This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Introductions > Miscellaneous > Miscelleneous Questions – Quiz 25 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Miscelleneous Questions Quiz 25 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. When did Frost visit the Soviet Union? A) 1961. B) 1964. C) 1962. D) 1963. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1962. 2. Elia was the pseudonym used by Charles Lamb for getting his works published in: A) The spectator. B) The Sun. C) London magazine. D) The New York Times. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) London magazine. 3. In how many of your GCSE papers will you come across a 19th century text? A) 3. B) 2. C) 1. D) 4. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 3. 4. Adonais is an elegy on the death of: A) Moschus. B) Shakespeare. C) Edward William. D) John Keats. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) John Keats. 5. Stones of Venice was written by: A) Macaulay. B) Newman. C) Ruskin. D) Carlyle. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ruskin. 6. O'Henry is famous for- A) Drama. B) Novel. C) Poem. D) Short story. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Short story. 7. Who is the great genius of the Elizabeth Age (1564-1616) He wrote more than 35 plays? A) William Langland. B) William Wordsworth. C) William Shakespeare. D) William Paze. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) William Shakespeare. 8. What did Gulliver found when he attempted to rise? A) He found that his arms and legs were fastened to the ground. B) He found that he was on a ship. C) He found that he was sitting. D) He found that he was on an island with small people. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He found that his arms and legs were fastened to the ground. 9. How many sonnets were by William Shakespeare? A) 180. B) 37. C) 154. D) 125. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 154. 10. The second shortest play of Shakespeare is: A) The Winter's Tale. B) Much ado about nothing. C) Tempest. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Much ado about nothing. 11. A phrase, line or lines repeated at intervals during a poem and especially at the end of a stanza is called: A) Period. B) Refrain. C) Feminine Ending. D) Alexandrine. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Refrain. 12. She can not fade, though thou hast not the bliss, For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair! The above two lines have been taken from: A) A Thing of Beauty. B) Keats' Ode to a Nightingale. C) Ode on a Grecian Urn. D) La Belle Dame Sans Mercy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ode on a Grecian Urn. 13. ..... is a believer in Vishnu and believes that all living creatures should be protected even it those creatures like Kala Nag (cobra) may be dangerous. A) Munna Ram. B) Gunga Ram. C) Ganga. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gunga Ram. 14. Dickens sprang to fame with a publication of: A) Hard Times. B) David Copperfield. C) Pickwick Papers d Great Expectations. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pickwick Papers d Great Expectations. 15. Mathew Arnold said: "An ineffectual angel beating in the void his luminous wings in vain" , about: A) Shelley. B) Byron. C) Keats. D) Blake. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Shelley. 16. Which book was the most famous of Thomas More? A) The Utopia. B) Beowulf. C) The Canterbury Tales. D) The Wanderer, Deor, and The Seafarer. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Utopia. 17. How long should the Written Assignment Reflective Statement be? A) 300-400 words. B) As long as it takes. C) 1200-1500 words. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 300-400 words. 18. Which philosopher got Nobel Prize in literature? A) Winston Churchill. B) Abraham Lincoln. C) T.S. Eliot. D) Bertrand Russell. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bertrand Russell. 19. She saw people ..... in water and sleepy ..... on the sand. A) Wading and camel. B) Camel and Double Four. C) Wading. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Wading and camel. 20. Novel which is not written by D. H Lawrence. A) The Rainbow. B) Ullysses. C) Lady Chatterley's Lover. D) Sons and Lovers. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ullysses. 21. ..... is known as the father of detective stories A) Edgar Allen Poe. B) Anton Chekov. C) Aurthur Conan Doyle. D) Judith Wright. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Edgar Allen Poe. 22. 'Dr Faustus' was written by..... A) Ben Jonson. B) T.S Eliot. C) Christopher Marlowe. D) G.B Shaw. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Christopher Marlowe. 23. Love of political freedom, always the noblest of Byron's passions, inspired him to write: A) Manfred. B) The Island. C) The prisoner of Chillon. D) The Prophecy of Dante. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The prisoner of Chillon. 24. When did Frost and Elinor were force to return to America? A) 1914. B) 1913. C) 1913. D) 1912. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1914. 25. Who was more under the influence of Godwin's philosophy of life? A) Byron. B) Browning. C) Keats. D) Shelley. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Shelley. 26. What do you mean by Epilogue? A) A poem or speech at the end of a play. B) A poem of lamentation. C) A poem comes at beginning. D) A figurative story. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A poem or speech at the end of a play. 27. Who is known as the poet of Nature? A) Wordsworth. B) Shelly. C) Keats. D) All of them. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Wordsworth. 28. What is the term Utopia? xx A) A lotus eater. B) A day dreamer. C) A hat of a king. D) An ideal state which does not exist in real. