) Blake. C) Browning. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Coleridge. 47. Asian Drama is written by- A) W.B Yeats. B) Gunner Myrdal. C) Albert Camue. D) G.B. Shaw. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gunner Myrdal. 48. Who is the greatest modern English dramatist? A) P. B. Shelly. B) Verginia Woolf. C) George Bernard Shaw. D) S. T. Coleridge. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) George Bernard Shaw. 49. "If winter come can spring be far behind" -quoted from? A) Shelley. B) Keats. C) Coleridge. D) Wordsworth. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Shelley. 50. The sea battle of actium takes place in the play A) Measure for Measure. B) Othello. C) Antony and Cleopatra. D) Macbeth. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Antony and Cleopatra. 51. Based on historical events, but the story is mostly untrue. A) Realistic Fiction. B) Fantasy Fiction. C) Historical Fiction. D) Science Fiction. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Historical Fiction. 52. Early plays of Shakespeare's are? A) Comedy. B) Tragicomedy. C) Tragedy. D) Romantic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Comedy. 53. B. Shaw confessed to be a disciple of: A) Ibsen. B) Swift. C) Wells. D) Butler. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ibsen. 54. ..... is credited to have finished Marlowe's Hero and Leander A) George Chapman. B) Ben Jonson. C) Shakespeare. D) Michael Drayton. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) George Chapman. 55. Daffodils is a poem about ..... A) A kind of fruits. B) A kind of plants. C) A kind of animals. D) A kind of flowers. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A kind of flowers. 56. William Blake's /Song's of .....' counterbalance his 'Songs of Experience'. A) Inexperience. B) Childhood. C) Love. D) Innocence. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Innocence. 57. What is the primary literary device used in Old English poetry? A) Rhyme. B) Alliteration. C) Kennings. D) Conceits. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 58. Who invented the character of Robinson Crusoe? A) William Golding. B) Charles Dickens. C) Johnson. D) Daniel Defoe. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Daniel Defoe. 59. The poet describes the evening as being full of A) Pigeon wings. B) Linnet wings. C) Tnsect wings. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Linnet wings. 60. 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