This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Introductions > Miscellaneous > Miscelleneous Questions – Quiz 20 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Miscelleneous Questions Quiz 20 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Romanticism is mainly connected with- A) Excitement and sensation. B) Love and beauty. C) Job and tiredness. D) Expectation and depression. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Excitement and sensation. 2. Who is of the following is not a Nobel Laureate? A) William Golding. B) E. M. Forster. C) T. S. Eliot. D) W. B. Yeats. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) E. M. Forster. 3. Who is the youngest literature laureate to win Nobel Prize A) Rudyard Kipling. B) Karl Gjellerup. C) Harry Martinson. D) Nelly Sachs. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rudyard Kipling. 4. Who wrote Gulliver's Travels? A) Charles Dickens. B) Chaucer. C) Jonathan Swift. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Jonathan Swift. 5. Who has defined tragedy as "an imitation of an action" ? A) Shakespeare. B) Dryden. C) Aristotle. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Aristotle. 6. Who is the "Scipio, Cicero, and Petrarch" of the time? A) Spenser. B) Sidney. C) Raleigh. D) Shakespeare. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sidney. 7. How old is mowgli? A) 16 year old. B) 7 year old. C) 15 year old. D) 10 years old. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 7 year old. 8. The title of the poem The Cold Within is symbolic of A) Lack of warmth in humans. B) Lack of compassion in humans. C) Lack of warmth and compassion in humans. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lack of warmth and compassion in humans. 9. T. S. Eliot considers ..... to be one of Shakespeare's most assured artistic success A) King Lear. B) Hamlet. C) The Tempest. D) Coriolanus. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hamlet. 10. Who is the author of 'India Wins Freedom'? A) Ghandhi. B) Nehru. C) Jinnah. D) Abul Kalam Azad. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Abul Kalam Azad. 11. Ernest Hemingway has written A) Old Man and the Sea. B) Mr. Chips. C) Pride and Prejudice. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Old Man and the Sea. 12. "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" was written by: A) W.Scott. B) Coleridge. C) Shelley. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Coleridge. 13. A.S. Hornsby is famous for- A) Writing dictionaries. B) Writing poems. C) Writing songs. D) Writing text books. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Writing dictionaries. 14. Total how many numbers of detective novels written by Agatha Christie A) 22. B) 30. C) 66. D) 52. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 66. 15. Aspect of the Novel is written by: A) David Cecil. B) Walter Allen. C) Arnold Kettle. D) E.M. Forster. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) E.M. Forster. 16. 'Paradise Lost' attempts to- A) Justify the ways of man to God. B) Show that the Satan and God have equal power. C) Explain why good and evil are necessary. D) Justify the ways of God to man. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Justify the ways of God to man. 17. Which is called the Victorian Age: A) 18th Century. B) 19th Century. C) 20th Century. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 19th Century. 18. 'The Flea' by John Donne is ..... A) An Ode. B) An Elegy. C) A romantic poem. D) A religious poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A religious poem. 19. What is the White Rabbit's (from "Alice" ) catchphrase? A) I'm late, I'm late, I'm late!. B) Hippo, hippo, hippo!. C) Hurry up, hurry up, hurry up!. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) I'm late, I'm late, I'm late!. 20. Adonis is modeled on: A) Bion's lament for Adonis. B) Lycidas. C) In Memoriam. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bion's lament for Adonis. 21. In which month did Anil and Hari meet? A) December. B) October. C) November. D) September. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) October. 22. The ..... changed the interpretation of the relation of the individual Christian to the church and God. A) Humanists. B) Reformists. C) Ben Jonson. D) King James Bible. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Reformists. 23. Who is the first Humorist in English Literature? A) Robert Browning. B) Cynewulf. C) Roger Bacon. D) Geoffrey Chaucer. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Geoffrey Chaucer. 24. Which play among the following plays is not blank verse? A) Hamlet. B) The Jew of Malta. C) Pygmalion. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pygmalion. 25. What narrative conventions might be used for The Stranger? A) Characterization (actions, appearance, thoughts, dialogue). B) Plot, structure, point of view (narration). C) Settings (both time and space). D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these. 26. William Shakespeare did not write A) Twelfth Night. B) The Mercahnt of Venice. C) Antony and Cleopatra. D) The Silent Woman. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Silent Woman. 27. 'Essays of Elia' was written by ..... A) Charles Lamb. B) Emily Dickinson. C) Emily Brontee. D) William Hazlitt. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Charles Lamb. 28. What is the term associated with Modernism that means "loss of a false belief" ? A) Disillusionment. B) Disappointment. C) Realization. D) Epiphany. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Disillusionment. 29. The full name of W.B. Yeats is- A) William Bill Yeats. B) William Bernard Yeats. C) William Butler Yeats. D) Winstern Barret Yeats. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) William Butler Yeats. 