This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Introductions > Miscellaneous > Miscelleneous Questions – Quiz 18 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Miscelleneous Questions Quiz 18 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Who used to write problem plays- A) Bertrand Russell. B) W. B. Yeats. C) G. B. Shaw. D) James Joyce. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) G. B. Shaw. 2. Who is the composer of 'Paradise Lost'? A) John Milton. B) Lord Byron. C) S. T. Coleridge. D) John Keats. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) John Milton. 3. What does 'ashen face' signify? A) To show poet's fears. B) To tell aging is painful. C) Pale and lifeless face of poet's mother. D) To show old age. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pale and lifeless face of poet's mother. 4. 'Egotistical Sublime' is a phrase coined by: A) Keats. B) Coleridge. C) Wordsworth. D) Byron. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Keats. 5. Who is the Writer of The White Tiger? A) Arundhoti Roy. B) Arobinda Adigha. C) Kiron Dishai. D) Salman Rushdie. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Arobinda Adigha. 6. Who fought the Hundred Years War? A) England and Norway. B) England and France. C) The Normans and the Anglo-Saxons. D) The Geats and the Danes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) England and France. 7. Words like 'tinkling' and 'bridal laughter' are examples of A) Auditory imagery. B) Alliteration. C) Metaphor. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Auditory imagery. 8. Who wrote "Shakespeare's Later Comedies'? A) A.C. Bradley. B) Palmer D.J. C) Dr.Johnsofl. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Palmer D.J. 9. The narrator employed ..... cookies to push the engine from behind A) Twenty. B) Fifty. C) Hundred. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fifty. 10. When we do something wrong, it is called ..... A) Sin. B) Lin. C) Bin. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sin. 11. What game does Alice play? A) Golf. B) Football. C) Croquet. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Croquet. 12. 'The Ring and the Book' is a poem written by: A) Browning. B) Mathew Arnold. C) Tennyson. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Browning. 13. A figure of speech which contains an exaggeration for emphasis is called: A) Hyperbole. B) Over tone. C) Extended metaphor. D) Rhetoric. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 14. What great news did Princess receive at the end of the novel? A) Granny is coming to visit them in Brooklyn. B) She passed her exams. C) Her mother got a promotion. D) She would be moving back to Jamaica. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Granny is coming to visit them in Brooklyn. 15. Remember, remember ..... A) The 3rd of November. B) The 5th of November. C) The 5th of December. D) The 4th of October. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The 5th of November. 16. Who introduced blank verse? A) Raleigh. B) Marlowe. C) Spenser. D) Shakespeare. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Marlowe. 17. "Good flences make good neighbours" is from Frosts': A) Mending. B) Pasture. C) Birches. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) None of these. 18. 'Paradise Lost' and 'Paradise Regained' are written by- A) John Keats. B) P.B. Shelley. C) John Milton. D) William Blake. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) John Milton. 19. What are the different kinds of wars mentioned in the poem? A) War against humanity. B) War against nature. C) War with gases and fires. D) All the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All the above. 20. The Gallery was a place where ..... sat. A) Parents. B) Geniuses. C) Dunces. D) Teacher. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dunces. 21. Which work was the most famous of Edmund Spenser? A) The Canterbury Tales. B) The Utopia. C) The Faerie Queene. D) The Wanderer, Deor and The Seafarer. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Faerie Queene. 22. Identify the chief work of Thomas Malory. A) Piers the Plowman. B) Euphues. C) Le Morte D'Arthur. D) Pilgrim's Progress. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Le Morte D'Arthur. 23. Rabbi Ben Ezra was written by? A) Tennyson. B) Browning. C) Matthew Arnold. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Browning. 24. The Eve of St. Agnes is written by: A) Keats. B) Blake. C) Tennyson. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Keats. 25. Who is the protagonist of The Mark of Vishnu A) Mohan. B) Ganga Ram. C) Ram. D) Raja Ram. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ganga Ram. 26. What is Limerick? A) A form of one-act play. B) A kind of love poem. C) A form of light verse. D) A kind of short narrative poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A kind of short narrative poem. 27. The Romantics used the following faculties in search of spiritual truth A) Feelings. B) Imagination. C) Both (a) and (b). D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both (a) and (b). 28. Who is the writer of 'The Ring of the Book'? A) Shelley. B) Wordsworth. C) Robert Browning. D) William Shakespeare. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Robert Browning. 29. The bandar log took Mowgli to A) Rain forest. B) Terrace. C) Cold Lairs. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cold Lairs. 30. From which book the extract mowgli and the banderlog has been taken from? A) The super man. B) The jungle book. C) The iron man. D) The avengers. