This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Introductions > Miscellaneous > Miscelleneous Questions – Quiz 26 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Miscelleneous Questions Quiz 26 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Elizabeth I becomes Queen A) 1547. B) 1553. C) 1558. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1558. 2. The principle of political Economy was the main theme of the writings of: A) Ruskin. B) J. S. Mill. C) Carlyle. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) J. S. Mill. 3. Who wrote 'The Kite Runner'? A) Selman Rushdie. B) Khalid Hussein. C) Orhan Pamuk. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Khalid Hussein. 4. When was Geoffrey Chaucer born? -When did Geoffrey Chaucer die? A) 1343-1400. B) 1343-1402. C) 1343-1401. D) 1343-1399. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1343-1400. 5. An Apology for Poetry is written by- A) Philip Sydney. B) Tomas Stern Eliot. C) Mathew Arnold. D) Dr. Johnson. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Philip Sydney. 6. The repetition of sounds in a sequence of words is called A) Assonance. B) Rhythm. C) Alliteration. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 7. What do you mean by Climax? A) A peak of mountain. B) The moment of highest interest in a play. C) A disaster of sea. D) A kind of poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The moment of highest interest in a play. 8. The Trade Unions were checked by A) The importation Act. B) The Combination Act. C) The laissez faire policy. D) The treaty of Versaille. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Combination Act. 9. Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes are: A) Husband and wife. B) Brother and Sister. C) Father and daughter. D) Friends. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Husband and wife. 10. Who is the writer of the poem 'My Last Duchess'? A) Shelley. B) William Shakespeare. C) Robert Browning. D) Wordsworth. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Robert Browning. 11. Renaissance = what idea? A) Humanism. B) Romanticism. C) Realism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Humanism. 12. Chaucer's Canterbury Tales is based on ..... A) Ariosto's Orlando Furioso. B) Dante's Divine Comedy. C) Boccaccio's Decameron. D) Montaigne's Essays. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Boccaccio's Decameron. 13. Mowgli wala 7 year old boy who was raised by the wolf family A) False. B) No. C) None of these. D) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) True. 14. 'Romeo and Juliet' is a/an- A) Play. B) Tragedy. C) Melodrama. D) Comedy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tragedy. 15. Who wrote "The Second Coming" ? A) E. Spencer. B) Eliot. C) W. B. Yeats. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) W. B. Yeats. 16. Bugloo was looking for a house to ..... A) Rob. B) Sleep. C) Buy. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rob. 17. Which game interested to Nat most? A) Football. B) Cricket. C) Game of tag. D) Hockey. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Game of tag. 18. The cookies wanted ..... per head for pushing the engine from behind. A) Eight anna. B) Tow anna. C) Four anna. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Eight anna. 19. From 1st January 2007, how many digits contains in ISBN (International Standard Book Number) A) 9. B) 13. C) 15. D) 10. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 13. 20. Hamlet was killed by: A) Polonius. B) Learteus. C) Claudius. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Learteus. 21. 'Faerie Queen' is a/an ..... A) Short story. B) Epic. C) Novel. D) Play. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Epic. 22. What language was spoken at the English court in the Middle Ages? A) Middle English. B) Old English. C) Latin. D) French. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) French. 23. John Bull's Other Island is written by: A) Shaw. B) Wilde. C) Hemingway. D) Beckett. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Shaw. 24. What do you mean by Linguistics? A) Study of languages and its rules. B) Study of sounds. C) Study of speech sounds. D) Study of meaning. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Study of languages and its rules. 25. Who wrote The Shepherd's Calendar? A) William Shakespeare. B) Philip Sydney. C) Edmund Spenser. D) Thomas Wyatt. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Edmund Spenser. 26. What is the official language of Oceania? A) Simplespeak. B) Doublespeak. C) Newspeak. D) Instaspeak. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Newspeak. 27. William Shakesreare was born in A) 1564. B) 1432. C) 1675. D) 1289. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1564. 28. "Our sweetest songs are those of the tale of....." A) Patriotic feeling. B) Heroic tales. C) Romantic love. D) Saddest thought. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Saddest thought. 29. Pauline was written by: A) Browning. B) Blake. C) Keats. D) Byron. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Browning. 30. A period of rebirth and creativity in art, writing, and thought from about 1300 to 1600 A.D., beginning in Italy and eventually spreading throughout Europe. A) Humanism. B) Arts. C) Renaissance. D) Patron. