This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Introductions > Miscellaneous > Miscelleneous Questions – Quiz 2 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Miscelleneous Questions Quiz 2 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which play of Shakespeare is also known as 'A play within a play' or the 'Mouse Trap'? A) Much Ado About Nothing. B) Macbeth. C) Hamlet. D) Twelfth Night. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hamlet. 2. Knights were governed by a code of honor called ..... A) Chivalry. B) Homage. C) Vassalage. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Chivalry. 3. William of Normandy won the Battle of A) The Gulf. B) Hastings. C) Camelot. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hastings. 4. The first tragedy written in English is A) Edward II. B) Doctor Faustus. C) Gorboduc. D) The Jew of Malta. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Gorboduc. 5. What is the main theme of "Paradise Lost" ? A) Justify the ways of man to God. B) Justify the ways of God to man. C) Clash of God and Satan. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Justify the ways of God to man. 6. In 1894 the individuality is A) Great. B) Annihilated. C) Well represented. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Annihilated. 7. 'SARTOR RESARTUS' is a prose work by: A) John Ruskin. B) Lamb. C) Carlyle. D) Bacon. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Carlyle. 8. What lies half sunk in the sand in Shelley's 'Ozymandias'? A) Two trunkless legs. B) Broken statue. C) Broken head of a statue. D) An ancient place. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Broken head of a statue. 9. The ..... age tended to favour the taste and search for truth in art: A) Romantic. B) Elizabethan. C) Classical. D) Victorian. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Romantic. 10. Who wrote 'The Ruins of Time'? A) Edmund Spenser. B) Henry. C) Sir Philip Sidney. D) John Keat. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Edmund Spenser. 11. 'Ode to Autumn' was written by ..... A) Byron. B) Shelley. C) Blake. D) Keats. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Keats. 12. Well, it's time I did some real work, I told myself; I'm out of practice.What is the meaning of " I'm out of practice" ? A) He didn't rob anyone recently. B) He didn't have practice for reading. C) He was not caught by police. D) He didn't have practice for cooking. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He didn't rob anyone recently. 13. A poem of fourteen lines is called ..... A) Epic. B) Elege. C) Ode. D) Sonnet. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sonnet. 14. Which one is the first novel of Charles Dickens A) The Pickwick Papers. B) Little Dorrit. C) Oliver Twist. D) David Copperfield. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Pickwick Papers. 15. A poet is a man speaking to men says? A) Pope. B) Robert Frost. C) Wordsworth. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Wordsworth. 16. Chaucer is the representative poet of- A) 16th century. B) 14th century. C) 18th century. D) 17th century. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 14th century. 17. The Professor was the first novel by: A) Charlotte Bronte. B) Jane Austen. C) Anne Bronte. D) Emily Bronte. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Charlotte Bronte. 18. Robert Frost attend in which school? A) Licium High School. B) Adarsha High School. C) Lawrence High School. D) Laiciam High School. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lawrence High School. 19. Who believed that Shakespeare did much better in Comedy than in tragedy? A) Dryden. B) Johnson. C) Bradley. D) L. C. Knight. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Johnson. 20. Identify the Oxford Reformer. A) Francis Bacon. B) Thomas More. C) Chaucer. D) John Wycliffe. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Thomas More. 21. Who is the author of 'A Brief History of Time'? A) Albert Einstein. B) Stephen Hawking. C) Jagadish Chandra Basu. D) Isaac Newton. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stephen Hawking. 22. Robert Burns wrote ..... A) Satiric verses. B) Lyric poems. C) Historic plays. D) Realistic novels. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lyric poems. 23. Who is known as the father of English poetry? A) Charles Dickens. B) Geoffrey Chaucer. C) Milton. D) Wordsworth. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Geoffrey Chaucer. 24. 'The Rainbow' is- A) A poem by Wordsworth. B) A short story by Somerset Maugham. C) A novel by D.H. Lawrence. D) A verse by Coleridge. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A novel by D.H. Lawrence. 25. Which University presented the Pulitzer Prize A) Columbia University. B) New York University. C) Yale University. D) Harvard University. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Columbia University. 26. The period from 1649-1660 is known as- A) Jacobean period. B) Caroline period. C) Restoration period. D) Commonwealth period. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Commonwealth period. 27. The Spectator was published by: A) Addison. B) Steele. C) Milton. D) Both A and B. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Both A and B. 28. The man who came running from the Woods had a wound in ..... A) His hands. B) His stomach. C) His head. D) His foot. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) His stomach. 29. "Saki" is the pen name of A) Hector Hugh Munro. B) KA Abbas. C) Somerset Maugham. D) Wilkie Collins. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hector Hugh Munro. 30. The prose of the Romantic period had a tendency to: A) Objectify the issue in terms of a cause. B) Advance a single system to the public. C) Allow the writer to draw on his. D) Be brooding and meditative. own personality. