This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Introductions > Miscellaneous > Miscelleneous Questions – Quiz 30 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Miscelleneous Questions Quiz 30 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which sonnet form has four quatrains? A) Shakespearean/English. B) Petrarchan/Italian. C) Neither. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Neither. 2. Find the Odd man out? A) The Virginians. B) The Falcon. C) Ulysses. D) On Liberty. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Falcon. 3. Julius Caesar was the ruler of Rome about- A) 3000 years ago. B) 1000 years ago. C) 1500 years ago. D) 2000 years ago. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 2000 years ago. 4. Mark Twain is a famous author from A) USA. B) UK. C) Ireland. D) Norway. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) USA. 5. "convalescing" meaning .....? A) Recovering from an illness. B) Recovering from sadness. C) Recovering from temptation. D) Recovering from an operation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Recovering from an illness. 6. What do you mean by Parody? A) Imitation of the great man. B) Imitation of a poem or a writing. C) A short prose. D) Following the rules. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imitation of a poem or a writing. 7. Who were the ancient people of Britain? A) Celts. B) Anglo-saxon. C) Jutes. D) Romans. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Anglo-saxon. 8. 'A Tale of Two Cities' a novel written by- A) Hardy. B) Shakespeare. C) Lawrence. D) Charles Dickens. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Charles Dickens. 9. 'Lord of the flies' is written by? A) Robert Frost. B) William Golding. C) George Orwell. D) E. M. Forster. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) William Golding. 10. Who wrote Wuthering Heights? A) Charlotte Bronte. B) Jane Austin. C) Emily Bronte. D) Charles Dickens. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Emily Bronte. 11. 'Mrs. Dalloway' is written by? A) Virginia Woolf. B) T.S. Eliot. C) Joseph Conrad. D) Dylan Thomas. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Virginia Woolf. 12. Bounced (Choose the correct meaning of the word) A) To sit. B) To move quickly up and down after hitting a surface. C) To stand. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To move quickly up and down after hitting a surface. 13. The Winter's Tale is Shakespeare A) Dramatic monologue. B) Comedy. C) Tragedy. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dramatic monologue. 14. Egden Heath forms the back.....drop of which of the following novels by Hardy? A) Tess. B) Jude the Obscure. C) Hard Times. D) Return of the Native. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Return of the Native. 15. Who is the famous woman novelist in Victorian Age? A) T.S Eliot. B) Austen. C) George Eliot. D) E.B. Browning. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) George Eliot. 16. 'Supernaturalism' was an important feature of the poetry of: A) Wordsworth. B) Byron. C) Coleridge. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Coleridge. 17. Shakespeare wrote brilliant- A) Essays. B) Poems. C) Dramas. D) Novels. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dramas. 18. Select the correct time period A) (800-1066). B) (400-1066). C) (500-1066). D) (700-1066). Show Answer Correct Answer: C) (500-1066). 19. Dickens' first novel which focused on the specific social ills was: A) Oliver twist. B) A tale of two cities. C) Great Expectations. D) The Christmas carol. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Great Expectations. 20. What is Epistolary Novel? A) A Novella. B) A novel of correspondence among the characters. C) A novel personal feelings. D) A novel of short length. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A novel of correspondence among the characters. 21. When (the year of time when Frost awarded gold medal) did Frost award gold medal? A) 1950. B) 1960. C) 1970. D) 1930. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1960. 22. Sounding light and carefree is called ..... A) Airy. B) Aeric. C) Fairy. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Airy. 23. Who is the father of Modern English Poetry? A) Cynewulf. B) Geoffrey Chaucer. C) Robert Browning. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Geoffrey Chaucer. 24. James I becomes King of England A) 1603. B) 1588. C) 1609. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1603. 25. Which of the following in the book/play written by Maithili Sharan Gupt? A) Saket. B) Shakuntala. C) Savitri. D) Satyartha Prakash. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Saket. 26. "Art for arts sake" found its true adherent in: A) Browning. B) Wilde. C) Wordsworth. D) Byron. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Wilde. 27. Meaning Of Terrific A) Excellent. B) Hapless. C) Mandatory. D) Medidate. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Excellent. 28. Poetry is defined as 'Spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling' by: A) Shelley. B) Coleridge. C) Wordsworth. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Wordsworth. 29. Who is the author of the poem 'The Legend of Good Women'? A) Thomas More. B) Geoffrey Chaucer. C) Roger Bacon. D) William Langland. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Geoffrey Chaucer. 30. A machine for pressing paper against inked movable type. A) Printing press. B) Ink printer. C) Steam engine. D) Printer. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Printing press. 