This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Introductions > Miscellaneous > Miscelleneous Questions – Quiz 28 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Miscelleneous Questions Quiz 28 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. 'Past and Present' is written by A) Mill. B) Hazlitt. C) Carlyle. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Carlyle. 2. Man Booker Prize is given only to novels published from A) France. B) UK. C) USA. D) India. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) UK. 3. In (early) Middles Ages, Literature was usually written in ..... A) Scandinavian. B) Old English. C) Latin. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Latin. 4. Church of England established A) 1535. B) 1553. C) 1547. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1535. 5. Identify the reason why Elizabethan age is known as "Golden Age" A) Rise of upper class. B) Rise of maritime activities. C) Compulsory Education. D) Rise of factories. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rise of maritime activities. 6. It is writings having excellence of form or expression and expressing ideas of permanent or universal interest. A) Poetry. B) Literature. C) Story. D) Drama. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Literature. 7. 'Earth is the right place for Love and I do not know where it is likely to go better.' These lines are from: A) The Road Not Taken. B) Fire and Ice. C) Birches. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Birches. 8. Who is the writer of the poem 'Andrea Del Sarto'? A) Robert Browning. B) William Shakespeare. C) Shelley. D) Wordsworth. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Robert Browning. 9. Jane Austen's main theme in her novels especially in 'Pride and Prejudice' is: A) Love and marriage. B) Life of big landlords. C) Politicians. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Love and marriage. 10. W. B. Yeats was born in A) 1856. B) 1865. C) 1838. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1865. 11. 'Good face is the best letter of recommendation' was stated by ..... A) Queen Marry. B) Queen Anne. C) Queen Elizabeth. D) Queen Victoria. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Queen Elizabeth. 12. Why are the trees described as sprinting? A) Their running appearance and to show fast moving of change of human life. B) To show their running appearance. C) To tell how trees look from a running car. D) To show the speed of the car. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Their running appearance and to show fast moving of change of human life. 13. Who is the writer of the poem 'Home Thoughts from Abroad'? A) Milton. B) William Shakespeare. C) Wordsworth. D) Robert Browning. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Robert Browning. 14. Who wrote 'The Bluest Eyes'? A) Arthur Miller. B) Saul Bellow. C) Tony Morrison. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tony Morrison. 15. Poetry is spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings. It takes it origin from emotions recollected in tranquility. Who has given the description of the poetry? A) Aristotle. B) Plato. C) Wordsworth. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Wordsworth. 16. Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo and Newton were known for contributing what to the Renaissance? A) New concepts on the universe and science. B) New trade routes and goods. C) Books printed in local vernaculars. D) New concepts on religion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) New concepts on the universe and science. 17. How many marks is English Literature Paper 1 Section A worth? A) 36. B) 32. C) 34. D) 30. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 34. 18. What is literature? A) Writing about society. B) Different customs. C) Literary works. D) Reflection of society. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Reflection of society. 19. The most popular French playwright, Jean Baptiste Poquelin, is known as: A) Couperin. B) Corneille. C) Moliere. D) Caleron. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Moliere. 20. Which of the following would a Romantic Poet be most likely to use? A) A "member of the plumy race". B) A "bird". C) A "tenant of the sky". D) An "airy fairy". Show Answer Correct Answer: D) An "airy fairy". 21. What do you mean by Lampoon? A) To mock some powerful person. B) An exaggerated statement. C) The poet who writes sonnet. D) A short significant poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To mock some powerful person. 22. The Battle of Book is written by- A) William Thackeray. B) Daniel Dafoe. C) Thomas Stern Eliot. D) Jonathon Swift. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Jonathon Swift. 23. The phrase "ruffle Teacher's feathers" is an example of A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 24. Who wrote the 'Birthday Party'? A) Jane Austen. B) James Joyce. C) G.B. Shaw. D) Harold Pinter. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Harold Pinter. 25. Social structure of the Middle Ages A) Caste System. B) Feudalism. C) Manorism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Feudalism. 26. Feminine Ending is: A) The novel. B) A poem. C) A metrical device. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A metrical device. 27. The Elgin Marbles inspired Keats to write: A) Melancholy. B) Endymion. C) Lamia. D) The Grecian Urn. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Grecian Urn. 28. In Memoriam was written in: A) 1833. B) 1860. C) 1863. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) None of these. 29. Tradition and Individual Talent is a critical essay by: A) Shelley. B) Oscar Wilde. C) T. S. Eliot. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) T. S. Eliot. 