This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Introductions > Miscellaneous > Miscelleneous Questions – Quiz 31 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Miscelleneous Questions Quiz 31 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Sidney's sonnets 31 and 39 show the speaker A) Engaged in internal conflict. B) Accepting his lost love. C) Seeing Stella in his sleep. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Engaged in internal conflict. 2. William Golding got Nobel Prize for his- A) Heart of the Matter. B) Merchant of Venice. C) Measure for Measure. D) The Lord of the Flies. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Lord of the Flies. 3. Where do they play after school? A) Field. B) Roof. C) Park. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Park. 4. The year 1798 is famous for ..... A) The French Revolution. B) The American Independence. C) Publication of lyrical ballads. D) The death of Keats. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Publication of lyrical ballads. 5. Who was American poet? A) John Keats. B) John Milton. C) Robert Frost. D) Robert Herrick. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Robert Frost. 6. Who is the writer of the poem 'The Pied Piper of Hamelin'? A) Jonsen. B) Robert Browning. C) Shaw. D) Ibsen. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Robert Browning. 7. Lilliputians symbolize excessive human: A) Jealousy. B) Confidence. C) Ego. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Jealousy. 8. Karl Marx was born in- A) Germany. B) India. C) Russia. D) England. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Germany. 9. 'The Art for Art sake' theory was presented by: A) Ruskin. B) Oscar Wilde. C) None of these. D) Oscar Wilde. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Oscar Wilde. 10. Houyhnhnms represent life governed by sense and: A) Moderation. B) Patience. C) Understanding d compromise. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Moderation. 11. The only play by Shakespeare which confirms to the classical unities is: A) Hamlet. B) Twelfth Night. C) Romeo and Juliet. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Twelfth Night. 12. What do you mean by Novel? A) A long fictional prose with many characters. B) A literary work on the stage. C) A short narrative prose. D) Short prose. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A long fictional prose with many characters. 13. Who is called the Bird of Avon? A) John Dryden. B) William Shakespeare. C) John Milton. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) William Shakespeare. 14. James Joyce's famous novel- A) Rebecca. B) Ulysses. C) Roots. D) Tom Jones. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ulysses. 15. Jonathan Swift is the author of ..... A) The Old man and the Sea. B) Robinson Crusoe. C) Gulliver's Travels. D) A Doll's House. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Gulliver's Travels. 16. Who represents Pride in Jane Austen's 'Pride and Prejudice': A) Mr. Bennett. B) Mr. Bingley. C) Miss Elizabeth. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) None of these. 17. Why is Thomas Hardy famous for? A) As a Dramatist. B) As a Poet. C) As a Novelist. D) As a Sonneteer. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) As a Novelist. 18. "went-home" means- A) Deeply appealed to. B) In keeping. C) Faithful to their employers. D) Making money very rapidly, earning large sums easily. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Deeply appealed to. 19. 'To the Lighthouse' and 'A Room of one's Own' written by- A) Virginia Woolf. B) Charlotte Bronte. C) J.M. Synage. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Virginia Woolf. 20. .....is the school of literary writings is a medical theory. A) Comedy of Humours. B) Comedy of Manners. C) Theater of the Absurd. D) Heroic Tragedy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Comedy of Humours. 21. A Fantasy is ..... A) A funny film. B) A real life event. C) A funny place. D) An imaginary story. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) An imaginary story. 22. How many people where there in boat? A) 6. B) 4. C) 1. D) 3. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 4. 23. Which poetry is written by sir Walter Scott? A) Patriotism. B) The Patriot. C) A Frosty Night. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Patriotism. 24. Who is the most illustrious representative of the doctrine of utilitarianism? A) Ruskin. B) Russell. C) Huxley. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ruskin. 25. Can it be said that the Pre-Raphaelite painters were influenced by the poetry of Keats who himself was influenced by painting and medieval architecture? A) Yes. B) No. C) May be. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Yes. 26. Dickens was from a: A) Lower middle class origin. B) Upper class origin. C) Working class origin. D) Middle class origin. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lower middle class origin. 27. Who is called the 'poet of love'? A) Andrew Marvell. B) John Donne. C) John Keats. D) William Shakespeare. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) John Donne. 28. Harold Pinter was a/ an- A) Lyric poet. B) Poet. C) Novelist. D) Absurd dramatist. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Poet. 29. How does Alice get into Wonderland? A) She jumps in the sea. B) She climbs in a tea pot. C) She falls down a hole. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) She falls down a hole. 30. Which writer on the follwing list wrote detective stories? A) Anthony Trollope. B) Arthur Connan Doyle. C) William Makepeace Thakeray. D) Wilkie Collins. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Arthur Connan Doyle. 31. The king dressed the bearded man's wounds with ..... A) The hermit's handkerchief. B) His towel. C) The bearded man's towel. D) His handkerchief and the hermit's towel. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) His handkerchief and the hermit's towel. 32. What do you mean by Romanticism? A) Movement of poem. B) Movement for classics. C) Movement for imagination over reason. D) Movement of daily life affairs. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Movement for imagination over reason. 33. Why did Naledi and Trio's mother work so far from home? A) Their family was very poor. B) She liked to live in the city. C) She did not want to live with her family. D) Their family was very rich. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Their family was very poor. 34. Who wrote Aurora Leigh? A) Matthew Arnold. B) Alfred Lord Tennyson. C) Elizabeth Barrett Browning. D) Robert Browning. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Elizabeth Barrett Browning. 35. 'The Quarterly Review' was founded by: A) Coleridge. B) Byron. C) Thomas De Quincey. D) Walter Scott. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Coleridge. 36. The ..... was invented during the renaissance A) Wheel. B) Fire. C) Car. D) Printing press. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Printing press. 37. Arthur Clarke is known as- A) A science fiction writer. B) A short story writer. C) A modern dramatist. D) A famous English Novelist. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A science fiction writer. 38. 'Murder in the Cathedral' is a play written by: A) Marlowe. B) T.S. Eliot. C) Oscar Wilde. D) Shakespeare. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) T.S. Eliot. 39. At the end Mirry and her dog A) Vanished mysteriously. B) Ran home. C) Went to Tinku's house. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Vanished mysteriously. 40. He took the service of a dismissed bus driver named A) John. B) Joseph. C) James. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Joseph. 41. Adonais was an elegy Shelley wrote in 1821 on the death of: A) Keats. B) Byron. C) William Hazlit. D) Arthur Hugh Clough. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Keats. 42. 'On Heroes and Hero.....worship is written by: A) Ruskin. B) Huxley. C) Carlyle. D) Mill. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Carlyle. 43. The 18th century work 'Tom Jones" was written by whom? A) John Donne. B) Tobias Smollett. C) Henry Fielding. D) Samuel Johnson. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Henry Fielding. 44. Who said this " Et tu, Brute" in Julias Caesar? A) Cassius. B) Octavius Caesar. C) Brutus. D) Mark Antony. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Brutus. 45. Which of the novels is not written by Jane Austen? A) Adam Bede. B) Mansfield Park. C) Emma. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Adam Bede. 46. Who wrote the poem 'Don Juan'? A) William Wordsworth. B) Lord Byron. C) John Keats. D) William Blake. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lord Byron. 47. It is a form of fiction that deals principally with the impact of actual or imagined science upon society or individuals. A) Historical Fiction. B) Fiction. C) Science Fiction. D) Non-Fiction. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Science Fiction. 48. The Giant had been to visit his A) Friend ogre. B) Uncle Cornish. C) Friend Cornish ogre. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Friend Cornish ogre. 49. Which war marked the beginning of Modernism? A) The Civil War. B) WWI. C) WWII. D) The French and Indian War. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) WWI. 50. Which one is the correct form below? A) Emma-Goethe. B) Freedom-Shakespeare. C) War and Peace-Tolstoy. D) All the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) War and Peace-Tolstoy. 51. Keats' aestheticism was later turned into A) Romanticism. B) Pre Raphaelitism. C) Idealism. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pre Raphaelitism. 52. Who is the author of the book 'Long walk to Freedom' A) Jawaharlal Nehru. B) Nelson Mandela. C) Mahatma Gandhi. D) Mario Puzo. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nelson Mandela. 53. Who was often been called The Father of English Tragedy? A) Christopher Marlowe. B) John Wycherley. C) William Shakespeare. D) John Lyly. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Christopher Marlowe. 54. In which century was Piers Plowman written? A) 10th. B) 11th. C) 12th. D) 14th. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 14th. 55. What do you mean by Quatrain? A) A stanza of fourteen lines. B) A poem of fourteen lines. C) A stanza of four lines. D) A stanza of six lines. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A stanza of four lines. 56. Who is the English 'Epic' Poet? A) William Shakespeare. B) John Milton. C) John Keats. D) Lord Tennyson. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) John Milton. 57. Midnight Children is written by- A) Arundhoti Roy. B) Salman Rusdhi. C) R.K. Narayan. D) Anita Deshai. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Salman Rusdhi. 58. 'Macbeth and Oedipus' is by: A) W. H. Auden. B) Freud. C) Nicoll. D) Earnest Jones. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) W. H. Auden. 59. The author of the book 'Asian Drama' is ..... A) Shakespeare. B) Gunnar Myrdal. C) Humayun Kobir. D) Bertrand Russel. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gunnar Myrdal. 60. Who wrote the famous novel the "Three Musketeers" ? A) R. L Stevenson. B) William Shakespeare. C) Sir Walter Scott. D) Alexandre Dumas. 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