This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Introductions > Miscellaneous > Miscelleneous Questions – Quiz 23 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Miscelleneous Questions Quiz 23 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Who of the following was both a poet and painter? A) Donne. B) Spenser. C) Keats. D) William Blake. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) William Blake. 2. Who is known as the national poet of England A) T. S. Eliot. B) William Shakespeare. C) John Keats. D) William Wordsworth. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) William Shakespeare. 3. What is 1st decade part of modern age? A) Georgian. B) Edwardian. C) Pope. D) Augusta. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Edwardian. 4. Which kind of quotation is just plopped into an essay without introduction or any kind of embedding? A) Flow. B) Dialogue. C) Colon. D) Cow Poop. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cow Poop. 5. What type of writing tells a story? A) Narrative. B) Expository. C) Persuasive. D) Argument. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Narrative. 6. Who is the leader of Oceania? A) Big Brother. B) Emmanuel Goldstein. C) Winston Smith. D) William O'Brien. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Big Brother. 7. 'Hearing' a colour or 'Seeing' a smell is an example of: A) Sensuousness. B) Contrast. C) Synaesthesia. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Synaesthesia. 8. A dominant theme in Hardy's novels is: A) Fatalism. B) Naturalism. C) Classicism. D) Romanticism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fatalism. 9. He happened to be the owner of the ticket number A) 1025. B) 1005. C) 1050. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1005. 10. 'Satanic Verses' is written by- A) Jhumpa Lahiri. B) Arundhuti Roy. C) R.K. Narayan. D) Salman Rushdie. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Salman Rushdie. 11. Who wrote 'Where Angels Fear to Tread'? A) William Shakespeare. B) Charles Dickens. C) Rudyard Kipling. D) E. M. Forster. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) E. M. Forster. 12. Which kind of embedded quotation-blends smoothly with the text around it, -uses the most important words or phrases, -does NOT use a comma before the quotation, and-does NOT start with a capital letter? A) Cow Poop. B) Dialogue. C) Colon. D) Flow. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Flow. 13. Who gave the aesthetic theory of Art For Arts' Sake: A) Wordsworth. B) Browning. C) Oscar Wilde. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) None of these. 14. There were lotteries and shooting galleries where for an anna you could always stand a chance of winning A) 10 rupees. B) 15 rupees. C) 100 rupees. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 100 rupees. 15. What is the name of Robert-Frost's first son? A) Trilliot. B) Elliot. C) Juilliot. D) Billiot. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Elliot. 16. What is the full name of the tragedy 'Dr Faustus'? A) Dr Faustus. B) The Tragic History of Dr Faustus. C) The Tragical History of Dr Faustus. D) The Tragedy of Dr Faustus. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Tragical History of Dr Faustus. 17. Which proof of human sin is mentioned in The Cold Within? A) Death. B) Bias. C) Prejudice. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Death. 18. A famous English poet who was professionally knows as man of medicine is ..... A) Milton. B) Keats. C) Pope. D) Shelley. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Keats. 19. William Shakespeare wrote ..... love poems A) 131. B) 183. C) 154. D) 146. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 154. 20. "English Bards and Scotch Reviewers" is a satirical attack on contemporary writers who had annoyed Byron. A) True. B) False. C) Both A and B. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 21. What does the line: "The treble of heaven's harmony" indicate? A) Cricket's Melody. B) High tone of a whale. C) High tone of a bird. D) Fluttering of leaves. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) High tone of a bird. 22. 'Tradition and the Individual Talent' is an essay by- A) Thomas Hardy. B) Virginia Woolf. C) Thomas Carlyle. D) T.S. Eliot. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) T.S. Eliot. 23. Jude the Obscure is a: a..... comedy A) Tragedy. B) Tragic comedy. C) Black comedy. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tragedy. 24. Who is the writer of 'Dramatic Lyrics'? A) Wordsworth. B) Shelley. C) William Shakespeare. D) Robert Browning. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Robert Browning. 25. Which work was the most famous of John Wycliffe? A) Wycliffe Bible. B) The Canterbury Tales. C) The Utopia. D) The Wanderer, Deor and The Seafarer. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Wycliffe Bible. 26. 'The Lotos Eaters' was written by: A) Blake. B) Byron. C) Tennyson. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tennyson. 27. Who is the writer of The Elizabethan Period? A) Sir Thomas Wyatt. B) Dante. C) Caedmon. D) Cynewulf. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sir Thomas Wyatt. 28. Childe Harold was written by: A) Byron. B) Shelley. C) Tennyson. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Byron. 29. 'The Merchant of Venice' is a drama by ..... A) Ben Jonson. B) William Shakespeare. C) Christopher Marlowe. D) Webster. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) William Shakespeare. 30. 'I count religion but a childish toy' is a line from Marlowe's play: A) Edward II. B) The Jew of Malta. C) Tamburlaine. D) Dr. Faustus. