This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Introductions > Miscellaneous > Miscelleneous Questions – Quiz 34 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Miscelleneous Questions Quiz 34 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. In his poetry Tennyson is: A) The representative poet of Victorian Age. B) The representative poet of Romantic Age. C) The best nature poet. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The representative poet of Victorian Age. 2. "A thing of beauty is a joy forever" occurs in- A) Eliot's 'The waste land'. B) Keats's 'Endymion'. C) Shelly's 'The Cloud'. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Keats's 'Endymion'. 3. Who is the writer of the epic poems "Paradise Lost" and "Paradise Regained" A) John Milton. B) John Keats. C) John Donne. D) William Shakespeare. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) John Milton. 4. The Cardinal virtues of the Houyhnhnms are: A) Friendship and benevolence. B) Bitterness and revenge. C) Hatred and jealousy. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Friendship and benevolence. 5. Who kidnapped Mowgli? A) Kaa. B) Bandar log. C) Baloo. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bandar log. 6. Meaning Of Creaking A) Interest. B) Making A Harsh Sound. C) Worship. D) Showy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Making A Harsh Sound. 7. The last book of Gulliver's travels is A) Voyage to Houyhnms. B) Voyage to Lilliput. C) Voyage to Brobdingnag. D) Voyage to Laputa. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Voyage to Houyhnms. 8. A poem of 14 lines with a fixed form. The first eight lines have a rhyme scheme of abbaabba and the next six lines rhyme cdecde. A) Kenning. B) Prose. C) Sonnet. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sonnet. 9. In which of the following Genres did Victorian Literature achieve its greatest success: A) Epic Poetry. B) The Essay. C) The Novel. D) Lyric Poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Novel. 10. 'The Jew of Malta' is written by? A) Ben Johnson. B) Christopher Marlowe. C) William Congreve. D) William Shakespeare. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Christopher Marlowe. 11. "Justice delayed is justice denied" was stated by- A) Gladstone. B) Shakespeare. C) Emerson. D) Disraeli. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gladstone. 12. Prosody signifies the systematic study of- A) Versification. B) Novel. C) Short story. D) Drama. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Versification. 13. 'Lapis Lazuli' is: A) A Poem. B) Drama. C) None of these. D) A Poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A Poem. 14. According to Hari Singh "what does a greedy man show" ? A) Fear. B) Anger. C) Acceptance. D) Sadness. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fear. 15. Origin of the sonnet A) France. B) England. C) Italy. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Italy. 16. In "The Gift of the Magi" Della is presented as ..... A) A sacrificing wife. B) A snobbish wife. C) A hypocritical wife. D) A loving wife. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A sacrificing wife. 17. Who of the following is a famous epic poet in English literature? A) William Wordsworth. B) Lord Tennyson. C) John Milton. D) William Shakespeare. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) John Milton. 18. Dickens gives a tragic picture of the French Revolution in his novel: A) Little Dorrit. B) Bleak House. C) A Tale of Two Cities. D) Hard Times. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A Tale of Two Cities. 19. 'Money is a tie of all ties. It is a tie which ties and unties all ties' is quotation from A) Past and Present. B) Of Money. C) Of Marriage. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Of Money. 20. What does the poem Keeping Quiet teach us? A) To be peaceful, thoughtful and feelings of brotherhood. B) Not to make noise. C) Speaking creates noise. D) How to maintain silence. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To be peaceful, thoughtful and feelings of brotherhood. 21. Which of the following is not a revenge tragedy? A) The Duchess of Malfi. B) Volpone. C) Gorboduc. D) Hamlet. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Volpone. 22. The Rape of the Lock is a: A) Elegy. B) Sonnet. C) Parody. D) Romance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Parody. 23. Who is the author of 'Point Counterpoint'? A) Charlotte Bronte. B) Aldous Huxley. C) John Galsworthy. D) H. G. Wells. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Aldous Huxley. 24. Which of the following is illustrative of Ruskin's interest in social economy? A) The Seven Lamps. B) Unto this Last. C) The Stones of Venice. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Unto this Last. 25. Who wrote the book 'Cancer Ward'? A) Alexander Solzhenitsyn. B) Boris Pasternak. C) Leo Tolstoy. D) Alexander Pope. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alexander Solzhenitsyn. 26. Which of the following character traits best describes Naledi? A) Strong. B) Truthful. C) Courageous. D) Honest. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Courageous. 27. Who was the contemporary poet of William Wordsworth? A) John Keats. B) T.S Eliot. C) S.T Coleridge. D) W.B Yeats. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) S.T Coleridge. 28. Who is the writer of 'Lotus Eaters'? A) Robert Browning. B) A. Lord Tennyson. C) Cynewulf. D) Geoffrey Chaucer. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A. Lord Tennyson. 29. Which writing includes the manifesto of Romantic poetry? A) The Prelude. B) Lyrical Ballads. C) The Ancient Mariner. D) Songs of Innocence. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lyrical Ballads. 30. 'Who knows but the world many end to.....night.' In which of Browning's poems the above line appears? A) The Last Ride together. B) One Word More. C) The Last Duchess. