Miscelleneous Questions Quiz 66 (20 MCQs)

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1. Prologue refers-

Correct Answer: C) Preface to writing.

2. Which poet did NOT write during the 16th century?

Correct Answer: D) Thomas Carew.

3. When did Elinor die?

Correct Answer: C) 1938.

4. What was Samuel Langhorne Clemens' pen-name

Correct Answer: A) Mark Twain.

5. Under the Greenwood Tree is a:

Correct Answer: A) Tale of rustic life.

6. Who wrote 'The New Arabian Night'?

Correct Answer: D) R. L. Stevenson.

7. Beowulf is written in which period?

Correct Answer: B) Anlo-saxon preod.

8. Tin Drum is written by-

Correct Answer: A) Gunter Grass.

9. "Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of will" , is a statement by:

Correct Answer: B) Shelley.

10. What did Tomkin promise the three legged stool to make?

Correct Answer: A) Prime Minister.

11. What Enlightenment values did Romantics disagree with?

Correct Answer: B) Technological advancement and urbanisation.

12. The sentence 'Who would have thought Shylock was so unkind'? expresses .....

Correct Answer: D) Wonder.

13. The Essays of Elia was first published in book form in

Correct Answer: C) 1823.

14. The play Arms and the Man is by-

Correct Answer: D) George Bernard Shaw.

15. Which book wins the 2013 Man Booker Prize

Correct Answer: A) The Luminaries.

16. Who is the "Fairy Queene" in Spenser's work of the same title?

Correct Answer: B) Queen Elizabeth.

17. When Alfred Lord Tennyson was born?

Correct Answer: A) 1809.

18. What is "saffron" ?

Correct Answer: C) An orangy color.

19. In which play does "Forest of Arden" figure

Correct Answer: C) As You Like It.

20. Which of the novels of Hemingway is called Hemingway's Waste Land?

Correct Answer: D) None of these.