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Jew of Malta. 31. What made everybody fly while at Uncle Albert's house? "Mary Poppins" A) Eating. B) Drinking. C) Laughing. D) Crying. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Laughing. 32. The poet describes noontime as A) Red glow. B) Blue glow. C) Purple glow. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Purple glow. 33. 'Pleasant Pain' is an example of" A) Metaphor. B) Paradox. C) Oxymoron. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Oxymoron. 34. The poem 'Under the Green Wood Tree' was written by ..... A) Ralph Hodgson. B) William Wordsworth. C) Robert Browning. D) William Shakespeare. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) William Shakespeare. 35. A flow of images and thoughts A) Stream of consciousness. B) The Lost Generation. C) Realism. D) Beat Movement. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stream of consciousness. 36. Which character of Shakespeare has "the courtier's, soldier's, scholar's eye, tongue and sword" A) King Lear. B) Hamlet. C) Macbeth. D) Othello. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hamlet. 37. Who is the writer of The Old English Period? A) William Shakespeare. B) Lord Tennyson. C) William Wordsworth. D) Cynewulf. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cynewulf. 38. What is the Masterpiece of T.S. Eliot? A) The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. B) Prelude. C) The Waste Land. D) Tradition and Ind. Talent. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Waste Land. 39. What do you mean by Plagiarism? A) A literary theft. B) A story builder. C) A short story. D) A criticism of literature. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A literary theft. 40. What is the best tone of Dover Beach? A) Enthusiastic. B) Hopeful. C) Pessimistic. D) Tranquil. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pessimistic. 41. Who is referred to as " Der Fuhrer" ? ? A) William. B) Television. C) Adolf Hitler. D) Jesse Owens. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Adolf Hitler. 42. An aesthetic delight in art and a streak of extreme sadistic cruelty can be observed in Browning's Poem: A) My Last Duchess. B) Pippa Passes. C) Paracelsus. D) Sordello. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pippa Passes. 43. Who is the writer of 'The Lover's Tale'? A) A. Lord Tennyson. B) George Bernard Shaw. C) William Shakespeare. D) Christopher Marlowe. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A. Lord Tennyson. 44. 'In Memoriam' is written by? A) Charles Dickens. B) Tennyson. C) Robert Browning. D) Thackeray. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tennyson. 45. Dream Children was written by A) Leigh Hunt. B) Charles Lamb. C) Ruskin. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Charles Lamb. 46. Joyce's novel 'Ulysses' takes place over what period of time? A) A week. B) 24 hours. C) A lifetime. D) 6 months. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 24 hours. 47. Who is the writer of the poem 'Troilus and Criseyde'? A) Cynewulf. B) Shelley. C) Geoffrey Chaucer. D) Robert Browning. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Geoffrey Chaucer. 48. The Renaissance in England was related to which era or age? A) Victorian age. B) Puritan age. C) Middle age. D) Elizabethan age. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Elizabethan age. 49. What theme did the poet concentrate on in the poem? A) Theme of social injustice and class inequalities. B) Theme of children and their happiness. C) Theme of insecurities. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Theme of social injustice and class inequalities. 50. A thing of beauty is joy forever. It is composed by: A) Keats. B) Shelley. C) Byron. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Keats. 51. Shadow was given it's name because A) It was black in colour. B) It had a long tail. C) It followed it's master everywhere. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It followed it's master everywhere. 52. Spenser's sonnet 75 message A) Eternal love. B) Love is worth suffering. C) Writing immortalizes love. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Writing immortalizes love. 53. In The Man He Killed, the speaker of the poem suggests that war is ..... A) Senseless. B) A means to make money. C) Necessary. D) Glorious. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Senseless. 54. 'The Metaphysical Poets' is a critical essay by: A) Arnold. B) T. S. Eliot. C) Shelley. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) T. S. Eliot. 55. Who is the author of the book 'Around the World in Eighty Days' A) Jules Verne. B) Mark Twain. C) Charles Dickens. D) H. G. Wells. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Jules Verne. 56. 'Oedipus Rex' is written by- A) Socrates. B) Sophocles. C) Aristotle. D) Shakespeare. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sophocles. 57. The treatise 'On Liberty' was written by: A) Oscar Wilde. B) Ruskin. C) Mill. D) Lamb. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mill. 58. Who was the Italian writer who inspired Chaucer to write The Canterbury Tales? A) John Montagu. B) Richard Stury. C) Boccaccio. D) Lewis Clifford. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Boccaccio. 59. A large area of water surrounded by land is called ..... A) Lake. B) Bake. C) Wake. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lake. 60. What book argues that the state must have central authority to manage behavior? A) The Spirit of Laws. B) Two Treatises of Government. C) The Social Contract. D) Leviathan. 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