This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Introductions > Miscellaneous > Miscelleneous Questions – Quiz 9 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Miscelleneous Questions Quiz 9 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The first Englishwoman to earn her living as a playwright was: A) Nell Gwynn. B) Lady Teazle. C) Aphra Behn. D) Ann Hathaway. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Aphra Behn. 2. "For art's sake alone I would not face the toil of writing a single sentence" . Who said it A) T. S. Eliot. B) Virginia Woolf. C) Thomas Hardy. D) G. B. Shaw. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) G. B. Shaw. 3. Shylock is a character of ..... A) Doctor Faustus. B) The Merchant of Venice. C) The Way of the World. D) Arms and the Man. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Merchant of Venice. 4. 'I wandered Lonely as a cloud' is an example of..... A) Symbol. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Metonymy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 5. 'Nothing more real than nothing' are the words of? A) Harold Pinter. B) Beckett. C) Shaw. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Beckett. 6. By which of the following forms of punishment did the Teacher NOT reward Josh's disrespectful behaviour? A) Stand in the corner. B) Kneel on prickly bushes. C) Take a serious beating. D) Lie across a bench. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Kneel on prickly bushes. 7. Representative Poet of Victorian Age- A) Charles Dickens. B) Robert Browning. C) Alfred Tennyson. D) None of them. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alfred Tennyson. 8. Bandar log were scared of A) Kaa. B) Rann. C) Bagheera. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Kaa. 9. 'The Lotus.....Eaters' was written by A) Tennyson. B) Browning. C) Blake. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tennyson. 10. Lyrical Ballads is written by Wordsworth with the Collaboration of- A) Alfred Tennyson. B) S.T Coleridge. C) William Blake. D) Dorothy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) S.T Coleridge. 11. Meaning Of Dawdle A) Dawn. B) Move Slowly. C) Bread Winner. D) Acquainted. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Move Slowly. 12. ..... collection of poet was awarded the Pulitzer prize for Poetry. A) What's O'Clock?. B) What's on 12 O'clock?. C) Painted Ceiling. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) What's O'Clock?. 13. "I have suffered with those, that I saw suffering" . These Humanistic words are attributed to: A) Miranda in the 'Tempest'. B) Portia in 'Merchant of Venice'. C) Lady Macbath in 'Macbeth'. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Miranda in the 'Tempest'. 14. Robert Burns is the greatest poem of ..... A) Scotland. B) Wales. C) England. D) USA. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Scotland. 15. The Nurse's Song was written by: A) Tennyson. B) Shelley. C) Keats. D) Blake. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Blake. 16. Lilliput is a character from: A) Gulliver's Travels. B) Pygmalion. C) Sons & lovers. D) Old man and the sea. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gulliver's Travels. 17. Where are the four surviving old English manuscripts? A) Expecter, Oxford, London, Vercelli. B) Exeter, Oxford, London, Vercelli. C) Expeter, Oxford, Britain, Percelli. D) Execter, Oxford, Britain, Vercelli. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Exeter, Oxford, London, Vercelli. 18. Joseph Andrews was written by A) Richardson. B) Fielding. C) Bunyan. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fielding. 19. 'A woman of no importance' is a ..... by Oscarwilde: A) Farce. B) Dramatic Romance. C) Comedy. D) Tragedy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Comedy. 20. Who is the heroine of Shakespeare's play "Hamlet" ? A) Desdemona. B) Cordella. C) Portia. D) Ophelia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ophelia. 21. The Dunciad, Essay on Man, Epistles are all written by: A) Pope. B) Shakespeare. C) Shaw. D) Dryden. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pope. 22. Which book written in Tudor period has the vision for ideal mankind? A) Utopia. B) Doomsday Book. C) New World. D) Ideal Land. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Utopia. 23. ..... was proposed by Robert Frost. A) Elinor. B) Elli Willy. C) Elimate. D) Eliot. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Elinor. 24. "Fair is foul, and foul is fair" -quoted from? A) Tempest. B) Othello. C) Macbeth. D) As you like It. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Macbeth. 25. Who is called the 'Mock heroic poet'? A) Edmund Walter. B) Jonathan Swift. C) Alexander Pope. D) Dr. Samuel Johnson. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alexander Pope. 26. Great Expectations was published in: A) 1860 1. B) 1857 8. C) 1852 3. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1860 1. 27. What do you mean by Satire? A) A regional epic. B) Mixture of two languages. C) Ridiculous writing against vices or follies. D) An ironical writing. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ridiculous writing against vices or follies. 28. Short story 'Madness' was written by A) Chandrika Balan. B) C Ayyappan. C) S K pottekkatt. D) Tagore. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) C Ayyappan. 29. Gulliver made ..... voyages in the Gulliver's Travels A) 3. B) 5. C) 6. D) 4. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 4. 