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Objectify the issue in terms of a cause. 31. The Black Death ..... A) Caused the feudal system to crumble. B) Caused a shortage of workers. C) All answers are true. D) Killed over 60% of Europe's population. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) All answers are true. 32. Tennyson's 'In Memoriam' is a /an- A) Elegy. B) Sonnet. C) Ballad. D) Lyric. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Elegy. 33. The shepherd in "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" is A) Practical. B) Sentimental. C) Irresponsible. D) Romantic. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Romantic. 34. "In Memoriam" is : A) An elegy. B) A sonnet. C) Neither. D) An ode. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) An elegy. 35. Who is the writer of The Victorian Period? A) Jeremy Taylor. B) Thomas Hobbes. C) Lord Alfred Tennyson. D) Robert Herrick. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lord Alfred Tennyson. 36. 'The Sun Also Rises' and 'For Whom the Bell Tolls'-These two novels were written by- A) Arthur Miller. B) Earnest Hemingway. C) O'Henry. D) John Osborn. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Earnest Hemingway. 37. On His Blindness was written by A) Robert Henrick. B) Chaucer. C) Steele. D) John Milton. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) John Milton. 38. Who is the father of modern English Drama? A) John Milton. B) G.B. Shaw. C) Thomas Walt. D) Shakespeare. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) G.B. Shaw. 39. Who wrote 'Heart of Darkness'? A) Thomas Hardy. B) Joseph Conrad. C) Bill Gates. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Joseph Conrad. 40. Who is the representative of the metaphysical poets? A) Samuel Johnson. B) John Donne. C) Geoffrey Chaucer. D) Robert Browning. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) John Donne. 41. Who is the first great English story-teller in English Literature? A) Geoffrey Chaucer. B) Robert Browning. C) Cynewulf. D) Roger Bacon. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Geoffrey Chaucer. 42. Who is the first woman to win the Man Booker Prize A) Bernice Rubens. B) Elizabeth Bowen. C) Anita Brookner. D) Penelope Fitzgerald. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bernice Rubens. 43. Who is known as the Bard of Avon? A) Charles Dickens. B) William Wordsworth. C) Leonardo Da Vinci. D) William Shakespeare. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) William Shakespeare. 44. Who is called the father of English Poetry? A) Wordsworth. B) G. Chaucer. C) Charles Dickens. D) Milton. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) G. Chaucer. 45. Which of the following was written by Geoffrey Chaucer? A) Winter's Tale. B) Midsummer Night's Dream. C) Canterbury Tales. D) A Christmas Carol. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Canterbury Tales. 46. In the poem 'To Daffodils' the poet weeps over ..... A) Short-lived human life. B) Loss of sweet scant. C) Loss caused to environment. D) Loss of beautiful flower. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Short-lived human life. 47. Who is the heroine of 'Hamlet'? A) Cordelia. B) Portia. C) Ophelia. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ophelia. 48. We find Subjective Elements in? A) Keats. B) Shelley. C) Wordsworth. D) All. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All. 49. Who is the writer of The Caroline Period? A) Robert Herrick. B) Caedmon. C) Cynewulf. D) Dante. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Robert Herrick. 50. A Machiavellian character is a- A) Wise person. B) Romantic person. C) Honest person. D) Cunning person. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cunning person. 51. Doctor Zivago is written by- A) Ana Pasternak. B) Golding. C) Conrad. D) Boris Pasternak. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Boris Pasternak. 52. How many marks is English Language Paper 1 worth? A) 70. B) 50. C) 80. D) 40. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 80. 53. From 1800 to the present day, the version of English spoken is ..... A) Old. B) Late Modern. C) Early Modern. D) Bad. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Late Modern. 54. Name the book which opens with the line 'All children, except one grew up'? A) The Railway Children. B) Peter Pan. C) Winnie the Pooh. D) Jungle Book. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Peter Pan. 55. Who wrote 'Ulysses'? A) Thomas Moore. B) R.L. Stevenson. C) S.T. Coleridge. D) Alfred Tennyson. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alfred Tennyson. 56. Which of following Books consists of Ruskin's lectures: A) Modern painters. B) The Stones of Venice. C) The Crown of wild olive. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Crown of wild olive. 57. What do you mean by Deus ex Machina? A) Process of solving problem abruptly. B) Choice of words. C) Process of analyzing literature. D) Literary theft. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Process of solving problem abruptly. 58. Which work was completed last? A) Ben Jonson's "Volpone". B) William Shakespeare's "Tempest". C) George Herbert's "The Temple". D) John Milton's "Paradise Lost". Show Answer Correct Answer: D) John Milton's "Paradise Lost". 59. "Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thoughts" is a quotation from- A) Wordsworth. B) John Keats. C) Blake. D) Shelly. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Shelly. 60. What do you mean by Plot? A) A short novel. B) A drama of comedy. C) A disposal of characters. D) Arrangement of incidents in a writing. 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