This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Introductions > Miscellaneous > Miscelleneous Questions – Quiz 32 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Miscelleneous Questions Quiz 32 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. HYMN TO ADVERSITY is a poem by A) Thomas gray. B) Alexander Pope. C) Edward gibbon. D) William Blake. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Thomas gray. 2. Another name for a king or queen. A) President. B) Prince. C) Monarch. D) Princess. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Monarch. 3. Who is the author of the book "Zest for Life" A) Emile Zola. B) Voltaire. C) Gustave Flaubert. D) Leo Tolstoy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Emile Zola. 4. The "Poet's Poet" A) Spenser. B) Sidney. C) Raleigh. D) Shakespeare. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Spenser. 5. Who is of the following both a poet and a novelist? A) Thomas Hardy. B) Karl Mark. C) R. L. Stevenson. D) George Eliot. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Thomas Hardy. 6. After Cromwell's death, Parliament invites Charles II back to take the English throne. This is known as the ..... A) The English Civil War. B) Glorious Reovlution. C) The English Restoration. D) The Great Usurpation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The English Restoration. 7. What is "jade" ? A) Or an item for sale. B) A color. C) Precious stone. D) A piece of clothing. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Precious stone. 8. Your plan is a good one if a girl only wants to be married. Who said these words? A) Charlotte. B) Mr. Bennet. C) Mr. Bingley. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Charlotte. 9. How many boys where there in the Plumflied School? A) 16. B) 12. C) 24. D) 10. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 12. 10. Below are several ways to retell a fictional narrative text, except ..... A) Comic. B) Mime. C) News Report. D) Drama. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) News Report. 11. Who is the author of 'The Taming of the Shrew'? A) William Shakespeare. B) Ibsen. C) Shaw. D) Jonsen. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) William Shakespeare. 12. What does Mr. Philease Fogg do at the Gentleman's club? A) Mr. Philease Fogg eats at 12:o'clock. In afternoon he reads there . B) Mr. Philease Fogg rests at 12:o'clock. Meets in afternoon . C) Mr. Philease Fogg talks to everyone whoever goes past him . D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mr. Philease Fogg eats at 12:o'clock. In afternoon he reads there . 13. Shelly was a firm believer in all of the following except: A) Personal freedom. B) The individual's responsibility to society. C) Human conduct based on conviction. D) The power of love. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Human conduct based on conviction. 14. Who is an American author? A) R.W. Emerson. B) H.D. Thoreau. C) Henry W. Longfellow. D) All 4. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All 4. 15. Which is the shortest period of English literature? A) Romantic period. B) Victorian age. C) Restoration period. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Restoration period. 16. Why is this time period named after Queen Elizabeth? A) She died suddenly. B) She inspired the poetry. C) She ruled for 50 years. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) She ruled for 50 years. 17. Who is the writer of Galliver's Travels? A) Jane Austin. B) John Milton. C) Jonathan Swift. D) Charles Dickens. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Jonathan Swift. 18. Which sonnet form has an octave and a sestet? A) Shakespearean/English. B) Petrarchan/Italian. C) Neither. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Petrarchan/Italian. 19. You must follow the structure of 'SMILE' when writing poetry essays. A) What's an essay?. B) False-we should use FLIRT. C) True. D) False-it is just designed to help you plan your writing. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) False-it is just designed to help you plan your writing. 20. Shakespeare was famous for all but one of the following ..... A) Bourgeois Drama. B) Tragedies. C) Tragi-Drama. D) Comedies. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bourgeois Drama. 21. Who is the writer of The Restoration Period? A) Jeremy Taylor. B) Thomas Hobbes. C) Robert Herrick. D) John Dryden. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) John Dryden. 22. "Major Barbra" is written by: A) Beckett. B) Eliot. C) Shaw. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Shaw. 23. Milton started out his business by making ..... A) Chocolates. B) Candy canes. C) Caramels. D) Toffees. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Caramels. 24. In 'Ozymandias', who saw the statue of Ozymandias? A) A traveler. B) An old man. C) A sculptor. D) The poet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A traveler. 25. In 'Ozymandias' the poet says, 'I met a traveler ..... an.....land'. A) Going, ancient. B) Passing, antique. C) From, antique. D) By, old. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) From, antique. 26. How did Renaissance writers like Dante, Cervantes, and Shakespeare influence later writers? A) By writing the Bible. B) By creating the first newspapers. C) By writing in the common lanugage. D) By writing in Latin. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) By writing in the common lanugage. 27. The Prelude is written in: A) Couplets. B) Blank Verse. C) Terza rima. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Blank Verse. 28. Simile is the direct comparison between two- A) Dissimilar things. B) Similar things. C) Elaborate comparison. D) Contradictory things. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dissimilar things. 29. Which of the following means the same as retorted? A) Reversed. B) Answered sharply. C) Answered softly. D) Shone. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Answered sharply. 30. 'The Duchess of Mulfi' is written by? A) John Wycherley. B) John Webster. C) William Congreve. D) Ben Johnson. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) John Webster. 31. The Selfish Giant is written by A) Oscar Wild. B) Oscar Wilde. C) Oscar Wille. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Oscar Wilde. 32. Nobel Prize winner in literature Harold Pinter is from? A) Australia. B) UK. C) USA. D) Canada. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) UK. 33. Who was statesman but awarded Nobel Prize in English Literature? A) Nixon. B) Stalin. C) Churchill. D) Rosevelt. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Churchill. 34. Which period of 1798-1832 is ..... A) The Elizabethan age. B) The Romantic Age. C) The Restoration. D) The Renaissance Period. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Romantic Age. 35. Who is the author of the book 'Waste land'? A) Charles Dickens. B) T.S. Eliot. C) Earnest Hemingway. D) Shelly. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) T.S. Eliot. 36. Shaw's 'Man and Superman' is an example of: A) Comedy of Manners. B) Comedy of Errors. C) Comedy of Ideas. D) Romantic Comedy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Comedy of Ideas. 37. E. M. Foster is a A) Novelist. B) Poet. C) Playwright. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Novelist. 38. 'Young leading the young is like blind leading the blind' who has said these words: A) Carlyle. B) Bacon. C) Mantaine. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) None of these. 39. Who is the author of 'Hamlet'? A) William Blake. B) Geoffrey Chaucer. C) William Worsworth. D) William Shakespeare. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) William Shakespeare. 40. What is Robert Frost famous Journal? A) The Road not taken. B) The summers day. C) The Mountain Interval. D) The Atlantic Monthly. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Atlantic Monthly. 41. Who was the eminent writer of the Restoration? A) John Milton. B) John Dryden. C) William Congreve. D) All of them. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of them. 42. William Wordsworth was considered as a ..... A) Worshipper of Nature. B) Father of Nature. C) Mother of Nature. D) Prayer of Nature. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Worshipper of Nature. 43. 'Rabbi Ben Ezra' is written by ..... A) Cynewulf. B) Geoffrey Chaucer. C) Robert Browning. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Robert Browning. 44. Who was the scientist who measured the pyramid A) Pasteur. B) Gouri. C) Sanskriti. D) Euclid. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Euclid. 45. What is the name of first modern novel? A) Pamala or Virtue. B) Silas Marner. C) Jane Eyre. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pamala or Virtue. 46. In Don Juan Byron used: A) Blank verse. B) Ottava Rima. C) Terza rima. D) Refrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ottava Rima. 47. Which Booker Prize winning novel is chossen as the 'the best novel out of all the winners' on its 25th and 40th anniversary A) Something to Answer For. B) Holiday. C) Midnight's Children. D) The Conservationist. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Midnight's Children. 48. Total number of plays written by Shakespeare A) 52. B) 28. C) 38. D) 14. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 38. 49. Kazi Nazrul Islam is the.....poet of Bangladesh. A) National. B) Love. C) Romantic. D) Mystic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) National. 50. The Bangle Seller is written by A) David Roth. B) Arunima Seth. C) Sarojini Naidu. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sarojini Naidu. 51. Following lines are taken from .....? "Where whenas death shall all the world subdue, Our love shall live and later life renew." A) Amoretti LXXV. B) Sonnet CXXX. C) Whoso List to Hunt. D) Sonnet LXV. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Amoretti LXXV. 52. When was William Shakespeare born? -When did William Shakespeare die? A) 1565-1616. B) 1564-1616. C) 1566-1616. D) 1564-1617. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1564-1616. 53. Who is the author of 'The Affluent Society'? A) J.K. Galbrath. B) H.G. Wells. C) T.S. Eliot. D) David Hume. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) J.K. Galbrath. 54. When a person is shocked, it is called ..... A) Startled. B) Darted. C) Abled. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Startled. 55. Northanger Abbey, Emma and Sense and Sensibility are novels written by A) G. Eliot. B) Miss Burney. C) Jane Austen. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Jane Austen. 56. "He smiles, he laughs and he roars" -this quotation is an example of? A) Conceit. B) Allusion. C) Climax. D) Satire. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Climax. 57. ..... is called the first romantic critic. A) Horace. B) Longinus. C) Wordsworth. D) Sidney. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Longinus. 58. The message of The Cold Within is A) Futility of Discrimination. B) Futility of disobedience. C) Futility of death. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Futility of Discrimination. 59. All is well that ends well is a: A) Comedy. B) Tragedy. C) Historical Play. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Comedy. 60. Why does the tiger hide? A) To hide from the zoo keeper. B) To make a sound. C) To attack at plump deer. D) To terrorize the villager. 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