This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Introductions > Miscellaneous > Miscelleneous Questions – Quiz 24 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Miscelleneous Questions Quiz 24 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Who was the greatest dramatist of English literature? A) P.B. Shelley. B) William Wordsworth. C) William Shakespeare. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) William Shakespeare. 2. "Gyre" is a favorite symbol with A) T. S. Eliot. B) Yeats. C) Emily Dickenson. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Yeats. 3. Why does the tiger snarl? A) To show his anger and helplessness. B) To pacify his rage. C) To attack the prey. D) To remember his freedom. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To show his anger and helplessness. 4. "The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more." These lines are from the poem A) Elegy written in a country churchyard by Thomas Gray. B) Ode to a Nightmare by John Keats. C) The Solitary Reaper by Wordsworth. D) To a lady with a guitar by P.B. Shelley. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Solitary Reaper by Wordsworth. 5. Who was 'Poet Laureate'? A) Alfred Tennyson. B) Robert Browning. C) P. B. Shelley. D) None of them. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alfred Tennyson. 6. Pulitzer Prize was first awarded in the year A) 1917. B) 1900. C) 1909. D) 1942. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1917. 7. The ..... code of conduct was related to the very high moral values. A) Austenism. B) Victorian. C) Elizabethan. D) Georgian. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Victorian. 8. The rhyming word of sand in the poem is ..... A) Land. B) Hand. C) Brand. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Land. 9. For which one Toni Morrison won Nobel Prize? A) Tar Baby. B) Beloved. C) The Bluest Eye. D) Song of Solomon. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Beloved. 10. What is Quinzaine? A) A fourteen line stanza. B) A thirteen line stanza. C) A fifteen line stanza. D) A twenty line stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A fifteen line stanza. 11. "Let me take the spade and work awhile for you " who said this? A) Hermit. B) King. C) Bearded man. D) Learned man. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) King. 12. Total number of categories for which Pulitzer Prize has been awarded A) 7. B) 21. C) 17. D) 12. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 21. 13. Maggie is the central character in George Eliot's: A) Adam Bede. B) The Mill on the Floss. C) Silas Morner. D) Middle March. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Mill on the Floss. 14. Who is known for his theory of psycho-analysis? A) Sigmund Freud. B) James Joyce. C) James Osborn. D) Arthur Miller. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sigmund Freud. 15. Where does the tiger look at in the night? A) Houses. B) Jungle. C) Villagers. D) Brilliant stars. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Brilliant stars. 16. "God's in His Heaven/All's well with the world" . Who wrote the above? A) Robert Browning. B) Francis Thompson. C) Alfred Tennyson. D) Christina Rossetti. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Robert Browning. 17. Henry Higgins is a character in: A) Pygmalion. B) Saint joan. C) Candida. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pygmalion. 18. When was John Wycliffe born? -When did John Wycliffe die? A) 1330-1385. B) 1331-1385. C) 1330-1384. D) 1331-1384. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1330-1384. 19. What the term Renaissance refers? A) Presentation. B) Representation. C) Rebel. D) Revival or rebirth. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Revival or rebirth. 20. Who is the author of 'The Dark Room'? A) Saul Bellow. B) Toni Morrison. C) James Osborn. D) R K Narayan. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) R K Narayan. 21. What is the meaning Hymn? A) A mixture of two language. B) Song in praise of poet. C) A song in praise of country. D) Song in praise of God. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Song in praise of God. 22. 'Preface to Lyrical Ballad' is written by? A) S.T. Coleridge. B) William Wordsworth. C) Both of them. D) None of them. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) William Wordsworth. 23. Who wrote the famous poetic line 'To err is human, to forgive is divine'? A) Alexander Pope. B) Shelley. C) Keats. D) Dryden. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alexander Pope. 24. C. Dickens is known for being a A) Socialist. B) Humorist. C) Idealist. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Idealist. 25. The 'Solitary Reaper' is a- A) Romantic poem. B) Classical poem. C) Heroic poem. D) Didactic poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Romantic poem. 26. ..... was sweep the floors and ..... was dust and make beds. A) Dog and parrot. B) Parrot and Owl. C) Dog and duck. D) Chee chee and Parrot. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dog and duck. 27. A sonnet is a lyric poem of ..... A) 10 lines. B) 24 lines. C) 12 lines. D) 14 lines. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 14 lines. 28. Charles Lamb's "Dream Children" is notable for its: A) Cynicism. B) Humor. C) Crushing tragedy. D) Whimsical Pathos. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Whimsical Pathos. 29. What is the synonym for-hermit A) A person who works hard. B) One who has renounced the world for religion. C) One who has recommended for work. D) A person who guides for good. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) One who has renounced the world for religion. 