This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Introductions > Miscellaneous > Miscelleneous Questions – Quiz 7 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Miscelleneous Questions Quiz 7 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Oedipus is written by the dramatist- A) Ovid. B) Aristophanes. C) Sophocles. D) Homer. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sophocles. 2. Which of the following periods of English literature came last? A) The Elizabethan Age. B) The Commonwealth Period. C) The Jacobean Age. D) The Middle English Period. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Commonwealth Period. 3. The name of the poet of Lake Isles of Innisfree A) William Tell. B) William Butler Yeats. C) Robert Browing. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) William Butler Yeats. 4. What is a Miracle Play? A) A play of comedy. B) A supernatural religious drama. C) A play in fiction. D) A play of tragedy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A supernatural religious drama. 5. Which of the following writer rejected Nobel Prize? A) Ja Paul Satre. B) Samuel Becket. C) Heaney. D) Leo Tolstoy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ja Paul Satre. 6. In 1905, Virginia Woolf began to write for which publication? A) The Time's Literary Supplement. B) The Lady's Home Journal. C) Strand Magazine. D) Reader Magazine. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Time's Literary Supplement. 7. What important event happened for women in 1920? A) They were allowed to keep their own last names. B) They were allowed to work in business offices. C) They were allowed to vote. D) They were allowed to earn equal pay with men. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They were allowed to vote. 8. The earliest play written by Shakespeare according to Oxford Shakespeare 1988 is: A) The Taming of the Shrew. B) As you Like it. C) Two Gentlemen of Verona. D) Titus Andronicus. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Titus Andronicus. 9. Who is known as the father of English drama? A) Geoffrey Chaucer. B) Robert Browning. C) Henry Fielding. D) William Shakespeare. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) William Shakespeare. 10. Which sport does Harry play? A) Curtness. B) Quidditch. C) Wrestling. D) Soccer. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Quidditch. 11. Who wrote 'The Nun's Priest's Tale'? A) Shelley. B) Chaucer. C) Donne. D) T.S. Eliot. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Chaucer. 12. What is an Epigram? A) A terse and witty statement. B) A short fiction. C) A long poem. D) A wise man. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A terse and witty statement. 13. How many during of times Robert Frost taught? A) 1916 to 1948. B) 1916 to 1938. C) 1926 to 1938. D) 1916 to 1928. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1916 to 1938. 14. 'East Coker' is written by: A) Browning. B) Wordsworth. C) T. S. Eliot. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) T. S. Eliot. 15. The use of exaggeration as a rhetorical device or figure of speech A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 16. The poet will build a small cabin of A) Clay. B) Wattle. C) Both of these. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both of these. 17. Who is the poet of "Painted Ceiling" ? A) May Lowell. B) Amy Lovell. C) Amy Lwoell. D) Amy Lowell. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Amy Lowell. 18. Jonne Donne is famous for his- A) Sonnet. B) Ballad. C) Novel. D) Metaphysical poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphysical poem. 19. What is Doublethink? A) The ability to think about two things at once and determine their true meaning. B) The combination of two ideas to make a completely new one. C) The manipulation of the mind to make people accept contradictions. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The manipulation of the mind to make people accept contradictions. 20. Who wrote preface to Shakespeare: A) Sir Philip Sydney. B) Dryden. C) Dr. Johnson. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dr. Johnson. 21. The novel Nicholas Nickleby was written by ..... A) Walter Scott. B) Charles Dickens. C) Edgar Allan Poe. D) Thomas Carlyle. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Charles Dickens. 22. The garden of heaven is called ..... A) Eden. B) Iden. C) Aiden. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Eden. 23. Emily Bronte is the writer of A) Wuthering heights. B) Under the green wood tree. C) Mr.chips. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Wuthering heights. 24. What did Robert Frost's father do? A) Black-smith. B) Teacher. C) Farmer. D) Journalist. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Journalist. 25. 'I am half sick of shadows' is a line from: A) Tennyson. B) Shelley. C) Wordsworth. D) Coleridge. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tennyson. 26. ..... is originally from New England. A) Jamal. B) Lotoya. C) Esperanza. D) Simply Red. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simply Red. 27. ..... the quality when man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason' ..... is: A) Objectivity. B) Negative capability. C) Subjectivity. D) Scepticism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Negative capability. 28. 'Preface to Shakespeare' is written by: A) Bradely. B) Dryden. C) Dr. Johnson. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dr. Johnson. 29. Of the following authors who wrote an epic? A) John Milton. B) Jane Mansfield. C) William Shakespeare. D) William Cowper. