This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Introductions > Miscellaneous > Miscelleneous Questions – Quiz 21 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Miscelleneous Questions Quiz 21 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. 'Anna Karenina' is the creation of A) Alexander Pushkin. B) Leo Tolstoy. C) Maxim Gorky. D) Anton Chekhov. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Leo Tolstoy. 2. After dressing the beard man's wound the king slept ..... A) In the Woods outside the hermit cell. B) On hermit's bed. C) On the floor of the hermits cell. D) On the the threshold of the hermit cell. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) On hermit's bed. 3. Who wrote the book 'Ivan Hoe'? A) Sir Walter Scott. B) Ernest Hemingway. C) R L Stevenson. D) O' Henry. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sir Walter Scott. 4. 'The Lord of the Rings' is written by- A) Rudyard Kipling. B) Ronald Reuel Tolkien. C) Hobbit. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ronald Reuel Tolkien. 5. The king reached the hermit's cell ..... A) On horse back. B) On elephant back. C) In a chariot. D) On foot. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) On foot. 6. 'The Old Familiar Faces' was written by: A) Ruskin. B) Charles Lamb. C) J. S. Mill. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Charles Lamb. 7. 'Three score' means- A) Thirty times. B) Three hundred times. C) More than three. D) Three times twenty. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Three times twenty. 8. What the term Oxymoron refers? A) Two contradictory ideas express one thing. B) Self-contradictory ideas. C) Two language. D) Two same ideas are combined. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Two contradictory ideas express one thing. 9. Who used the term 'The Metaphysical poet'? A) Edmund. B) John Donne. C) Samuel Johnson. D) Andrew Marvell. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Samuel Johnson. 10. Bertrand Russel was a British ..... A) Scientist. B) Philosopher. C) Astronaut. D) Journalist. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Philosopher. 11. "A Tale of Two Cities" Novel state the fact in following two cities A) London and Paris. B) London and Berlin. C) Chicago and New York. D) Moscow and Saint Petersburg. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) London and Paris. 12. Who propounds "the touchstone method" A) Pope. B) Dryden. C) Shelley. D) Arnold. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Arnold. 13. Who is the writer of the poem 'A Grammarian's Funeral'? A) Wordsworth. B) William Shakespeare. C) Shelley. D) Robert Browning. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Robert Browning. 14. When was the English parliament established? A) 1295. B) 1290. C) 1294. D) 1292. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1295. 15. Why Passepartout is happy? A) Passepartout is happy because he wants to rest . B) Passepartout is happy because he wants a quite job . C) Passepartout is happy because he wishes to be on holidays . D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Passepartout is happy because he wants a quite job . 16. Which of the following was a collection of stories written in Middle English? A) Beowulf. B) Cambridge Songs. C) The Canterbury Tales. D) Carmina Burana. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Canterbury Tales. 17. What is the alternative title for Gorboduc? A) Ferrex and Porrex. B) Wessex and Sussex. C) Porrex and Ferrex. D) Sussex and Wessex. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ferrex and Porrex. 18. 'The quality of Mercy is not strained' the line is taken from A) Merchant of Venice. B) Two gentleman of Verona. C) Midsummer's Night Dream. D) Anthony and Cleopatra. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Merchant of Venice. 19. 'Mending Wall' and 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening' are two poems written by- A) Robert Frost. B) Walt Whitman. C) Emily Dickinson. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Robert Frost. 20. Tennyson talks about the equality of women in: A) The Princess. B) In memoriam. C) Maud. D) Lackslay Hall. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Princess. 21. Who wrote the book 'Lord Jim: A Tale? A) Thomas Hardy. B) Joseph Conrad. C) Rudyard Kipling. D) Oscar Wilde. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Joseph Conrad. 22. What do you mean by Prologue? A) The last part of any drama. B) Surface. C) The first chapter of play. D) The preface or introduction of any writing. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The preface or introduction of any writing. 23. Who is famous for his 'drama of ideas'? A) Oscar Wilde. B) William Shakespeare. C) T.S. Eliot. D) Henrik Ibsen. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Henrik Ibsen. 24. Dickens, Thackeray, George Eliot and Trollope are: A) Critics. B) Poets. C) Essayists. D) Novelists. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Novelists. 25. Who wrote 'Common Pursuit'? A) Leavis, F.R. B) Cecil, D. C) E.M.Foster. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Leavis, F.R. 26. I will arise and go now, and go to ..... A) Home. B) Lake Isles of Innisfree. C) The mountain top. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lake Isles of Innisfree. 27. Maud and In memoriam were written by A) Tennyson. B) Keats. C) Shelley. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tennyson. 28. English Romanticism developed in part as a reaction against ..... A) American Gothic Literature. B) Rationalism. C) European traditions. D) Puritanism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rationalism. 29. 'The Rainbow' is a novel written by: A) Virginia Woolf. B) Hemingway. C) D.H. Lawrence. D) E.M. Forster. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) D.H. Lawrence. 30. Othello is a Shakespeare's play about- A) A Moor. B) A Roman. C) A Jew. D) A Turk. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A Moor. 31. 'Adam Bede' is a novel written by A) Dickens. B) Hardy. C) George Eliot. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) George Eliot. 32. Tinku and Mirry found the ..... behind a row of pine trees. A) Natural fall. B) Dry fall. C) Waterfall. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Waterfall. 33. John Galsworthy is a.....dramatist. A) Modern. B) Elizabethan. C) Romantic. D) Victorian. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Modern. 34. Which one is not by Shakespeare? A) Nature teaches beasts to know their friends. B) True is it that we have seen betting days. C) Knowledge is power. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Knowledge is power. 35. Which one from the below writers was also a physician A) Oscar Wilde. B) Ernest Hemingway. C) Anton Chekhov. D) Charles Dickens. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Anton Chekhov. 36. Shelley's final unfinished poem was: A) Prometheus Unbound. B) The Ancient Mariner. C) Hellas. D) The Triumph of life. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Triumph of life. 37. In which year Winston Churchill got the Novel prize in literature? A) 1953. B) 1948. C) 1943. D) 1945. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1953. 38. When was Jacobean Age? A) 1603-1625. B) 1604-1626. C) 1603-1624. D) 1603-1627. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1603-1625. 39. Which poem of Keats contains 'Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter'. A) Ode to Autumn. B) Ode on a Grecian Urn. C) Ode to melancholy. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ode on a Grecian Urn. 40. Who is the main character of "The Open Boat" ? A) Cook. B) Captain. C) Correspondent. D) Oiler. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Correspondent. 41. Gold flecked grey coloured bangles are symbolic of A) Love. B) Maturity. C) Marriage. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Maturity. 42. "Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self-place; for where we are is hell, And where hell is, there must we ever be." -this famous quotation is cited from? A) Tempest. B) Paradise Lost. C) Dr. Faustus. D) Macbeth. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dr. Faustus. 43. What is the true work name of Venerable Bede? A) Historiy of Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum. B) Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum. C) History Enclesiastica Gentis Anglorium. D) Historiy Ecclesiastic Gentis Anglorum. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum. 44. One of these men did NOT write during the Restoration period. Who? A) John Dryden. B) Sir Walter Scott. C) Thomas Otway. D) John Milton. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sir Walter Scott. 45. 'Lady Chatterley's Lover' and 'The Rainbow' written by- A) Thomas Moore. B) Virginia Woolf. C) Robert Frost. D) D.H. Lawrence. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) D.H. Lawrence. 46. 'The Stone of Venice' was written by: A) J. S. Mill. B) Carlyle. C) Ruskin. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ruskin. 47. The literary work of 'Kubla Khan' is- A) A verse by Coleridge. B) A history by Vincent Smith. C) A drama by Oscar Wilde. D) A short story by Somerset Maugham. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A verse by Coleridge. 48. Thomas Hardy was brought up to the profession of: A) Architect. B) Engraver. C) Sculptor. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Architect. 49. The word Renaissance means ..... A) Revival. B) Rebrith. C) Reformation. D) All the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All the above. 50. What position did Carmen have at the hospital where she worked? A) Practical nurse. B) Nurse. C) Doctor. D) Nurse's aide. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Nurse's aide. 51. "not of an age, but for all time" -was told about Shakespeare by whom? A) Ben Johnson. B) King Henry. C) Marlowe. D) John Milton. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ben Johnson. 52. 'Importance of Being Earnest' was written by: A) Oscar Wilde. B) Browning. C) Blake. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Oscar Wilde. 53. What is the subtitle of Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles? A) Tess:The pure woman. B) Hardy's Tess. C) A Pure Woman. D) The pure woman. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A Pure Woman. 54. The poem "the Triumph of life" was written by: A) Keats. B) Blake. C) Shelley. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Shelley. 55. For which book published in 1897, Bram Stoker is famous for A) Dracula. B) Frankenstein. C) The Raven. D) The Monk. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dracula. 56. When did Frost died? A) 1962. B) 1961. C) 1963. D) 1960. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1963. 57. Who believed that poetry is the spontaneous overflow of emotions? A) Wordsworth. B) Blake. C) Keats. D) Byron. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Wordsworth. 58. "Frailty, thy name is woman!" (150). What kind of quotation is this? A) Colon. B) Flow. C) Dialogue. D) Cow Poop. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cow Poop. 59. 'Sweet Hellen make me immortal with kiss'. Who has said these words? A) Marlow. B) Shakespeare. C) Benjonson. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Marlow. 60. Who was the greatest dramatist before Shakespeare? A) Andrew Marvell. B) Christopher Marlowe. C) John Webster. D) None of above. 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