This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Introductions > Miscellaneous > Miscelleneous Questions – Quiz 19 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Miscelleneous Questions Quiz 19 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Equivocation means- A) A true statement. B) Free expression of opinion. C) Two contrary things in same statement. D) Equal opportunity. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Two contrary things in same statement. 2. 'The Voyage of the Beagle' was written by: A) J.S. Mill. B) Darwin. C) Carlyle. D) Ruskin. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Darwin. 3. Which country does Shakespeare's Hamlet belongs to A) England. B) France. C) Denmark. D) Scotland. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Denmark. 4. Embedding quotations means A) Introducing each quotation with a brief context. B) Using appropriate language frames. C) Including the most relevant words/phrases in your own sentence. D) Including the significance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Including the most relevant words/phrases in your own sentence. 5. Who is the first great English critic-poet? A) Sir Philip Sidney. B) Chaucer. C) Shakespeare. D) Arnold. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sir Philip Sidney. 6. Dickens' novels combine..... and melodrama. A) Satire. B) Journalism. C) Science. D) Religion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Satire. 7. The Last Ride Together was written by: A) Byron. B) Tennyson. C) Browning. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Browning. 8. The University Wits were: A) Poets. B) Playwrights. C) Novelists. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Playwrights. 9. Wrote romances, but not a Romantic poet: A) John Keats. B) William Wordsworth. C) William Blake. D) William Shakespeare. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) William Shakespeare. 10. Who wrote The Jungle Book A) Veer Singh. B) Akshay Kumar. C) Rudyard Kipling. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rudyard Kipling. 11. Which novel of Hardy presents 'Egdon Heath' as the background of the story? A) Tess of the D'Urberville. B) Return of the Native. C) Jude the Obscure. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Return of the Native. 12. A famous essayist in Renaissance is- A) John Wycliffe. B) Charles Lamb. C) Thomas Carlyle. D) Tomas Moore. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) John Wycliffe. 13. The Picture of Dorian Gray is written by: A) Gissing. B) D. H. Lawrence. C) Oscar Wilde. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Oscar Wilde. 14. Messengers were sent the kingdom A) To fetch wise men. B) To announce a reward for those who could answer the questions. C) To find answers to questions. D) To look for the wise hermit. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To find answers to questions. 15. Orhan Pamuk got Nobel Prize in- A) 2006. B) 2008. C) 2007. D) 2000. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 2006. 16. Everyone expected Princess to be a ..... because she is from Jamaica. A) Dancer. B) Singer. C) Athlete. D) Actress. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Athlete. 17. What the term Comedy refers? A) A play ends unhappily. B) A play ends happily. C) A play ends with murder. D) A play ends tragedy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A play ends happily. 18. Who is the inventor of printing through movable types? A) Gutenberg. B) Edmund Spencer. C) Marlowe. D) Dr Faustus. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gutenberg. 19. Who is well known for his translation of 'Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam' into English? A) Edward Fitzgerald. B) D.H. Lawrence. C) George Bernard Shaw. D) Rose Macaulay. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Edward Fitzgerald. 20. Through the book The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, King Alfred promoted the use of written ..... A) Danish. B) Latin. C) Old English. D) Celtic. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Old English. 21. A pioneer is psychological analysis in fiction is: A) Thackeray. B) Charlotte Bronte. C) G. Eliot. D) Charles Dickens. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) G. Eliot. 22. 'A Little Girl Lost' is written by: A) Wordsworth. B) Blake. C) Keats. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Blake. 23. Who wrote 'Tales From Shakespeare'? A) Charles Lamb and his sister. B) Dr. Johnson. C) Dryden. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Charles Lamb and his sister. 24. From the following who is the writter of story A) Oiler. B) The correspondent. C) Captain. D) Cook. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The correspondent. 25. The beginning of the renaissance may be traced to the city ..... A) Paris. B) Florence. C) London. D) Venice. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Florence. 26. G. B. Shaw got Nobel Prize in 1925 for the book? A) Arms and the man. B) The doctor's dilemma. C) Man of destiny. D) Philanderer. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Arms and the man. 27. The phrase "forlorn group" is an example of A) Onomatopoeia. B) Oxyonomatopoeia. C) Oxymoron. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Oxymoron. 28. 'The Age of Chaucer' ranges from- A) 1340-1400. B) 1240-1300. C) 1340-1385. D) 1340-1399. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1340-1400. 29. Yeats was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in: A) 1927. B) 1832. C) 1924. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) None of these. 