30. Placing Phrase or Sentences of similar construction and meaning and balancing each other is called: A) Parallelism. B) Alliteration. C) Para Rhyme. D) Rhetoric. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Parallelism. 31. Sue heard 'afraid' as ..... words:'a Fraid' A) Three. B) Two. C) One. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Two. 32. Who is the poet of the Victorian Age? A) Helen Keller. B) Robert Browning. C) Mathew Arnold. D) Shakespeare. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Robert Browning. 33. Who is Elinor-white? A) Wife. B) Daughter. C) Daughter in law. D) Aunt. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Wife. 34. What things did the granny took out from the magic hand bag A) Ice cream, pencil, sweets, scissors, jar of honey. B) Chocolate ice cream, jar of honey. C) Straw berry ice cream, pencil, , sweets, scissors, jjar of honey. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Straw berry ice cream, pencil, , sweets, scissors, jjar of honey. 35. 'The Alchemist' is written by- A) Ben Johnson. B) Samuel Johnson. C) Marlowe. D) None of them. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ben Johnson. 36. Who is the writer of The Commonwealth Period? A) Cynewulf. B) Dante. C) Thomas Hobbes. D) Caedmon. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Thomas Hobbes. 37. 'Ode to the west wind' is by ..... A) Coleridge. B) Shelley. C) Keats. D) Wordsworth. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Shelley. 38. ..... is the Hispanic girl that sat next to Latoya in class . A) Esperanza. B) Espenanda. C) Summer. D) Simply Red. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Esperanza. 39. Which is the longest exam you will have to sit? A) English Language Paper 2. B) English Literature Paper 2. C) English Language Paper 1. D) English Literature Paper 1. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) English Literature Paper 2. 40. 'Waverley' was written by A) Scott. B) Jane Austen. C) Dickens. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Scott. 41. The Merchant of Venice is a ..... A) Sonnet. B) Comedy. C) Sitcom. D) Tragedy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Comedy. 42. A sub-division of a poem is called- A) Meter. B) Foot. C) Mythology. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) None of these. 43. Milton's 'Comus' is A) An elegy. B) A masque. C) An absurd play. D) A short story. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A masque. 44. "Paradise Lost" is divided into ..... A) 5 Books. B) 9 Books. C) 8 Books. D) 12 Books. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 12 Books. 45. Is often defined as material written or produced for the information or entertainment of children or young adults. A) Literature. B) Children's Literature. C) Fiction. D) Non-Fiction. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Children's Literature. 46. 'Leaves of Grass' is written by- A) Frost. B) Shelley. C) Long Fellow. D) Whitman. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Whitman. 47. Calliban is a Character in ..... A) King Lear. B) Tempest. C) Min and Superman. D) Othello. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tempest. 48. Tottel's Miscellany(1557) contained the songs and sonnets of A) Wyatt and Surrey. B) Surrey and Sidney. C) Sidney and Spenser. D) Wyatt and Raleigh. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Wyatt and Surrey. 49. What's the first Harry Potter's books? A) Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. B) Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. C) Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. D) Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. 50. About how many examples of specific evidence from the text should you use in the Written Assignment essay? A) As many as it takes. B) 3-5 examples. C) 20-25 examples. D) 9-12 examples. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 9-12 examples. 51. Who of the following is a playwright? A) Dickens. B) G.B. Shaw. C) W.B. Yeats. D) Frost. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) G.B. Shaw. 52. 'Huckleberry Finn' is a novel written by- A) Walt Whitman. B) Robert Frost. C) Emily Dickinson. D) Mark Twain. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mark Twain. 53. "We die As hours do, and dry Away Like to the summer's rain;" is stated by- A) Shelley. B) Milton. C) John keats. D) Wordsworth. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Wordsworth. 54. What should not be confused with total inactivity or death? A) No movement. B) Stillness and silence. C) A statue. D) Talking people. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stillness and silence. 55. What is type of literary device is used in Beowulf? A) Allusion. B) Analogy. C) Anagram. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alliteration. 56. Milton first created ..... A) An orphanage. B) A candy shop. C) Milk chocolate. D) A business with his mother. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A candy shop. 57. Which of the following is not a dramatist? A) Ben Johnson. B) Byron. C) Eliot. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Byron. 58. Who is the author of the classic masterpiece "Anna Karenina" ? A) Ben Johnson. B) Jane Austen. C) Leo Tolstoy. D) William Golding. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Leo Tolstoy. 59. A way of describing something by saying that it is like something else, without using the words "like" or "as" . A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Hyberbole. D) Metonynym. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 60. Who is the writer of 'The End of History and The Last Man'? A) Samuel Huntington. B) Francis Fukuyama. C) David Lynn. D) Robert Frost. 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