This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Introductions > Miscellaneous > Miscelleneous Questions – Quiz 3 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Miscelleneous Questions Quiz 3 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is the name of a modern philosopher, who was awarded Nobel Prize in literature? A) Bertrand Russell. B) Woodrow Wilson. C) Theodore Roosevelt. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bertrand Russell. 2. 'Samson Agonists' is written by- A) Thomas Hardy. B) John Milton. C) A. Pope. D) Henry Fielding. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) John Milton. 3. The poem 'Second Coming' is written by- A) Auden. B) W.B. Yeats. C) Frost. D) T.S. Eliot. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) W.B. Yeats. 4. Who wrote the poem "Requiem" ? A) Robert Louis Stevenson. B) Samuel Johnson. C) John Milton. D) William Shakespeare. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Robert Louis Stevenson. 5. The author of 'Songs of Innocence and of Experience' is ..... A) John Lennon. B) William Blake. C) Richard Mark. D) John Keats. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) William Blake. 6. What do the trees signify? A) Fast moving appearance. B) Speed of the moving car. C) Fast moving change of human life from childhood to old age. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fast moving change of human life from childhood to old age. 7. What is the name of his friend's sister? A) Mita. B) Mira. C) Mitu. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mira. 8. "The Trumpet of prophecy! O wind. If winter comes, can spring be far behind? " Who is the poet of these lines? A) William Wordsworth. B) John Keats. C) P.B. Shelley. D) Robert Browning. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) P.B. Shelley. 9. "A passage to India" is written by: A) Hardy. B) Forster. C) Lawrence. D) Conrad. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Forster. 10. Which one of the following poets named the Romantic poet as the "pond poets" ? A) Keats. B) Southey. C) Byron. D) Shelley. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Southey. 11. 'A poison Tree' is written by? A) Robert Herrick. B) John Keats. C) William Wordsworth. D) William Blake. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) William Blake. 12. Utopia is an ideal state written by- A) Thomas More. B) William Shakespeare. C) Thomas Gray. D) George Bernard Shaw. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Thomas More. 13. The Study of Poetry is written by- A) Dr. Johnson. B) William Wordsworth. C) Matthew Arnold. D) S. T. Coleridge. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Matthew Arnold. 14. The Civil War of England broke out in: A) 1600. B) 1645. C) 1642. D) 1678. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1642. 15. Who is the writer of 'Harold'? A) George Bernard Shaw. B) William Shakespeare. C) Christopher Marlowe. D) A. Lord Tennyson. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A. Lord Tennyson. 16. Poets of the Romantic epoch did not care much for: A) Imagination. B) Logical, lengthy problem analysis. C) Feelings and intuition. D) Wild nature. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Logical, lengthy problem analysis. 17. In 1850, Tennyson succeeded Wordsworth as poet laureate. A) True. B) False. C) Both A and B. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 18. Which of the following works was written before the all-important Battle of Hastings? A) Beowulf. B) Canterbury Tales. C) The Domesday Book. D) Sons and Lovers. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Beowulf. 19. What do you mean by classicism? A) Reverence for beauty. B) Reverence for English. C) Reverence for Greek and Roman/Grecian works. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Reverence for Greek and Roman/Grecian works. 20. 'David Copperfield' is a / an ..... novel. A) Romantic. B) Elizabethan. C) Modern. D) Victorian. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Victorian. 21. ..... assisted the teacher by listening to students read and by checking their homework. A) Monitors. B) Librarians. C) Musicians. D) Janitors. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Monitors. 22. Robert Herrick was an English ..... A) Poet. B) Dramatist. C) Historian. D) Novelist. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Poet. 23. When did Lesley born? A) 1897. B) 1896. C) 1899. D) 1898. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1899. 24. A Protagonist is the.....character in a play or novel. A) Important. B) Villain. C) Leading. D) Comedy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Leading. 25. Hyperion is a/an ..... poem A) Elegy. B) Epic. C) Lyric. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Epic. 26. La Morte d'Arthur is A) A Chivalric Romance written in English. B) A ballad. C) An epic heroic poem. D) A Chivalric Romance written in French. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A Chivalric Romance written in English. 27. Three languages were used during the 7th-14th centuries except A) English. B) Greek. C) Latin. D) French. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Greek. 28. Which of the following was not an English writer A) Mark Twain. B) Emily Bronte. C) Jane Austen. D) Graham Greene. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mark Twain. 29. Whose real name was Mary Anne Evans? A) George Eliot. B) Jane Austen. C) Joseph Conrad. D) Charlotte Bronte. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) George Eliot. 30. Who wrote 'Kubla Khan'? A) Coleridge. B) Shelley. C) Wordsworth. D) Keats. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Coleridge. 31. 'Waiting for Godot' is written by- A) Edward Albee. B) Samuel Heaney. C) Samuel Butler. D) Samuel Beckett. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Samuel Beckett. 32. To the Light House" is written by: A) Lawrence. B) Hemingway. C) Forster. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) None of these. 33. 'The Pilgrims Progress' is a: A) Political allegory. B) Autobiography. C) Political satire. D) Political verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Political allegory. 34. What does the poet portray in the poem? A) Questions of young mind. B) Playfulness of the children. C) The plight of young children in the slums. D) Young minds. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The plight of young children in the slums. 35. Shakespeare's 'Hamlet' was published in: A) 1602. B) 1608. C) 1610. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1602. 36. What were Orwell's common themes? A) Love. B) Friendship. C) Politics and injustice. D) Suffering. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Politics and injustice. 37. Which was Robert Frost's famous poem? A) Henry Holt. B) Mountain Interval. C) North of Boston. D) The road not taken. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The road not taken. 38. Jane Austen's other writings are: A) Sense and Sensibility. B) Emma. C) Persuasion. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these. 39. Lyrical Ballads are jointly composed by: A) Keats and Shelley. B) Wordsworth and Shelley. C) Keats and Coleridge. D) Wordsworth and Coleridge. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Wordsworth and Coleridge. 40. 'Hamlet and Oedipus' was written by: A) Dover Wilson. B) Freud. C) Earnest Jones. D) Bradley. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Earnest Jones. 41. Shakespeare was born in the year ..... A) 1540 AD. B) 1564 AD. C) 1570 AD. D) 1610 AD. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1564 AD. 42. What do you mean Philology? A) Science of speech sounds. B) Study of Language. C) Science of medicine. D) Science of surgery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Study of Language. 43. A showman owned an institute called A) Gaiety land. B) Mother land. C) Gaiety ground. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gaiety land. 44. William Wordsworth is pre-eminently ..... A) A poet of nature. B) A poet of human nature. C) A poet of love. D) A poet of liberty. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A poet of nature. 45. Which one is the first tragedy play of Shakespeare A) Julius Caesar. B) Romeo and Juliet. C) Hamlet. D) Titus Andronicus. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Titus Andronicus. 46. 'Melodrama' is a kind of play- A) Of violent and sensational themes. B) Of pathetic themes. C) Of historical themes. D) Of philosophical themes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Of violent and sensational themes. 47. Which literary device is used in the line:"The harvest of a coming age" A) Metaphor. B) Alliteration. C) Hyperbole. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 48. Shelley's poetry used all of the following components for themes except: A) Narcissism. B) Emotional self indulgence. C) Worship of God. D) Passion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Worship of God. 49. Everyday the narrator went to the Gymkhana ground to have a look at the road engine and he began to A) Hate it. B) Curse it. C) Grow fond of it. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Grow fond of it. 50. Of all his predecessors, the following exerted a direct influence upon Shakespeare. A) Lyly and Marlowe. B) Robert Greene and Thomas Nash. C) George Peele and Thomas Lodge. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lyly and Marlowe. 51. 'Hamlet' by Shakespeare is- A) An epic. B) A comedy. C) A tragedy. D) A tragic comedy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A tragedy. 52. Who suggested Shelley to "Curb your magnanimity and be more of a poet'? A) Keats. B) Coleridge. C) Wordsworth. D) Blake. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Keats. 53. "Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempest" . The above line occur in Byron's: A) Fame. B) Waterloo. C) Roll on, Thou deep and dark Blue Oceans. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Roll on, Thou deep and dark Blue Oceans. 54. 'The Faerie Queene' is an ..... A) Sonnet. B) Elegy. C) Poem. D) Epic. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Epic. 55. What is the humming brown noise they heard from the bag? A) Butterflies. B) Dragon flies. C) Honey bees. D) Swarm of bees. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Swarm of bees. 56. 'Cervantes' is a character in: A) Don Quixote. B) Pamele. C) Tristram Shandy. D) Tom Jones. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Don Quixote. 57. Maxim Gorky was a famous writer from A) England. B) America. C) Germany. D) Russia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Russia. 58. Before the Hershey Chocolate Company, Milton ran the ..... A) Mars Candy Company. B) Lancaster Caramel Company. C) Milton's Milk Chocolate Company. D) Fanny's Candy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lancaster Caramel Company. 59. The "battle of Philippi" appears in the play A) Othello. B) King Lear. C) Julius Caesar. D) Macbeth. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Julius Caesar. 60. The moral choice is everything in the works of: A) Dickens. B) George Eliot. C) Hardy. D) None of these. 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