30. The stories about Robin Hood were by genre A) Poems. B) Ballads. C) Novels. D) Tales. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ballads. 31. Who is the leader of Metaphysical poetry? A) John Donne. B) John Milton. C) John Dryden. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) John Donne. 32. The novel 'The Jungle Book' is written by- A) Rudyard Kipling. B) H. G. Wells. C) R. K. Narayan. D) Edin Blyton. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rudyard Kipling. 33. In Poem Daffodils 'Sprightly Dance' means- A) Nice dance. B) Nonsense dance. C) Ugly dance. D) Lively dance. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lively dance. 34. The early leader of the Humanist movement, an Italian poet and scholar. One of the first thinkers to stress the value of classical learning, teachings of Greece and Rome. A) Michelangelo. B) Shakespeare. C) Raphael. D) Petrarch. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Petrarch. 35. Who is the author of the novel 'The Sun Also Rises'? A) Ernest Hemingway. B) H.G. Wells. C) George Orwell. D) Thomas Hardy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ernest Hemingway. 36. Which poem of Tennyson was particularly like by Queen Victoria? A) The Idylls of the kings. B) Charge of the Light Brigade. C) In Memoriam. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) In Memoriam. 37. Romanticism expressed a restlessness of A) Mind. B) Soul. C) Body. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Soul. 38. Which of the plays is not written by T. S. Eliot? A) The Rock. B) The Family Reunion. C) The importance of being Earnest. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The importance of being Earnest. 39. When did Robert Frost's first child born? A) 1897. B) 1899. C) 1898. D) 1896. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1896. 40. Mary Anne Evans is the same person as George Eliot. A) True. B) False. C) Both A and B. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 41. Shakespeare is the writer for ..... A) The Idea of University. B) The Hairy Ape. C) The Tempest. D) Riders to the Sea. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Tempest. 42. With which theatre in London Shakespeare was associated with A) The Globe. B) West End Theatre. C) Royal Court Theatre. D) London Coliseum. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Globe. 43. Paradise Lost is- A) An epic 1. B) A satirical work. C) A tragedy. D) A ballad. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) An epic 1. 44. Who has been called "The true child of the Renaissance" A) Shakespeare. B) Chaucer. C) More. D) Marlowe. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Marlowe. 45. 'The Lay of the Last Minstrel' is written by: A) Byron. B) Blake. C) Walter Scott. D) Tennyson. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Walter Scott. 46. Who is the author of 'Heaven and Earth'? A) Lord Tennyson. B) William Wordsworth. C) John Keats. D) Lord Byron. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lord Byron. 47. "I am no Prince Hamlet" is a line written by: A) Shakespeare. B) Yeats. C) Eliot. D) Auden. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Eliot. 48. Bandar log to Mowgli because they no Mowgli can light fire A) True. B) No. C) False. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 49. Goethe is the greatest poet of- A) Russia. B) Germany. C) England. D) France. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Germany. 50. Sidney's sonnet 21 uses the moon to A) Explain life on earth. B) Reflect his own feelings. C) Symbolize people. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Reflect his own feelings. 51. Which College Frost attended for several months? A) Dental College. B) Dhaka College. C) Daffodil International College. D) Dartmouth College. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dartmouth College. 52. 'Death of A Salesman' is a Tragedy written by- A) Nathaniel Hawthorne. B) Saul Bellow. C) Edward Albee. D) Arthur Miller. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Arthur Miller. 53. Name the major person behind the victory of Spanish Armada? A) Francis Bacon. B) Francis Collier. C) Francis Dekker. D) Francis Drake. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Francis Drake. 54. What kind of books are Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders? A) Tragedy. B) Romance. C) Comedy. D) Travel books. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Travel books. 55. In 1857, Matthew Arnold as Professor of Poetry at Oxford delivered his inaugural lecture in: A) English. B) Latin. C) Greek. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) English. 56. Byron's journey to Spain, Malta, Albania and Greece resulted in the production of the first two cantos of his poem: A) Cain. B) The prisoner of Chillon. C) Childe Herald's Pilgrimage. D) Don Juan. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Childe Herald's Pilgrimage. 57. Who does consider 'love' as a transcending power handling all things into beauty? A) Shelley. B) Byron. C) Wordsworth. D) Keats. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Keats. 58. Who taught mowgli the laws of jungle? A) Bandar log. B) Rann. C) Baloo and bagheera. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Baloo and bagheera. 59. The kind Claudius was killed by: A) Laerteus. B) Hamlet. C) Horatio. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hamlet. 60. What is exemplified in Shakespeare's sonnets? A) Conclusion in the final couplet. B) Idealized view of love. C) Inconsistent rhyme scheme. D) None of above. 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