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) An ideal state which does not exist in real. 29. What is type of 'The Daffodils'? A) Novel. B) Play. C) Poem. D) Adventure. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Poem. 30. How many essays do you need to write in Paper 1? A) 1. B) 2. C) 4. D) 3. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 3. 31. Who is the controversy writer in Post-Modern period? A) Doris Lessing. B) Ahmed Salman Rushdie. C) Chinua Achebe. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ahmed Salman Rushdie. 32. 'Orlando' is a character of Shakespeare's- A) As You Like It. B) King Lear. C) Hamlet. D) Tempest. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) As You Like It. 33. Lotus eaters is written by A) Tennyson. B) Mathew Arnold. C) Hardy. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tennyson. 34. 'Songs of Experience' was written by: A) Shelley. B) Wordsworth. C) Blake. D) Keats. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Blake. 35. What is the name of the town that Milton Hershey built? A) Tampa, Florida. B) Hershey, Pennsylvania. C) Chicago, Illinois. D) New York, New York. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hershey, Pennsylvania. 36. Who is believed to be suffering from Oedipus Complex: A) Oedipus. B) Hamlet. C) Macbeth. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Oedipus. 37. How many questions are there in the English Language Section A part of the exam A) 1. B) 4. C) 3. D) 2. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 4. 38. 'kubla khan' is a poem which reflects a.....strain in Choleridge's poetry. A) Intellectual. B) Pessimistic. C) Melancholic. D) Magical. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Intellectual. 39. "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread" is a quotation by- A) William Shakespeare. B) Alexander Pope. C) Gladstone. D) Aesop. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alexander Pope. 40. 'Sweet are the uses of adversity' was stated by ..... A) Tolstoy. B) Milton. C) Shakespeare. D) Valtaire. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Shakespeare. 41. What the term Aesthetic refers- A) Reverence for poems. B) Reverence for old. C) Appreciation for poem. D) Appreciation for beauty. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Appreciation for beauty. 42. Rhyme Royal was introduced into English poetry by ..... A) William Shakespeare. B) Sir Walter Ralegh. C) King James I. D) Geoffrey Chaucer. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Geoffrey Chaucer. 43. 'Modern Painters' is written by A) Ruskin. B) Mill. C) Macaulay. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ruskin. 44. Martin Luther posted his Wittenberg Thesis A) 1509. B) 1517. C) 1535. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1517. 45. 'The Sacred Flame' is written by- A) Oscar Wilde. B) Earnest Hemingway. C) William Somerset Maugham. D) G.B. Shaw. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) William Somerset Maugham. 46. "The Frankenstein" is a novel by: A) W. Scott. B) Lewis. C) Mrs. Shelley. D) If none of these then by whom. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mrs. Shelley. 47. What is the meaning of "frail" ? A) Fragile. B) Coarse. C) Durable. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fragile. 48. What is a fable? A) A story about animals. B) A story of human being. C) A song of pleasure. D) A story of chronology. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A story about animals. 49. Which book written by William Somerset Maugham? A) Paradise Lost. B) Of Human Bondage. C) Roads of Destiny. D) Merchant of Venice. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Of Human Bondage. 50. Which literary device is used in this line: "What does he plant who plants a tree? A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Hyperbole. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alliteration. 51. Which English poet was a Diplomat? A) Shakespeare. B) Geoffrey Chaucer. C) Spenser. D) Dante. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Geoffrey Chaucer. 52. Who is the Arthur's Nephew? A) Sir Wyadd. B) Sir Bernard. C) Sir Mordred. D) Sir Thomas. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sir Mordred. 53. Who said that we should save ourselves know and jump into water and start swimming? A) Correspondent. B) Captain. C) Oiler. D) Cook. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Captain. 54. Which is called the Golden Period of English Literature? A) Augustan Age. B) Victorian Age. C) Elizabethan Age. D) Restoration Period. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Elizabethan Age. 55. Who was not a character in Charles Dickens' novels? A) Becky Sharp. B) Oliver. C) Fagin. D) David Copperfield. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Becky Sharp. 56. He wants to go to the Lake Innisfree to find A) Peace. B) Happiness. C) Noise. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Peace. 57. Romanticism (if it can be pinpointed) is usually assumed to date from: A) Publication of "Intimations of Immortality". B) The beginning of Queen Victoria's reign. C) The Reform Bill of 1832. D) Publication of "Lyrical Ballads" and its preface. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Publication of "Lyrical Ballads" and its preface. 58. What does SMILE stand for? A) Stanzas, Meaning, Imagery, Language, Effect. B) Structure, Meaning, Imagery, Language, Effect. C) Structure, Meaning, Imagery, Language, English. D) Similes, Metaphors, Inference, Lines, English. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Structure, Meaning, Imagery, Language, Effect. 59. Gulliver's Travels were written by A) Thomas More. B) Jonathan Swift. C) Daniel Defoe. D) John Milton. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Jonathan Swift. 60. Mr. Bennet is one of Jane Austen's characters in: A) Emma. 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