This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Miscellaneous > Miscelleneous Questions – Quiz 40 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Miscelleneous Questions Quiz 40 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What kind of literary work is 'The Luncheon' by Somerset Maugham? A) A novel. B) A short story. C) A poem. D) A scientific article. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A short story. 2. 'Lady Windermere's fan' is written by: A) Oscar Wilde. B) Galsworthy. C) T. S. Eliot. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Oscar Wilde. 3. Bertrand Russell was a British- A) Novelist. B) Essayist. C) Poet. D) Philosopher. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Philosopher. 4. 'Poet are unacknowledged legislators of the world', Who told it? A) Browning. B) P. B. Shelley. C) William Wordsworth. D) John Keats. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) P. B. Shelley. 5. Which of the following literary sub-periods does NOT fall under the Neoclassical Period? A) The Restoration. B) Jacobean Age. C) The Augustan Age. D) The Age of Sensibility. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Jacobean Age. 6. Synecdoche refers to the term- A) A thing stands for whole thing. B) Pity and fear. C) Self-contradictory speech. D) Long speech. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A thing stands for whole thing. 7. Which novella will we be reading this year? A) Lord of the Flies. B) Frankenstein. C) Of Mice and Men. D) A Streetcar Named Desire. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Of Mice and Men. 8. How many bowls were given to Tricki by Mrs Pumphery? A) 1. B) 2. C) 3. D) 4. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 3. 9. What does Mita do? A) Student. B) Teacher. C) Homemaker. D) Housewife. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Student. 10. Who is considered to be the father of English prose? A) Francis Bacon. B) Kind Alfred the Great. C) Henry. D) Geoffrey Chaucer. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Francis Bacon. 11. 'The Wheel of Fire' a criticism was written by A) W. Knight. B) Hazlitt. C) Dryden. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) W. Knight. 12. What is the name of Wordsworth's long poem? A) The Canterbury Tales. B) Don Juan. C) The Prelude. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Prelude. 13. This city was the center of the Italian Renaissance: A) Milan. B) Florence. C) London. D) Rome. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Florence. 14. This work was NOT originally published in the 20th Century. A) Henry James's "The Ambassadors". B) Thomas Hardy's "Tess of the D'Urbervilles". C) E.M. Forster's "A Room With A View". D) Virginia Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway". Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Thomas Hardy's "Tess of the D'Urbervilles". 15. What did the Romantics prefer? A) The countryside. B) Industrial towns. C) Wealth and power. D) Travel opportunities. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The countryside. 16. 'Desert Places' is a: A) Poem. B) Play. C) Novel. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Poem. 17. Who wrote 'Beauty is truth, truth beauty'? A) Shakespeare. B) Wordsworth. C) John Keats. D) Eliot. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) John Keats. 18. Who is called the 'Poet of Nature' in English literature? A) Lord Byron. B) John Keats. C) William Wordsworth. D) P. B Shelley. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) William Wordsworth. 19. Who is the writer of 'Comedy of Errors'? A) Ben Jhonson. B) G B Shaw. C) William Shakespeare. D) T S Eliot. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) William Shakespeare. 20. What is the definition of a fictional narrative? A) A real story about a character that solves a problem. B) A fake story in which characters solve a problem. C) A real story involving a fake character. D) A fake story specifically about animals. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A fake story in which characters solve a problem. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesIntroductions QuizzesMiscelleneous Questions Quiz 1Miscelleneous Questions Quiz 2Miscelleneous Questions Quiz 3Miscelleneous Questions Quiz 4Miscelleneous Questions Quiz 5Miscelleneous Questions Quiz 6Miscelleneous Questions Quiz 7Miscelleneous Questions Quiz 8Miscelleneous Questions Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books