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) John Milton. 30. Morte d' Arthur is a prose romance by ..... A) Thomas Malory. B) John Dryden. C) Alfred Tennyson. D) John Lyly. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Thomas Malory. 31. In the poem "The Heart of the Tree" what remains in focus throughout the poem? A) Sunlight. B) Air. C) Water. D) Tree. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tree. 32. Which period is known as 'The golden age of English literature'? A) The Victorian age. B) The Eighteenth century. C) The Elizabethan age. D) The Restoration age. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Elizabethan age. 33. Upon Wartminister Bridge, written by Wordsworth is: A) Ballad. B) Pastoral poem. C) Sonnet. D) Lyrical poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sonnet. 34. The poem 'Isle of Innisfree' is written by A) Ezra Pound. B) Dylan Thomas. C) W.H Auden. D) W.B. Yeats. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) W.B. Yeats. 35. Which literary device is used in the line: "And years that fade and flush again" A) Hyperbole. B) Metaphor. C) Alliteration. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 36. The Essay of Elia was written by: A) Tennyson. B) Byron. C) Keats. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) None of these. 37. Who wrote The Vicar of Wake Field? A) Richardson. B) Fielding. C) Defoe. D) Goldsmith. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Goldsmith. 38. G. B. Shaw's The Doctor's Dilemma is a/an- A) Novel. B) Poem. C) Short story. D) Drama. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Drama. 39. When was Thomas More born? -When did Thomas More die? A) 1479-1536. B) 1479-1535. C) 1478-1535. D) 1477-1534. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1478-1535. 40. What is Anatomy? A) Study of homo sapience. B) Study of limbs of body. C) Study of insects. D) Study of plants. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Study of limbs of body. 41. Madeline, a creation of Keats figures in A) The Eve of St. Agnes. B) Lamia. C) Endymion. D) Isabella. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Eve of St. Agnes. 42. Princess suffered from a ..... on her first day of school. A) Seizure. B) Stroke. C) Heart attack. D) Panic attack. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Panic attack. 43. Beckett was born in Dublin Ireland. A) In 1906. B) In 1969. C) In 1952. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) In 1906. 44. In the Tables Turned, according to the speaker, nature is a valuable ..... A) Resource. B) Mother. C) Teacher. D) Leader. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Teacher. 45. "Anglo-Saxon Chronicle" came during the reign of .. A) King John. B) King Alfred. C) King James. D) King John. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) King Alfred. 46. Keats is prominently a man of: A) Sensations. B) Emotions. C) Aestheticism. D) Imagination. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sensations. 47. How many novels combine the Harry Potter series collection A) 7. B) 9. C) 11. D) 3. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 7. 48. 'Ode to Autumn' is written by- A) Shelley. B) Byron. C) Blake. D) Keats. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Keats. 49. Emile Zola is a famous- A) French Novelist. B) American Novelist. C) English novelist. D) Irish novelist. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) French Novelist. 50. Replacing the word body with the phrase life-house is an example of what? A) Synecdoche. B) Christian ideals. C) Kenning. D) Metonymy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Kenning. 51. Which of the following was not made in Shakespeare's plays? A) What's in a name?. B) To be or not to be. C) All that glitters is not gold. D) After all, Tomorrow is another day. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) After all, Tomorrow is another day. 52. Tennyson created a medieval world in his poem: A) In memoriam. B) Ulyssess. C) The lady of Shalott. D) The lotus eaters. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ulyssess. 53. Who is writer of the poem 'Sailing To Byzantium'? A) James Joyece. B) E. M. Forster. C) William Butler Yeats. D) D. H. Lawrence. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) William Butler Yeats. 54. Wordsworth was appointed as poet Laureate in: A) 1843 b 1844. B) 1845. C) 1846. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1843 b 1844. 55. Byron is the writer of A) Prometheus Unbound. B) Don Juan. C) Lucy Gray. D) Adonias. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Don Juan. 56. Who loved the little match girl unconditionally? ? A) Her Father. B) Her Mother. C) Her Grandmother. D) No one. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Her Grandmother. 57. Who wrote 'Don Juan'? A) Byron. B) Keats. C) Words worth. D) Shelley. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Byron. 58. "We are such stuff as dreams are made" . Whose words are these. A) Shakespeare. B) Marlowe. C) Philip Sydney. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Shakespeare. 59. What is the feature of Romantic poetry? A) Imagination. B) Modernism. C) Post-modernism. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imagination. 60. Which of these statements describes a change brought about by the Renaissance? A) Society was dominated by lords. B) Society was focused on warfare. C) Society began to value individualism. D) Society was dominated by the church. 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