31. The arrangement of events in the order of their occurrence is- A) Chorology. B) Chronicle. C) Choreography. D) Chronometer. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Chronicle. 32. The period of maturation, intellectual growth and social graces during the Renaissance is called the: A) Enlightenment. B) Reformation. C) New Age. D) Aristocracy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Enlightenment. 33. When did T. S. Eliot win noble prize? A) 1923. B) 1935. C) 1948. D) 1953. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1948. 34. "She looked over his shoulder For vines and olive trees, Marble well-governed cities And ships upon untamed seas." -these lines are the starting of? A) Lullaby. B) The Shield Of Achilles. C) The Waste Land. D) Sailing to Byzantium. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Shield Of Achilles. 35. 'Wuthering Heights' is- A) A novel by Anne Bronte. B) A novel by Emily Bronte. C) A novel by Charlotte Bronte. D) A novel by Thomas Hardy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A novel by Emily Bronte. 36. 'The pilgrim's Progress' is written by? A) John Locke. B) John Dryden. C) John Bunyan. D) William Shakespeare. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) John Bunyan. 37. English poet addicted to Opium was- A) Lord Byron. B) Charles Kingsley. C) S.T. Coleridge. D) P.B. Shelly. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) S.T. Coleridge. 38. ' Paradise Lost is an epic by: A) . Spenser. B) Chaucer. C) Milton. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Milton. 39. Later that evening, Josh's parents A) Applauded Josh's behaviour. B) Gave him an even worse beating. C) Rewarded Josh's behaviour. D) Were sympathic about the beating given to him by the teacher. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gave him an even worse beating. 40. Which one is Golden Age in English Literature? A) Elizabethan. B) Jacobean. C) Classic. D) Modern. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Elizabethan. 41. Who dropped the message to Baloo and Bagheera A) DEAR. B) RANN. C) LION. D) GIRRAFE. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) RANN. 42. Who wrote Astrophel and Stella? A) Thomas Wyatt. B) Chaucer. C) Philip Sidney. D) Edmund Spenser. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Philip Sidney. 43. What does "Shepherd's Calendar" describe? A) Forbidden romance. B) Pastoral beauties. C) Religious experiences. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pastoral beauties. 44. "Ten Thousands saw I at a glance" -example of? A) Hyperbole. B) Conceit. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 45. 'I care for life, for humanity, and you are a part of it.' Whose words are these? A) Doolittle. B) Huggins. C) Pickering. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Huggins. 46. What is the meaning of whooping? A) Uttering a loud cry of joy. B) Uttering a loud cry of pain. C) Uttering a loud cry of anger. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Uttering a loud cry of joy. 47. Which book of Taslima Nasrin was first banned A) Utal Hawa. B) Lajja. C) Dwikhondito. D) Amar Meyebela. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lajja. 48. Which book is a Tragedy? A) As you like it. B) Measure for Measure. C) She stoops to conquer. D) Hamlet. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hamlet. 49. "Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty" This line has been taken from: A) La Belle Dame Sans Merci. B) Ode to a Nightingale. C) Ode on a Grecian Urn. D) Ode to Autumn. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ode on a Grecian Urn. 50. Byron wrote 'Childe Harold' in: A) 1808. B) 1812. C) 1818. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1812. 51. Which is NOT the characteristics of Renaissance poetry? A) Essentialism. B) Patriotism. C) Humanism. D) Nationalism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Essentialism. 52. Which of the following poet said, "My name is writ in Water" ? A) Keats. B) Shelley. C) Wordsworth. D) Byron. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Keats. 53. 'The Rape of the Lock' is a/an- A) Novel. B) Epic. C) Poem. D) Comedy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Epic. 54. How does Marlowe view nature? A) Harsh and indifferent. B) Wild and dangerous. C) A source of beauty and joy. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A source of beauty and joy. 55. 'Troilus and Criseyde' is written by- A) Congreve. B) Chaucer. C) Shakespeare. D) Marlowe. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Chaucer. 56. Who after the publication of a poem, awoke and found himself famous? A) Wordsworth. B) Keats. C) Shelley. D) Browning. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Wordsworth. 57. The ..... and ..... were quiet and still. A) Big Chair and Sofa. B) Dining table and small table. C) Tables and chairs. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tables and chairs. 58. Who is the composer of the 'Lycidas'? A) John Keats. B) John Milton. C) Thomas Gray. D) Alfred Tennyson. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) John Milton. 59. Which images in the poem show that the poet condemns or hates violence? A) Fisherman not harming whales. B) Wars leaving behind no survivors to celebrate. C) Poet's refusal to deal with death. D) All the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Wars leaving behind no survivors to celebrate. 60. Alexander Dumas was a famous.....novelist. A) American. B) French. C) Irish. D) English. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) French. ← 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