30. Samson Agonists: Play :: A) The Conquest of Granada : Satire. B) Paradise Regained: Play. C) Clarissa : Play. D) The Rivals : Play. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Rivals : Play. 31. What's the original name of 'The sleeping beauty'? A) Rapunzel, the sleepwalker. B) Little briar-rose. C) Little sleeping-cap. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Little briar-rose. 32. What is an Effigy? A) A poem. B) An image or dummy. C) A lamentation. D) A sonnet. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) An image or dummy. 33. Which of the following works 'had the greatest influence on the Victorian Age? A) Darwin's "Origin of Species". B) Tennyson's "In memoriam". C) Carlyle's "Sartor Resartus". D) Mill's "On Liberty". Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tennyson's "In memoriam". 34. ..... is an attack by Ruskin on the Philistines. A) Praeterita. B) Stones of Venice. C) Seven lamps of architecture. D) Modern Painters. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Modern Painters. 35. The statue of 'Ozymandias' is ..... A) On a mountain. B) Beside a river. C) In a desert. D) In a valley. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) In a desert. 36. 'Veni, Vidi, Vici' this quotation from Shakespeare's ..... A) Merchant of Venice. B) Hamlet. C) Othello. D) Julius Caesar. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Julius Caesar. 37. How many questions are there in a single English Language Paper? A) 3. B) 2. C) 5. D) 4. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 5. 38. What is feudalism? A) A military system. B) A medical system. C) An economical system. D) An educational system. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) An economical system. 39. When Alfred Lord Tennyson was died? A) 1892. B) 1895. C) 1893. D) 1894. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1892. 40. Eric Hugh Blair is known as- A) William Golding. B) E.M. Forster. C) George Orwell. D) T.S. Eliot. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) George Orwell. 41. Romanticism viewed civilization as ..... A) Unspoiled. B) Pure. C) Perfect. D) Artificial. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Artificial. 42. Who wrote first? A) Christopher Marlowe. B) William Shakespeare. C) George Eliot. D) Howard, Earl of Surrey. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Howard, Earl of Surrey. 43. Who is the author of the book 'The Captive Lady'? A) Rabindronath Tagore. B) W. shakespeare. C) Michael Madhusudan Dutt. D) John Keats. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Michael Madhusudan Dutt. 44. Shaw died at the age of: A) 75. B) 95. C) 105. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 95. 45. A tree is a friend of ..... atmosphere A) Congenial. B) Comradely. C) Compatible. D) Convivial. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Congenial. 46. Who is the major male character in Jane Austen's 'Pride and Prejudice': A) Mr. Darcy. B) Mr. Bennett. C) Mr. Collius. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mr. Darcy. 47. Who is the Creator of 'Dramatic Monologue'? A) George Eliot. B) Robert browning. C) Alfred Tennyson. D) Thomas Hardy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Robert browning. 48. When did George Orwell write 1984? A) 1947. B) 1946. C) 1949. D) 1948. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1948. 49. What is the real name of O'Henry? A) Mary Anne Evan. B) George Gordon. C) Lord Byron. D) William Sydney Porter. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) William Sydney Porter. 50. 'April is the Cruelest month of all is taken from Eliot's: A) The Wasteland. B) The Hollow men. C) East Coker. D) Prufrock. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Wasteland. 51. When the king approached the hermit the latter was ..... A) Planting trees. B) Sowing seeds. C) Digging earth. D) Cleaning land. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Digging earth. 52. Humanism focused on achievements in all of the following except what? A) Literature. B) Art. C) Education. D) Math. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Math. 53. Where was the cotton field in poem A Ballad of Mystic Memories? A) Southern Bible Belt. B) Silk road. C) Vikings mate. D) Trail of tears. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Southern Bible Belt. 54. Ruling family in the Renaissance A) Luther. B) Marlowian. C) Windsor. D) Tudor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tudor. 55. Nana is the children's nurse, she is a dog. What type of dog was she? A) Newfoundland. B) Great Dane. C) St. Bernard. D) Airedale Terrier. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Newfoundland. 56. And I shall have some peace there for peace comes dropping ..... A) Slow. B) Fast. C) Very fast. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Slow. 57. Every body paragraph should start with A) A quotation. B) A question. C) A topic sentence. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A topic sentence. 58. Who helped Jesse overcome his self-disgust? ? A) Adolf Hitler. B) His Coach. C) Luz Long. D) He himself. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Luz Long. 59. Who is a modern author? A) Joseph Conrad. B) C. Marlow. C) Chaucer. D) Charles Dickens. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Joseph Conrad. 60. Spenser's Shepheardes Calendar (1579) is a A) Novel. B) Melodrama. C) Tragedy. D) Pastoral poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pastoral poem. ← 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