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Renaissance. 31. In 'The Solitary Reaper' what word solitary mean? A) Greek. B) Modern. C) Romantic. D) Classical. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Romantic. 32. Who is the writer of the poem 'Porphyria's Lover'? A) William Shakespeare. B) Shelley. C) Wordsworth. D) Robert Browning. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Robert Browning. 33. Catharsis refers to the term- A) Characters in play. B) Animals in play. C) Sympathy to others. D) Arouse of pity and fear. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Arouse of pity and fear. 34. 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' ..... Who is the poet of the poem? A) Keats. B) Shelley. C) Shakespeare. D) Wordsworth. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Keats. 35. 'Poetry is the criticism of life' is a view about poetry by: A) Arnold. B) Shelley. C) Dr. Johnson. D) Hazlitt. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Arnold. 36. 'Of Human Bondage' is written by- A) Philip Sydney. B) Somerset Maugham. C) James Joyce. D) W.B. Yeats. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Somerset Maugham. 37. Spanish writer who wrote Don Quixote A) Martin Luther. B) Miguel de Cervantes. C) William Shakespear. D) Marco Polo. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Miguel de Cervantes. 38. Charles Dickens' semi autobiographical novel is ..... A) A Christmas Carol. B) A Tale of Two Cities. C) David Copperfield. D) Oliver Twist. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) David Copperfield. 39. Baloo taught Mowgli A) To judge a rotten branch. B) To speak to the wild bees. C) Both option 1 and 2. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both option 1 and 2. 40. Which is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1603 or 1604. A) Measure for Measure. B) Pygmalion. C) Cocktail Party. D) Desire Under the Elms. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Measure for Measure. 41. Who is the writer of the poem 'The Patriot'? A) Robert Browning. B) Shaw. C) Ibsen. D) Jonsen. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Robert Browning. 42. An element of the supernatural is present in the poetry of : A) Byron. B) Coleridge. C) Wordsworth. D) Browning. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Coleridge. 43. What the term Short Story stands for? A) A long prose fiction. B) A story of many characters. C) A short prose fiction. D) A story of figurative language. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A short prose fiction. 44. What was the reason behind Frost died? A) Cancer. B) Tuberculesis. C) Heart attack. D) Prostate surgery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Prostate surgery. 45. What Old English poem tells the story of resistance against a Scandinavian raid? A) Beowulf. B) The Battle of Maldon. C) Caedmon's Hymn. D) The Dream of the Rood. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Battle of Maldon. 46. Who is the author of 'Animal Farm'? A) Boris Pasternak. B) Thomas More. C) Charles Dickens. D) George Orwell. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) George Orwell. 47. One of the following was a Romantic poet ..... A) Arnold. B) Shelley. C) Tennyson. D) Browning. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Shelley. 48. Who is familiar as a poet of beauty? A) Lord Byron. B) John Dryden. C) John Keats. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) John Keats. 49. Who did write/publish preface to lyrical ballads: A) Wordsworth. B) Shelley. C) Keats. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Wordsworth. 50. The Waste Land was published by Eliot in: A) 1922. B) 1923. C) 1932. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1922. 51. 'Comedy of Errors' is Written by ..... A) G. B Shaw. B) Ben Johnson. C) T S Eliot. D) William Shakespeare. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) William Shakespeare. 52. Which one is not a science fiction writer A) Victor Hugo. B) Hugo Gernsback. C) H. G. Wells. D) Jules Verne. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Victor Hugo. 53. Who is the author the chapter the one that got away A) William jakes. B) Jhon. C) Jan mark. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Jhon. 54. Punishment for offences, such as talking out of turn, included: A) Caning. B) Standing on one foot in a corner. C) Kneeling on prickly bushes. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 55. Which period of literature came first? A) Victorian. B) Regency. C) Romantic. D) Restoration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Restoration. 56. Who wrote "The Pilgrim's Progress" ? A) John Bunyan. B) Daniel Defoe. C) Dryden. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) John Bunyan. 57. Who is known as the father of epic poetry A) Hesiod. B) Ferdowsi. C) Hesiod. D) Homer. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Homer. 58. What is this chapter 'price from tibet' A) Fantacy. B) Fairy tale. C) Classic tale. D) A tibetan tale. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A tibetan tale. 59. What legislation was passed that ensured a Protestant would always be the monarch in England? A) Act of Settlement. B) English Bill of Rights. C) US Constitution. D) Magna Carta. 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