This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Introductions > Miscellaneous > Miscelleneous Questions – Quiz 17 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Miscelleneous Questions Quiz 17 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. 'The Brief History of Time' is written by- A) Stephen Hawking. B) Chinu Achebe. C) Yan Martel. D) Marx Plank. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stephen Hawking. 2. Which of the following is a Victorian novelist? A) Francis Bacon. B) John Done. C) Mathew Arnold. D) Thomas Carlyle. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mathew Arnold. 3. Don Juan is an ironic replica of the very subject of : A) Prometheus. B) The Recluse. C) Queen Mab. D) Childe Harolde. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Childe Harolde. 4. Confessions of an English Opium Eater was written by: A) Maria Edgeworth. B) John Ruskin. C) Thomas de Quencey. D) Charles Lamb. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Thomas de Quencey. 5. Who belongs to the theatre of Absurd A) Oscar Wilde. B) Backett. C) Ibsen. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Backett. 6. 'If music be the food of love, play on, give me excess of it, that Surfeiting The appetite may sicken and die? is a speech from A) Twelfth Night. B) As you Like it. C) The Winters' Tale. D) A Mid Summer Nights' Dream. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Twelfth Night. 7. Who wrote 'Where ignorance is bliss, it is folly to be wise'? A) John Milton. B) Thomas Gray. C) George Orwell. D) Robert Frost. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Thomas Gray. 8. Riders to the Sea is written by an Irish dramatist- A) G. B. Shaw. B) Oliver Goldsmith. C) J.M Synge. D) W.B Yeats. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) J.M Synge. 9. Sue went out to play with the little ..... A) Boy. B) Girl. C) Baby. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Boy. 10. Who is the hero of Paradise Regained A) Christ. B) Satan. C) The Paritan Church. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Christ. 11. Which of the following is a 19th century woman novelist? A) Emily Dickinson. B) George Eliot. C) Virginia Woolf. D) Ezra Pound. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) George Eliot. 12. What is 'Parable'? A) An allegorical story usually containing a moral lesson. B) The basic unit of a composition. C) A sense of distress. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) An allegorical story usually containing a moral lesson. 13. 'Verslibre' is called as: A) Iambic. B) Free meter. C) Free Verse. D) Blank Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Free Verse. 14. Which of the following poet was not awarded the Nobel Prize? A) Rabindranath Tagore. B) Eliot. C) Milton. D) Yeats. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Milton. 15. Keats belong to ..... A) Eighteenth century. B) Nineteenth century. C) Eighteenth century. D) Seventeenth century. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nineteenth century. 16. What kind of future the slum children have? A) Very hopeful. B) Bright. C) Hopeless and uncertain. D) Clear like water. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hopeless and uncertain. 17. Who is Princess' form teacher? A) Ms. O'Reilly. B) Mr. Young. C) Sister. D) Mr. Schumer. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ms. O'Reilly. 18. Tennyson was appointed Poet Laureate in: A) 1843. B) 1847. C) 1857. D) 1850. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1850. 19. The phrase 'trunk less legs' in the poem 'Ozymandias' refers to ..... A) Legs without toes. B) Beautiful legs. C) Hug legs. D) Legs without body. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Legs without body. 20. To whom did Edmund Spencer dedicate his sonnet sequence? A) Penelope. B) Laura. C) Anne Boleyn. D) Elizabeth Boyle. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Elizabeth Boyle. 21. How many lines does a Shakespearean sonnet have A) 13. B) 8. C) 10. D) 14. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 14. 22. Who wrote an epic 'The Faerie Queen'? A) Alfred Tennyson. B) Robert Browning. C) Edmund Spenser. D) T. S Eliot. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Edmund Spenser. 23. The Good Earth has been written by- A) Pearl S. Buck. B) Virginia Woolf. C) George Eliot. D) Charles Dickens. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pearl S. Buck. 24. Which smell stirs in Poet's mind in the poen A Ballad of Mystic Memories? A) Scent of sand. B) Flowers. C) Mud. D) None of these above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Scent of sand. 25. Who awarded Pulitzer Prize to Robert Frost? A) John Don. B) John Willy. C) John F. Kennedy. D) Dr mohammad younus. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) John F. Kennedy. 26. Jane Austen was a/an? A) Dramatist. B) Novelist. C) Essayist. D) Poet. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Novelist. 27. The Renaissance perion in Britain lasted in the A) 14-17 centuries. B) 15-16 centuries. C) 17-18 centuries. D) 12-13 centuries. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 14-17 centuries. 28. 'Songs of Experience' written by Blake was published in: A) 1790. B) 1794. C) 1820. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1794. 29. This man was known as the "Renaissance Man" . A) Jake. B) Giovanni Pallestrin. C) Barrack Obama. D) Leonardo Da Vinci. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Leonardo Da Vinci. 30. 'Water, water, everywhere, not a drop to drink' the composer of ..... A) Gray. B) S. T. Coleridge. C) Wordsworth. D) Scott. