This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Introductions > Miscellaneous > Miscelleneous Questions – Quiz 6 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Miscelleneous Questions Quiz 6 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. 'Animal Farm' is written by? A) William Golding. B) Joseph Conrad. C) Virginia Woolf. D) George Orwell. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) George Orwell. 2. The central idea of 'I wandered lonely as a cloud' is that ..... A) We can find solace in nature. B) Nature excites human imagination. C) Nature is harmful for human being. D) Nature is beautiful. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) We can find solace in nature. 3. What did Mr Herriot instruct to Mrs Pumphery? A) For reducing cod liver oil. B) For reducing exercise. C) For reducing Horlicks. D) For reducing sweet things. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) For reducing sweet things. 4. 'Hasting day' in 'To Daffodils' means ..... A) Quiet day. B) Hurriedly passing a day. C) Finishing day. D) First day. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hurriedly passing a day. 5. 'Hero and Hero worship' was written by: A) Ruskin. B) Carlyle. C) Mill. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Carlyle. 6. Wordsworth was inspired by ..... A) The Industrial Revolution. B) The French Revolution. C) The American Revolution. D) The Russian Revolution. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The French Revolution. 7. 'Silent Woman' written by ..... A) John Ruskin. B) Ben Jonson. C) Kalidas. D) Munshi Prem Chand. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ben Jonson. 8. Who is William Hazlitt? A) Dramatist. B) Essayist. C) Poet. D) Novelist. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Essayist. 9. Woman who enters a religious order and lives in a convent A) Monk. B) Priest. C) Nun. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nun. 10. Which country awarded the Pulitzer Prize A) France. B) USA. C) England. D) Italy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) USA. 11. Which of the following is not a novel by W. M. Thackeray? A) The Way We Live. B) The Newcomes. C) Vanity Fair. D) Henry Esmond. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Way We Live. 12. Who is Sir Thomas Malory? A) An importan soldier. B) An important prose writer. C) An important teacher. D) An important singer. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) An important prose writer. 13. Besides the French Revolution the effect on Romantic Revolution: A) American Revolution. B) The defeat of the Spanish armada. C) Industrial Revolution. D) Napoleonic wars. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Industrial Revolution. 14. Baloo and Bagheera: A) Are mowgli's teachers and his best friends. B) Are mowgli's enemies. C) Are friends with the bandar log. D) Are nobody's friends. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Are mowgli's teachers and his best friends. 15. Approximately when did the English Romantic literary movement take place? A) 1770-1850. B) 1670-1750. C) 1870-1950. D) 1570-1650. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1770-1850. 16. Jane Austen in addition to, 'Pride and Prejudice' had also written: A) Emma. B) Sense and Sensibility. C) Persuasion. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these. 17. "How came he dead? I shall not be juggled with: To hell allegiance! Vows, to the blackest devil! Is a speech in Hamlet spoken by: A) Laertes. B) Claudius. C) Hamlet. D) Polonius. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Laertes. 18. Who is the first ever winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature A) Theodor Mommsen. B) Sully Prudhomme. C) Rudyard Kipling. D) Henryk Sienkiewicz. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sully Prudhomme. 19. What literary device is used in the line: "He plants the forest's heritage" A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 20. Which of the following is an essayist? A) John Wycliffe. B) Spenser. C) Chaucer. D) Charles Lamb. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Charles Lamb. 21. Who is the author of the famous novel 'War and Peace' A) Anton Chekhov. B) Karl Marx. C) Leo Tolstoy. D) Nikolai Gogol. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Leo Tolstoy. 22. Who is the writer of the poem 'Time, You Old Gipsy Man'? A) Laurence Binya. B) Robert Frost. C) W. B. Yeats. D) Ralph Hodgson. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ralph Hodgson. 23. What type of work 'Tottle's Miscellany' is? A) Drama. B) Epic. C) Comedy. D) Sonnet. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sonnet. 24. What do you mean by Panegyric or Eulogy? viii A) A writing of praising distinguished persons. B) A poem of praising Gods. C) A kind of satire. D) A short lyric poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A writing of praising distinguished persons. 25. How does the tiger express his rage? A) Quietly. B) Angrily. C) By snarling. D) By lurking. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Quietly. 26. Which novel is not written by Jane Austen? A) Emma. B) The Chimes. C) Persuation. D) None these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Chimes. 27. "To err is human; to forgive is divine" is said by- A) Alexander Pope. B) John Dryden. C) John Benson. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alexander Pope. 28. Which one is a Tragedy? A) Antony and Cleopatra. B) The Tempest. C) King John. D) Richard 2. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Antony and Cleopatra. 29. ..... was Princess' 'rescuer' when she attempted to get involved in the fight at school A) Mr. Young. B) Latoya. C) Jamal. D) Chuck. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Jamal. 30. Brutus is a famous character of Shakespeare in ..... A) The Tempest. B) Julius Caeser. C) Hamlet. D) King Lear. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Julius Caeser. 31. Byron's Poetry is ambiguous and has a vividness of phrasing which sometimes reaches the point of abstraction: A) True. B) False. C) Both A and B. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 32. What is the meaning of dragging A) Writing. B) Pulling. C) Painting. D) Sketching. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pulling. 33. Which month Robert frost and Elinor was married? A) December 18, 1895. B) December 17, 1895. C) December 19, 1895. D) December 16, 1895. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) December 19, 1895. 34. Who introduced Sonnet in English Literature? A) Thomas Wyatt. B) Philip Sydney. C) Edmund Spenser. D) William Shakespeare. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Thomas Wyatt. 35. Who is called the 'Poet of Beauty'? A) Lord Byron. B) John Keats. C) William Wordsworth. D) P. B Shelley. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) John Keats. 36. Whose work is called 'mock utopia'? A) Swift's. B) Sir Thomas More's. C) Wordsworth's. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Swift's. 37. Who is the greatest dramatist of all times? A) G. B. Shaw. B) William Wordsworth. C) Jonathan Swift. D) William Shakespeare. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) William Shakespeare. 38. Drama which seeks to mirror life with the utmost fidelity is called: A) Humanistic drama. B) Realistic. C) Naturalistic drama. D) Problem play. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Realistic. 39. Who is writer of the poem 'Justice'? A) Charles Dickens. B) Henry Wordsworth Longfellow. C) Jonathan Swift. D) John Milton. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Henry Wordsworth Longfellow. 40. Who wrote The Passage to India? A) Jane Austen. B) E. M. Forester. C) Shakespeare. D) R. K. Narayanan. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) E. M. Forester. 41. Which figure of speech is used in "On pads of velvet quiet, In his quiet rage." A) Onomatopoeia. B) Simile. C) Alliteration. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Oxymoron. 42. Which one isn't a Pagan Poetry work? A) The Wanderer. B) Wife's Lament. C) Beowulf. D) Hymn of Praise. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hymn of Praise. 43. What type of stanza does the poem consist of? (DIFFICULT QUESTION) A) Quatrain. B) Spenserian. C) Tercet. D) Cinquain. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Spenserian. 44. What is the name of this chapter's writer? A) Lemuel Gulliver. B) Jonathan Swift. C) Tejaswa Misra. D) Jules Verne. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Jonathan Swift. 45. 'My Last Duchess' was written by A) Keats. B) Tennyson. C) Browning. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Browning. 46. The first eight lines of a sonnet are called A) Octave. B) Sestet. C) Refrain. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Octave. 47. What does the term "Renaissance" mean literally? A) The individual has power. B) The rebirth or revival of the classics. C) The time of mankinds' performance. D) Religious piety for all mankind. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The rebirth or revival of the classics. 48. Who served as an Irish senator for two terms? A..... Wilde A) Shaw. B) Ibsen. C) Yeats. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Yeats. 49. P. B. Shelley is known as ..... A) Poet of beauty. B) Epic Poet. C) Romantic Poet. D) Poet of nature. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Romantic Poet. 50. Who is the writer of the poem 'Fra Lippo Lippi'? A) William Shakespeare. B) Wordsworth. C) Robertf Browning. D) Milton. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Robertf Browning. 51. Which work was the most famous of Geoffrey Chaucer? A) The Book of the Duchess. B) Anelida and Arcite. C) The Canterbury Tales. D) Parlement of Foules. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Canterbury Tales. 52. "Thought Fox" is written by: A) Ted Hughes. B) Heaney. C) Sylvia Plath. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ted Hughes. 53. 'The Waste Land' is a/an? A) Epic. B) Novel. C) Poem. D) Drama. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Poem. 54. Hemingway was a great fan of: A) Cricket. B) Baseball c softball. C) Football. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Baseball c softball. 55. The last line of 'To daffodils' is ..... A) As quack a growth of meet decay. B) Ne're to be found again. C) Vanish like summer's rain. D) Ne'er to be seen again. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ne're to be found again. 56. The image of the femme fatale dominates the poetry of: A) Tennyson. B) Byron. C) Keats. D) Wordsworth. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Keats. 57. Which sonnet form has three quatrains and a couplet? A) Shakespearean/English. B) Petrarchan/Italian. C) Neither. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Shakespearean/English. 58. Who translated the Bible into English for the first time? A) Nicolas Udall. B) Thomas Norton. C) John Wycliffe. D) Edmund Spenser. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) John Wycliffe. 59. What the term Elegy refers? A) A song of lamentation. B) A praiseworthy song. C) A song of pleasure. D) A hymn. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A song of lamentation. 60. "Hieronimo is Mad Again" is the sub-title of ..... A) The Duchess of Malfi. B) Utopia. C) The Jew of Malta. D) The Spanish Tragedy. 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