This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Introductions > Miscellaneous > Miscelleneous Questions – Quiz 29 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Miscelleneous Questions Quiz 29 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. 'Lycidas' is written by- A) Alexander Pope. B) Henry Fielding. C) Thomas Hardy. D) John Milton. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) John Milton. 2. There was an interesting ..... of trees growing together in the woods. A) Jungle. B) Jumble. C) Mumble. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Jumble. 3. Hamlet wishes that he were buried and that his "flesh would melt, thaw, and resolve itself into a dew" just has his father's flesh has (138-139).What kind of embedded quotation is this? A) Dialogue. B) Cow Poop. C) Flow. D) Colon. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Flow. 4. John Keats died of- A) Plane crash. B) Accident. C) Tuberculosis. D) Drowned in the sea. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tuberculosis. 5. Which of the following is exceptional? A) William Blake. B) William Wordsworth. C) William Butler Yeats. D) Thomas Gray. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Thomas Gray. 6. The character of Little Neil is a creation of: A) Oscar Wilde. B) Hardy. C) Eliot. D) Dickens. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dickens. 7. During the Spring, it was still ..... in the garden of the Selfish Giant. A) Summer. B) Winter. C) Autumn. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Winter. 8. Which of the following was not written by Shakespeare A) King Lear. B) Hamlet. C) Oliver Twist. D) Macbeth. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Oliver Twist. 9. G. B. Shaw began his literary career first as: A) Novelist. B) Dramatist. C) Critic. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Novelist. 10. Who came to the narrator's rescue in an unexpected manner? A) Volcano. B) Earth. C) Nature. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nature. 11. What do you mean Ode? A) A lyric poem. B) A short poem. C) A ballad. D) A sonnet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A lyric poem. 12. What does "disillusioned" mean? A) Disappointed. B) Melancholy. C) Apathetic. D) Cautious. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Disappointed. 13. ..... is a novel by Miss Burney A) Persuasion. B) Emma. C) Pamela. D) Evelina. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Evelina. 14. Who wrote the poem 'The Medal' A) Bunyan. B) Dryden. C) Milton. D) Chaucer. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dryden. 15. The literary work 'Kubla khan' is ..... A) A verse by Coleridge. B) A history by Vincent Smith. C) A short story by Somerset Maugham. D) A drama by Oscar Wilde. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A verse by Coleridge. 16. Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra" is based on A) Lodge's Rosalynde. B) Plutarch's Lives. C) Promos and Cassandra. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Plutarch's Lives. 17. Who is the writer of the poem 'Nun Priest's Tale'? A) Cynewulf. B) Shelley. C) Robert Browning. D) Geoffrey Chaucer. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Geoffrey Chaucer. 18. Who was the first boy that Nat met? A) Rob. B) Mr jo. C) Tomy Bangs. D) Teddy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tomy Bangs. 19. 'Hebrew Melodies' is written by: A) Tennyson. B) Byron. C) Keats. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Byron. 20. 'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' written by- A) Byron. B) G.B. Shaw. C) John Buniyan. D) T.S. Eliot. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Byron. 21. 'Gulliver's Travels' is a famous story by- A) Pearl S. Buck. B) D.H. Lawrence. C) Jonathan Swift. D) Ben Johnson. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Jonathan Swift. 22. Which of the following novels of Hardy has 'clymn' as the main male character? A) Tess of the D'Urberville. B) Major of the Casterbridge. C) Jude the Obscure. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) None of these. 23. The another name of Revenge tragedy or producer is- A) Senecan tragedy. B) Sophocles. C) Homer. D) Euripides. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Senecan tragedy. 24. Initially, Anil had realized about Hari Singh? A) He is telling a lie about his name. B) He is giving wring information about his occupation. C) He doesn't know how to cook. D) He likes to watch wrestling. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He doesn't know how to cook. 25. Romantic Age starts from? A) 1889. B) 1750. C) 1880. D) 1789. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1789. 26. What is meaning of the word Euphemism? vii A) Vague idea. B) A wise saying. C) A verbal play. D) Inoffensive expression. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Inoffensive expression. 27. George Eliot was an: A) Conventionalist. B) Atheist. C) Occultist. D) Agnostic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Atheist. 28. Queen Mab is one of the first two great poems written by: A) Shelley. B) Byron. C) Blake. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Shelley. 29. How old was Poleng? A) 13. B) 9. C) 12. D) 11. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 13. 30. Charles Dickens is a great ..... A) Novelist. B) Critic. C) Play-wright. D) Poet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Novelist. 31. In Memoriam by Tennyson is: A) A collection of elegies. B) A dramatic lyric. C) An elegy. D) A lyric. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) An elegy. 32. A story which teaches a lesson because the people and places in it stand for other ideas. A) Allegory. B) Kenning. C) Sonnet. D) Prose. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allegory. 