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Last Ride together. 31. The most important element of a Tragedy? A) Plot. B) Spectacles. C) Diction. D) Character. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Plot. 32. 'Lapis Lazuli' is a poem written by: A) Hopkins. B) W. B. Yeats. C) Larkin. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) W. B. Yeats. 33. Who is the writer of The Jacobean Period? A) Caedmon. B) Andrew Marvell. C) Dante. D) Cynewulf. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Andrew Marvell. 34. 'April is the cruelest month' is written by-i A) Frost. B) T.S. Eliot. C) Auden. D) W.B. Yeats. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) T.S. Eliot. 35. 'Couplet' can occur in- A) Short story. B) Poem. C) Novel. D) Essay. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Poem. 36. 'On Liberty' is by- A) John Mill. B) Charles Darwin. C) Karl Mark. D) Thomas Hardy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) John Mill. 37. Wordsworth is a ..... poet. A) Greek. B) Romantic. C) Modern. D) Classical. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Romantic. 38. "To be, or not to be, that is the question" -Where do you find this quotation? A) Hamlet. B) Othello. C) Macbeth. D) As You like It. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hamlet. 39. Which of these is NOT an assessment objective for poetry? A) Knowledge of text and context. B) Language, form and structure. C) Personal engagement and response. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Knowledge of text and context. 40. Beowulf is a/an- A) An elegy. B) A burlesque. C) The novel. D) An epic poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) An epic poem. 41. Who is the author of the book 'The Time Machine' A) Ray Bradbury. B) Arthur C Clarke. C) H G Wells. D) Robert Heinlein. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) H G Wells. 42. "All the world's a stage And all the men and women merely players" -quoted from A) A Midsummer Night's Dream. B) Much Ado About Nothing. C) A Pericles Prince of Tyre. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) None of these. 43. Who wrote 'Patriotism'? A) Robert Browning. B) William Shakespeare. C) William Wordsworth. D) Sir Walter Scott. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sir Walter Scott. 44. Who is the first person to receive nobel prize in literature A) Alphonse Lemerre. B) Leconte de Lisle. C) Sully Prudhomme. D) Anatole France. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sully Prudhomme. 45. There was only money left to last another week-if they each had one meal a day and no more. figured out by who? A) Too Too. B) Chee chee. C) Parrot. D) Crocodile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Too Too. 46. Spenser's sonnets 31 and 39 theme A) Eternal love. B) Endless suffering. C) Hopeless love. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hopeless love. 47. The poet describes the midnight as a glimmer because of A) Moonlight falling on the Lake water. B) Sunlight falling on the Lake water. C) Shimmering water of the Lake. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Moonlight falling on the Lake water. 48. "Wonderful!" (Who said the words) A) Latula. B) Riya. C) Bugloo. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bugloo. 49. What do you mean by Romance? A) Any work of literature. B) A real life story. C) A play or a drama. D) Any work of fiction or imagination. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Any work of fiction or imagination. 50. The first theatre in England was established in- A) 1556. B) 1576. C) 1566. D) 1586. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1576. 51. Who is the father of English dramatic poetry? A) Christopher Marlowe. B) John Donne. C) Edmund Spenser. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Christopher Marlowe. 52. What was the "Common Law" A) A system of laws to punish common people. B) A law that was common to all the clergy. C) A law that the King used in common. D) A unified system of laws all over England. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A unified system of laws all over England. 53. 'Hold your tongue and let me love' is said by- A) Shakespeare. B) Christopher Marlowe. C) John Donne. D) T. S. Eliot. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) John Donne. 54. 'Haste me to know't, that I, with wings as Swift as meditation or the thoughts of love, May Sweep to my revenge' is a speech from. A) Othello. B) Hamlet. C) Macbeth. D) Lear. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hamlet. 55. Who is the considered to be the Rebel Poet in English Literature? A) William Shakespeare. B) Lord Byron. C) Lord Tennyson. D) John Keats. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lord Byron. 56. Which is the last of Shakespeare's great tragedies? A) Macbeth. B) Othello. C) King Lear. D) Hamlet. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) King Lear. 57. When was the Elizabethan Age? A) 1557-1604. B) 1557-1603. C) 1558-1603. D) 1558-1602. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1558-1603. 58. What the term Trilogy refers? A) A triangular drama. B) A three series of poems. C) Three stanza poem. D) A series of three drama. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A series of three drama. 59. 'Withdrawal from an uncongenial world of escape either to death or more often, to an ideal dream world', is the theme of Tennyson's: A) Ulysses. B) The Palace of Arts. C) The Lotos Eaters. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Lotos Eaters. 60. Historical events often influence literature. Which of the following did NOT occur during the Restoration period? A) The French Revolution. B) The Exclusion Bill Crisis. C) The Great Fire of London. D) Charles II was restored to the throne. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The French Revolution. ← 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