30. "The Recluse" was written by: A) Worsdworth. B) Coleridge. C) Southey. D) W. Blake. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Worsdworth. 31. 'Lyrical Ballad' was published in? A) 1789. B) 1800. C) 1785. D) 1798. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1798. 32. 'The last Essays of Elia' was written by: A) Lamb. B) Carlyle. C) Hunt. D) Ruskin. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lamb. 33. T. S Eliot was born in ..... A) Ireland. B) England. C) Wales. D) USA. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) USA. 34. Why Dr, Dolittle's reputation spread far and wide? A) Because of Horse. B) Because of chee chee. C) Because of Parrot. D) Because of Lion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Because of Horse. 35. Charles Dickens is not the novelist for one of the following- A) A Tale of Two Cities. B) Treasure Island. C) David Copperfield. D) Great Expectations. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Treasure Island. 36. Which one is the world's longest-running play A) The Mousetrap. B) Romeo and Juliet. C) Othello. D) Macbeth. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Mousetrap. 37. A poem mourning someone's death is called: A) Fable. B) Epic. C) Elegy. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Elegy. 38. Name author of the lesson-The Three Questions. A) Ruskin Bond. B) Isaac asimov. C) William allingham. D) Leo Tolstoy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Leo Tolstoy. 39. Whose cat is Mrs. Norris? A) Ron. B) Filch. C) Neville. D) Goyle. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Filch. 40. In what year did Geoffrey Chaucer died? A) 1443 AD. B) 1442 AD. C) 1441 AD. D) 1400 AD. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1400 AD. 41. Which one is a femal fictional detective character of Agatha Christie's novel A) Miss Marple. B) Jane Eyre. C) Daisy Miller. D) Anna Karenina. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Miss Marple. 42. Meaning Of Tremendous A) Tradition. B) Very Great In Amount. C) Prank. D) Miracle. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Very Great In Amount. 43. A famous Mock Epic poet in English Literature is- A) Alexander Pope. B) Tennyson. C) Browning. D) Shelley. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alexander Pope. 44. On which novel, the Sherlock Holmes character was first appeared A) The Hound of the Baskervilles. B) The Sign of the Four. C) The Valley of Fear. D) A Study in Scarlet. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A Study in Scarlet. 45. What is ironical about the wall hanging and donations in the classroom? A) Set up in happy environment. B) Completely opposite to the needs of the children in the class room. C) Set up in very clean environment. D) Set up in gloomy set up. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Completely opposite to the needs of the children in the class room. 46. What Old English poem tells the story of a man who defeats a monster? A) Beowulf. B) The battle of Maldom. C) Caedmon's Hymn. D) The dream of the Roof. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Beowulf. 47. Which kind of embedded quotation-uses words like "said" and "wondered" , -uses a comma before the quotation, and-starts with a capital letter? A) Flow. B) Colon. C) Cow Poop. D) Dialogue. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dialogue. 48. Which of the following is not a play by Shakespeare? A) Hamlet. B) Macbeth. C) Dr. Faustus. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dr. Faustus. 49. Geoffrey Chaucer served which king? A) Richard III. B) James 1. C) Edward III. D) Henry II. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Edward III. 50. A figure of speech in the type of circumlocution, a compound that employs figurative language in place of a more concrete single-word noun. A) Epic. B) Kenning. C) Sonnet. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Kenning. 51. Ernest De Selincourt is the editor of: A) Prometheus the Unbound. B) The Prelude. C) Songs of innocence and of experience. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Prelude. 52. What is the beginning and ending of the Old English Period A) 410-800. B) 450-1066. C) 650-1800. D) 470-1200. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 450-1066. 53. A great playwright of Shakespeare time was ..... A) Oliver Goldsmith. B) John Donne. C) Christopher Marlowe. D) Samuel Johnson. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Christopher Marlowe. 54. The name of the prioress in The Canterbury Tales is ..... A) Eglentyne. B) Laura. C) Beatrice. D) Alison. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Eglentyne. 55. The characteristics of the poem of William Wordsworth are EXEPT : A) Nature. B) Glorification of childhood. C) Hope and regeneration. D) All of them. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hope and regeneration. 56. The Theatre created A) 1576. B) 1553. C) 1558. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1576. 57. Lamb, Leigh Hunt and Hazlitt are A) Poets. B) Essayists. C) Novelists. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Essayists. 58. Who was the poet famous for 'monologue'? A) Lord Tennyson. B) Mathew Arnold. C) Robert Browning. D) Wordsworth. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Robert Browning. 59. What is the meaning of nimble? A) Fingers that are strong. B) Fingers that are light. C) Quick and light in movement. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Quick and light in movement. 60. 'Prometheus Unbound' is a lyrical drama by- A) Shakespeare. B) Sophocles. C) Euripedes. D) Shelley. 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