This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Introductions > Miscellaneous > Miscelleneous Questions – Quiz 8 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Miscelleneous Questions Quiz 8 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The Mayor of Caster Bridge was written by: A) Trollope. B) Thomas Hardy. C) Charles Dickens. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Thomas Hardy. 2. What did princess miss about Jamaica? A) Sporting events. B) Her freedom. C) Climate. D) Food. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Food. 3. Sidney's work that defended English literature A) History of English Literature. B) Defense of Poesy. C) England's Poetry. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Defense of Poesy. 4. The poem, "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell" was written by: A) Byron. B) Blake. C) Shelley. D) Browning. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Blake. 5. KJV Bible published A) 1603. B) 1609. C) 1611. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1611. 6. Human situation in Hardy's novels is controlled by: A) Social Forces. B) Providence. C) Fate. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fate. 7. Sue's ..... pretended to be a ghost and tried to scare her. A) Father. B) Mother. C) Uncle. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mother. 8. "Oh sir, she smiled, no doubt, Whene'er I passed her; but who passed without Much the same smile? This grew; I gave commands; Then all smiles stopped together" . This was written by: A) William Morris. B) Browning. C) Tennyson. D) Mathew Arnold. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Browning. 9. Oscar Wilde's novel published in 1891 was entitled as: A) Lady windermere's fan. B) Salome. C) A woman of no importance. D) The importance of being earnest. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Salome. 10. When was the first Oxford English Dictionary published A) 1855. B) 1830. C) 1898. D) 1884. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1884. 11. What is 'Linguistics'? A) The study of literature. B) The study of history. C) The scientific study of language. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The scientific study of language. 12. Who is famous for the theory of 'Objective Co-relative'? A) Somerset Maugham. B) T.S. Eliot. C) E.M. Forster. D) Woolf. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) T.S. Eliot. 13. Who is the writer of 'Queen Marry'? A) A. Lord Tennyson. B) William Shakespeare. C) George Bernard Shaw. D) Christopher Marlowe. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A. Lord Tennyson. 14. Gloriana in The Faerie Queene represents ..... A) Catholic Church. B) Mary, Queen of Scots. C) Queen Elizabeth. D) Anne Boleyn. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Queen Elizabeth. 15. 'Caesar and Cleopatra' is written by- A) Joseph Conrad. B) James Joyce. C) G.B. Shaw. D) E.M. Forster. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) G.B. Shaw. 16. Jane Austen's Work is transfused with the spirit of A) Classicism. B) Idealism. C) Rationalism. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Classicism. 17. James Joyce's narrative technique is known as- A) Stream of consciousness. B) Psycho-analysis. C) Objective Co-relative. D) Symbolism and Mysticism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stream of consciousness. 18. Dickens' fascicles were also known as ..... A) Instalments. B) Poems. C) Magazines. D) Stories. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Instalments. 19. Why did Tinku decide to go up to the woods? A) To meet friends. B) To collect pines. C) To admire nature. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To collect pines. 20. In Memoriam is a philosophic elegy inspired by the death of Tennyson's dear friend ..... A) Arthur Henry Clough. B) Arthur Henry Hallam. C) Arthur Henry Williams. D) John Milton. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Arthur Henry Hallam. 21. Known as the Father of English literature, ..... is widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages. A) George Orwell. B) Charles Dickens. C) William Shakespear. D) Geoffrey Chaucer. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Geoffrey Chaucer. 22. The first which Charlotte Bronte wrote was: A) Shirley. B) Villette. C) Jane Eyre. D) The professor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Jane Eyre. 23. The main religion in Europe during theMiddle Ages was A) Christian or Catholic. B) Pagan. C) Jewish. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Christian or Catholic. 24. How did the boy express this poem to his mother? { Dear Mum } A) By reading. B) Running away. C) By letter { note }. D) Writing Email. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) By letter { note }. 25. Who is the writer of The Middle English Period? A) William Langland. B) William Shakespeare. C) William Wordsworth. D) Lord Tennyson. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) William Langland. 26. "The Conduct of the Allies' is a famous work of: A) Jonathan Swift. B) Samuel Johnson. C) Oliver 'Goldsmith. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Jonathan Swift. 27. Who wrote the book "Republic" A) Socrates. B) Marx. C) Aristotle. D) Plato. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Plato. 28. 'The Excursion' was written by: A) Coleridge. B) Blake. C) Shelley. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) None of these. 29. Which of the following poems by Tennyson is a monodrama? A) Maud. B) Ulysses. C) Crossing the Bar. D) Break, Break, Break. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Maud. 30. Which is the first successful English Novel? xix A) Robinson Crusoe. B) Gorboduc. C) Iliad. D) Pamela. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Robinson Crusoe. 31. Who is the writer of 'Tithonus'? A) William Shakespeare. B) George Bernard Shaw. C) A. Lord Tennyson. D) Christopher Marlowe. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A. Lord Tennyson. 