33. Paper 1 will test you on ..... A) Modern Prose and Poetry. B) Modern Drama and Poetry. C) Modern Prose and Drama. D) Modern Drama, Poetry and Modern Prose. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Modern Prose and Poetry. 34. Which one of the following is NOT an element of Modernism? A) Conflict between new ways and old ways. B) Use of fragmentation in literature and art. C) Allusiveness (allusion = reference to something) to prior literary periods/texts. D) Intense devotion to religion or God. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Intense devotion to religion or God. 35. "Fire and Ice" is written by: A) Frost. B) Eliot. C) Auden. D) Yeats. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Frost. 36. The Daffodils in Wordsworth's I wandered Lonely as a Cloud dancing because A) The flowers had cheerful company. B) The poet was day dreaming. C) The sea waves beside them had gone wild. D) There was a strong wind. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) There was a strong wind. 37. Tricki was hospitalized for the period of time .....? A) Fortnight. B) Century. C) One week. D) Decade. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fortnight. 38. For whom it is said: "sensuousness is a paramount bias of his genius" : A) Shelley. B) Blake. C) Tennyson. D) Keats. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Keats. 39. When was published the novel 'Lorna Doone'? A) 1869. B) 1870. C) 1872. D) 1871. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1869. 40. Negative Capability to Keats, means A) The ability to sympathize with other. B) Say bad thing, about others. C) To empathize. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To empathize. 41. Give the meaning of the words:STING A) Prick. B) Fall. C) Tickle. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Prick. 42. Meaning of Erected. A) Build. B) Got down. C) Built. D) A good speaker. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Built. 43. Who wrote the prose romance "Arcadia" ? A) Ben Jonson. B) Philip Sidney. C) John Dryden. D) Edmund Spenser. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Philip Sidney. 44. What do you mean by Stream of Consciousness? A) Sense of beauty. B) Sense of good and bad. C) Amalgamation of present, past and future. D) Aestheticism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Amalgamation of present, past and future. 45. The Golden Age of English literature? A) Caroline Age. B) Commonwealth Period. C) Jacobean Age. D) Elizabethan Age. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Elizabethan Age. 46. Who is the Villain in 'Hamlet'? A) Horatio. B) Iago. C) Claudius. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Claudius. 47. Who called Spenser " Elfin poet" ? A) John Dryden. B) John Berger. C) John Milton. D) John Keats. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) John Keats. 48. The poem "Wind" is written by: A) John Ashbery. B) Shelley. C) Sylvia Plath. D) Ted Hughes. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ted Hughes. 49. What's the nationality of the author of "The Quiet American" A) Australian. B) Canadian. C) American. D) English. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) English. 50. A peace-loving, agricultural people are also called ..... A) Barbarians. B) Celts. C) Earl. D) Churl. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Celts. 51. Victorian Age starts from? A) 1801. B) 1832. C) 1885. D) 1901. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1832. 52. 'Murder in the Cathedral' is written by- A) G.B. Shaw. B) Harold Pinter. C) T.S. Eliot. D) Samuel Beckett. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) T.S. Eliot. 53. What period in English Literature is called the "Augustans Age" ? A) Early 16th Century. B) 17th Century. C) Early 18th Century. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Early 18th Century. 54. It is a traditional narrative, usually anonymous, handed down orally-e.g., fables, fairy tales, legends, etc. A) Folktale. B) Myth. C) Legend. D) Tall tale. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Folktale. 55. Who were the notable authors of the English Critical Realism A) Charles Dickens and William Makepeace Thackeray. B) Charles Dickens and William Wordsworth. C) William Makepeace Thackeray and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. D) Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Charles Dickens and William Makepeace Thackeray. 56. In The Snow Child, a Count wishes for a girl of three qualities. Which is not one of them? A) As black as a raven. B) As fair as the sky. C) As white as the snow. D) As red as blood. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) As fair as the sky. 57. Which quotation is by Shakespeare? A) Cowards die many times before their deaths. B) To err is human; to forgive is divine. C) Brevity is the soul of wit. D) A and c. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A and c. 58. Who wrote "Ecclesiastical History of the English People" ? A) Caedmon. B) Venerable Bede. C) Chaucer. D) Cuthbert. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Venerable Bede. 59. What does "Heptarchy" mean? A) 6 kingdoms. B) 7 kingdoms. C) 5 kingdoms. D) 4 kingdoms. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 7 kingdoms. 60. Naguib Mahfouz is a/an.....writer who got Nobel Prize. A) Egyptian. B) English. C) American. D) Irish. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Egyptian. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesIntroductions QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesMiscelleneous Questions Quiz 1Miscelleneous Questions Quiz 2Miscelleneous Questions Quiz 3Miscelleneous Questions Quiz 4Miscelleneous Questions Quiz 5Miscelleneous Questions Quiz 6Miscelleneous Questions Quiz 7Miscelleneous Questions Quiz 8 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books