This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Introductions > Miscellaneous > Miscelleneous Questions – Quiz 5 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Miscelleneous Questions Quiz 5 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Who is the creator of the fictional character known as Sherlock Holmes A) Oscar Wilde. B) J. K. Rowling. C) Arthur Conan Doyle. D) Agatha Christie. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Arthur Conan Doyle. 2. The line "moments of unageing intellect" occurs in Yeats': A) Sailing to Byzantium. B) Prayer to my Daughter. C) The Second Coming. D) Byzantine. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sailing to Byzantium. 3. The phrase "Willing suspension of disbelief" was coined by A) Eliot. B) Coleridge. C) Arnold. D) Wordsworth. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Coleridge. 4. On liberty was written by: A) Macaulay. B) Carlyle. C) Godwin. D) Mill. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mill. 5. Who is writer of Dear mum? A) J.K Rowling. B) R.K Narayan. C) Brian Patten. D) Vikram Seth. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Brian Patten. 6. Where is expressed the view that 'There is a divinity that shapes our ends'? A) In the Tempest. B) In Hamlet. C) In Marry Wives of Windsor. D) In King Lear. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) In Hamlet. 7. The Anglo-Saxon or Old English period start on? A) 420. B) 450. C) 430. D) 440. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 450. 8. Who is the author of the poem 'The Parliament of Fowls'? A) Dickens. B) Milton. C) Geoffrey Chaucer. D) Shelly. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Geoffrey Chaucer. 9. I am too much in the sun in "Hamlet" is spoken by: A) Hamlet. B) Ophelia. C) Polonius. D) Claudius. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hamlet. 10. "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" says people were A) Hoping to become shepherds. B) Disnechanted with city life. C) Looking for love. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Disnechanted with city life. 11. Who is the writer of 'Oenone'? A) Robert Browning. B) A. Lord Tennyson. C) Cynewulf. D) Geoffrey Chaucer. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A. Lord Tennyson. 12. Romeo and Juliet is a ..... written by William Shakespeare early in his career A) Romance. B) Comedy. C) Morality play. D) Tragedy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tragedy. 13. "Poetry is spontaneous overflow of powerful Feeling" is said by- A) S.T Coleridge. B) William Blake. C) William Wordsworth. D) Tomas Eliot. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) William Wordsworth. 14. ..... has a super abundant wealth of words and superfluous ornaments A) Hyperbole. B) Metaphor. C) Rhetoric. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 15. Who is the author of the book 'Gulliver's Travels' A) Charles Dickens. B) Arthur Conan Doyle. C) H. G. Wells. D) Jonathan Swift. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Jonathan Swift. 16. 'Faerie Queen' is a A) Novel. B) Short story. C) An epic. D) Play. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) An epic. 17. The poem 'Easter Wings' written by ..... A) Andrew Marvell. B) George Herbert. C) John Keats. D) S.T Coleridge. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) George Herbert. 18. A famous short story of Maupassant is- A) Tropic of Cancer. B) Gift of the Magi. C) The Prince. D) The Diamond Necklace. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Diamond Necklace. 19. 'Knowledge is power' was stated by..... A) Hobbes. B) Socrates. C) Hamlet. D) Rousseau. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hobbes. 20. Who among the Romantic poets chores the 'Super natural' as his theme? A) Coleridge. B) Keats. C) Shelley. D) Byron. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Coleridge. 21. Restoration period was known as the age of : A) Puritanism. B) Satire. C) Classicism. D) Paganism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Satire. 22. Which of the following words means the same as bewildered? A) Shone. B) Held firmly. C) Confused. D) Clutched. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Confused. 23. It is for the world to decide whether you are a poet or not. For whom these words are meant: A) Frost. B) Pope. C) Byron. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Frost. 24. "Meeting at Night" by Browning is a: A) Monologue. B) Dramatic Lyric. C) Dramatic Monologue. D) Dramatic Romance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Monologue. 25. "Tear Idle Tears" is a poem by: A) Frost. B) Yeats. C) Eliot. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) None of these. 26. In Greek tragedy irony and ..... are fused into one. A) Allegory. B) Idealism. C) Imagery. D) Satire. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Satire. 27. How many time Robert Frost proposed Elinor? A) 4th times. B) 2nd times. C) 1st time. D) 3rd times. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 2nd times. 28. Whose diary does Harry find? A) Ginny Weasley. B) Tom Riddle. C) Fred Weasley. D) Draco Malfroy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tom Riddle. 29. What was the role of the sheriff? A) He provided a counterweight to the power of the King. B) He raised taxes for the King. C) He put people in jail. D) He fought for the King in case of war. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He raised taxes for the King. 30. 'Unto This Last' is a book written by: A) Mill on economic reforms. B) Carlyle on moral reforms. C) Ruskin on moral reforms. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ruskin on moral reforms. 31. Piers the Plowman was written by ..... A) John Gower. B) William Langland. C) Geoffrey Chaucer. D) Thomas Wyatt. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) William Langland. 32. The novel 'Talisman' is written by- A) Sir Walter Scott. B) Oliver Goldsmith. C) Charles Dickens. D) Jane Austen. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sir Walter Scott. 33. Who is the father of the English Language? A) Shakespeare. B) Christopher Marlowe. C) Geoffrey Chaucer. D) Thomas Kyd. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Geoffrey Chaucer. 34. What the term Humor refers? A) Rapture. B) Anything causes laughter. C) Wonder. D) Amazing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Anything causes laughter. 35. Who is the author of 'Arabian Nights'? A) Sir Richard Burton. B) Alexander Pope. C) Smith. D) None of them. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) None of them. 36. Which of the following poets wrote during the Victorian period but was not published until the 20th century? A) Elizabeth Barret Browning. B) Gerard Manley Hopkins. C) Christina Rossetti. D) Ted Hughes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gerard Manley Hopkins. 37. Lingua Franca refers to the term- A) First language. B) Second language. C) Common language. D) Official language. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Common language. 38. What is the" Idiotic Box" ? A) Bookshelf. B) Television. C) Couch. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Television. 39. Does Mr. Philease Fogg have wife and children? A) Yes, Mr. Philease Fogg has only wife, but he does not have children. B) No, Mr. Philease Fogg does not have wife and children. C) Yes, Mr. Philease Fogg does have wife and children. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Yes, Mr. Philease Fogg does have wife and children. 40. Which Victorian Poet is called the psychologist? A) Swinburne. B) Morris. C) Rossetti. D) Browning. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Browning. 41. "If they be two, they are two so A stiff twin compasses are two; Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if th' other do" -example of? A) Conceit. B) Ode. C) Allusion. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Conceit. 42. Who got the Nobel Prize for literature in 2007? A) Stoppard. B) Pinter. C) Becket. D) Lessing. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lessing. 43. "The Fairie Queen" is the ..... well-known poem in English literature A) Saddest. B) Longest. C) Shortest. D) Happiest. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Longest. 44. In Innisfree the poet wanted to build A) Small hut. B) Small cabin. C) Small mansion. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Small cabin. 45. "Things fall apart" is a line from Yeats's: A) The Second coming. B) Among School Children. C) Sailing to Byzentium. D) Byzentium. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Second coming. 46. The sentence, "Death, thou shalt not die." is an example of ..... A) Irony. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Paradox. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Paradox. 47. What the term Objectivity refers? A) Disinterested person. B) Impersonal expression in literary works. C) Personal expression in works. D) Individual. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Impersonal expression in literary works. 48. What is Novella? x A) An essay of satire. B) A short narrative fictional prose. C) A short narrative poem. D) A short story of drama. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A short story of drama. 49. When did Robert frost search for job? A) 1894. B) 1892. C) 1893. D) 1891. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1894. 50. ..... consists of nine.....eight five foot iambic lines followed by an iambic line of six fed with rhyme scheme ab ab bc bcc: A) Sonnet. B) Octometer. C) Terza Rina. D) Spenserian Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Spenserian Stanza. 51. Who's the author for "The Little Match Girl" ? ? A) Roald Dahl. B) Henry Cuyler Bunner. C) Hans Christian Andersen. D) Jesse Owens. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hans Christian Andersen. 52. What does Lumabago mean in " A triumph of surgery" A) The name of gardener. B) The name of mrs pumphery. C) The name of dog. D) The name of disease. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The name of disease. 53. Who is the author of 'The Jungle Book'? A) Hans Christain Anderson. B) Enid Blyton. C) Rudyard Kipling. D) H. G. Wells. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rudyard Kipling. 54. 'Heroes and hero worship' was written by A) Mill. B) Carlyle. C) Coleridge. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Carlyle. 55. 'Tess of the D'Urbervilles' is a novel written by- A) John Stuart Mill. B) Thomas Hardy. C) Charles Dickens. D) Emily Bronte 8. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Thomas Hardy. 56. 'Love and Friendship' is written by- A) Francis Bacon. B) Jane Austen. C) Jonathan Swift. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Jane Austen. 57. Which 3 Germanic tribes invaded after the Romans? A) Normans, Vikings, and Jutes. B) Angles, Saxons, and Britons. C) Angles, Saxons, and Gaels. D) Angles, Saxons, and Jutes. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Angles, Saxons, and Jutes. 58. What do you mean by Prose? A) A writing of rhythms. B) A writing without rhyme. C) A writing with rhyme. D) A writing of verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A writing without rhyme. 59. When was Commonweath Period? A) 1649-1660. B) 1651-1660. C) 1649-1661. D) 1650-1660. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1649-1660. 60. Bugloo was busy filling his bag with ..... things. A) Taken. B) Stolen. C) Fallen. D) None of above. 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