Miscelleneous Questions Quiz 22 (60 MCQs)

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1. "The Heard melodies are sweet but those unheard are sweeter" appear in:
2. 'The Pickwick Papers' by Dickens was published in:
3. Nathaniel Hawthorne is the writer of-
4. In Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, who is the 'Host' of Tabard Inn where the pilgrims rest on their path to the shrine?
5. Arthur Hugh Clough became an inspiration for Mathew Arnold's work:
6. Prologue refers-
7. Which poet did NOT write during the 16th century?
8. When did Elinor die?
9. What was Samuel Langhorne Clemens' pen-name
10. Under the Greenwood Tree is a:
11. Who wrote 'The New Arabian Night'?
12. Beowulf is written in which period?
13. Tin Drum is written by-
14. "Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of will" , is a statement by:
15. What did Tomkin promise the three legged stool to make?
16. What Enlightenment values did Romantics disagree with?
17. The sentence 'Who would have thought Shylock was so unkind'? expresses .....
18. The Essays of Elia was first published in book form in
19. The play Arms and the Man is by-
20. Which book wins the 2013 Man Booker Prize
21. Who is the "Fairy Queene" in Spenser's work of the same title?
22. When Alfred Lord Tennyson was born?
23. What is "saffron" ?
24. In which play does "Forest of Arden" figure
25. Which of the novels of Hemingway is called Hemingway's Waste Land?
26. W. B. Yeats got Nobel Prize in?
27. What is the first English comedy?
28. Lycidas was written by
29. The conclusion should
30. Iron, times of doubts, disputes, distraction and Fear is an example of:
31. Well-known poems in Old English language?
32. Jane Austen wrote during this period
33. Malgudi Days is a collection of
34. Who is the most satirist in English Literature?
35. The poem 'The Patriot' is written by
36. What language did common people speak in England in the Middle Ages?
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?
38. "Who trusted God was love indeed And love creation's final law" -this famous quotation is taken from?
39. The second generation of the romantic poets (Shelley, Byron and Keats) was dead by:
40. 'The existing education is imparted through a foreign language and in the India context this is unreal' is excerpt from
41. Huffing and puffing (Choose the correct meaning of the words)
42. Who is the modern English dramatist?
43. The Renaissance period is best described as being:
44. G Eliot's novels show her concern for the character's..... problems.
45. Arms and the Man, Candida and Man and Super Man are written by:
46. Who was the King or Queen in early Renaissance Period?
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:
48. Romantic writers believed in ..... rather than .....
49. What the term Blank Verse refers-
50. Negative Capability is associated with
51. The poets who believe that a hard, clear image was essential to verse are called:
52. Edward Fitzgerald's "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" inspired Browning to write:
53. What are the names of the children Mary Poppins takes care of?
54. 'The God of Small Things' is written by .....
55. Which book win the first Man Booker Prize
56. Who died in a tavern brawl
57. Meaning Of Glanced Back
58. Which game did the gardener play with Tricki?
59. Who is labeled as misanthropist?
60. What type of book 'The Woman' is-