This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Introductions > Miscellaneous > Miscelleneous Questions – Quiz 22 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Miscelleneous Questions Quiz 22 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. "The Heard melodies are sweet but those unheard are sweeter" appear in: A) Ode on Melancholy. B) Ode on a Grecian Urn. C) Ode to Autumn. D) Ode to a Nightingale. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ode on a Grecian Urn. 2. 'The Pickwick Papers' by Dickens was published in: A) 1837. B) 1839. C) 1841. D) 1838. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1837. 3. Nathaniel Hawthorne is the writer of- A) The Scarlet Letter. B) A Farewell to Arms. C) Great Expectation. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Scarlet Letter. 4. In Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, who is the 'Host' of Tabard Inn where the pilgrims rest on their path to the shrine? A) Tom Bailey. B) Henry Bailey. C) Harry Bailey. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Harry Bailey. 5. Arthur Hugh Clough became an inspiration for Mathew Arnold's work: A) The buried life. B) Culture and anarchy. C) The Scholor Gypsy. D) Essays on criticism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Scholor Gypsy. 6. Prologue refers- A) Preface to writing. B) End of the writing. C) Praise song of a person. D) Conclusion of writing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Preface to writing. 7. Which poet did NOT write during the 16th century? A) Sir Thomas Wyatt. B) Thomas Carew. C) John Skelton. D) William Shakespeare. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Thomas Carew. 8. When did Elinor die? A) 1937. B) 1935. C) 1936. D) 1938. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1938. 9. What was Samuel Langhorne Clemens' pen-name A) Ernest Hemingway. B) Mark Twain. C) Leo Tolstoy. D) Bram Stoker. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mark Twain. 10. Under the Greenwood Tree is a: A) Tale of city life. B) Tale of man's destruction of nature. C) Historical novel. D) Tale of rustic life. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tale of rustic life. 11. Who wrote 'The New Arabian Night'? A) Thomas Hardy. B) R. L. Stevenson. C) Charles Dickens. D) W. M. Thackery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) R. L. Stevenson. 12. Beowulf is written in which period? A) Anlo-saxon preod. B) Elejabeth preod. C) Middle English preod. D) Jacobian preod. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anlo-saxon preod. 13. Tin Drum is written by- A) Gunter Grass. B) Wordsworth. C) Gunner Myrdal. D) William Shakespeare. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gunter Grass. 14. "Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of will" , is a statement by: A) Shelley. B) Arnold. C) Coleridge. D) Wordsworth. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Shelley. 15. What did Tomkin promise the three legged stool to make? A) Prime Minister. B) Maid. C) King. D) Servant. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Prime Minister. 16. What Enlightenment values did Romantics disagree with? A) Increasing the size of the family unit. B) Technological advancement and urbanisation. C) Rising opportunities for women. D) Cultural movements favoring public song and dance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Technological advancement and urbanisation. 17. The sentence 'Who would have thought Shylock was so unkind'? expresses ..... A) Hyperbole. B) Intreeogation. C) Command. D) Wonder. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Wonder. 18. The Essays of Elia was first published in book form in A) 1795. B) 1823. C) 1829. D) 1807. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1823. 19. The play Arms and the Man is by- A) George Bernard Shaw. B) James Joyce. C) Arthur Miller. D) Samuel Beckett. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) George Bernard Shaw. 20. Which book wins the 2013 Man Booker Prize A) The Luminaries. B) Wolf Hall. C) The White Tiger. D) The Sea. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Luminaries. 21. Who is the "Fairy Queene" in Spenser's work of the same title? A) Abessa. B) Queen Mary. C) Lady Una. D) Queen Elizabeth. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Queen Elizabeth. 22. When Alfred Lord Tennyson was born? A) 1809. B) 1810. C) 1811. D) 1812. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1809. 23. What is "saffron" ? A) A red-y color. B) An orangy color. C) A pinky color. D) A blue-y color. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) An orangy color. 24. In which play does "Forest of Arden" figure A) Macbeth. B) The Merry Wives of Windsor. C) As You Like It. D) A Midsummer Night's Dream. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) As You Like It. 25. Which of the novels of Hemingway is called Hemingway's Waste Land? A) The Old Man and the Sea. B) Farewell to Arms. C) For Whom the Bell Tolls. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) None of these. 26. W. B. Yeats got Nobel Prize in? A) 1923. B) 1913. C) 1919. D) 1937. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1923. 27. What is the first English comedy? A) Ralph Roister Doister. B) Volpone. C) Baby's Day Out. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ralph Roister Doister. 28. Lycidas was written by A) John Milton. B) Robert Henrick. C) Chaucer. D) Steele. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) John Milton. 29. The conclusion should A) Mirror the introduction-from narrow to general. B) Extend the thesis. C) Return to the big idea in the hook. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these. 30. Iron, times of doubts, disputes, distraction and Fear is an example of: A) Oxymoron. B) Conceit. C) Alliteration. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 31. Well-known poems in Old English language? A) The Wanderer, Deor and The Seafarer. B) Deor. C) The Wanderer. D) The Seafarer. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Wanderer, Deor and The Seafarer. 32. Jane Austen wrote during this period A) Regency. B) Middle English. C) Victorian. D) Restoration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Regency. 33. Malgudi Days is a collection of A) Plays. B) Novellas. C) Essay. D) Short stories. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Short stories. 34. Who is the most satirist in English Literature? A) Alexander Pope. B) Jonathon swift. C) Dryden. D) Spenser. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Jonathon swift. 35. The poem 'The Patriot' is written by A) Alfred Tennyson. B) Robert Browning. C) Mathew Arnold. D) John Donne. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Robert Browning. 36. What language did common people speak in England in the Middle Ages? A) Old English. B) Middle English. C) Latin. D) French. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Middle English. 37. In the last line of this section, Hamlet conveys his struggle to control his emotions, when he exclaims, "Heaven and Earth / Must I remember? " (146-147). What kind of embedded quotation is this? A) Colon. B) Dialogue. C) Flow. D) Cow Poop. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dialogue. 38. "Who trusted God was love indeed And love creation's final law" -this famous quotation is taken from? A) Ulysses. B) In Memoriam. C) Men and Women. D) Vanity Fair. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) In Memoriam. 39. The second generation of the romantic poets (Shelley, Byron and Keats) was dead by: A) 1820. B) 1825. C) 1830. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1825. 40. 'The existing education is imparted through a foreign language and in the India context this is unreal' is excerpt from A) Tughlaq. B) Travel of Deen Mohammad. C) National Education. D) Mark of Vishnu. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) National Education. 41. Huffing and puffing (Choose the correct meaning of the words) A) To breathe in a loud and heavy way. B) To cough. C) To sneeze. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To breathe in a loud and heavy way. 42. Who is the modern English dramatist? A) George Bernard Shaw. B) W. B. Yeats. C) T.S. Eliot. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) George Bernard Shaw. 43. The Renaissance period is best described as being: A) From the 11th to 12th centuries. B) From the 14th to the 16th centuries. C) From the 18th to 19th centuries. D) From CE 100 to CE 1000. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) From the 14th to the 16th centuries. 44. G Eliot's novels show her concern for the character's..... problems. A) Moral. B) Religious. C) Spiritual e social. D) Economic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Moral. 45. Arms and the Man, Candida and Man and Super Man are written by: A) Butler. B) Wells. C) Moris. D) Shaw. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Shaw. 46. Who was the King or Queen in early Renaissance Period? A) Charles 1. B) Victoria 1. C) Elizabeth 1. D) Charles 2. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Elizabeth 1. 47. The one remains, the many change and pass; Heaven's light for ever shines, earth's shadows fly; The above two lines occur in: A) Shelley's Adonis. B) Shelley's Hymn to Intellectual Beauty. C) Keats' Hyperion. D) Keats' Ode to Psyche. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Shelley's Adonis. 48. Romantic writers believed in ..... rather than ..... A) Nature/ religion. B) Imagination/ reason. C) Emotion/ nature. D) Reason/ emotion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imagination/ reason. 49. What the term Blank Verse refers- A) Having no rhythmic flow. B) Having no significance. C) Having no rhyming end. D) Having no blanks in the verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Having no rhyming end. 50. Negative Capability is associated with A) T.S. Eliot. B) John Keats. C) John Gower. D) P.B. Shelley. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) John Keats. 51. The poets who believe that a hard, clear image was essential to verse are called: A) Imaginists. B) Imagists. C) Classicists. D) Romanticists. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imagists. 52. Edward Fitzgerald's "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" inspired Browning to write: A) Abt Vogler. B) The Last Ride Together. C) Ester Day. D) Rabbi Ben Ezra. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rabbi Ben Ezra. 53. What are the names of the children Mary Poppins takes care of? A) Janie and Mikey Banks. B) Jane and Michael Banks. C) Janie and Michael Banks. D) Jane and Mikey Banks. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Jane and Michael Banks. 54. 'The God of Small Things' is written by ..... A) Arundhati Roy. B) E. M. Forster. C) John Galasworthy. D) Vikram Seth. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Arundhati Roy. 55. Which book win the first Man Booker Prize A) Troubles. B) Something to Answer For. C) The Conservationist. D) Heat and Dust. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Something to Answer For. 56. Who died in a tavern brawl A) Marlowe. B) Sidney. C) Bacon. D) Shakespeare. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Marlowe. 57. Meaning Of Glanced Back A) Take A Brief Or Hurried Look. B) Idolize. C) Evolved. D) Glitzy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Take A Brief Or Hurried Look. 58. Which game did the gardener play with Tricki? A) Skipping. B) Ring throwing. C) Jumping. D) Squashing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ring throwing. 59. Who is labeled as misanthropist? A) Jane Austen. B) Hardy. C) Swift. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Swift. 60. 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