32. Who is the writer of 'The Two Voices'? A) A. Lord Tennyson. B) William Shakespeare. C) George Bernard Shaw. D) Christopher Marlowe. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A. Lord Tennyson. 33. Tom Jones by Henry Fielding was first published in- A) The 1st half of 18th Century. B) The 1st half of 19th Century. C) The 2nd half of 19th Century. D) The 2nd half of 18th Century. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The 1st half of 18th Century. 34. In the poem 'Ozymandias' who calls Ozymandias 'King of Kings'? A) The Traveler. B) The speaker. C) Other Kings. D) Ozymandias himself. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ozymandias himself. 35. Which is not the poet in the 18th century? A) Alexander Pope. B) Geoffrey Chaucer. C) Jonathan Swift. D) James Boswell. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Geoffrey Chaucer. 36. In which age is 'The Puritan Period' included? A) The Non-classical. B) The Renaissance. C) The Romantic. D) The Modern. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Renaissance. 37. What is " sophomore" ? ? A) A second-year university or high-school student. B) Beginner. C) Youngster. D) A school boy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A second-year university or high-school student. 38. Which of the following novelists is known for his Satire in the Victorian literature? A) Hardy. B) Charlotte Bronte. C) Thackeray. D) Meredith. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Thackeray. 39. 'The Return of the Native' is written by- A) Alexander Dumas. B) Aldous Huxley. C) Somerset Maugham. D) Thomas Hardy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Thomas Hardy. 40. Tell me no more of thy love, papeeha ..... A) A Love Song From The East. B) A Love Song From The West. C) A Love Song From The South. D) A Love Song From The North. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A Love Song From The North. 41. The popular meeting places for English people to discuss news and problems in the 18th century are ..... A) Coffee houses. B) Law courts. C) Markets. D) Theatres. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Coffee houses. 42. According to Hari Singh "What would Anil show after robbing by his one of the reliable" ? A) Fear. B) Acceptance. C) Anger. D) Sadness. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sadness. 43. Why does the tiger take a glance at the sky? A) He wants to terrorize the people. B) He recollects his memory of his freedom days. C) He is locked in the concrete cell. D) He wants to be in a rage. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He recollects his memory of his freedom days. 44. John Keats is primarily a poet of ..... A) Beauty. B) Nature. C) Revolution. D) Love. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Beauty. 45. Granny suffered from which chronic illness? A) Hypertension. B) Diabetes. C) Arthritis. D) Cancer. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Arthritis. 46. Shakespeare's sonnet 116 ("Let me not to the marriage of true minds" ) theme A) Love is transient. B) Love never dies. C) Love is pointless. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Love never dies. 47. Ulysses is a.....by James Joyce. A) Poetry. B) Novel. C) Verse. D) Play. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Novel. 48. How many degree did Robert Frost achieve? A) 30 honorary degrees. B) 10 honorary degrees. C) 40 honorary degrees. D) 20 honorary degrees. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 40 honorary degrees. 49. Our ..... leads us away from the path of virtue. A) Terror. B) Errors. C) Mirror. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Errors. 50. Who is the writer of 'The Falcon'? A) A. Lord Tennyson. B) Christopher Marlowe. C) William Shakespeare. D) George Bernard Shaw. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A. Lord Tennyson. 51. "There are two tragedies in life one is not to get your heart's desire. The other is get it." -these lines were written by? A) G. B. Shaw. B) H. G. Wells. C) James Osborn. D) Jean Paul Sartre. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) G. B. Shaw. 52. Who wrote 'Hard Times' and 'A tale of two Cities'? A) John Milton. B) John Webster. C) Charles Dickens. D) Daniel Defoe. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Charles Dickens. 53. Who did not tell about the Bandar log to Mowgli A) Baloo and Bagheera. B) Rann and Bandar log. C) Giraffe and deer. D) Lion and Cheetah. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Baloo and Bagheera. 54. "The fool doth think he is wise but the wise man knows himself to be a fool" -this quotation is quoted from? A) Hamlet. B) Othello. C) As you like It. D) Henry 8. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) As you like It. 55. The poem 'Under the Greenwood Tree' is written by- A) William Shakespeare. B) Ralph Hodgson. C) William Wordsworth. D) Robert Browning. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) William Shakespeare. 56. Chunkie Bear 's mom lived in ..... A) Washington. B) Florida. C) New Jersey. D) Seattle. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Seattle. 57. What is the meaning of 'to move slowly and heavily'? A) Trundle. B) Stagger. C) Wade. D) Wail. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Trundle. 58. Objectivity stands for- A) Matured notion. B) Impersonal expression. C) Immature communication. D) Personal expression. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Impersonal expression. 59. The 'Stream of Consciousness' technique was deliberately used first by: A) Virgnia Woolf. B) James Joyce. C) Dorothy Richardson. D) Lawrence Sterne. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) James Joyce. 60. Who is called 'The bard of Avon'? A) John Milton. B) William Shakespeare. C) Christopher Marlowe. D) Homer. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) William Shakespeare. ← 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 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books