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) S. T. Coleridge. 31. 'O Lady! We receive but what we give'-has been quoted from A) Kubla khan. B) Tithonus. C) Dejection: An Ode. D) Don Juan. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dejection: An Ode. 32. Who is the writer of "Absalom and Achitophel" ? A) John Donne. B) John Milton. C) John Webster. D) John Dryden. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) John Dryden. 33. William Faulkner was awarded Nobel Prize for literature in: A) 1953. B) 1951. C) 1950. D) 1949. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1949. 34. In iambic pentameter, which syllable in the foot is stressed? A) First. B) Second. C) Third. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Second. 35. 'Ophelia' is an important character in the Shakespearean play? A) Macbeth. B) The Tempest. C) King Lear. D) Hamlet. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hamlet. 36. Who wrote 'War and Peace'? A) Scott. B) Leo Tolstoy. C) Robert Lewis Stevenson. D) Thomas Hardly. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Leo Tolstoy. 37. Poet Alexander Pope's famous work- A) Man Was Made to Mourn. B) Spectator. C) The Rape of the Lock. D) The Deserted Village. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Rape of the Lock. 38. 'The Good Morrow' is a poem by ..... A) Andrew Marvell. B) W. B. Yeats. C) John Donne. D) P. B. Browning. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) John Donne. 39. "Undo this Button" is a line from Shakespeare's: A) King Lear. B) Othello. C) Julius Caeser. D) Hamlet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) King Lear. 40. Who wrote the world famous tragic play 'King Lear'? A) George Bernard Shaw. B) Christopher Marlowe. C) William Shakespeare. D) John Milton. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) William Shakespeare. 41. Who is the first modern novelist? A) Samuel Richardson. B) Samuel Johnson. C) Samuel Beckett. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Samuel Richardson. 42. P. B. Shelly wrote his elegy named 'Adonais' mourning over whose death. A) John Keats. B) Walter Scott. C) Wordsworth. D) Jane Austen. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) John Keats. 43. Who is the writer of The Augustan Period? A) Samuel Richardson. B) Jeremy Taylor. C) Robert Herrick. D) Thomas Hobbes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Samuel Richardson. 44. The literary figure who had the most pronounced effect on Keats was: A) Wordsworth. B) Shelley. C) Dante. D) Shakespeare. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Shakespeare. 45. Why did people did not like Bandar log A) They did not like because they did not follow rules. B) Because they were lazy and mean. C) They throw mango at people. D) THEY SPIT ON PEOPLE. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They did not like because they did not follow rules. 46. Which poem is written by Walt Whitman? A) Song of myself. B) Song of Innocence. C) Song of Experience. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Song of myself. 47. Dramatic Monologue stands for- A) Single. B) Single speaker speak but audience remain silent. C) Comparison between dissimilar things. D) A kind of fable. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Single speaker speak but audience remain silent. 48. The Cold Within is written by A) James Patrick Kinley. B) James Patrick Kinney. C) James Patrick Kingsley. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) James Patrick Kinney. 49. S.T. Coleridge was born in A) 1798. B) 1772. C) 1797. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1772. 50. Who is the author of the book 'The Sense of an Ending'? A) Henry Fielding. B) Rudyard Kipling. C) Julian Barnes. D) Tomas Transtromer. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Julian Barnes. 51. Who among the following is a revolutionary poet? A) S.T. Coleridge. B) P.B. Shelly. C) William Wordsworth. D) John Keats. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) P.B. Shelly. 52. 'To be or not to be' is the beginning of a famous soliloquy from ..... A) Paradise Lost. B) Romeo and Juliet. C) Hamlet. D) Shahnama. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hamlet. 53. The Common Sojourn of Byron, Shelley, Keats was: A) Lake district. B) Hampshire. C) Utopia. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lake district. 54. Who wrote 'Prometheus Unbound'? A) Keats. B) Coleridge. C) Shelley. D) Byron. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Shelley. 55. Apply CRISPing to A) Every sentence. B) First and last sentence of every paragraph. C) First and last sentence of your essay. D) Wilted lettuce. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) First and last sentence of every paragraph. 56. Who said "Tragedy imitates men as better and comedy as worse than they really are." A) Aristotle. B) Bradley. C) Dryden. D) Shakespeare. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Aristotle. 57. The English language has adopted many ..... from many countries. A) Accents. B) Children. C) Plays. D) Words. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Words. 58. Choose the odd one A) Persuasion. B) Northanger Abbey. C) Jane Eyre. D) Mansfield Park. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Jane Eyre. 59. When did Frost's firstborn son died? A) 1800. B) 1900. C) 1700. D) 1600. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1900. 60. The correct date of French Revolution: A) 1793. B) 1802. C) 1789. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1789. ← 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