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The jungle book. 31. What does the line: "in sap and leaf and wood" refer to? A) Every shoot of a tree. B) Every cell of a tree. C) Every root of a tree. D) Every tissue of a tree. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Every cell of a tree. 32. Macbeth is a play mostly about ..... A) Mistaken identity. B) Star-crossed lovers. C) Political ambition. D) Forest fairies. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Political ambition. 33. Who is Neo-Classic? A) Tennyson. B) Alexander Pope. C) Robert Browning. D) A and c. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alexander Pope. 34. Who is not a novelist of Victorian age mentioned below? A) Thomas Hardy. B) George Eliot. C) Charles Dickens. D) James Joyce. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) James Joyce. 35. Macaulay represented: A) Upper class tolerance. B) Bourgeois Victorian enlightenment. C) Radical Romanticism. D) Working class Victorian attitudes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bourgeois Victorian enlightenment. 36. Pure tragedies written by Shakespeare are: A) Four. B) Six. C) Eight. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Four. 37. What do you mean by Minstrel? A) A medieval European poet. B) A poet of minister. C) A romantic poet. D) A budding poet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A medieval European poet. 38. What do you mean by Beast Fable? A) A long narrative prose. B) A soft style epic. C) A fictional story of animal characters. D) A short story. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A fictional story of animal characters. 39. "Blow, blow thou winter wind Thou art not so unkind." -Example of? A) Conceit. B) Couplet. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Couplet. 40. Keats' widespread appeal is to the Reader's interest in the supernatural. A) True. B) False. C) Both A and B. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 41. One of the main heroes in this poem was Satan A) Paradise Lost. B) Hamlet. C) Beowulf. D) Utopia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Paradise Lost. 42. The God of Small Things A) Kiran Desai. B) Arundhati Roy. C) Vikram Seth. D) Nissim Ezekiel. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Arundhati Roy. 43. In which novel by Hardy are "Hayshope" , "Flint Comb Ash" and "stone Henge" used as backdrop: A) Jude the Obscure. B) Tess of the d'Urbervilles. C) A pair of Blue Eyes. D) Return of the Native. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tess of the d'Urbervilles. 44. In which city the play of Shakespeare 'Romeo and Juliet' is set in A) Milan. B) Verona. C) Turin. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Verona. 45. Who is the author of 'For Whom the Bell Tolls'? A) Homer. B) Ernest Hemingway. C) Lord Tennison. D) Charles Dickens. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ernest Hemingway. 46. Who among the following believes that "poetry is the anti-thesis of science" A) Keats. B) Arnold. C) Coleridge. D) Eliot. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Coleridge. 47. Who is the romantic precursor in English poetry? A) Tennyson. B) Robert browning. C) Shelley. D) William Blake. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) William Blake. 48. The 'Tragic Flaw' is also called: A) Catharsis. B) Catastrophe. C) Hamartia. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hamartia. 49. 'War and Peace' an epic tale of Napoleonic invasion is written by- A) George Bernard Shaw. B) Leo Tolstoy. C) Earnest Hemingway. D) Anne Frank. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Leo Tolstoy. 50. What the term Couplet refers? A) Two successive lines. B) Two successive rhyming lines. C) First four lines of a poem. D) Two lines without rhymes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Two successive rhyming lines. 51. What do you mean by Epitaph? A) Inscription on tomb or monument. B) A sonnet of hero. C) A ballad of folk hero. D) A poem of lamentation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Inscription on tomb or monument. 52. Who is the author of "Around the World in Eighty Days" ? A) Christopher Marlowe. B) Charles Kingsley. C) Thomas Hood. D) Jules Verne. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Jules Verne. 53. Who wrote 'The Adventures of Augie March'? A) Jean Paul Sartre. B) Saul Bellow. C) James Osborn. D) Toni Morrison. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Saul Bellow. 54. Short story is not.....than story. A) Shorter. B) Longer. C) Smaller. D) Huger. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Shorter. 55. 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' is a ..... A) Novel. B) Poem. C) Play. D) Short story. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Poem. 56. Hemingway also worked as a: A) Carpenter. B) Painter. C) Driver. D) Surgeon. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Driver. 57. 'The Revolt of Islam' was written by: A) Wordsworth. B) Coleridge. C) Shelley. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Shelley. 58. What do you mean by Archaism? A) Literary words. B) Up-to-date words. C) Modern mode of words. D) Obsolete words. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Obsolete words. 59. 'The Poetry Aenied' is written by- A) Virgil. B) Boccaccio. C) Ovid. D) Dante. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Virgil. 60. Common sources for Ballads were: A) The deeds of heroes. B) Legends of old Anglo-Saxon heroes. C) Border fights between different populations for power. D) British legends about the mythical king Arthur. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Border fights between different populations for power. ← 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