30. Who is the writer of 'The Charge of the Light Brigade'? A) William Shakespeare. B) Christopher Marlowe. C) A. Lord Tennyson. D) George Bernard Shaw. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A. Lord Tennyson. 31. Keats' poem Endymion is based on ..... mythology. A) Celtic. B) Roman. C) Indian. D) Greek. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Greek. 32. Who wrote 'Crime and Punishment'? A) Shelley. B) Dostoyevsky. C) Byron. D) Tolstoy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dostoyevsky. 33. 'The Origin of Species' is written by- A) Newton. B) Mary Curie. C) Charles Darwin. D) Galileo. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Charles Darwin. 34. Full name of T. S Eliot is A) Thomas Stewart. B) Thompson Simson. C) Thomas stearns. D) Thomas Stephen. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Thomas stearns. 35. Modern age is an age of- A) Pessimism and Cynicism. B) Conflicts and Controversies. C) Subjectivity. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Conflicts and Controversies. 36. Shelley was expelled from the Oxford University on the charge of being a(n): A) Atheist. B) Nazi. C) Anarchist. D) Commonist. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Atheist. 37. 'My Fair Lady' is a Cinematic Version of: A) Pygmalion. B) Candida. C) Getting Married. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pygmalion. 38. Ruskin is famous for: A) Being a critic of art. B) A social reformer. C) A moral teacher. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A social reformer. 39. London town is found a living being in the work of ..... A) W. Congreve. B) Thomas Hardy. C) D. H. Lawrence. D) Charles Dickens. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Charles Dickens. 40. Who is called the poet of supernatural? A) Wordsworth. B) Keats. C) S. T. Coleridge. D) Shelley. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) S. T. Coleridge. 41. Which of the following is NOT a living language? A) Latin. B) German. C) French. D) English. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Latin. 42. The 'Merchant of Venice' Written by Shakespeare is A) A short story. B) A novel. C) A drama. D) A poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A drama. 43. Santiago is an illustration of: A) Hemingway's respect for struggle. B) Hemingway's total view of life. C) Hemingway's philosophy of life. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hemingway's philosophy of life. 44. Allusion refers the following- A) A reference of past person or thing. B) False. C) Historical documents. D) Doubtful speech. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A reference of past person or thing. 45. Who is known as father of Essays A) Samuel Johnson. B) Montaigne. C) Samuel pepy. D) Thomas Gray. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Montaigne. 46. Shakespeare is knows mostly for his ..... A) Plays. B) Poetry. C) Autobiography. D) Novels. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Plays. 47. Who is the author of the poem 'The House of Fame'? A) Shelley. B) Geoffrey Chaucer. C) Robert Browning. D) Cynewulf. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Geoffrey Chaucer. 48. What is the full name of the great American short story writer O'Henry? A) Marjorie Kennan Rowling. B) Samuel Butler. C) Walt Whitman. D) William Sidney Porter. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) William Sidney Porter. 49. 'Nature never did betray the heart that loved her' is a quotation. A) J. Keats. B) William Wordsworth. C) B. J. Baryon. D) P. B. Shelley. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) William Wordsworth. 50. Who wrote Samson Agonistes and Paradise Lost? A) Byron. B) Milton. C) Spenser. D) Pope. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Milton. 51. The period during the rule of Queen Elizabeth I in England, from 1558 to 1603 A.D. A) Renaissance Man. B) Monarchy. C) Johann Gutenberg. D) Elizabethan Age. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Elizabethan Age. 52. Who wrote 'Madame Bovary'? A) Leo Tolstoy. B) James Joyce. C) E.M. Forster. D) Gustave Flaubert. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Gustave Flaubert. 53. Who wrote the book 'Paradise Regained'? A) John Keats. B) P.B. Shelley. C) William Blake. D) John Milton. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) John Milton. 54. The Descent of Man is by Charles Darwin, The Confidence-Man : his Masquerade is by- A) Stuart Mill. B) Herman Melville. C) Karl Mark. D) Thomas Hardy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Herman Melville. 55. 'Biographia Literaria' Written by- A) Coleridge. B) Keats. C) Shelley. D) Wordsworth. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Coleridge. 56. The Romantic Age began with publication of ..... A) Lyrical Ballads. B) My Last Duchess. C) A Tale of Two Cities. D) Canonization. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lyrical Ballads. 57. Who is called the father of English Prose? A) John Wycliffe. B) William Wordsworth. C) Henry Fielding. D) William Shakespeare. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) John Wycliffe. 58. Who among the following writers did not use the stream of consciousness technique in his/her novels? A) James Joyce. B) Virginia Woolf. C) Marcel Proust. D) Harold Pinter. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Harold Pinter. 59. Who is the writer of Decameron A) Boccaccio. B) Dante. C) Plutarch. D) Chaucer. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Boccaccio. 60. What do you mean by a Play or Drama? A) A literary lyric. B) A poem to the alter of God. C) A literary prose fiction on stage. D) A literary work performing on a stage. 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